The meal was enjoyable, and the wine was drunk happily. Later, eight bottles of white wine were served, and the table was not cleared until six o'clock.
So that day, except for "Lao Daoyu" who had no one to drink, and "Xiao Baizi" and "Hai Gouzi", the two youngest half-year-old children, the rest of the "Hai Bangzi" all drank too much. Who was the result?
We didn't even make it out, so we all spent the night at "Old Saury's" house.
In fact, drinking is the same as diving, and it almost follows the rules of physical fitness. So regardless of "General" and "Hong Yanwu", "Chen Liquan" is the primary target of being tortured, but Hong Yanwu is the first to get down.
Yes, the general followed closely behind.
Fortunately, Chen Liquan finally persisted until the end, and gloriously "died" together with several drunkards, and they were not left alone after all.
That night, "Sanjizi" and "Bachu" were so drunk that they couldn't even stay in bed. When they woke up the next morning, they found each other rolling on the ground.
"Flying Crab" even hugged a paulownia tree in the yard and refused to let go. He vomited and climbed up the tree like a monkey, claiming that he was a god and wanted to go to heaven to meet Chang'e.
Even the "Shrimp Crawler" with the strongest self-control was doomed. He woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to go home. As a result, he crawled around the yard for an hour without finding the yard door. In the end, he was caught by the "little one" who came out to pee in the middle of the night.
Baizi found out and woke up Seagouzi, and they helped him get back into the house together.
Anyway, when they woke up early the next morning, almost everyone was still hungover and had a severe headache.
However, despite being unwell, the "Old Sabry" couple also kindly tried to persuade them to stay, but because everyone missed their mother and home, they went their separate ways after breakfast.
Before leaving, Hong Yanwu did not forget to advance a "salary" to the "sea cucumbers" living in the nearby fishing village as an advance payment for collecting sea cucumbers.
This made those boys so happy that they promised to bring more dried ginseng with them.
Hong Yanwu, Chen Liquan and "Xiaobaizi" also shared the 600 kilograms of abalone shells with the three people who lived in the city, "General", "Sanjianzi" and "Xiapaizi".
The fruits of labor obtained by "Old Swordfish" from the last time he "touched the sea" are on their way back to Bincheng.
As for "Old Swordfish", because he wanted to stay and continue to take care of drying sea cucumbers, he did not follow him into the city this time.
Needless to say, the main task of Hong Yanwu and the others this time was to sell these abalone shells and the stock of sea cucumbers in the hands of the "general" in exchange for start-up funds for selling sea cucumbers.
When it comes to the value of abalone, we need to say a few more words first.
There is almost nothing that people in modern society don't know about abalone. Everyone knows that this thing is not a fish, but actually a shellfish, a sea treasure comparable to shark's fin.
But people today don't know that the reason why abalone is so famous and famous is mainly because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it had a huge limelight following a major historical event. This is how it can gain
The reason for today’s status.
That was in 1972, when U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China. This was the first super diplomacy between China and the United States since the Cold War. Our Prime Minister personally assigned the task to the State Department, which was to require the use of charcoal at the state banquet for entertaining foreign guests.
Abalone in Liaodong Peninsula. Because the sea water at 39 degrees north latitude is neither cold nor hot, it is most suitable for the growth of abalone.
After the mission was assigned to Zhangzi Island in the Yellow Sea, the local people were full of glory and pride. Although abalone hid deep in the reefs to "hibernate" in winter, making it difficult to find traces, young diver Wang Tianyong mustered up the courage to swim at more than 20 degrees below zero.
In the freezing cold, dive into the razor-sharp seawater to search for and catch high-quality abalone.
Every time he surfaced, his diving suit was frozen into a layer of glass-like bright armor. When he hit it with a stick, the ice particles would fall down. In this way, he fought hard for many days and dived for a long time.
After more than a hundred attempts, we finally caught more than 1,000 kilograms of high-quality abalone and quickly sent them to the capital.
So after the "China-US Joint Communique" was published, the Prime Minister called for this, specifically praising the workers who had fought for the success of this major diplomacy as "the heroes behind the scenes." To this day, Wang Tianyong's photo still hangs high on the Zhangzidao Heroes List. At the same time,
People all over the country now know about this stuff in the sea.
Later, as the economic boom took off, people had money in their pockets. The first thing the hungry Chinese people did was spend money on food to make up for the long-term shortfall in the spleen and stomach. And once the big fish and meat are tired of the taste,
, and naturally, the craze for "fresh seafood" surged.
Businessmen who would make a lot of money simply struck while the iron was hot and vigorously promoted the hype, claiming that the abalone that had been served at the state banquet was extremely nutritious. It was said that abalone was rich in globulin, and its nutritional value was seven to eight times that of walnuts. There was also a magical thing in the meat of abalone.
"Baosu" can destroy the formation of cancer cells.
They also say that abalone has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing yang, calming the liver, strengthening the kidneys, adjusting adrenaline secretion, and has the effect of regulating blood pressure in both directions. Foods that nourish yin and yang are generally strictly differentiated. If you eat ginseng for yin deficiency,
It can even cause dryness and even severe nosebleeds, but abalone uses both yin and yang, tonifying but not drying, and has no side effects.
