"What are these pearls? They are round and look like black pearls..."

"Could it be the roe of that dace fish, right? So this canned fish is not talking about fish, but fish roe?

“Then isn’t this selling dog meat on sheep’s head?”

"What a lie, it turns out the fish can is not filled with fish..."

Everyone discussed a few words and laughed at each other.

After Ye Yaodong was surprised, he thought in his heart: Isn't this the legendary caviar?

He smelled the breath again, and it smelled a little salty. Although he had never eaten it, he had seen it before, and the black bits were caviar.

Although everything was in front of him, he still couldn't believe it, and he didn't ask anyone to take a spoon. He stretched out his paw to pick up a handful and put it in his mouth, ready to taste it.

The legendary caviar is listed as a food that must be eaten before death.

I heard that it tastes slightly salty and has a bursting texture after chewing, giving people an unprecedented and wonderful feeling.

Try it to see if it tastes as delicious as the legend says, and you'll probably know if this one is what it is.

As soon as the round beads entered his mouth, they rolled on the tip of his tongue. He used the tip of his tongue and his jaw to break the black pearls. The salty taste instantly filled his mouth, a taste of the ocean, but with a sweet aftertaste.

Ye Yaodong chewed it a few times and found it to be quite crisp, round and delicious. It was much more delicious than the fish roe he had eaten some time ago.

But it's not as exaggerated as the legend says. Maybe he is a layman and he doesn't deserve the taste of money.

Father Ye saw that he didn't say anything, so he just put it into his mouth with his hands and immediately said, "Dongzi, why are you eating so randomly? You don't even know what it is, so you just ate it?"

"It's quite delicious. This ship full of goods can't be just a bunch of garbage, right? It can be made into cans, so it's definitely not bad. No matter what cans we have here, they are very expensive. Since this fish roe can be made into cans,

You can’t go wrong for sure.”

“Really delicious?”

"Really? This is black and looks like mouse droppings. How can it be delicious?"

He pushed the can in front of them, "You guys try it?"

Father Ye was doubtful and reached out to grab a handful.

"Be gentle, don't crush it."

The three of them took turns grabbing a small handful and smelled it first.

"It doesn't seem to have much flavor, just a little salty."

"This is pickled, but not salty."

Father Ye put the letter in his mouth doubtfully, chewed it twice before saying, "The taste is okay."

The boatman also said: "This black one is edible. What kind of fish roe is it? It's weird."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth as he chewed peonies.

Just like him.

These dark, sticky eggs don’t look like much, but they can be sold for as much as 50,000 yuan per pound. They are also roe, and only sturgeon can sell for such a high price.

The high price of caviar is not due to its status. Among all caviar products, only sturgeon roe can be called caviar.

Others, such as salmon roe, tobiko, and mentaiko, are just substitutes for sturgeon, and are actually more popular abroad.

Caviar was first born in Russia, but it was not popular among the locals. It was not until the 16th century that caviar was exported to France. King Louis XIV of the time tasted it and liked it very much. Later, many French nobles began to like it.

I ate caviar.

Therefore, caviar was labeled as "noble" in France, and its value soared instantly, not because it tasted delicious, but more importantly because it could show its noble status.

Just like spending millions to buy a watch, it is not about the technology used in it, but a symbol of a person's prominent status and identity.

In addition, only the roe of sturgeons can be called caviar, and sturgeons take a long time to produce roe, which takes 8 to 20 years, which consumes a lot of material, human and financial resources, so caviar is very expensive, unless you are rich.

People can't afford it.

But why is there caviar in this canned dace?

Moreover, are the boxes piled high on the entire ship all filled with caviar?

Caviar is called black gold. The higher the grade, the clearer the fullness. He couldn't identify it. He just felt that it tasted okay and he didn't know if these were sturgeon roes.

You know, the Chinese sturgeon is now listed as a protected animal.

He seemed to smell a different smell, picked up the canned fish and took a closer look at the outer packaging, only to find that unexpectedly there was no brand logo on the outer packaging.

