Ye Yuan used the crew's rest time to explain to them some steps of making dried sea cucumbers.
Looking at the crew members who had surprised expressions after hearing his explanation, Ye Yuan smiled and continued:
"You think this is the end? Then you are thinking simply. This is just the beginning.
After cleaning, the sea cucumbers need to be boiled in light salt water injected with Baume. After heating and boiling, add a little cold water to reduce the temperature to about 85°C.
Cook until it is easy to insert chopsticks into the meat.
During the cooking process, if you find a sea cucumber with a swollen abdomen, you need to insert a needle into the abdominal cavity, drain out the water, and continue to heat it. If any foam appears, remove it at any time.
Boiled sea cucumbers need to be dried using professional low-temperature cold air drying equipment. "
After Ye Yuan finished speaking, looking at Ma Hua who looked astonished, Ye Yuan explained a few more words:
"Now do you know how to make dried sea cucumbers? We don't have the conditions to make dried sea cucumbers on board at all.
The reason why I keep them in living water is because after living sea cucumbers leave the sea water, they will vomit their intestines and then slowly shrink, and their nutrients will be lost.
Put them in the living water area to prevent them from dying so quickly. "
After hearing Ye Yuan's explanation, the crew members became nervous. It was a good treasure worth several thousand yuan per catty. If something happened, these guys would be worried about death.
"Boss, he's dead, he's dead."
Ma Hua pointed at the living water area and shouted.
Ye Yuanming knew that this guy was probably talking about sea cucumbers, but he felt uncomfortable hearing these words:
"How can you talk when your whole family is dead?"
Ye Yuan just said something to this guy, and then quickly came to the living water area. After all, these sea cucumbers are very valuable, and Ye Yuan would feel distressed if they were to die.
Ye Yuan came to the living water area and saw some sea cucumbers, which were motionless and looked very stiff.
Seeing this result, Ye Yuan felt relieved. Looking at the crew members who were surrounded by nervous expressions, he smiled and said:
"It's okay, they're not dead, they're hibernating. Sea cucumbers generally choose to hibernate in the summer when food is plentiful.
The reason why summer is chosen is that sea cucumbers make a living by preying on small creatures, and these small creatures are very sensitive to sea water temperature. When the sea surface is warm, they swim upstream, and when the water is cold, they dive back to the bottom of the sea.
Since the sea surface becomes warm after summer, small creatures living in the sea go to the upper waters for their annual reproduction, but the sea cucumbers living on the bottom of the sea are unable to follow.
Due to the lack of food, he had to hide under a stone to rest and take care of himself.
Generally, they will sleep for three to four months. During this period, they cannot eat or move, and their entire body becomes hard. They do not wake up until autumn and resume activities. "
Several crew members heard his explanation and looked at each other in shock.
I have heard of hibernating, and this is the first time I have heard of animals that hibernate. I really gained a lot of experience this time. The world is so big and full of wonders.
In fact, these crew members still don't understand sea cucumbers. Even Ye Yuan doesn't know that there is another more magical place about sea cucumbers.
That is, if a sea cucumber is cut into two pieces and placed in the sea, after half a year to a year, the two pieces of sea cucumber will grow into two complete individual sea cucumbers.
This is a special ability that no other animal has.
Dinner started later than usual today, and there was no way Fatty, the chef, had gone to work.
When all the crew members are resting on the deck, the chef Gong Hongzhuang is also responsible for everyone's dinner.
Although dinner started late, no one complained. They all knew that while they were resting, the fat man was still working overtime without rest.
After dinner, the crew members returned to the rest area early. After a day of intense work, the crew members were already exhausted.
Some people fell directly on the bed and fell asleep after returning home.
As for energetic people like Wang Husheng and Ma Hua, they gather together in twos and threes and play poker to relax.
At this moment, Ye Yuan was sitting on the deck chair on the bow of the boat, looking at the dark sea and blowing the sea breeze.
He is different from the crew. The crew can be happy for a long time as long as they catch a precious fish.
As for his boss, he not only has to consider the preservation of these sea cucumbers, but also how to sell this batch of sea cucumbers as quickly as possible.
Although sea cucumbers will last longer if placed in living water, it only lasts longer. Rather than always having problems.
So he is now considering whether to just turn around and go back, or continue fishing at sea.
If fishing continues, there is a risk that sea cucumbers will die in large numbers.
And he was a little unwilling to go back like this. After all, he had only been out for a few days, and apart from this batch of sea cucumbers, there was no fish on the boat.
Returning like this is somewhat unpleasant. Although we didn’t go too far out to sea this time, we still entered the South China Sea after crossing the East China Sea from the Yellow Sea.
To put it bluntly, Yuwan Island is much closer to the Japanese Sea than to the South China Sea.
Coming to the cockpit, Ding Yi was driving the fishing boat seriously.
Clicking on the chart on the LCD screen, Ye Yuan thought seriously, while Ding Yi remained silent, as if Ye Yuan didn't exist here at all.
Fidgeting with the chart in front of me, I found that if I wanted to get close to the coast, the two most suitable cities were Shasan City, located in the central and southern part of the South China Sea, and Kouhai City, located on the South China Sea Island.
Ye Yuan had only heard of these two cities, but he really didn't know the specific situation.
He looked at the time and saw that it was already 8 pm. My sister shouldn't go to bed so early, so he took out his mobile phone and called his sister.
The reason why I called my sister at this time is because at present, almost all of my seafood sales channels are in my hands.
He wanted to know about the seafood situation in these two cities, and also asked her to see if she had any sales channels in this area.
The call was quickly connected, and as soon as it was connected, the concerned voice of the elder sister came from the other side:
"Xiao Yuan, what's wrong? Aren't you supposed to be at sea? Why did you call me? Could it be that something happened to you?"
No wonder Ye Hui is so nervous. In the past year or so, Ye Yuan's industry has developed very rapidly.
But the shocks brought to the family were endless. First, there was the plane crash, which almost broke the family apart.
Then there was another loss of contact at sea. Now not only Ye Hui, but also her parents would react as if they were in a state of panic when they received a call from Ye Yuan at sea.
"I'm fine. I just want to ask if you have any seafood sales channels in Kouhai City and Shasan City?"
Ye Yuan's family knew about his family affairs, so he immediately explained.
"Did you liquidate your position? Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked me for the channel over there?"
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