1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

 After sorting the sea fish, the young crew member collapsed to the ground from exhaustion.

 The second uncle looked disgusted.

 “Are you just going to sit down and rest?”

“Get up quickly and clean the trawl net. Remove the seaweed and other miscellaneous things hanging on it. Also check whether it is broken. If it is broken, use a shuttle to repair it.”

 The young crew complained.

 “I’ve just finished doing something, and I don’t want anyone to have a good rest.”

 “What’s the time to rest? It’s going to be dark soon, so hurry up and clean the net.”

“I’m so lazy. It’s the first time I’ve been on a boat with a lot of fish, and he cleaned the deck all by himself.”

At this moment, Chen Liang regretted agreeing to let his father get on the boat. He thought that getting on the boat would be about catching fish, but he didn't expect that there would be so many chores.

He glanced at his father. No wonder every time he went out to sea for fishing, he would sleep for a day or two after returning home. Fishing at sea was really tiring.

 Clean the trawl net.

 After cleaning the deck, the young crew members were all hungry and tired.

At this time, Uncle Zhuang in the kitchen knocked on the iron basin with a shovel, making a "bang bang bang" sound.

 “The meal is ready.”

After hearing that the meal was ready, Chen Liang rushed to the kitchen and picked up the bowls and chopsticks, just to eat.

If someone takes the lead, other young crew members will run over when they see this.

Uncle Zhuang frowned when he saw these young crew members before he could say anything.

Chen Liang's father knocked him on the head and cursed: "When you get to the boat, you think you are like our family."

“On the boat, we must abide by the rules. The captain of the boat hasn’t come to eat yet, so we can’t touch the dishes.”

“And if you want to get a good harvest on the first net out to sea, you must first worship the Dragon King. You are really ignorant, so put down your bowls and chopsticks quickly.”

 Chen Liang touched his head.

He whispered: "You didn't teach me, so how could I know?"

“If I didn’t teach you, you wouldn’t know how to learn. What’s the use of your brain? It’s the first time you get on the boat. How come you understand everything?”

Li Duoyu, who had just boarded the boat, twitched his mouth when he heard this, and couldn't help but cursed: "Can you please stop inciting hatred for me?"

 After the meal is ready.

 Uncle Zhuang put the food on the bow of the boat.

The uncle took the lead and lit three incense sticks with matches, and then each gave one stick of incense to the third uncle and himself.

 Under his leadership, the three of them worshiped the Dragon King respectively.

 After all, three ships went out to sea together this time, so there were three ship leaders.

To be honest, when Li Duoyu was young, he also rejected these cumbersome rules and didn't even think they were necessary.

 But as he grew older, and he went out fishing with his third uncle last time, he found that the rules on the fishing boat were very important.

 The most important thing is that the dignity of the boss of the ship must be ensured, otherwise in a relatively closed space, if there are no rules, it will be easy to do bad things.

The first thing the crew members do after boarding the ship is to be obedient. Once they are found to be a thorn, they will definitely be fired.

In addition to observing these rules, you must also abide by some unique folk rules on board ships.

 For example, for the first meal after a voyage, you cannot sit down to eat.

The boss of the ship must squat close to the big mast, with his back leaning against the mast, and the rest of the people squat in a circle with the boss as the midpoint and facing inward.

 The large iron pot of mackerel rice cooked by Uncle Zhuang was eaten by everyone in less than ten minutes.

Even the pickled vegetable and pork bone soup was all drank up.

By the time everyone finished eating, it was completely dark, and several young crew members were sitting on the deck of the ship smoking cigarettes.

 But not long after, he was called back by his second uncle.

"it's dark."

 “Don’t be on the deck, get into the cabin quickly.”

Although Chen Liang and the others were a little reluctant, they still returned to the cabin obediently.

They do understand this. They have heard ghost stories told by others before.

If a fishing boat spends the night in the open sea, except for the night watch crew, the rest of the people must return to the cabin. They cannot stay on the deck, let alone approach the sides of the boat.

 Otherwise it will

Thinking of this, Chen Liang glanced at the dark sea and suddenly felt a little nervous.

 After nightfall.

 Led by Li Duoyu, three fishing boats sailed to a nearby uninhabited island.

　　If you spend the night at sea.

 The fishing boat has to anchor.

 But the anchor is not dropped casually.

 When anchoring in deep water areas, the water depth should generally not exceed one-quarter of the length of the anchor rope, because the anchor rope is usually pulled diagonally to ensure stable pulling.

 The water depth where Li Duoyu was just now is at least sixty or seventy meters, which means that only more than three hundred meters of anchor rope is needed.

 The anchor ropes of these three ships are not enough, and the place just now is full of rocks, which is not suitable for anchoring.

Once the anchor gets stuck on the rocks, it will collapse. If not, the anchor will have to be abandoned, and the loss will be huge.

Under normal circumstances.

Fishing boats that spend the night at sea will try to find an uninhabited island nearby if possible.

 As long as there is a small island, it proves that the nearby sea is definitely not particularly deep.

 Experienced boat owners usually choose to anchor on the sandy side of the uninhabited island.

