Chapter 17 Yellow 3
Chapter 17 Huang San
Li Changle saw bubbles coming out of the remaining puddle under the reef. "Awei, go over and take a look. There must be something over there."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei carried a bucket and followed him to the reef. "Brother, if we get a water truck to drain the water from the puddles, can we find big stuff in those deep puddles?"
"Yes! It will only take a few hours to pump the water. It would be easier to find a few more puddles." Li Changle thought of those people in later generations who pumped water puddles to catch fish and did live broadcasts. They did catch good fish at the beginning. But the conditions now are different from those in later generations. Any mechanical item is expensive, and it is not worth it to pump water and dig water puddles.
He had only taken two steps when his foot stepped on something hard and quite large. Before he could react, a turtle head popped out from in front of his toes, and he quickly moved his foot away.
Then a sea turtle as big as a basin crawled out from the sand. It slowly crawled forward a few steps and turned its head to look at Li Changle, probably blaming him for disturbing its sweet dream.
Li Changle poked it with pliers. "You're so stupid and slow to react. No wonder you've become a Level 2 protected waste. Today, I'm lucky it was me who met you. If it was someone else, they would have stewed you and eaten you."
Turtle meat is sweet, sour, warm and non-toxic, while tortoise shell is salty, sweet, neutral and non-toxic. It can remove dampness, replenish yin deficiency, nourish kidney water, stop bleeding and detoxify. Turtle eggs and tortoise shells have high medicinal and edible value.
"This thing is good, one can only be sold for four or five dollars!" Chen Yongwei ran over happily.
Li Changle then remembered that this guy had not been protected in these days, and thought of its humane look just now, and said: "Let it go, just as a blessing for my father."
Chen Yongwei agreed with both hands, "Let it go, and let it tell Lord Hailong a message, asking him to bless Uncle Tang to recover soon."
Li Changle nodded, watching the turtle crawling towards the sea, and then asked, "Why are you here again? What was that bubble just now? Have you seen it?"
"I haven't gotten there yet. When I saw you weren't there, I came back to check."
"..." Li Changle looked at him speechlessly, and walked to the reef in two or three steps. He saw two white crabs holding each other with their big claws, neither of them letting the other go. "Fuck! I met another pair of idiots!"
He stepped forward and held the shells on their backs with each hand, carefully separating them to avoid breaking their claws and entangled claws.
Crab legs don’t look good when they’re broken, and they can’t be sold at a high price.
The white crabs of these two days have not grown roe yet, so they are not as plump and delicious to eat. After September, white crabs are called roe crabs. Wash them and marinate them in brine to make "spicy crabs" which have a unique flavor.
These two crabs are big enough, probably weighing about two kilograms. He remembered that Anan liked to eat crab paste, so he would save the white crabs and pickle them in crab paste later.
"You are so lucky. I didn't see them when I came here just now." Chen Yongwei said as he was busy digging in the sand.
"That's my luck... In a word, it's perfect. I'm God's own son." Li Changle wanted to say that if he had bad luck, he could start over again, but he quickly changed his sentence halfway through.
Before he could finish his words, a "click" sound came from behind the reef. This sound was very familiar to him. It was the sound made by fish when they were stranded and jumping.
He hurriedly turned behind the reef and saw a yellow croaker jumping in the puddle, shining with golden light under the muddy yellow sea water. At first glance, he thought it was a yellow croaker, but it was easy to distinguish it upon closer inspection.
The yellow croaker has a pointed head, a dorsal fin that is relatively far back, and a wedge-shaped tail, while the yellow croaker has a relatively flat head, a dorsal fin that is relatively far forward, and a scissor-shaped tail. Old fishermen say that there are seven yellow croaker brothers, and the yellow croaker is the third oldest, so it is also called the "yellow three fish"; there is also a saying that this fish is also golden in the turbid sea water, similar to the large yellow croaker. The yellow croaker and the yellow croaker have similar appearances, like wearing a yellow shirt, so to distinguish it from the yellow croaker, it is called the "yellow shirt fish".
It also tastes excellent and is considered a fish with higher economic value, but because it has more resources than large yellow croaker and the fish bladder of large yellow croaker can be made into the famous yellow croaker glue, the price is very different.
Li Changle walked into the puddle and saw the yellow croaker hiding beside a rock. He then put his hands in the water as if scooping up water, reached into the water, and caught the yellow croaker in a lightning speed.
He looked at the sticky and dirty sand garlic in the bucket and said to Chen Yongwei, "Awei, pour the sand garlic into my backpack and use the bucket to hold the fish!"
"Here it comes!" Chen Yongwei quickly put the fish he had dug up aside, poured the garlic in the bucket into the backpack, poured some water into the bucket, and said happily while looking at the yellow croaker in the net bag, "Brother, this yellow croaker is pretty good. It must be more than a pound, right?"
"At least one pound." Li Changle lifted the bottom of the net bag and poured the yellow croaker into the bucket. "Qing, what did you dig just now?"
"Hmm! Some of them are quite fat." Chen Yongwei picked up the dragonflies and put them in the backpack. "If I find a few more, I can stir-fry them for a dish!"
"Dragonfly" is what people here call it. Some people may not know what it is, but if you call it "razor clam", everyone will know it.
Most of the clams here are "razor clams". The shell of this kind of clam is long and flat with round ends. The shell is brittle and thin. There is an oblique groove from the top of the shell to the ventral edge, which can be up to 10 cm long. There are two food suction and discharge hoses on the head and a standing axe foot at the tail. The meat is white and tender, and the meat is delicious and thick.
When choosing razor clams, as long as the edge of the shell is light yellow and the belly meat in the middle of the shell is milky white, then the clam must be fat and taste delicious. If the belly meat in the middle of the shell is dark brown, then the clam must be thin.
Li Changle glanced at him and said in the tone of Grandma Chen: "You just think about eating every day, so hurry up and sell it for money. One share makes two, two shares make a pair. The same goes for money. Save up one cent at a time. When you have enough, you can put it away."
"My grandma has changed her story now. The electricity bill is so expensive. Turn off the lights as soon as you enter the house. If you don't save some money, how can you get the money to marry you?"
Chen Yongwei scratched his head in annoyance. "Whenever he has some free time, he asks people to introduce me to a date without even thinking about our family situation. Which girl would be willing to suffer with me?"
"My grandma was like this when she was around. She was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find a wife. When Nan agreed to date me, she even went to the temple to burn incense and fulfill her wish."
Li Changle felt a little sad when she thought that Grandma Chen died without seeing Awei get married. She hoped that she could hold her grandson in her arms before she passed away.
"That's because my sister-in-law is a good person. Look at the family in Tangan Village. The woman just left her child behind and walked away."
Li Changle's heart ached after hearing this, "Ah Wei, as the old saying goes, clothes are a man's face, and money is a man's courage. As long as you have money, the matchmaker can trample the threshold of your house.
From today on, you for your grandma, I for Nan and our two children, we can no longer be lazy. "
(End of this chapter)