After the boat left the Suzhou River, it first sailed to the east bank of the Huangpu River, which is the river area close to Pudong. The main reason is that there are many docks and large ships on the Puxi side, so it is safer to go there.
The boat drove for a while and almost reached the destination before sailing back to the west coast. Lin Mo stood at the bow of the boat, wearing a pair of sunglasses, but now he has changed into good goods, and his whole body is made of good materials and
accessories.
However, Lin Mo did not just pretend to be cool on the bow of the ship, but took advantage of every opportunity to collect as much information as possible from all aspects.
Lin Mo went ashore and looked around. Now there were only a few customers coming and going, and most of the shops only had some unappealing fish products.
However, there is one exception. The store is large and has a wide variety of aquatic products. Most importantly, although there are some vacancies, the stock volume is relatively sufficient.
After a few more glances, I found that it was not that he couldn't sell, but that there was a sufficient supply of fish, the fish was fresh, and the quality was not bad. Some customers who looked relatively well-off basically went straight to his house.
Lin Mo came to the door with a few people and took a look. There were one man and four women working in the store. A middle-aged slightly fat man wearing an apron and four women. Judging from their actions and words, they should be relatives.
When they entered the store, they found that in addition to the fish products placed on the thigh-high table, there was also a cooler box under the counter that was better than what they bought, and there was probably more fish in it.
"Boss, what do you need?"
Seeing the four of them, Lin Mo, a slightly stout man came up to them. Judging from his words and demeanor, he was probably the boss here. He must have something wrong with his legs. Walking on one leg was a bit stiff.
Lin Mo took out a cigarette. After the other party raised his hand to refuse, he put it away again and said: "Of course I am buying fish. The quantity is relatively large. Can you help me deal with it?"
"Sure!" The boss nodded without saying much.
"There are a lot of requirements. We need the freshest fish, and we need to wash and soak it in ice water before and after processing."
The boss frowned and looked at Lin Mo carefully. He didn't look like he was deliberately looking for trouble, so he reluctantly nodded.
"Yes, yes, but the ice cubes used will require additional payment." The boss also put forward his own conditions.
"We have ice on the ship, can we use our own?"
"...Okay, okay..." The boss nodded quickly with a smile on his face. He didn't make money by selling ice. It would be the same for anyone. Moreover, Lin Mo said this, indicating that this was indeed a big customer, although the requirements were a bit too much.
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Since the other party agreed, Lin Mo asked Zhu Sanbao and others to fetch ice. The boss also asked the women at home to fetch a large bucket and fetch water from the well to get ice water. After making arrangements, he took Lin Mo to choose fish.
The four major species of large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, hairtail, and cuttlefish, the main commercial fish in Zhoushan fisheries, are naturally the first to be selected, and these are also the mainstays sold in fish shops.
The silver-white hairtail and the golden yellow croaker are often placed in the most conspicuous places in fish shops. Gold and silver are intertwined. It’s so beautiful!
Lin Mo takes large yellow croakers and hairtails in quantities of one hundred kilograms. Large yellow croakers are adult fish of 40 to 50 centimeters and weigh about three kilograms. It can only be said that the resources at this time are indeed abundant.
The small yellow croaker and cuttlefish each carried fifty kilograms. Other pomfret, horse-faced fish, tongue sole, etc. also weighed thirty to fifty kilograms. There was also a row of fish ponds at the end of the store for storage.
Shrimps, crabs, clams, eels and other seafood with tougher lives.
Lin Mo bought a small amount of shrimps, crabs and shellfish and went back to try them out. If these things are dead, they will not be put away. It is not suitable to buy too much. Instead, he bought more eels. There was also a pool of more than ten groupers that were still barely alive. Lin Mo
It's all covered.
In addition to fresh products, the store also has very good quality salted yellow croaker buns, salted shrimp skin, salted hairtail fish, salted cuttlefish and other seafood, and Lin Mo also packed a batch of them.
Lin Mo wandered to the other side and saw a lot of deep sea bonito, sea bream, amberjack and other types of fish. They were quite large in size, and there were two that looked like tuna. A single fish could be dozens or hundreds.
pounds.
"Are these any fresher?" Lin Mo poked, touched, and looked at it, feeling that the capture time was probably not recent.
Hearing this, the boss explained: "There are very few of these that can be caught. Generally, boats traveling to the open sea can catch some. They won't be able to come back until almost evening. These were collected yesterday."
After finishing speaking, he thought about it and pointed to several types of fish, and said: "I see that you are quite picky. These types of snapper and mackerel taste quite good, but those types are not good. The fish tastes bad."
The fish is fishy and sour, that is, it is collected together by long-term cooperative fishing boats. Normally, it is put on display for a day. If it cannot be sold, it is sold to the surrounding poor neighbors at a low price."
Lin Mo heard this and said with a smile: "It's not that the fish is not delicious, but it is not handled properly. When these fish are caught, they should be bled as soon as possible to ensure the taste of the fish."
"Bleed it after you catch it?" The shop owner was a little surprised. He had never heard of such a practice?
"What's so strange? When killing pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., aren't they all slaughtered by bleeding? Some beef and mutton methods also pay attention to skimming off the blood before cooking!
The sour and fishy smell of blood is strong, just like when you buy blood when you buy meat. What does it taste like? You have tasted it, right? It is the smell of blood left in the meat. And blood is the most perishable.
Not bleeding is also very detrimental to keeping these fresh."
