"They are all red. Guess and bet, what kind of fish are they this time!"

"Squid, I bet that's a squid..."

"I bet there are shrimp steaks..."

"I bet on red snapper..."

Ye Yaodong heard their cheers and turned to look at them with a smile. The young people were still energetic.

"You're not tired yet, you can still scream so well."

"Haha, I didn't see enough. I only saw him hanging a few times at noon. This is the first time he ran so far..."

"Yeah, they haven't had a net worth tens of thousands of pounds, and they haven't been excited enough. In the past, they could only listen to everyone bragging, but now they have seen it."

Ye Yaodong said jokingly: "When your energy is worn away tomorrow and only fatigue remains, you won't be able to scream."

"Then tomorrow is tomorrow. I'm still excited now."

"Okay, seeing how excited you are, I'll give you a shift that night. I'll call you one more night. Those who are fishing for shellfish over there can just go and have a rest when you get tired. It just so happens that half of you are taking shifts. We'll go back at dawn.

sleep."

"ah……"

Ye Yaodong ignored their screams. Seeing that a large package of goods had been hoisted, he went to pull out the rod at the mouth of the net, and all the fish fell down.

"Wow... there are so many big squids... I guessed it right..."

"They're all squid..."

"Holy shit, I'm still moving..."

Ye Yaodong was sealing the mouth of the net, throwing the fish collection bag into the water, and letting the remaining fish in the net continue to fill the fish collection bag. Hearing their words, he turned around and took a look.

Each of the big squids was as long as his forearm. They were red, freshly released, and still transparent. The tentacles and the small butterflies on their backs were still swinging.

"Red squid, not bad, there are quite a few..."

This is a deep-sea red squid with thick flesh. It is a good choice to be dried into dried squid or shredded squid.

"Brother Dong, the small tube can be eaten raw. This one is so big, can it be eaten raw? I have never eaten such a big one raw..."

"I'm so greedy for you, you can eat it if you want, but can you finish it? When spread out, it's twice as big as your face."

"Then let it dry a little and make soup tomorrow."

Ye Yaodong agreed, "Okay, you can kill some later and hang them up, let the sea breeze blow in for a night, and then dry them for another day tomorrow. You can eat them tomorrow night. By the way, you can also dry some shredded squid."

"How to dry shredded squid?"

He had an idea and realized that there must be a lot of big red squid in this wave. By then, they would all be taken back to dry the squid and not be sold.

Then part of it is made into shredded squid, which is easy to sell in pieces per pound. It is easy to make, effortless, and delicious. It is an excellent snack.

Self-produced and sold.

Or when he returns, he could move all the fish sauce-making workshops to the city, and use his family's workshop to make shredded squid.

A whole Dongsheng brand shredded squid!

One-stop service from fishing, production to sales.

These deep-sea red squids are plentiful, cheap, and easy to catch. Their life cycle is only one year, and it only takes one year to grow from roe to a large squid weighing dozens of kilograms.

It's great to produce and sell by yourself. The profit can be doubled several times. It can also avoid the trouble of selling a shipment of hundreds of tons of goods and reduce the burden on Ah Cai.

He snapped his fingers and felt more and more that his idea was a good one.

This is much easier than setting up a fish cannery. The process is simple and even women in the village can do it.

Anyway, most of the fish sauce is now in the city, and the ones I have at home are just some that I made before, and they haven’t all been fermented yet.

After returning from this trip, Ah Qing and his mother were asked to deal with it quickly, and asked his father to transport some empty barrels and large tanks to the city to free up the family's fish sauce workshop.

Because the filling machine has been moved to the city, I don’t have a filling machine at home now, so I can’t pack it in bags. Everything is filled in small jars or large tanks.

Some small groceries also need to be filled in tanks. The remaining batches at home are now being kept and sold to some small groceries in the surrounding area or near the county town. After all, they are very close.

This plan is just right. We don't need a fish sauce factory at home and a factory in the city. We need to build two of them there.

According to the current transportation situation, it is more convenient to dock in the city, and it is more suitable for transportation to put the fish sauce factory in the city.

Hand-drying shredded squid requires cooking and drying, which requires labor. It would be better to provide employment to women in the village.

"I will teach you later. You can pick out these red squids later and freeze them all. I will drag them all home then."

"Do you want to dry the squid? Okay, I got it. If you didn't tell me, we'll probably put it in the freezer and wait for a few days to sell it directly. This product is cheap after all."

