Chapter 186: A Weird Way to Get a Lot of Oysters
It was quickly taken out of the water and rinsed with water. The purple color of the shell was not only not washed away by the water, but became more distinct.
Obviously, it was the purple clam.
The purple clams in the South China Sea are different from those in the north. They are rarer and have very tender meat. The inner shell of the purple clams is also purple, and the meat inside is light red.
It can be said that it is somewhat similar to blood clams in species, but its meat is not as bright red as blood clams, nor does it secrete red liquid like blood clams.
Another thing is that purple clams are almost only found in winter, and only in winter are purple clams the freshest and most delicious.
Although blood clams are also rare, at least they can be found all year round. In comparison, purple clams are rarer.
“Is there more underneath?”
In fact, Liang Ziqiang had already started working on it, and soon dug out two of them one after another.
It seems that a lot of purple clams were washed ashore by the water and then burrowed deep into the mud on the shore.
I dug about two kilograms of fish and stopped when I couldn't dig any new ones.
While he was digging for purple clams, Chen Xiangbei was standing by to pick up kelp. By chance, when she had dug up the purple clams, she had also picked up most of the kelp.
After walking for a while, I saw Liang's mother also carrying two baskets.
Like Liang Ziqiang, the most common items in his mother's basket were green sea lettuce, light green kelp and the like.
When the mother and son met, they didn't look like two people going to the beach, but like two vegetable farmers meeting at the market...
But the style of painting Litchi is quite different.
She held the bucket in one hand and with the other she held two large birds following her like followers - a pair of oystercatchers - on a rope.
The style of this painting is more like those girls in later generations walking with their pets downstairs in the community.
The two big birds she was walking on looked reluctant.
At this time, Duobao had been surfing on the beach for a while and came back. When he saw the two oystercatchers, he walked over and barked, as if to say, "You two stupid guys, why did you come to the beach to join in the fun?"
The oystercatcher drooped its neck and looked very indifferent, not paying much attention to it.
However, Lizhi's expression was in stark contrast to Oystercatcher's indifference. She excitedly handed the bucket in her hand to Liang Ziqiang and his friend: "Brother and sister-in-law, look what I got. Half a bucket. Mom said this can be sold for a lot of money!"
I saw Lizhi carrying a big bucket, and in the bucket was half a bucket of white oyster meat!
Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei both showed surprise on their faces.
Even Chen Xiangbei knows after several trips to the sea that oyster meat is too difficult to pry open. Even if you find a large number of oysters at once, it looks like a lot, but when you actually pry them open and remove the shells, the meat you get is actually very limited.
Moreover, using an iron chisel to pry open the hard oyster shells one by one is a very laborious and slow process.
Sometimes, in an afternoon, all you could get was a big bowl.
Liang Ziqiang asked himself if he could even pry out half a bucket after just a short while of fishing. He really couldn't figure out how Litchi did it. Just as he was about to ask, he saw some oyster shells exposed at the bottom of the reef next to him.
The two oystercatchers raised their drooping necks, walked forward instinctively, stretched out their long beaks, which were longer than chopsticks, and with two crisp "puff" sounds, they started to peel the oysters and eat them.
"Second brother and second sister-in-law, just look at me!"
Lizhi said something and rushed to the oystercatcher, grabbing the oystercatcher's neck with one hand.
The white oyster meat hung on the oystercatcher's mouth, but before it could swallow it, it was stuck by the lychee.
Lizhi took the oyster meat from the bird's beak with his own hands and put it into the bucket with a clear conscience...
At this moment, Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei both fell silent.
They finally knew where that entire half bucket of white oyster meat came from.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who would have thought of it? Even if I thought about it until my head hurt, I couldn't have thought of the answer to be like this...
Now, they understood why the two oystercatchers had such bitter and resentful expressions, and a bit of world-weariness...
But they seemed unwilling to accept the loss and did not learn from their mistakes. After the oyster meat in their mouths was robbed, they saw that there was still a lot of oyster meat under the stone, so they walked forward, opened their long mouths and peeled more oysters.
As expected, the neck was stuck by the lychee again and the oyster meat was once again stripped away.
This cycle cannot be stopped at all, as if entering an industrial assembly line.
Right in front of Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei, the level of the oyster meat in the bucket rose by another liter.
This amazing operation even stunned Duobao who was sitting next to him. He was so dumbfounded! It hummed twice again, obviously saying:
"Are you stupid? I came to the beach to surf, and you two came to the beach to do hard labor!"
Liang's mother shook her head and sighed, "She's just like a little girl who hasn't grown up yet, always making trouble. But luckily this time, the oyster meat can be dried and sold for a lot of money!"
Liang Ziqiang came back to his senses from his shock: "Don't tell me, Mom, I can't keep up with her thinking!"
After saying that, he walked closer to Lizhi and asked, "Lizhi, how did you come up with such a great trick?"
He never thought that what he brought back from the island were not two birds, but two super easy-to-use automatic oyster-opening screwdrivers!
Lizhi's round face was full of pride: "I just don't want them to eat too much. If they eat a belly full of oysters, they will poop in a cage, which will stink!"
Liang Ziqiang's thoughts froze again. The thinking of his sister was something that ordinary people could never catch up with...
He thought about it and advised Lizhi earnestly:
"You have to be like this, Litchi. You still have to give them some oysters and shrimps from time to time, otherwise they will starve to death. Besides, only when they eat will they have the strength to open your oysters!"
"Normally, Xiao Hai and I feed them shrimps every day!"
"I mean, now, if it opens oysters for you for a while, you reward it with a little food; if it opens oysters for a while longer, you reward it with more!"
Lizhi finally understood what he said, so he followed his method. After snatching half a handful of oyster meat from the oystercatcher's mouth, he took out a small piece of oyster meat and gave it to the oystercatcher as a reward.
The two oystercatchers, who had been numbed by predation, were suddenly rewarded and ate with gratitude and flattery...
Right in front of Liang Ziqiang, two good seabirds transformed magnificently and became obedient cormorants...
When they pried the oyster meat again, they knew they could neither fly away nor swallow it, so they simply waited for the lychees to come forward and take it. Somehow, they had already realized their fate.
"Lizhi, aren't there shrimps in the shallow water? Why don't you ask them to catch some!" Liang Ziqiang reminded again.
Litchi held the rope and drove the oystercatchers into shallow water.
The oystercatcher really put its mouth into the water and picked up a shrimp, but it did not rush to swallow it, but hesitated there.
I don't know if they really have some tacit understanding, or if they are simply scared of being strangled. No matter what kind of animal it is, being strangled by the neck is definitely uncomfortable.
So, as we walked along the coast, there were gradually twenty or thirty more shrimps in Litchi's bucket.
This might be the most peculiar sea-hunting Liang Ziqiang has experienced in all these years...
Two chapters have been posted in the early morning. Happy reading, fellow readers!
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