Chapter 16 Blue Ring Octopus

Jiang Wan and her daughter were lucky. They both knew that the octopus was not poisonous and swallowed the meat in their mouths silently.

"Are you sure he died from eating octopus?"

"That's what the people who inquired about it said. Wanyuzhai has been closed down. Many people know about it, so it should be true."

Lian Yue observed the Yin family members nervously, fearing that someone would suddenly collapse.

Jiang Wan almost laughed when she saw her cousin wanting to swallow but not daring to, wanting to vomit but not wanting to. She quickly explained, "Brother Lian Yue, don't worry, the octopus your family sent is not poisonous."

"How do you know? Are you sure?"

"Of course~"

Jiang Wan winked at A Niang, and the tool Yin Huaixi began to explain.

"Lian Yue, you were just panicking for a moment and didn't think clearly. People in the village have been eating octopus for many years, so it's certainly not poisonous. If the person you mentioned really died from eating octopus, then what they ate was definitely not this kind of octopus, but a kind of marine creature called blue-ringed octopus."

"Blue-ringed octopus?"

"Yes, the blue-ringed octopus. It looks almost the same as an octopus, except for the color. It has round blue spots on its body. It is highly poisonous, and even if it is cooked, the toxin cannot be broken down. A bite from it of half a cup of tea can kill a person. If it is cooked and eaten, the onset of the disease may be delayed, but it will not exceed an hour."

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If it were in modern times, it might be possible to give him first aid, but here, don’t even think about it.

After Yin Huaixi finished speaking, he saw his elder brother and sister-in-law heaved a sigh of relief and slowly started chewing again.

"Little sister, you know a lot."

"Well... I am a doctor, and I also read some books about poisons. I have to be able to cure diseases and detoxify..."

Yin Huaixi forced himself to explain, and then said no more.

Lian Yue thought back and realized that the big octopus he sold yesterday did not have any blue round spots on it. It was flesh-colored. If it had those blue spots, he would have remembered them.

"Brother Lian Yue, you can rest assured now, right? My mother is a very good doctor. If she says it's not poisonous, then it's definitely not poisonous. Do you want to try it?"

Jiang Wan handed over a bamboo skewer with half an octopus stuck on it, but Lian Yue was too embarrassed to take it.

"You guys eat, my grandma has prepared dinner and is waiting for me. I hope this thing is not poisonous. Thank you, Doctor Yin, for helping my grandma in the mountains."

"You are such a polite child."

Yin Huaixi had a good impression of the young boy. When he suspected that the things sent by his family were poisonous, he did not try to hide it but ran over to inform them immediately. He was a very good child.

The matter was made clear, and Lian Yue said goodbye and prepared to leave. Yin Ning took his cousin and walked him out the door.

"Brother Lian Yue, thank you for helping me yesterday."

Different from Jiang Wan's soft and sweet voice, Yin Ning spoke rather gently, and Lian Yue felt as if a feather was brushing against the tip of his heart, making it itchy.

"You're welcome. Your family will help my family today. Go back and have dinner."

Lian Yue left without looking back, and the two sisters went back to eat together.

But the octopus certainly could not satisfy the appetite of a family of five, so Jiang Wan also grilled a lot of spicy snails, and now the family was eating the snail meat with bamboo sticks.

"hiss……"

“This snail meat tastes weird.”

Yin Huaishan finished eating one and immediately picked up the second one.

"It's a little bitter, but it's quickly covered by a very stimulating taste. It's fragrant and strong when chewed, and it feels like it whets your appetite."

"Uncle, you really know how to eat, haha~"

Spicy snails, because their tails contain capsaicin, so they taste slightly spicy. In this place where there is no chili, this slight spiciness is a very unique taste.

Jiang Wan and her daughter had a rare chance to eat something spicy, so they kept eating one after another. This thing also suited the taste of Yin Huaishan and his wife, but Yin Ning seemed not used to it and only ate a little.

Through spending the past few days together and talking to her aunt, Jiang Wan found out that her cousin was a sweet tooth.

sweet……

Yes, it really exists~

Jiang Wan ran to the wooden tub where the sea urchins were soaking and used bamboo chopsticks to pick one out. She also ran to Aunt Cuifang's house to borrow a pair of scissors without any hesitation.

When I came back, I saw my cousin and uncle looking at the sea urchin.

"Wow, this little thing is covered with thorns, and all of them are moving."

"Cousin, what is this? It gives me goosebumps all over my body."

Jiang Wan laughed.

"This is called sea urchin. Cousin, the last octopus that gave you goosebumps is still in your stomach."

Yin Ning snorted twice and noticed the scissors in his cousin's hand.

"Cousin, you are still young, let me do it."

"No, no, it's just a small job."

Jiang Wan was worried about her cousin handling the sea urchin. If she got bitten, it would be troublesome. She wrapped her hands with the hem of her skirt and gently held the sea urchin and cut it in a simple circle from its mouth.

With a creaking sound, half of the sea urchin's body was exposed. Inside were five orange-yellow pieces of fish, a pile of undigested algae, and black, rotten internal organs.

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Jiang Wan asked her cousin to help rinse the water, and after washing it clean, she gave each of them a piece of sea urchin roe.

Although seafood is best eaten cooked, she really wanted to let her uncle and aunt taste this fresh purple sea urchin.

Nowadays, many people like sea urchin yellow, but even more people dislike it. Some people think it tastes fishy, ​​while others think it tastes bitter. In fact, what many people eat is not fresh sea urchin, but ordinary yellow sea urchin, so of course the taste is different.

Jiang Wan is a seafood blogger nowadays, and occasionally does seafood reviews. She once did a sea urchin review, and bought common yellow sea urchin, purple sea urchin and horse dung sea urchin.

The yellow sea urchin was still fresh when she ate it, and it felt a bit fishy and slightly bitter, and the quality was average. The purple sea urchin was amazing, with no strange smell at all, and tasted sweet, fresh, smooth and tender. The horse dung sea urchin was more fragrant and also very good.

"Cousin, can you try it?"

Yin Ning looked at his cousin's smiling eyes, and resisted the urge to look at the sea urchin shell. He closed his eyes and put the sea urchin roe into his mouth.

Huh?!

This smell!

Yin Ning opened her eyes in surprise, and tasted it carefully before swallowing it reluctantly. The long-lost sweetness made her feel extremely satisfied, and she wanted to hug her cousin and spin around happily.

"It's so delicious! Cousin, you're amazing!"

She just saw that her cousin brought back half a bucket of sea urchins.

"We can't eat too much of this raw food. We'll roast it later in the evening."

It’s a pity that all the eggs at home were stolen, otherwise I could try eating sea urchin steamed eggs.

Jiang Wan swallowed her sea urchin roe in one slurp and let out a satisfied sigh.

"Cousin, it's a real loss to our family that you didn't come with me today. You don't know that there are a lot of sea urchins where I pick them. It's a pity that my basket can't hold them all, and I can't hold so many in my hands."

Yin Ning imagined the scene his cousin described and suddenly got a chill.

Fortunately, she did not go, otherwise, seeing so many densely packed and constantly wriggling sea urchins, she was afraid that her legs would be so weak that she would not be able to walk at all.