He didn't explain much, "Well, if we catch red squids from now on, we'll freeze them all."

"What about the others? Are there any fish you want to keep home to dry?"

"Let's forget it for now. It's too cheap. There are a lot of them and they take up space in the freezer. Let's just sell them fresh. Put the valuable ones in the freezer and keep them at home and sell them more expensively."

"OK."

Cheap goods often come in large quantities. If he really freezes everything and keeps it home, his freezer will probably be full in a few days.

Anyway, he still has his father's fresh-harvest boat at home, and he goes there every two days to collect the goods from several boats. There must be a lot of fish for drying, and it doesn't matter whether he keeps it here or not.

But if you want to dry shredded squid, you can only dry it with deep sea red squid. This squid is cheap and the shredded squid will be fragrant and chewy.

Just thinking about it made him want to eat it now.

"If you have free time later, you can also kill some of these squids, wash them, drain them and boil them in a pot, then take them out and hang them on a rope to dry."

"When it's dried in the sun, take it out and tear it into strips. It's shredded squid, and it's authentic sea-dried squid shreds."

Ye Yaodong licked his tongue and said, "It's fragrant and original. When it's exposed and kept, you'll even want to swallow it. You'll want to eat it again."

"Do it! Do it later! I haven't eaten shredded squid yet."

"Haha... I'll do it after I finish my work. I'm going to get ready for the second bag."

"OK."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he climbed into the cockpit again to drink tea.

The cold wind outside was howling and blowing, and his hands were frozen. Fortunately, he was fully wrapped up, including a hat, scarf, and mask.

Sitting in the cockpit, he could see clearly underneath, but he could only look more carefully when he stepped out.

The bag he had just caught was once again bright red when he saw it from a distance, and they were all deep-sea giant red squid.

Shredded squid, he really missed it, he hadn't eaten it for a long time.

I remember when I was running a boat, I could eat whatever I wanted and dry it myself. It was so convenient on the boat that I could eat whatever I wanted.

It doesn't matter what price you eat.

How much can one person eat? A ship like this usually hauls in tens of thousands of kilograms of cargo, and the boss of the ship usually lets everyone eat as much as they like.

It happens that we are at sea, the wind is strong and it is easy to dry. When we return to the shore, we save a few baskets and let the workers take some home for their families to try.

He could already imagine the children at home rushing to fill their pockets and running around the village eating and playing.

(I want to eat it too. My cousin brought a big bag over before. The ones dried on fishing boats are much more delicious than the ones bought in supermarkets. They are more authentic and the ones eaten in supermarkets have a powdery smell.)

Ye Yaodong controlled the direction of the fishing boat while watching packages of goods being hoisted up. Each package was bright red, it was just a matter of quantity.

He was thinking that the red fish shoal just detected by sonar might be these deep-sea giant red squids, there were too many of them.

Just from a casual visual inspection, he felt that it accounted for 1/3 of the total. Maybe he worked along the way and caught some.

If you hadn't thought of using it to make shredded squid, the big red squid would actually not be very valuable. Although it is big, weighing more than ten or twenty kilograms each, it is only because of its weight that it can be sold at a high price.

Their local custom of eating rice dumplings during the Winter Solstice uses red squid as the filling. It is a must-have filling and is very fresh.

It will be easy to start this business after returning home. If you want to catch red squid continuously in the future, it will be easy. If it doesn't work, you can just harvest it as you like. There is no fear of running out of stock, and there is a very big market.

He thought happily.

The mast in front of him was also bending and bending. He kept counting, and seven packages of fish bags had already been hoisted up.

This weighed more than 30,000 kilograms, and the workers were still tightening the openings of the fish collection bags and continuing to throw them into the sea, with beaming smiles on their faces.

Also...

In the future, one net will probably only be able to collect about 5 to 5 bags, which means that one net will cost more than 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... I can't finish it, I can't finish it at all..."

He kept counting until the 12th bag was not full, and he counted it in his mind. There was nothing left, and he had to lower the net again when the fishing net was collected.

About 60,000 kilograms...

It's really a scary number.

All in all, from the time we went out to sea in the morning to now, the two nets have collected less than 90,000 kilograms.

When the net in front was put down during the day, it had not traveled very far and the time was a little short.

If half of it is thrown back into the sea, then he still weighs about 40,000 jins. It is estimated that those big red squids can weigh nearly 10,000 jins, which is enough to produce a lot.
To be continued...