Across this atoll is a mangrove forest. From time to time, some small crabs will quickly crawl across the muddy ground and hide in tree holes or sand holes.
Song Tiantian glanced at the crab hole with some regret: "If only we still had claws now."
Unfortunately, their tools have probably been washed away by the waves.
"It's okay." Lu Chuanbei reached out and touched Song Tiantian's still slightly wet head: "We can come over after we finish packing tomorrow."
"Um"
Although they couldn't catch crabs, Song Tiantian and Lu Chuanbei would not miss out on another resource in the mangroves.
That is the Chinese herbal medicine that grows in the mangroves.
Especially those herbs that can be used to make insect repellents and parasite removers, as long as they are seen by Song Tiantian and others, they will be picked off.
Fang Xiuzhu watched Lu Chuanbei pull at his clothes, scooping up the herbs, and couldn't help but stop and say, "Wait a minute."
Lu Chuanbei looked at Fang Xiuzhu, somewhat confused: "What's wrong?"
"Wait a moment." After saying that, Fang Xiuzhu walked towards the mangroves not far away. He reached out and pulled down the vines hanging from the branches, and cut the vines with the dagger on his waist.
Song Tiantian watched Fang Xiuzhu holding the dagger and moving his fingers quickly. In a few strokes, he removed the branches and leaves on the vine, leaving only one vine and started weaving.
After a while, the prototype of a wicker basket appeared in front of Song Tiantian and the others.
"Wow..." Song Tiantian looked at the rattan basket in Fang Xiuzhu's hand with amazement: "Uncle Fang, you can actually weave rattan baskets?"
"I learned it when I was filming a movie." Fang Xiuzhu said with a smile, "I didn't expect it would come in handy now."
Did you learn this while filming Shan Ye? If I remember correctly, Fang Xiuzhu played a school dropout who, in order to get back into school, took the rattan and bamboo baskets she'd painstakingly woven to town to sell, only to be scammed.
[The above mentioned something and it reminded me of that movie. I went to see it with my girlfriend, and we both cried our eyes out when we left the theater.]
[That’s right, after watching the movie, my mom kept telling me that the student was so pitiful and asked me where I could donate money to help him go to college.]
[Same mom, but I didn't expect that even after more than ten years since this film, Lao Fang still remembers how to weave a rattan basket]
[Because Lao Fang personally worked on that film, he spent over two weeks learning how to weave from a local rattan weaver. Calluses formed on his hands before he mastered the art of making rattan and bamboo baskets. Of course, he'll never forget it.]
Actors in the past were truly dedicated. They would learn everything before filming, rather than just using a stand-in right from the start...
Fang Xiuzhu, surrounded by Song Tiantian and the others, quickly wove a fine and dense wicker basket: "Here."
Fang Xiuzhu handed the woven rattan basket to Lu Chuanbei: "Put the herbs in the basket."
"Hehe, thank you Brother Fang." Lu Chuanbei happily took the wicker basket and poured all the herbs in his clothes pocket into it.
In order to make it easier to carry, Fang Xiuzhu added two vines on both sides of the rattan basket so that Lu Chuanbei could carry it directly on his back.
In addition to this, Fang Xiuzhu also wove two more, one for holding an inflatable boat, and the other was a small rattan basket for Song Tiantian. The small rattan basket with handles was small and exquisite, and Song Tiantian fell in love with it as soon as she saw it.
With the rattan basket, Song Tiantian and her friends had an easier journey back. Moreover, when they encountered more herbs, they could pick them all without having to worry about them and put them in the rattan basket.
The crabs that they had ignored and not caught because they had nothing to put them in could not escape now.
Especially the crabs in the mangroves are not very good at hiding from people, which makes it more convenient for Lu Chuanbei and his team.
Song Tiantian looked at a large blue crab nestling motionless at the base of a tree and immediately called out to Lu Chuanbei, "Dad, look over there! There's another large blue crab."
"Let me take a look." Lu Chuanbei looked in the direction Song Tiantian pointed.
Sure enough, the blue crab was almost as big as a football.
When he saw this, Lu Chuanbei certainly wouldn't miss it.
After a few strokes, he got another blue crab. Just when Lu Chuanbei had just caught the blue crab, the sea turtle, which had never made such a sound before, suddenly started to call out towards a mangrove.
Upon seeing this situation, the brave Song Tiantian immediately stepped forward and looked towards the direction where the turtle was calling.
Seeing this, Song Tiantian's eyes widened immediately: "Gold, golden yellow..."
Not far from the turtle, there was a big golden blue crab, holding a pair of golden claws towards the turtle.
[Is this the crab I imagined?]
Is this the crab I was thinking of? A mud crab variant with roe all over it...?
