Chapter 169 People who came after hearing the news! Where did the fish go?
The sun rises as high as the bamboo pole.
Zhao Dahai walked out of the courtyard door and looked down at the vast sea from a distance. The sea breeze was blowing, neither cold nor hot, and very comfortable. He had not gone to sea in the past three days and had been staring at the isinglass being dried at home. This is a meticulous
You have to turn over and change sides from time to time. Grandma Zhong Cuihua is old and has to do it by herself. Sun Er has been visiting morning and evening these days, so she must take good care of her and not be careless.
Zhao Dahai turned his head and looked at the isinglass hanging on the shelf not far away. Under the sun, the orange color slowly emerged, and hanging next to it was a large fish over one and a half meters tall.
Zhao Dahai heard the sound of the car engine and turned around to see that it was Wu Weimin's car. Needless to say, he came over after hearing the news that he had caught a 100-jin giant eel fish and wanted to see if he could buy it.
A lot of people came that day. They saw that the fish had been killed and the glue had been taken. They didn't give up. Some wanted to buy dried fish, some wanted to buy isinglass, and some wanted to buy them all. The prices offered were not low, so they were blocked by themselves.
go back.
"Boss Wu."
"What kind of blowing prompted you to come here?!"
Zhao Dahai walked to the car, and Wu Weimin opened the door and stepped out.
"ha!"
"I heard that you caught a big owl weighing more than 100 kilograms, and you rushed over here in a hurry."
Wu Weimin had dealt with Zhao Dahai several times and was an old acquaintance. He came straight to the point and told the truth. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the dried fish and isinglass drying on the shelf next to him and rushed over quickly.
"Yo!"
"This fish is so big!"
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"It's as high as my neck!"
"It's too exaggerated. How did you catch this fish?"
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"Why!"
"Tsk tsk tsk!"
"This isinglass is incredible!"
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"It's full of glue!"
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"The person who took the glue is really good. His old skills are so complete and very clean. Not even a trace of impurities is left behind!"
"Not many people have such ability nowadays."
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Wu Weimin's eyes widened and he kept mumbling as he spoke.
Zhao Dahai was a little curious and asked Wu Weimin how to tell the quality of isinglass, especially how to tell the gelatin inside.
“The first important thing about whether isinglass is good or not is its thickness.”
"If it doesn't have enough thickness, the isinglass will definitely be junk."
"The bigger the fish, the thicker and longer the isinglass will be."
"The length of this one meter or so is over fifteen centimeters at its widest point and close to ten centimeters at its narrowest point."
"The thickest part of the isinglass head is almost two centimeters thick, and the thinnest part is more than one centimeter."
"This is about 70 to 80% dry."
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"Did you see that there are traces of lines on this isinglass?"
"These are the pipes, where the glue is stored."
"Good isinglass has many dense lines or pipes."
"If you look carefully under the sun, you can clearly see the gel inside."
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Zhao Dahai looked at the hung isinglass carefully. There were really thin lines like pipes running up and down. He could see it very clearly. It was very obvious. When the sunlight came through, he could see that there was solidified material inside these pipes.
thing.
"Tsk tsk tsk!"
"I have seen many isinglasses, but this one is the best I have ever seen. Not only is it big, but the key is that these pipes are very dense, and the other one is that it is full of gelatin."
"I have seen fish maws larger than this, but the quality is very poor, the pipes are very sparse, and there is very little gum."
Wu Weimin's eyes were shining. As a top-notch private restaurant chef and a chef who specializes in seafood, he has a very deep research on top-notch dried foods such as isinglass, abalone and sea cucumber. He has used countless cooked isinglasses.
, are all top-quality goods, but they are not as good as the one in Zhao Dahai's hands. This is a collection-level item, and you can't buy it only if you have money.
"Not for sale!"
"Isinglass is not for sale, fish head stone is not for sale, and this dried fish is not for sale!"
Zhao Dahai took a look and Wu Weimin turned to look at him, knowing what he wanted to say.
"ah?"
"Why?"
"This kind of thing cannot be cooked and eaten casually. It is really a waste."
"You can't always keep what you have, right? This thing is indeed a good thing, but it is very troublesome to take care of it."
"It would be troublesome if it disappeared accidentally or something else."
"The key is that this thing is really valuable."
"How about I buy it for 250,000 yuan?"
Wu Weimin was stunned for a moment. Zhao Dahai didn't even listen to his offer and immediately refused.
Zhao Dahai shook his head and said with a smile that if Wu Weimin happened to see the price offered when he just caught the fish, he would sell it immediately without saying anything.
Wu Weiming did not expect this to happen, and was very helpless. Zhao Dahai said this in front of everyone. When the betrothal gift was given, this big fish could not be absent. When his wife gave birth to a baby, this fish must not be absent.
Glue must be brought to the table. It is not only a matter of money but also a matter of face. Failure to do this will make people in the surrounding villages laugh at him for a lifetime. There is only one situation. Zhao Dahai will have to lose his family and need money to save him.
Only after passing the hurdle will the fish maw be sold.
Wu Weimin said that if he really wanted to sell isinglass one day in the future, he would have to inform himself, but did not continue to talk about it.
Wu Weimin asked in detail how he caught this big owl, and he was extremely envious. Big fish are crazy attractive to people who like fishing.
