Chapter 14: Picking Mussels
In this way, the three of them rummaged on the rocky beach for more than 3 hours.
Li Xiaofeng opened the map and looked at it, and found that the places that were easy to hook had been almost found.
The rest were either too small or too deep to be reached with a long hook, so Li Xiaofeng proposed to go home.
Looking at the time, Liu Xuexia and Li Yonglin also felt that it was almost time to go back today.
In other words, hooking blue crabs is really manual work, and most of the time you can only bow your body or squat there.
After a few hours, the three people also had back pain.
However, I did catch a lot of crabs today, which can be regarded as a burst of barrels.
When I walked back with the bucket, fortunately it was close to lunch time and there were not many people on the beach, so it didn't cause a stir.
Riding a tricycle like this, the three of them arrived home in a short time.
After arriving home, Liu Xuexia began to cook, and the three of them dealt with it casually in the morning, and they were already hungry.
Li Yonglin and Li Xiaofeng are responsible for classifying the harvest of today's sea by type and weight.
The blue crabs were specially selected and put together, and the large and small combined were more than 30 catties.
It sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is more than 40 crabs, and if it is divided into three people, it is equivalent to each person catching more than a dozen crabs.
Other crabs are put together, mainly orchid crabs, stone crabs, pike crabs, red armor red, and they add up to three or four catties.
Pick out the broken legs and feet, these are worthless, keep them for your own family to eat.
Eel, squid, Qingzhan and other miscellaneous fish add up to four or five catties, although it is not very valuable, but the refrigerator at home is full, and they are all sold.
Pipi shrimp also has more than 3 catties, in addition to some snails such as razor clams, Dongfeng snails, mud snails, spicy snails, etc., adding up to more than ten catties.
It's not worth much, though.
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After these are divided, Liu Xuexia's meal is also ready.
Steamed crab, boiled shrimp, stir-fried squid, abalone soup.
Li Xiaofeng, who eats this meal, is really physically and mentally smooth.
When I used to work in Mingyang, the most unforgettable thing was the taste of my mother's cooking in my memory.
After eating, Li Yonglin drove a tricycle and took today's harvest to the town, and the seafood was to be sold while they were alive and fresh.
After eating, I cleaned up.
Liu Xuexia asked Li Xiaofeng to take out all the fishing nets at home with her, prop them up with ropes and bamboo poles, and take advantage of the better sunlight today to dry them.
Some people who have been to the beach may be surprised by how often fishermen dry their nets.
Sometimes when you go to the fishing village, you can even see the whole fishing village drying nets everywhere, which is very spectacular.
Fishermen also have a saying that "three days of fishing and two days of drying nets".
This is mainly because most of the fishermen's fishing nets are woven with hard hemp fibers, which are easy to swell and rot after absorbing water.
In order to extend the life of their nets, fishermen have to dry their nets frequently.
The nets used by fishermen on the seashore are not the kind of small nets used in inland areas, and they generally have to be at least tens or hundreds of meters.
Of course, such nets are not cheap, at least thousands, like some distant-water fishing boats, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of nets.
Although the sea has not yet opened, the humidity on the beach is relatively high, so the fishing nets still have to be taken out to dry when they have time.
And fishermen can also check whether the fishing net is broken or rotten at the same time as drying the net, so that it can be repaired in time.
If you find out that the net is broken after going to sea, the loss will be great.
Watching my mother mend the net, the needle mending the net shuttled between the meshes at a rapid pace.
This is a technical job, Li Xiaofeng is not good at it, and he didn't come forward.
sat next to him, chatted for a while, and watched videos.
I don't know why, but I suddenly want to eat mussels.
So I said hello to Liu Xuexia and said, "Mom, I'll go to the beach to pick some mussels and come back to eat!" ”
"Okay! Then you go early and return early, and pay attention to safety at the beach! Liu Xuexia replied.
Living by the sea is good for this, if you want to eat seafood, you can immediately go to catch it.
After saying hello, put on water shoes, carried a plastic bucket, threw a pair of gloves and a hook bent into a thin steel bar, and rode off on the battery car.
When it comes to mussels, the first time you hear the name, you may think it is a wild vegetable, but it is also commonly referred to as mussels, sea rainbows, or mussels.
Mussels, that's what they call them here.
Speaking of mussels, this place is flooded!
On the reef, on the tidal flats, everywhere.
If there are too many things, they will not be able to sell them at a price.
If you want to eat, you can pick it at the beach by yourself, and it will be enough for your own family.
And sometimes this thing is a bit troublesome to eat, so there are not too many people picking it.
Mussels are everywhere, and people have developed a variety of ways to eat them.
When you put down the noodles, you can put a little bit of it, which is very fresh;
When you make the soup, you can put a little bit of it, and the taste of the soup will become fresh;
When boiling porridge, you can also put a little mussel meat, plus a little shrimp and the like, so that it is a sweet and delicious seafood porridge.
It can also be stir-fried, boiled, braised, and even dried into dried mussels if you don't have trouble shooting.
In short, there is a variety of ways to eat.
After riding the car for a while, Li Xiaofeng came to a reef.
Although this thing can also be picked up on the tidal flats, it may be psychological, and he always feels that it may be cleaner if it is attached to the reef.
Before I walked to the side, I could see that the reef was densely adsorbed everywhere.
If you are a person with a phobia of intensity, you will probably have a numb scalp after reading it.
Put on gloves, find a large and fat place for mussels, and break it hard, it is a handful.
In fact, this thing is still a bit laborious to pick up, and it is very tightly adsorbed on the reef!
But Li Xiaofeng's recent strength is much greater than before.
Due to the obvious effect, Li Xiaofeng has been insisting on practicing the set of exercises of the Muria people recently.
Now, whether it's strength, speed, endurance or other physical qualities, he finds that he has improved a lot.
In terms of strength, his strength is at least twice as strong now as before.
If he used to be just an ordinary person's strength, now he is estimated to be able to catch up with some professional athletes.
Pick a handful here, pick a handful there, and in a short time the relatively fat mussels on this reef will be picked by him.
Carry the bucket and continue to pick it in another place!
While picking mussels, he also found some spicy snails and oysters, and did not hesitate to take them all home.
On a reef near the water's edge, he found a patch of mussels, much fatter than usual.
Don't hesitate, quickly pick it off, but I don't know if I'm lucky or not, if I can find a pearl inside.
Yes, it is possible to find pearls in mussels, but they are generally smaller, and everyone doesn't care.
If pearls can be found in this super fat mussel, it should be quite large.
After working like this for more than an hour, Li Xiaofeng's bucket was already half a bucket.
Don't pick it, these are enough for the family to eat for a short time, go back and raise it with clean water, when you want to eat, you can catch it directly.
For more than an hour, except for a golden pomfret of about 1 catty that was photographed by the waves, Li Xiaofeng did not find anything else.
Looking at the map and the schools of fish in the sea, Li Xiaofeng could only hope that the fishing ban period would end soon!
Pack up your things, carry your bucket, ride your little electric donkey, and go home.
After arriving home, Li Yonglin had already returned, and sold for a total of 4,678 yuan.
Alas, it was another unpretentious day with no surprises, and Li Xiaofeng thought of Versailles a little.