Chapter 93 Delicious Meitong Fish
But just after the boat turned around, Zhang Ze found many seabirds flying in the sea far ahead. I'm afraid there are schools of fish!
Why are you still fishing? Go catch some fish!
He picked up the radio: "Ahang, there are schools of fish in the west, do you want to come with us?"
"Come!" Tong Yuanhang had already started the fishing boat and wanted to continue going east, but after hearing Zhang Ze's words, he immediately turned around. The two fishing boats sailed one after the other towards the place where the seabirds were flying.
The distance was not far and we reached our destination in seven or eight minutes.
Zhang Zexian came to the side of the boat and looked at the bottom of the water. It was a dark mass, which was some kind of small fish.
Because the fish did not jump out of the water, he didn't know what kind of fish it was, and guessed that it might be a sardine.
Zhang Ze immediately took out his cast net. The school of fish was so large that he could catch some fish with just a casual throw of the net.
Zhang Ze prepared the casting net and held it in his hand. He put it sideways and swung it twice, then used inertia to throw the casting net into the air in front of him.
The net flew into space and suddenly spread out like an umbrella, then fell into the water.
Zhang Ze held the rope in his hand, leaned against the side of the boat and watched the cast net slowly sink.
Zhang Qinghe had been watching his movements and had demonstrated a few moves himself. After throwing the net into the water, he leaned against the side and stared at the water, curious about how many fish this net could catch.
As for the fact that Zhang Ze could both fish and cast a net, he had never thought about it, or he subconsciously thought that it was taught by the Tong brothers.
Seeing that the cast net was almost sinking, Zhang Ze began to reel in the rope.
After he had pulled the rope in a short distance, his hand suddenly felt heavy. He tried pulling it a few times and found it was unexpectedly heavy.
Zhang Ze steadied his center of gravity and used both hands to pull the casting net out of the water little by little.
Just as the net was thrown out of the water, the surface suddenly began to boil. It turned out that this was caused by countless small fish jumping on the water.
He recognized the small fishes at once; they turned out to be whitebait.
The Sciaenidae is also a member of the Sciaenidae family, the same family as the yellow croaker. It is a fish that is only a dozen centimeters long and has very tender meat.
In short, this fish is delicious. It tastes great whether it is steamed or braised, and the fish bones are soft.
The only drawback is that there are many of them now and the price is cheap, probably about the same as that of small yellow croaker. Zhang Ze didn’t even notice the price of this fish at the fishery station.
This is very different from later generations. In later generations, wild plum fish weighing more than one or two taels can be sold for hundreds of yuan per catty, sometimes as much as two hundred yuan.
But people in some places say that this fish is very cheap, so cheap that you only need a few yuan to buy a pound. Zhang Ze has never seen it, and he doesn't know if others are bragging.
At this moment, Zhang Qinghe had already noticed that he was struggling, so he quickly came over to help: "Let me help you."
"Okay, listen to my command, and you will exert force when I tell you to."
He naturally would not refuse someone's help. The two of them worked together to pull up the casting net one by one, and then slowly pulled it to the side of the boat.
Zhang Ze did not pull down the net, as this would cause the fish to hit the deck and be smashed. He opened the opening of the net, and the carps in it immediately fell onto the deck like dumplings. There were at least a hundred kilograms of fish in this net.
He had to continue casting the net, but this time he didn't cast it here, but came to the winch.
Later, Zhang Qinghe will help tie the rope to the winch, and the cast net can be easily pulled up.
So this time when Zhang Ze cast the net, he spread it wider. He was worried that he couldn't pull it enough, so the opening of the net he cast was not very big.
So when the net was pulled up with the winch for the second time, there were many more whitebait piled on the deck than in the first time.
Unfortunately, after I cast the net three more times, the fish had almost all run away.
But in total, they caught nearly a thousand kilograms of plum carp. This harvest was definitely not less than if they continued fishing. Zhang Ze was smiling from ear to ear, and Zhang Qinghe was also very happy to see so many fish.
He didn't know why he was so happy, he just felt inexplicably happy when he saw piles of fish.
Not far away, Tong Yuanhang seemed to have a good harvest as well. The three of them cast nets, and their combined harvest was much greater than his.
There were so many whitebait on the boat, and although it was still early, Zhang Ze didn't plan to continue fishing.
He planned to collect the nets and cages and then return directly to the ship to sell the fish first.
