Yang Huairen asked, "This eldest sister, you have shaved so much seaweed, are you going to dry it and sell it to the people in the city to eat?" ”

The woman laughed, "Hehe, this boy is really good at laughing, this thing is also eaten by our vulgar people on the seaside, who eats this in the city." ”

Sister Ghost asked again, "Then you shaved so much seaweed, it seems that you can't finish it." ”

The woman shook her head, "After eating, the main food of the people on the seaside is usually the fish they catch.

But they don't know, if you eat fish all the time, no one will get tired of it, we are not short of fish, but we lack vegetables. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the land in the distance, "You see, the land by the sea is not as good as the inland, it is all semi-sandy land, and the land is salty, so it is not easy to grow food, let alone grow vegetables."

It is not good for people to eat meat and not vegetables, and their mouths will bleed, so they must eat everything, and they must not lack grain, meat, fish, and vegetables. ”

Yang Huairen smiled and nodded, and said in his heart that although the women in these fishing villages have no culture and don't even know a few words, they also have the wisdom of life and can understand the truth that people's nutritional intake should be balanced in order to be healthy, which is not simple.

The woman continued, "It is said that the mountains eat the mountains, and the sea eats the sea, and our ancestors used to dig food from the sea, and the men went out to fish during the day, while the women stayed in the village to weave nets and take care of the elderly and children.

In fact, it is easy for us to do these things, and it doesn't take much energy, so in order to have more food for the family, the women in our village will find free time to go to the beach to find more food.

You see, like these seaweeds, we dig them back and eat them, we can play a similar role to green vegetables, whether adults or children, the seaweed and fish and shrimp are eaten together, and naturally they are not so easy to get sick.

And the taste of seaweed is not something that everyone likes, and few people in the city like to eat it, perhaps because they think that seaweed is black and unclean.

Of course, it's not that no one has come to our village to harvest seaweed, like the one I dug today, the family can't finish eating, so they will clean the grit and sundries, and then put it in a dustpan to dry.

Dried seaweed is sometimes harvested by people for a penny and a pound, I heard that ...... It seems that the people in the city took the dried seaweed back and ate it as medicine to cure the big neck disease. ”

A penny a pound? Yang Huairen was a little surprised, this gang of people doing business is too dark, even if the seaweed has not yet been popularized to the dining table of the inland people, if it is only used as a medicinal material, the demand should be very small.

But the purchase price of a penny and a pound is just the money of a cooking cake, which is a bit excessive. It is conceivable that those profiteers will get the dried seaweed back and sell it to pharmacies, and the price must have increased more than tenfold, and if the pharmacies are retailed, the price may have increased dozens of times.

Yang Huairen wanted to know about the yield of laver, so he asked, "Sister, if you dry laver, how much do you need to dry a pound of dried laver like the fresh laver you just dug up?" ”

"Hmmm......"

The woman thought for a while, and handed the fish basket containing the seaweed to Yang Huairen, who glanced at the fish basket, and there was already almost half a basket of black seaweed.

"You see, such a large fish basket, if it is filled with fresh seaweed, will probably weigh more than ten catties.

However, most of the seaweed leaves are seawater, take it back to dry for a few days, and there are not many dry goods, ten catties of fresh seaweed can dry one pound of dried seaweed. ”

Sister Ghost grew her mouth in surprise, and couldn't help asking, "Sister, you have been busy digging a basket of seaweed for half a day, and you have to wash and dry it when you go back, and you can only exchange it for a penny after a few days of hard work?" ”

The woman seemed to think it was normal, and her face was taken for granted, "What do you think?" You see we've dug so much today, and we can dig so much tomorrow if we change places.

After ten days and half a month, we will come back here, and the reef will be full again, and we can dig it again.

So, the seaweed can't be dug up, and we can't eat it all, and the rest of the food is dried into seaweed, just little by little, and dozens of catties can be saved in a year.

People come to collect dried seaweed, and they don't come often, they only come once a year, and they can collect hundreds of catties from every household in the village at a time! ”

A few hundred catties a year, and only a few hundred yuan, this is still the whole village, and the average is counted in each household, and it is only a few dozen yuan, and in the eyes of a princess like Sister Ghost, she naturally thinks it is not cost-effective.

However, Yang Huairen can understand the thoughts of these simple fishermen, men go out to sea to fish, this money is not easy to earn, because there are many fishermen fishing on the seaside, so in the seaside towns, the price of fish has always been very cheap, and they send it to the restaurant in the city, and they can't exchange much cash.

With this money in exchange for food and basic daily necessities, it can be said that there is not much surplus, and Yang Huairen also discovered this all the way today.

The fishermen's homes are very simple, which means that they do not have much property to live a rich life, but live freely by the sea, they are used to this kind of paradise-like life, so as long as they do not worry about food and clothing, they live freely, and do not feel that life is difficult at all.

As for the women in these fishing villages, they are bored when they are idle in the village, so they can dig some seaweed together, one is to enrich their own food, and the other is to exchange some change, whether it is to buy themselves some cheap rouge gouache or some candy and other snacks for their children, they already feel great satisfaction.

Yang Huairen thinks that laver has not been popularized, in addition to the inconvenience of information and transportation, a big reason is that no one has ever promoted this cheap and nutritious food, if he can promote it, I believe that through his means, the price of laver will definitely rise sharply, reaching a relatively reasonable price level.

He asked, "Sister, if I say I'm going to buy these seaweeds, can you help me contact the fishermen in the neighborhood and ask them to sell me the dried seaweed from home?" ”

The woman thought it was a novelty, she had seen the dried seaweed, but she was really a little curious about the collection of so many people at once.

"This son, you're not kidding, are you? The people in our village, the inch of dried seaweed at home has to be hundreds of catties, if you add the nearby fishing village, it must be thousands of catties, what are you doing with collecting so much? ”

Yang Huairen said, "Of course it's selling money, you don't have to worry about these, you just need to help me contact the fishermen, the price I pay, I guarantee that you are satisfied, and I buy it for two pennies a catty, how about it?" ”