"Boss Wu."
"There are not many places where you can catch big fish now. I will go fishing with you when I find the right spot later."
Zhao Dahai knew that Wu Weimin definitely wanted to catch big fish. Only he knew the place where he transferred to the big blue spot to catch the big fish. He couldn't take anyone else there. He could only wait until he found more places where he could catch big fish.
Just click.
Zhao Dahai sent Wu Weimin away, walked back to the isinglass, and looked at it carefully again. The gelatin was really clearly visible, and he was a little proud. It was really a good thing.
Zhao Dahai stretched out his hand and squeezed the big fish, and it was done very well. God has been very kind to him these days, neither cold nor hot, but windy. This kind of weather is most suitable for drying dried fish, including isinglass, which dries very quickly, even in rainy or muggy days.
It's very troublesome on a sunny day. It's easy to get moldy and smelly if it's not dried in the rain. On a sultry day, the temperature is too high. It works but the quality is very poor.
evening.
Sun Er came over, looked at the isinglass and dried salted fish carefully, and said they could be put away. He taught me how to pack the bags. Every three months, when the weather is dry and not hot, take them out to ventilate them. If you are careful, they can be stored.
decades.
Zhao Dahai breathed a sigh of relief. If you don't worry about ordinary fish, shrimps and crabs, this is a fish maw worth more than 200,000 yuan. It's really not a joke.
Zhao Dahai collected the isinglass, finished lunch, and drove a tricycle to the pier to board the fishing boat. He had not gone to sea for a few days and came down every day to take a look. But he was going to go to sea tomorrow. He had to pack up his things, organize his things, and clean the living cabin.
, washed the deck with sea water, and tried the diesel engine, everything was normal.
Zhao Dahai left the dock and rushed to the town to buy a sea centipede at the fishing tackle shop.
Five o'clock in the morning.
Zhao Dahai got up, finished breakfast, and when he went out to the pier, many fishing boats had returned from the sea, buying and selling fish, and they were crowded together, making it very lively.
Zhao Dahai went around and saw that the fishing boats out to sea all caught almost the same fish, shrimps and crabs. There was nothing special about them. He bought two kilograms of live shrimps as big as a little finger and took them to the fishing boat to keep them in the live cabin. This is a backup bait and the main force.
It's a sea centipede. What I'm afraid of is that you can change it if the deep sea centipede doesn't work. Fish, like people, may have different appetites every day.
Zhao Dahai didn't go to the place where he caught the big bream and green grouper. If he went there every day, there would definitely be no fish. Generally speaking, big fish occupy the territory. If one or several big fish are in one place, other big fish will not come and will be caught away.
I caught two big blue spots, and the big squid is here. I caught the big squid a few days ago. It will take a while before new big fish come. I go there every ten and a half days, especially when there is a big tide change.
It's better to go after you've passed there.
The sun is in the middle of the sky.
The white flowers are very dazzling.
Zhao Dahai stared at the tip of the rod, shook it a few times, picked up the fishing rod, stretched it forward, shook it a few times, then a big one, raised the rod to stab the fish, hit the fish, the line straightened out, and he had control.
I pulled it out of the water and found a yellow snapper weighing about seven taels. I picked the fish and threw it into the live cabin. I hung a centipede on it and threw the rod out. I waited for almost fifteen minutes before I found another fish.
Zhao Dahai looked at the seven or eight fishing boats around him, both far and near. In half a day, everyone's harvest was about the same. Some caught seven or eight fish, while others like him caught fifteen or six fish, not counting their size.
Big, there are black snapper and yellow snapper.
Zhao Dahai took the lunch box and started to eat. The harvest was not good, so he was not in a hurry. Fishing is like this. Sometimes he makes a fortune, but sometimes it is good to make a living. Some time ago, he caught big fish one after another.
, I made a lot of money, I made a little bit during this period, there is no pressure, and today I fished some old fish near the shallow sea, which is not too much.
After Zhao Dahai finished his lunch, he took a rest. For almost half an hour, the five poles were motionless. They all put them away and drove the fishing boat to another place. It was also a bit old-fashioned. Looking at more than ten fishing boats, it must be
You can catch fish, but not many.
Zhao Dahai was not picky and did not mind that there were too many fishing boats. He found a place to stop the fishing boats and started fishing. He fished no matter whether there were many fish or few fish. He fished all the fishing places near the shallow sea once or twice to get a clear idea of the situation.
The sun sets in the west.
The sky is filled with red clouds.
Zhao Dahai drove the fishing boat to the pier. In the past seven or eight days, he had gone out early and returned late every day to fish. Every day he had a harvest, but not much. He didn't make a lot of money, but he was not short of gas, food, and wages. The nearest twenty or thirty people around him
I have fished every fishing spot two or three times, and I can basically figure out how many fish can be caught in any place.
Where have all the fish gone?
Zhao Dahai was a little strange. He could catch fish these days, but not many. It was reasonable to say that there were no fish in one or a few places, but it was abnormal that there were no fish in twenty or thirty fishing spots in the entire sea area.
Zhao Dahai ran farther away today, with several villages in between. As he drove, he saw large wooden piles appearing on the sea surface.
Oyster fields?
An idea flashed in Zhao Dahai's mind, and he thought of a possibility.