Chapter 39: Peeling Shrimp
The beach was quiet, Sun You looked at Shen Shi with an indifferent face and a sharp blade in his hand as if he didn't know Shen Shi, and Hou Sheng and the other three teenagers were also stunned at this time, even the red clam girl starfish standing on the side looked at Shen Shi who was splashed with shrimp blood with a hint of surprise.
Maybe it's because the body structure of the ghost face shrimp is different from that of domestic livestock such as pigs and sheep after all, although Shen Shi's knife shocked his companions, but the effect was not as clean as the sea urchin killed by the red mussel man before.
Shen Shi frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then slashed with his knife again, this time finally killing the cyan sea shrimp. Then, under the gaze of everyone, he silently inserted the thin and sharp blade into the gap between the hard shells of the belly of the ghost shrimp as demonstrated by the sea urchin before, and began to peel the shell.
When the sea urchin kills the ghost face shrimp, and then peels the shell to take the meat, all the actions are done in one go, fast and smooth, but when he arrives at Shen Shi, he suddenly becomes stumbling, the knife is inserted into the shrimp shell, and when he moves slightly, he finds that it is stuck by the hard shrimp shell, Shen Shi found that the original shrimp seam is not a straight line, but an inconspicuous secret with many twists and turns, and the knife must be mastered when peeling the shell to keep changing directions, so as to find space to peel off the shrimp shell.
The sharp blade then began a long and difficult struggle against the hard shrimp shell, blue blood kept flowing out of the wound, staining the ground around where he was standing, and half of his body was stained with blood, looking like a monster bathed in a strange blue, exuding a thick bloody and murderous aura.
The faces of the young men watching next to him slowly changed, and two of them suddenly turned around and left, and only Sun You, who was forced to calm down, and Hou Sheng, the little fat man, remained in place. It's just that when the blade in Shen Shi's hand kept making a tooth-aching and even creepy clicking sound after rubbing against the hard shell, looking at the somewhat terrifying scene in the pool of blood, even the two of them couldn't bear it for a while.
The corners of Hou Sheng's mouth twitched twice, and he muttered a few words in a low voice, as if he was saying something like "count you ruthless", and finally turned around and left, it seemed that he still couldn't accept the strange task of this red clam village. As for Sun You, who was born in a family since he was a child, he had naturally never seen such a bloody scene before today, and he was able to persist until now, to be honest, even he admired himself a little.
However, looking at the ghost shrimp that had been peeled off more than half of the shrimp shells on the ground and the big pool of blue stained blood, Sun You still asked himself if he really couldn't stand this scene, and after laughing a little, he walked to Shen Shi's side and said with a dry smile: "Shen Shi, you, you are amazing...... I still can't do this, so I'll go back first. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to pat Shen Shi's shoulder to encourage him, but looking at the thick bloody aura emanating from the blue and faint dirty blood on Shen Shi's body, the palm of his hand suddenly froze in the air, and he couldn't shoot it for a while.
Shen Shi raised his head, glanced at him, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, nodded at Sun You, and said, "You go back first." ”
Sun You took a deep breath, but all he inhaled was a strong bloody gas, and he almost vomited out of his stomach, his face was also pale, and he hurriedly said hello to Shen Shi and turned around and ran, it seemed that he wanted to get as far away from this red clam village as possible.
The sea breeze is light, the sea water is clear, the sound of the waves is not far away, the sky is high and the sea is wide, as if you are in a paradise, except for Shen Shi.
All the Terran boys were gone in the end, except for him.
He looked at the blue blood on his body, and then at the ghost-faced shrimp on the ground that struggled to peel off the ordinary shrimp shell, and then squatted down again in silence, the blade began to struggle again in the small and hard shrimp shell, opening the cyan shrimp shell little by little, and the blue blood also kept flowing with the blade.
In this way, I don't know how much time passed, a sweat appeared on Shen Shi's forehead, and he finally completely cut through the shrimp crack that seemed simple but was actually winding, hard, and twisted beyond imagination, and saw the white and tender shrimp meat exposed inside.
He threw down the knife, reached out and grabbed the shrimp meat, and pulled it as hard as the sea urchin before, and finally completed the last step of the process, taking out the shrimp meat of the ghost shrimp.
The sea breeze blew, and a few crisp chirping of seabirds soaring in the wind could be heard in the distance.
Suddenly, a sea bowl was handed to him, Shen Shi turned his head to look, and saw that it was a big bowl that the beautiful red clam girl Starfish had found out of nowhere, and was holding it and gently placing it on the ground beside him, and then said, "Just put the shrimp here." ”
Being looked at by Shen Shi so closely, the starfish seemed to be a little uncomfortable, and subconsciously took two steps back, and a faint flush appeared on his cheeks. However, at the moment, there is only Shen Shi alone, and the starfish still looks a lot bolder than before, so he secretly raised his eyes and looked at him again, and couldn't help but speak: "Your method of peeling shrimp is a little slow, and you can't kill a hundred in a day." ”
Shen Shi threw the white and tender shrimp meat in his hand into the large sea bowl, smiled at the starfish, and said, "Well, I wasn't skilled at this at first, so I can't get up quickly, uh......" He suddenly froze for a moment, looked a little nervous, frowned and asked the starfish: "The number that can't be killed today, can you make up for it tomorrow?" Or must the village kill a hundred ghost shrimp in one day?"