[You can just say the name of the butter crab upstairs! ]
Butter crab! Oh my goodness, the bluefin tuna just left and now the butter crab is here! I think we should just turn this into a food variety show with Dad!
[That's right, I strongly recommend that Director Liu change his name. Maybe if he changes his name, they won't be able to afford it anymore (No)]
"Oh my God, is this a butter crab?" Fang Xiuzhu looked at the blue crab in front of Song Tiantian and couldn't help but look surprised.
"Butter crab?" Song Tiantian raised her head curiously. "Is there any difference between this crab and blue crab?"
"They are all blue crabs, but the butter crab is a variant of the blue crab. There is only one butter crab among a thousand blue crabs." Fang Xiuzhu continued to speak to Song Tiantian while explaining the science.
"Plus, the crab claws, the joints of the legs, and even the meat inside are all covered in butter from the crab roe. It's not only rich in fat, but also tastes much better than ordinary blue crabs."
As he said that, Fang Xiuzhu reached out to grab the butter crab that was still confronting the sea turtle.
I don’t know if it finally sensed the danger, but when the butter crab saw Fang Xiuzhu approaching, it couldn’t help but take a few steps back, and then wanted to hide in the cave.
But before it could run into the cave, Xiangfangnan blocked its retreat with a branch. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Fang Xiuzhu quickly stepped forward and caught it.
When the butter crab was thrown into the wicker basket, the turtle hummed at it with pride.
Then, the turtle seemed to be fighting with the butter crabs, and took Song Tiantian and the others to find a few large butter crabs.
This made the netizens in the live broadcast room instantly jealous.
[This turtle must be a spirit! Otherwise, it would be so sure of finding butter crabs!]
[Didn't they say that spirits were forbidden after the founding of the country? Why is it so outstanding?!]
[Do you think I can raise a sea turtle now and wait for it to become a spirit and find butter crabs for me?]
[You can't find a butter crab, but if you raise it well, it will definitely take care of you until the end. (dog head)]
[Perhaps you've forgotten that this turtle is the one that led Tiantian and the others to the Dragon Palace Conch, right?]
[Oh my god, I forgot such an important clue. Looks like we were right. This turtle is a spirit!]
[Hey, Fairy Management Bureau, please bring this spirit turtle back! Or at least give me a treasure-hunting turtle! Otherwise, I'll kneel down and beg you, QAQ!]
They collected herbs and caught butter crabs along the way, and they didn't even notice the passage of time before they walked out of the mangroves.
Lu Chuanbei glanced at the mangroves with a sense of loss: "I haven't caught enough butter crabs yet, why are you out?"
These Versailles words made netizens spit on him in the live broadcast room.
Lu Chuanbei rubbed his itchy nose and suggested to Fang Xiuzhu, "Brother Fang, when we have time, we must do this again."
"I think tomorrow would be a good time." Fang Xiuzhu, who loves eating crabs, directly set the time for his next visit.
"Sure." Lu Chuanbei agreed without hesitation: "Anyway, the inflatable boat is broken, and I don't think I can go out to sea for a while. I might as well catch more crabs here."
"Then it's settled."
After leaving the mangroves, Lu Chuanbei and others still had to cross a jungle. Along the way, Song Tiantian and others discovered some cassava, ferns, some wild fungus and various fruits such as guava, pineapple, lemon, banana, etc., which appeared one after another in front of Song Tiantian and others.
[Look at Xiao Lu and his group, then look at Xu Qi and his group. These two groups really form a strong contrast!]
[That's right. One group only knew how to find things that couldn't be eaten, and they picked up all the poisonous mushrooms and fruits. Even the guide who was hiding couldn't help but jump out to stop them from picking them. But this group, they had killer whales to help them catch tuna. Although the process was a bit thrilling, they were safe. And the rest of the time, not to mention the treasure-hunting turtles that helped them find butter crabs when they caught crabs. Later on, they even encountered more fruits and food along the way than the other group...]
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have thought Dabin and the others would be so unlucky...
Lu Chuanbei and the others were still unaware of the various situations He Xuebin and the others encountered while searching for food on the island.
Lu Chuanbei took a dagger and cut the banana tree in half at the root, peeled off the outer bark, took out the inner core, and gave a section to each of Song Tiantian and the others to replenish water.
The sea turtles were also given a section. The sea turtles, which had never eaten banana tree cores before, made happy calls after tasting the cores for the first time.
Then, it rubbed against Song Tiantian and bent down to let her sit on its back.
Seeing this, Lu Chuanbei, who had been worried that Song Tiantian would not be able to handle it, immediately picked up the little girl, along with Xiang Nan.
The turtle tilted its head and looked at the extra person on its back. It stood up without refusing and continued to move forward carrying them.
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