Chapter 208: A flash of inspiration
Xiaocao found that she had deviated far from the original place, and she smiled and said to her new friend, "Xiaobu, can you take me for a ride?" "Xiaobu is the name she gave to the little dolphin.
With the little mending stone pointing the way, and the little dolphin galloping all the way on her back, when Xiaolian's mood was on the verge of collapse, Xiaocao finally appeared in their line of sight.
"Look! What is that? It can't be a shark, right? Zhou Shan first saw the black shadow galloping in the distance, and screamed in a little horror.
Zhuang Xiaomo, a dark boy, followed the prestige, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, shook his head and said, "It's not like a shark, the shark's exposed fins on the sea are triangular." The Dark Shadow...... I look like a human being, but ...... The speed and posture of a person's swimming cannot be like that. It's weird!! ”
Zhou Sankou suddenly opened his mind: "You say...... Could it be a mermaid? Isn't the legendary mermaid quite fast when she swims in the sea? ”
Zhuang Xiaomo glanced at her like a fool, and said: "Legend has it that mermaids only appear under the moonlit night, singing seductive songs, attracting people and confusing people......"
"Little ...... Younger sister!! Yu Xiaolian's surprise shouted interrupted the argument between the two. They looked at the figure swimming quickly in surprise, and sure enough, it was Yu Xiaocao, who had been missing for nearly half an hour. I was a little far away and couldn't see what she was lying on. That thing is not slow to swim.
"Little Lotus! Coral-" Yu Xiaocao put one hand around the fins on the back of the little dolphin, and waved it vigorously with the other, and the sound came from afar.
Zhou Shan swam a few steps forward and screamed excitedly: "Ah! Xiaocao came riding a fish!! Xiaolian, are you sure that your little sister is not the youngest daughter of the Sea Dragon King? Otherwise, how could the fish listen to her? ”
Zhuang Xiaomo looked at the little girl riding a dolphin in the distance and couldn't help but be stunned. Oh, my God! This little girl is definitely not mortal, otherwise how could she tame an unrestrained dolphin?
Tears of excitement welled up in Yu Xiaolian's eyes, and she tried her best to swim in the direction of her little sister. The speed of the little dolphin is very powerful, and it quickly came to the three of them. The little dolphin stopped a little timidly not far from the three of them, and let out a "yaa" cry from his mouth.
Yu Xiaocao gently patted its slippery head and said soothingly: "Don't be afraid, they won't hurt you." Thank you, Xiaobu! ”
She got off the back of the dolphin, and as soon as she swam to Xiaolian's side, she knocked her on the head fiercely: "Who told you to swim so far, if something happens, how do you tell me to explain to my father and mother and your godfather?" I think taking you to the sea is the worst decision I've ever made!! ”
Yu Xiaocao saw that Xiaolian's eyes were red and she looked angry, so she hurriedly accompanied her and said carefully: "Xiaolian, don't be angry, I won't dare to do it in the future." It was because I met Xiaobu just now, so I forgot the time to play with it, and it will definitely not be like this in the future. Just forgive me this time! ”
Zhou Shan glanced at the little dolphin swimming happily not far from them, his eyes flashed with a sparkling light, and said enviously: "Xiaocao, is Xiaobu the name of that little dolphin?" It's so cute! You're so good at taming a dolphin! Tell me how to do it? ”
Yu Xiaocao ignored her, continued to say good things to make Xiaolian happy, and finally amused her. Xiaocao secretly wiped the non-existent sweat on her forehead: Xiaolian is usually not without temper, but she has never used it to her.
Zhou Shan was still pestering her and asking her to share her experience in taming the dolphin. Yu Xiaocao's eyes widened, looked at her innocently, and said confusedly: "What? Still to tame? Xiaobu found me to play with me by himself? Xiaobu is a little dolphin who is close to people, very well-behaved and obedient! ”
Zhuang Xiaomo and Zhou Coral had expressions of "you liar". Although dolphins have a docile temperament, they are not very courageous, and whenever they encounter a ship going to sea, they just watch from a distance. Of course, the older generation has also told stories about dolphins saving people, but I haven't heard of anyone who has actually encountered it.
"Don't believe it! Xiaobu, come and say hello to everyone. Yu Xiaocao beckoned, and the little dolphin wandering on the side swam towards her happily, gently touched her wrist with his kiss, and as if he could understand her words, he stood upright in the water, and a fin swung a few times towards Zhou Coral.
"Wow! Boo is so cute!! I want to have one as a pet!! Zhou Coral cautiously approached the little dolphin, and seeing that it was not repulsive, he tried to gently stroke its back with his hand. The little dolphin clings to the grass obediently, motionless and allowed to be petted.
Yu Xiaocao gently touched the little guy's head with the hand tied to the multicolored stone, and a spiritual power was slowly injected into the little dolphin's body. The little dolphin's eyes lit up and he got closer to the grass.
Xiaolian watched the interaction between her little sister and the little dolphin, and believed that her little sister was not an ordinary person, could it be ...... Is she the reincarnation of some little fairy?
