Liu Hualou's face was flushed by Yue Xi's words, and he was about to jump off the seawall, but Yue Xi pointed to his big white legs and signaled: "It's better to put down the robe, it's too conspicuous." ”

Liu Hualou lived in the spring breeze earlier, and deliberately took care of his skin, although he also said that he was a performer and not a person, however, even if he was an artist, he had to have a good skin......

He lowered his trouser legs with low eyebrows, Liu Hualou still jumped off the seawall without raising his head, and his feet fell on the craggy reef of the beach, he looked around, and saw that the villagers from far and near were looking for something in the cracks of the rocks with their heads down.

"It's a sea." Yue Xi whispered: "There is a market here until Linxian County, the villagers rely on the sea to eat the sea, let's also pick up some back, and there will be seafood to eat at noon and evening!" ”

"Whoa." Liu Hualou hurriedly walked behind Yue Xi and looked at what she was picking up.

Yue Xi squatted on the ground and was using an empty shell to buckle a clam from the crack in the stone, looked back at Liu Hualou, knowing that he only lived in the north, and was not familiar with these, she said in a low voice: "Today is sixteen, it is the time of the tide, when the tide recedes, there will be a lot of fish and shrimp, shellfish, and some seaweed growing on the bottom of the sea, most of these things are edible, and it doesn't take much effort to pick them up, most of the people who live near the sea have the habit of catching the sea." ”

"I see!" Liu Hualou also squatted down, followed the example of others and touched it on the beach, and it didn't take much effort for the two of them to fill a broken fishing net that Yue Xi picked up, and there was really no place to put it!

The two accompanying guards only crouched in front of and behind Yue Xi, but the two never looked down into the cracks in the stones, they only watched cautiously at the crowd around them and the large hill not far from the beach, always on alert.

Yue Xi also looked up from time to time to look around, and when the sky was bright and the red sun rose from the sea level, every qiē on the shore became bright, and it was easy to find the seafood scattered everywhere after the tide.

"Let's go back." Yue Xi looked at the various things that broke the fishing net, and there were already a lot of things, so he spoke.

As soon as the sky dawned, not only did it become easier to catch the sea, but it was also easy to see the crowd catching the sea by standing on the hill not far away and looking at the beach, Yue Xi didn't want to attract attention, so as soon as she lost the cover of the last bit of night in the morning, she immediately decided to hurry back.

Walking back to the small courtyard where she was temporarily rented, Yue Xi pushed open the far door, and Jin Niang walked out of the house, with a nervous look on her face that could not be concealed: "Yuexi, why don't you go out without me, and you have been gone for so long, you are in a hurry!" ”

"I'll just go out for a while, and you think I'm going to think like this?" Yue Xi entered the yard with a hippie smile, didn't go to the house, went directly into the kitchen and took two benches out, sat down, took off his shoes first, and backhanded the coarse grains of sand everywhere.

"I didn't expect them to go to the sea, otherwise I would have plastered my feet with stove ash so that I could walk barefoot on the beach."

"Wow, that's a lot!" Seeing the big bag of things in Liu Hualou's hand, Jin Niang walked over curiously and bent down to look: "Why is there everything here, it's a mess!" ”

"Don't be afraid of black faces if you eat steamed buns for nothing! The things that catch the sea are all for nothing, don't you pick up what you can eat when you see it......" Yue Xi threw his shoes on the ground and stretched them into his feet to pull, not serious!

"This ...... How do you eat this thing? Jin Niang took out a strange-shaped shell from the crack in the broken fishing net and asked.

"I picked it up for my son to play with!" Yue Xi glanced at it and said: "Put all the shellfish without openings in a wooden basin and soak them in some water, then put some salt, let them spit sand, and we will stir-fry and eat them at noon!" ”

"Okay." Jin Niang hurriedly went out of the kitchen to find a wooden basin, and as soon as she came out, she saw the broken net pocket thrown on the ground, and the Liu Hualou was gone.

"Xiao Liu'er, don't go into the house and go to the kang!" Yue Xi shouted at the door of the house that had not yet been closed: "Hurry up and clean yourself up, otherwise you will get sand everywhere!" ”

"Got it." The voice of Liu Hualou came from the house.

Jin Niang dragged the bag of things to Yue Xi's side, bent down and sat on the bench next to her, and began to seriously classify those things. Yue Xi stretched out her hand, rummaged through a large pile of things, and picked out a dozen or so shells: "Why are there only so few, I think I have picked up a lot......" she muttered quietly.

"Next time if you can get up, I'll take you with me, it's fun to catch the sea!" Yue Xi threw the shells into the wooden basin brought out by Jin Niang first, poured half a scoop of cold water, washed the shells and stacked them on the windowsill to dry, and then she put the basin back at Jin Niang's feet, put her hand close to her nose and smelled it, Yue Xi frowned: "It's so fishy!" ”

"You're fishy too...... I can't say what it tastes like. Jin Niang whispered.

