Ye Yaodong looked at the small wooden boats on the sea that were so crowded that they could barely get out of the way. Many fishing boats had caught many jellyfish.
He felt that there was no point in being here anymore, so he might as well go back and prepare the tools to kill the jellyfish. He was also afraid that it would take too long and the jellyfish on his boat would die, making his work in vain.
When he goes back, he can take the jellyfish from the boat and teach his wife and sisters-in-law how to kill them.
This has to be steamed before it can be transported. They don't have a processing plant that directly processes jellyfish. Otherwise, they can just kill it and take it directly to the factory, which saves them trouble.
Seeing the boatmen all around him lying on the edge of the boat trying to catch the jellyfish, he wanted to remind them to bring them to the shore early, otherwise he would not let them die.
But the engine on his boat was a bit loud, and the boat was quite far away, so everyone might not be able to hear him when he shouted.
He simply shouted a few words to the nearby boats, saying that he was going back to prepare, and reminded them to send them back as soon as possible while they were still alive, and left first.
Fortunately, it was not far from the coast. After Ye Yaodong reached the shore, he quickly called Ah Cai, who was sitting on the shore with his legs crossed, to help him lift the two large baskets of jellyfish onto the cart.
"Why are you carrying this thing back? You have to kill this thing while it's still alive. Can you still kill it?"
"Yes, I can give them all their parts, can you take them?"
"I didn't accept this thing..."
"Then help me ask. It's the flood season for jellyfish on the border between Zhejiang and Fujian. There must be someone collecting them there. You know more people than me. Ask me."
"Do you know about the flood season over there?"
"I can pinch and calculate!"
Ah Cai rolled his eyes at him and said, "Okay, let me ask you. Also, the few seal fish you raised at my place died when there was a power outage during the typhoon, and I never had a chance to talk to you.
explain."
"If you die, then die. I'm going back first. Ask me quickly." Ye Yaodong had already forgotten the three fishes. He had no time to care about those fish now. He pushed the cart and hurriedly
Run home.
Lin Xiuqing was sitting at the back door, weaving nets and joking with Sister-in-law Ye, Second Sister-in-law Ye, while the old lady was holding the child and coaxing her.
At this moment, a group of children shouted, "Second aunt, third aunt, mother, and third uncle call you to go to the door to help..."
"Mother, mother, father calls you..."
One by one, they rushed over and addressed each other in a confusing manner.
"Why are you helping? Why do you need so many people? I'll go take a look first." Lin Xiuqing inserted the needle in her hand into the fishing net in confusion, stood up and went to the front door.
Ye Yaodong had already unloaded all the jellyfish from the car. He shouted into the house: "Ah Qing, come out and help with the kitchen knife and cutting board. Are there any other knives at home? Take them out together and ask the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law to come over too.
help."
"What are you doing?"
"I caught some jellyfish and brought them back. You can ask your eldest and second brothers to come over and help you kill them. I will teach you how to kill them."
"Why……"
Ye Yaodong didn't wait for her to say anything before he went straight into the house to get a basket, a big bowl, a kitchen knife, a cutting board, and a stool.
Sister-in-law Ye, Sister-in-law Ye, walked from the back door to the front door of their house and heard him preaching to them about killing jellyfish. She immediately had N question marks in her heart.
Will he also kill jellyfish?
"A Dong, are you going to teach us how to kill jellyfish?"
"Yes, I just caught two baskets. You can kill them for me. I will calculate the wages. Someone will send them over later. I will ask you to help me then. Otherwise, it will be a pity to die."
Lin Xiuqing followed behind him and said in confusion: "Isn't this pier not open to collection? It's useless to say that it's dead."
"That's why we have to kill them alive and process them before they can be transported, sold and processed. Go get a cutting board and I'll teach you how to kill them. Remember to wear gloves. This jellyfish is also a type of jellyfish and is also poisonous."
As soon as Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye heard about the wage calculation, they immediately ran home to get a kitchen knife and cutting board. They also took two knives and asked Brother Ye to join them. They were also helping to weave the net at the back door.
The family is about to have a big expense. Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye both have a sense of urgency. Now they are only thinking about making money.
Lin Xiuqing was still puzzled, "How could you kill this thing? Seafood should not be sold while it is still alive or fresh. No one wants this jellyfish if it is dead. Will anyone want it if it is killed?"
"I know a lot of things. Just because you don't know it doesn't mean I don't know how to do it. There are very few jellyfish here. It's not a place of origin, and of course there's no place for me to show off. This thing has to be killed alive and cut into pieces.
No one wants the blocks until they are classified.”
Ye Yaodong saw them all coming over with kitchen knives and cutting boards, so he grabbed a jellyfish and prepared to demonstrate it to them.
The smallest one weighs more than ten kilograms, and the larger one weighs more than 20 kilograms. They are not light in weight, and they look very heavy.
"Be careful when you catch it. Watch out for its feet. Don't get stung. First remove the jellyfish whiskers that can sting people, then cut off the jellyfish's tentacles and chop it in half."
Jellyfish toxins are concentrated in the beard, so you must be careful.
The meat on this part of the tentacles is thick, crispy and chewy. The fishermen call it "jellyfish claws", but when it comes to the dinner table, it is called "jellyfish head".
Ye Yaodong explained to them while cutting, and they carefully grabbed one and followed him.
"After separating the head and cover, take its feet and cut them into small pieces. Once they are done, take the cover and peel off its brain and put it in a bowl..."
Ye Yaodong skillfully cut the jellyfish legs into small pieces and threw them into the basket, then took the head over. The green thing underneath was the jellyfish brain.
