"What do we do now? Should we take this bait and go back?"
Ah-Can asked, his expression full of anxiety and unease.
"The typhoon won't make landfall until the day after tomorrow, so a few hours won't make a difference."
Feng Ye shook his head, rejecting A-Can's suggestion.
"Let's stick to the previous decision. We'll return to the county this afternoon to sell goods and go home tomorrow morning."
"Oh well."
Ah-Can thought about it and agreed.
It's 9:30 a.m. now. We can only haul in two more nets at most, and we'll start returning around 3 p.m.
Otherwise, you'll miss the market opening.
If we go back now, we'll just be waiting at the dock.
We can't just sell the fish in the hold to dealers, can we?
That would mean losing a lot of money!
Rather than doing that, we might as well catch a couple more nets.
The difference is only six or seven hours, which is negligible for a typhoon that is not expected to make landfall until the day after tomorrow.
After they return, they will have two days, which is enough time to prepare for the typhoon.
"Connect with Uncle Jun and tell him I'm going down to close the net."
"Um."
Feng Ye went down to the deck and continued to pull in the net.
They just finished winding the dragline and switched to a net winding machine to collect the net.
After he explained the situation, Han Qiwen also showed deep concern.
In contrast, his house was still a single-story house with a tiled roof.
The roof tiles couldn't withstand such a strong typhoon.
There's a high probability that once the typhoon passes, the roof will be completely destroyed.
That's the downside of living by the sea, especially on an island.
Almost every year, typhoons pass through or affect the area to varying degrees.
Each time, it causes losses, large or small.
However, a typhoon like this one could very well exceed level 16, which is also unusual.
Thinking of the aftermath of the typhoon, he couldn't help but sigh, his heart filled with worry for his own house.
Ye Chenliang wasn't much better off.
Although his home is not located by the sea, it is still on the path of landfall and will inevitably be tested by the typhoon.
However, compared to the coast, the typhoon will be weakened when it reaches his home.
Feng Ye noticed their worries and comforted them, saying, "Don't think too much about it. We'll deal with whatever comes our way. Let's focus on the task at hand and finish the job first."
The news of the approaching typhoon cast a shadow over everyone's joy.
However, when the net bag surfaced and they saw a large bag full of their harvest, they couldn't help but cheer.
It's gone viral again!
This net yielded about eight or nine thousand catties, another bountiful harvest.
Soon, the net bag was hoisted onto the ship, and the cargo inside was dumped onto the deck.
The top layer is made of silvery-white fish that shimmer in the sunlight.
Han Qiwen glanced at it: "So many anchovies, garbage."
"You're mistaken. This isn't anchovy, it's ribbonfish, ribbonfish."
Feng Ye, however, was overjoyed.
When people mention knife fish, most think of the Yangtze River knife fish.
The reason is simply because the Yangtze River knife fish is so famous, and it is known as the "most delicious food of the Yangtze River".
Moreover, it's ridiculously expensive.
However, there are actually three types of knife fish.
One of them is the Yangtze River knife fish, also known as the Yangtze River knife fish.
The second is the lake knife fish, which comes from lakes such as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake.
What is caught in the sea is the sea knife.
However, both river knives and lake knives actually migrate from the sea.
knife fish
The scientific name for the knife fish is *Coilia ectenes*, a fish belonging to the family Anchovyidae in the order Clupeiformes.
Their bodies are laterally compressed and long, high at the front and gradually lower towards the rear, resembling a scalpel.
The body is silvery-white, with a darker back that is bluish, golden, or bluish-yellow.
The caudal fin is asymmetrical, with the upper lobe longer than the lower lobe, and is gray in color.
Every spring, from late February to early March, groups of knife fish migrate from the sea into rivers, their tributaries, or lakes to spawn.
The young fish that hatch that year swim downstream and live in estuaries or brackish water, before going to sea the following year to grow and fatten up.
Different types of ribbonfish naturally have slightly different levels of deliciousness in their flesh.
Otherwise, the prices wouldn't differ so much.
The river knife knife is undoubtedly number one, with the most delicious flavor, which is also reflected in its price.
A Jiangdao knife weighing over three liang (approximately 150 grams) can cost over 4,000 yuan.
Even more remarkably, a 325-gram "King of Knife Fish" was auctioned off for a staggering 59,000 yuan.
Secondly, there's the sea knife knife. Although its price and taste aren't as good as the river knife knife, it can still sell for over a thousand yuan per kilogram.
The worst is the lake knife knife that is settled in Danshui. It has a milder flavor and is much cheaper than the previous two.
It is said that the river knife is indescribably delicious, with soft bones and thorns that can be eaten directly.
Whether it's true or not, Feng Ye has never eaten it and can't afford it.
He had only ever eaten sea bream, and it was indeed very delicious, but it had a lot of bones.
Judging from the taste of sea knife, he didn't think river knife could be that outrageous.
In his view, eating knife fish is more about vanity; people are buying into its reputation rather than its actual taste.
"Oh, really? I thought it was anchovies."
Han Qiwen examined it carefully, then said casually, "It really is a knife fish, a little better than anchovies, and it can fetch some money."
Knife fish and anchovy are closely related species, and they can indeed be easily confused if you don't look closely.
Upon hearing his words, Feng Ye finally realized what was happening. The surprise on his face disappeared, replaced by regret and pity.
This is a type of fish that will be incredibly expensive in the future, but is now very cheap.
That's right, it's dirt cheap.
Let alone sea knives, even river knives aren't expensive these days.
There are plenty in the Yangtze River; you can catch hundreds of kilograms in one net.
Its price is roughly equivalent to that of pork.
"What a pity, what a pity..."
Feng Ye kept muttering to himself, his face full of regret.
He really wished he could travel to several decades in the future right now and sell all these knife fish.
This net caught at least a thousand kilograms of ribbonfish, which, at a price of 1,000 yuan per kilogram, would be a million-yuan income!
Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.
However, it's just wishful thinking.
These days, let alone 1000 yuan, it's questionable whether you can even sell it for 1 yuan.
Han Qiwen and Ye Chenliang were both puzzled by his rambling.
"Ah Ye, what's wrong with you?"
"It's just a knife fish, what's there to regret..."
Feng Ye snapped out of his daze, looked at the two puzzled eyes, opened his mouth, but ultimately shook his head: "It's nothing, you don't understand."
He sighed, no longer dwelling on it, and instead asked Han Qiwen, "We'll be home tomorrow. These ribbonfish are quite delicious. Do you want to take some back with you?"
He must have saved some to take home and eat.
If we can't afford it in the future, can't we afford it now?
With so many knife fish and such low prices, feel free to eat as much as you want.
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