Chapter 117: God-like Skill
Just when a few people were half-believing, they heard Old Chen agree, and then he went to a nearby room to get a bag. There were some black particles in the bag. He grabbed a few handfuls, sprinkled them on the water surface, and then watched the water surface with full attention.
In a few minutes, the water splashes on the water surface flashed. Old Chen was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and made a move again. This time he really caught a black carp of nearly twenty catties.
Su Xinghui gave a thumbs up and said: "Master Chen, your hand is really god!"
Old Chen said shyly: "It can't be considered god, it's just that I catch fish on the water surface a lot, and if I see more, I naturally have a spectrum."
Hu Jinshui said: "Old Chen is the fish king here. Relying on this, he wants to catch whatever fish he wants on the water surface, and he wants to catch whatever size he wants. Relying on this, he supports a family. Once, he caught a soft-shelled turtle of more than twenty catties, sold it to a boss, and sold it for more than a thousand yuan."
Su Xinghui asked Old Chen: "Master Chen, what did you just sprinkle into the water, how can you attract the fish?"
Old Chen said: "This thing is made by mixing snail meat, fish meat of small fish, gray flour, and sesame oil. Black carp are in the lower layer of the water. They like to eat these things. As long as you sprinkle a few handfuls of this thing, they will definitely float to the water surface to grab food."
Gray flour is the dialect of Shangjun County, which means flour, and sesame oil is sesame oil, and then mixed with snail meat and small fish meat. That kind of fragrance must be very attractive to fish, but it is not only black carp that come to grab food. Being able to accurately find a big black carp in so many water splashes is still a god-like skill.
Seeing Old Chen's unique skill, Su Xinghui felt that today's trip was not in vain.
Hu Jinshui pointed to the two big fish still jumping alive on the ground and said: "Director Su, the water in our reservoir is deep, and we don't catch all the fish every year, so there are many big fish in the reservoir. Fish over fifteen catties and twenty catties are not few. How many do you want?"
Su Xinghui asked: "What is the price of this kind of big fish?"
Hu Jinshui looked at Yan Junda and said: "This is a public-to-public matter, and Director Yan brought you here, so the price is easy to talk about. How about 1.8 yuan a catty?"
At this time, the market price of fish is about 2.5 yuan, and there are no such big ones, at most seven or eight catties, so this price is really not expensive.
Su Xinghui looked at Zeng Xianglin, Zeng Xianglin nodded, so Su Xinghui said: "Alright, then this price, we want two thousand catties."
Hu Jinshui nodded readily and said: "Okay, then when do you want it?"
Su Xinghui said: "We are distributing benefits to staff for the New Year, and the time is too early now. How about this, we will come on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, and we will take the fish away on the day we catch them."
Hu Jinshui said: "That's good, then we will catch fish on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month."
Su Xinghui asked: "Do you need a deposit?"
Hu Jinshui said: "No need, you were brought by Director Yan, can I not believe you?"
Su Xinghui nodded and said: "Okay, then thank you, Director Hu, Director Yan, thank you too, we will go back first."
Hu Jinshui said: "How can that be? Eat before going back. If you come here and leave without eating, others will say that I, Old Hu, neglected the guests. Anyway, there is nothing else to treat, just eat fish."
Yan Junda also kept them: "Yes, Director Su, Old Zeng, just stay and eat before leaving. It's almost eleven o'clock now, why leave at lunch time?"
Hu Jinshui and Yan Junda's enthusiastic retention made Su Xinghui have to agree to stay for lunch.
Hu Jinshui asked Old Chen to take the two fish to the cafeteria to let the master chef handle them, and then led Su Xinghui and others to the field department to sit and chat.
The name of this reservoir is Green Ridge Reservoir, with a water surface area of more than 8,000 mu. It is the largest mountain reservoir in Shangjun County, bearing the irrigation and domestic water needs of tens of thousands of people in Green Ridge Township and the nearby Menghuling Township.
The scenery here is also very good. Can the scenery be bad in a place with mountains and water? There is also a huge secondary forest south of the reservoir, plus there is no industrial pollution here, making this place look more like green mountains and green water.
Su Xinghui looked at this huge reservoir and sighed: "Director Yan, Director Hu, you are a treasure land here, the scenery is really good."