"...That's indeed the truth..." The shop owner nodded thoughtfully and said with a smile: "Some time ago, I bought braised pork with bruises. I tasted it and almost vomited it. I didn't even stew it.
If the smell is suppressed, the meat without bleeding should really be inedible."
Lin Mo nodded and continued: "And these kinds of fish, like pigs and cattle, are all red meat. You can understand that the meat is red. Red meat, whether it is livestock or fish, has a lot of blood in the body.
Much more than those fish with white flesh.
Furthermore, it is difficult for red-fleshed fish to survive out of the water. If bloodletting is not carried out on the ship, by the time the ship docks, the blood will have already solidified in the meat and cannot be discharged, so the taste of the fish will be extremely bad. Of course,
There are also some fish that don’t taste good themselves.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "...Well..." The store owner pondered for a moment and asked: "Boss, are you sure you want to buy this?"
"What do you mean?" Lin Mo was a little curious after hearing this. What exactly did the store owner mean?
"Our family has a fish collection boat. I heard from them that during this period, many of these fish came to the river mouth. If you really want it, I can let the boat go around and I should be able to collect a lot for you.
"
Lin Mo heard this and asked with a smile: "The quantity I need is not too large, and it is impossible to charge too high a price for it. Can you make it worth your while?"
"I also want to try this method you mentioned!" The shop owner smiled.
When his family is collecting fish normally, they definitely can't waste time doing this, so they can only run alone, but there is a cost to running alone.
Lin Mo is willing to buy it, can share a part of it, and is willing to buy it, which also shows that this matter is reasonable and not just talking nonsense.
"Of course that's a good thing. I want a lot of it, and I'll cover it for you if the quantity is less than 100 kilograms." Lin Mo naturally knew that since he could do it, there was nothing he couldn't agree to.
"...I haven't asked you yet how to bleed..." The store owner wanted to run out in a hurry, but when he got to the door, he came back, remembering that he hadn't asked the key question yet!
When Lin Mo heard this, he frowned and said, "I don't know much about bloodletting. I only know that it involves cutting off the gills, cutting off the tail, and piercing a little bit behind the pectoral fin. Anyway, it's where the big blood vessels or blood vessels are concentrated. You guys
If you kill fish frequently, you should know where the blood vessels are, right?"
"...I have a rough idea..." The shop owner thought for a moment, nodded, and then walked out after thinking about it.
Lin Mo followed suit and said: "When bleeding, you can put it in ice water for a while. The low temperature can make the blood vessels contract and drain out the blood as much as possible.
I just wanted fresh fish, and I also asked for ice water to be used throughout the process, just to drain the fish blood as much as possible to ensure the taste and prolong the shelf life of the fish as much as possible."
Hearing this, the shop owner asked curiously: "The boss bought so much fish because he wanted to preserve it and eat it slowly. Can it be frozen? There are companies in the city that can freeze the fish."
Lin Mo listened and said with a smile: "There is a difference between cold fresh and frozen. Cold fresh is equivalent to freezing the fish. Although the storage time is not long, it has no effect on the taste. It is even better than fresh fish in some aspects.
better.
And I didn’t just save it and eat it slowly. I went back to my hometown and brought some chilled seafood. My family invited me to dinner. Many people said, this relative has come to visit me and wants to host a banquet. Please come and do it.
I wanted to go back a little bit, wanting to hold up the scene and earn face.
As a result, others heard about it, and several other companies that were hosting banquets in the near future also came to visit. Some of them were still waiting for a while, and it wasn't that close to here, so I had to buy more and save them.
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While talking, the two of them came to the riverside pier next to the fish market, where they found a thirty-meter-long old sand boat converted into a large sail. The shop owner came forward to talk and explain, and soon began to make preparations.
"Get the ice from my ship! We just purchased enough ice cubes." After seeing them finish talking, Lin Mo spoke.
The store owner nodded, not because he wanted to take advantage of this, but because he didn't have enough extra ice here, so he didn't have to go to any trouble.
"Boss, your business is quite big. Why don't you go to the Shiliupu Fish Wharf? The market here seems a bit small! I guess you have a fish collecting boat, plus other small and large fishing boats scattered here.
You can’t eat any more fish, right?”
Lin Mo lit a cigarette and asked casually, but the shop owner just smiled and didn't say much, maybe he didn't want to say much.
"...I'm sorry, I don't understand this business, so I'm talking nonsense." Lin Mo cupped his hands with an apology on his face.
Does he really not understand? Of course he does, but his previous actions were a bit showy and he was deliberately being clumsy.
After the things here were arranged, the two returned to the store. Several large buckets of ice water were already prepared. The owner of the store also walked directly behind the cement platform where the fish was processed.
"Does the fish offal need to be disposed of?" After cleaning the workbench, the shop owner asked Lin Mo.
"Let's deal with it! I quite like food, and I can eat enough this time."
Lin Mo smiled and responded, it was all a transaction, no one suffered a loss, and he had nothing to be embarrassed to ask for.
The shop owner nodded without saying anything, and directly took the fish that had been picked prematurely and slaughtered it. According to Lin Mo's needs, he gently pressed the fish body to drain the fish blood as much as possible.
"The boss is busy here. I'll leave a few of them here to load the ships. There are some other things to buy. I'll go shopping nearby."
After Lin Mo finished speaking, he left Zhu Sanbao and Wang Yousheng here to help, took Song Jinwei to get some ice from the boat, and headed in the direction of the road, but Li Xiaorong couldn't help but followed him.