A group of people strode along the foot of the mountain to the rocky beach at the east end. At this time, the tide had receded, revealing a beach where some women were looking for fish, shrimps and crabs in the shallow puddles.
Some turned over gravel by the waterhole to catch small crabs, shrimps, and shellfish, while others used chisels to pick out oysters, locusts, and bergamot snails attached to the rocks.
It seems that the news about the giant flower dragon and rice fish he found here in the morning has spread throughout Shatou Village, and everyone wants to try their luck here.
Otherwise, with such a big sun, we would all be weaving nets at home!
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The grandmother who lived behind Li's house saw Li Changle coming, stopped him and asked: "We have searched all the puddles in this area, and we haven't even found a big fish. Ah Le, you can't lie to us." Bar?"
"What did I lie to you for?" Li Changle pointed casually, "Hey! I found it in that puddle."
The buck-toothed woman said, "I just looked there, and I didn't even see a single shrimp. You must not be telling the truth!"
"You can't find someone to do this shit to me!" Li Changle glanced at her, "Who am I? I want to tell you the truth?"
The buck teeth were choked by him, and his face turned redder and redder. He turned around, took the chisel, and began to chisel hard, cursing in a low voice: "Second bitch..."
Judging from her appearance, she probably mistaken the bergamot snail on the rock for Li Changle.
Li Changle put down his backpack and saw that his eldest brother and his younger brother were already digging up the sand with their bare hands. He quickly took out the sand shovel and gave it to them, "Follow my mother and my father to go over there and take a look."
Li Xiaozhou raised his head and said, "Abba, are you going there to catch big fish?"
"Yes! Dad is going to catch the big fish." Li Changle took the net and pliers and walked towards the puddle that Big Buck Tooth had been looking for.
He walked along the junction of the water and the beach, his eyes constantly searching the beach for those tiny holes.
From time to time, the waves surged up and washed over his feet and then receded.
It is three o'clock now, and the low tide started at 15.15 today. As the saying goes, the tide lasts for five hours, that is, the high tide takes five hours, and the low tide takes six hours. It will be flat tide at about 9 o'clock in the evening, and then it will start to rise again.
Every day the tide rises and falls more than 40 minutes later than the day before. Tomorrow morning the tide will start to ebb from 3 to 4 o'clock, so it is just right to sleep in the cave until 4 o'clock.
When Li Changle saw the bulge of sand in front of him, he poked it with pliers and saw a pair of big turtles that were thicker than chicken legs standing up from the sand. He laughed proudly, "Hey, no wonder people say that opportunity is It’s for those who are prepared.”
He took out a thin hemp rope that he had prepared when he arrived, held one end in one hand, and circled it upward from the bottom of the two big turtles. The blue crab opened its teeth and claws and waved the big turtles to attack.
It's terrible to be clamped by it. It will hurt so much that you won't even be able to cry out. If someone as big as this is hit by it, your fingers will be pinched off.
Li Changle separated the hemp rope and fed it into its large pliers, then used force to lift it out of the sand.
"Wow! At least it's more than two kilograms, and it's better to have resources now!"
Li Changle excitedly muttered to himself, neatly tied the blue crab with a hemp rope, turned it over and looked at the plastron on its belly, "The female crab only has the paste. It should be sold for a few dollars." !」
Blue crab, also known as grasshopper, is also a traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, digesting food, and promoting lactation. It is often used for blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, abdominal pain, indigestion, food accumulation, fullness, and insufficient milk.
The gender of a blue crab can be judged by the shape of its plastron. The plastron of a male blue crab is wide and triangular, while that of a female blue crab is wide and round. In addition, the navel of a female blue crab is round, while that of a male blue crab is round. The crab's belly button is pointed.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, it is the best time to eat blue crabs. At that time, the blue crabs are full of yellow, thick meat, fresh, sweet and firm. Warm a pot of rice wine, take a sip of wine and a mouthful of crab meat. It is simply a magical day.
After walking a few steps forward, he saw another hole. He dug his hands into the sand and picked it up. A clam appeared in front of Li Changle. He picked it up and put it in his net bag. "Here you go, have some more, go back and stir-fry a plate."
He muttered to himself and continued walking forward. He dug a dozen more clams and reached the puddle.
First, I looked around at the surrounding rocks, which were densely covered with sea rainbows and many Buddha's hand snails.
Its scientific name is the gooseneck barnacle, and in some places it is also called the dog claw snail, so named because its appearance is very similar to a dog's paw.
They are squeezed into the cracks of rocks and usually grow in clusters. Winter is when they are most plump.
These shellfish are easy to harvest, and the big ones have been dug out long ago. Only some small ones, and those that are difficult to pry out, are still growing on the rocks.
He caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye, turned around and stared at a hole on the edge of the puddle and shouted, "Fuck~ Why did you get here?"
At the entrance of the cave, I saw a pair of murderous blue-green eyes, an absurdly large mouth, and an ugly monster with two rows of jagged white teeth.
When he saw this fish for the first time, the two little demons in Journey to the West, Ben Bo'er Ba and Ba Bol Ben, flashed in his mind, and he felt that their prototypes probably came from this fish.
Li Changle picked up the pliers and slowly approached the hole. As soon as he reached it's big mouth, Ben Bo'erba suddenly jumped into the water and escaped.
The rear jaw often burrows into the sand or mud on the seabed to feed on small fish, shrimp and mantis shrimps.
After driving away Ben Bo'er Ba, he stood beside a stone, lowered his head and searched in the puddle. When he saw the long tentacles attached to the stone, he bent down to open the small stone and grabbed a "Tide Watcher." "
The tide-watching octopus is a type of octopus. It usually lives in caves and tidal flats. Some are also called small octopuses. Unlike blue crabs, the bigger the better, so "small" is better. Whenever the tide is approaching, they will crawl to the entrance of the cave and wave. It has tentacles, hence the name "Wangtide".
The smaller the Wangchao is, the firmer the meat is, so the price is more expensive. July, August, and September every year are the best times to eat Wangchao. The Wangchao in these months is medium in size, and the meat is fat and delicious. It sounds very energetic.
Li Changle put the tide watch in a basket on his back, simply went into the water, and touched in the somewhat turbid sea water. His fingers touched a hard object, which he felt was a crab shell. The crab quickly retreated, and Li Changle quickly retracted his hand and used the net to lift it just now. Insert the water obliquely into the position, push the net forward and scoop it up quickly.
When the net left the water, I saw a plump white crab lying on the bottom of the net bag, unable to move.
The scientific name of white crab is Portunus crab. Its head and breastplate are light gray-green in color, and there is a round white spot in the front gill area. Most of its claws are purple-red with white spots, and part or the entire ventral surface is white. Its body color will change with the surrounding environment. As for the variation, swimming crabs that live among seagrasses are darker in color.
Li Changle pressed his thumb on the crab shell, and his index and middle fingers on both ends of the crab's navel respectively. He picked it up from the net bag and weighed it. It was estimated to be more than a kilogram. He happily took out the hemp rope and tied it up and put it in the backpack. .
Chapter completed!