Chapter 78 The Whole Village Goes Out to Catch Seafood (Please Read On)

The night before New Year's Eve.

The Dandan Island Square was brightly lit, and many mobile vendors came to sell New Year's goods on the island.

There were stewed food, salted duck, and various fruits. Apples were particularly popular, and they were all sold by bag.

There were also various snacks, such as tofu brain, candied haws, and even exotic foods such as roasted field mice, and they sold quite well.

Some vendors sold various pots and pans, nylon cloth, and the prices were much cheaper than those of the supply and marketing cooperatives.

The square was full of people, and half of the villagers in the village went there, but the one with the longest queue was the "tractor head" that would spit out rice fragrance.

Here, everyone calls this, bong rice fragrance.

Pour the washed rice and white sugar together, and the crispy rice fragrance will keep squeezing out from a hole in the tractor.

Then the boss folded them into about 40 cm long and put them in a transparent plastic bag to prevent them from getting damp.

There were many children around the tractor head, all holding washed rice in their hands, with expectations on their faces, because this thing could bring them happiness throughout the Spring Festival.

On this night, the fishermen of Dandan Island almost did not sleep, and all drove out in their fishing boats in the middle of the night.

Some trawled, some cast sticky nets, and everyone was racing against time, because on New Year's Eve, there was not enough seafood to sell.

In this era when there were very few refrigerators, if you wanted to eat seafood for the New Year's Eve dinner, you would only buy it on the day.

So on this day, the fishermen could basically sell as much seafood as they could catch, and the price was very good.

In addition to the fishing boats.

The tidal flats were also full of women and children who were fishing for small sea breams. It happened to be the end of the month when the tide came. They took flashlights and started digging in the middle of the night.

They mainly caught a kind of shellfish called blood cockles.

Li Duoyu couldn't understand why they always had to eat blood cockles during the New Year. When this thing was opened, it was all red blood.

It is also very simple to eat. Just boil it in the pot and eat it directly with soy sauce and chopped garlic. Some old gluttons don't even dip it in the sauce and eat it raw.

When Li Duoyu was a child, he asked Lao Li why blood clams were always served during the Chinese New Year. As a result, Lao Li couldn't explain it because he had asked his ancestors.

The ancestors didn't understand it either. They said that this tradition had been left since he was a child, and it could even be traced back to many dynasties.

In the early morning of New Year's Eve.

Li Duoyu also came to the dock with Chen Wenchao. They planned to catch all the sea fish temporarily kept in the fish raft and sell them.

Before leaving the boat, Li Duoyu asked for a salty tofu brain, and Chen Wenchao asked for a sweet one.

After eating several pieces of oil cakes and triangular cakes, the two took flashlights and went to the direction of the kelp field.

In the early morning, the sea water was as black as ink, and you couldn't see your fingers when you stretched out your hand, but the sea surface was full of lights.

As soon as Li Duoyu and his companions left, a small fishing boat returned to the port. The fishmongers who had been waiting for a long time jumped on the boat before it even got close.

As a result, a fishmonger nicknamed Lao Mi shouted: "Zhang San's, I have already reserved it!"

"Lao Mi, you are making trouble. When did you reserve it?"

"Two days ago, I sent wine to Lao Zhang, okay?"

Then the fishmonger named Lao Mi jumped on the fishing boat. After weighing it, the fishmonger said straightforwardly: "Sixty-one and a half pounds, twenty-four dollars and sixty dollars, let's count it as twenty-five dollars."

The owner of the fishing boat who got the money was also happy. He saw his child waiting for him at the dock with a bag of rice before dawn.

He took out a piece of red paper on the spot, folded it in half and tore it into strips, then wrapped a dollar in it and smeared it with saliva.

"This is your red envelope, buy whatever you want."

After the child took the red envelope, he smiled from ear to ear and immediately ran to the tractor head with the fragrant rice.

The fishing boat owner asked his family to continue fishing. If they were lucky, they could sell another boatload of fish.

Here at the kelp field.

When Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao arrived, a dog was already waiting to greet them. They could hear the dog barking from afar.

After they got on the raft.

Erbaiwu kept circling around Li Duoyu, rubbing against his feet, wagging his tail and making a whining sound.

Li Duoyu touched its head.

He poured the leftovers from yesterday into its dog bowl, and Erbaiwu immediately devoured them.

Then.

Li Duoyu pasted a blessing character on Erbaiwu's doghouse, and then pasted a couplet on the bamboo house of the fishing raft.

The couplet was written by Zhou Xiaoying.

"Ten thousand acres of smoke and waves connect the sky and the sea"

"Thousands of cabins laugh and welcome the spring"

Although she was not the best student on the island, she was the best at writing calligraphy. Every year during the festival, many villagers would come to her to write couplets.

After pasting the couplets.

White light has emerged in the east of the sea, and Chen Wenchao is holding a scoop net and scooping the fish temporarily kept in the net box.

But at this moment.

Li Duoyu heard the sound of the white dolphin, as if it was in the kelp field. He thought it was entangled by the kelp rope.

But unexpectedly, it seemed to be chasing a school of fish. It seems that there are schools of fish hiding in the kelp field.

The kelp now is simply the best shelter for the fish. I just don’t know what kind of fish it is, or it’s a yellow croaker, then I’ll make a fortune today.

After seeing the situation, Li Duoyu was also excited, and hurriedly shouted to the local dog who was scooping fish: "Don’t scoop it yet, come with me to catch a wave of fish first."

Chen Wenchao was stunned and said, "Where should we catch them?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "Let Mazu guide us."

Chen Wenchao was confused.

Until he saw the white dolphin, he realized, "Damn it, Brother Yu, how can you be so lucky? I rarely encounter these Mazu fish when I go out to sea."

Li Duoyu used the key to open the bamboo house of the fishing raft, took out the sticky net inside, and then two boats were set up around the kelp field.

After setting the sticky net.

Li Duoyu took a long bamboo pole and came to the center of the kelp field, hitting the water directly to blow out the sea fish hiding in the kelp field.

The white dolphin also cooperated, constantly drilling in the kelp field, driving the fish in the sea, and as the sky became brighter and brighter.

Chen Wenchao saw a large sea fish that was knocked away by the white dolphin, and shouted excitedly, "Wow~Wow~It looks like a mackerel."

Li Duoyu also saw it.

It seems that this is the season of Spanish mackerel. This fish is very popular because of its large size, fat meat and a big thorn in the middle.

People in the north like to use it to make dumplings.

People in the south like to use it to make fish balls.

In addition to blood clams, fish balls are also a very important dish for the Chinese New Year, which means reunion.

The fish balls made with this Spanish mackerel taste very smooth. Spanish mackerel is also very popular during the Chinese New Year.

After hitting the kelp field with a bamboo pole.

The two of them started to collect the sticky net separately.

Looking at the fresh Spanish mackerel on the battle net, even Li Duoyu, who has caught a lot of seafood, couldn't help but get excited.

And Chen Wenchao continued to chant his catchphrase.

"Fuck, the net is broken this time."

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