"Where is it?" He Jingnian looked up hurriedly, but he didn't know if it was because the coconut crab was too well disguised, or because its motionless figure had too low a presence, so he didn't notice it. "Why didn't I see it?"
"I saw it." Xiangfangnan looked towards the coconut crab and said, "It's on the tree, the bulging ball near the branch."
"What?" He Jingnian looked carefully and saw that the group of creatures that had not moved was the coconut crab they were looking for. "I was wondering why I didn't see it. It turned out to be hiding so deep!"
"I saw it too, but it climbed so high. How can we catch it like this?" As she spoke, Xu Anjia tentatively raised her pincers upwards. However, even if she stood on tiptoe, she was still a long way from reaching the coconut crab.
"Let me think about it." He Jingnian looked to the side, picked up a stone from under the tree, and threw it at the coconut crab.
Not surprisingly, the stone didn't hit the crab at all and simply slid off the side of the coconut crab.
“Oh, I missed.”
"What did you miss?" He Xuebin just came out of the house and saw his son standing under a coconut tree not far away with a look of regret on his face.
"Dad" He Jingnian's eyes lit up when he saw him: "Come quickly, there is a coconut crab here that we can't reach."
"Coconut crab?" He Xuebin immediately became interested: "Where is it?"
"It's the brown-gray mass under the branches of this coconut tree." He Jingnian said hurriedly.
He Xuebin followed his gaze and immediately locked onto the coconut crab's location: "Wow, it's quite a big one."
"Yeah." Song Tiantian nodded quickly: "Uncle He, do you have any way to get it off?"
He Xuebin glanced to the side and took the pliers from his son's hand: "You guys wait."
After saying that, he jumped up with his claws and poked at the coconut crab.
The coconut crab calmly climbed upwards, and He Xuebin's claws suddenly fell empty.
"Hey, this guy actually dares to run!"
Song Tiantian watched He Xuebin jumping under the tree and couldn't help but look towards Xiangnan and the others: "Well, should we look somewhere else?"
"I think it's okay." Xiangfang Nanzhi nodded in agreement.
Xu Anjia pointed towards the coconut trees ahead and said, "There are a lot of coconuts over there. Let's go over there and take a look."
He Jingnian shook his head and sighed at He Xuebin with a stern face, then followed Song Tiantian and the others with his hands behind his back, leaving He Xuebin, who knew nothing about it, staring at the coconut crab on the tree.
[Ahem, I usually don't want to laugh, but I really can't help it right now!]
When I saw Dabin catching coconut crabs, I didn't realize it would be so funny!
[Hahaha... Dabin, are you sure you can really catch a coconut crab like this?]
[And that look of disdain from Niannian, I must take a screenshot and post it in Dabin's super chat group so his fans can enjoy it. What a new-century father-son relationship this is, hahahahaha...]
Song Tiantian and the others had just moved away when they saw a dark figure in the middle of a pile of coconuts. He was holding up a pair of pliers and pinching out a piece of coconut meat from an opened coconut, then slowly putting it into his mouth.
When they saw this situation, Song Tiantian and the others' eyes lit up.
Song Tiantian quickly raised her claws and poked the coconut crab.
The coconut crab, which was enjoying the delicacy, was poked unexpectedly. The coconut underneath rolled forward under the force, and the coconut crab rolled along with it. It rolled several times and fell directly to the ground, flipping over.
Upon seeing this, Song Tiantian and others immediately stepped forward with pliers, picked up the creature in a few strokes, and put it into the bucket.
"Not bad, not bad." Song Tiantian looked into the bucket with satisfaction: "We've caught two already. If we catch six more, we can each have one."
[Hiss, Tiantian is so scary, yet she still wants to arrange a coconut crab for everyone. This is such a luxury!]
Tiantian is still a child after all. She can only catch one coconut crab each. You'd be lucky if you could catch two during the day.
[Oh, yeah, coconut crabs seem to usually come out to feed at night. Tiantian and her friends were able to catch two during the day. Um, even if you count the one in Dabin's hand, that's three in total, which is pretty good.]
