1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 58 Mazu Po Fish (please follow up)

 When Li Duoyu finished checking the kelp seedlings,

 The setting sun dyed the entire sea red.

Li Duoyu was sitting and resting on the boat, drank some water, and planned to go home.

 The boat has just left the kelp farming raft.

 I saw several fish jumping out of the sea, and they jumped quite high.

 Under the rays of the setting sun.

The body of the fish shines with dazzling silver light.

 When he saw this kind of fish, Li Duoyu couldn't help but get excited.

He is very familiar with this fish.

 In later generations, wild large yellow croakers were called gold bars swimming on the sea, but the flowers this fish saw during the day were all silver.

 Only when there is low light at night, will it turn golden. The darker the sky, the more positive the color of the large yellow croaker.

 Normally, the large yellow croaker will not jump out of the sea unless...it is chased by something.

 Sure enough, it hadn’t been more than a few seconds.

Li Duoyu heard the sound of "嘘~嘤~", and then, groups of big white fish jumped out of the water and chased in the direction of the big yellow croaker.

 “Mazu Po Fish.”

Li Duoyu couldn't help but blurt out that in their day, many sea fish didn't have a unified name.

Here on Dandan Island, this kind of fish will coo when there is a fish call, and it will make noisy fishermen at night, so it is called coo fish.

The town calls it cucumber fish.

Over there in Rongcheng, no matter how big or small they are, they call them yellow croakers.

There is no such name as white dolphin now. Most fishermen call it Mazu fish and Zhenjiang fish.

It is said that this name comes from the fact that the white dolphin once rescued the fishermen and was said to be sent by Mazu, so it became Mazu fish.

In addition, it often appears in river mouths and is regarded as the "door god" entering the sea, so some people also call it Zhenjiang fish.

White dolphins are particularly good at finding fish.

 There are places where they hang out,

  Normally there will be schools of fish.

Over time, white dolphins and fishermen have formed a tacit cooperative relationship. Fishermen rely on white dolphins to find fish. After catching fish, the fishermen will also give them some small fish to eat.

 Looking at the frightened large yellow croakers, they would jump out of the water from time to time.

 Li Duoyu was also very excited.

 Unfortunately, there was no fishing net on his sampan boat, so he could only watch the school of large yellow croakers slip away from him.

Although large yellow croaker is not that valuable now, it is not cheap either. It is also expensive among marine fish. It costs 40 cents per pound.

 Much more expensive than hairtail and swimming crab.

 Large yellow croaker weighing more than four kilograms can be sold for more than fifty cents.

A hundred kilograms of it costs 40 yuan, which is almost as much as Zhou Xiaoying’s monthly salary. Who wouldn’t be tempted to let it go?

 Just when Li Duoyu lamented that the money flew away from his pocket.

 A small fishing boat came in his direction, and the driver waved to him and shouted, "Hey, are there a lot of fish in front of you?"

Li Duoyu took a closer look and saw that the voice sounded like his cousin Li Shuguang. Li Duoyu replied:

 “It’s me, Duoyu.”

“Hurry up and help me catch these cuckoo fish. We caught half of them each.”

 “Wait for me and come right away.”

Li Duoyu quickly sailed over to join him.

 The uncle's family can be said to be the best fishermen on the island. In recent years, even if they have a boat, they have not taken away the goods, but have focused on fishing.

As for Dandan Island, birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups, such as Agui, Yujun, and Li Duoyu.

And down-to-earth fishermen like his cousins ​​Li Shuguang and Li Yuanguang are in the same group.

The two groups couldn't play together at all, and both sides even looked down upon each other. It wasn't until Li Duoyu "behaved" some time ago that these cousins ​​started to interact with him again.

Li Duoyu's sampan boat approached the cousin's fishing boat, which was more than ten meters long, and found that his fishing boat was full of sticky nets.

 Saw Li Duoyu's boat approaching.

Li Shuguang threw the net end into his boat and said: "Your boat is fast. You just pull it forward and I will put the net on the boat."

