1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 98 Harvest the famous Xiangfei fish!

When I got home, it was only afternoon. Liang's mother had already started preparing for the reunion dinner, and Chen Xiangbei was also helping.

At night, according to local customs, moon cakes, grapefruits, candies, and taro dug from the vegetable garden behind the house were placed to pay tribute to the Moon Goddess.

The whole family still sat together for this reunion dinner, but from tomorrow on, each family had to cook their own meals.

Early in the morning, Liang Ziqiang went to the vegetable field.

Chen Xiangbei was busy with housework in the inner room when she suddenly heard a regular knocking on the back window of her room.

Three hard hits, three light hits, and then three more hard hits, like the code for a secret meeting in a movie.

Chen Xiangbei frowned, puzzled. This was her and Liang Ziqiang's bedroom, who would come here and make such a sneaky noise?

Could it be that Liang Ziqiang had gone around the vegetable garden and came back, deliberately doing this to tease himself?

With doubts, she slowly walked to the window and pulled open the curtain that was covering the window.

Seeing that it was a completely unfamiliar male face, and there were two of them, Chen Xiangbei was stunned and spoke in a somewhat cold tone:

"What are you knocking for? Are you looking for my Ah Qiang or something?"

The two men were knocking hard, and when they saw a pretty girl's face suddenly appear in the window, they were also startled for a moment, but they reacted immediately. One of them lowered his voice and said, as if he was meeting someone underground:

"Sister-in-law, right? I'm Li Liang, he's Deng Zhaocai, and we're brothers with Brother Qiang! Can you please call Brother Qiang for us? We have an appointment!"

Chen Xiangbei was confused for a moment. Her husband's three brothers, weren't they Liang Tiancheng and Liang Zifeng? Where did these three brothers come from?

But since the other party said this, it means that at least she has a good relationship with her husband. Chen Xiangbei replied:
"Go look for him in the vegetable garden! He went there with my mother."

The reason why Liang Ziqiang went to the vegetable field early in the morning was that he followed his mother to plant vegetables. In the future, each family would have their own kitchen, and he and Chen Xiangbei faced a big problem: there were no vegetables in the field.

So Liang's mother gave him a piece of vegetable land and decided to help him plant some crops now so that they could have food to eat soon.

Li Liang and the other two were very polite to Chen Xiangbei, saying:
"Thank you, sister-in-law. We'll go get the food now..."

He suddenly paused at this point, his expression a little stiff:

"His mother is also in the vegetable garden? Forget it, let's not go. When he comes back, sister-in-law, tell him to go directly to the beach. We will wait there!"

After saying this, the two of them left in a hurry without staying for long.

Chen Xiangbei was confused for a while. He claimed to be a brother, but he didn't seem to have a very good relationship with the entire Liang family...

I didn't care about that and continued to work. After the family was divided, there was still a lot to do on the first day of cooking.

After a while, Liang Ziqiang came back. As soon as Chen Xiangbei saw him enter the inner room, she immediately went up to him and told him:

"Two people just knocked on the window behind me, saying they wanted to go to the beach with you. They were both very strange. How could they go to the beach when they were both on crutches?!"

"crutch?"

Liang Ziqiang was confused for a moment, and when he realized what was happening, he stopped laughing:
"Wife, why are you so cute? Those stilts they are holding are for fishing in the sea!"

He was also in a daze for a moment before he remembered that Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai had indeed asked him to go to the beach early this morning to teach them how to push the slingshot together.

But recently he was afraid of having no vegetables to eat, so he went to the vegetable garden to plant vegetables early in the morning and forgot about this matter. As a result, those two guys came directly and knocked on his window.

"I'm going to the beach to catch fish now. Oh, by the way, wife, don't tell mom that they came to see me. Just say that I went to push the stilt fishing net by myself!"

Liang Ziqiang deliberately warned Chen Xiangbei in a low voice.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiangbei became alert and widened her eyes:

"What's wrong with you three? Why are you so shameless? You're even hiding it from mom!"

That look made it seem as if Liang Ziqiang had someone outside...

Liang Ziqiang sweatdropped. Aren't girls of this age supposed to be pure-minded? Why did she look like she was questioning whether he was gay? She actually thought about that?

"It's very simple. We used to fight all the time, but later I beat them both up, so we became brothers! But mom is really annoyed with them. If she knew they were coming to see me, I would probably be chased out with a broom at night!" Liang Ziqiang condensed it a little and told her in one sentence.

"Is that so? Then I won't tell mom!" After hearing this, Chen Xiangbei understood and agreed immediately.

"But you have to be careful. You can't catch fish while stepping on something like this. Don't go where the water is too deep!"

Seeing Liang Ziqiang carrying the stilt fishing net set, Chen Xiangbei started to worry about him again.

"I'm an old hand, otherwise they would ask me to teach them? Don't worry, just do your own thing!"

Although he answered her like this, he was in a good mood. It felt pretty good to have his wife giving him occasional words of advice.

Not long after he walked out, the little fur ball that was playing on the roadside saw him, barked happily, and followed him all the way to the beach.

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and decided not to drive it back. The puppy had been weaned at Chen Xiangbei's house before it was brought here. Now, a month later, it has grown a little bigger. Although it is still furry, it can also be said to be a "big fur ball".

