Rebirth of a fishing village: starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

After Zhao Dahai finished his lunch, he packed up a fishing rod, sea centipedes and other useful things, plus a small bubble box filled with ice. He put it on the back seat of his motorcycle, put on his straw hat and went out to Paiwan. Village fish pier.

Zhao Dahai found a place to park his motorcycle and walked along the pier in the direction opposite to the sea and into the bay. After a while, he saw a large area of ​​fish ponds.

Maritime aquaculture in Paiwan Village is divided into two parts. One is to use fishing rafts from the bay for aquaculture, and the other is to dig fish ponds to pump seawater. The former mainly cultivates red drum, and the latter cultivates blue crabs and prawns.

Zhao Dahai took the fishing rod and hugged the box and walked along the road for about 20 minutes. He arrived at a small gate of a large ditch about three meters wide. This was a place specially dug out for seawater irrigation. It was built with cement and stones. , as long as there are breeding ponds in seaside villages, this thing is almost indispensable.

Zhao Dahai arranged the fishing rod and hung a spherical Apo buoy. A sea centipede with a section pinched was hung on the hook. He threw it under the gate and pressed it against the cement wall of the gate. In less than ten seconds, a fish took the bait and pulled it. Get up, a fish with a big head and a body as small as two fingers.

"Hehehe!"

"It looks like there are really a lot of gobies in this place."

Zhao Dahai untied the fish and threw it into the foam box, re-hung the sea centipede and continued fishing.

I went to town today to sell the fish I caught yesterday. I only had half a day left. There was no need to go fishing. When I was buying groceries, I remembered that my grandma Zhong Cuihua liked to eat goby and braised tofu. I had already bought the tofu. I went out to catch some goby in the afternoon.

What happened to Sun Xiaozhi just now makes it difficult to go out? !

Grandma Zhong Cuihua dares to hold a kitchen knife and has no problem taking care of herself. In addition, I can't stay at home all my life and not go anywhere. If nothing else, I have to go out to sea to fish. Remind grandma Zhong Cuihua to pay attention to safety and close the door when a stranger returns to the yard. There is no need to pay special attention to it, the key is not to pay attention to it.

Zhao Dahai caught another goby in the blink of an eye.

There is only one word difference between goby and goby, but they are two completely different fish.

Gobies are relatively small, about ten centimeters long, and the largest one is usually about the size of the big toe. The crab and tiger fish can grow very large, weighing a pound or two. Crabs are covered in mucus, while gobies have no mucus at all. The goby has scales all over its body and the scales are thick, but the goby has thin scales. The price of crab and goby far exceeds that of goby.

Goby actually tastes very good, but people at the beach rarely eat it. It’s not that it’s not delicious, but the fish is small and very troublesome to clean. Places like gates are generally flooded with large numbers.

Zhao Dahai caught one fish after another, and in less than an hour he caught three kilograms, all of which were big enough to feed himself and his grandma Zhong Cuihua. He put away the fishing rod and stopped fishing.

Zhao Dahai stood on the small bridge at the gate and looked up along the ditch. On both sides were ponds made of stone and cement. In front of the ponds were fish ponds one after another, raising gentian groupers, blue crabs or large crabs. shrimp.

There are many villages on the seaside, one next to the other, all close to the sea. Some villages have a better location and are very wealthy, while some villages have a poor location and are very poor.

The geographical location of Paiwan Village is very good. It is adjacent to a bay that never dries out. In addition, there is enough land to dig sea ponds for farming, making it extremely wealthy. It’s not impossible not to lament that in a place like this, the ancestors had great foresight and were really powerful, and future generations of grandchildren would have no worries about food and drink.

Zhao Dahai stared at the pond and dam for a few times and found that there were one after another palm-sized stone cracks close to the waterline of the ditch.

Isn’t this place a natural blue crab cave?

Zhao Dahai was moved in his heart. He walked up the ditch for a while and found a place to go down to the waterline. He carefully looked at a few stone crevices and found many crab claw marks. There were definitely blue crabs. There were fish on both sides. I don’t know how many blue crabs escape from the entrance of the pond when the water is changed. They hide in the crevices of the rocks year after year. There are more and more of them, and there must be many big ones.

Zhao Dahai continued to move forward along the dam. One or two steps later, there were stone cracks. Each crack was as big as a palm, and almost blue crabs crawled through it, leaving crab claw marks.

Zhao Dahai saw the opening of a stone crevice, which was round and flat, very smooth. He stretched out his hand and wiped it gently, and there was mucus.

"Huh?"

"This is the goby's hole!"

Zhao Dahai stood up and shook off the mud and mucus on his hands.

