1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer Chapter 625

 Eating heavy shells in the first month,

 There is good water in February.

 Eating Ramen in March and April,

Blue crabs are delicious in May and June.

Seven or eight eat oily crabs,

Ninety hairy crabs,

Eat crabs on eleven or twelve.

This passage is a summary of how fishermen eat blue crabs every month. Now it happens to be December, and the west wind is strong, which is the best time to eat blue crabs.

Li Duoyu randomly picked a lucky one from the basket.

The blue crab waved its claws, wanting to crush the offending human in front of it to death.

But after the fate was grasped by the other party, Blue Crab really had no choice at all, and what made him most unhappy was.

The annoying human tapped its shell with his fingers.

"Don't knock me!"

After Li Duoyu finished knocking, he showed a satisfied smile. Whether the blue crab was fat or not, an old fisherman like him would know after knocking twice.

If it is a water crab, it will make an "empty" sound. The fatter the crab, the duller the sound.

Audible sound is still not safe. Blue crab farmers generally take a safe approach to check whether the blue crabs are fat or not.

That is to give it a good physical examination. Li Duoyu pressed the blue crab on the ground and pressed the thumb of his right hand against the gap in its shell.

The whole set of movements was completed in one go, and in less than two seconds, the blue crab shell was lifted.

After opening the green crab shell, Li Duoyu could also see the blue crab's heart beating, and what surprised Li Duoyu the most.

The crab roe is abundant and yellow, and the crab meat is crystal clear. This quality will definitely fetch a good price.

When Li Duoyu put the crab shell back on, he was almost pinched off by the blue crab. He couldn't help but cursed: "I'll steam you later and give it to my wife."

Speaking of which, since the last time I told Zhou Xiaoying, if I keep biting blue crab claws with my teeth, my teeth will crack.

She rarely eats blue crabs.

The main reason is that I am too busy, otherwise I would make a typhoon shelter fried crab dish that would be quite delicious.

At this time, Chen Wenchao came over with a bundle of five-segmented mangosteens, which most people couldn't name.

They all thought it was reed, but in fact this thing is quite different from reeds. Reeds usually grow near the water, but this thing doesn't care about the terrain. It feels like it can grow anywhere. It likes to grow near graves. .

There are quite a lot of these things on Dandan Island. They are all over the north side of the island. Most of the time they are cut off to feed cattle.

The villagers on the island also like to use this five-section mango as a rope to tie, and it is very easy to use.

In the early years, people rarely used straw ropes to tie blue crabs, and the five-jointed awns were more commonly used.

After all, the straw rope is much more expensive than the five-section awn, and it is more complicated. But later, some fishmongers made malicious bids.

The price of blue crabs is deliberately kept low, and the blue crabs are **** with straw ropes that absorb a lot of water. The fishmongers will not suffer any loss if they come back again and again.

As a result, the unspoken rule of three taels of rope for one pound of blue crabs gradually evolved, which was the most ruthless one Li Duoyu had ever seen.

It is a cotton rope that absorbs water very well. After the rope is removed, the weight of the rope alone is as heavy as a blue crab.

The two sides of the five-jointed awn are very sharp, and people with delicate skin and tender flesh will be cut with small blood marks accidentally.

There are also fine thorns inside, which will be painful and uncomfortable if they get stuck in.

But this kind of thatch is very magical. The older generation often joked: This is called bullying the weak and fearing the hard grass. The more you are afraid of it, the harder the other party will cut it. But as long as you are braver, this thing will not cut people at all. .

Li Duoyu also knew relatively well that thatch like Five-jointed Miscanthus can cut people only at one angle, that is, when it is viewed from top to bottom, it can cut people.

But if you grab it from bottom to top, or just hold it flat, it won't cut people.

Chen Wenchao **** blue crabs very quickly. He **** dozens of them in a short time. After tying them up, he put all the hair in the basket and covered it with fine mesh gauze.

In this way, blue crabs will not be bitten to death by mosquitoes. After the winter solstice, there will definitely be fewer mosquitoes on the island, but there is no guarantee that there will be people who like to work overtime and don't like to sleep.

After all, with the weather in the south, it is normal to have mosquitoes all year round.

Speaking of which, most people are afraid of blue crabs, which are really painful when pinched.

But nature is so wonderful. What we fear most about these "iron lumps" walking sideways are mosquitoes.

The Zhao brothers, who love catching blue crabs the most on the island, are very experienced in this. Every time they catch blue crabs, they have to leave them overnight.

Every time, a wet towel will be used to cover the eyes of the blue crabs to prevent them from being bitten by mosquitoes.

The two brothers said that mosquitoes like to bite the eyes and joints of blue crabs once they are bitten.

Blue crabs will die quickly, and when they die, they are particularly miserable. Sometimes, when they are bitten severely, they may even cut off their hands and feet.

Zhao Erniu often complained that after being bitten by a blue crab, he felt itchy and scratched his crab legs off.

