Chapter 193 The First Serious Chat with Ding Xiaoxiang

Zhao Dahai hurriedly finished his dinner and took a few dried cuttlefish the size of his palm. This is the last time Zhong Shizhu caught him in a box. He sold some and kept some to dry. People in the seaside fishing village, this is the best. One of the snacks.

Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen. He used the tongs to peel off the layer of ash on the inside of the stove, revealing the red charcoal. He blew lightly and it lit up.

Zhao Dahai took two wooden sticks and stretched them in, and set up a shelf on top of the coals, and placed two dried cuttlefish on top of the coals. The charcoal fire was slowly roasting, and a scent gradually wafted out, and he couldn't help swallowing. I took a sip of saliva and took it out for five or six minutes to look at it. One side was already grilled. I turned it over and put the other side on the charcoal fire. After waiting for another five or six minutes, I took it out and looked at it carefully. There was something there. A little bit browned, I gently broke it off with my hands. It was a little crispy, but a little tough, just right. I put it on a clean plate and let it dry for half an hour before putting it in a bag.

Zhao Dahai talked to his grandma Zhong Cuihua, and took Xiao Naihei out on a tricycle. He rushed to the entrance of Dashi Village and found a place to park the car. He immediately went to the remote place where he and Ding Xiaoxiang had agreed to meet. He could not stay any longer. At the entrance of the village, there is no need to meet familiar people like the last time I met Ding Lihua.

Yang Qin's family.

Ding Xiaoxiang looked up at the clock hanging on the wall. It was already half past eight.

"gone!"

"Remember to cover me when my mother asks!"

Ding Xiaoxiang said something to Yang Qin, walked out of Yang Qin's house, looked left and right and saw no one, walked a few steps forward, got into a small alley, avoided places where she could meet people, and ran out At the entrance of the village, he turned a corner and entered a small path. After a while, he appeared in a small open space in the middle of the forest. Zhao Dahai was already waiting, and Xiao Naihei rushed over immediately.

"Yo!"

"Why do you grow taller every time I see you?"

…

"I really eat well and sleep well!"

…

"If this continues, it will grow like a calf!"

…

Ding Xiaoxiang gently patted Xiao Naihei's forehead, and gently pulled Xiao Naihei's erect ears. She stood and made gestures, and indeed she had grown a lot taller.

Ding Xiaoxiang tried it but couldn't hold it up.

Zhao Dahai waited for Ding Xiaoxiang and Xiao Naihei to play for a while and then came over.

"Give!"

Zhao Dahai took out the dried cuttlefish he had baked.

"ah?"

"What is it? Why does it smell so good?"

Ding Xiaoxiang smelled a very familiar fragrance, but couldn't remember what it was. It was so fragrant that she couldn't help but secretly swallowed a sip of saliva, took the bag and opened it.

"ah?"

"Is the grilled cuttlefish dried?!"

"How do you know this is my favorite food?"

Ding Xiaoxiang was surprised and happy. She didn't expect Zhao Dahai to bring her favorite food.

“My house gets a lot of sun!”

"I'll bake it for you next time and bring it over!"

Zhao Dahai really didn't know that Ding Xiaoxiang liked to eat grilled dried cuttlefish. He just thought that all the children who grew up in the fishing village didn't like to eat this food, but he didn't expect to get it right.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

"This is my favorite!"

Ding Xiaoxiang was not polite, she tore open the baked dried cuttlefish and put it in her mouth to eat.

The difference between dried cuttlefish and dried squid is that dried cuttlefish is thicker. If it is grilled well, it will be torn apart piece by piece. It is very delicious and durable. It has a burnt aroma when you first eat it, but the more you chew it, the sweeter it becomes.

"correct!"

"What have you been doing these days?!"

While eating dried cuttlefish, Ding Xiaoxiang asked Zhao Dahai what he had done these days. From time to time, he tore off a little bit and put it in the mouth of Xiao Naihei next to him.

"Didn't you say that you can't go to sea before and after the typhoon?"

"In the days just after the typhoon, I was resting at home and tidying up the vegetable garden. After the typhoon knocked it all down, I planted it again."

…

"The day before yesterday we went to sea for the first time."

"Release the row hook!"

"I found a place to catch giant eels!"

“I caught more than two hundred kilograms!”

…

"Today I took a person out to sea for fishing. It's like charging a boat fee."

"There were no fish anywhere else, so I went to the fish steak, and to my surprise there happened to be a school of kingfish."

"The two of us caught more than 200 kilograms of kingfish in total."

…

Zhao Dahai explained in detail what he had done these days.

"ah?"

"Is it the eel that weighs more than two hundred pounds?"

