"Don't pick up those pretty shells, pick up more of these live clams!"

At the exit of the bay, near a rocky beach, Chen Xu took off his robe and wore short-sleeved shorts to stand in the waist-deep water, bending down to find some clams and throw them on the shore.

There were also a few guards in shorts and shirtless groping in the water, and there were already a lot of clams on the shore, and a few little maids were picking them up with a few fish baskets.

However, a group of family members such as Meng Wanying, Shiyan, Yu Ji, and Chen Xi had no interest in these clams, and they were interested in those colorful and strange shells.

These shells are almost impossible to see in Xianyang, and the Wei River and the ditches are only black and ugly river mussels and snails, which are completely different from these beautiful sea shells.

Therefore, a group of women want to pick up more and bring them back to Xianyang to decorate.

"Engong, what are you doing with so many seashells?" Yu Wuya caught up and found that Chen Xu and the others were all small shells thrown ashore, and his face was full of surprise.

"Master Yu, Master Hou said that these clams can make a rare delicacy!" A little maid explained.

"Such a small lump is full of hard shells, and there is no meat in it, how can you eat it?" Yu Wuya squatted on the beach and picked up a pout.

"Don't look at it, come down and help catch more, the beach is dead, only the sea water is still alive, this thing is really delicious!" Chen Xu beckoned in the water.

"Don't lie to me!" Yu Wuya hesitated for a moment or took off his clothes, and jumped into the sea to look for it with only one pair of pants left, but after a while, he shouted that the shells in the shallow water were too small, so a fierce man plunged into the seawater, like a big sea fish, and went to the bottom of the water farther into the deeper water.

"Daddy, be careful!" Yu Ji stood on the shore and shouted worriedly.

"Worried about what he's doing, your dad is very watery!" At some point, Xia Zijin walked out from behind a reef.

"Did Daddy go to Yingzhou to learn to dive?" Yu Ji asked curiously.

"Earlier than that, I was trapped on the island with him by Huang Shi Gong, he went to the sea every day to catch fish and roast me to eat, and then when we escaped from the island, we were beaten into the sea by Huang Shi Gong, he dived to the bottom of the sea and looked for a long time before he rescued me, diving only needs to run the internal breath to learn to hold your breath!" Xia Zijin said as he looked at the blue sea with the gentle waves rolling.

"Wow, Daddy is so brave, is this why my aunt wants to marry my Daddy?" Yu Ji applauded in surprise.

Xia Zijin nodded with a slight flush on his cheeks, "Otherwise, how could I marry such a stupid person!" ”

"Hee-hee, where is Daddy stupid!" Yu Ji covered her mouth and snickered.

"It's not stupid, don't do business, take me all over the world all the year round to help his engong work, the wind and rain go to the sea and the bumps, I have never seen such a stupid person, one stupid, two stupid, now take me stupid!" Xia Zijin said coldly.

"Brother Xiaoxu is not stupid, I won't talk to you anymore!" Yu Ji pouted unhappily and left.

"Sure enough, a bunch of fools!" Xia Zijin's face showed inexplicable melancholy, in her opinion, all the people around Chen Xu were almost bewitched by Chen Xu and lost any self-judgment, and everyone seemed to know why they were so crazy to support Chen Xu, and treat everything he said as a holy decree.

"Haha, Engong, look, my conch is not big?" In the sea water more than ten zhang away from the shore, Yu Wuya emerged from the sea water, holding a colorful conch in his hand.

"Daddy, give it to me!" Yu Ji ran into the water excitedly, not caring that her skirt was wet by the seawater, and soon got the big conch that was passed by several guards.

"Wow, Uncle Yu is so powerful, Daddy, Xi'er also wants a big conch!" When Chen Xi saw it, he hurriedly stood on the shallows and jumped.

"Engong, there are a lot of invisible sea shells in the shallows in the deep water ahead, don't look for them on the shore, come with me!" Yu Wuya shouted and plunged into the sea again.

Chen Xu thought about it and went ashore to strip off his clothes, wearing only a pair of big pants and following Yu Wuya to the deep water area.

Chen Xu is not a landlubber, there was a small river in the village before he crossed, and he soaked in the river every day in the summer.

Five years ago, in order to save the water and Yu Wuya, Chen Xu also practiced his swimming skills in Jiaozhou Bay with local fishermen for more than a month when he built the first big boat in Langya, just to go deep into the sea and save his life in case of a crisis.

Although he hadn't swam in the sea for five years, Chen Xu quickly became familiar with it after a short period of adaptation, and he and Yu Wuya continued to plunge into the bottom of the sea five or six meters deep in search of delicious and fun things.

In the middle of August, the southeast coast is actually very hot, and it is just afternoon, the sea is blue and quiet under the strong sun, and the temperature of the sea is just right, neither hot nor cold.