Hu Jinshui laughed: "I just took a fancy to this treasure land, now no matter who wants to transfer me, I won't leave."
Yan Junda said: "These townships on the west side of our county are treasure lands, but they are too poor. Director Su, you are still amazing, you can make Menghuling's economy start to develop. When will you give us Green Ridge Township some ideas?"
Su Xinghui laughed: "Director Yan, don't praise me. I'm just a little lucky. Your Green Ridge Township's natural conditions are much better than our Menghuling Township. In the future, you will throw us away as soon as you exert your strength."
Su Xinghui naturally will not be like those hairy boys, who don't know the height of the sky when others praise him, and want to give others advice on the country. That will only make people feel disgusted.
Of course, if the cadres of Green Ridge Township really want to learn their experience and go to Menghuling to learn from experience, he will not hide his experience.
Yan Junda also just laughed. He naturally knew the measure of this. Su Xinghui's low-key made him have a good impression of Su Xinghui. He didn't talk about this topic again. A few people chatted casually for a while, and the master chef of the cafeteria came to call them to eat.
It was indeed eating fish on the reservoir. The master chef made all the dishes related to fish. The fish miscellaneous of the two big fish were fried with oil, and then mixed with tofu, which was a delicious dish. The most tender belly of the grass carp was scalded with water, which was so fresh that the tongue was about to fall off.
The fish meat of the black carp is tight and elastic, which is a good material for making fish balls. The master chef made a pot of snow-white fish balls. The soup was a high soup boiled from fish bones. Without other seasonings, only green onion, ginger, and garlic were used. The fish balls were tender and smooth, and the fish soup was also very delicious.
In addition, the master chef cut the grass carp meat into thin slices and ate them in the fish ball hot pot, dipped in some local special sauces, which was also a delicious dish.
Hu Jinshui took a pot of grain wine brewed by the local winery from his home. The taste of this wine is also mellow and long.
There are not many colors of dishes, but the quantity is absolutely enough. Hu Jinshui laughed: "There is nothing good to treat, but there is enough wine and food, don't be polite!"
Su Xinghui laughed: "With such good wine and food, what else is there to say?"
Zeng Xianglin said: "Director Yan, Director Hu, next time you come to our Menghuling Township, we also have good hospitality!"
Yan Junda nodded and said: "Alright, then next time we will go to Menghuling to have a good drink."
A few people returned here after being full of food and drink. Su Xinghui's pain in drinking made Yan Junda and Hu Jinshui have a very good impression of him. For grassroots cadres, wine quality is character, which means that this college student Su Xinghui looks up to people.
Agreed to come to pull fish on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, and sent Yan Junda back to the Green Ridge Township government, Su Xinghui and his party returned to Menghuling Township and reported the process of buying fish to Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu, and both were very satisfied.
Both of them have heard of the fish in Green Ridge Reservoir. The fish in the big reservoir are much more delicious than the fish raised in small fish ponds, and the size is large, which is very suitable for making balls, and the most important dish for the New Year in Shangjun County is balls.
Hearing Su Xinghui say that the fish in Green Ridge Reservoir are generally over fifteen catties, the two decided to distribute three fish to each staff member, about fifty catties. It doesn't matter who has more or less. At that time, they will all be put in snake-skin bags and decided by drawing lots.
Of course, some particularly large fish must be kept for visiting county leaders during the New Year. In this era, when the township visits county leaders for the New Year, it is not popular to use red envelopes, but to use physical objects such as fish and meat. Every year, this is a very important thing.
In addition to these fish, Su Xinghui also has to contact some pork and fruits to distribute to the staff, about two hundred yuan of materials per person.
Su Xinghui brings Zeng Xianglin every time. Zeng Xianglin is a local person, familiar with the situation, and handles things very efficiently. The most important thing is that two people are for public, he himself did not scrape oil and water from it, but two people also have a witness, right?
He is the deputy director, and there will be many such things in the future. He must pay attention to these small details.
The two contacted a pig farmer and agreed to let him kill three pigs on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month to distribute more than ten catties of meat to each staff member. As for what part of the meat, try to match fat and thin, and also decide by drawing lots. Whoever draws a worse one can only blame his own bad luck.
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