Haixing immediately shook his head and said, "That's not true, no matter how long it takes you, even if it's three days, five days, ten days, and half a month, as long as the amount handed over to me is enough for a hundred, I will exchange you for a spirit crystal." ”
Shen Shi breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said, "That's good, I'll try again." ”
As he spoke, he straightened up, stretched, and after a moment of activity, he leaned over and grabbed a live ghost-faced shrimp from the shrimp pot. Starfish watched this Terran boy from the side for a long time, and said a few words to each other, and gradually became a lot bolder, no longer as shy as before. It's just that she still seems to be very disgusted with the ghost shrimp, and when Shen Shi was preparing to slaughter the shrimp, she hurriedly took a few steps back, but she didn't run as far away from Shen Shi as before, but squatted on the beach a few steps away, and randomly drew inexplicable patterns on the beach with her hands.
"Poof!" There was a muffled sound, and the sharp blade once again pierced into the neck of the ghost-faced shrimp, and the blue blood spurted out again.
Starfish turned his head to look at Shen Shi, only to see that the Terran boy was once again splashed with blue blood, looking even more dirty and bloody. It's just that she doesn't seem to have any fear of this bloody scene, at most she just seems to hate those blue bloods very much, but the expression in her eyes that looks at Shen Shi from time to time is a little more curious.
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Practice makes perfect, dripping water through stones.
When he did a lot of things, he would always find some tricks, and gradually he began to become more handy, just like when he was very young, he began to draw those difficult and complicated runes.
The blue shrimp blood splashed and fell on the beach, and was rolled up and washed by the clear water, as if it was born in the sea and finally returned to the sea, completing a cycle of life. In the midst of this, the knives rose and fell, and the bright light of the knives undulated and waved on the beach.
Every ghost shrimp, Shen Shi killed it very hard, every time he peeled the shell, the small, hard and secretly tortuous shrimp cracks, he suffered a lot. But I don't know why, under the blue sky and white clouds, in the sea breeze, he has never given up.
When he killed the second ghost-faced shrimp, his clothes were completely soaked, but he didn't know if it was soaked with sweat or stained with blue shrimp blood. That is, when slaughtering this ghost face shrimp, Shen Shi seemed to have finally found a certain point on the neck of the ghost face shrimp, and with one knife, the ghost face shrimp was killed, and there was no struggle, and finally there was no need to spend a second knife.
When he killed the third ghost-faced shrimp, Shen Shi's blade inserted into the crack of the shrimp seemed to travel a little faster, at least in the first few places, he seemed to have a good idea of the few bends of the shrimp shell, and when he reached the place, his wrist turned slightly, and the blade traveled naturally.
By the time he reached the fourth ghost-faced shrimp, Shen Shi seemed to have a good idea of some subtle turns at the very front of the shrimp seam, and the speed of the blade's sliding gradually had a hint of smoothness.
And by the time he grabbed the fifth ghost noodle shrimp, Shen Shi was already breathing heavily and looked tired. After gritting his teeth and finally solving the ghost shrimp, and finally pulling out the white and tender shrimp meat and throwing it into the sea bowl, he stood up and said to the starfish:
"That's it for today, and I'll come back tomorrow. ”
The starfish, who had been squatting not far away, blinked, looked up at the sky, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's not too late, you see that the sun hasn't set yet." ”
Shen Shi smiled, turned his neck, which was already a little sore, waved his hand and his arm that had been working hard and sore, and said, "It's almost, don't rush this time, otherwise it will cost too much today, and maybe you won't be able to kill a few tomorrow." ”
Haixing looked at him, his eyes were obviously a little more curious, and said, "It's the first time I've heard this kind of thing from you." ”
Shen Shi smiled and said: "My father told me a truth before, saying that people want to do a good job or learn a skill, and it is useless to be eager for a while, the most important thing is to calm down, and long-term persistence is fundamental." ”
The starfish sighed, frowned slightly, and the red clam shell beside him swayed twice, as if he was thinking about what Shen Shi said, but he didn't seem to understand it very well.
Shen Shi picked up the sea bowl on the ground, walked up to her, handed it to her, and said, "Five shrimp meat today, I'll come back tomorrow, I think there should be more than today." ”
The starfish took the big bowl of shrimp and shrimp with ghost noodles, and immediately jumped back a few steps like a frightened rabbit, covering his nose with his hands. Shen Shi glanced at himself, smiled, and said, "You red clam people seem to hate this kind of shrimp blood." ”
Haixing waved his hand and walked two steps away from Shen Shi, and then his face was a little better, and he said, "Yes." By the way, this blue blood is best washed in seawater, it is easy to wash, if you go back and wash it with the spring water or fresh water on the island, it will get stained on your clothes, and it will not be washed off for several months. ”
Shen Shi was stunned for a moment and said, "There is such a thing." He bowed his head and groaned for a moment, then smiled:
"That'...... Starfish girl, can you please turn your head a little?"
Starfish tilted his head and said, "What are you doing?"
Shen Shi didn't know what to say for a while, and said, "I want to go to the sea to wash it." ”
Starfish waved his hand and said, "Then you go wash it." ”
Shen Shi glanced at her, and after a while, nodded, then reached out and unbuttoned his shirt and began to undress.