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The 鯆 beast walked step by step to the hole on the ice, where the water was slowly rising. When the water rose to the same level as the ice, the 鯆 beast leaned forward, and a subtle paddling sound was heard. Du Heng leaned forward, and the frame and the 鯆 beast fell into the ice hole together.
It was dark under the water, and the bream was swimming in the water, emitting a faint blue light. A slit appeared next to its ear, and the slit opened and closed, revealing the pale blue gills inside. Its limbs had turned into large and colorful fins, and as the fins moved, large bubbles flew from the front to Du Heng's eyes.
A pale golden barrier appeared in front of Du Heng. It spread out from the light hanging in front of the frame, tightly wrapping the frame and Du Heng who was sitting in front of it. The bubbles hit the barrier, some of them stuck to it mischievously, and some of them passed by and flew up.
It was pitch black all around, with only the sound of the bream paddling in the water. Du Heng was holding a cake in his hand, and it would be a lie to say he wasn't scared. In his two lives, he had never been underwater before.
Looking up at this time, you can still see the gray-blue ice above your head. Du Heng felt that the bream was still diving, and the ice layer gradually disappeared. The small ice hole they fell into changed from the size of a manhole cover to the size of a grapefruit, and finally disappeared.
Du Heng was shocked: "It's so deep under the water." Xuan Yu said: "The pond here is connected to an underground river. Don't worry, the bream will lead us to the exit."
Du Heng was surprised: "Does the cow know that we are going to the sea? Can it withstand the sea water?"
Xuan Yu smiled and said, "The oysters lay their eggs in the shallow sea. When they are young, they live in the deep sea. When they grow up, they crawl onto the shore and live in places with mountains and water. Because of this unique characteristic, the whereabouts of the oysters are rarely discovered."
Du Heng understood that his cow was an amphibious animal that could live on land, sea and air.
At this time, the curtain was opened, and Du Heng saw Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyu squeezed out from the curtain. Xiaoxiao was holding a ball of red and white in her mouth, and a sweet smell of toasted bread filled the air. It turned out that during the time when Du Heng and Xuan Yu were talking outside, his red bean buns had been baked!
Xiaoxiao jumped into Du Heng's arms. He stretched his head and put the bread on the plate in Du Heng's hand: "It's baked! It's soft and delicious!" Du Heng touched Xiaoxiao's feathers: "You specially gave it to me? Thank you, Xiaoxiao."
Over there, Little Feather also took two small pieces of bread. He was a little embarrassed: "Long Jun, bread." Xuan Yu rubbed Little Feather's head, then took the bread from his mouth: "Thank you, Hong'er."
Xiao Yu Mao squinted his eyes, and it was obvious that he was very happy. This child was good in everything except being too introverted. However, following Xiao Xiao for some time, he had become much more cheerful. Now, he was standing between Du Heng and Xuan Yu. "Are we already in the water?"
Xuan Yu picked up Little Feather and held him in his arms: "Yeah, are you scared? Do you feel oppressive?" Although some feather tribes can go into the water to fish, there are not many birds living in the water. Little Feather's original body is a golden crow, and to some extent, he is a fire monster. It is inevitable that he will feel uncomfortable in the water. If Little Feather feels uncomfortable, Xuan Yu will strengthen the formation on the frame to make him less uncomfortable.
Xiaoxiao sat down in Du Heng's arms, and he kept saying, "This is underwater. This is the first time I've been underwater since I was a child."
Du Heng cut a piece of cake and stuffed it into Xiaoxiao's mouth: "How does it feel?" Xiaoxiao ate the cake with a gurgling sound: "Hmm... It's dark. I wonder how the fish in the water can stand it."
Xuan Yu said slowly: "The water is not entirely dark, there is light in some places."
As they were talking, the surroundings became darker. With a sweep of their spiritual senses, they saw that the bream had already entered a cave under the water with the frame. The sudden intrusion of the frame startled the natives in the cave like a little sun, and many slender fish jumped out from the surroundings.
