254. Chapter 253 Making Fish Meal and Mullet Roe

After the fishing, Li Duoyu drove the boat back to the fishing raft, hung the sticky net on the bamboo pole, arranged it and dried it.

Then, I gave some of the sea fish to my uncle Chen Dongqing, mainly some beef tongue fish, swimming crabs and sea shrimps.

Seeing that Li Duoyu finally responded generously, Chen Dongqing said with a look of relief: "That's enough. I don't have to give so much. I won't be able to finish it. I don't have a refrigerator at home, and it might break tomorrow."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "I remember that you and Director Zhang live in the same community. I haven't even thanked him properly for the oysters. Half of it will be given to you, and you can help me bring him the other half."

Chen Dongqing's face was very dark. He knew that this bastard was not so kind. He was so moved at that moment.

Chen Dongqing took two bags of seafood, sighed, and drove the tin boat back to the county town.

As if knowing that Li Duoyu was leaving, Erbai Wu made a "woo woo" sound.

Li Duoyu touched its dog's head and said with a smile: "I don't have much free time these days. I will find you a partner after the Chinese New Year."

"Woof~"

With the sound of "rumbling", the sampan boat loaded with fish sailed back to the dock of Dandan Island.

And the ship just docked.

The fishmonger, Mr. Mi, came around with a smile on his face: "Why do you have time to go fishing today? You also caught so many mullet fish. Do you have any eggs in this batch? If so, I will give you one pound and five." I’ll give it to you.”

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "There are eggs, but I won't sell the aconite. I can give you some crabs and shrimps."

Old Man Mi was surprised: "There are so many fish, so much aconite is not for sale, what are you going to do with it? No one wants it if it is dried fish."

"Use it to make feed for the eels."

Old Man Mi couldn't stand it any longer and couldn't help but say: "It's too extravagant to use the aconite with eggs as feed. By the way, your eel factory has invested tens of thousands of dollars so far."

Li Duoyu did not tell Uncle Mi the specific amount of investment, but changed the subject and said: "Uncle Mi, next, if you want to buy some trash fish, if you have time, you can help me buy some too."

"It's a small thing, no problem."

Old Man Mi smiled and said, "If your eels sell well in the future, remember to leave some for me."

"They are all from the same village, I will definitely keep them for you."

"That's pretty much it."

Li Duoyu sold the crabs and shrimps he caught to fishmonger Mi Laotou and made about eight yuan.

Next.

Li Duoyu borrowed a two-wheeled cart from Lao Jin, a second-hand fishing gear store, and took the mullet to the eel factory.

The second brother and sister-in-law who worked in the eel factory, as well as Chen Wenchao, hurried over to help after seeing Li Duoyu pulling so many sea fish.

The four of them worked together to move more than 400 kilograms of mullet in just two trips.

Looking at the five large baskets of blackhead fish in front of him, Li Yaoguo couldn't help but ask: "Fourth, you have so many fish, are you ready to make fish meal?"

"Yes, we are preparing to make fish meal."

Li Duoyu said politely to his second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua: "Second sister-in-law, please do me one thing first."

"I'm working for you now, so you don't have to be so polite."

Li Duoyu smiled. In the past, the second sister-in-law would have said that she wanted more money, but now that she was receiving his salary, it would be difficult to say so.

Li Duoyu picked up a fish knife, performed a "laparotomy" on a still jumping mullet, and then took out the eggs.

"Wait a minute, kill all these fish, take out the eggs inside, and then use tweezers to squeeze out all the blood on the eggs."

The second sister-in-law nodded: "Okay, this is simple. If you want to remove the scales of the fish, I will kill it for you."

Li Duoyu shook his head.

"No, just take the fish eggs and squeeze out the blood."

Zhu Xiuhua nodded.

Li Duoyu then said to his second brother: "After you finish what you are doing, go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy thirty kilograms of salt."

"Just buy salt, right?"

"Um."

In fact, the production process of mullet roe is relatively simple.

The first step is to squeeze out the blood water. After squeezing out the blood, tie the top egg opening with cotton thread, and that's it.

The second one is salting.

