Chapter 49 Classmates Shrimp, Snails and Sea Intestines
Yu Yue looked up when he heard the voice, revealing his face soaked with sweat.
"Does your knee hurt?" Zhou Yuesheng asked as he put Yu Chi down gently.
Yu Yue recalled the glass of water with the scent of green grass and wanted to open his mouth to deny it, but he was in so much pain that he couldn't make a sound.
The pain in his knee suddenly intensified, and he didn't even have the strength to shake his head.
Zhou Yuesheng helped him lie down, and seeing that Yu Yue had bitten his lips until they bled, he took out a handkerchief from the kang cabinet and stuffed it into his mouth.
Then he rolled up Yu Yue's trouser legs.
The calf muscles had long since atrophied from years of disuse, and were only as thick as his arms.
"Is it here?" Zhou Yuesheng pinched the junction of his knee and calf and felt an unusual muscle twitching.
Yu Yue groaned.
Zhou Yuesheng pressed the bulging muscles with his thumb and rotated and rubbed them with hidden strength.
A few minutes later, Yu Yue spit out the handkerchief and said in a hoarse voice, "It's OK."
At that time, the straw mat under him had been soaked with sweat and had a human shape.
Zhou Yuesheng brought him some water for cleaning, then turned his back and replaced the dirty straw mat.
"This matter has something to do with your sister." He said with certainty.
Yu Yue didn't say anything.
"Do you know what this means?" Zhou Yuesheng was rarely emotional.
In just a few minutes, the faces of countless comrades who were injured during missions and had lifelong mobility problems flashed through his mind.
No matter what he said, Yu Yue remained silent, and the conversation between the two ended in nothing.
In the evening, Chen Zhao and Zhang Wenxin showed up at the Yu family courtyard on time. They were going to go fishing with Yu Zhile.
When it was the season to eat clams and sea intestines, Yu Zhile asked the two to bring a bamboo colander and sharpened bamboo strips.
Yu Zhile opened the live broadcast as usual and found that many new viewers had flocked into the room.
After reading the comments, I realized that other anchors had bought a set of ingredients from her small window for evaluation, which brought her a wave of traffic and made the popularity of her live broadcast room approach 500w.
"Host, after the popularity reaches 5 million, the rewards for opening the intermediate mall will be converted into item rewards. Come on!" Xiaoyun came out to encourage her.
With Zhang Wenxin and the other person around, Yu Zhile didn't feel comfortable saying anything else, so he just posted a notice.
【Ten viewers will be randomly selected to receive garlic sauce during this live broadcast.】
Old viewers were very surprised and left messages in the comments.
Walking to the beach, Yu Zhile's gaze shifted from the screen to the sea.
They first went to the reef area, where oysters and shellfish were found on the large, exposed rocks, which were uneven.
"Be careful not to scratch your feet." Yu Zhile reminded, while looking for seafood in the gaps between the rocks.
All that came into view were small snails or broken sea urchin shells.
Gradually, the three people dispersed in different directions.
Yu Zhile saw a few shrimps with little vitality in the pit.
"Its abdomen is curved, much like an eagle's claw, so it's called an eagle claw shrimp. It usually hides during the day and comes out at night." She picked up one to show him.
This shrimp looks very beautiful, with a red and yellow body and a pink tail peduncle.
Yu Zhile easily put all the shrimps into the bamboo basket and caught a glimpse of a snail the size of a fist at the bottom of the reef.
She used a piece of bamboo to get the conch out, turning the shell mouth towards herself.
"It's a big conch. It has meat and it's still alive. It can be eaten." She brushed her fingers over the conch meat and felt the slight movement.
"Wow, what is this? It looks so ugly." Chen Zhao leaned over to observe the crevice in the rock and was frightened by the strange thing in front of him and uttered an audible word.
Yu Zhile and Zhang Wenxin heard the sound and walked towards him.
There were densely packed things that looked like dog paws growing in the cracks of the rocks. Although they were motionless, they were scary to look at.
"The dog claw snails have very delicious meat." Yu Zhile took a closer look and joked, "You are really lucky, this batch of snails is big."
Chen Zhao was originally disdainful, but after hearing what she said, he became proud.
"Can it really be eaten?" Zhang Wenxin tilted his head to observe.
Yu Zhile held the area between the root and the tip with one hand, and shoveled quickly with the other hand holding the bamboo stick.
In an instant, the snail broke away from the stone surface, revealing a piece of tender white meat.
"You can eat it. This is its meat. It's also easy to eat. You can just use your teeth to break it open and eat the meat inside." As he said that, Yu Zhile handed the snail to her.
Over there, Chen Zhao had already started picking, but the process was not as simple as he had imagined.
He followed Yu Zhile's example and grabbed the middle part, then used a bamboo stick to scrape the place where the snail met the reef. It took a lot of effort to get one.
"Is it that difficult? Lele made it so easy just now." Zhang Wenxin looked at him with a hint of disgust.
Chen Zhao gave up his seat and said, "Why don't you try?"
"You have to understand the correct method before practicing." Zhang Wenxin did not step forward immediately, but looked at Yu Zhile instead.
Yu Zhile took two snails from the two men for comparison. The meat at the root of the snail that Chen Zhao took was so little that it was almost invisible.
"Its stalk will shrink and stick to the cracks in the rocks when touched by external factors, making it more difficult to pick. Even if you get it off, the flesh at the root will be damaged, so you have to act quickly," she explained.
Chen Zhao nodded thoughtfully and reached out to pick it again, this time with much greater ease.