"That's good. Otherwise, if they each ate a whole coconut crab, I'd start to suspect Director Liu wasn't sending them to a deserted island to survive, but rather to vacation."
[That's right, the moment I saw the coconut crab, I started to suspect Director Liu's sinister intentions! He must be disgusted that we're not fat enough, right?]
Director Liu's mouth twitched as he looked at the staff on the side: "When you went to the island to set up the wooden house, did you see any coconut crabs?"
"No, we just worked on rearranging the roof and the interior."
The staff looked at the coconut crabs in Song Tiantian's live broadcast room and felt like they had made a mistake: "If we had known there were so many coconut crabs on that deserted island, we would have definitely caught a few."
Director Liu: …
On the deserted island, after Lu Chuanbei and his friends cleaned the wooden house, they returned to the yacht before the tide rose and packed up some of the supplies on it, especially daily necessities.
After all, although the program crew prepared a wooden house with beds and furniture, they still had to go back to get the necessary pots, pans, their own luggage, quilts, etc.
In order to facilitate transportation, Lu Chuanbei found a small transport cart in the tool room of the yacht and stacked their luggage and bedding on it.
Then, Xu Qi and Fang Xiuzhu went to the kitchen to pack some supplies, and then they rushed back to the wooden house with their bags.
As soon as they returned, the sea level began to rise.
"Luckily we got there quickly, otherwise it would have been troublesome to wait a while longer to go back and get the supplies."
Lu Chuanbei glanced at the quilts on the top of the cart and said with some relief, "Yes, especially these quilts. If we had moved them later, they would have definitely gotten wet."
When Lu Chuanbei and his friends were organizing the supplies they had moved from the yacht, Song Tiantian and his friends who were looking for coconut crabs suddenly saw a banana tree.
He Jingnian looked at the bananas hanging high on the branches and couldn't help but feel greedy: "Tiantian Jiajia, why don't we pick it first and then go find the coconut crab?"
Xu Anjia stood on tiptoe and reached out, saying, "No, it's too high. We can't reach it."
"Then I'll go find my dad." He Jingnian said, and was about to run towards the coconut tree.
But at this moment, Song Tiantian pulled out a shovel from the bucket: "No, we can just cut it down directly."
"Cut it down?" He Jingnian glanced at the banana and said, "No, we can't reach it."
"No need to cut down the banana tree, just cut it down directly." Song Tiantian said, picking up a small shovel and started chopping at the banana tree.
After a few cracking sounds, the banana tree, which was not very thick to begin with, fell down with a crash.
When He Xuebin finally caught the coconut crab and found them, He Xuebin and Fang Xiannan were each carrying one end of the banana and moving it to the side with great difficulty.
Song Tiantian was still squatting beside the cut banana tree, using a shovel to continuously scratch the bark of the banana tree.
"Tiantian, what are you doing?" He Xuebin asked.
"I'm digging out the core of the banana tree." Song Tiantian continued to cut the bark without raising her head until the innermost layer of bark covering the core was exposed. She stopped and continued to cut to the side.
As soon as He Jingnian put the banana down, he looked at He Xuebin: "Dad, why are you here too?"
"How dare you talk like that, little brat." He Xuebin said, then he picked up the coconut crab tied with vines and shook it towards him proudly: "How about it, is your dad good at catching it?"
He Jingnian turned his head away in disdain and looked at the bucket they had placed aside: "What's the big deal? We've already caught two."
"That's right." Xu Anjia also said hurriedly: "And we also told you about the coconut crab that uncle caught!"
He Xuebin took a look into the water bucket of these little guys, and when he saw the two coconut crabs inside, he suddenly stopped showing off.
"Ahem." He Xuebin quickly changed the subject and looked at Song Tiantian and said, "Tiantian, do you need uncle's help?"
"No need, I've already dug it out." Song Tiantian said, and took out a long section of the core from the banana tree that had been split open.
