Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1191: Thinking about Food
"Every time I see the fish Zhao Dahai has caught, I feel like it's unreal. How could anyone catch so many fish? Other fishermen, including fishing boats, can't catch so many fish in such a short time."

"How did Zhao Dahai do this?"

Gao Zhicheng kept shaking his head as he spoke.

"What's so strange about this?"

"Those of us who go fishing at sea know that once we find where the fish are, we can catch a lot of fish at once. Zhao Dahai has the ability to find the fish schools and knows how to catch them. It's not surprising that he can catch so many fish in just ten days. What's more, there are not only Zhao Dahai on the speedboat, but also four people including Zhong Shizhu."

"In a day, we catch three to four thousand kilograms of fish, but if it's spread out to each person, it's only a few hundred kilograms, which is normal."

"For sea bass weighing ten pounds, there are only a few of them when the weight is several hundred pounds."

Ding Chongshan smiled. In terms of weight, the fish caught by Zhao Dahai were indeed amazing. However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that there is nothing strange about it.

"Let's not think about how Zhao Dahai caught so many fish. This may seem strange to other people, but it's not strange at all to Zhao Dahai. Don't forget that the fish in the cages here are just the leftovers. These days, Liu Gang, Liu Lei and I have taken away a lot of fish from Hongyun Restaurant here."

"If you calculate it this way, you will know how many fish Zhao Dahai has caught during this period of time."

"Forget it."

"We don't need to think about this. What we need to think about now is what to eat tonight."

Wu Weimin pointed at the sea bass and black sea bream that were swimming around in the cages, and the various types of grouper that were almost unclear at the bottom of the cages.

"I think it should be like this."

"Give me a sea bass. Make soup out of the fish head and slice the fish meat."

"Let's not eat the black porgy. There's a pretty big yellow porgy here. Let's catch a few of them."

"The other one is to get a red snapper weighing about three to five pounds for steaming."

Ding Chongshan thought about it for a while and came up with an idea.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua actually have very good relationships with Zhao Dahai and themselves. They will not be polite at this time, but based on their relationship with Zhao Dahai, it is more appropriate to come up with such an idea.

Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua all nodded. Ding Chongshan’s idea was good. They would not be polite to Zhao Dahai. They could eat whatever they wanted here.

Sea bass and yellow bream were very easy to catch, as there were a lot of them in the fish fillets and you could just scoop them up with a scoop net. However, the red grouper were all at the bottom of the net and it took a lot of effort to catch them.

"have to say."

"This fish farm is really great. The fish is growing very well here. There is no impact at all. Why do I feel that it is more vigorous than when it is grown in other places?"

Wu Weimin looked carefully at the sea bass, yellow bream and red grouper that had just been caught. These fish were all caught at sea and kept here. He had been buying fish from Zhao Dahai and was very familiar with the condition of the fish here. In the past, the fish caught by Zhao Dahai were kept on the fishing boat or sold to himself and Liu Gang when they were just caught. But no matter what, it seemed that they were still a little worse than now.

"The water quality in this place is really very good, and it is constantly flowing. Even though the fish in the cages have nothing to eat, they are starving and are desperately trying to find food."

"They swim back and forth all day long. Isn't that just like people who are constantly active? If that's the case, it would be strange if these fish weren't fierce!"

Lin Zuhua didn't find it strange at all.

"Correct!"

"That's actually what's going on. These fish in the cages have nothing to eat or very little to eat, and there are so many fish, so there must be competition."

"The swimming speed and distance must be fast. In this way, all these fish will be lean and vigorous."

"The meat of this kind of fish must be very tender and firm. If I have to say something, it's that it lacks a little fat, but there's really nothing to say about this kind of thing. There are gains and losses."

"Zhao Dahai is raising some fish on a website, waiting to eat them at the end of the year. He will put small fish in the fish cage to raise them."

"But I have to remind you later that even if you are putting small fish in to raise them, you can't put too many. Otherwise, the fish will get too fat, which is not a good thing."

Ding Chongshan pointed to a fish cage not far away. The fish inside were the ones that Zhao Dahai had specially kept and was waiting to be eaten at the end of the year.

Upon hearing this, Gao Zhicheng and Lin Zuhua walked over and looked down. The number of fish inside was the same, with a lot of black porgy, yellow porgy, and sea bass. In the deeper areas, you could see all kinds of grouper, and even two or three big blue groupers that weighed more than 100 kilograms.

Lin Zuhua took a careful look and found that what Ding Chongshan said was correct. The fish in this cage seemed to be fatter, and there were some small fish on the water surface, swimming around. This was not the case in other cages.

"Where did these little fish come from?"

Lin Zuhua was a little puzzled. The meshes of the fishing nets used in the fish cages were very dense, and even the heads of chopsticks could not pass through. Although these small fish were small, they definitely did not swim in through the meshes.

Ding Chongshan pointed to a pulley on the platform between the two fish farms. Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao were sitting and talking on the platform next to it. There was a long net cage in that place. All the fish were kept in this net cage. The big ones were left behind, and the small ones would definitely become food for the big fish.

Lin Zuhua was very curious and immediately went over to pull the pulley.
"Yo!"

"So many fish?"

Lin Zuhua looked at the long net cage filled with fish of all sizes and shapes, but that was not important. What was important was that the fish inside looked like they should weigh about three or four hundred kilograms.

“It’s quite a lot.”

