Chapter 340 The Effects of Octopus

Jiang Xia took one look at the Spanish mackerel on the boat and thought of the taste of pan-fried Spanish mackerel fillets.

This mackerel is particularly plump and will definitely taste delicious if pan-fried.

It’s a pity that it’s too big to keep it at home and eat it. Without a refrigerator, it won’t last long and will be wasted if not finished.

Jiang Xia took a look and then looked away, looking into the distance, sizing up the sea in the early morning, quietly admiring the sunrise over the sea.

Father Zhou caught another very long fish. Jiang Xia turned around and took a look, not recognizing it: "What kind of fish is this?"

Father Zhou said with a smile: "Wolf herring."

Zhou Chenglei: "It is also called swordfish. This fish is more common in spring, and it is also the most delicious time."

Jiang Xia nodded: "Is it delicious?"

Zhou Chenglei: "I'll make it for you when I get home tonight."

Seeing that Jiang Xia didn't recognize the fish, Zhou Chenglei decided to keep the fish and take it home to cook for her.

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Okay."

Zhou Chenglei also caught a fish at this time, which turned out to be a porcupine fish.

Its body is covered with hard thorns, and its belly is swollen and huge!

Jiang Xia knew that this fish was delicious, but it was poisonous! "Be careful! Is this fish poisonous?" Jiang Xia reminded Zhou Chenglei.

"I know."

Jiang Xia had never eaten porcupine fish, but she knew that the fish was delicious and nutritious, but highly poisonous.

It is also highly toxic, equivalent to 1,250 times the toxicity of the highly toxic drug sodium cyanide, and only a small amount can kill a person.

The most poisonous parts are the ovaries and liver, followed by the kidneys, blood, eyes, gills and skin. Even a little bit of it can be life-threatening if ingested by mistake.

But its meat is delicious and many fishermen love to eat it.

Everyone in the Zhou family loves to eat it!

Father Zhou: "Take this porcupine home and use it as a snack tonight."

Zhou Chengxin: "Dad, I'll have a drink with you tonight! Didn't Asen say he would be back tonight? He loves this fish the most."

Father Zhou smiled and said, "Okay."

Just in time to celebrate my youngest son buying a hundred acres of land.

Jiang Xia looked at the fish and wanted to try this legendary delicacy, but when she thought of the child in her belly, she decisively gave up.

Zhou Chenglei asked Zhou Chengxin to sail along the current because he wanted to catch octopus.

Octopuses generally move with the ocean currents.

Zhou's mother heard this and said, "I'll catch more too, dry them and save them for Xiaoxia to eat after she gives birth."

Octopus is good at promoting lactation. When the time comes to feed three children, it is better to prepare more early so that there will not be enough breast milk.

When Zhou's mother thought of this, she felt that Jiang Xia would have a hard time. Although there was milk powder, she felt that milk powder was not as good as breast milk.

People are people, cows are cows. Since ancient times, people have grown up drinking breast milk. No matter how nutritious milk is, it is more suitable for cows! However, if children are not full, they have to eat milk powder.

So it’s better to prepare more octopuses. Jiang’s mother decided to go to the dock to collect octopuses every day.

Mother Zhou then said to Zhou Chenglei, "When you have time, go buy some more earthenware jars. When you go out to sea, put some earthenware jars in the sea every day to catch octopuses. I will dry them and keep them for Xiaoxia to eat after she gives birth."

Zhou Chenglei didn't know what the octopus was good for. When he heard his mother say that she would give it to Jiang Xia to eat after she gave birth, he asked, "What are the benefits of octopus?"

Jiang Xia didn't know how to look at Zhou's mother.

"Lactation."

Jiang Xia: “…”

Zhou Chenglei: "...Okay, I'll go buy it when I get home this afternoon."

Zhou's father had caught octopuses for Zhou's mother to eat before, so he naturally knew the function of octopuses. When he heard this, he stopped fishing, put away his fishing rod, and replaced it with a special hook for catching octopuses.

