Chapter 157: Sandworms

In the early morning, a red sun rises from the place where the sea and the sky meet. The gentle spray of the sea breeze gently laps against the golden sand. It is at low tide that the industrious people of the fishing village call their friends to take their tools and go to the beach to catch the sea.

The spring water is cool, brushing the bare feet of the fishermen. The selfless sea has nurtured generations of fishermen, and at this time, there are countless gifts from the sea, waiting for fishermen to discover them like treasures.

"Xiaocao-Xiaocao-" Zhou San's clear voice crossed the high wall and entered the courtyard of the Yu family. The slender figure of the little girl soon appeared at the gate of the courtyard. Xiaocao and Xiaolian, who were working in the vegetable field, looked at her in unison.

Zhou Shan looked at the two almost identical faces, first stunned for a moment, blinked a few times with big eyes, laughed dryly, and said, "Xiaolian is also at home!" That's even better!! I have good news for you! ”

Xiaolian pursed her lips and smiled, "What good news, to make you happy?" Your mother also told you a good family affair? ”

Zhou Sango's sister Zhou Linglong, who just got married last month, is talking about the son of a grocery store shopkeeper in the town. The owner of this grocery store, like Zhou Linglong's father, was also a merchant who walked the streets. He was quick-witted and soon amassed a fortune and rented a shop in the town to sell groceries.

The grocery store owner has a good relationship with Zhou Linglong's father, and the two have a close relationship. Now almost all the goods sold by the Zhou family are taken from their family. There is a son in that family, who is the same age as Zhou Linglong, and he has seen him when he was a child, and he is a young man with good character. It is almost a matter of course for the two families to become in-laws. Zhou Linglong is now embroidering a dowry at home to be married, and Zhou Shan is an idle person, so he often runs to the Yu family to harass Xiaocao. No, I don't know what sesame seed-sized things are exaggerated by her.

Zhou Shan is one year older than Xiaocao and them, and the ten-year-old little girl already knows how to be ashamed, she glared at Xiaolian with a red face, and said, "Xiaocao, you will bully me!" I'm going to tell Uncle Yu! ”

Xiaocao, who bent down to pick vegetables, felt that he had been shot while lying down, and said flatly: "I said coral, before you file a complaint, do you have to figure out the object?" I haven't said a word since you walked in. Why did they bully you? ”

Liu, who was loading the vegetables in the basket, smiled gently, and when she saw the three little girls who looked like flowers and bones, she felt that it was pleasing to the eye.

When Zhou Shan heard this, he knew that he had mistaken the Xiaocao sisters again, and smiled embarrassedly: "Oops! You two look too alike, I admit it's wrong again! Xiaolian, how come your mouth can't learn to keep the door open? ”

Okay! This means that her mouth has never had a door! Xiaocao immediately fought back: "Although Xiaolian and I are twins, we are not exactly the same. Your sister never missed it! It seems that your IQ is worrying! ”

"IQ? What is IQ? Zhou Shan asked with wide eyes stupidly.

Xiaocao picked a lettuce, gently shook off the soil on it, and said with disgust: "I told you that you don't understand!" Anyway, you don't have that thing, so why do you know so clearly? ”

Xiaolian smiled on the side. Zhou Shan finally understood that Xiaocao must not have said good things about her, puffed up her cheeks, and said, "Xiaocao will bully people." Xiaolian, tell me, what is IQ? ”

Xiaolian pointed to her head and said with a smile: "Go yourself!" ”

Zhou Shan frowned and thought hard, revealing a sudden embarrassment, and shouted: "Okay, you Yu Xiaocao, you actually said that I have no brains!" I'm not stupid, people are smart!! ”

Seeing that the little sisters were noisy and shouting, they were lively and lively, and they were afraid that their daughters would annoy people, so they hurriedly said: "Xiaocao! Don't bully Coral anymore, do you hear me? Sango, what good news did you just say? ”

Zhou Shan slapped his head and shouted, "Oops! I almost forgot about business! Xiaocao, Dr. Sun from Tongrentang personally came to our village, saying that he wanted to collect sea intestines at a high price! ”

Xiaolian said with a questioning face: "Collect the sea intestines?" What the hell do you want that thing for? Could it be that sea intestines are also a medicinal herb? ”

Xiaocao followed Dr. You to memorize a lot of medical books, and immediately said: "Sea intestines, also known as sandworms, are cold in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and have the effect of nourishing yin and reducing fire, clearing the lungs and replenishing deficiency. According to the medicine book, it is most suitable to eat sandworms if there are symptoms such as bone steaming hot flashes, yin deficiency and night sweats, lung deficiency, cough and asthma, chest tightness and phlegm, and women's postpartum milk scarcity; For tuberculosis cough, neurasthenia, spleen deficiency or dryness in children, it is curative to drink lean meat soup with sand worms and ginger slices; Because sandworms nourish yin and nourish the kidneys, children with frequent nocturia due to kidney deficiency can get good results by cooking sandworm porridge and eating it......"

