253. Chapter 252: Mullet Roe

Chapter 252 Mullet Roe

Around two o'clock in the afternoon.

The tide was almost at its highest point. Li Duoyu drove a sampan and took his uncle Chen Dongqing to the sea area where the nets were cast.

After arriving at the place.

Li Duoyu put on gloves and first picked up the buoy with a small red flag.

These buoys are used to remind passing fishing boats that there are fishing nets here, but they are all sticky nets that sink to the bottom, so there is no need to worry about being caught by the propellers of fishing boats.

If floating nets are cast, if fishermen are not watching in the nearby sea area, once a powered fishing boat mistakenly enters the netting area, the propeller can easily get caught in the fishing net.

Small fishing boats are easy to deal with, just cut the fishing nets, but if it is a large boat, it will be very troublesome, and you may have to find a water ghost to cut the fishing nets.

If the weather is bad and the waves are big, the fishing boat will lose power and become very dangerous.

Generally, Li Duoyu is always on the scene when catching middle and upper layer fish with sticky nets. For example, when catching shad at the river mouth last year, he and his cousin stayed by the sticky net all the time, just to prevent the passing fishing boats from getting caught in the sticky net.

After the buoy was lifted up.

Li Duoyu asked to start pulling the net. Since the sticky net had sunk to the bottom of the sea at least 20 meters deep, it was still quite laborious to pull the net up.

When Li Duoyu pulled, the fishing boat slowly moved forward due to the force.

My uncle was responsible for untangling the fish.

Since this area has a muddy bottom and is not a reef area, there are almost no reef fish such as groupers and rice fish.

Most of the fish caught in the net are swimming crabs and half-fish, and occasionally large conchs are caught.

For fishermen of this era, these are relatively common seafood, and even if they are caught, they will not be particularly excited.

After pulling for about a hundred meters.

A large yellow conch was caught in the sticky net.

After seeing the large conch.

Chen Dongqing's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "Not bad, we also got a papaya snail."

After hearing this name, Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted.

In this era, there is no such thing as coconut snail. Local fishermen generally call it papaya snail.

In fact, when Li Duoyu first heard about coconut snail, he was also speechless. This thing obviously looks like papaya, not like coconut at all, why is it called coconut snail.

Papaya snail is really not delicious. If the previous big conch is the ceiling of the conch world, the current papaya snail is the younger brother of the conch world.

The snail meat is hard and woody, and it cannot be cooked for too long, otherwise it will be like eating rubber. Locals usually slice it in hot water and stir-fry it with red wine lees.

In this era, papaya snails are like abalones, and the shells are more valuable.

The shells of abalone are used as medicinal materials, while the shells of papaya snails are used to make handicrafts. Some craftsmen on the seashore will make the shells of papaya snails into conch horns.

There are also many butchers who buy the shells of this kind of large conch. Once they cannot sell all the pork, they will carry the pork to the village to sell.

The pork is not sold by shouting, but by blowing the conch. Once the villagers hear the "du~du~" sound, they know that the pork seller has come.

When he was a child, Li Duoyu once asked an old man in the village why the pork seller used the blowing of the large conch as a signal to attract customers.

The old man did not understand it very well, but simply told him some superstitious things, saying that the butchers killed too many lives, so they imitated the Taoist priests to blow the horns to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. Since there were fewer horns, they blew conch.

Since the conch comes from the sea, every time the butcher blows the conch, he will silently say in his heart: "Get out of the sea of ​​suffering as soon as possible and reincarnate."

Looking at the papaya snail in front of him, which weighs at least three pounds, Li Duoyu is more concerned about whether this big snail is "pregnant".

Because there is a probability that a kind of pearl called "Melo Pearl" will appear in the body of papaya snail, and the larger the size, the higher the probability of the pearl.

However, Li Duoyu only heard the name of "Melo Pearl" in those years when fishing became popular.

In the past, some people in their village also made pearls from papaya snails, but most of the pearls were not particularly round.

In addition, the luster was not very bright, and it was really not as beautiful as pearls, so most fishermen didn't care much.

When Li Duoyu returned to Dandan Island from the island country, the old Tang who loved fishing once said that when he was young, he had opened a Melo Pearl with a diameter of more than two centimeters and more than 50 carats.

