Ji Huai waited for a few days when the wind was strong and could not go out to sea. After the wind stopped, he was ready to go to sea.

Sun Bin has already gone to work as a security guard at the railway station. It is said that the treatment is good, and he still has five insurances and one housing fund. He will not come back to fish in the future. He has given him fishing nets and other miscellaneous tools.

Ji Huai was drying fishing nets at home two days ago. Yin Cai didn't even ask when she saw it. She let him toss and just ignore what she likes to do. He didn't leaned forward to betray himself.

The two used to get along in this way. He didn't get in any way. Whether it was scolding or arguing, he was stubborn like a stone and only did his own thing.

On this day, he got up early, bought dry food for the day, and took water to the dock.

The boats at the pier happened to arrive at the big fishing boat returning from the voyage. There are a lot of goods on the big fishing boats, and basket after basket are moved down.

Many seafood vendors are already waiting and transporting them to trucks.

Ji Huai came to his little broken ship, checked the engine, put on his pants, and put on his straw hat.

"Cocococo~" The humble rusty engine began to emit thick smoke, and the boat that unlocked the rope began to move forward. Ji Huai stood at the stern, clutching the steering wheel, controlling the direction, and set off like the sea!

Leaving the breeding area by the sea, you can explore deeper into the sea.

The sea breeze is salty and the sea is blue and clear. Looking far away, the water and the sky are the same color. Several seabirds hover in the air, flying over the water from time to time to see if they can peck the fish swimming on the water.

He looked back, and it was not advisable to drive too far, as he could get off the net within a few nautical miles.

Stand up, ready to cast the net. He puts a sticky net, as long as the fish, shrimps and crabs hit it up, they will be "sticked". There is a rectangular lead block under the sticky net, which sinks with the net. In the sea, the net will go down vertically. Unfolding, there is a buoy made of foam above the net, suspended on the sea.

He rushed to put three rows of sticky nets in different places, and he had to wait a few hours before closing the nets.

At this time the sun was already hanging high, exuding heat. He reached out and touched the sea water. The sea water was irradiated to become warmer. He washed his hands with sea water, and then he raised his hand to wipe his sweat.

The small broken ship has no shed. Since the meat has grown a lot, he is very afraid of the heat. When the sun is exposed, he will sweat a lot.

You can't wait for a few hours in vain, he brought a small bucket of dead shrimp. These prawns were picked up by the big fishing boat he came back. The dead prawns could not be sold anymore, so he just threw them aside, and he went and picked up two.

You can also fish at sea. The hook is a simple hook. A small wire is tied to the hook. A dead shrimp is placed on the hook. Grab one end of the silver wire and the hook can be placed in the sea.

While holding the silver wire, he took out the meal he bought this morning and placed it on the small wooden block in front.

Because there are many fishermen in small towns, they often go out to catch the sea, leave early and return late. Sometimes both meals have to be settled on the boat. Many sets of meals are specially sold to fishermen.

He bought a big rice ball today. The rice ball is made of sea vegetables and rice. It originally has a bit of saltiness, and there are a lot of shrimp in it, which tastes very good.

A single meal group can also be served, but there are usually side dishes, and he bought a lot of dried fish to accompany the rice balls. The small fish is sun-dried into dryness, stir-fried after setting fire, and seasoned with a little chili sauce. It is chewy when eaten in your mouth.

In addition, he also bought a large drumstick and a bottle of beer in glass.

For alcoholics, beer with this concentration is not drunk at all, just like drinking plain water or a drink, and it quenches thirst.

He had been drinking for several years, and it was a little difficult to quit. Seeing beer not only itchy hands, but also his mouth, he could not help but buy a few bottles, and his blood was agitated.

Looking down at his beer belly, he sighed, "Forget it, just have two sips, two sips today."

He picked up the wine, put the bottle cap close to his teeth, and bite it gently, and then bit the bottle cap open. As soon as he raised his head and enjoyed it comfortably, the silver wire tied to his hand moved.

The fish is biting the bait.

He immediately placed the wine glass, moved quietly to the side of the boat, covered the silver wire with his hands, and watched the changes.