The entire pond is very long, with no end in sight, at least one or two kilometers. They are all made of stone and cement. They are exposed to wind, sun, and sea water, and they are all made of large cracks and caves. There are a lot of blue crabs and goby caught in these places, and they are definitely big.

The rules of the seaside fishing village are very simple. There is no owner outside the pond. Anyone from your own village can come to catch it. People from other villages cannot. You can come here to catch some worthless things like gobies that no one wants. , if you catch blue crabs and tiger crabs, especially on ponds and dams, you are very likely to get beaten.

Zhao Dahai was very greedy, but had no choice. He shook his head and walked back. He took his fishing rod and foam box, returned to the dock and tied the motorcycle to the back rack to prepare to leave. When he looked up, he saw a fish steak not far away. There was a big yellow dog lying on his stomach, sleeping with his eyes closed and flicking his tail from time to time.

People are not as good as dogs!

Zhao Dahai shook his head. People have to be busy making money every day. There is no need for dogs. When they see strangers coming, they bark twice and the work is completed.

Huh?

Why didn't you think of this?

We need a dog at home!

Zhao Dahai thought about it for a while and felt that this was really a good idea. One was that he could look after the house. If a stranger came and saw a dog, he would have to be wary. In addition, I often go out to sea to fish. Grandma Zhong Cuihua spends most of her time at home alone, and the dog can be a companion.

It was almost five o'clock when Zhao Dahai returned home on his motorcycle. It took a lot of effort to handle the gobies. They were not big. They scraped off the scales and opened the belly to clean them. It took almost an hour to clean the fish, which weighed about three kilograms. Take a big bowl and put some salt in it.

Zhao Dahai walked to the vegetable patch behind the house and picked green vegetables. He saw that the beans were as big as the head of a chopstick and they were tender. He picked a handful in his hand and went back to the kitchen to wash them. The rice was already cooked and he started cooking. Stir-fry the green vegetables quickly in hot oil over high heat. If there is some pork belly left at noon, stir-fry the beans together. Stir-fry the two vegetables, clean the iron pan, dry it and add oil until it is so hot that green smoke comes out. Fry the tofu first, then fry the gobies. Put the tofu down again, add two bowls of water, and cook for a while on high heat. , add soy sauce, garlic and salt, take out the firewood from the stove, and simmer over the charcoal for twenty minutes. When only half a bowl of thick juice is left, put it into a large bowl.

Zhao Dahai saw that the weather was good, the wind was blowing, and it was quite cool. He set up a table in the yard and served the dishes. He called his grandma Zhong Cuihua to eat enough, and put shrimp, crab, fish and tofu in the bowl in front of her grandma Zhong Cuihua.

"grandmother!"

"How about having a puppy at home?"

Zhao Dahai took a piece of tofu and crumbled it in a bowl. He mixed it with rice and took a bite. It was thick, salty and delicious, and went very well with rice.

Zhong Cuihua knew that Zhao Dahai was worried about being alone at home and it would be better to have a dog, so she agreed.

"OK."

"That's it. I'll ask around to see if any local dog owners want one."

Zhao Dahai ate a big meal, then turned around to ask if any female dogs had given birth to puppies. He sealed a red envelope and brought one back. If that didn't work, he would go to the town one day to see if he could buy one.

"grandmother."

"Those fish, shrimp and crab farmers in Paiwan Village are so fat!"

Zhao Dahai talked about the ponds and dams he saw while fishing for shrimps, crabs and fish in the afternoon.

"Who says it isn't?"

“There’s no need to go overseas to make a lot of money.”

"Someone in our village had this idea, but it didn't happen."

Zhong Cuihua nodded.

"ah?"

"Is there anyone in our village who does this?"

"Why am I not impressed?"

Zhao Dahai was stunned for a moment.

"That happened more than ten years ago!"

"You were young at that time and didn't remember much, but you must know the place. Our village is near the mangrove forest. Didn't you often go there to play when you were a child?"

Zhong Cuihua picked up a goby and said not to do it next time. It was delicious, but it took too much effort. After half a day of fishing, it would take another hour or two to cook it.

Zhao Dahai suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a place, with big rocks and cement blocks. The children in the village liked to play there very much, climbing up and down, etc. They had not been there for several years when they grew up, and had almost forgotten about it.

"Why didn't you start it?"

Zhao Dahai was a little curious. Breeding is a lucrative business. If no one does it, forget it. If someone does it but doesn’t do it, I don’t know what happened.

"I don't know the specific reason. If you want to know, ask Second Grandpa."

Zhong Cuihua shook her head, she really didn't know what was going on.

Zhao Dahai didn't say anything more about this matter. He would go there another day to have a look. After dinner, he would pack his things and go fishing tomorrow. Don't be in a hurry to sell the sandworms. Let's wait a little longer.