Then, he looked at Zhang Wenxin with a provocative look, his face full of boasting.
"Childish." Zhang Wenxin walked to the other side, took one down using the same method, and then snorted.
After a few exchanges, the two began to compete with each other secretly to see who could pick the fruits faster.
"You two dig it, I'll go and take a look at the side." Yu Zhile was amused by their childish behavior and simply let them dig the snail patch.
She continued to look for seafood in other crevices in the rocks towards the tide line and picked up a dozen conches.
"This is a sea snail. It looks beautiful, but you can't eat it." Yu Zhile dug the snail out of the sand with only its pointed tip sticking out.
The naked body of the silk snail is slender, with distinct whorls and a screw-shaped shell.
[Beautiful, now on sale! ]
【Master fish tank decoration +1】
The fish farming master's barrage of comments was shining with gold, and as soon as it appeared, it was teased by the old viewers in the live broadcast room.
"Okay, then it will be marked as a decorative fish tank." General Yu Zhile also joked.
The barrage passed by hahaha.
Yu Zhile bent down and used a bamboo colander to scoop a few handfuls of sand near the water, then placed it on the water and shook it vigorously.
The sand gradually sank into the water through the gaps, leaving behind small shells with a grayish-white and slightly pinkish shell on the colander.
"The shells of clams are very thin and easy to break. After stir-frying, you can eat the meat inside with a light bite." Yu Zhile introduced while sifting the second spoonful.
She kept repeating the actions of shoveling and washing sand until the bamboo basket was half full.
"Let's go find sea cucumbers now. The holes left by sea cucumbers on the beach are very easy to recognize. They are small round holes as thick as a thumb." Yu Zhile gestured and lowered his head to look for them.
After a while, she found it, took out a large bamboo piece and started digging.
Sea cucumbers live on fine sandy beaches, and it is relatively difficult to dig them out. It took a long time to dig out a small hole.
Yu Zhile pulled out a smooth, flesh-red mollusk from the pit.
[It’s a bit ugly, but it’s edible? 】
[It looks delicious. ]
The audience's reactions were mixed.
"It tastes very fresh and has a very tender texture." Yu Zhile put it into the bamboo basket and continued to look for the next hole. "It tastes very good when mixed with cold dishes, fried with leeks, or made into rice."
After the strong wind, the holes are relatively hard to find, but the sea cucumbers are relatively shallow.
Yu Zhile walked around the nearby beaches and caught every fish he caught. The harvest was enough to make a dish.
"sister!"
“LeLe!”
Chen Zhao and Zhang Wenxin each picked a full bamboo basket, went to the beach to find her, and began waving and shouting from afar.
Yu Zhile greeted him with a smile: "We have a good harvest today, let's go home."
"Sister, what did you catch?" Chen Zhao leaned over to take a look curiously.
The lid of the bamboo basket was closed, so the contents couldn't be seen clearly. Yu Zhile reached out and took out a sea cucumber to show him.
A small column of water gushed out of the sea cucumber, and Chen Zhao was so scared that he took a big step back, his expression indescribable.
"Wow, you can find this too?" Zhang Wenxin exclaimed.
Sea cucumber rice is a staple dish in Haidong County. If anyone serves this dish at a banquet, the neighbors will praise the family for its wealth.
On the way back to the courtyard, Yu Zhile shared his experience with her.
Zhang Wenxin nodded repeatedly after hearing this, while Chen Zhao remained silent for a rare moment.
After the three men poured the seafood into the wooden basin, they went about their own business.
"By the way, Ge Tai and I are going to the market tomorrow. Do you want to bring anything?" Zhang Wenxin, who was originally concentrating on writing something in a notebook, suddenly looked up.
Yu Zhile thought about it and asked her to bring two bundles of rice noodles and half a jar of pickled cabbage.
Zhang Wenxin nodded and buried her head in writing again.
"Yu Yue, are you home?" A voice came from outside the yard.
Chen Zhao ran to open the door and found that it was someone he didn't know. He moved sideways so Yu Yue could see the other person's face clearly.
The man who came was a dark-skinned boy, radiating confidence, without any trace of his former timidity.
"Wu Sheng." Yu Yue called out his name.
Wu Sheng ran into the yard happily and stopped a few dozen centimeters away from him.
Seeing Yu Yue holding a book in his hand, his tone was very excited: "I knew, I knew you wouldn't give up studying."
"What do you want from me?" Yu Yue responded calmly.
Wu Sheng was his elementary school classmate, but they were not close.
"I only studied until the third year of junior high school, then returned home to work on the farm. I was in a lot of pain during that time."
"Later, I met a teacher whose words opened my eyes. He said that giving up progress is tantamount to committing suicide. He taught me a lot of knowledge."
"One night, I thought of you. After asking around, I learned that so many things had happened in your family. I admire your sister very much. She is simply a role model for young people of our time."
Wu Sheng began to talk, and in less than three sentences he mentioned Yu Zhile.
"So what?" Yu Yue squinted at him.
"It may sound a bit presumptuous, but I really hope to come to your house more often in the future and admire the brilliance of your role model." Wu Sheng looked at Yu Zhile several times, "I also want to make progress together with you. In the future, I will share the knowledge taught by the teacher with you."
"Okay." Yu Yue said with a smile.
Wu Sheng came suddenly and left in a hurry.
Chen Zhao came closer and asked, and Yu Yue asked him to call Zhou Yuesheng to the backyard.
"He has a problem and is targeting my sister." Yu Yue told him Wu Sheng's home address.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yuesheng gave him a cold look and said, "It has nothing to do with me."
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