The silver wire moved twice, then stopped, and then moved twice again. The fish hasn't bitten the hook completely.

He was not in a hurry and continued to wait.

Suddenly, the silver wire in his hand suddenly became stretched, still trembling violently, and he pulled forward vigorously. Looking at this strength, he knew that the big goods were coming, quickly got up, and pulled the silver wire to the side of the boat.

"You can't run away!"

He grinned, the straw hat was thrown away, and he held it with both hands and kept pulling it back.

Not far away, a silver-white fish was forced to surface. It had been struggling, but it was still being pulled forward.

"Come on!"

He suddenly mentioned that the fish was thrown onto the plank of the boat, and it was churning violently.

Ji Huai squatted down and grabbed it. The head of the fish was flat on the sides, the dorsal and caudal fins were grayish yellow, the pelvic and **** fins were yellow, and the rest were silvery white. It was a yellow croaker.

He raised the corners of his mouth, somewhat satisfied. Put it in your hand and weigh it, feel the weight, it should be half a catty.

The price of yellow croaker is good, forty to fifty kilograms, so it costs twenty to thirty.

Throwing the struggling fish into the bucket, he continued to put the dead shrimp on the hook, this time just after putting it down, the other end moved, and he fished it out without much effort.

A little moray, I don't know if there is one or two. He showed a look of disgust, released the fish hook lightly, the little moray still had a hole in his mouth, he threw it into the sea, "Go back, eat fatter next time!"

The little moray swims quickly on the surface and dives into the bottom of the sea.

He took two more small dead shrimps and continued fishing.

After tossing for so long, and no desire to drink, he caught another hairtail. He checked the time and it was almost time to collect the net, otherwise it would be dark after a while.

When it gets dark, there will be fewer people at the dock, and marine cargo will become worthless.

"Cocococo~" The engine kept ringing, he held the steering wheel in his hand, turned his head, and drove back to the place where the net was put in the beginning.

The fishermen relied on food and luck to eat. When you are lucky, you return with a full load, and when you are unlucky, you return empty-handed.

Before the fishing net was pulled up, no one knew if there were any fish or how many fish there would be.

Ji Huai looked at the buoy, leaned over and stretched out to pull it. Pulling the net is a work of strength, and with strength, he keeps pulling the net onto the boat.

After pulling for a short while, I still feel a little panic without seeing the fish.

When it was half of the time, a few mullet appeared, and there was a prawn, which was pretty good.

The first net, eight mullet and one prawn.

He put the fishing net on the bamboo pole and hung it, and went on to the next net.

The harvest of the second net was also so-so, a few blackhead fish, two higheye fish, but a few swimming crabs.

After driving this far, it would cost a lot of oil money. Jihuai opened the third net and waited until he closed the net. While closing the net, he shouted, "There are so many fish, so many fish~! "

"Let's fish, fish, fish for me all!"

I don’t know if the sea heard his prayer. The net that was just pulled up was hung with a plump salmon, followed by a lot of blackhead fish, a few tongue fish, and zebra shrimp. Two, and some miscellaneous small seafood.

He looked at the fish on the fishing net and thought it was good. In this way, there should be a forty or fifty catties, which is a good harvest.

Next, he has to rush back to the dock. The seafood at three or four o'clock in the afternoon is the best seller and the best selling price. At this point in time, he can rush back before 4:30.

He drove at full power and started to drive towards the dock.

At this time, the sun was not so hot, the sea breeze slowly, and the warm sun sprinkled on him. Ji Huai raised his head and wiped the sweat from his face, then looked at the fish on the three fishing nets, showing satisfaction. smile.

The seabird was still circling, sprinting down, and caught a marine fish.

Ji Huai freed up a hand and gave it a thumbs up.

*

Half past three o'clock, the wharf was very lively, and a lot of vendors squatted on the roads on both sides. Grandpa and aunt were sitting in front of the stall or squatting in water shoes.

The roads are full of water stains and look a little messy, but there are the freshest and cheapest seafood here. Many people will drive here to buy seafood, and some outsiders will come here especially to buy nearby ones. Food stall processing.

"Would you like? Twenty-five catties."