After the traps were collected, more than 20 kilograms of swimming crabs were harvested.
There are still five bamboo lobster cages, and a total of eight lobsters were caught. It is normal that the number is small after one night.
A group of mantis shrimps actually ran into the shrimp cage woven by Tong Shuyao.
There are quite a few of them but they are not big and no one wants them, even the fishery station won’t accept them.
Zhang Ze simply threw the shrimp cage into the live water tank and saved it for use as bait next time.
The last step is to raise the Korean net, pick up the float, and then wrap the rope around the winch a few times.
When the winch turns, the rope will be pulled up little by little. Zhang Ze stands in the other direction to catch the rope. After a while, the rope at his feet becomes a small pile.
Feeling that the net mouth should soon appear on the water surface, Zhang Ze handed this task to Zhang Qinghe, and went to the side of the boat to bring up the net mouth. If there were any fish in it, he would push them towards the end of the net little by little.
He did see quite a few big black sea bream, but the overall harvest was only average.
Because the mesh of the net was relatively large, there were not many small fish in it. Finally, when he pulled up the tail of the net, Zhang Ze estimated the weight, which felt to be only about 100 pounds.
He called Zhang Qinghe, and the two of them pulled up the tail of the net and placed it on the deck. Then Zhang Ze opened the tail and poured all the fish inside onto the deck.
"Aze, there are so many big fish. Many of them are bigger than the ones I caught today."
Zhang Qinghe was happy for him to see that he had such a good harvest. At the same time, he also hoped that after he bought the fishing nets and other things, he would be able to have such a good harvest every time he went out to sea.
"It's okay, only the two big blue spots are valuable. The other fish are big, but the prices are not so good." Zhang Ze said as he squatted down and sorted the fish.
Today is quite busy. The sorting alone takes most of the day.
The big fish caught with this batch of Korean nets are OK, because the mesh is large so there isn't much mess.
But that batch of whitebait was different. Although it was mainly whitebait, it was mixed with a lot of red shrimps, small dragon head fish, etc.
They need to be sorted and classified by size before they can be sold.
There are other things mixed in that others don't want, and he sells them mixed up, so the bigger plum fish can only be sold at the price of small fish, so he is the one who suffers the loss.
After picking out all the big fish like black sea bream and throwing them into the live water tank, Zhang Ze got up and sailed back.
It was still early, so as soon as he returned to the dock, he asked Zhang Qinghe to ride his bicycle to call his family over to help sort the goods.
Tong Guoqi was the youngest, so Tong Yuanhang also arranged for his wives and children to come over to help. There were more plum fish on their side, so it was more troublesome to pick them up.
After a while, several tricycles appeared at the dock and the families of both parties arrived almost at the same time.
The two sides chatted about family matters and then boarded their own fishing boat together. When they saw the deck full of fish, they all smiled happily.
"Wow, so many fish!" Zhang Qing exclaimed.
Zhang Wu saw Zhang Ze squatting on the side picking up fish, and hurried over: "Brother, let me help you."
"good!"
Zhang Ze smiled and nodded, but didn't touch his hedgehog head because his hands felt fishy.
He picked up a few bamboo baskets and handed them to them, and took out a plum fish weighing about one tael and said, "We need to separate the big fish and the small fish. The one I have is considered a big one."
"For the rest, like red shrimp, if they are bigger, we'll take them. Just pile the smaller ones and small dragonhead fish aside and I'll take care of them when the time comes."
Zhang's mother, Tong Shuyao and others nodded, took the bamboo baskets, put them aside, and found a place to sort them.
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Zhang Qinghe quietly moved to the corner and helped as well. Zhang Ze saw it all.
There is strength in numbers, and a boatload of fish was neatly sorted in just an hour.
There were more than three loads of large plum fish weighing more than one tael, which is about 320 kilograms.
The smaller one had eight loads, weighing about 800 kilograms.
The remaining live water tanks contained black sea bream, sea bass, sturgeon, red snapper, etc., totaling more than 400 kilograms.
Some of them were fished by him, some were caught with Korean nets, and a small part was secretly taken out of the space and thrown in by him.
A lot of fish had accumulated in the space before. Now, except for the large yellow croaker and some blue crabs and lobsters, he took out all the other fish.
On Zhang Qinghe's side, there was an ordinary grouper weighing 13.2 jin, and a sea red grouper weighing 2.3 jin.
