Chapter 459 Hermit Crab
Huanhuan ran towards her barefoot: "Mom, look."
Wen Zhenyi was making shrimp cakes with Old Lady Wen and the others. He turned around and saw Huanhuan holding a hermit crab. "Do you know what this is?"
"Is it a little crab?"
"It's called a hermit crab, also known as a white-house crab and a dry-house crab. It's a scavenger in the ocean."
"Aunt, what does that mean?"
The children around ran over and looked at her curiously.
"Its shell is from dead animals, not its own. It is an omnivore, and its food is seaweed, animal carcasses, and food scraps. So it is also a scavenger of the ocean, cleaning up the garbage that we cannot see."
“It’s amazing.”
Huanhuan looked at the hermit crab in her hand and said, "Then I'm going to let it go."
"Go ahead."
Xixi didn't leave and held a beautiful shell in her hand: "Mom, this is for you."
Wen Zhenyi looked at the beautiful shell in her palm with admiration in his eyes: "It's so beautiful. Our Xixi is so kind that she even gave her mother a gift."
Xixi ran away shyly.
Old Lady Wen and the others looked at the children with a smile: "They are all good children."
Village Chief Haiyun came over and said, "Mrs. Shen, we have made a bamboo raft. Go and see if it works."
Wen Zhen got up to look at the bamboo raft. Actually, she was not sure about it. She had only seen it on TV before, so she had no idea whether it would work.
Village Chief Haiyun saw that she was silent for a long time, and his heart was beating fast: "Isn't that right?"
"Village Chief Haiyun, I've only seen this thing once before, so I can't guarantee it will work."
"It's okay, let's all try and see if it works."
"If it succeeds, the villages around you will have more workshops."
Village Chief Haiyun looked at her in disbelief: "Really?"
"I think the vinegar workshop is fine. After all, we need glutinous rice water. There is also a workshop for fish, shrimp and crabs, and the other is the oyster workshop we are working on now."
"This, this requires so many workshops."
"Whether or not we have a workshop, we have to wait and see how the breeding goes."
"If we don't succeed, we'll just try again. There will always be a time when we succeed. Didn't you say that failure is the mother of success?"
Wen Zhenyi looked at Village Chief Haiyun and smiled: "Okay, if it doesn't work, we'll try again."
Because it was my first time making shrimp cakes with glutinous rice, they were too thin and didn’t achieve the desired effect.
After trying several times, we finally found the right ratio.
Wen Zhenyi put the half-dried shrimp cakes in the sun to dry. After they were completely dry, she checked their hardness and condition, and confirmed that they would not fall off the rope. Only then did she smile with satisfaction.
Old Man Wen looked at these strange things and said, "Yi Yi, is it done?"
"Grandpa, now we are halfway there."
"What about the other half?"
“I really don’t know how to say the other half.”
"have no idea?"
"Yes."
Wen Zhenyi remembered seeing on TV that they should choose the location where the river meets the sea, a place with calm winds and waves, and this location happened to be in Hougang Village. He just didn't know if it was the same as what was shown on TV.
Ji Shuang smiled and said, "It's okay. If it doesn't work, we can just continue catching shrimps or breeding them."
Wen Zhenyi smiled and nodded: "We'll know if we try it."
In the following time, the women in the village were responsible for making shrimp cakes, while the men in the village were responsible for tying bamboo rafts and cutting bamboo.
In the evening, Wen Zhenyi would take the children in the village to explore the secrets of the sea and go fishing.
This is also the children’s favorite activity. Whenever there is a high tide, the receding tide will bring them many surprises.
The villagers gradually fell in love with the activity of going to the sea, as if they had opened up a treasure trove of the sea.
They will encounter all kinds of strange marine creatures, including thorny sea urchins, beautiful starfish, crabs with bared fangs and claws, and so on.
Whenever they encountered something they didn’t know, they would run over and ask Wen Zhenyi.
Wen Zhenyi would tell them what he knew, and if he didn't know, he could only shake his head and say he didn't know.
After the sea-hunting is over, Wen Zhenyi will make them a sumptuous seafood stew with the seafood they caught.
Everyone shares the fruits of their labor, and this kind of life makes people feel comfortable.
The villagers of Hougang Village fell in love with this kind of life.
But happy times always pass quickly. Wen Zhenyi has been in Hougang Village for almost a month and has almost completed all the preparations.
She asked the villagers of Hougang Village to use their own boats to pull the bamboo raft and the prepared shrimp cake rope out to sea.
When we arrived at the right sea area, we tied the shrimp cake ropes to the bamboos of the rafts and let them sink into the sea. Each raft was then hung with strings of shrimp cakes.
Wen Zhenyi lay on the side of the boat and watched the shrimp cakes.
Huanhuan happily insisted on coming along, so Wen Zhenyi had no choice but to explain again and again, asking them to be obedient, before he agreed to bring them along.
When the two men saw her lying on the edge of the boat to watch, they also wanted to follow her example and lie down to watch.
When they stood up, they staggered and almost fell into the sea. Fortunately, Haiwa and Village Chief Haiyun grabbed them.
The two children were so frightened that they burst into tears.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the two crying children who wanted her to hold them, and was so angry that she pushed them away.
"Mom, hug me."
Wen Zhenyi said with a cold face: "Sit down."
The two children didn't dare to move. They were frightened when they moved just now. Now seeing Wen Zhenyi's dark face, they didn't dare to move anymore. They could only wipe their tears and cry.
Haiwa felt distressed when he saw the two children crying: "Sister Wen."
"Don't say that." Wen Zhenyi interrupted Haiwa and looked at Huanhuanxixi: "When I came here, I told you what I said."
"Mom, Mom said, no, you can't move."
"Then why did you move around just now?"
"I, we want to see."
"If you want to see it, you can tell me instead of standing up on your own. Do you know that what you did just now is very dangerous? Not only will it hurt yourself, but it will also hurt others."
It was the first time that Village Chief Haiyun saw Wen Zhenyi so serious. He wanted to plead for the two children, but he didn't dare to speak.
"Mom, I, we were wrong."
The two children cried so hard that their faces turned red and their bodies twitched.
Wen Zhenyi ignored the two children: "Village Chief Haiyun, the fireworks are over here, let's go back first."
"Oh, oh." Village chief Haiyun didn't dare to say anything. He could only greet the villagers and ask them to return to the village after the release.
Wen Zhenyi waited until the boat reached the shore before he took the two crying children down.
The two children hugged her neck and cried sadly.
Wen Zhenyi said something to Village Chief Haiyun, then took the two children to one side and sat them on the beach while holding them.
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