In fact, jellyfish do not have a high-level organ called "brain". The brain of jellyfish they call is actually its gonads, which can also be called stinging flowers.
He watched them follow them step by step, and continued when they made no mistakes.
"After digging out all the jellyfish brains, we started scraping the jellyfish blood, which is the brown circle under the umbrella."
Jellyfish blood is not the blood of jellyfish, it is just a brown film attached to the lower surface of the jellyfish umbrella. This is also the most expensive and valuable of jellyfish.
But Ye Yaodong saw that they had scratched it as soon as they scratched it, so he didn't dare to move it, and quickly reassured him: "It doesn't matter, it won't affect it if it's broken. It's like this for the first time, just scrape it off."
This jellyfish is originally glued, so if you scratch it like this, it's normal for it to get scratched, and it won't affect it anyway."
"This thing is quite troublesome, but killing fish is easy." Sister-in-law Ye couldn't help complaining.
After scraping, all that's left is the jellyfish skin. This is how a complete jellyfish is divided.
"That's it. Once you know how to divide it, it's actually quite simple."
Lin Xiuqing also finished cutting up a jellyfish on her hand. She frowned and looked at him and said, "Now that these are cut up, are they going to be sold in pieces?"
"Someone will just take them all away."
I just don’t know if Ah Cai can ask him? If not, he can only find it by himself. Fortunately, he can leave it for a while after processing it.
"That's good, don't work in vain." Lin Xiuqing breathed a sigh of relief, as long as someone wants it.
"Hurry up and kill them while they're still alive. Don't kill them if they're dead. Ah Qing, go and boil the water first. The jellyfish blood needs to be boiled first, and then taken out to dry. The jellyfish brains also need to be blanched."
The old lady put the child on the bed in the room for the three boys to watch, and then ran over and watched it for a long time.
I always wanted to help but couldn't intervene. After hearing this, I quickly said, "I'll come, I'll come, I'll boil the water, I can do this job."
After waiting for a long time, there was finally something she could do. The old lady quickly went into the house to boil water. She couldn't help complaining, "I didn't tell you earlier, so I was stuck here for a long time..."
Jellyfish blood can be stored for a short period of time as long as it is boiled and dried. The semi-finished product is definitely available for more than ten yuan a pound now.
Jellyfish brains are not very valuable, but they are very fresh, especially soft and tender, and are suitable for making soup.
The jellyfish head and jellyfish skin are the main edible parts of jellyfish. After being treated with "three alum and two salts", they are not only not easy to deteriorate, but can even be transported over long distances.
Even though he had two big baskets of jellyfish, there were six or seven of them per person. Once he became proficient, he could kill them all quickly.
"Is this gone?"
Sister-in-law Ye said with unfinished meaning, she just helped kill so many people, how dare they accept the money.
"Is that just a few?"
Second Sister-in-Law Ye couldn't help but complain that there were just a few people in such a hurry and they were so anxious to ask them to help kill them. They even asked them to calculate the wages. Did they think they had never seen the money?
When they helped kill fish in the past, when did they calculate their wages?
But Ye Yaodong suddenly realized that he didn't have a big scale, so he wouldn't be able to weigh himself at that time. "Oh, hurry up and put the stools, kitchen knives, and cutting boards on the cart, and take a few empty baskets and washbasins with you. I'll
Take you to the dock to kill."
The eyes of the two sisters-in-law suddenly lit up, "There's more!"
"Yes, I told other fishing boats when I was salvaging that if no one at the dock collects them, I will collect them."
It would be safer to kill them directly at the dock, so as not to delay those people at sea for too long, and it would be too late to pull them back after being weighed.
As for the method of dividing jellyfish, it doesn't really matter if they have been taught. They have few jellyfish and they are not from a place where they are produced. Just learn from the past, and it may not be useful.
It doesn't matter if you can handle it for everyone, you can handle it if you occasionally pick it up and eat it by yourself.
The cold jellyfish is crispy, tender and refreshing, and mixed with a little cucumber. It is very suitable for eating in the hot summer, and it is also a good drink with wine.
Although they were surprised to hear that Ye Yaodong was collecting jellyfish from other fishing boats, they had work to do, so why not do it?
But Lin Xiuqing was a little worried about whether it would be easy to sell. It was all what he said just now, and the dock would not accept it.
Just get some of it yourself and go back to it. It doesn’t cost anything anyway. Who would have thought that he would actually receive the goods from someone else?
"Ah Dong, is this good for sale? If we charge too much and can't sell it, we will have to lose money."
Ye Yaohua and Ye Yaopeng were also a little worried about him.
"Dongzi, you should either sell these things of yours first, and then..."
"It's too late to collect anything after selling it. What's more, I only made a small amount, so how can I sell it? The quantity must be larger, otherwise, who will collect your small amount of goods? It's not enough for travel expenses."
Ye Yaodong didn't have this worry. One pound was a penny, one or two cents, two or three cents each. He charged 10,000 catties for only one hundred yuan.
He doesn't even have the courage to lose 100 yuan, not to mention those fishing boats can't catch 10,000 jins, and they don't have that many in the sea.
Besides, he had to think on the bright side. If this could be sold, he could double it several times.
There has to be someone who eats the crab first!
Before you even start to do anything, you start to badmouth, worry about this, worry about that, it’s a waste of time.
What's more, it is clear that the risk is low and the return is high.
Just scraping dozens of kilograms of blood from the sea sting is enough for him to earn a lot of money. Other parts are not so valuable, but they weigh enough!
You can still give it a try.
I went to visit the grave today, and I have to start sewing again.
Chapter 2 will be late until 1-2 p.m.
Chapter completed!