A group of people were gathered around the stove fire. Everyone was holding a huge sea bowl in their hands and looking at the fragrant cauldron in front of them with saliva.
Xiao Han, who was wearing a torn apron, was carefully tending the firewood so that the fire would not be too strong or too weak. At the same time, he would often open a corner of the pot lid and observe the fish soup inside through the steaming white gas.
Wait until the soup is milky white in color and overflowing with aroma, then you open the lid of the pot, sprinkle a handful of salt, and mix in the remaining chopped green onions. A pot of delicious fish soup is freshly made!
"Stand back! You fool, if you dare to drool into the pot, I will stew you too!"
After drinking away the group of people who gathered around him, Xiao Han squinted his eyes and tasted the taste!
Even though this fish soup is simple to make and no spices are used in the whole process, this pot of soup is still extremely delicious!
"There is just no boiling water. If boiling water was used, the color of the soup would be whiter and the taste would be better!"
Smacking his lips, Xiao Han quickly filled himself a bowl of fish soup under the murderous gazes of Liu Hongji. Without saying a word, he stepped back holding the bowl.
And next, Xiao Han was seen squatting on the ground and sipping the fish soup, while watching Liu Hongji, Xiaodong, Lengzi, Lao Xiao, and Luo Shixin, who arrived after smelling the smell, fighting for the fish soup.
This fish weighs twenty kilograms. Even after processing the internal organs, scales and gills, it still weighs more than ten kilograms. It is enough to feed Xiao Han and several others!
Therefore, this so-called scramble is just a bit of a fuss.
It didn't take long. Next to the big pot, there was a row of people holding rice bowls, sipping the soup!
If someone who knows sees them, they will say that these are marquises, dukes, and generals!
Those who don’t know, seeing them like this, will probably wonder where these famine victims came from!
"Hiss...this fish! It's so fresh!"
“It’s fresher than all the fish I’ve eaten before!”
"Yeah! I feel like this is the most delicious fish I've ever eaten in my life, except for that kind of poisonous fish!"
Xiao Han chewed the tender fish meat in his mouth and couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard the compliments from the bumpkins around him.
Nonsense! Isn’t it delicious?
He recognized this so-called stone fish when he was on the boat, but it was a large yellow croaker that would be worth as much as gold in future generations!
It is said that at that time, a six-pound yellow croaker was sold for a sky-high price of 160,000 yuan!
If this fish of theirs were to be left to future generations, it would not be difficult to exchange for one million catties of grain, let alone tens of thousands of catties of grain!
Of course, this is the Tang Dynasty, so this fish is just a fish!
Not to mention exchanging one million kilograms of grain, even if you take it to the city and exchange it for one hundred kilograms of grain, you will probably be stared at by the grain merchant for a long time to determine whether this person has a brain disease...
However, although this fish cannot be exchanged for food, Xiao Han also has a new plan through this unintentional discovery!
Why was this large yellow croaker so expensive in later generations?
It is estimated that many people do not know the reason, but Xiao Han, who is half a seaside person, knows this very well!
Back then, had he heard the old man from Wei Luzi’s family talking about it?
This large yellow croaker was not a rare thing when the old man was young. Fishermen could often catch it when they went to sea. Even if they were taken out, it only cost a few cents.
But later, with the rise of a method called rip-off fishing, everything changed!
At that time, fishermen took advantage of the "croaking" characteristic of large yellow croakers and often inserted a long bamboo pole into the sea water to listen for sounds and identify objects to find schools of large yellow croakers.
After finding a school of large yellow croaker, fishermen on several boats will rush to the fish school together and gently tap the bamboo pole to make it emit sound waves to gather the fish together.
When the school of fish gathers, and with the command from Boss Hai, the tapping method that was just a light tap will immediately change to a heavy and urgent tapping method!
Those large yellow croakers would be stunned by the sudden sound wave and then float to the sea, allowing fishermen to catch them.
Because this method is really simple and convenient, and does not require any special tools, what is even more rare is that its fishing efficiency is extremely high. Legend has it that as long as the hook is heard, a large golden light will immediately float on the sea!
So it quickly spread among the fishermen! In just a few years, the once common large yellow croaker was caught and became a rare species, so that it became difficult to find a single fish.
However, these are all things in the past life!
Now, it’s the Tang Dynasty!
The large yellow croakers in this sea can grow to more than twenty kilograms. Coupled with the sudden disaster and the lack of food in Dengzhou, Xiao Han felt that he could put this fishing technique to use in advance!
As for, will this lead to the extinction of the large yellow croaker group thousands of years in advance? That is not something Xiao Han should worry about!
People are starving to death, why do they care about fish?
Besides, if it becomes extinct, then it will be extinct. In the last life, it was not extinct, but it was beyond the reach of ordinary people like Xiao Han. It couldn't be eaten anyway, so what the heck!
"I just don't know if I can find big bamboo here! It seems that the local bamboos I saw in my previous life were all small and slender bamboo poles, and I haven't seen many big bamboos. You can't even bring bamboo from the south, right?
In that case, the day lily should be cold too!"
With a delicious fish soup in his mouth, Xiao Han was thinking about where to get bamboo or whether he could use wood instead.
Suddenly, the unicorn-like idiot with a big bump on his forehead let out another scream.
"Oh, my teeth..."
He held his cheek tightly, tears of pain fell from his eyes!
When he was ladling the fish soup just now, he purposely scooped the whole fish head into his bowl! What he was thinking about was revenge. If you dared to bump into me before, then I will bite you now!
As a result, no one expected it.
Just when the fool happily finished swallowing the fish brain and bit into the head of the fish, something as hard as a stone hit his teeth!
In an instant, even Xiaodong next to him could hear the crisp sound clearly. There was no need to say more about the sour feeling.
"What's wrong with you?"
Swallowing the fish in his mouth hurriedly, Liu Hongji stretched his neck curiously and looked at the idiot.
The idiot had a mournful face, slowly moved his mouth, and finally spit out two bloody white things from his mouth.
One is his tooth, and the other one is very similar to a white pebble!
"Where did this stone come from?" Curious, Liu Hongji came up and looked at the "white pebble" in the fool's hand. Liu Hongji asked him in surprise: "Did you just take a bite on the ground?"