Chapter 21: Xi Shi Tongue (seeking for further reading)
Chapter 21 Xi Shi Tongue (please follow up)
Baishui Bay is the wind outlet of Dandan Island.
The wind is strong, the waves are high, the current is turbulent, and there are many rocks.
I heard from Lao Li that in the 1950s and 1960s, ships often ran aground and capsized here, and it was later called Bad Water Bay.
But the bigger the wind and waves, the more seafood there is.
The beach at Badwater Bay has a muddy bottom. It looks dark from a distance and reflects the sun's rays. After the tide goes out, the entire beach is lined with horizontal lines.
There are already many women wearing bamboo hats on the beach, squatting on the beach with crawlers and digging.
Li Duoyu walked over to take a look.
Found them all digging clams.
Although there are no refrigerators on Dandan Island now, for fishermen, the sea is the biggest refrigerator. If you want to eat, you can just go and get it.
But as soon as Li Duoyu reached the beach, Zhou Xiaoying followed him down.
"Why did you follow me? You're not afraid of what my mother will say about you."
Zhou Xiaoying looked stubborn.
“Mother is not here, and she can’t see her.”
“Besides, I’m a little bored watching you on the shore alone.”
Li Duoyu thinks what Zhou Xiaoying said seems to make sense. In this era when there are no mobile phones, no Internet, and no short videos, standing at the beach and watching them go to sea seems to be just feeding mosquitoes.
“It’s almost October, the sea water is a bit cold, don’t tread water, and you have a big belly, don’t squat around, you know.”
Zhou Xiaoying curled her lips and said, "When did you become like your mother and start to be verbose?"
“This is for your own good.”
"I know, I know."
Although Zhou Xiaoying kept her mouth small, she was very happy in her heart. In the past, Li Duoyu didn't know how to write the word "care" at all.
And when Little Fatty arrived on the beach, he was like a free bird, holding a small shovel, the kind used by his family to shovel charcoal on the stove.
Just dig a hole when you see it, without any skills at all.
I dug several in a row.
In the end, nothing was found.
“Uncle, why can’t I dig a single clam?”
“If you dig indiscriminately like this, you will dig through the earth and you won’t be able to dig anything out.”
Li Duoyu knelt down and said to him:
"Like this kind of hole with many small mud particles on the outside is the hole of a small sand crab, and the hole of a clam is very small. When lying on the sand, you usually go down diagonally. Don't dig vertically when you see a hole."
Li Haoran followed the method taught to him by his brother-in-law.
Another hole was dug.
In the end, I didn’t dig up any clams, but I did dig out a sea intestine.
After Li Haoran dug out the sea intestines, he looked disgusted. He squeezed it hard to draw out the water from the sea intestines, and then threw it towards the waves not far away.
See Xiaopangdun throw away the sea intestines.
Li Duoyu felt distressed for a moment. The sea intestines in his hand were sea anemones. If they are not handled well, they will be very fishy. In this era of abundant seafood.
Anemones can't even be put on the table.
The fishermen are not too rare to eat it.
Little Fatty took a small shovel and kept digging, but with a click, the shovel hit a hard object.
Little Fatty took it out and saw that it was an oversized white clam, five or six centimeters wide. It's half as big as his hand.
After seeing this thing, Li Duoyu's eyes lit up. Li Haoran really found something unexpected.
A newbie halo?
This big clam is a specialty of Gangtou Town next door, sea clam.
also called Xi Shi Tongue.
They are also found on Dandan Island, but the number is very small.
Xi Shi tongue is a very delicious seafood, and it is also the main ingredient of a famous dish [Boiled Sea Mussels in Chicken Soup]. It tastes very delicious and sweet.
Later, after optimization of breeding, the largest one can grow to almost 10 centimeters. By 2020, a large clam can be sold for 100 yuan.
However, if you want to make this dish well,
The excipients are a bit luxurious,
Chicken, beef, and pork are needed to make the stock, and then the stock is used to cook the fresh clams.
After Li Duoyu returned to Dandan Island from the island country in his previous life, he became a firebrand for a period of time. Whenever there was a wedding banquet in the village, he would definitely serve such a dish.
But now, if you ask the villagers of Dandan Island to cook this dish, they will probably call you a prodigal. The price of any of the ingredients in this dish is more expensive than the current sea clams.
Shellfish also like to live in groups.
