After an adventure with the jumping fish in the black mud

What to watch: there are money-making elves hidden in the black mud: black, dirty, and fun to jump and crawl. But it's not that easy to catch it. A fisherman, an adventure, changed the trajectory of his wealth. Ji Xianyong, a stone lion in Fujian Province, dug up money that would jump in the black mud.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the tide had just receded, Ji Xianyong took us to the beach to find a kind of treasure that made many fishermen rich-jumping fish.

Fisherman of Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: it is difficult to catch, but it is difficult to catch a jumping fish.

Interviewer: it's hard. Didn't you say you've been holding it for decades?

Fishermen in Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: it is also difficult for decades, when (all) is very difficult.

The jumping fish, which is difficult for fishermen to catch, is also called bouncing fish. Whenever the tide goes out, the jumping fish lurking in the black mud hole will drill out and play on the mud surface, and then drill back into the hole, and this is a good opportunity for fishermen to seize the jumping fish.

Ji Xianyong: this is the line taken by the jumping fish.

Interviewer: is this it?

Ji Xianyong: this line is the line taken by the jumping fish.

Interviewer: jumping fish is the way to go, right?

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: that hole is the hole of jumping fish.

Ji Xianyong: this is the hole of the jumping fish.

Interviewer: that's it. Can I dig it up now?

Ji Xianyong: not necessarily.

The fisherman said that even along the line, the jumping fish might not be found. Sure enough, the reporter dug and found that something was wrong.

Ji Xianyong: do you want to have a try? You can try it. It's very deep.

Interviewer: I saw it.

Ji Xianyong: this is a little crab.

Interviewer: how can you tell it's a crab hole? there is really a crab. Do you have to dig so deep when you dig?

Ji Xianyong: it's very deep, 70 or 80 centimeters, that's all.

Interviewer: I dug here, all the time?

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: dig all the way here.

Reporter: a lot of crabs seem to be scratching my hands. Look at scratching you every day. Look, a lot of blood is broken, isn't it?

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: well, get up when it's broken! Wait a minute, you won't get out.

Interviewer: nothing?

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: no.

The jumping fish has long run away when he hears it, and all he touches are other fish. But soon the fishermen got excited.

Interviewer: got it again?

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: let me show you here.

Interviewer: show me now.

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: I'll put it here and have a look.

Interviewer: this is a big one. How can you catch four at once?

Eyes and feet are quick, so find the hole of the jumping fish and dig it down. it looks like a very simple action, but it takes several years. After working for more than an hour, the three of us only caught a few jumping fish, and even the most skilled fishermen could only catch up to 2 jin a day. At this time, the reporter sank deeper and deeper in the beach and could not go out.

Fisherman from Hanjiang Town, Shishi City, Fujian Province: go straight ahead and you won't be able to walk.

Jumping fish is an ancient fish with low degree of evolution, which is mainly distributed in the East China Sea and South China Sea in China. Some people call jumping fish the genius of fish, and they spend a lot of time without being in the water in their lives. Jump in the beach with well-developed pectoral fins. At that time, Ji Xianyong also saw the business opportunity in the jumping fish, which was difficult to catch.

Ji Xianyong: there are fewer jumping fish and fewer in the wild.

Fisherman: this is more than 100 yuan per catty. Now there is no such thing in the sea.

Interviewer: too few.

Fisherman: too few. Many people usually buy it for the elderly and children.

Ji Xianyong: this kind of good meat tastes better and tastes better. It is called gray bar. In local dialect, it is called gray bar.

Wild jumping fish are becoming more and more rare, and farmed jumping fish are also popular in Fujian. At 8 o'clock in the morning, there are not many jumping fish left in the market.

Shishi City, Fujian Province, aquatic products by dealers: sold out.

Interviewer: sold out so early?

Shishi City, Fujian Province Fisheries Dealer: yes, it may not be caught until more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and it sells well all the year round.

Interviewer: yes, it is available all the year round.

Shishi City, Fujian Province, aquatic products dealers: many buy stew for children and many for pregnant women, selling dozens of jin a day.

Now, Ji Xianyong artificial breeding jumping fish area of 60 mu, through dealers, he can sell more than 10,000 jin of jumping fish a year. He not only made money by himself, but also led many fishermen to get rich together. And breeding jumping fish is only one of the ways for Ji Xianyong to make money. Born in a fisherman's family, he has only a junior high school education. For more than a decade, he has never left the seaside. But he was passionate about starting a business. He switched to several industries, not to mention that they all made money, almost all of which were done by Shishi in the first batch. When it comes to Ji Xianyong's knack for making money, it starts with his adventures one morning.

One night in the autumn of 2006, Ji Xianyong, who had not been seen all day, went home and said to his wife mysteriously: he has found a treasure to make money.

Ji Hsien-yong's son Ji Haoxiao: I think it's still incredible and exciting.

Ji Xianyong: this is the opportunity to make money, we just try a little harder.

Ouyang Shouhong, Ji Xianyong's wife: he looked very happy as he spoke.

The words that surprised his wife and children at night were because of Ji Xianyong's adventure that morning.

Ji Xianyong was already famous in Hanjiang Town in 2006 because he was the first local crab farmer. He not only published two books on crab farming, but also led more than 100 families to raise crabs together. The whole family relied on crabs, although it was hard, but they lived a good life. Ji Xianyong goes to patrol the pond every morning.

At more than 5 o'clock in the morning, just after dawn, Ji Xianyong was riding a motorcycle past a beach and was suddenly attracted by two small shadows flashing by.

Ji Xianyong: a little fatter than Loach, shorter, eyes on the top of the head, two eyes are very bright, jumping in the mud, not much water can see clearly.