"Did you sell it to Liu Gang? Why haven't you heard about this?"

Ding Xiaoxiang was very surprised. She had been delivering fish, shrimps and crabs to Liu Gang's ninth floor every day for the past two days, but she didn't see Zhao Dahai, and she didn't hear that he had collected big white eels.

"Hey!"

"We can't let Liu Gang know about this!"

"The man I just mentioned who went fishing is named Wu Weimin. He happens to be the owner of a private restaurant. He came to me to fish, and he bought it immediately after he met him!"

"The small one weighs one or two pounds, and the big one weighs five or six pounds. The currency is two hundred and twenty yuan per pound!"

Zhao Dahai reminded Ding Xiaoxiang not to spill the beans.

"Hee hee hee!"

"Gang Liu would be very anxious if he knew you sold it to someone else."

Ding Xiaoxiang was happy. Big white eel is a top-quality seafood, and Liu Gang's restaurant must be a coveted one. If no one cuts it off, it will belong to Liu Gang.

"How can you catch so many fish on the fish raft?"

Ding Xiaoxiang was not surprised that Zhao Dahai was able to catch the giant eel with the hook, but it was really difficult to catch so many kingfish on the fish raft.

"What a coincidence! The fish steak boss probably won't welcome me there anymore."

Zhao Dahai made a joke. If Zhang Defei sees him next time, he will definitely feel a little bit in his heart.

"ah?"

"Why do you say that?"

Ding Xiaoxiang was very curious.

Zhao Dahai said that he went there several times and caught a lot of fish every time. Although these fish were all in the sea and it was his own ability to catch them, Zhang Defei felt uncomfortable. The key was himself. I caught too much and made too much money.

Ding Xiaoxiang thought that this was really the case. If she saw other people catching so many fish on her fish raft and making so much money, she would not feel particularly comfortable.

"correct!"

"Would you like to eat dried cuttlefish?"

Ding Xiaoxiang pulled off a small piece of dried cuttlefish and put it in her mouth. She suddenly remembered that she was just eating without asking Zhao Dahai. But as soon as she said the words, she lowered her head and saw that her hands were empty. That was the last piece.

Zhao Dahai shook his head, not saying that he didn't like to eat.

"Why!"

"It's getting late, I have to go back, otherwise my mother will be looking for me!"

Ding Xiaoxiang blushed and stood up, turned around and ran away.

Zhao Dahai watched Ding Xiaoxiang run further and further out of sight, and waited for a while before leaving with Xiao Naihei.

When Zhao Dahai returned home, his grandma Zhong Cuihua was already sleeping. As soon as Xiao Naihei entered the courtyard door, he immediately ran to grandma Zhong Cuihua's room.

Zhao Dahai went back to his room and lay on the bed. Tonight was the first time that he and Ding Xiaoxiang had a serious chat.

"I didn't expect to like eating dried cuttlefish so much. I'll bake it a little more next time or make something else."

Zhao Dahai closed his eyes and fell asleep for a while. Making money was going very smoothly and the days were getting better and better. Ding Xiaoxiang's progress was getting smoother day by day and she had to work harder.

Ding Xiaoxiang trotted back to the door, took several deep breaths, rested for a few minutes, wiped the sweat from her forehead and nose, then opened the door and walked in.

"ah?"

"Where did you go?"

Zhang Li walked out of the room and saw Ding Xiaoxiang.

"Yang Qin's family!"

Ding Xiaoxiang felt a little nervous but her expression did not change.

Zhang Li nodded and said nothing.

Ding Xiaoxiang returned to her room, closed the door, and breathed a sigh of relief. It was late, so she drank some water and lay on the bed to sleep. She couldn't fall asleep for a while, thinking of the big white eel and golden fish that Zhao Dahai had just mentioned.

"A giant white eel weighing more than 200 kilograms costs more than 200 yuan per kilogram?"

"Isn't this more than 40,000 yuan?"

…

"No matter what kind of goldfish you get, it costs thirty or forty yuan per catty, right? And there's also black goldfish."

"Now it's Wan'er Baqian again!"

"If it's two cents, one person would have to have four to five thousand yuan."

…

Ding Xiaoxiang was startled. She didn't pay attention to this matter just now, but now she realized that Zhao Dahai had earned 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in the past two or three days.

"Why!"

"Isn't this really great at making money?"

Sun Xiaoxiang turned over, hugged her pillow, closed her eyes, and fell asleep quickly.

The sun sets.

Zhao Dahai came back from fishing and slowed down as he approached the dock.

I came back from a meeting with Ding Xiaoxiang last night and had a good sleep. I went fishing early in the morning and the harvest was very poor. The fish I caught in the whole day was only five or six pounds, and most of them were worthless small fish.