"Go as the locals do, and say wherever you go. People here smell like that. Yue Xi raised his arm and frowned and sniffed a few times, faintly smelling some fishy saltiness.

"See the terrain here?" Yue Xi straightened up, leaning against the door frame, and asked one of the guards standing on the edge of the courtyard wall.

"I see it clearly." The guard did not hesitate and immediately said: "The beach here can indeed moor large boats, and it is unfathomable not far from the shore. ”

"The hills around are not high, but they are full of trees and it is easy to hide. And it is guarded at a high point, easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

Yue Xi nodded: "The beach here is a good place to moor the boat in calm waves." ”

It is surrounded by hills, which just block the sea breeze, and is a great place to build a port. Yue Xi pondered in his heart.

"In the early years, the port was almost built here." The guards who opened their mouths had eaten military rations in Dengzhou for several years, and although they had been away for many years, they still remembered the events of that year clearly.

"Then why wasn't it built?" Yue Xi asked.

"I just heard that all the baggage was transported to Dengzhou before it went ashore, and even our ship was robbed by the Japanese invaders!" The guards didn't speak loudly, but the people in the courtyard who heard this sentence were still shocked: a few years ago, the Japanese were so rampant that they even dared to rob the ships of the Jokhang Navy?!

Yue Xi's heart was different from what everyone thought, and she asked again: "Do you remember what happened in that month?" ”

"I don't know." After thinking about it, the guard replied affirmatively: "This incident has already happened when the subordinates were stationed in Dengzhou, and no one knows about it carefully. ”

"Hmm." Yue Xi nodded, didn't ask any more questions, walked to Jin Niang's side and sat down, and helped her clean up the seafood in the field.

At lunchtime, Yue Xi baked a few green onion cakes, and added green onions, ginger, oil and salt to the clams and shellfish that had been raised for a long time.

Everyone first used chopsticks to eat those things that were fried and then opened, and finally they simply used their hands, but they ate happily!

"Throw these shells out when you're done eating, otherwise you love to attract flies." Yue Xi got up after eating and drinking, and saw that there were still a lot of oysters in the basin that looked like stones, and wanted to wait for the evening to cook these dishes, but all seafood is difficult to survive without the sea, so it is better to eat fresh.

After noon, it was warm outside.

But guarding the seaside, as long as you don't stand in the sun, you can still feel the salty sea breeze blowing from time to time, which is much better than the imperial capital in July!

Yue Xi washed, changed into the clothes that smelled of the sea from the inside out, pulled his hair with a hairpin at will, and went back to the house.

Jin Niang hugged a few clothes and was about to go out, and when she saw Yue Xi coming in, she stopped and said, "Ming'er will take me with me when she goes to catch the sea again." ”

"Okay, but it's more convenient for you to change to men's clothes, where the trouser legs are pulled up, I'm afraid you'll be embarrassed!" As Yue Xi spoke, he took a box of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to the table and sat down.

"To ...... Two legs bare? Jin Niang's surprised mouth could barely be closed: "That...... You're exposed too? ”

Taking out the contents of the box and placing them on the table, Yue Xi raised his eyes and looked at her and nodded: "Yes, but I know that people who live by the sea are like this, so I smeared my legs with ashes in advance." ”

"Discredited...... It's also exposed...... It's not good in the end. Jin Niang muttered in a low voice: "I'm not going." ”

"If you don't go, you won't go, stay at home obediently, and save your tan." Yue Xi polished the ink, dipped the pen in it, and looked away with his eyes, his clothes looked thoughtful.

"If I don't go, you don't want to go." Jin Niang whispered again before leaving the house: "You, don't make trouble for yourself!" ”

"Looking for something? What am I looking for? Yue Xi looked at the two closed doors and didn't understand the meaning of her words for a while.

"Is there a post station in Dengzhou?" Yue Xi asked outside the door.

Where there is a post station, there is a messenger, and Yue Xi pondered that he had to write a letter back.

"You have to go to the prefecture and county, it's too remote here, and there is no post station." The guard's voice came from outside the door.

"Alas......" Yue Xi sighed softly, feeling that he would get a few cages of carrier pigeons to raise when he went back, and he would take them with him when he went out in the future, so it would be much more convenient to send and receive simple letters.

Liu Hualou came out of the house, peeked into Yue Xi's house, and saw that she was writing something at the desk, so he stood outside her door in an orderly manner, waiting for orders at any time.

At this time, the house and the house were quiet, and only occasionally the sound of Jin Niang's laundry was heard.

"You don't want to live anymore?" A cold voice came from outside the far door, clearly drifting into Yue Xi's ears, and her hand paused, biting her lower lip...... Yue Xi did not move.

In a blink of an eye, there was a 'bang' outside the door, and then I heard Liu Hualou say: "We are busy, and the distinguished guests have to let the villain speak if they want to see us, right?" ”

"Humph!" After a cold snort, Liu Hualou asked softly: "The master, the distinguished guest is here......

"Then please." Yue Xi said lightly, his voice was not hurried, and he couldn't hear any emotion.

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