After squeezing out the blood water, wrap the fish eggs in a layer of coarse salt.

The third step is to squeeze and dehydrate.

After salting, the fish eggs are usually pressed on a wooden board, because there is no wooden board specially used to press the mullet roe.

Li Duoyu directly used local materials, placed the fish eggs on a dustpan, used some small dustpan nesting dolls to put them on, and then put a few bricks on them, which could also achieve the effect of squeezing and dehydration.

Under normal circumstances, it takes about a day to squeeze out the water in the fish eggs, and then wash the fish eggs with salt.

Finally, just stay in the sun for a few months.

Of course, if you want to save time, you can also bake it in the baking room.

On the side, Chen Wenchao, who had not been assigned a job from beginning to end, frowned, and what made him most depressed was.

In the past, Brother Yu would call him every time he went fishing, but today he didn't call him.

This made him a little confused.

He couldn't help but recall what he had done these days, but there was nothing he felt was inappropriate.

Chen Wenchao glanced at Zhu Xiuhua who was squeezing the blood. His hand speed was much faster than his. He only processed one fish egg.

Zhu Xiuhua has already dealt with two of them. Could it be that this woman is too capable? In comparison, it seems that he is fishing in troubled waters.

The sudden thought made Chen Wenchao feel a sense of crisis. He knew very well who gave him the chance to marry a wife and build a house.

Could it be that Brother Yu thought he was too experienced? Chen Wenchao, who was not assigned any work, hurriedly said, "Brother Yu, you must catch a lot of fish to make fish meal. Why don't you go out to sea and catch more fish these days?"

Li Duoyu shook his head and smiled, "Don't worry, I have asked Uncle Mi to help me buy them. You have been tired enough recently. Take a good rest these days and spend more time with your family."

After hearing this, Chen Wenchao was no longer calm. He didn't know what he did wrong, but Brother Yu didn't say it clearly, so he didn't dare to ask.

Looking at Zhu Xiuhua who was working hard, Chen Wenchao suddenly felt a sense of crisis. All he could do now was to work harder than before, otherwise he would be outdone.

Li Duoyu thought that the second sister-in-law was strong and would puncture the membrane wrapped around the fish eggs when squeezing out the blood water, but she didn't expect that she was not inferior to Zhou Xiaoying at all when doing needlework.

Apart from her body size, she is really an all-round player. At this moment, Li Duoyu finally understood why her second brother was abused by her thousands of times in the previous life, but she never left him.

After arranging the matter of mullet roe, Li Duoyu began to make fish meal.

In the previous life, there was a complete set of equipment for assembly line operation to make fish meal, but in this era, Li Duoyu can only use the native method.

Li Duoyu took a kitchen knife for chopping bones, cut the mullet directly into pieces, and then stuffed it into the cloth bag.

Seeing Brother Yu start to cut the fish, Chen Wenchao also came over with a meat-cutting knife: "Brother Yu, I'll do the cutting. After cutting, will you put everything in the bag?"

"Yes."

Li Duoyu nodded. Seeing Chen Wenchao cutting the fish, he lit the stove and boiled a pot of water.

The first step in making fish meal.

It is to steam the fish meat.

The second step is similar to mullet roe. It is also necessary to use heavy objects to press the cloth bag filled with fish meat to squeeze out the excess fish oil and blood.

It will take about one or two days to press, and then pour the fish residue in the bag into a dustpan, and then pull it into the oven to dry the remaining moisture.

Finally, put the dried fish meat, fish scales, and fish bones into the stone mortar and crush them with a wooden pestle.

Dry it again.

Then use the flour milling machine to finally grind the fish meat and bones into powder.

Li Duoyu taught the production process of mullet roe to his second sister-in-law, but he taught the whole set of production process of fish powder to Chen Wenchao.

In fact, Li Duoyu was still a little bit unsure about his second sister-in-law, thinking that she was not such a quiet person.

So he did not plan to teach her all the processes of eel farming, for fear that she would sell the whole set of eel farming technology to others in a blink of an eye.

As for simple things like mullet roe, Li Duoyu did not care. After all, the market share of this thing was small, and even if others could make it, they might not be able to find a market. (End of this chapter)