"If we can catch so many small fish, they will be enough for the fish in the cages to eat. If we continue to raise them like this, they will definitely become extremely fat and grow fast."

Lin Zuhua was very surprised.

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao told Lin Zuhua that there were a lot of things to do today. Ding Ailian, Ma Baozhu and others had been busy and had not had time to pull the net cage. It had been almost ten hours, which is why there were so many fish. However, at the end of the day, on a good day, they could catch five or six hundred kilograms of various large and small fish, but sometimes they could only catch a hundred or eighty kilograms.

“Why are there so many fish in this place?”

Lin Zuhua really couldn't understand what was going on.

"There is a small stream below, although it is not very big." "It attracts a lot of fish. In addition, at night, there will be lights here, so many fish will come here and run into the net cage along the stream."

Ding Chongshan told Lin Zuhua what was going on here.

"No way? Is there anything like this? If so, this fish steak is an incredible place!"

"correct!"

"It's okay. Isn't it the same to fish in this place? Can't you catch a lot of fish?"

Lin Zuhua immediately thought of this matter.

“You can’t catch big fish here, and you can’t catch any valuable fish, but it’s very easy to fish.”

"When Ding Ailian and Ma Baozhu have nothing to do, they go fishing here with us two old ladies! It's easy to catch 20 to 30 kilograms of fish in a day."

Huang Jintao and Zhong Cuihua have gone fishing a lot in the past few days.

Lin Zuhua couldn't help but give a thumbs up. This is really a good place.

"When the lights come on at night, there will be schools of small fish swimming over here!"

"You can see several kilograms of sea bass and other things, but there really aren't too many of them."

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao have been staying in this place on the fish farm almost all these days, and they can see these big and small fish on the water every day.

The big fish cannot be caught with a scoop net, but the small ones can be easily scooped up with a scoop net.

"Ding Ailian and Ma Baozhu used a scoop net to catch a lot of small squids here last night."

"Boil some water, add some oil, put it in the pot and blanch it, then eat it. It tastes really good."

Zhong Cuicui patted her knees. She had been staying at the fish farm these past few days. There were more people there and it was lively. Life was really easier. The food was delicious and very much to her taste.

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao originally planned to stay here for three to five days and then return to the village, but now they have decided to stay for a while longer, ten days, half a month, or a month.

When Wu Weimin, Gao Zhicheng and others heard what Zhong Cuihua said, their saliva immediately flowed out. People who like fishing actually like eating seafood very much. They know very well how delicious the small squids just caught are.

"I wonder if there's any left tonight?"

Gao Zhicheng said this while staring at the water surface beside him with wide eyes.

"You can't be sure about this!"

"It'll be dark soon!"

"We'll know soon if there will be one!"

Zhong Cuihua smiled and shook her head. It seemed that people like Wu Weimin and Gao Zhicheng liked to eat these small squids very much. However, the availability of these small, fresh squids really depended on the tide. Sometimes they were available, and sometimes they were not. It was hard to say for sure.

Ding Chongshan, Wu Weimin and others untied the rope at the back of the long net cage and poured all the fish into the fish cage next to it.

“Are there so many fish in here?”

Lin Zuhua was shocked. He already knew that all the fish in the cage were specially raised by Zhao Dahai, waiting to be distributed to his people at the end of the year. He had just seen small schools of fish swimming around in the water inside the cage, and fish such as sea bass and grouper in deeper waters. But now these small fish fell down, and suddenly a large number of fish rushed out from somewhere.

"Some of the fish in the cages were caught in the nets here in the past few days."

"All the small ones were eaten, and the big ones were left. The other one was a portion of the fish Zhao Dahai caught and placed in here. The purpose was to raise them to a bigger size and fatter size."

Ding Chongshan was very clear about the situation of this row of fish.

"This way, we'll have delicious fish again during the Chinese New Year!"

Gao Zhicheng looked at the big sea bass weighing twenty or thirty kilograms that rushed out of the water. During the New Year, Zhao Dahai must have delivered these fish to people like him.

"Do I even need to say this? Ever since we met Zhao Dahai, have we ever lacked delicious fish? What I'm thinking about now is those winter crabs I ate last year. I wonder if I can still eat them this year!"

Wu Weimin thought of the winter crabs he ate last year, and his mouth began to water.

"If it's really true, it's hard to say!"

"We have to wait until the New Year is approaching. Zhao Dahai will take people to put out crab cages to see if we can catch crabs in the same place as last year. If we can catch them, we will all have something to eat. If not, then there will really be nothing we can do. Whether we can eat them or not depends on whether we are lucky enough!"

Ding Chongshan, like Wu Weimin, missed the winter crabs he had last year, but it was hard to say for sure. The number of winter crabs has been decreasing in recent years. Zhao Dahai was really lucky last year and accidentally found a place. Otherwise, he would never have been able to catch so many winter crabs. This is a very seasonal crab. It is only delicious in winter when the roe and roe grow.

"Ding Chongshan."

"What's going on? Why are there so few winter crabs in recent years?"

"You didn't get much fish, shrimp or crab these years, did you?"

Wu Weimin remembered this incident.

Winter crab is a very delicious crab. It will grow full of roe and roe in the autumn and winter every year.

The price is quite high, but the quantity has been getting smaller and smaller in recent years. I haven’t had it properly for many years.

Ding Chongshan is in the business of purchasing fish, shrimps and crabs. No one knows the number of winter crabs every year better than him.

(End of this chapter)