Jiang Xia saw that Zhou Chenglei and Zhou's father had changed to a different type of fishhook, a movable fishhook with a small silver iron rod. The fishhook also had many hooks, like an octopus.

I don’t know what material the small iron rod is made of, it looks a bit like silver.

She asked, "Is this little iron rod of yours coated with silver?"

Zhou Chenglei: "No, it's tin."

Octopuses and squids both like light, so when this small iron pipe is coated with a layer of tin and sways in the water and is exposed to the strong sunlight, it will reflect light and thus attract the octopus.

Jiang Xia understood the principle, which is the same as the principle of lure fishing.

"Is it useful?" she asked curiously.

"It's OK. The chances are much higher than fishing randomly. Each fish has its own preferences and habits. Some fish are attracted to light, and some fish are particularly sensitive to certain sounds, so targeted trapping will occur."

After all three of them fiddled with the complicated hook, they began fishing for the octopus.

After you hook an octopus, you cannot just sit there and do nothing.

If you want to have a good harvest, you need to pull the fishing line regularly.

The amplitude and frequency of pulling are quite particular.

Jiang Xia watched them reel in the line, pull it out, and pause in almost unison.

Anyway, it’s just a repetitive process of reeling in - pulling - pausing!

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It’s tiring just looking at it!

Although it looks tiring, it still works! Zhou Chenglei soon felt that an octopus was hooked, and he quickly reeled in the line and took the fish, all in one go.

Jiang Xia saw the octopus spray out a stream of ink, which dyed the deck black, but fortunately it didn't spray anyone.

However, Zhou Chenglei had been prepared. He pinched the octopus's round belly with his index and middle fingers and turned his head in a direction where there were no people, so the ink did not spray on anyone.

Father Zhou took a look and said: "Your octopus is big enough!"

"Hmm." Zhou Chenglei took the octopus off and was about to put it into the bucket when he sprayed another stream of ink.

That's the bad thing about this thing.

About a few minutes later, Zhou's father also caught a fish, but it was not an octopus but a squid.

Then it was Zhou's mother's turn, and she caught a sea bass.

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The sun gradually grew bigger and warmer. Jiang Xia felt a little sleepy after watching it for a while. He yawned, listened to the "thump thump thump" sound of the boat engine, and fell asleep unknowingly.

When Zhou Chenglei saw this, he took out a military coat and covered her with it.

An hour later, Jiang Xia woke up because of the heat.

She opened her eyes, sat up, took off her coat, and was about to say something when she saw a group of seabirds diving into the water to hunt in the distance.

Many birds also flew over to the nearby islands.

"Zhou Chenglei! There are fish over there!"

Zhou Chengxin also saw it and quickly drove the boat over.

Zhou Chenglei, his father and his mother quickly reeled in their lines and stopped fishing.

"Alei, raise the net!" Zhou's father shouted, and the father and son hurried over to raise the net.

Zhou's mother also went to help.

Jiang Xia also stood up and pulled the recliner so as not to disturb everyone's work.

Zhou's mother saw this and hurried to help: "Don't move, I'll do it."

Jiang Xia stepped aside and said, "Put it away first! I won't lie down for now."

Mother Zhou didn't take it away and moved inside: "You can sit for a while when you get tired."

After Zhou's mother moved the lounge chair, she went to start the boat and asked Zhou Chengxin to raise the net.

The boat was still some distance away. Jiang Xia watched the seabirds hunting frantically in the distance, and he didn't know whether the school of fish had left.

Jiang Xia looked back again and saw that the father and his two sons were working hard to pull the net up.

After only hauling for about an hour and a half, we already had a large bag of fish.

Jiang Xia saw two very large Spanish mackerels.

There is no way these six or seven hundred kilograms of fish in this net can escape.

She looked at the sea in the distance again, and then found that there were two fishing boats approaching in the distance.