"Oops! The sea intestines are so useful, no wonder Tongrentang paid a hundred dollars a pound to buy it! Xiaocao, Xiaolian, let's hurry up! lest the good tidal flats be taken up by men! Before Zhou Sankou finished speaking, he ran back to get tools like a gust of wind.

Xiaolian flattened her mouth, and said not very optimistically: "The sea intestines are so easy to dig, they all hide under the sand, and they will drill into a very deep place when they have a little movement, and they may not be able to dig one after digging for a long time!" ”

Liu looked at the pair of little daughters and said to them with a smile: "Let's go and see it with Sango!" It's just a distraction. ”

Two daughters, one usually stays at home to serve vegetables and melon fields, and the other goes to the dock to sell braised vegetables for a long time, and rarely has the opportunity to communicate and play with their peers. Liu's two sensible daughters are both relieved and distressed. Fortunately, now the child's father's leg is healed, and the eldest son's injury has also recovered, and the family is no longer as eager to split in half as before. It's time for the daughters to relax and make friends with the little sisters.

Yu Xiaocao is very interested in digging sandworms. She knows that in addition to the medicinal value, the nutritional value of sandworms is also very high, and if it is done well, the taste is absolutely nothing. Although sandworms are not as valuable as sea cucumbers, shark fins, and abalone, they are delicious and crispy, which is beyond the reach of sea cucumbers and shark fins.

She happily took the small shovel that her father had made for her, carried a small bucket, and beckoned Xiaolian to go to the beach together. Xiaolian saw that her little sister was rarely so interested, so she went out with her.

Zhou Shan was already waiting not far from her house with a basket, and beside her was her brother Zhou Shaohua, who rarely went out to sell goods at home. This week, Shaohua's age is not much different from Qian Wen and Wednesday Shao. Maybe he has been running around with his father all the year round, his skin is darker than the two of them, and the Zhou family's unique three-dimensional facial features make him look older than his actual age, and he feels a little manly. Of course, compared to Zhao Han, he is a little worse!

Alas! Brother Han has been back in Beijing for more than ten days, and I really miss him a little!

"Hurry, hurry! If we have enough of it, we will have to work in vain! "Zhou San's personality is relatively jumpy, and he talks like a little sparrow.

At the urging of the coral girl, the group of four soon came to the beach. On the tidal flats along the coast, many figures are busy.

"Oops! The water is so cold!! Zhou Sango's feet in straw sandals were quickly wet by the seawater, and she frowned and complained.

At the foot of the grass are the deerskin boots that I don't get on Wednesday. The boots are well made and not permeable at all. However, the deerskin boots soaked in the sea water are really distressing. The boots on Xiaolian's feet are made of shark skin, and the water barrier effect is also good.

Zhou Shan looked at the sisters enviously, and whispered to his brother: "If our father can hunt sharks, it would be nice to make me a pair of boots!" ”

Zhou Shaohua laughed sullenly and said, "Don't dream! There's not a lot of people over there, so let's go there! ”

Yu Xiaocao had never dug up sandworms, and took a small shovel to dig in the tidal flats. Xiaolian stopped her with tears and laughter: "There is a trick to digging sea intestines, you can't dig so indiscriminately." To dig the intestines of the sea, you must first find the worm eyes. You see, there are such a handful of things on the beach, this is the hole of the sea intestines, when digging, the pace should be light, dig fast, otherwise if there is movement, the sea intestines will drill very deep. And don't dig straight down, there should be such a large angle with the beach. ”

Xiaocao picked up the shovel and dug hard into the sandworm's eye. It took a lot of digging to dig a fat sandworm out of it. The sandworm is naked, like a fattened version of an earthworm, and it looks quite creepy.

"We just moved a little bit, so this sea intestine is hiding deeper. Let's spread out and dig carefully! Xiaolian put the sandworm into the small bucket of grass and carried the basket in the other direction.

Xiaocao continued to walk along the seashore, and after a while, he found a sandworm's eye. She put down the bucket, dug and dug hard, dug a hole deep, and lay down on the tidal flat, her face pressed against the sand, and her hand stretched out and touched it hard. It took a whole body and a face covered in sand to get out the sandworm that was trying to burrow into the sand.

It's so hard! If only the sandworms could come out on their own...... Hey? Doesn't she have a cheating artifact in her hand - the Little Mending Heaven Stone?

[Hmph! I've been assigned such a low-level task again! It's an insult to my godhead!! The multicolored stone on Xiaocao's wrist glows with golden light, slowly forming a cute mini kitten. It held its head high, stepped on tsundere's steps, and walked up and down the beach.

Xiaocao touched its little head with its sand-stained hand, and was slapped away by its paw in disgust, staring at its golden vertical pupils, and screaming: "It's dirty! You should touch my holy hair with such dirty hands. I don't take this god stone seriously!! 】

"Dirty? Well, it's a little dirty, isn't it dirty when you take a shower? Yu Xiaocao smiled evilly, and while the little golden cat was not paying attention, he pinched the back of its neck and picked it up, and threw it into the sea.

【Yu! Small! Grass!! This god stone will make you regret doing this to me today!! The golden kitten, who is not good at using spells in the eyes of everyone, falls into the sea in a parabola.