The fish were attracted by the light on the frame, and all of a sudden, the barrier was full of fish of all sizes poking their heads out. A stream of air blew out of the mouth and nose of the bream beast, and the fish were not frightened by the water vapor it sprayed, but instead came closer, and some fish even pecked at the scales on the bream beast's body.
The bream was swimming slowly in front of the frame, and fish of all sizes were swimming along with the frame. This scene reminded Du Heng of the time when he followed his father to the zoo to see animals. Now, they were the rare animals being watched by the fish.
Du Heng could feel the inquiring gazes of the fishes across the barrier. Du Heng smiled and said, "They must be very curious about what we are." For fishes living in water, water is everything to them. Very few fish can leave the water to see the outside world like the bream.
Xuan Yu suddenly asked: "Do you want to see a different scenery?" Then he met three pairs of sparkling eyes: "Yes~"
Xuan Yu smiled softly, and he pressed his finger downwards. The color of the light in front of the frame gradually faded from pale gold, and finally the color of the barrier was almost invisible. Not only was the inner barrier invisible, but even the outer barrier that blocked the wind, snow and obstacles was invisible.
Du Heng and the others' vision darkened, and only the faint blue light emitted by the bream lit up the road ahead. However, after they adjusted for a moment, they saw other light spots appearing in the deep darkness around them. Those light spots were deep and shallow, some were ice blue, and some were milky white.
Looking closely, I found that the light spots were actually emitted by the fish surrounding the frame! Some fish have light spots on their fins and tails, and these light spots are often in the form of dots. Some fish have two or three small light strips on their bodies, which are faintly visible when swimming in the water.
Swimming in the water at this time is like swimming in the starry sky, it is particularly spectacular!
In addition to the school of fish, some faint blue spots of light appeared around the cave. Du Heng looked and saw some strange-shaped things like small branches growing on the wall of the cave, which were swaying slowly with the water flow. From time to time, some faint blue tentacles like flowers would bloom on their branches, and the faint blue spots of light that Du Heng and his friends saw were emitted by these tentacles.
Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyu exclaimed: "Wow!" Isn't this too amazing?
Little Feather's eyes were shining with a faint blue light. He said admiringly, "I always thought the bottom of the water was cold, but I didn't expect there would be such a magnificent scenery underwater."
At this time, the curtain was opened again, and Jing Nan poked his head out to take a look outside: "Oh, into the underground sewer?"
Xuan Yu looked up and asked, "Do you feel uncomfortable?" Jing Nan said indifferently, "That's nothing." The higher the level of cultivation of the demon cultivator, the more sensitive he is to the changes in the surrounding environment. Jing Nan and Feng Gui felt that their cultivation was suppressed as soon as they entered the water.
This is the suppression of them by Heaven, just like the demon cultivators in the water cannot exert their full strength when they go to the shore. It would be difficult for the demon cultivators on the shore to make a big change after going into the water.
Jing Nan took a look and closed the curtain: "It's dark, there's nothing to see, why not go back to sleep."
Du Heng turned his head and asked, "Hey? Nan Nan, don't you want to take a closer look?" Jing Nan's voice came, "I have seen more spectacular things than this, this is nothing surprising."
Xuan Yu said to everyone, "Let's go, get inside the carriage. I'll let the Zhou brothers drive." Hearing this, Xiao Xiao disagreed, "Hey? No, Long Jun, just watch for a while~"
Du Heng also said, "Yes, let's watch for a while." This is like when you go out for a trip and arrive at a new place, you have to look around and take out your phone to take pictures as a souvenir. However, after a while, even if Xiao Yumao begs them, they will not come out.
Xuan Yu smiled: "Okay, watch for a while." It was just right for him to have a small piece of bread.
The soft bread exudes a milky and sweet aroma. It has a layer of reddish-brown, oily skin on it. The bottom is flat and feels a bit hard. After breaking the small bread, there are layers of cotton-like soft bread inside. There is also a ball of red bean filling in the middle. The red beans are so soft that they burst when you bite them.
