Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 102 Good things on the reef

Zhao Dahai rode a motorcycle back home, found an iron rake, which he used when he went out to rake clams some time ago, two large baskets, and a small dustpan, wearing Jiefang shoes, rode a motorcycle back to the pier, the beach The sand could not run the motorcycle, so I quickly returned to the reef area with two large baskets, a small dustpan and a small rake on my shoulder pole.

Zhao Dahai found a place to put two big baskets, holding a small dustpan in his left hand and a small rake in his right, walked to the edge of the waterline, carefully looked at the reef where the waves could hit, there was a thick layer of The black color is almost the same as the reef, the long finger is the same, and the short one has only one finger.

"Hey!"

"Idle is idle."

"If you don't have any fish, you can get some seaweed."

Zhao Dahai was optimistic about a place, walked over to stand firm, tried his feet not to slip, turned half sideways, could see the waves coming up from the corner of his eyes, waited for a wave to recede, bent down, and held the iron rake in his right hand, Scrape down on the reef vigorously, and pieces of laver fall down. Holding a small dustpan in my left hand, I put the laver on the bottom, and then scrape the laver down.

Zhao Dahai moved his right hand very quickly. He scraped more than a dozen times in one breath. The dustpan was filled with half of it at once. Watching the waves coming from the corner of his eyes, he immediately straightened his waist and stood firm on both feet. The calf, almost to the knee, was splashed by the waves, and half of the body was wet at once. The waves receded, bent down, and continued to scrape the seaweed on the reef. Pour it into the big basket.

"Swipe!"

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"Swipe!"

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"Swipe!"

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Zhao Dahai took advantage of the gap between one wave and the next wave to scrape the seaweed quickly.

The seaweed in the rocky area in front of the village did not attract much attention. It grew densely, one after another, and the thick and good places were specially selected. In an hour or so, a large basket was filled.

"what?"

"What is it scratching?"

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"When did laver grow on these reefs in our village?"

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"Wow!"

"The waves are coming again! Zhao Dahai is really courageous, I dare not stand there and scrape the laver!"

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"It's fine if you stand firm. Didn't you see Zhao Dahai half-turned? He's staring at the waves. Just be careful when they hit them. It's not as dangerous as you think."

"Climb up and down the small island mountain outside all day, isn't hooking the snail just as dangerous?"

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Zhao Dahai ignored the pointing of the fish pickers on the reef, and some of them went to their big baskets to look at the scraped laver.

Seaweed is not a rare thing, but it grows on rocks, especially now that the wind is blowing, and I can't go out to sea to fish. It doesn't cost money. Wouldn't it be good to get some home and cook egg soup?It won't take long for someone to come.Take your time and shave a little more.

Zhao Dahai worked hard, beads of sweat came out one by one, and when the waves hit, the splashed sea water splashed on his body, mixed together and dripped down, and he couldn't tell which was sweat and which was sea water.

Zhao Dahai straightened his waist, and the small dustpan in his left hand was full of seaweed. It was about ten catties soaked in sea water. After scraping for almost two hours, he was a little tired, and he was a little unsteady when holding it. His hand was shaking a little. Go inside, walk to the edge of the big basket with both hands to pour in, look around, sure enough, there are already seven or eight people scraping laver, and there will be more in a while, look at the two loaded laver. The big basket is full, no matter what you do, you have to be fast, and you won’t be able to eat hot shit when it’s late.

Zhao Dahai sat on the rock, rested for a while, and went back later.

"Yo?!"

"Is this a fish?"

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"No way?"

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"what!"

"It's really a fish!"

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Zhao Dahai stood up abruptly, but he was not in a hurry. The reef was very slippery in the strong wind and waves. He made sure to walk to the waterline. The wave just receded and no fish could be seen. The fish rolled over, his eyes were sharp and his hands quickly changed his waist, grabbing the tail of the fish and lifting it up.

"Rotten fish?"

Zhao Dahai was a little disappointed, he finally got a big fish, but he didn't expect it to be this one. "Rotten fish" is tarpon, called "rotten meat shuttle" in some places. It swims very fast. This fish is full of small spines. There is nothing special about the fish meat. It's almost one meter long, and the width of your palm, but you can't find anyone to buy it for two or three yuan per catty in the market.

Just as Zhao Dahai wanted to throw it away, he looked at the two big baskets of seaweed and changed his mind. "Rotten fish" is really not delicious if it is cooked directly, but as long as you are willing to put in the effort, you can make a delicious dish, which I usually don't have. But these few days it was windy and there was no time to go out to sea. Grandma Zhong Cuihua liked it very much.

Zhao Dahai threw the fish into the basket, held the "ears" on both sides of the basket with both hands, lifted it up and down the reef twice, carried it to the pier on a pole, put it on the motorcycle, and drove home.

When Zhao Dahai returned home, Rotten Fish took some ice and put it in a foam box to keep it cold, temporarily ignoring it.

The laver raked off by the iron rake, with tiny broken rocks in it, had to be cleaned.

Zhao Dahai took a large basin with a diameter of more than one meter, filled the faucet with water, grabbed half of the laver in the basket, put it down, and stirred vigorously. The laver began to rotate with the water, and the squeezed laver scattered. He stopped his hands and didn't stir it, waited for a while, picked up the seaweed floating on the water and put it in another large basin next to it to soak in water.

After Zhao Dahai washed it once, he went on to wash it a second time, five times in a row, grabbed a handful of seaweed, and carefully pulled it apart. There were no broken rocks or other miscellaneous things, and he was satisfied.

"what?"

"grandmother."

"How can there be such a thing?"

Zhao Dahai looked at Zhong Cuihua holding a stack of small dustpans with a diameter of only [-] centimeters in his hand, which he did not remember at home.

"Hehehe!"

"It's almost ten years ago. If I didn't see you washing seaweed here, I wouldn't even remember it."

"Look for it and take it out to see if it works."

Zhong Cuihua handed it to Zhao Dahai.

Zhao Dahai rinsed it with water, and it was really usable. This thing is very simple. A thin strip of bamboo about one centimeter wide forms a circle with a diameter of about twenty centimeters. Bamboo woven a bottom, the overall shape is no different from a dustpan, but smaller.

Zhao Dahai washed the big iron basin, filled it with two-thirds of the water, grabbed a few large handfuls of seaweed and put them in the iron basin, beat them evenly with his hands to float on the water surface, took a small dustpan to fill it up, and added a little to the thin parts. Laver, the thick part is thinner, evenly take out the water to drain the water, and put it upside down on the big dustpan. The method is very simple, but very effective. Fishing villages have used this method to make round laver cakes for 80 years.

Zhao Dahai has been working non-stop. It took him four or five hours to wash all the seaweed. All of them were turned upside down into seaweed cakes and hung on the dustpan. The wind was very strong and the sun was shining. They dried them for one day today and another day tomorrow. Dry enough.

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