In rural areas, most people go to work during the day. So Cai Hongming came to his sister-in-law's village, and it was quiet everywhere, and he couldn't even see the shadow of a dog.

"Sister-in-law" Cai Hongming came to the door of his sister-in-law's house and shouted loudly.

His sister-in-law Cai Yuhuang's house is a three-story building, with a small stone courtyard in front of it, and now the iron gate is locked. This made Cai Hongming a little annoyed and thought that he should make a phone call first when he came, and he didn't know if his sister-in-law was not at home. His uncle collects seafood, and in the afternoon, he mostly drives to the nearby Linhai village to collect seafood, and then sells it to various restaurants in the city. His sister-in-law sometimes goes with her to help, but I don't know if she went today.

After calling for a long time, seeing that no one came out inside, Cai Hongming wanted to leave. At this moment, the window on the second floor opened, and a human head poked out of it. He took a look, and it was his cousin Qiaohong.

"Brother, you're back!" Lu Qiaohong saw Cai Hongming and shouted.

"Well, come down and open the door, I'll bring you something to eat."

"Wait."

Lu Qiaohong came down to open the door, and Cai Hongming drove the motorcycle in.

"Why didn't you go to work today?"

"Rest."

"Where's my sister-in-law?"

"I'm going to go shopping."

Cai Hongming asked as he drove the car in, then moved the things on the motorcycle to the house, and took a packet of candied fruit made of sand canopy dates for his cousin to eat. After chatting with his cousin for a while, and seeing that his sister-in-law had not yet returned, he took a bucket from home, went to the kitchen, found a small stick and a knife, and walked to the beach.

At home, except for his mother, he has the best relationship with his sister-in-law, because he can be said to be the eldest of his sister-in-law.

After his sister-in-law got married, he often came here to eat and drink. This can be said to be his second home in addition to Caijia Village.

In fact, there is a reason why the people of Zhenwei Village do not rely on the sea for food, because the village is a rocky beach near the sea, and it is impossible to park boats.

Normally, when the tide is high, the stones are submerged in the sea, but at low tide, you can see huge stones standing in the sea like pillars. Sailing in this kind of place is the most dangerous, if you are not careful, you will be hit by the underwater reef, and the boat will be wrecked and killed. Now is the time of low tide, Cai Hongming came to the beach, and saw the huge boulders exposed to the sea towering in the sea, waves crashing on it, splashing countless waves.

On the beach, tiny hermit crabs crawled around unscrupulously, and when they saw people coming, they quickly retracted into their shells.

This kind of thing has no meat, and the taste is not very good, Cai Hongming is too lazy to start.

He came to stand on the beach where the sea had flooded, and when the waves surged up the beach and receded, small holes would bubble up in the sand. When he saw this, he took a small stick and dug into the hole, and a small sand clam appeared in front of him. There was no meat in this kind of thing, but the soup was delicious, and he hadn't drunk it in a long time, so he was going to dig some up and cook it. It's just that when I go back, I guess I will be told by my sister-in-law, because the people on their beach disdain these things the most, they are small and have no meat to eat.

However, what is cheap by the sea has a certain value in the market. If it is as big as a thumb-thick sand clam, it can be sold for five yuan per catty, two or three small pieces, and about ten yuan if it is larger.

After digging a little sand clam and seeing that it was enough to cook a meal, Cai Hongming stopped digging, took off his shoes, and crawled towards the stone standing in the sea.

Rows of dog-claw snails grew between the cracks in the rocks in the sea, and they were what he was looking for.

The dog claw snail is also called the sea pheasant claw, and the ghost claw snail is called the ghost claw snail in Western countries, which they call "seafood from hell". Although this kind of thing doesn't have any meat, it tastes so fresh that few people will forget it after eating it once.

Cai Hongming dug it and saw that it was enough to fry a plate, so he didn't dig it. These things are fresh and delicious, and if you leave them overnight, they don't taste so good. In addition to the dog's claw snails, there were seaweed and oysters on the stones, and the seaweed had no taste, so he was too lazy to pick them, so he turned to the stones to find oysters.

This stone is the best place for oysters.

Although the people of Zhenwei Village do not beg for the sea, the women of the village come here every morning to dig oysters and sell them at the market. The oysters on the stones are often dug up, so they are very small, but even if they are small, they can still be sold for about fifteen yuan a pound when they are packed a little bit in the market.

The closer to the beach the oysters are, the smaller they are, because there are often people digging there, so Cai Hongming tries to jump to the stones in the distance to see if he can dig up a larger oyster.

The deliciousness of oysters is well known, and lazy people who don't want to cook just need to boil it a little and dip it in sauce and vinegar to eat it is a rare delicacy; If you are careful and grill it with minced garlic, the taste is so beautiful that you can swallow your tongue. Especially this freshly dug wild oyster, the taste is even more delicious.

Cai Hongming took the knife he brought, knocked out the oyster meat from the oyster attached to the rock and put it in his mouth, the delicious taste went straight to the heart and made people reminisce.

Oysters are not only delicious food, but also traditional Chinese medicine, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: eating more, can rejuvenate the skin, tonify the kidney and strengthen yang, and can cure deficiency and detoxify erysipelas. Modern medicine believes that oysters, also known as oysters, have seven major effects: 1. Strengthen the liver and detoxify; 2. Improve sexual function; 3. Blood congestion purification; 4. Recover fatigue; 5. Nourish and nourish the skin; 6. Improve immunity; 7. Promote metabolism.

Most of the oysters in Zhenwei Village are women, and they dig in the seawater where they can stand, and rarely dig from a distance.

The place where Cai Hongming went was quite far away from the beach, and people couldn't stand on it, so there were more oysters here and a little bigger. He dug for a while, and when he saw that he had almost enough to eat, he jumped back to the shore, intending to go back. I just jumped on the soft sand, and my feet suddenly emptied, and I sank in, and it seemed that I had stepped on something under my feet, which was weird.

Could it be a shell?

He has been to the beach so many times, he has seen countless small shells, but he has never seen any big ones, so it is not that business has come to the door today. Cai Hongming thought, lifted his foot, put down the bucket, and took the wooden stick he brought to dig into the sand. After a while, I saw something underneath.

Cai Hongming dug it up and saw that it was a big thing like a stone, with a slight white surface, very light weight, and a little fragrant.

I don't know what it is.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and he thought of something, and an expression of disbelief suddenly appeared on his face.