Chapter 341 Parrotfish is gorgeous and delicious
Because this day was the first anniversary of his marriage, Liang Ziqiang went to the town early in the morning and bought several meat dishes.
Liang's mother had no idea about the one-year anniversary of her son and daughter-in-law's marriage, so she was confused and couldn't understand what Liang Ziqiang was thinking today and why he suddenly bought so many delicious dishes.
Liang Ziqiang didn't say anything, he just said that he had finally got a chance to rest at home, so he wanted to improve his life and have a good meal.
He ate the lychees happily, holding up his chopsticks and saying to Liang Ziqiang:
"It's good to rest. There are so many delicious dishes to eat. It would be great if you could rest at home every day, second brother!"
Liang Ziqiang's face darkened when he heard this, and he almost wanted to snatch her bowl and chopsticks on the spot.
Liang's mother was never soft-hearted when it came to teaching her children a lesson. Without saying anything, she knocked the lychee with her chopsticks:
"Stupid girl, your second brother rests every day, how can good food fall from the sky? You are stupid, but you will pick big pieces of meat to eat!"
Lizhi was quite calm. The chopsticks didn't knock hard at all, and it didn't affect her at all as she continued to pick up large chunks of meat and ate happily.
After dinner, I ran to get myself some clam soup. After drinking it, I put the bowl and spoon down, touched my belly, and felt that my life was perfect.
Mother Liang raised her eyes and glanced at the dishes. Her face changed color in an instant:
"I've taught you so many times, how can you put a spoon like that?"
Liang Ziqiang turned his head and his expression changed.
I don't know what Lizhi did, but he turned the spoon over and put it in the bowl.
You know, fishermen have some taboos. One of the well-known taboos is that when drinking porridge or soup, the spoon must be facing up, that is, the concave side facing up.
Because, if the reverse side is facing up, it means flipping over. In fishermen's families, it means the boat capsizes, which is very unlucky.
Every child is repeatedly told this almost from the day he or she first learns to use a spoon.
Unfortunately, Lizhi's brain is not very useful. Sometimes she can remember things, but sometimes she can't. Normally, she is fine. I have never seen her like this. But today, I don't know why she was careless and put the spoon upside down.
As Liang's mother spoke, she picked up the chopsticks and started to knock Lizhi's hand. After knocking her once, she felt that Lizhi's mistake was too serious and she was not satisfied, so she went to find a bamboo stick.
Lizhi was not willing to wait to be beaten, so he jumped off the stool and ran away.
Although Liang Ziqiang also felt that it was not good for Lizhi to put the spoon randomly, he did not think it was that serious. He quickly pulled his mother back and said, "Mom, they say that children speak without restraint. Lizhi is actually similar to a child. It's nothing, don't take it seriously!"
While he was trying to persuade his mother, Chen Xiangbei beside him moved quickly and turned the spoon over and placed it front side in the bowl.
After being pulled back, Liang's mother put down the bamboo stick, but she looked very uneasy: "Your father and your brother are sailing out to sea today. What do you think this stupid girl is doing by suddenly turning over the spoon in the middle of the day? It makes my heart beat like a drum!"
Father and eldest brother were not resting today, so they were still fishing in the shallow sea in wooden boats. Fishermen took small matters like flipping spoons very seriously, so Liang's mother was uneasy and worried about Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng.
"Mom, don't think too much. Dad is also an old hand at going to sea. The weather today is also normal. Don't worry, nothing will happen!" Liang Ziqiang comforted her.
"Are you really alright?" Liang's mother was still worried, and she began to pray devoutly:
"Mazu, bless us! Mazu, bless us! May our family go fishing safely, without any storm or disaster, and may we all return safely!"
Although she recited a long list, the worry on her face did not ease.
This worry lasted throughout the afternoon until the sun was about to set, when Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng appeared on the village road extending from the seaside, and Liang's mother finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Liang Ziqiang looked at his mother and said, "I told you everything is fine. Are you relieved now?"
Mother Liang looked a little more normal, but she still ordered: "I think it's best for you to rest more and not go out to sea for the next few days. That way I can feel more at ease!"