In his previous life, Li Duoyu had heard some relatively reliable stories. When mosquitoes bite other animals, they will inject some venom into them.

To humans, this kind of thing may just be an itchy blister, but to many small animals, it is very deadly.

In short, mosquitoes are absolutely disgusting to humans and disgusting to dogs. There is no creature in nature that likes them.

After Li Duoyu caught more than two hundred kilograms of shrimp, he put half of them in small woven bamboo baskets, each basket was about two kilograms, and put them in the freezer of the eel factory to freeze them.

He had no choice but to put it in small baskets because of the poor conditions. He also wanted to use a foam box that could keep things warm.

But now plastic bags are rare, let alone foam packaging boxes. Li Duoyu always feels that the packaging industry is developing too slowly, which has somewhat restricted the development of his breeding industry.

If given the chance, he couldn't help but want to open a packaging factory.

Li Duoyu took the remaining half of the shrimp to the pier and paid a small sum of money to ask the ladies who pry the sea to help fetch the shrimp lines.

Although he had about one or two prawns each, there were nearly a thousand prawns weighing a hundred pounds, and Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao couldn't get them all in one time.

When the two of them carried baskets of shrimps to the pier, Lao Mi, who was collecting fish, saw the shrimps that were still alive and kicking. He was so envious.

The women who pried the oysters saw so many shrimps that they wanted to stuff a few into their pockets.

"Doesn't it cost fifty or six cents for such a big one this year?"

"It's already gone up to one piece."

One elder sister was shocked and said: "So, we only earn two shrimps after prying oysters all day?"

The price of shrimp this year is very good. Recently, many fishermen have gone fishing for shrimp.

Unfortunately, the number of shrimps this year is very small, and they are also very small. He can't harvest more than a few kilograms of shrimps at the pier in a day.

These shrimps from Li Duoyu are all very big. When the shrimps are straightened, they are much longer than an adult's hand.

Sea shrimps of this size are now sold at the farmer's market, chilled, for ten yuan.

Not to mention that this kind of lively thing will definitely be a hot commodity after it is put on the market.

Lao Mi always feels that the price of seafood this year is really crazy. When the shrimp plague broke out in the first half of the year, the price dropped to one or two yuan.

But in just a few months, it had already risen to ten yuan. He thought that with such a high price, not many people would be able to afford it.

Unexpectedly, the more expensive the price, the more people buy it, and there is even a situation where supply exceeds demand. Perhaps because of the small quantity, the best-selling shrimp on the market now is actually shrimp.

Sometimes Lao Mi has the feeling that in the past few years, there have been more and more wealthy people, and he has fallen behind.

Looking back, a few years ago, he was at least one of the top three rich people in the village, but it was only a few years ago, and now he might not even be able to get into the top 20. "well."

Thinking of this, Lao Mi couldn't help but sigh. In one month, the New Year will be coming soon.

It's really hard for Lao Mi to imagine how exaggerated the price of shrimp will be during the Chinese New Year. This Li Duoyu will definitely make a lot of money by then.

Lao Mi also thought that if he could get the first-hand supply from Li Duoyu and sell it at the farmer's market, he would be able to earn at least 20 to 30% profit.

But after thinking about it, he let it go. He had already heard that if he wanted to get the prawns in Li Duoyu's pond, he had to pay a deposit of at least 20,000 yuan.

Lao Mi was a bit tight on money and had to keep a large portion to prepare for someone to pick up kelp seedlings. He also wanted to get some from the children in the city.

But before he spoke, his eldest son in Rongcheng felt that the dormitory he was currently living in was too small and planned to change to a larger house, and asked him if he still had money.

Thinking of this, Lao Mi couldn't help but take a puff of his cigarette. He couldn't figure out what went wrong, why other people's children were thinking about how to honor their parents.

But these few he raised were like leeches all day long. Every time he thought about this, Lao Mi felt as if his whole body was missing a breath and felt very boring.

At this time, after seeing Li Duoyu asking someone to pick out the shrimp threads, Lao Mi Na felt heartbroken.

"Too fishy, ​​if you kill the shrimp, it won't be worth anything. Your shrimp is so good, but the meat will fall apart when you pick the thread, so you can't sell it at a high price."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "No, I don't plan to sell them. I plan to make these shrimps into grilled shrimps."

"Grilled shrimp?"

"Dried shrimp?"

Li Duoyu nodded: "Pretty much, they all mean the same thing."

Lao Mi couldn't help but take a breath. Although it wasn't his shrimp, he still couldn't help but feel sad.

"You are a silly son of a landlord. It's such a waste if you use such good shrimps to make dried shrimps."

Li Duoyu rolled his eyes at him: "It's a gift. Fresh shrimps are too difficult to preserve, and not everyone has a freezer at home."

"I'm sorry."

Lao Mi chuckled. After seeing Li Duoyu's eyes, he realized how rude he had just been.