Zhuang Xiaomo also leaned over and touched the dolphin, feeling the smoothness of its skin, and said to Zhou Sango: "Dolphins belong to the sea, and only in the sea can they live freely." Keeping dolphins as pets is not a good thing for them......"
Xiaocao looked at the swarthy young man approvingly, and asked suspiciously: "Xiaolian, ...... is he?"
Zhou Shan chattered and hurriedly spoke: "He! is called Zhuang Xiaomo, he is from Wuliu Village, and he is a good diver I just mentioned. He can hold his breath in the sea for seven or eight minutes, and he is quite famous in several nearby villages. ”
Zhuang Xiaomo smiled at her honestly and said, "I know your sisters, at the dock, your family's braised vegetables are famous." I haven't seen you go to the dock for the past two days, and the business is not done? ”
When it comes to her business, Xiaolian can't help but show a smile on her face: "It's hot, meat and vegetables are not easy to preserve, let's talk about it when it comes out of Futian!" My little sister and I were thinking about it to see if there was any business we could do in the summer, and finally we were relieved of the heat and had a full stomach......"
Yu Xiaocao saw that Xiaolian's face was already showing a trace of exhaustion, and said with a smile: "If you have anything to say, let's talk about it, what does it look like to soak in the water?" ”
The little dolphin reluctantly followed behind her, Xiaocao turned his head and waved at it, and said, "Xiaobu, go back!" I will come to the beach often to see you in the future!! ”
The little dolphin rubbed its head against her, flicked its tail, and swam back into the depths of the ocean three times in one step. The smell of that little human girl was so irresistible that I wanted to stay with her forever. It's a pity that human beings live on the shore, but they can't do without the ocean, melancholy......
When he came to the nearby reef, Xiaolian's clothes were all wet and clinging to his body, Zhuang Xiaomo turned his back with a red face. Xiaocao dragged Xiaolian to a hidden reef and asked Xiaolian to change into her clothes, while she wrung out Xiaolian's clothes and draped them over the water.
"Huh? What is it? Yu Xiaocao saw that there were many purple-red objects floating in the sea near the reef, how did it look a bit like the stone cauliflower she had eaten in the meal in her previous life? No, isn't rock cauliflower a seaweed that grows on deep-sea rocks? How could it be so much floating on the surface of the sea?
Xiaolian bent down and fished out a handful from the sea, looked at it herself, shook her head and said, "I don't know what it is, it must be a sea vegetable in the sea, I don't know if I can eat it......"
Zhuang Xiaomo didn't know when he appeared behind the sisters, leaned over to take a look, and said, "This should be sea hairy vegetables, you can eat it!" Mix it with salt and vinegar and it tastes okay! However, this thing is rare in the shallow sea, and it floats up so much, it's very abnormal! ”
Yu Xiaocao has identified these dark purple seaweeds as stone cauliflower, commonly known as sea hairy cabbage. Her eyes lit up, and she suddenly had an idea! In her previous life, she had sold jelly for a period of time, and she specially looked up the practice of jelly from the Internet.
Among them, there is a kind of sea jelly, which is made with sea hairy cabbage as a raw material. The method is very simple, that is, boil the sea hair cabbage for several hours, and wait for the sea hair cabbage to boil, and after cooling, it will become cold powder. However, sea hair cabbage grows in the deep sea, which is very laborious to collect, and the prices sold in the market are very expensive, so she gave up sea jelly and chose to use sweet potato flour and mung bean flour as raw materials to make jelly.
She also felt very strange, how could the deep-sea plant sea hairy cabbage appear in large numbers on the beach? I've never seen anything like this before, have you? No matter what, these are all raw materials for making money, and they are obtained for free, if you don't pick them up, you won't pick them up!
"Xiaolian, I'm useful for these sea vegetables, let's pick up some more and go back!" Sango, could you please go back and help us get some baskets? Yu Xiaocao looked at those sea hairy vegetables with bright eyes and spoke.
Zhou Shan promised to rush back, since Xiaocao said that these sea hairy vegetables were useful, he must have figured out fresh food. She helped Xiaocao pick up more and go back, Xiaocao was generous, and she would definitely not treat her badly. Thinking of the food that was about to reach his mouth, Zhou Coral ran more energetically.
Picking up "sea hair" is not a hassle at all, because it is easy to identify in the shallow water, just bend down to pick it up. "Hairy cabbage" is dark purple all over, shiny, said to be a "vegetable", in fact, it is more like a delicate coral, but also like a miniature crown, the branches are branched, the lines are dense but not messy, and the branches are slightly thin, like dense hair.
As soon as I grabbed it in my hand, it trembled in the palm of my hand, full of elasticity and toughness, and pinched off one of its "branches", which felt brittle and tender, and seemed to be able to hear the breaking sound of "bar".
When Zhou Shan came over with a few baskets, he was followed by Fang Zhen and Yu Hang. The house town came back from the dock, and at noon I didn't see my goddaughter come back, and I was about to come out to look for it, when I met the little coral girl who came home to get the basket. Noon is the most leisurely time of the day for harvesting seafood, and Yu Hang also came over to help carry the baskets.