Chapter 22 The Barrel Exploded

Pen holders are also called turtle feet and stone larvae.

For the old gluttons on the seaside, it is a rare delicacy, and its delicious taste is not inferior to the Western gooseneck barnacles.

Because this thing cannot be artificially cultivated and grows in the most dangerous places, the price has never come down.

By 2020, Li Duoyu remembered that pen holders were sold for 150 yuan per pound, and those with good appearance and more meat were not a problem at 200.

Because it is very expensive, many professional pen holders have appeared. Usually two people are in a group. The person responsible for prying the pen holder must tie a safety rope, and the other person pulls the rope in a safe place.

But even so, some bad news can still be heard every year.

Take advantage of the white waves to retreat.

Li Duoyu quickly took the shovel, jumped onto the reef below, and shoveled hard at the roots of the whole cluster of pen holders.

Most of the meat of the pen holder is at the base. To pry the pen holder, you must pull it up with the base.

Otherwise, the pen holders pried out would not have much flesh at all, but only the soft shell that wrapped the flesh.

Once the pen holder is attacked by the outside world, it will shrink into the gap, leaving some hard thorns.

At this time, if there is no special prying tool, it will be difficult to deal with it. Fortunately, there are enough pen holders on the reef. Li Duoyu pried up a lot of pen holders with that shovel.

There are more than ten pen holders.

And each one is very full.

But Zhou Xiaoying on the shore saw this scene, and her heart was in her throat, but the more she was at this time, the more she dared not call him.

The little fat man had an admiring look on his face.

"Wow, when did my uncle become so powerful? When I grow up, I will also pry that thing."

Li Duoyu was not greedy.

After digging it, he climbed directly onto the reef, because the waves would soon come up again.

Since he was a child, Li Duoyu has been told that he must not take chances when facing the sea, and must follow the rules of the older generation, because you can take chances many times, but as long as you make a mistake once, it's gone.

After several rounds.

Li Duoyu knocked on the pen holder of half an iron bucket and came up from the reef below. There are still many on the reef, but he is not prying to sell, so there is no need to continue to take this risk.

Seven sea clams and half a bucket of pen holders.

This is what Li Duoyu has harvested from the sea. They are all shellfish, and it feels like something is missing.

Li Duoyu continued to turn over a few reefs.

Found a rotten wooden boat with a large number of barnacles and clams attached to it, as well as wild kelp.

The local species of wild kelp are thin and small. Those who raise pigs often pick wild kelp and seaweed to feed pigs.

After turning over the rotten wooden boat, Li Duoyu found a large number of round black and thorny gadgets in the gap of the reef not far away.

Purple sea urchin.

A local sea urchin, with long spines and little meat, only has roe in certain seasons. This thing can be said to be the most hated by fishermen. If it is caught on the fishing net, they will curse a few words.

It is often smashed and used for composting.

At this time, fishermen don't even look at it, but the islanders like it very much and often eat it raw.

During the days when Li Duoyu worked illegally in the island country, he also tried to eat it several times. To be honest, even if he grew up eating seafood, he still didn't like the taste.

After a trip to the sea, Li Duoyu found it.

The more things that fishermen don't eat now, the more expensive they will be in the future, such as these anemones, sea urchins, pen holders, etc.

Li Duoyu walked forward a few steps.

When he saw the things next to the reef, his eyes lit up instantly. This was a scene that he had only heard about from others in all his years as a fisherman, but he had never seen it himself.

In the gap between the reefs, a moray eel with spots all over its body, which looks very much like a snake, is biting a red octopus that is much larger than it. It is doing a death roll, and its entire head is covered by the tentacles of the red octopus.

The most interesting thing is that there is also a dying puppy shark lying nearby.

If Li Duoyu guessed correctly, a drama of "the mantis stalks the cicada, while the oriole is behind" should have been staged here not long ago.

And this moray eel is called naked breast eel. Because the pattern on its body looks like coins, local fishermen generally call them money eels, also called, very ferocious.

Adult money eels can bite off the fingers of fishermen. In the offshore area, it can be said to be the top of the food chain.

Even this big red seal that can prey on puppy sharks will only have one end after encountering money eels, that is, being torn to pieces and eaten by them.

However, this kind of eel meat is not very delicious, and Li Duoyu really doesn't want it very much.

But after seeing humans, this thing was reluctant to give up its prey and run away, which made Li Duoyu feel that his dignity was challenged.

Since you also want to be eaten.

Then I will grant your wish.

Li Duoyu took out the tongs, opened them, and clamped them towards the gap between the reefs. He took the money eel and the octopus it bit and threw them onto the small sandy area next to the reef.

For all sea fish, even if you are a dragon in the sea, once you are on land, you are all insects.

After reaching the land.

The money eel realized that something was wrong and gave up the octopus in its mouth and planned to escape.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

It didn't expect that this human was so unethical.

The iron shovel in Li Duoyu's hand had already hit its head.

"Bang bang bang" a few times.

The dying money eel turned over in pain for several times, and curled up into a ball, no longer moving.

After seeing it stopped moving, Li Duoyu threw it into the bucket. He did this for a reason. His iron bucket didn't have a cover.

And if you don't beat this slippery money eel to death, it might jump up and bite your hand holding the bucket.

That's a loss.

Li Duoyu flipped it over again. The red octopus whose head was bitten by the money eel was still trying to crawl into the cave.

There are many kinds of octopus in Dandan Island.

This red octopus is the most unpalatable. It has many suckers and is hard and hard. It's hard to make it taste good when cooking. It's like sea urchins and anemones. It's not good.

But the dying little dog shark is good. It weighs seven or eight pounds. Li Duoyu held its tail and threw it into the iron bucket.

Looking at the full iron bucket.

Li Duoyu was quite satisfied. I don't know how long it has been since I felt the pleasure of a bursting bucket.

When he returned to the shore.

Zhou Xiaoying's nervous expression instantly eased.

The little fat boy looked at the big iron bucket and his eyes were straight on the spot: "There are small sharks and conger eels. So many pen holders have been dug."

Aunt San just came from the beach.

After seeing Li Duoyu catch so many seafood, he was also a little envious: "Duoyu, can you sell those two dog sharks and conger eels to me? I'm going to make some fish balls to eat."

Li Duoyu was still having a headache.

How to make these two things delicious, but Aunt San's reminder made him suddenly enlightened. The authentic fish balls are made of dog shark and conger eel meat.

"Aunt, I'm also going to make fish balls. How about I give you some after I finish making them."

"Ah, how can I be embarrassed."

"Relatives, don't be so polite."

"Then I won't be polite. When you are done, tell me and I'll go and get it."

Among all the relatives, Aunt San's family is considered good. After he got into trouble in his previous life, one of Aunt San's family also went to jail, but because of his strong foundation, he was not affected much.

Later, I heard from Zhou Xiaoying that during the time she was in the island country, her third aunt and her family also helped a lot, which helped her get through that difficult period.