Liang Ziqiang knew that those fishing rules had been deeply ingrained in his mother's mind over the past few decades, and there was nothing he could do about it.
But in fact, the fishermen's kids would violate taboos every now and then. If they really insisted on it, they would have a hard time. In fact, after being scolded and beaten, they still had to go out to sea as usual, unless they violated a particularly serious taboo.
Of course, Liang Ziqiang grew up in a fishing village and was exposed to all these rules and taboos. It is impossible to say that he had no qualms at all.
When he went out to sea the next day, he was even more focused than usual.
However, all the way to the deep sea, there were no waves and it was very peaceful.
Three hours later, we started to pull up the nets to check the catch.
In a sense, trawling is like a guessing game. Sometimes you can see large fish on the surface of the water and predict your catch, but more often than not, you have no idea what you will get after three hours of trawling in the deep sea.
At the beginning, everything was unremarkable, just the most common fish and shrimp.
When they were about halfway through, several people's eyes lit up.
"Look at what this is, it's so beautiful in green, it's Qingyi!" Liang Chun pointed at a fish that had just landed on the deck.
As he was speaking, several large fish with green bodies, graceful bodies and exceptionally bright colors fell down one after another, bouncing a few times on the deck.
"Oh my god, I'm so lucky today! Qingyi is so hard to get, but now they're available like free, one after another!" Deng Zhaocai also became excited.
To be honest, Liang Ziqiang was very happy when he saw seven or eight big green fish falling down at once.
He hadn't caught a Qingyi in such a long time. A pound of this thing in Yuehai would weigh five or six pieces, and each one was not light, so of course it made people secretly happy.
However, when his eyes fell on the fish's mouth, he secretly cursed.
"What kind of green fish is this? It's a parrot's beak, look at its mouth!" Lu Song also paid close attention to the fish's mouth.
"That's right, Qingyi's mouth doesn't look like this. The fish's body looks so much like Qingyi, they are exactly the same!" The others also came to their senses.
Lu Song was right. At first glance, these fish looked very similar to bluefin trevally, so real that they were completely indistinguishable from the real thing. But upon closer inspection, they were clearly parrotfish.
The body of the parrotfish is green-orange or green-red, but it is mainly green, which is very similar to the green trevally and is extremely difficult to distinguish.
Some people in the market use parrotfish to impersonate bluefin trevally, and many laymen have been deceived.
The most obvious difference is in the mouth of the parrotfish. The mouth of the parrotfish cannot be closed, which is similar to the mouth of a parrot.
"Parrotfish is not bad, it looks good and tastes good, and the price is about the same as that of grouper!" Liang Ziqiang consoled himself, "I wonder if there are many left."
Although it does not reach five or six yuan, the price of parrotfish can be around two yuan, which is much more expensive than ordinary marine fish and can be comparable to the most common blue grouper in the grouper family.
The huge net bag continued to pour down, mostly containing ordinary fish and shrimps, but from time to time a parrotfish would pop out.
In a blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen parrotfish on the deck. The small ones weighed several kilograms each, and the big ones weighed more than ten kilograms.
It is particularly eye-catching among other fish and shrimps.
Some of the parrotfish had their scales peeled off due to friction in the trawl, and were obviously in a state of disrepair, but at least half of the parrotfish had relatively minor scale peeling.
The fish were quite resilient, and almost all of them were still alive when they were dumped out. Two of them were quite funny. After landing on the deck, they opened their mouths and spit out a few objects. They were extremely hard, and they were rocks...
Another fish defecated without hesitation. But the thing it excreted was quite clean, it was white sand...
Not surprising at all. Parrotfish should actually be called ironmouth fish, because this guy has a habit of chewing coral rocks every day.
No matter how hard the rocks or corals are, they can be eaten away layer by layer by it, and after digestion, the result is white and uniform fine sand.
There is a section of pure white sand on the seabed that is produced by parrotfish using their intestines and stomachs.
Seeing that these parrotfish were full of vitality and good quality, Liang Ziqiang felt relieved. It seemed that he could sell them at a good price without giving too much discount!
(End of this chapter)
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