 Because the muddy bottom is the most suitable for anchoring, the fishing boat can be firmly held on, and there is no need to worry about the anchor getting stuck in the cracks of the rocks.

However, fishing boats do not dare to get too close to the island and will keep a relatively safe distance.

If you are too close, the waves will have a reaction force when encountering obstacles, so the waves will be bigger.

 At the same time, I am also worried about whether something unclean may have come to the island in the dark. After all, in this day and age, there are still many desperate people.

 After nightfall.

 Li Duoyu turned on the ship's radar and monitored the sea surface at any time.

 In the cab.

Li Shuguang, the cousin who slept with him, turned on the radio and listened to the broadcast.

 What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that he especially liked listening to "Enemy Station".

 And just follow the enemy's tactics.

　　While listening, I couldn't help but ask: "Duoyu, you have been to an island country. Do you think it is the island country that is more advanced now, or the overseas provinces that are more advanced?"

 “Definitely an island country.”

“Overseas Province is already so advanced. If the island country is more advanced than him, wouldn’t it be very powerful?”

Li Duoyu nodded and couldn't help but sigh: "Their housing prices at this time are indeed very impressive."

 Although the overseas provinces at this time were the Four Asian Tigers, in this era, even if these four were added together, they would not be enough to defeat the island countries.

At this time, Xiao Jiang was still in charge of the overseas provinces. Li Duoyu remembered that he had just come out of prison.

Chiang Kai-shek passed away because of diabetes, and was replaced by Gou Dengzi, a "spiritual island citizen". From then on, relations across the Straits began to become antagonistic.

Li Duoyu suddenly thought of the veteran who pumped him a water machine, and asked: "Shuguang, have you met that veteran recently?"

Li Shuguang shook his head and said: "I bumped into him again last time, but I haven't bumped into him since."

 “That’s it.”

Li Duoyu sighed. When he originally planned to take Zhou Xiaoying back to his hometown, he would stop by the veteran's hometown and ask for clues about Ma Xiumei.

 But after having a child, he couldn't run away at all. In addition, he had too many things to do recently, and Xiaoying also had to teach, so he never did it.

Li Duoyu planned to go to Zhou Xiaoying’s hometown during the summer vacation and help the veteran find his wife.

 Li Duoyu looked into the distance.

 There is a faint light there.

Li Duoyu knew that there was a coastal city there. As long as he landed there and took a ten-hour drive, he could reach Zhou Xiaoying's hometown.

 With the rise and fall of the waves.

Li Duoyu fell into a deep sleep.

 The next day.

Before dawn, Li Duoyu was woken up by the sound of knocking on a bamboo tube. But all the young crew members were listless and wanted to stay in bed.

The second uncle directly pulled back the quilt and cursed: "You will be put in the fishing team. If you stay in bed like you, the team leader will definitely pour a bucket of cold water on you."

Wake up.

 Uncle Zhuang has already prepared breakfast. There are not so many rules for breakfast. Generally, whoever arrives in the kitchen first can eat first.

As for those who stay in bed, if they arrive late, their breakfast may be eaten up, and they will have no choice but to go hungry.

　　It is still dark, and the fishing boat is moving along the direction of the current.

Li Duoyu took the lead in sailing out for a large circle, and then used a walkie-talkie to communicate with Uncle San's trawler.

 After being lowered into the sea with the trawl net.

Everyone is full of expectations, and some people even sang chants, hoping to catch another big mackerel net like yesterday.

 And when the network was closed this time, the network packets were also very large.

 The young crew members were very happy.

 “The Internet exploded again, and I made a fortune again.”

 But the few old fishermen standing at the stern of the boat noticed something was wrong after looking at the floating net bag.

 Under normal circumstances, the net bag does not rise to the surface of the sea so quickly, and the net bag looks very light in color, as if it was fished out of sea water.

 In fact, they have already guessed what is in the net bag.

 The third uncle, the eldest uncle, and Li Duoyu, the three boat bosses, all looked at the net bags in front of them and all showed a wry smile.

This network is overturned!

 A whole network of jellyfish.

 Normally, July and August are the peak seasons for jellyfish fishing.

 But it’s only the beginning of April now.

 Unless the sea water warms up early this year, it will be impossible to catch jellyfish.

If the sea water warms up early, this will definitely be a good thing for the Liduo fish that breeds kelp.

 After the sea water warms.

The kelp will grow wildly. If it continues for a month, I guess it will be possible to harvest kelp again in late May.

 At this time, everyone saw a whole network of jellyfish in trouble.

 The second uncle was smoking dry cigarettes.

“There are quite a lot of these jellyfish, each one is big and fat.”

 “It’s useful for woolen yarn, but it’s heavy and big, so it’s not cost-effective.”

“How much does this net cost? I might as well throw it all away and try another net. Maybe the next net will be mackerel.”

Li Zhengfa, the boss of the ship, thought for a while: "The jellyfish this month are quite expensive. Let's pick them up, process them, and take them to a nearby dock to sell them."

When Uncle San said this, the old fisherman on the boat suddenly realized that jellyfish were cheap.

 But they forgot that there are very few jellyfish in this month. The probability of catching jellyfish in this month may be even lower than catching large yellow croaker.