As a result, the value of abalone rose steadily, and soon it became a major dish at various banquets. Steamed abalone, braised abalone, braised abalone in sauce, Longjing abalone, first-grade abalone, abalone skirt... In short, as long as there is a name
With "abalone" dishes, both the treater and the person being treated will feel a high-end taste.
However, the heyday of abalone was after the reform and opening up, and before the 1980s. Although it had the honor to serve as the main course of the state banquet, in reality, its real status has always been far away from the "tall and tall" granted by the official.
The definitions of "top" are very different.
First, the price has not been liberalized. It is a completely planned economy. Without commercial interests, no one will take the initiative to explore its value. And the locals in Bincheng are known as "belly with stick noodles and pants with material", and ordinary people are reluctant to eat it.
It’s called “luxury”, so even though abalone meat sells for only 20 cents a pound, it’s a hard-to-sell product in aquatic product stores, and almost no one cares about it.
Secondly, the circulation of materials at that time was too poor, and post-processing could not keep up. As a result, this kind of stuff has been limited to local consumption. It is difficult to find traces of it in coastal cities, and it is difficult to obtain long-lasting and sustained value recognition nationwide.
Sanlai fishery production has been stagnant because of the "movement". So at that time, in any bay along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, you could just hold your breath and dive into the water half a dozen people deep, and you could find some abalone. It was not
A hundred times more rare and precious than it was later.
Therefore, almost everyone on the seaside fishermen in this era could easily eat abalone. In the eyes of local people, abalone was not even as valuable as conch. The "sea bumpers" could even carve out the abalone meat at will and put it on the fire.
It's grilled until it's sizzling and oily, and then you chew it carelessly and swallow it in a daze. It's purely for filling your stomach and has no intention of cherishing it.
When it comes to the common people in Bincheng's generally recognized understanding of abalone, there are no gorgeous adjectives. The highest evaluation is "abalone does not jam teeth".
But they don’t know that this is already the most unpretentious and ultimate compliment. Because eating any high-end fish or meat will make your teeth choke, but abalone meat that is both elastic and chewy does not.
Seiya, this is absolutely wonderful.
Therefore, in fact, the person who benefited the most was Hong Yanwu. While he lamented in his heart that the "sea bumpers" were wasting good things, he ate abalone with great energy.
Ever since he arrived at "Yunwu Cliff", every meal he had at the beach would always consist of roasting dozens of abalones to share with Chen Liquan and "Little Baizi". He also specially picked big ones, at least "six".
With his head abalone" and above, everyone knows that he has a special liking for abalone.
Especially the "flying crabs", who refused to eat when they saw that they had food and roasted bird meat, told them they were stupid and laughed at them because they were people in the capital who had no experience in the world.
But Hong Yanwu didn't care about this, and all the benefits fell into their own stomachs. Bincheng's "Purple Wrinkled Abalone" is the top grade of the abalone family, and is famous for its tender, delicious and nutritious meat. Which meal did he eat and drink abalone?
Why don't you drink something worth thousands of yuan while drinking a small drink? It's better to have a stupid name than to miss such a good opportunity.
But having said that, if abalone meat is so worthless in this day and age, why is it a seafood product that "sea bumpers" have to work hard to fish out?
In fact, in 1977, the real value of abalone lay in its colorful shell.
At this time, our country is exporting abalone shells to make shell carving handicrafts in exchange for foreign exchange, and is in urgent need of a large amount of raw materials. At the same time, abalone shells are also a famous medicinal material "Stone Cassia", which is also called "Senecio" because of its effect on improving eyesight.
Therefore, the purchase point of the aquatic products company specifically offered a high price of 48 cents per pound of abalone shells for this purpose.
This is an attractive price. A master of "touching the sea" can harvest more than 20 kilograms of abalone at the tide. The abalone shell alone can be sold for almost ten yuan, and the meat is eaten in vain.
Specifically, among Hong Yanwu and others, "General" and "Chen Liquan" are both current record holders on the northwest coast. Both of them had an astonishing record of fishing out nearly a hundred kilograms of abalone in one tide. However, because the specific numbers are not far apart, they only
It's hard to tell the difference.
In short, abalone and sea cucumber are the only two kinds of sea food that can be sold for money in this revolutionary era when private trading is absolutely prohibited. And abalone has one more advantage than sea cucumber. That is that it can be sent to the country openly by "sea bumpers"
If you sell money at the purchase point, you don't have to worry about being labeled as a speculator or a bad element.
However, it should also be noted here that it is a natural law that the tide rises and falls. With the development of society, when the price of abalone meat rises after the 1990s, the situation will be completely different.
changes.
Soon no one would buy abalone shells. Even the kitchens of hotels and hotels would throw away abalone shells as garbage. Jinzhou District was the last purchasing point in Bincheng.
"Where are all the abalone shells sent? Although the price is already 54 yuan per kilogram, no one thinks this is a good job to make money anymore.
The Jinzhou Purchasing Point also felt overwhelmed by the "Hai Peng Zi" in Bin City, and it didn't last long before closing down.