Chapter 58 Mazu Fish (Please Read On)

When Li Duoyu finished checking the kelp seedlings,

The setting sun dyed the entire sea red.

Li Duoyu was sitting and resting on the boat, took a drink of water, and planned to go home.

But the boat had just left the kelp farming raft.

I saw several fish jumping out of the sea, and they jumped quite high.

Under the rays of the setting sun.

The fish body shines with dazzling silver light.

When he saw this kind of fish, Li Duoyu couldn't help but get excited.

He was very familiar with this fish.

In later generations, wild large yellow croakers were called gold bars swimming on the sea, but the flowers this fish saw during the day were all silver.

Only when there is low light at night will it turn golden. The darker the sky, the more positive the color of the large yellow croaker.

Under normal circumstances, the large yellow croaker will not jump out of the sea unless... it is chased by something.

Sure enough, it hadn't been more than a few seconds.

Li Duoyu heard the sound of "嘤~嘤~", and then, groups of big white fish jumped out of the water and chased in the direction of the large yellow croaker.

"Mazu Po fish."

Li Duoyu couldn't help but blurt out that in their era, many marine fish did not have a unified name.

Here on Dandan Island, this kind of fish will coo when there is a fish call, and it will make fishermen sleepless at night, so it is called coo fish.

People in town call it cucumber fish.

No matter how big or small they are, people in Rongcheng call them yellow croakers.

There is no such name as white dolphin now. Most fishermen call it Mazu fish and Zhenjiang fish.

It is said that this name comes from the fact that the white dolphin once rescued fishermen and was said to be sent by Mazu, so it became Mazu fish.

In addition, it often appears in river mouths and is regarded as the "door god" entering the sea, so some people also call it Zhenjiang fish.

White dolphins are particularly good at finding fish.

There are places where they hang out,

Under normal circumstances there will be schools of fish.

Over time, white dolphins and fishermen have formed a tacit cooperative relationship. Fishermen rely on white dolphins to find fish. After catching fish, the fishermen will also give them some small fish to eat.

Look at the frightened large yellow croakers that jump out of the water from time to time.

Li Duoyu was also very excited.

Unfortunately, there was no fishing net on his sampan boat, so he could only watch the school of large yellow croakers slip away from him.

Although large yellow croaker is not that valuable now, it is not cheap either. It is also expensive among marine fish, selling for 40 cents per pound.

Much more expensive than hairtail and swimming crab.

And large yellow croakers weighing more than four kilograms can be sold for more than fifty cents.

A hundred kilograms of it costs 40 yuan, which is almost as much as Zhou Xiaoying’s monthly salary. Who wouldn’t be tempted to let it go?

Just when Li Duoyu lamented that the money flew away from his pocket.

A small fishing boat came in his direction. The man who drove the boat waved to him and shouted: "Hey, are there many fish in front of you?"

Li Duoyu took a closer look and saw that the voice sounded like his cousin Li Shuguang. Li Duoyu replied:

"It's me, Duoyu."

"Hurry up and help me catch these cuckoo fish. We caught half of them each."

"Wait for me and come right away."

Li Duoyu quickly sailed over to join him.

The uncle's family can be said to be the best fishermen on the island. In recent years, even if they have a boat, they have not taken away the goods, but focused on fishing.

On Dandan Island, birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. People like Agui, Yujun, and Li Duoyu are in the same group.

And down-to-earth fishermen like his cousins ​​Li Shuguang and Li Yuanguang are in the same group.

The two groups couldn't play together at all, and both sides even looked down upon each other. It wasn't until Li Duoyu "behaved" some time ago that these cousins ​​started to interact with him again.

Li Duo's sampan boat approached the cousin's fishing boat, which was more than ten meters long, and found that his fishing boat was full of sticky nets.

I saw Li Duoyu's boat approaching.

Li Shuguang threw the net head into his boat and said, "Your boat is fast. You just pull it forward and I will release the net on the boat."