"Duoyu, there are so many shrimps in your pond, and we have known each other for so many years, why don't you sell some to me?"

Li Duoyu looked disgusted: "People in the village have known me for many years. I can't open my mouth. If I open my mouth, everyone will ask me for it."

"Let me make some money too."

"The rules are the rules. If you want shrimp, you have to pay a deposit of 20,000 yuan."

Lao Mi said with a bitter face: "If I had this money, I would have paid it long ago, but I don't have any money on hand now."

"If you don't have money, take some from your children. Aren't they all working in the city?"

After hearing this, Lao Mi was instantly disappointed and sighed: "I wish you were my son."

As soon as Lao Mi finished speaking, he quickly waved his hand and said, "No, I mean, it would be great if my son was like you."

Li Duoyu's face was a bit dark. If Lao Mi hadn't been a bit older, he would have really wanted to kick him into the sea to wake him up.

The women who pry the oysters are very nimble, and they quickly picked out all the shrimp lines.

When making grilled shrimp, be sure to pick out the shrimp threads, otherwise the fishy smell of the grilled shrimp will be obvious.

To put it bluntly, the thing in the shrimp thread is shrimp daddy, and the better you eat the shrimp, the smellier the shrimp daddy will be.

After picking out the shrimp threads, Li Duoyu began to set up a pot to boil water. He directly used the back of a knife to chop a piece of **** and scallions into knots, and then poured in some salt.

Grilled shrimps are not cooked directly in the sun. Like oysters, they need to be cooked first and then dried.

The best dried shrimps are naturally dried slowly in the sun, but the Li family is going to Rongcheng tomorrow.

He can only use the most convenient method, which is to use the grilling room where he used to grill oysters and directly use it to grill shrimps.

Pretty much, in the evening.

Li Duoyu's grilled shrimps are almost done. Although they are not as perfectly cooked, the overall appearance is still acceptable.

Each grilled shrimp is curled up into an inward C shape. The shrimp shell and shrimp meat have been separated and are not stuck together.

The shrimp shells can be separated easily. Li Duoyu picked up a grilled shrimp at random, broke off the shrimp shell, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

The texture is just right, quite chewy, and the taste is quite sweet.

The grilled shrimp made from this kind of local prawn is the most delicious. It has been a long time since Li Duoyu has eaten grilled shrimp with such authentic taste.

Good grilled shrimp, even without adding various seasonings, still tastes very good, just that kind of pure deliciousness.

In my previous life, there were many sellers of grilled shrimps on the Internet. The videos were very nice, and the shrimps were particularly large, but the ones sold to customers were all small shrimps.

In fact, real grilled prawns are very expensive. After grilling, the entire weight shrinks by more than half, plus labor and so on.

Under normal circumstances, the price of grilled shrimp should be about three times that of fresh shrimp. If the price is lower than this, there must be something fishy.

According to this year's price, if Li Duoyu really wanted to sell these grilled shrimps, they would cost at least twenty yuan per catty.

If it costs ten yuan, some people can still afford it if they grit their teeth, but if it costs twenty yuan, it's not a matter of gritting their teeth.

Li Duoyu suddenly remembered that if this thing were to be put on the market, it would definitely not be for civilian consumption, but should be for gift-giving.

After Li Duoyu grilled the shrimps, he first wrapped them in a layer of oil paper, and then wrapped them in red paper, each weighing two kilograms.

More than fifty servings were packed.

Up to now, he has prepared everything for going to Rongcheng to recognize his relatives and worship his ancestors. As for the firecrackers, incense candles, offerings, pork, and some other scattered things, his uncle and third uncle are responsible for them. of.

After Li Duoyu returned home, he found that these little brats were still watching TV. He always felt that if they continued to watch like this, myopia would become a matter of time.

Then I threw a pack of grilled shrimp out.

But the brat finally had something he liked to eat. After eating a grilled shrimp, he still wanted to eat it.

Li Haoran couldn't help but ask: "Uncle, this grilled shrimp must be very expensive."

"It's not bad. One of them costs about a dollar."

After hearing this, Li Haoran's hand that was about to continue holding the grilled shrimp felt like it was filled with lead: "It's so expensive!"

Little Tutu asked curiously: "Brother, are these shrimps expensive?"

Li Haoran nodded and said: "For such a shrimp, we can go to the third aunt's house and buy a big bag of melon seeds."

After hearing this, little Tutu was very happy: "Brother, my father has raised a lot of shrimps. Let's catch some and trade them with my aunt for melon seeds."

After hearing this, Li Haoran glanced at his uncle and really wanted to run away. You want to kill me.

Li Duoyu, who had a dark face, really wanted to fix this naughty kid, but he actually dared to say such embarrassing things in front of him.

"Haoran, I will give you a task. Whenever you are free from now on, help me supervise this kid. You are not allowed to give him a single snack."

"Okay, uncle." (End of chapter)

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