"Chopped fish balls?"
Ye Lin was puzzled. To be honest, he had eaten radish meatballs and lotus root meatballs, but he had never tried fish balls.
Even those meatballs, Li Chunhua only dared to make them during the Chinese New Year; otherwise, who would be willing to spend so much oil on them at other times!
"Yes, fish balls. Croaker has no small bones, so you can take it home, remove the fish meat, mince it, mix it well, and then use a spoon to scoop it into balls and cook them until they float. Those fish balls have a fresh, fragrant, and bouncy texture that will definitely make you want to eat more!"
Fu Wan explained in detail, and Ye Lin couldn't help but swallow several times as he listened.
Good heavens, it sounds even tastier than fried meatballs for Chinese New Year!
"Ah Wan, I want to eat too!"
Fu Qing was also swallowing hard as she listened. Although she was still picking out fish, her eyes were clearly on Fu Wan.
To be precise, he was looking at the fish in Fu Wan's hand.
Wang Xiuer is a good cook. Fish balls are time-consuming to make but not oily. Last winter, there were too many mullet, so she made fish balls for Fu Qing and Fang Min.
In Fu Qing's memory, mullet fish balls were already delicious, but after hearing Fu Wan's description, she felt that croaker fish balls must be a million times tastier than mullet fish balls.
Fu Wan smiled and agreed, "Okay, okay, you should all take a few back later so everyone can try them!"
Upon hearing this, Fu Qing immediately grinned, "A-Wan is the best. You can have the fish maw inside; I only want the fish meat."
Fu Ming shook his head as he listened. He had just been thinking that Fu Qing had become smarter and knew to ask for fish to take home and eat.
But then she turned around and didn't want the fish's swim bladder, the most valuable part of the fish.
Tsk, looks like he's an idiot!
"Ah Qing, why don't you want the fish swim bladder? It's the most valuable part!"
Fu Ming teased her on purpose, but Fu Qing looked at him as if he were an idiot.
"I know fish swim bladders are valuable, but they have to be kept for A-Wan to sell."
"If only I had fish! Ah Wan would make money, then she could buy diesel and a big boat, and take me out to sea to fish for the rest of my life!"
These words left Fu Ming speechless, while Boss Fu laughed heartily.
"Ah Qing, you are a very intelligent person!"
"Haha, I also think I'm very smart, and my mom says I'm smart too!"
Fu Qing was all smiles, and Fu Haishun and the others laughed along with him.
They used to think that Fu Wan brought Fu Qing on the ship purely out of pity for Fu Qing, but now that they have spent more than half a year together, they have discovered that this girl also has her own shining points, and she is also very efficient in her work.
Moreover, Fu Qing is not stupid at all in many ways; his words are more sophisticated than those of ordinary scholars.
Tsk tsk, no wonder Awan likes this girl!
The croakers on the boat were actually easy to sort through, as they could be simply stacked into baskets one by one. The croakers in this net were fairly uniform in size, although there were some very small ones, around 30 centimeters long, but not many; they only filled three baskets.
There were more large ones, about 70 or 80 centimeters long, about 30 in total. They couldn't all fit in the fish basket, so Boss Fu just piled them on top of the basket that was already full of fish.
After sorting through the fish, it turned out that the entire catch consisted of croaker, with not a single other fish.
After Fu Haishun and Fu Mancang and the others washed the deck clean, the ship gradually approached Coconut Island.
It was already dark by then, and apart from the chirping of insects and birds, there was no other sound on Coconut Island.
The reason the "Riding the Waves" ship sailed this way was because Fu Wan was still thinking about the cage she had placed here.
Before setting sail, she had told Fu Shi and the others to remember to collect the traps, but they hadn't been in contact since, and she didn't know if the traps had been collected anytime soon.
As soon as the "Riding the Waves" approached the bottom cage, Fu Ming took out a hook and began to pull at the buoys on the sea.
Robert and his two companions followed suit and pulled up the octopus trap.
"Oh God, I've found something!"
Robert was the first to exclaim in surprise. He pulled the rope the fastest, and with fifteen bamboo tubes tied to it, he quickly pulled them onto the deck.
Jack had been waiting with his iron hook. As soon as the bamboo tubes were pulled up, he skillfully inserted the iron hook into the tubes and pulled out the octopuses, pouring them into the bucket. He poured out more than twenty octopuses from fifteen bamboo tubes.
They come in both long and short legs, and weigh around two or three ounces, which is considered large.
"Haha, I've got something too!"
Fu Ming lifted the fish trap onto the deck, feeling its weight in his hands, and he was very excited.
The joy of the harvest is intoxicating. There were five or six seven-star eels weighing over a pound each in the trap, as well as a tiger grouper and two blue crabs. Unfortunately, one eel was pinched by a blue crab and was left bloodied and on the verge of death.
"It's a good thing we came today, otherwise the seafood in the fish traps would definitely have gone bad."
Fu Ming couldn't help but sigh, and Fu Wan felt the same way.
"That makes sense, but they must have come a few times before, otherwise the fish traps wouldn't be full of fresh fish."
Whether it's a fish trap or an octopus trap, there are hardly any dead creatures inside. If they're not collected within a few days, they'll rot and become unbearable to look at.
According to the villagers' custom, they usually come to collect the traps in the morning, so the harvest they are talking about now should be the harvest of the traps for today.
All the earthen traps, crab traps, and bamboo tube traps were pulled up. Three buckets of octopus were harvested, five baskets of crabs, and two large baskets of miscellaneous fish.
This is a very good result.
"Ah Wan, should we still put the trap down?"
Fu Ming turned to Fu Wan and asked, he was a little undecided. This location was really good, and they had already made so much money after only one day.
However, if you specifically go out to sea to collect fish traps, this place is quite a distance from the dock.
Fu Wan thought for a moment, "I'll go ask Father."
She definitely won't have time in a few days. If Boss Fu wants to set up a trap, placing it near Coconut Island would be the best option.
Since other people have already placed their land around the village, if we go and try to take over their land, we won't gain anything, and it will definitely cause trouble later.
After thinking for a moment, Boss Fu shook his head and refused, instructing Fu Wan to tell everyone to pack up the fish traps and take them back to air them out.
Having grown accustomed to the catches from nets, he looked down on things like fish traps.
Going out to sea specifically to collect this is a waste of diesel fuel for him; he might as well use a trawl net since he's already at sea.
After collecting these items, the "Riding the Waves" ship continued its journey towards the dock.
Seeing that it would take at least another one or two hours, Fu Ming simply called Ye Lin and his group into the kitchen to cook a stew with the last of the green vegetables, potatoes, sweet potato noodles, and the miscellaneous fish that had just been caught in the fish trap.
Although it's a mixed stew, the taste is surprisingly good.
Everyone ate their fill, and after cleaning up the pots and pans, they could see the lights of the dock.
Every time he returned to the dock, Boss Fu felt like he had won a battle. He couldn't help but excitedly press the horn on the ship. The long and deep sound of the ship's horn made the people on the dock look out to sea.
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