 Things that are scarce are valuable.

Maybe the price will double. If it costs more than a hundred yuan, that's pretty good.

 Shortly afterwards, the old fishermen put "urea bags" on all the baskets.

Such a heavy jellyfish cannot be lifted up at all. As before, the boat boss Li Zhengfa "lifted the wire" down and untied the mouth of the net.

 But the difference is that it is different from before.

This time everyone was obviously prepared. They took out the extended version of the fishing net, netted a jellyfish, and pulled it directly to the deck.

 The old fisherman was fully armed, wearing water shoes on his feet and gloves on his hands.

Jellyfish are poisonous.

 Once you are caught by its tentacles, it will be exciting just thinking about it.

Li Duoyu was stung before when she was on the beach. The burning sting is still fresh in her memory.

 The old fishermen were all sitting on small benches, and the one at the front saw the jellyfish being fished out.

 The second uncle quickly cut off the jellyfish head and jellyfish cap with a knife and pushed them to the uncle behind him.

Different from ordinary creatures, the jellyfish head they are talking about here is not the round one on the top, but the harder part on the tentacles of the jellyfish.

 This is also the most delicious part of the entire jellyfish, and some fishermen also like to call it "jellyfish claws".

The taste of jellyfish head is very crisp.

For salad jellyfish, if you add a cucumber, some minced garlic, coriander, and sesame oil, it would be perfect.

Li Duoyu’s mouth couldn’t help but water when he thought of this dish.

Unfortunately, if you eat raw jellyfish, you won’t be able to get that spicy taste, and you have to dehydrate it several times.

The jellyfish’s cap that looks like a mushroom head, after processing, becomes the familiar jellyfish skin.

When the second uncle and the first uncle were dealing with jellyfish, Uncle Zhuang also came over to help.

Seeing them throwing away a lot of jellyfish ingredients, Uncle Zhuang felt distressed and said:

“This jellyfish brain and jellyfish blood are good things, don’t throw them away.”

The second uncle said in disdain:

“It’s too troublesome to deal with, and you can’t sell it for money. If you really want it, you can get it yourself.”

The jellyfish brain that Uncle Zhuang is talking about is not the brain of the jellyfish. This guy really has no brain, but the gonads of the jellyfish, just like the roe of a crab.

Since this thing goes bad very quickly, it is difficult to store. If you are not a seaside person, it is difficult not to eat this thing. It is very delicious when used to stew soup.

When making jellyfish brain soup on Dandan Island, they will break two eggs into it to make jellyfish brain and egg drop soup.

“It’s such a pity to lose such a good thing. I’ll make this jellyfish brain soup for you at noon today.”

Li Duoyu also took a small bench and sat down: "Uncle Zhuang, would you like me to scrape some jellyfish blood and fry some cabbage to go with it?"

"sure."

 But the next second, Uncle Zhuang and Second Uncle asked curiously: "Scraping the blood from jellyfish requires skill, can you do it?"

Li Duoyu smiled: "You are looking down on me."

 While everyone looked at them in surprise, Li Duoyu picked up a small bamboo scraper, turned the jellyfish skin over, and then scraped off the red film inside.

 In fact, Li Duoyu didn’t understand why this film was called jellyfish blood. It might be because of the color.

However, if you scrape off this layer of film, blanch it, and use it for cooking, it is really a masterpiece.

Jellyfish are full of treasures. In summer, fishermen often cut the jellyfish into shreds, add various sauces, and eat them as jelly.

"Duoyu, you are a good shaver. I can't shave as well as you."

 “It’s awesome.”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, it’s really powerful. You’ve hidden it very well.”

Li Duoyu chuckled twice, he would not tell Uncle Zhuang that for a person who has been doing sashimi for more than 20 years, doing this is really a trivial matter.

 The young crew members behind him frowned and looked at Li Duoyu, especially Chen Liang.

 It was really hard for him to believe that the person in front of him was the same Li Duoyu he knew before.

 In the past, he and Agui were really bastards, and they would often corner them and do all kinds of things.

  Sometimes, they would just take two packs of cigarettes in their pockets, and if they wanted to hang out in the village, they would have to pay them regular protection fees.

 Although everyone says he has changed.

But Chen Liang still didn't want to believe that a person could change so much in a short period of time.

Even if he raises kelp, oysters, and eels, he feels that it is his brother-in-law Chen Dongqing who helps him.

It can be seen that he scraped the jellyfish blood so neatly that Chen Liang frowned and thought about it.

 Is it possible that Li Duoyu

 Being such a **** in the past was just an act, otherwise, why would he know everything?

 See him there in a daze.

 Chen Liang's father patted his head: "Hurry up and study hard. If you want to work on this ship in the future, you must know how to handle all kinds of seafood."

Chen Liang complained: "Dad, can you stop hitting me on the head all the time? I'm not smart to begin with. What should I do if the more you hit me, the stupider I will become?"

 “If you don’t hit your head, I’ll spank you on the butt.”

“I’m so old and you spank me. If others find out, how can I find a wife?”

  Chen Liang’s words amused everyone. (End of chapter)