Mud snails, also known as spitting iron, are commonly known as wheat snails, plum snails, and mud snails.

Ao Muyang had encountered some mud snails under the sea before, and he specially fished them out and made side dishes to prepare for wine, but that day he was caught by the smuggling gang and taken to Brick Island as soon as he finished cleaning up the mud snails.

It can be said that for his life, the mud snail once played a rather iconic role.

This kind of snail is common on the seaside, the only one in the world, widely distributed in the north and south coasts of China, they live less on the seabed, mainly inhabit the mud beach in the intertidal zone of the inner bay, once the tide will appear.

Without Ao Muyang's introduction, Professor Li Ji knows what a mud snail looks like.

He looked down at the mud and sand under his feet with his hands behind his back with great interest, and said, "Look, the water quality here is good, and there are mud snails living for miles, and it is extinct in many places." ”

Ao Muyang picked it with his hand, got a mud snail, and said, "As for it, the mud snail is not strict about the habitat environment." ”

According to Lao Ao's memory, he has been eating this little thing since he was a child, so that he is a little tired of eating crookedly.

For these fishermen's children, the mud snail when they were young is like pickles in the farmer's tank, which is very visible in every household and every day of the year.

Just like a farmer who drinks porridge and eats steamed buns with pickles, the locals will scoop out a bowl of mud snails from the jar when there is a shortage of vegetables, which can be pickled with wine and salt, which is very delicious and suitable for rice.

In addition, mud snails are a little better than pickles, that is, they can be served with wine, which used to be one of the eight treasures of cold dishes!

As he spoke, he found two mud snails, which had an oval shell and looked so thin that they seemed to be crushed with a slight pinch of his hand.

The shell of the snail is cyan and white, the shell mouth is large, and the shell surface has fine ring and longitudinal lines, and unlike ordinary snails, the body of the mud snail cannot be completely retracted into the shell.

In this way, when Ao Muyang catches the mud snails, their bodies writhe hard outside the shell, unlike other snails that will retract into the shell after being frightened.

He picked it up and showed it to Li Ji, who smiled and nodded: "Well, it's a familiar look." ”

Then he said, "Look at the mud snails you have here, they are very fat, and the mud snails in some places in the Red Ocean are skinny, because the big ones have been taken away. ”

"Are many people arrested?" While speaking, Ao Muyang found two more mud snails.

Finding mud snails is simple, as they crawl, they mix the mud and sand they dig up with their heads and feet and the mucus they secrete, and then cover the surface of their bodies, resembling a pile of mud and sand.

This is called mimicry protection in nature, and Ao Muyang just learned this professional term the day before yesterday.

However, this trick can fool the natural enemies of mud snails in the ocean, but it cannot fool humans, but has become an iconic feature that is easier for humans to find.

Li Ji sighed: "Yes, many people catch it, they are simply red-eyed, many people make their own small-eyed trawls, so they use screen nets to make such nets, and all three generations of ancestors and grandchildren of mud snails can be fished out in one net." There are also people who use chemical weapons and sprinkle carbon amine fertilizers on the mudflats, which is a catastrophe for mud snails!"

Hearing him speak, Ao Muyang wanted to shiver.

According to news reports and what he saw, Ao Muyang knew that people were now carrying out extinct fishing for marine resources, but he didn't expect it to be so extinct!

The mud snail is of little value, after all, it is a regional delicacy, it is not easy to store, it is not easy to transport, and it is not very popular except for other places along the coast.

Even so, it has been fished by such means, so what means will greedy humans develop for some valuable marine creatures?

Fortunately, the area around Longtou Village is relatively closed, and although the villagers want to make money, they don't mess around.

The fishermen who have not been baptized by the storm of money are honest and still adhere to some of the principles of dealing with the sea that have been passed down from their ancestors.

Ao Muyang's next problem is this, he not only has to lead the villagers to get rich, but also to ensure that they abide by their original intentions and never forget their original intentions.

The sea breeze was blowing slowly, because there were no clouds to cover it, so that the sky seemed bluer, but it also seemed hotter, and the sun sprinkled down without cover, shooting on people like rockets.

Tourists put up their umbrellas to swim around the beach, which in turn protects the resources of the tidal flats to a certain extent: part of the tourists spend part of their energy on umbrellas, and they cannot concentrate on the search for seafood.

Ao Muyang didn't care about the heat, he found a small handful of mud snails with a few strokes of his hand, threw them into the net pocket hanging on his waist, bent down and continued to work.

Li Ji is old, and he will have back pain if he bends over for a long time.

He looked at Ao Muyang with envy, and Ao Muyang looked at the elementary school student with envy.

Zhu Zhu mingled in the group of students, she grew slowly and was small because of her illness, and she did not see anything unusual in a group of six, seven or eight-year-old children.

The children are not afraid of the blazing sun at all, and they are like wild rabbits on the beach, and that kind of vitality makes every adult envious.

The queen suddenly spread her wings and flew in, and some tourists saw it and exclaimed: "What a big eagle!"

"What is the eagle caught? A fish! Is this an osprey?"

", ospreys are cormorants, this is a sea eagle, right?"

The queen flew to the top of Ao Muyang's head and released her claws, and a fat mackerel fell to the ground, and the poor mackerel probably took advantage of the low tide to want to feed on the surface of the sea, and was caught.

Picking up the big fish that was still barely bouncing, Ao Muyang said with a smile: "Teacher Li, we have some appetizers at noon today, I'll make you a fried mackerel, the wine is definitely delicious." ”

Li Ji's face was delighted: "Okay." ”

The queen flew to the sea in the distance, and some tourists have been paying attention to and discussing it:

"Anyone else raising eagles? That's amazing. ”

"Mom, I also want to raise eagles, don't let grandpa raise parrots, let's raise eagles." ”

"Yo, what is this sea eagle going to catch? a sea snake!"

"Go to the side, get out of the way, all sea snakes are venomous!"

The queen flew back with a 'snake' creature with a flat tail and a length of one meter and two or three meters hanging from her paws.

The sun shone on this creature, and it shone silver!

Ao Muyang looked at it carefully, and then smiled: "What a sea snake, this is a hairtail fish." ”

Walking around the beach until ten o'clock, Ao Muyang and Li Ji went home, and then ushered in the hot moment of the day, which was not suitable for staying on the beach anymore.

In two and a half hours, the two found a net of mud snails, enough to eat for a week if they ate them.

After all, this thing is an appetizer, not a main course.

The main course was fresh hairtail fish and mackerel, and Ao Muyang met some curious tourists on the way home: "Wow, can the hairtail fish still come out of the water alive? Aren't they living in the deep sea? Doesn't it mean that once they come out of the water, they will die due to the change in water pressure?"