"The big octopus is twenty-five and the small octopus is thirteen."

"You can't pick, the little crab won't pick eight pieces."

....

The shouts kept coming and going.

"This is a tongue fish, don't you want this one? Two catties and six taels." The aunt said while pulling the bag. She took out the fish, raised the knife and dropped it, removing the internal organs in three or two strokes, and then cut it and put it in the bag. in.

....

Ji Huai followed other small fishing boats to the shore, and many people were waiting there.

They visited everything on the coast, but they couldn't sell the seafood they wanted, and the small fishing boats that came back didn't know what they would bring back.

Like opening a blind box, there may be surprises.

Ji Huai untied the fish and put it in the frame, ready to carry it ashore.

He was holding three shrimps in his hand, and standing on the fishing boat, the few people on the shore said, "Forty-one sea shrimps, do you want? Only these three are alive."

One prawn and two zebra prawns are as big as two fingers.

"Thirty-five." The people who came in bargained.

"Forty forty, one hundred and fifteen and three." Ji Huai did not make too many concessions.

Real wild sea prawns are so expensive, they can't catch a few at a time, and the quantity is small, so they have to sell them individually. Besides, the wild is not farmed shrimp, there are not dozens of yuan per catty. Taking a step back, farmed shrimps of this size have to be dozens of a catty, and wild ones are more than one hundred and close to two hundred yuan a catty.

Calculating this weight, a few dozen yuan is not expensive.

"I bought three for a hundred dollars." The woman was still bargaining.

"Not for sale." Ji Huai shook his head.

You don’t have to worry about selling this thing, but someone can buy it.

Sure enough, as soon as he went ashore, many people gathered around to see if there was any seafood. The three shrimps were quickly bought for 120 yuan.

He also sat on the side of the road and started selling seafood. Because it was freshly landed, there were a lot of people who came to see it at the beginning, and good products had to be rushed to buy.

"I want this yellow croaker."

"How do you sell yellow box fish?"

"People sell higheye fish only thirty-eight, why do you want forty?"

....

"Sold it, sell it, sell it all cheap."

"Pretend it for you? How could I sell it expensively? I'll give you a little conger eel and bring it back to braise."

"The mullet is cheap, I'll sell it for 25 per jin, do you want one?"

....

Drinking and boasting is Ji Huai's strong point. When it comes to doing business, he will naturally not be too stingy. The business is still done.

In a short while, those hairtails, yellow croakers, and higheyes were bought.

The delicious fish is almost sold, only the average fish is left, and there are a lot of other stalls, so the selling is slow.

People on the beach talk about what fish is delicious and what is not, it is all clear, and the price is in which range. Business people don't dare to charge too much.

at the same time.

Yin Cai took Ji Ziqing's hand and walked slowly towards the dock.

"Be careful, don't step on the puddle." She bowed her head and asked her daughter.

This afternoon the proprietress was waiting for a friend in the store, and she was able to see the store, so she let her off work in advance. She went to pick up Ji Ziqing from school and paid her salary. She wanted to bring her daughter to buy some seafood.

She used to come here to stroll around after get off work. The seafood is cheap at night, and she always buys a little bit, but they are very common and cheap seafood. No matter how cheap the delicious seafood, it costs 20 to 31 catties, or Dead.

For a while, she bought a cheap crab that had just died for Ji Ziqing to eat, but the other party suffered from acute gastroenteritis and vomited and vomited. She was so shocked that she did not dare to buy it again.

Fresh seafood can also be eaten, and many people will buy it, but Ji Ziqing has a bad stomach, so she has to buy fresh ones.

Remembering that the other party likes to eat crabs, they walked in and asked when they met a crab stall.

"The orchid crab is forty-eight, the stone crab is ninety, and the swimming crab is thirty-nine." The aunt replied, and pointed to the small swimming crab on the side. "This kind of twelve."

Little crabs have no meat and are sold cheaply, but they cannot be picked. There are many dead crabs among them.

Ji Ziqing took her mother's hand and whispered, "Mom, let's take a look again, don't buy it too expensive."

Yin Cai looked at her daughter and nodded again.