Xuan Yu stuffed half of the small bread into his mouth, and the soft taste made him squint his eyes slightly. The freshly baked bread was particularly fragrant, and this taste was different from the cakes and buns he had eaten before. Xuan Yu thought he liked this taste very much.
Du Heng was also breaking the bread, he tore off half and put it into Xiao Xiao's mouth, and put the other half into Xiao Yu's mouth. Xiao Yu was not used to Du Heng's feeding at first, but after feeding for a while, he could naturally say thank you and open his mouth to eat.
Xuan Yu handed the other half of the bread to Du Heng: "It's soft, sweet and delicious." Du Heng was happy: "I knew you would like this taste!" It seems that he has a better grasp of Xuan Yu's taste.
After everyone finished eating the bread, the surrounding scenery could no longer arouse everyone's enthusiasm. Xiaoxiao happily went behind the curtain and said, "I'm used to it, but I still think the shore is more beautiful!"
Xuan Yu hugged Xiao Mao and watched Xiao Xiao's fat butt quietly slipping into the curtain. This heartless little thing, his enthusiasm faded so quickly.
In the next few days, Du Heng and his team kept walking in the underground waterway, stopping and starting. Sometimes when the bream got tired, they would find a safe corner to put the frame down and have a good rest. Du Heng also wanted to take an underwater walk, but he and Xuan Yu found it boring after walking a short distance.
The main thing is that once he gets out of the car frame, there will be countless curious eyes staring at them. Whatever he wants to do will be exposed, which is really too embarrassing.
It would be fine if there were only small eyes staring at me, but the further I went into the waterway, the weirder the fish that never saw the light looked. Some were transparent, some had no eyes, and some had mouths bigger than their heads...
Maybe they grow freely without light. After seeing it a few times, Du Heng no longer wanted to go down. He was walking peacefully and suddenly a very ugly fish came by, which almost gave him a heart attack.
It would be better for him to go to the portable cave to take care of his vegetables, and take Nian Nian Sui Sui and Wonton Ciba for a walk. These days, they can only stroll in the simple cave, and Du Heng feels that they have no energy.
After they had been walking in the waterway for four days, Zhou Lianhua brought back a big fish. It was a river eel. Seeing this fish, they knew they were not far from the river. They were about to get out of the underground waterway!
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There are eels in rivers too! The eel Zhou Xiyue brought back had a round head, a cylindrical upper body as thick as an arm, and a somewhat flat lower body that looked like a loach's tail.
This eel was seven feet long, with a black back and a white belly. It looked round-headed but was very ferocious. It had a mouth full of sharp teeth. When Zhou Xiyue pinched its seven inches, its cylindrical body tightly wrapped around his arm. It opened its mouth and tilted its head back, trying to bite Zhou Xiyue.
Du Heng had never seen such a big eel. When he was a child, the largest eel he had seen was only two feet long. Du's father once bought some braised eels for him to eat. He still remembers the delicious taste!
Chonghua poked the eel's head, causing the eel to open its mouth even wider: "Why did you bring this thing back?"
Zhou Xiyue laughed and said, "This thing is delicious. Let's roast it over the fire until it sizzles and oozes oil. I'll bring it back for Mr. Du to try!"
Yun Zheng exposed Zhou Xiyue's lie: "Let Mr. Du have a taste? You want to have a taste yourself, right?" Lao Dao sighed: "Lianhua Xiyue has also started to play tricks."
Zhou Xiyue's face suddenly turned red, and he looked at Du Heng innocently: "Mr. Du, believe me, this is really delicious. Just put it on the fire and roast it and you can eat it. I roast it for you to try?"
Hearing that there was something delicious, the cat who had been dozing and pretending to be dead suddenly opened his eyes: "What's delicious? What do we eat?"
Feng Gui couldn't listen any more. He was a little annoyed by the pressure these past two days. Hearing his subordinates quarreling, he felt a headache: "I think... bringing you here is really the biggest mistake." He is good at nothing but eating first.