Zhao Dahai parked the fishing boat and saw Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin chatting not far away, and shouted hello loudly.

Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin came over and asked how the fishing was today.

Zhao Dahai shook his head. He really didn't do well in fishing. He opened the live cabin and fished out a few fish. There were only so many fish.

"How are you doing these days? Can you make money?"

Zhao Dahai took a bucket and poured the fish directly into it. It was so worthless that he was too lazy to put water in to raise it. He could just put it in the pot when he got back.

"Didn't the typhoon just pass by?"

"It's okay if there are no fish in the sea. I don't know why there are so many more people setting hooks in the past few days."

"This is really like seeing a ghost. How come I haven't seen so many people releasing hooks before?"

"It seemed that the sea was immediately filled with rows of hooks, and even the netting was affected."

…

"I heard that someone set out a hook a few days ago and caught a lot of big white eels."

"There are so many people right away!"

…

Zhao Dahai listened to Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin complaining one by one. He didn't care at first, but as he listened, he realized that this matter was related to him.

"ah?"

“Is the person fishing for the giant eel yours?”

Zhong Shizhu was stunned for a moment. Just now, he and Liu Bin were talking about whether this matter was true. Unexpectedly, the real owner was Zhao Dahai, whom he and Liu Bin were very familiar with.

Zhao Dahai told Liu Bin and Zhong Shizhu that he went out to sea a few days ago to set a hook and caught two hundred kilograms of eel.

When the row hooks were being released and retracted, many people saw it, and when returning to the pier, many people saw it. There were already many fishing boats releasing hooks on the second day. It is estimated that the news has become more and more serious in the past few days. There are more and more talents to release hooks. There are more hooks releasing, and the space for placing fishing nets is crowded. There will definitely be conflicts. .

Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin were a little bit dumbfounded, but they were shocked when they heard that Zhao Dahai had caught two hundred kilograms of eel. This time they made a lot of money.

Zhao Dahai packed up the fishing boat, carried a few kilograms of fish caught today, and went to the pier to go home. He was definitely not in a good mood when he couldn't catch any fish, but he was used to it. That's how it is when going to sea. One day is good and one day is bad, and one day's profit will be lost. Book.

Zhao Dahai went home and cooked all the fish. Some were used for soup and the other for frying. He had a good meal. After eating, he went to bed early. He drove the fishing boat out to sea early the next morning. He couldn't catch any fish in one day. , I continued fishing the next day, but what I didn’t expect was that until two o’clock at noon, the harvest was exactly the same as yesterday, very bleak.

Zhao Dahai looked at the five or six poles placed on the boat, all of them motionless. When there were fish, not even one pole was busy, and when there were no fish, a bunch of poles were useless.

Zhao Dahai looked at the sea surface. The sea water was very clear and the water color was very good. There was no wind or waves. The weather was great, but there were no fish.

The reef trench?

Lots of fishing boats!

From the oyster field?

More fishing boats!

Two places to catch grouper?

These are all spots for big fish. Where do you get the fish you catch every day?

There are twenty or thirty fishing spots around, especially the places where I have caught a lot of fish in the past. I have visited them in the past two days, but there are really no fish.

Zhao Dahai stood up, walked back and forth on the deck twice, walked to the bow, and stared at the end of the sea with wide eyes.

The number of fish, shrimps and crabs in the shallow sea is very limited, and there are many people fishing. If you want to catch fish, especially if you want to catch more fish, the only way is to go further. If you want to travel further, you can't do it on your own fishing boat. The speed of a wooden fishing boat with a diesel engine is limited, and it is impossible to go any faster with dual diesel engines. It can't be compared to a speedboat at all. The diesel-engined wooden fishing boat traveled farther away. It took half a day to go out and another half day to come back. All the time was spent on the road.

Is it necessary to replace the fishing boat and buy a speedboat?

At the beginning, I decided to repair the wooden boat. One was to save money and spend the least amount of money to get a fishing boat out to sea for fishing. The other was a fishing boat left by my parents. Regardless of whether I use it or not, I had to repair it and keep it as a memory. It should not be left in the wind. Everything will rot in the sun. Facts have proved that my decision was correct. I repaired the fishing boat and made a lot of money from fishing. Without this fishing boat, my life would not have improved so quickly. However, I am now encountering new difficulties.

Zhao Dahai thought about it for a while. There were no fish in the sea these days. He would go to see the speedboat tomorrow and decide whether to buy a new boat or not. Even if he didn't buy it now, it wouldn't hurt to know the market situation in advance.

Please recommend monthly tickets! Thanks!