At present, the Zhoushan Islands are almost still in the most primitive state, except for the local fishermen who use fishing nets and harpoons to catch fish and shrimp nearby, there is no pollution and damage at all on the seabed at a depth of several zhang, plus this area is just within the impact range of Zhejiang and the Yangtze River estuary, the location of the junction of fresh water and seawater, it is simply known as the paradise of fish and shrimp and sea shells, just dive down and take a look, in addition to the seaweed, there are groups of fish and shrimp swimming around, as well as various shell conch starfish, Colorful corals and sea stone flowers, which can only be seen in tropical waters on weekdays, can be seen everywhere, and they are colorful and pleasing to the eye.

That's the joy of diving!

Chen Xu and Yu Wuya came and went on the seabed near the exit of the bay, and soon touched several high-quality sea conchs, as well as two large oysters more than a foot long, small sea shells simply don't need to be fished, just grab a few in the gravel at the bottom of the water, most of them Chen Xu doesn't know, but whether they can eat them or not, these sea shells are colorful and strange, and it is definitely a good small gift to take back Xianyang to give to the children of relatives and friends, so Chen Xu also got a lot of large and small conch shells. Thrown on the shore, a group of women suddenly found a treasure, shouting that this is beautiful and that is good, each picking some beautiful conch and shells, ready to take back to Xianyang.

After almost an hour of excitement, the sun began to set in the west. Under the golden sunset, a group of flowery women each selected a large number of beautiful seashells, while more than a dozen guards also picked up hundreds of large and small shells in the shallow sea, and the fish baskets of several little maids were completely unfitting.

"Husband, it's a little cold, come up!" Ying Shi, Meng Wan and others stood on the shore and waved and shouted.

"Engong, it's almost enough to eat!" After Yu Wuya's swimming, he also felt that he was lacking interest.

He is not Chen Xu and these people have been staying in Xianyang, but in the past few years, they have either been in Yingzhou Langya or sailed in the sea between Yingzhou and Langya by boat, and they have almost no interest in the seawater, such a beach is almost the same as a mud pit, not fun at all, only Meng Wanying Shiyan and others who have never seen the sea will feel that this is already the most beautiful sea, in fact, it is not.

"Go ashore, your tired hands and feet are weak!" After an hour, even if Chen Xu had practiced authentic Taoist internal breath for several years, he felt that his tired hands and feet were a little weak at this time.

And when Chen Xu and the others packed up their spoils and returned to the vicinity of the big boat, the fishermen who had been fishing in the nearby waters also returned to the shore one after another, and went out seven or eight in the morning, but after word of mouth, under the sunset, more than 30 fishing boats came to the entire bay one after another, and fishermen from several villages near this bay came.

After Chen Xu and Yu Wuya washed in the stream, put on their clothes and came to the dock by the sea again, it was already crowded with people, like a small market.

More than 200 musketeers, dozens of guards and servants, and the crew of the two large ships, all of whom together numbered more than 400 people, all gathered noisily on the beach to watch the fishermen continue to move to the shore for a harvest.

Chen Xu didn't want to eat fish, although the sea fish was nutritious, but it was not very suitable for the appetite of a group of wives and concubines, after eating a meal at noon, Ying Shiyan and a group of women did not eat a few fish carefully cooked by Chen Xu, on the contrary, it was a pot of cold kelp silk sweet and sour crisp won high praise, and was eaten cleanly.

And Yu Wuya and a group of seafarers and shipwrights are not interested in eating sea fish, they prefer to eat rice noodles, the cooking method on the ship is also very simple, there are too many people, it is impossible to stir-fry vegetables, basically boiled and steamed, and it is not as delicate as Chen Xu's steaming, it is generally a big steamer steaming a big pot at a time, in addition to the salt on the seaside, green onions, ginger, garlic peppers, mustard soy sauce, wine, tempeh, these are all valuable seasonings, put less, and the taste will naturally not be very good.

The chefs on board the ship are the same as the chef team of the silk factory, but they are full according to the regulations, and the requirements for them are too high.

However, Chen Xu still hopes to improve the level of these chefs through today's personal demonstration of frying and frying, even if he only learns a little fur, he can add a lot of flavor to the daily life of seafarers in the future.

The simplest is boiled shrimp in white water, and it is a good delicacy when eaten with a little sauce and seasoning.

There are also cold salad kelp shreds, stone cauliflower, sea cabbage, etc., which are easy to make and can be seen everywhere in the sea.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, the Chinese, a race of foodies who are at ease with their encounters, will not develop how to go out and mix the world with the ingredients they eat.

In Xiaohe Village, Chen Xu developed daily ingredients such as eel, snakes, frogs, loaches, etc., and even fried yam with green apricot sauce, which can be called invincible, and in addition to countless delicious foods developed in Xianyang, there are snails, crabs, ice powder and other more off-the-shelf foods, and when he went to Guangling, he developed the silkworm chrysalis, and today he went to the sea, so free and rich, he didn't get the former seafood stall out and put it on the table, I am sorry for the name of the takeaway brother and the traverser.