Chapter 70: Stonefish

Survival in the wilderness requires perseverance, and many survivors often spend hours or even days without finding food to make a fire, and often go hungry, so mastering many hunting skills is crucial.

Xiao Lingfeng has mastered a lot of hunting skills, the bows and arrows he makes can hunt large animals remotely, and various traps can lure those creatures with low IQ to get in, the more these skills he masters, the greater the hope of surviving in the harsh wilderness!

Something was shaking in the shrimp pot, three traps were not small, there was a huge lobster, four squid, and a stone-like guy, it looked quite honest, but it wasn't a docile creature.

"Wow! It's so good! I really caught a big lobster!" Ling Ling looked at the huge lobster and clapped her hands vigorously.

This little girl has always wanted to try the taste of lobster since she saw the shrimp pizza commercial, but Xiao Lingfeng is a poor man and can't afford to buy lobsters directly, but on a desert island, everything is free, provided that you have to find a way to catch these delicious creatures.

"I'll go, there are lobsters and squid, Brother Feng's meal is really rich, but what is that guy who looks particularly hideous and terrifying?"

"It looks like a big rock but it's still moving, like a fish, what a strange thing!"

"It is a stonefish, belonging to the family of poisonous scorpionfish, and its scientific name is "rose poisonous fish", because it has thorns like roses and is poisonous, so it is named. The stonefish has a terrifying shape and an ugly body, like a stone, lying dormant in the rocks of the seabed, and is not easy to be detected. ”

"It's poisonous! Brother Feng can't eat it!"

The stonefish is smooth and scaleless, with a mouth curved like a crescent moon, a grayish spine and a stone-like marking, a swollen belly that is white and reddish, and a slightly narrower tail on the flat side. It is about 30 centimeters long, and its body is thick and round with many nodulous protrusions, like the skin of a toad. The body color is complex and changeable depending on the environment, and like a chameleon, it uses camouflage to deceive its enemies in order to survive. Its eyes are peculiar, they are very small on the back and have a deep depression under the eyes.

Xiao Lingfeng smiled slightly, "Although the stonefish is ugly, its meat is fresh and tender, there are no fine spines, the nutritional value is very high, it has the medicinal effect of nourishing and moistening the lungs, and people with bad skin can eat it, and it can also play a beauty role." It is best stewed. The stewed stonefish has the medicinal effects of nourishing, nourishing, moisturizing the lungs, strengthening the kidneys and nourishing the skin. ”

"After the fat of the stonefish is dried, it is processed into fish maw and used in soup, which is smooth in the mouth and becomes a delicacy on the table, which is comparable to the best shark fin and bird's nest. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, said that stonefish can treat musculoskeletal pain and have the effect of warming and replenishing deficiency. ”

There is a wonderful mythical story about the stonefish, which is said that in ancient times, a large hole appeared in the sky, and the human beings created by Nuwa Niangniang suddenly fell into a boundless disaster. When Nuwa Niangniang saw this, she left tears of sadness, and the tears fell on the ground, turning into colorful colored stones.

So, Nuwa Niangniang brought these colored stones to the sky to make up for the sky. However, one day, when Nuwa Niangniang was mending the sky in the sky, she accidentally dropped a colored stone into the sea, and this colorful stone with divine power was waiting for Nuwa Niangniang to pick it up in the sea to make up for the sky, but Nuwa Niangniang was busy mending the sky and forgot that there was another colored stone that fell into the sea.

The sky has been mended, but the little colored stone is still waiting for Nuwa Niangniang, the little colored stone is waiting, waiting, waiting, this is thousands of years. Later, this small colored stone became a spirit at the bottom of the sea, and became a "stone fish" that looked like a colored reef.

Myths are myths after all, all made up by the predecessors, but this delicious stonefish was indeed regarded as a delicacy as early as the Qing Dynasty, according to records, Li Hongzhang of the Qing Dynasty also sent a commissioner to Maleang Town to purchase stonefish, as a banquet for foreign envoys and diplomatic officials in China.

"Are you sure this can be delicious?" Duan Xuerong stared at the honest stonefish in the shrimp pot with a distorted face, with a look of disbelief.

No matter how you look at it, this guy doesn't look like the kind of serious fish he usually eats, and he feels like he will gnaw on a stone.

"Of course, the taste is very delicious!" Xiao Lingfeng nodded affirmatively.

"I remember that I used to eat this fish when I was traveling, and I had to order it a few days in advance, and it was said that it was very troublesome to make, and it took several hours just to cook, but it tasted great!"

"I've never eaten stonefish, but this guy is highly poisonous. ”

"You underestimate me too much, I am a Chinese person, and I have come up with a cooking method many years ago, which is to cook at high temperatures for a long time. ”

"When the time comes, I'll go to the beach and grab one and come back and try it. ”

Xiao Lingfeng said solemnly, "Everyone must be careful when catching stonefish, stonefish is a very poisonous fish in nature, and its "fatal sting" can give humans the most painful sting. The 12 to 14 needle-sharp back stabs on its back can easily penetrate the soles of their shoes and penetrate the soles of their feet, causing them to quickly poison and remain in severe pain until they die. ”

The poisons bred by nature are quite powerful, from the giant Komodo dragon to the spider the size of a grain of rice......

"What Brother Feng said is too exaggerated, I don't believe it, unless you try it with your bare feet. ”

"Upstairs, you're too ruthless, what's the hatred here, you want to put Brother Feng to death?"

"Brother Feng is well-informed, I think it's better to believe in Brother Feng. ”

"Master of Wilderness Survival, I only admire Brother Feng now, he is simply an almighty existence!"

Xiao Lingfeng was very satisfied, "This harvest is quite rich, take these delicious seafood back, and then cook them well, I want to make a hearty seafood feast!"

There are still a lot of smoked meats in the shelter, and those meats were smoked without salt, but they have been basically dehydrated and can be stored for a few days, and they still enjoy the fresh and delicious seafood!

It was the morning, and I had eaten so much last night that I wasn't very hungry, so the seafood I got was temporarily kept in captivity in the sea, and the net of the shrimp pot was sealed with vines and sunk in the sea.

"The right way to preserve seafood is to keep it alive, but be careful not to mix these creatures together, because they kill each other, and you don't want to come back and find that the squid and lobster have died from the poison of the stonefish. ”