Li Duoyu immediately understood what his cousin meant, and pulled the end of the net to form a vertical line with the direction of the big yellow croaker.

Wait until they open all the nets.

The cousin stood on the bow of the boat and screamed "嘤~嘤~" towards the white dolphins in the distance.

Li Duoyu didn't think the white dolphins could understand his cousin's "calling", but the amazing thing was that the group of white dolphins really swam forward, then turned around and drove the large yellow croakers in their direction. .

Not a while yet.

Li Duoyu could clearly feel that the rope sticking to the net was constantly twitching and sinking.

After the white dolphins helped catch fish, they did not leave. Instead, they circled around their fishing boat and kept licking.

It seems that he is waiting for a reward.

Immediately afterwards, Li Duoyu came to the cousin's boat and helped put away the fishing net.

The sticky net did catch a lot of large yellow croakers.

It also makes a "coo" sound from time to time.

Seeing the shining silver croakers hanging on the sticky net, both of them were very excited and burst into smiles.

"Fortunately, I met you today. I couldn't do it alone. I almost missed this group of fish."

A rough calculation showed that there were more than a hundred large yellow croakers. Unfortunately, most of them weighed half a catty to two catties, and only seven or eight weighed four or five catties.

After seeing these fish catches.

Li Shuguang was excited, but he still couldn't help but sigh:

"Why are the fish getting smaller every year? There are still half a net of big fish. Why are there only a few fish left this year?"

Li Duoyu looked at the warehouse full of yellow croakers, but couldn't help but want to complain about his cousin.

If this warehouse of fish was put in the future, it might be enough to buy a house in a coastal city. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?

When they were unhooking the fish from the sticky net, the white dolphins kept swimming in circles around the fishing boat.

When the cousin caught a smaller cuckoo fish, he would throw it into the sea to feed the group of white dolphins.

When the two returned to the dock.

It was completely dark, and the lights on the dock were on. Li Duoyu remembered that his mother had cooked for him.

Damn, he was going to be scolded.

After moving the fish to the dock, the cousin immediately shouted, wanting to sell the yellow croaker as soon as possible, but because he came back too late, it was past dinner time.

The old men and women who had eaten and drunk their fill came over to watch for a while and sighed: "Why didn't you come earlier? We've all finished eating."

"It's a pity that they weren't caught at night, so the color doesn't look good. The yellow croaker is a little small. When we were young, we caught more than ten kilograms."

In this era without preservation technology, Li Duoyu knew that the yellow croakers they caught might be a waste of money.

"Alas~~"

The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Li Duoyu looked at the two baskets of yellow croakers and couldn't help but sigh. No one wanted even a house!

Li Shuguang felt a little embarrassed that his cousin had worked so hard for so long but the fish had not been sold:

"Duoyu, how about we each take half and take it home to make salted fish."

Li Duoyu kept his eyes on the yellow croakers weighing four or five kilograms, grinning:

"There are so many fish, I can't kill them all, how about I take a loss, you give me the big ones, and the rest are all yours."

"You thief." Li Shuguang scolded with a smile, but still took out a woven bag from the boat and put the big yellow croakers in it.

"Let's go, Qingfeng."

Li Duoyu carried the big yellow croakers and left the dock.

After returning home, Li Duoyu found that his mother had really cooked a large table of food.

And no one touched their chopsticks.

It seemed like they were waiting for him.

After seeing Li Duoyu coming back, Chen Huiying said angrily: "Didn't you say you would be back in a while? Why did you take so long?"

Li Duoyu, who felt guilty, scratched his head: "Just when I came back, I met Shuguang, and we caught a net of cichlids together."

Then, Li Duoyu poured out the big yellow croakers in the bag and said with a smile: "These are big enough."

"What's the use of big? The dishes are cooked." Chen Huiying rolled her eyes at him.

"Hurry up and wash your hands and change your clothes. Your father and Xiaoying have been waiting for you for a while."

"Okay, I'll be right there."

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