I was lucky enough to catch a sea grouper on the first day.
Zhang Ze simply took his fish and paid the money.
He sold grouper alone for $22.6, and with the other fish he sold to the aquatic station, he made a total of $27.37 today.
Zhang Qinghe was a little bit surprised when he got the money. It was the first time he felt that money was so easy to make.
But that’s not all. Zhang Ze sold more than 1,100 kilograms of mullet for a total of 103.76 yuan. Together with other fish, the total sales were more than 260 yuan.
The price of Mei Tong fish is indeed low now, eight yuan per load of small ones and twelve yuan for large ones, and one load is calculated as one hundred kilograms.
Other black sea breams are basically priced at 30 or 40 cents, and red friend fish is not that expensive either, only 55 cents per pound.
My family shop will open tomorrow, so I won’t sell the swimming crabs I caught today.
After returning from Yuewan County, he would have to find an excuse to get some blue crabs out.
However, he did have to find a secluded location in the mangrove mudflats to set up the traps. The shop he was catching for Zhang's mother was still selling blue crabs, and Tong Shuyao had just started working on the second trap, so swimming crabs were temporarily in short supply.
After all the fish were sold, he took out ten yuan and handed it to Zhang Qinghe.
"Aze, why are you giving me money again?" Zhang Qinghe looked at the ten yuan handed over, confused.
"You wasted your time fishing to help me, so how can I not show my appreciation? Consider this as your share of the profits from the Mei Tongyu!" Zhang Ze originally wanted to give twenty yuan, but then he thought that ten yuan was already a lot.
He hired a temporary laborer who could only earn one or two yuan a day. He gave him ten yuan because he helped out in the afternoon when he didn't go fishing.
"No, no, I can't accept this money." Zhang Qinghe slapped the money back into his hand with a loud slap. Because he used too much force, the slap was quite loud.
"You are willing to take me out to sea to make money. The price of fish is higher than that of the aquatic station. It is only natural for me to help you. If I take your money again, I will be ungrateful."
Zhang Ze handed it over twice again, but Zhang Qinghe said he would not accept anything, so he just let it go.
But this behavior also made him value this person a little more, and he truly regarded him as a good friend.
Maybe when I get older, I will have a friend who likes to go fishing and brag about it.
After selling all the fish on his side, Zhang Ze came to Tong Yuanhang's boat. They had a lot of people but they were all children. It was good enough if they didn't make things worse when they were busy. How fast could we expect a few children who were only five years old to be? And they had more plum fish, so the fish were not sorted yet. Seeing this, Tong Shuyao and the others who followed them hurried to join in to help.
"Have the groupers been weighed?" Zhang Ze asked.
"Everything has been weighed and recorded in the notebook. Junqiang and I will carry it over to you." Tong Yuanhang nodded, then called on Tong Junqiang to help carry one of the bamboo baskets full of fish over.
Zhang Ze picked up another bamboo basket next to him and followed. There were only more than 30 kilograms of grouper in it, which was not heavy.
He came to his boat and poured all the fish into the live water tank. He picked up the notebook where Tong Yuanhang had written down his notes and started to read it.
The common grouper weighed 122.7 jin, the sea red grouper weighed 11.6 jin, and there were no tiger grouper or oily grouper.
The amounts to be paid are RMB 122.70 and RMB 60.32 respectively.
The price he gave to Tong Yuanhang was 20 cents higher than that of Zhang Qinghe. He did not give a high price of 6 yuan just because he sold it for 7 yuan. There was no need to do that.
Fortunately, the plum fish and other fish had already been sold, otherwise he would not have enough money to pay.
After paying the money, Zhang Ze simply washed the lower deck and set off for Yuewan County.
After leaving the dock and there were no other boats nearby, he stopped the boat and came to the live water tank, and collected all the groupers into the space.
The twelve cubic meters of space was immediately filled with groupers. He had caught a lot of fish today but had not had time to put them in space, so his experience points increased rapidly.
Unfortunately, fish caught in nets cannot increase experience points. He has tried this before with living plum fish and fish caught in Korean nets.
After all, it is a fishing space, so it is normal that the fish caught are not counted.
After the space is upgraded, only one hundred experience points will be added each time, which is synchronized with the level. If the fish caught are also counted, then if he works hard, it will not take long for him to reach the full level. Obviously, the space will not give such an obvious BUG.
(End of this chapter)
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