At that time, no one wanted it at all, so they put it in the bottom of the box. Until later, Melo Pearl became inexplicably popular and could be sold for 5,000 yuan per carat. Old Tang searched all over the house, but couldn't find the pearl. Later, he asked his son and found out.

When his son was a child, he had stolen the Melo Pearl and played with it as a marble, but lost it to a big boy in the village.

Old Tang was so angry that he wanted to beat his son, but unfortunately he was too old to win.

Li Duoyu felt that the probability of getting Melo Pearl from papaya snails was very small. If he had this luck, he would probably win the lottery.

But people are like this. Once an opportunity is in front of you, you can't help but want to try it.

Li Duoyu continued to pull the fishing net. So far, the catch is not good, but not bad either.

Because of the muddy bottom, there are a lot of crabs, boss fish and half fish.

But before pulling for a while.

Li Duoyu found that it was very difficult to pull, as if it was hanging on the earth.

But fortunately, it can still be pulled.

In this case, fishermen will be very excited, because it is very likely that they have caught a school of fish and a big fish, otherwise it would not be so difficult to pull.

My uncle Chen Dongqing saw that Li Duoyu was struggling to pull the fish, so he also came up to help pull the net.

After a while.

A six- or seven-pound blackhead fish came to the surface with the sticky net. After seeing the fish, my uncle was a little disgusted.

This kind of fish is notoriously unpalatable. The meat is very woody and often smells like mud. Even if the fish is very large, most of the time it cannot be sold at a high price.

To be exaggerated, fishermen really don’t like to catch mullet in the net, because this kind of fish usually appears in groups. When one fish appears, a second one will appear. If a school of fish is caught in the net, the net will stick to it. It may be destroyed.

Although everyone disliked the mullet fish, Li Duoyu regarded this thing as a treasure, especially when he saw the round belly of the mullet fish, his face was full of smiles.

After untangling the mullet from under the sticky net.

Li Duoyu took out the mallet from the sampan boat and struck it accurately on the flat head of the mullet, causing it to straighten its body.

Li Duoyu used a fish-killing knife to insert it from the lower end of the belly of the mullet, and then performed a caesarean section on "it".

Immediately afterwards, I saw two symmetrical yellow ovaries in the belly of the blackhead fish.

"Forehead"

Chen Dongqing was a little surprised: "This aconite actually has fish roe, which is quite valuable. Some people like to eat fish roe."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Holly, do you still remember that when we were in Nagasaki, there was an ingredient that was grilled on a charcoal fire?"

Being reminded by Li Duoyu, the memory of Chen Dongqing's death came back to life.

"That stiff one that looks a bit like a man and tastes weird as an appetizer?"

Li Duoyu nodded and smiled: "Yes, it's that thing. That thing is called mullet roe, and it's made of this thing."

Chen Dongqing looked surprised: "That's not right, how do you know so clearly?"

"You nerd, don't you understand? When I first ate that thing, I recognized it at a glance. I also asked the president about the recipe for making mullet roe. Do you want me to make some for you to eat so that you can learn from it? Try to come twice a month.”

"roll."

There is definitely no market for such a "delicacy" as mullet roe in Rongcheng. The main reason is that the way to eat it is too finicky and troublesome, and people may not be able to accept the taste.

However, after Li Duoyu's mullet roe is made, there is one person who will definitely accept the mullet roe, and that is Chen Yuanyou, who runs a Japanese food shop.

Just like grilled eel, mullet roe is one of the three delicacies of Japanese cuisine and an unavoidable ingredient. It can be cooked and sold to her at a high price.

Just as Li Duoyu expected, he encountered a school of mullet fish next, and one big-bellied mullet fish was pulled up by Li Duoyu one after another.

After pulling up the thousand-meter fishing net, Li Duoyu sat on the board of the boat covered in sweat. Behind him, there were densely packed silvery mullet fish.

For Li Duoyu, this trip was a big profit. The fish eggs were used to make mullet roe and sold to Chen Yuanyu. The mullet meat that the fishermen didn't like was used to make fish meal and fed to the eels.