The daughter is afraid that she is more distressed than her. First, she is afraid of buying expensive, and second, she is also distressed by money.

A big crab costs dozens of pieces and can only eat one meal.

At a young age, the one thing she said the most was: Mom, will it be expensive? Shall we go to see elsewhere?

Yin Cai took away the sadness in his heart, thinking about walking around and buying a cheaper and fresh big crab for his daughter to eat.

"Do you want shrimp?"

"Buy a fish?"

"Do you want sardines? Five yuan a catty, just landed!"

....

Yin Cai was walking forward, wanting to see how much the crabs in front cost, seeing Ji Ziqing stopped, she looked at her daughter in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Mom, buy that." She pointed to the little sardine and looked at her with her head up. "I want to eat fried, crispy, golden on both sides."

Yin Cai's eyes flashed, and she pulled out a smile, "We won't buy sardines today. Mom will buy you crabs and squids for you to eat."

"But I want to eat that." She insisted.

"Children can buy a few catties if they want to eat. Five yuan a catty is the cheapest. They usually sell for $50, come for a little?"

"I want to eat." Ji Ziqing continued.

"Then buy some, and then see if there are any delicious fish." Yin Cai walked over, and no matter what the other party said, she only bought two catties for ten yuan.

She usually buys sardines for Ji Ziqing the most. There are many such fish on the big boat. Five yuan is really cheap. She usually spends six or seven yuan to buy a catty.

Among sea fish, they are cheap and they like to eat.

"Buy some squid and fry it for you, okay?" Yin Cai stopped at a stall and looked at the fresh and big squid.

The big squid is still moving and only sells for 22 kilograms.

"I don't want to eat this fish." Ji Ziqing shook her head and took her away.

Yin Cai looked at her, was dragged away by her, and wanted to buy her crabs. Ji Ziqing still didn’t want it, and said, “Dad brought the big crabs back to me a few days ago. I don’t want to eat any more. I'm tired."

"Nothing to eat, Mom, shall we go home?"

Ji Ziqing is always sensible and distressed, and will compare prices at a young age. Yin Cai is most afraid of her living like herself, and she is more sensitive than herself, so she coaxes lightly, "Mom is paid today, and the sardines are kept for a few days to eat. If we don’t eat crabs, we will sell some other fish and taste the taste. ."

"But I just want to eat sardines. They are fried crispy and more delicious than any other fish." Ji Ziqing lowered his head and spoke a little quietly.

In her ears are the voices of various vendors, with prices ranging from dozens to more than a hundred. She thinks it's so expensive, why is it so expensive? Mother’s salary is so small, so much money is needed to eat a meal, and her mother needs to raise her to school.

Looking at her daughter, a sense of powerlessness spread from the soles of Yin Cai's feet and quickly penetrated her limbs. Ji Ziqing held her with a small hand and continued to walk in, "Go home."

The pier is not too big, and after passing through it, you can go back to the place where you came from.

"Mom is very busy this time, and it's late to go home. I don't know when we will come out next time. We will buy more and put it in the refrigerator so we can't go back so early." Yin Cai blamed herself, perhaps because she was too economical and gave The daughter has made a big impact.

It’s a luxury today. It shouldn’t matter if you spend one or two hundred to buy some delicious and expensive fish.

She said so, Ji Ziqing could not find a reason to refute.

The two mothers and daughters continued to go shopping. Yin Cai asked Ji Ziqing several times. When the other party heard the price, they said they would not eat or like to eat, so she decided not to ask and buy directly.

"Boss, how do you sell higheye fish?" Yin Cai asked. The higheye fish in the stall is still alive, and the oxygen is still in it.

"forty three."

"Thirty-eight sold, right?" Yin Cai returned the price.

"That won't work, I'll give you forty-one." The boss also bargained.

"Thirty-eight." Yin Cai insisted.

"You said you don't increase a point? Thirty-eight if you don't sell it, it's two yuan. You let me make two yuan, or I will lose money. Forty is the lowest." The boss shook his head, picked up the fish, and gave it away. Go to her and show it to her, "I'll give you forty, this one is more than a catty."

