Tang Qiuyue really doesn't know how to swim. She didn't grow up by the sea in either of her lives. Although she knows a lot about seafood, they are all scientific knowledge related to the end of the world.
There was no need to think about going to sea for the time being. After dinner, Tang Qiuyue saw a lot of people coming to the door of the house. In addition to Zhan Zeye’s soldiers, there were also two young wives.
"These two are island residents. They've lived here for generations and are very familiar with the conditions in the sea. You can follow them to the reef!"
Zhan Zeye didn't have time to take Tang Qiyue out to play. He had to hurry up and build the house. It was really inconvenient without a toilet.
Tang Qiyue greeted the two islanders enthusiastically. Their dialect was similar to that of the residents on the shore, and Tang Qiyue could barely understand it.
Knowing that there would be only a small tide today, and there would be nothing good to find by going to the beach, at most one could pick up some conchs and small fish and shrimps, Tang Qiyue was very happy even so.
She called Xu Qiuju and asked her if she wanted to join them. Xu Qiuju had been thinking about going to the beach for a long time and could not miss it. She immediately let the three children follow Hu Peng to play in Tang Qiyue's yard. She did not dare to take the children to the beach.
Tang Qiyue and Xu Qiuju were making quite a bit of noise, and Li Erhong also heard it and joined in.
Although the five women were not familiar with each other, Xu Qiuju and Li Erhong were talkative people. The two residents on the island were both married women, one named Yu Niang and the other named Shanhu.
Neither of them is shy, but rather warm and generous.
The Fisherwoman and the Coral are divers on the island. They are girls who have been trained to go to the sea to pick up seafood since childhood. They are really familiar with the sea.
When we got to the rocky beach, he took a look at the situation and started to lead them to crack oysters.
"Don't be fooled by the fact that this stuff is everywhere on the reef, but it tastes delicious and doesn't require any special processing. Just steam it and you can eat it directly!"
There was nothing good today. There was nothing good on the beach except shells. The fisherman's wife and Coral also knew that Tang Qiuyue and the others had never been to the sea, so they didn't say too much, but started with the oysters, which were the easiest to identify.
Tang Qiyue and the other two naturally would not refuse. Shanhu gave each of them something similar to a pointed hammer, and first demonstrated how to crack open the oysters, and then used a scraper to clean out the oysters.
Coral, who had been practicing since childhood, was really fast. Tang Qiuyue and the others were either breaking the oyster shells or the oysters fell off when they were cutting the meat.
Fortunately, this job is not too difficult and practice makes perfect.
There were actually sea urchins in the crevices of the reef. When the fisherwoman saw the palm-sized sea urchin, she pried it open on the spot, cleaned out the internal organs, and gave one to each of Tang Qiuyue and the others.
Li Erhong was so scared when she saw the still squirming yellow sea urchin that she didn't dare to eat it.
Tang Qiuyue, who knew about sea urchins, knew that they were very delicious.
She used a scraper to scrape out a sea urchin and put it into her mouth. The freshness of it was indescribable. No wonder so many people like to eat it.
Li Erhong looked at Tang Qiyue in surprise. She thought that Tang Qiyue was a delicate young lady who would never eat this thing. She never expected that she would be so straightforward. The key point was that Tang Qiyue seemed to enjoy eating it very much.
“Is this really delicious?”
Xu Qiuju had never seen it before, but she thought that the fisherman's wife grew up by the sea and would definitely not lie to them, not to mention that Tang Qiyue had already eaten it.
“Very delicious, especially fresh!”
Tang Qiuyue finished one and didn't continue eating. She knew that although seafood could be eaten raw, it was better to eat it cooked. After all, the treatment of parasites was still very backward in this era.
Just try it for a try.
Xu Qiuju had eaten insects in the countryside and was not really averse to this thing. She quickly put one in her mouth, her eyebrows almost raised.
Li Erhong took a look and took a bite with a skeptical attitude. Then she saw her scrape the whole sea urchin and eat it.
When they wanted to eat a second one, the fisherwoman reminded them: "Try one to taste it. If you like it, take it home and steam it before eating it, so as not to make your stomach upset!"
They grew up on the island and have been eating raw food since childhood, so they are used to it. But Tang Qiuyue and the others are from inland, so they are afraid that they will get an upset stomach, and there will not be much medicine to treat them.
Li Erhong licked his lips and took note of this delicious thing called sea urchin. He thought that he would come to the reef beach to check it out when he had nothing to do in the future and must get some back for his family to try.
A group of women were chatting, and the mechanical task of cracking oysters was not so boring.
As the sea water slowly rose, Coral and the fisherman's wife asked them to go back, saying that there was no shortage of these things on the beach and they could pick them up every day in the future. It would be a waste if they got too much and couldn't eat them.
Tang Qiyue and Li Erhong thanked Shanhu and the fisherman's wife again and again, made an appointment with them to go fishing together next time, and then went back together carrying the wooden bucket.
As soon as they reached the temporary dock and saw a ship approaching, they stopped to watch out of curiosity.
Many people got off the boat, especially several female soldiers in military uniforms, each of them holding their heads high like proud little peacocks.
"Aren't they saying the island is full of family members and soldiers? Why are there female soldiers here?"
Xu Qiuju asked Hu Peng yesterday, but he didn't hear that any female soldiers were coming.
Li Erhong nudged Xu Qiuju with her elbow. "Keep your voice down! I heard from Dazhuang yesterday that there aren't just family members like us on the island. Many more people are coming one after another. Do you see that short-haired girl holding the child in the back? That's Political Commissar Wu's wife!"
Li Erhong had visited her relatives in the army before and met some of her sisters-in-law.
"It is said that the conditions for joining the army on the island this time are that anyone with the rank of company commander or above can join. Some technicians and their families are also coming!"
That means a lot of people will come to the island.
Tang Qiyue didn't know any of this. She didn't even recognize them and was still thinking about going back to process the oysters, so she asked Xu Qiuju and the others to go back.
It's not nice to be lively or anything like that.
They just didn't want to watch the fun, but those people who came ashore didn't think so. When they were talking about others, those people were also watching them.
Although Tang Qiyue and the other two only stopped for a moment, Tang Qiyue's appearance was too outstanding. Among the red and black faces everywhere, Tang Qiyue's fair complexion was so bright that it was hard not to be noticed.
Especially the female soldier carrying a medical kit. As soon as she got off the boat, she saw Tang Qiyue and immediately took the arm of Wu Zhengwei's wife: "Sister, do you know whose relative that woman is?"
Zheng Hongjuan kept glancing at Tang Qiyue. Political Commissar Wu's daughter-in-law was holding down her youngest son who was about to run away. She looked up and was also shocked by Tang Qiyue's appearance.
“Never seen it!”
She had just arrived on the island and was not familiar with the situation here. How would she know who was who?
However, a soldier who was responsible for picking them up heard Zheng Hongjuan's words and enthusiastically helped to clarify: "That's Battalion Commander Zhan's lover!"
Zheng Hongjuan's eyes widened as she exclaimed, "Is she the vixen who relied on Brother Zhan on Tang Chunlan's behalf?"
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