Fang Youqun sniffed hard and smelled the fragrance. He was immediately happy and said, "It's really mouth-watering." As he said that, he wanted to squeeze towards the pot.
"What are you doing?" Xiang Yang said with a serious face, "Let's go ask Master Xu to come first."
Fang Youqun ran towards the cab and said, "I'll go call Master Xu right away."
After a while, the fishing boat stopped and Xu Fang walked out of the operating room. "Captain, are you looking for me?"
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "You've worked hard driving the boat, take a rest and have lunch first."
Xu Fang glanced at the cauldron and smiled, "Is this the freshly caught fish? Thank you, Captain."
Xiang Yang handed Xu Fang a set of bowls and chopsticks, "Why are you being so polite? We are all in the same boat."
He Mingde brought two large baskets of fresh vegetables, and a group of people sat down around the big pot with bowls and chopsticks.
As soon as you sit down, the aroma of the Mr. Fish becomes stronger. It is different from the aroma of seasonings in ordinary freshwater fish hotpot. Although this aroma also has the taste of seasonings, the unique freshness and fragrance of the Mr. Fish can not be completely suppressed by the taste of seasonings. What's more amazing is that after being braised in oil, the Mr. Fish retains its freshness and fragrance, but there is no trace of fishy smell.
Before they even picked up their chopsticks, everyone was already drooling.
"Let's eat." It was actually Xiang Yang's first time to eat fish, and he wanted to try his uncle's cooking.
Pick up a piece of cabbage leaf and put it into the pot to soak it in the milky soup and then take it out.
Xiang Yang fed the cabbage into his mouth. The fragrant and delicious soup wrapped around the crispy cabbage leaves. The taste of the fish and the taste of the cabbage itself blended perfectly.
"It's so delicious!" Xiang Yang narrowed his eyes.
"It's so delicious!" Not only Xiang Yang said this, but also Fang Youqun, who was using a large soup spoon to scoop fish soup into his bowl.
"That's enough, Mr. Fang. We are eating hotpot. How can we eat if you scoop up all the soup by yourself?" Fang Youqun's action immediately caused many people to glare at him.
Upon hearing this, Fang Youqun reluctantly put down the soup spoon and started to pick up fish meat from the pot and put it into his bowl.
As for what he said before, that this Mr. fish looked uglier than a toad and that he would never eat it, he had completely forgotten it now. Now, in Fang Youqun's heart, eyes, pot, bowl, and mouth, there was only the delicious Mr. fish.
eat.
A group of people devoured the food.
Soon, the two fish weighing more than ten pounds were swept away by everyone without even leaving any soup.
After eating and drinking, a group of people sat on the deck to rest and savor the taste of the fish they had just eaten.
"It's really delicious." Fang Youqun took out a pack of cigarettes and distributed them to everyone. When the pack was empty, he lit the last one for himself and commented, "It's a pity that there were no eggs and tofu on the boat, otherwise the two fish would have tasted even better."
No one paid any attention to this guy. He was the one who ate the most when they first started eating, and he was also the one who talked the most after they finished eating.
Xu Fang burped and walked up to Xiang Yang, "Captain, shall the ship continue to head south?"
"Wait a minute." Xu Fang was the only boat driver on the boat. Xiang Yang could drive a boat, but he had rarely been to the wheelhouse. Xu Fang had been driving the boat for quite some time in the morning, so Xiang Yang thought he should at least give him some time to rest.
"I think the water here is quite clear. How about we go in and take a look?" Xiang Yang said.
Uncle Xiang glanced under the deck and saw that the water was very dark. He couldn't help but say, "Xiaoyang, the water here is probably more than 50 meters deep. It's not appropriate to go into the sea, right?"
"I have updated the diving equipment on the boat. It is no longer the previous rubber diving suit that can only dive to forty or fifty meters. You guys wait on the boat, I will go into the sea to take a look first." Xiang Yang said.
He Mingde nodded and said no more.
Xiang Yang put on a streamlined diving suit that covered his entire body. This diving suit was the best one Xiang Yang could buy, but it was not the best on the market. The best diving suit on the market was the white diving suit used for scientific research. It looked like a space suit and could withstand the pressure of the seabed nearly 300 meters deep. A diving suit cost more than 100,000 yuan, and you couldn't buy it even if you had money without connections.
After going down to the sea, Xiang Yang stretched his body and looked around, but before he could take any action, he immediately climbed back onto the boat.
"What's wrong, Captain?" Everyone on the boat looked at Xiang Yang in surprise.
Xiang Yang smiled bitterly, "Now I know why the fish that likes to lie on the seabed now swims in the water."
Fang Youqun's eyes lit up, "Captain, did you see fish in the sea again?"
"Sir, I didn't see the fish, but I saw other good things." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"Anything else?"
All the crew members pricked up their ears, and Zhou Wang even started wearing gloves, ready to start the winch and lower the net at any time.
"... ..."
Xiang Yang was speechless. "Why do you all have such expressions? The thing below cannot be captured."
When everyone heard Xiang Yang say that they could not catch him, they immediately lost interest.
"Is it a sea turtle?" Zhou Wang took off his gloves and said with a smile, "The only common fish that cannot be caught is the sea turtle. I have never heard that sea turtles eat fish!"
"Look for yourself! Those two guys should be coming to the surface to breathe." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Ventilation
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Then everyone rushed to the side of the ship as if they had thought of something, even veteran crew members like He Mingde and Zhou Wang were no exception.
"Bang!"
A giant over ten meters long jumped out from the water, its super-long front wings spread out, and its flat body soared into the sky like an eagle.
"whale!"
"Humpback whale!"
"It's really a whale, it's a humpback whale!"
The crew on the ship roared excitedly.
Although the humpback whale is not the largest whale in the world, it is also a well-deserved giant in the ocean. The average body length of adult males is 12.9 meters, and that of females is 13.7 meters. The largest recorded length of a female is 18 meters.
The humpback whale has a relatively small, flat head, a wide snout, and a large mouth with 20 to 30 tumor-like protrusions around its mouth, each of which has a hair growing on it.
The dorsal fin is low and the back is not straight like that of other whales. Instead, it is arched upward to form a graceful curve.
Before the crew members finished cheering, another slightly larger humpback whale emerged from the sea not far from the fishing boat.
“Woo—”
A column of water rushed up into the sky with a sound like a whistle, forming a magnificent whale spray phenomenon on the sea.
"Take a picture, take a picture, take a picture quickly." A crew member immediately shouted excitedly.
Uncle Xiang smiled and walked to Xiang Yang's side. "No wonder you came up immediately after entering the sea. It turns out you encountered a humpback whale."
Xiang Yang smiled but said nothing. Humpback whales usually move in pairs, feeding on small crustaceans and schooling fish. Although humpback whales are extremely docile and generally do not attack humans, they do not care whether they are swallowing fish or humans with their big mouths.