In the future, I will take it with me to put up the trap net at night, so that it can go out to see the sea early, which is not a bad thing.

The man and the dog came to the beach. Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai had been waiting for a long time, their necks stretched out like giraffes. Recently, they practiced stilts with the help of a chair according to Liang Ziqiang's teachings. After practicing hard for a long time, they were able to walk on stilts, but they could not go into the water to push the stilt net.

Liang Ziqiang didn't say much. He took off his shoes, tied stilts on his bare feet, and started to lead them into the shallowest water to try.

"No, you two can't let the triangular fishing net become a burden! Look, it forms a triangular relationship with the body by supporting it on the water surface, which is actually conducive to standing firm!"

"The fish basket cannot be placed so far away. Tie it to your side with a rope. If a wave comes, just hold on to the big oil drum outside the fish basket!"

"Right, right, that's kind of what I meant. You two aren't as stupid as you look at first glance..."

The two of them thought that Liang Ziqiang was praising them, and they immediately became more excited, practicing happily along the shallows...

After teaching for half an hour, Liang Ziqiang asked them to continue practicing in shallow water, while he pulled the fish basket and gradually walked towards the sea until the water was waist-deep.

I cast a few nets and found that most of the fish I caught were shrimps, including green shrimps and white shrimps, but more were hair shrimps.

He was a little disappointed. Could it be that his luck was not good this time and he could only bring back a few large baskets of hair shrimps and then dry the shrimp skins?

He had already imagined the scene of Chen Xiangbei eating dried shrimps for two months and vomiting...

After thinking about it, I consoled myself: Just think of it as coming here today to teach Li Liang and the others. Just cast a few nets and catch whatever you can!

With this mentality, I continued pushing for a while.

After moving to a different area, stone crabs and swimming crabs began to appear in the net, some of which were blue crabs with roe.

"Well, my luck is starting to improve! Why are there only shrimps and crabs but no fish? I'd better give me another 'Three Cuts'!"

Liang Ziqiang kept pushing the net, lifting the net, and picking up the fish, while muttering to himself.

Things are different now than the day I was reborn. I have already opened up the sales channel of Yuehai Restaurant. If I can really push the price to "Third Knife", I will not sell it at a low price. I will just sell it at twenty-five per catty!
"Hey, there really is a fish!"

He glanced into the triangular fishing net and saw that this time he had a good harvest.

A large group of lively shrimps gradually dispersed, revealing a few fish inside.

Stretch out your hand and pick up the fish and put it into the basket first!

Liang Ziqiang didn't pay much attention to the two large sea bass, which are a very common type of sea bass, and threw them directly into the basket.

There are four or five smaller fish underneath the fish.

Liang Ziqiang couldn't tell what kind of fish it was at first glance, because there was nothing special about its shape and appearance.

However, when he caught one, before he got too close, he reacted instantly!
About half a meter away, a scent that was difficult to describe accurately but smelled very good floated into my nose.

Sweetfish!

Looking more closely, I saw that this fish was a very ordinary long strip, with white sides and belly, and its fins were slightly yellowish.

Although it is not very recognizable, combined with the obvious fragrance, it can be determined with 100% certainty that it is sweetfish.

The sweetfish is also called August fragrance, Liuxiang fish, Xiangfei fish, and clove fish. It is also a very famous treasure among fish.

Some people describe its fragrance as being like the smell of Hami melon, some say it is like the smell of cloves, and some think it is much better than Hami melon and cloves.

Some fishermen say that once you catch the sweetfish in a pond, its fragrance can spread for miles. This statement is of course an exaggeration, but if you look closely, the fragrance is indeed very obvious and lingering, which is also a wonder among fish!

In fact, the reason why the Xiangfei fish is fragrant is that there is a cavity full of balsam on its back.

Ayu is rare, so people in later generations began to cultivate it artificially in order to eat it. Farmed ayu is not expensive, only a few dozen yuan per pound, but the fragrance is so faint that it is almost unscented. Only this kind of truly wild ayu has a strong fragrance, and the price is as high as six hundred or eight hundred yuan.

In this era, the price cannot be compared with that of later generations, but wild sweetfish is definitely among the high-end fish products!

Liang Ziqiang put four or five sweetfish into the fish basket at once.

Almost at the same time, he felt the swimming fish stirring and touching his legs from time to time.

If I'm not mistaken, there should be a school of sweetfish swimming slowly underwater.

How can we miss such a great opportunity?

Liang Ziqiang immediately pushed the triangular fishing net into the water again and aimed at the place where the fish were stirring more obviously.

As expected, I was right! I quickly raised the net and found that there were almost no shrimps or crabs in the net, only fish.

A rough estimate is that, in addition to other miscellaneous fish, there are more than a dozen sweetfish alone, jumping and splashing water in the center of the net, as well as creating long and narrow streaks of white light.

At this moment, Liang Ziqiang only regretted that his hands were not enough. He did not bother to pick up the fish one by one, and directly aimed the net at the opening of the bamboo basket, pulling handfuls of fish into the basket. Even if two fish occasionally fell out, he did not have time to take a second look.

After paddling, he immediately pushed the triangular net into the water.

The cycle repeats over and over again. Liang Ziqiang seems to be on fast forward and can't stop at all...

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