Li Duoyu immediately understood what his cousin meant, and pulled the end of the net to form a vertical line with the direction of the big yellow croaker.

 Wait until they open the net completely. The cousin stood on the bow of the boat and screamed "嘤~嘤~" at the white dolphin in the distance.

Li Duoyu didn't think that the white dolphins could understand his cousin's "calling", but the amazing thing was that the group of white dolphins really swam forward, then turned around and drove the large yellow croakers in their direction. .

 Not a while yet.

Li Duoyu could clearly feel that the rope sticking to the net was constantly twitching and sinking.

After helping to catch the fish, the white dolphins did not leave. Instead, they circled around their fishing boat and kept licking.

 Looks like he is waiting for a reward.

 Shortly afterwards, Li Duoyu came to the cousin's boat and helped put away the fishing net.

 The sticky net indeed caught a lot of large yellow croakers.

It also makes a "coo" sound from time to time.

 Seeing the shining silver croakers hanging on the sticky net, both of them were very excited, and their faces burst into laughter.

“Fortunately, I met you today. I couldn’t do it alone. I almost missed this group of fish.”

At a rough count, there were more than a hundred large yellow croakers. Unfortunately, most of them were half a catty to two catties, and only seven or eight were four or five catties.

 After seeing these fish harvests.

Li Shuguang was very excited, but he still couldn't help but sigh:

“Why are the fish getting smaller every year? There are still half a net of big fish. Why are there only a few fish left this year?”

Li Duoyu looked at the warehouse full of large yellow croakers, but couldn't help but want to complain about his cousin.

If this Cangyu lives in future generations, he might be able to buy an apartment in a coastal city, so there's nothing left to be dissatisfied about.

While they were untangling the fish from the sticky nets, white dolphins were swimming in circles around the fishing boat.

 When my cousin finds a relatively small coo fish, he will throw it into the sea and feed it to the group of white dolphins.

 Wait until the two of them return to the dock.

It was completely dark and the lights on the pier were on. Only then did Li Duoyu remember that his mother had cooked for him.

 It’s over, I’m going to be scolded now.

After moving the fish to the dock, my eldest cousin immediately started shouting and wanted to sell the large yellow croaker as soon as possible, but he came back too late and it was already past dinner time.

The old man and his wife, who had eaten and drank enough, came over to watch for a while and sighed: "Why didn't you come earlier? We have all finished eating."

"It's a pity that we didn't catch it at night. The color is not good-looking. This large yellow croaker is a bit small. We young people can catch it, and some weigh more than ten kilograms."

In this era without preservation technology, Li Duoyu knew that the large yellow croakers they caught would probably be lost.

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 The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Li Duoyu looked at the two baskets of large yellow croakers and couldn't help but sigh. No one wanted any of the apartments!

Li Shuguang felt a little embarrassed after keeping his cousin busy for so long but not selling the fish:

“There’s a lot of fish, why don’t we each take half of it and take it home to make salted fish?”

Li Duoyu kept looking at the four or five kilogram yellow croakers and grinned:

"There are so many fish, I can't kill them. If I suffer a little loss, give me the big ones and give you the rest."

“You little thief.” Li Shuguang laughed and cursed, but he still took out a woven bag from the boat and put the few large yellow croakers in it.

 “Let’s go, Qingfeng.”

Li Duoyu picked up the large yellow croakers and left the dock.

 After returning home, Li Duoyu found that Aniang had actually cooked a large table of meals.

 No one moved their chopsticks.

 As if waiting for him.

After seeing Li Duoyu come back, Chen Huiying said a little angrily: "Didn't you say that you would come back after a while? Why did you stay for so long?"

Li Duoyu scratched his head and said, "Just when we came back, we met the dawn, and the two of us caught a net of cuckoo fish together."

 Then, Li Duoyu poured out the large yellow croakers from the bag and said with a smile: "These are big enough."

 “What’s the use? The vegetables have all been cooked.” Chen Huiying rolled her eyes at him.

“Wash your hands quickly and change clothes. Your father and Xiaoying have been waiting for you for a long time.”

 “Okay, come right away.”

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 (End of this chapter)