When I first picked it up and looked at it, I just saw that the name on it was Black Bean Sauce Dace, but I didn’t pay attention to the brand. I searched around and didn’t see the manufacturer listed on it.

It’s over, there’s something fishy!

"Since it can be eaten, you can keep it as long as you like. There is no need to throw it back into the sea to avoid wasting it." Father Ye said compassionately.

His father's words brought him back to reality. He smiled awkwardly and did not dare to tell his father the value of this thing, otherwise his father would be shocked and would have to wonder how he knew it.

, are you talking nonsense?

"That's not right. There is a dace logo engraved on the outside, but there are fish roes inside. It doesn't look right. Selling dog meat over sheep's heads is not like this. Fish roes are fish roes. The photo posted on the outside should also be a picture of fish roes.

That’s right.”

"That's right! Isn't this random?"

"Let's go and smuggle...the ship! Definitely...definitely!"

The other two people also agreed with the boatman's words and nodded.

Ever since he saw the fish roe in the can, he had become suspicious of the ship.

It is labeled as a canned dace fish, but it contains caviar. The purpose is not pure, maybe it is really smuggling, right? And it is smuggled caviar, using the canned dace fish as a shield.

Could it be that this ship was not going to dock, but was going to the high seas? That’s why it was in such a hurry?

"Open another one to see if it's still fish roe."

He did what he said, and after he finished speaking, he ran to the aisle just now with the knife in his hand and picked up a box. He held it in the palm of his hand and chopped it down with the knife.

It was still dark when he opened it, and it looked like there was no difference. He put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it.

"Hey, it smells like black bean! This can is real black bean dace!"

"Show me, show me..." Father Ye followed him and heard it, and said hurriedly.

Ye Yaodong held a knife in one hand and a can of dace with black bean sauce in the other. He turned around and wanted to hand the knife to his father.

As a result, he instantly realized that he had handed it to the wrong person, and handed him the canned dace in his other hand.

But this time he was so frightened that his father quickly took a step back, stepped on the foot of the person behind him, and yelled angrily.

"You bastard, what are you doing with a knife? Are you trying to kill me?"

Ye Yaodong sneered, "Isn't it because I didn't react at the moment and raised the wrong hand? How dare I? You can't kill me even if you kill people and silence them."

Father Ye was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, "You still kill people and silence them. What secrets do you have that I don't know? It almost scared me to death."

Haha, although there are many secrets that others don't know, but his father knows them, there are still secrets that he doesn't know.

"Hey, hey, I got it right this time. It's this one. Try it. It's very fragrant. It tastes like black beans."

Father Ye took it angrily and stabbed him again with some anger left in his heart.

"Isn't this just like the pickled black bean sauce from your wife's parents' house? The fish is at the bottom?"

“So this box is the real black bean dace?”

"Humbling together... pretending?"

"Maybe they were mixed together to cover up the caviar."

Ye Yaodong just didn't look carefully at the logo on the second opened can of black bean dace because of his father's remarks.

He took out another box from the box and found that this box had the brand logo on it, and when he turned it over, it also had the manufacturer's address.

There are two subtly different OEM labels in one box, which is obviously problematic.

"Dad, show me yours first, and I'll give you the knife."

Ye's father glanced at the knife on his hand with a small look, glanced at him again, then exchanged the can with him for the knife, and then immediately exited the aisle, letting others make way, and prepared to put the knife away first

.

Ye Yaodong also walked out with a box of cans in one hand and called to the other two people, "Please help me lift that box to the deck. No one saw us salvaging it anyway. It's just a box. It depends on the distance."

Less than.”

"good."

He put the two cans in his hand under the light and looked at them, and found that they had the same paper logo on them, which was different from the first caviar that was opened.

So both of them were canned dace, and the first can of caviar he was given was special and different.

He put the three boxes side by side and wanted to verify it, so he asked his father to bring the knife over and chop the third can.

Sure enough, it was canned dace again.

"Dongzi, why don't you just say that caviar is just caviar, and canned dace is just canned dace? Why do you want to mix this roe into the canned fish? Is there any explanation? Is there anything special about this caviar?"
To be continued...