Chapter 21 Xishi Tongue (Please Read On)

Badshui Bay is the wind outlet of Dandan Island.

The wind was strong, the waves were high, the current was turbulent, and there were 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 storm, 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 and took 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.

"Mom isn't here, and she can't see her."

"Besides, it's a bit boring for me to watch you all alone on the shore."

Li Duoyu felt that what Zhou Xiaoying said seemed to make sense. In this era where 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 the 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: "When did you become like my mother and start to be verbose?"

"This is for your own good."

"I know, I know."

Although Zhou Xiaoying kept her mouth shut, she was extremely happy in her heart. In the past, Li Duoyu didn't know how to write the word "care" at all.

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, there is no technique to speak of.

I dug several in a row.

Nothing was found.

"Uncle, why can't I dig a single clam?"

"If you dig like this, you'll dig through the earth and you won't be able to dig anything out."

Li Duoyu knelt down and said to him:

"The holes with many small mud particles on the outside are the holes of small sand crabs, and the holes of clams are very small. When lying on the sand, they usually go down diagonally. Don't dig vertically when you see holes."

Li Haoran followed the method taught to him by his uncle.

Another hole was dug.

As a result, I didn't find any clams, but I found 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.

I saw Little Fatty throw away the sea intestines.

Li Duoyu felt distressed for a moment. The sea intestines in his hand were sea anemones. If they were not handled properly, they would be very fishy, ​​in this age of abundant seafood.

Anemones simply don't make it onto the table.

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.

Newbie halo?

This big clam is a specialty of Gangtou Town next door, sea mussels.

Also called Xi Shi tongue.

They are also found on Dandan Island, but in small numbers.

Xishi tongue is a very delicious seafood. It is also the main ingredient of a famous dish [Boiled Sea Mussels in Chicken Soup]. It tastes very delicious and sweet.

Later, after breeding optimization, the largest one can grow to almost 10 centimeters. By 2020, a large sea clam can be sold for 100 yuan.

However, if you want to make this dish well,

The accessories are a bit luxurious,

Chicken, beef, and pork are needed to make the stock, and then the stock is used to simmer 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 soil 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 up 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 feel like he can master it in a day or two?

Seeing 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 was, no one would have thought that he was reborn. Li Duoyu grinned and said:

"Well, I'm pretty good at digging holes, right?"

"It's okay, just better than me."

"If you're not convinced, how about I give you a try tonight, and I'll make sure I 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, causing his whole personality to change.

When people from nearby Xiaohai saw that they had dug big clams, they also rushed over to watch. Almost everyone in the same village knew each other.

One of them is their relative, Third Aunt Zhou Meiying.

She is the one whose whole family went to sell goods.

Their family earns no less than Agui.

Maybe the big ships didn’t come these days, so Third Aunt came out to ask for some small seafood to give the family more dishes.

Aunt San looked at the clams in Li Duoyu's iron bucket with envy:

"Where did you dig so many clams? I haven't dug any for a long time."

"We dug them here, Aunt San." After seeing Aunt San, the fat boy grinned and said, "I dug the biggest one. Isn't it amazing?"

"Haoran, you are so amazing."

"Hehehe."

After Aunt San finished speaking, she turned around and lectured Li Duoyu: "Duoyu, Xiaoying is pregnant, and you still let her go into the water. The moisture will go up from her feet. Let her go up quickly to see if she is okay."

A woman named "Li Heijiao" next to Aunt San said with certainty:

"In our village, there was a woman named Wang Cuihua who went to the beach to play in the water and lost her child."

"And that Jinhua also lost her baby because of the wind at the beach."

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Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying looked at each other.

Then they smiled awkwardly.

It seems that no matter what era, the older women in the village have their own understanding of pregnancy, and they can always swear to bring out one or two examples.

After Aunt San and the others preached to Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying, they also squatted down to dig clams together. Some of them tied a small bamboo stool under their buttocks.

When they squatted down, they just sat down.

It is very convenient to go to the sea on this beach, and you can sit and dig at the same time.

There are fewer clams when there are more people.

For Li Duoyu, clams are just an unexpected harvest, not his main goal today.

Since we all come to this evil water bay, we must go to a place with evil water.

At the end of the beach is a pile of reefs.

The waves here are relatively large, and it is not easy to walk. Those women who seek small seas generally dare not come here, and the resources are relatively abundant.

Arrived at a dangerous place.

Li Duoyu did not let Zhou Xiaoying and Li Haoran follow, and asked Zhou Xiaoying to watch Li Haoran on the shore, and then climbed up the reef.

Seeing Li Duoyu go to such a dangerous place.

Zhou Xiaoying was also worried: "Be careful, don't slip."

"I'm a water monkey, don't worry."

In his previous life, he was in his fifties or sixties, and he could make a living in such a place. Now he has changed into a twenty-year-old skin, which is really too easy.

But the sea is the sea after all.

Li Duoyu did not dare to despise it.

The reefs are full of barnacles, and they are all quite large. At this time, most fishermen still look down on things like this, which have little meat and are troublesome to eat.

In addition to barnacles, there are also many small mussels. The two are in a competitive relationship, not only competing for territory on oyster shells, but also on reefs.

When stepping on such a reef full of barnacles and small mussels, you must be careful and must not fall, otherwise you will suffer a lot.

After climbing over a few reefs.

Li Duoyu came to the place where the white waves hit, and there was indeed a large area of ​​small seafood like Buddha's hand, densely gathered together.

One of the target seafood today, the pen holder.