Yin Cai felt that there was still room for bargaining, and wanted to insist that thirty-eight dollars was not a big deal to others, so she might just let it go, but she went to the store for breakfast every day to save a few dollars.

"three...."

"Is it Dad?" Ji Ziqing interrupted her return.

Yin Cai looked not far away, and at first she was the same as her daughter, thinking she had made a mistake.

Ji Huai was sitting on the side of the road, with two frames in front, and a plastic bag spread on the ground next to it. There were a few fish on the plastic bag.

He was holding his trousers, with a cigarette in his mouth, and was fanning the wind with that torn straw hat.

Yin Cai was very puzzled, and led her daughter to the other side.

The boss around him was anxious, "Thirty-eight is sold, come back! Thirty-eight is for you."

Yin Cai turned a deaf ear, and was still moving forward. She became even more anxious, and said, "Thirty-seven, thirty-six is ​​the lowest, thirty-six."

....

"How do you sell mullet?"

A man walked up to Ji Huai, he immediately squatted up and gestured with his fingers, "Twenty-three! I just sold it for twenty-five, twenty-three for you."

"Twenty." The other party bargained.

"No, no, no." Ji Huai waved his hand and picked up a few small mullet beside him, "These small twenty, do you want?"

The other party refused, pointing to the setting sun, "The sun has set, and if you don't sell it, you won't be able to sell it. Hurry up and go home to eat when you sell it. Twenty or twenty, then you will put it up for me."

The setting of the sun means that it is going to be dark. When it is dark, there is no one on the dock and the price will drop.

"Fine." Ji Huai bit the cigarette butt, filled the three pieces requested by the other party, and weighed it on the electronic scale, "It's exactly two catties, forty."

Seeing that the other party took out his mobile phone to pay, he picked up the payment code hanging on his body and "scan here."

His broken cell phone took a long time to open the payment code. I can only print a collection code, buy a rope for two dollars, and hang the collection code on my chest.

Just as he sent away the man, he took out a few fish from the box and placed them on the surface of the plastic bag. He felt that someone was coming and continued to export, "Would you like the fish? It’s cheaper. Let’s take a look.... "

As he said, while holding the cigarette between his index and middle fingers, he raised his head and saw Yin Cai and Ji Ziqing at a glance.

Yin Cai didn't know what he was doing, and thought he would be guilty or uncomfortable because of being hit by them. As a result, people looked so naturally that she grinned, "Why are you here?"

After speaking, I sat back and slowly fanned the wind with my straw hat.

"Where did the fish come from? Who are you selling fish for?" Yin Cai asked.

Who is it?

What he is best at is to help so-called friends, and it is free, and he doesn't do any work in his own home, which is absolutely amazing.

"I caught it." Ji Huai looked at her, and pointed to the fishing boat behind him, "Didn't I go out to sea this morning? I put three rows of fishing nets and caught them."

"Where did the ship come from?" Yin Cai was even more puzzled.

"Sun Bin doesn't want it. I went to the sea a few days ago and made some money. I spent 700 to buy it from him and repaired the engine. Isn't it all right?" Ji Huai said, and someone came up to buy fish, he lowered it. Price, "Do you want eighteen mullet?"

"Come two."

...

Ji Huai sold two more mullet fish, this time to an old man, the old man didn’t need to = can pay online, and gave him 26 yuan in cash.

He took it and slipped it into the pocket in the upper left corner of his shirt. There were a lot of banknotes in it, a little bulging.

Yin Cai thinks of him drying fishing nets at home a few days ago, thinking that he is going to do some tricks, but still feels that he is unreliable, whether it is to catch the sea or make money, it is three days of fishing and two days of drying the net.

She didn't stand in the way, holding her daughter to the side. Looking at his posture, today's harvest should be good.

Ji Huai fiddled with his fish again, looked sideways at them, and looked at the bag in Yin Cai's hand, "What did you buy?"

"I bought sardines." Ji Ziqing replied first.

"Oh, don't buy it then." Ji Huai took out the bag from the bucket on the side and moved the bucket to them. "I have left two crabs and a salmon. I have enough tonight."

In the blue bucket, two orchid crabs that were close to a catty were crawling around, and the salmon was stirring its fins.