Because Song Tiantian left the innermost layer of bark uncut, there was no need to worry about the core of the tree being pulled apart or getting dirty after it was taken out.
Song Tiantian chopped the tree core, which was still wrapped in crispy bark, into pieces the length of her arm before putting them into a clean bucket. "Okay, we can go back now."
Xu Anjia looked at the several banana tree cores in the bucket and asked Song Tiantian curiously, "Tiantian, what are the banana tree cores used for?"
“This is edible.”
"Is it edible?" Xu Anjia's eyes lit up when he heard the word "eat".
Seeing Xu Anjia staring at the tree core, Song Tiantian took one out of the bucket, cut a small piece out, and handed it to Xu Anjia: "Want to try it?"
"Is it okay?" Having said that, Xu Anjia's little hand had already reached out to take it: "How do you want to eat it?"
"Just peel off the outer layer to reveal the flesh inside and you can eat it."
So, is the core of a banana tree really edible?
[Of course you can. The core of the banana tree is sweet and juicy, and it also provides a variety of vitamins and nutrients that the human body needs. Not only that, it can also prevent elevated blood lipids and clear away heat and detoxify... Okay, I'm laying it all out. I just searched this on Baidu...]
[Oh my goodness, I was wondering how someone could have figured this out so quickly, but it seems the core of this banana tree is indeed a good thing.]
[Of course, people who grow banana trees here will cut some of the tree cores to eat when the bananas are ripe. They are delicious not only on their own but also in soup.]
While fans were explaining the science in the live broadcast room, Xu Anjia had already peeled off the layer of bark outside the core of the tree and took a bite of the crispy white flesh that was still stringy.
With just a crisp sound of "crack", Xu Anjia's eyes lit up. The abundant juice in the tree core had a faint fragrance and a crispy texture.
Xu Anjia hurriedly swallowed the juice in her mouth and said happily to Song Tiantian, "Tiantian, this banana tree is really delicious. It tastes crispy just like a wax apple, and it's also very juicy."
Upon hearing this, He Jingnian lost his composure: "Tiantian, I want to try it too."
"And me." He Xuebin also raised his hand hurriedly. His impatient look did not seem like that of a mature adult at all!
[Dabin, Dabin, you're an adult now. How dare you ask a little girl for food? Do you still have any dignity left?]
[Dabin: For food, face is nothing. I can't eat it anyway.]
[That's right, if Tiantian is willing to give me a bite, I'm willing to be shameless!]
[Hey, you guys (pointing and gesturing), but I want to eat some too. Why don't supermarkets sell banana cores? Why, why, why?]
After eating the tree core, He Xuebin consciously picked up the bunch of bananas on the ground.
He Jingnian on the side asked Song Tiantian with anticipation: "Tiantian, where are we going now?"
"Keep looking for coconut crabs. We have only caught three coconut crabs so far, which is five short of one for each person." Song Tiantian has not given up the idea of arranging a coconut crab for each person.
He Xuebin's mouth twitched when he heard this. Just as he was about to say something, his silly son was the first to respond: "Okay, let's go find some coconut crabs. Then everyone can eat a whole one!"
"Yeah," Xu Anjia nodded hurriedly, "I've never eaten a whole coconut crab by myself either!"
"Then let's try it today." Song Tiantian said, while opening her eyes wide and looking at the coconut trees around her.
Knowing that coconut crabs like to live on coconut trees, she not only looked at the coconuts on the ground, but also looked towards the trees.
Most coconut crabs, which don't like to move during the day, hide in trees or in places covered by coconut shells. After finding out the hiding techniques of coconut crabs, Song Tiantian was like a cheat, and she could find them every time.
Although some coconut crabs hid in the tall coconut trees and could not be caught, as long as they were on the ground, none of them could escape the claws in Song Tiantian and the others' hands.
He Xuebin looked at these little guys who attacked the coconut crab as soon as they saw it, and gave up the idea of going forward to help.
After all, with these little guys rushing towards him with pliers, there was no room for him to intervene...
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