After seeing Li Haoran dig up sea clams, Li Duoyu started digging without even thinking. In a muddy land like this, he didn't need a shovel at all and started digging directly. After a while, there were five or six sea clams in the iron bucket.
I dug a lot of clams along the way.
Zhou Xiaoying on the side frowned and looked at Li Duoyu suspiciously. His digging skills must be too proficient. It doesn't seem like he can master it in a day or two?
I saw Zhou Xiaoying looking at herself.
Li Duoyu felt nervous, wondering if he should hide his clumsiness. Fortunately, people in this era have simple thoughts.
No matter how outstanding he is, no one would think that he was reborn. Li Duoyu grinned and said:
“How about it, I’m pretty good at digging holes.”
“It’s not bad, just better than me.”
“If you are not convinced, how about I give you a try tonight, and I will ensure that I can serve you well.”
Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying blushed suddenly and quickly looked at Li Haoran. Fortunately, he was still young and couldn't understand what Li Duoyu was talking about.
Zhou Xiaoying sighed, frowned and looked at Li Duoyu in front of her, wondering if this period of time had suppressed him so much that his whole personality had changed.
When the nearby people who dug small sea clams saw them digging big clams, they also rushed over to watch. Almost everyone in the same village knew each other.
There is one who is a relative of theirs, the third aunt Zhou Meiying.
It is the one who the whole family ran to take away the goods.
Their family’s income is no less than Agui’s.
Maybe the big ship didn't come these days, so the third aunt came out to beg for some small sea food and some more dishes for the family.
The third aunt looked at the sea clams in Li Duoyu’s iron bucket with envy on her face:
"How can you dig so many sea clams? I haven't dug them for a long time."
"They were dug here, Third Wife." After seeing Third Wife, Xiao Pangdun grinned and said, "I dug this biggest one. Isn't it awesome?"
“Haoran, you are so powerful.”
“Hey hey hey.”
After the third aunt finished speaking, she turned to Li Duoyu and lectured: "There are many fish, and Xiaoying is pregnant. If you let her go into the water, the moisture will come from her feet. Let her get up quickly and see if it's okay."
Beside Third Aunt, a woman named "Li Heijiao" said with determination:
“In our village, there used to be a woman named Wang Cuihua who went to the beach to play in the water and lost her children.”
“And the golden flower was born when the wind blew on the seashore.”
ˆ “.”
Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying looked at each other.
Then he smiled awkwardly.
It seems that no matter what age, the older women in the village have their own understanding of pregnancy, and they can always cite one or two examples.
After the third aunt and the others lectured Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying, they also squatted down and dug sea clams together. Some of them tied a small bamboo stool under their buttocks.
When you squat down, you happen to be sitting.
It is very convenient to catch the sea on this kind of beach. You can sit and dig at the same time.
There are too many people, but there are too few clams.
For Li Duoyu, sea clams were just an unexpected harvest, not his main goal today.
Since everyone is coming to Badwater Bay, they must go to a place with bad water.
At the end of the beach is a pile of rocks.
The waves here are relatively big and walking is not easy. Women who want small seas generally dare not come here. The resources are relatively abundant.
Arrived in a dangerous place.
Li Duoyu refused to let Zhou Xiaoying and Li Haoran follow, and asked Zhou Xiaoying to watch Li Haoran on the shore, and then climbed onto the reef.
I saw Li Duoyu going to such a dangerous place.
Zhou Xiaoying was also worried: "Be careful, don't slip."
“I am a Water Monkey, so don’t worry.”
In his previous life, when he was fifty or sixty years old, he could make a living in a place like this. Now that he is twenty-year-old, it is not too easy.
But the sea is the sea after all.
Li Duoyu didn’t dare to look down on it.
The rocks are covered with barnacles, which are quite large. However, at this time, most fishermen still look down on something like this, which has little meat and is troublesome to eat.
In addition to the barnacles, there are also many small mussels. The two are in a competitive relationship, not only competing for territory on the oyster shells, but also competing for territory on the reefs.
You must be careful when stepping on rocks like these that are covered with barnacles and small mussels. You must not fall, otherwise you will always suffer.
Climbed several rocks.
Li Duoyu came to the place where the white waves crashed, and sure enough, there was a large area of small seafood that looked like Buddha's hand, densely gathered together.
One of today’s target seafoods is the pen holder.
(End of this chapter)