Hearing Feng Gui's words, Yun Zheng and the others suddenly became as quiet as a chicken. Feng Jun was in a bad mood, so they should not bring bad luck to him.
Du Heng smiled and said, "This is indeed delicious. I have eaten this before. Xiaoyu, how about we have eel for lunch? Braised eel, hot pot, roasted eel, or fried eel?"
Jing Nan immediately ordered Zhou Lianhua: "Zhou's family, hurry up and catch some fish. What are you standing there for? You only caught this one fish. Who are you going to feed?"
Zhou Lianhua immediately received the order: "Okay! I will catch him right away."
Du Heng said, "By the way, you don't need to catch too big eels. Eels about two feet long taste best when cooked." Zhou Lianhua said, "Okay!" without even turning her head.
Xuan Yu grabbed the eel's neck and pulled it out of Zhou Xiyue's hand: "I'll take care of the eel."
Du Heng smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go and raise the grill." Yun Zheng and the others said, "Mr. Du, leave the grill to us." If they just ate and didn't do anything, Feng Jun would punish them again.
Du Heng nodded: "Trouble!" He could just squat down and watch Xiaoyu process the eels.
The eel has no scales, and is smooth and covered with a layer of mucus, which is a bit like the yellow eel. Xuan Yu picked up the eel by the neck and knocked its head against the chopping board. The eel fainted immediately, but its body was still curled and twisted.
Xuan Yu used his spiritual energy to nail the eel's head to the chopping board, and cut the eel's spine behind its head with the tip of the knife, then he swung the knife horizontally. There was a slight clicking sound when the blade touched the eel's bone, and in an instant, an eel that was longer than Xuan Yu was gutted by Xuan Yu.
Xuan Yu cleaned out the eel's internal organs neatly, and the speed was so fast that the eel had turned into a pile of meat on the chopping board before it could react. He didn't stop there, he used the knife to shave out the eel's bones, and cut the long eel bones into half-foot-long pieces and neatly placed them on the chopping board.
He cut off the head and tail with one knife, then he took a large basin and put the eel meat in it. After pouring hot water and counting to thirty, a layer of milky white substance appeared on the eel's curled body.
Xuan Yu took out the eel and put it in cold water. Then he gently rubbed the eel skin and removed the milky white substance. The processed eel skin was grayish white, and the meat was pink and white, looking particularly fresh.
Xuan Yu learned this trick from when he was processing eels in Dongji Mountain. Du Heng praised him, "Xiao Yu is really amazing."
Xuan Yu raised a smile and said, "Not bad. Do you want to cut the eel meat? How long should it be cut?" Du Heng thought for a moment and said, "Half a foot, so it's easier to roast."
Xuan Yu cut the eel into pieces of equal length with a knife. Du Heng was not idle either, cleaning the shallots. When Xuan Yu put the cleaned eel meat in the wooden basin, Du Heng also cleaned the shallots.
The eel meat is marinated with white wine, ginger, onion, soy sauce, a small amount of salt, sugar and a pinch of pepper for a sufficient time before it can be put on the grill. Of course, Du Heng also put two spoons of honey in the wooden basin.
After mixing the sauce and eel meat evenly, Du Heng was lazy again: "Xixi, let's do a backtracking technique."
Feng Gui responded, and he walked over listlessly: "How long do you want to marinate it?" Du Heng thought for a moment and said: "The meat is thick, so let's do two hours."
Du Heng reached out and touched Feng Gui's forehead: "Are you feeling very uncomfortable?" Feng Gui put his hands on the wooden basin, he was a little depressed: "It's not that I feel very uncomfortable, I'm just very irritated."
Xuan Yu reached out and patted Feng Gui on the back, and a stream of spiritual energy flowed into Feng Gui's body. Xuan Yu said, "You are a fire-type demon cultivator, so you will definitely feel uncomfortable in the water. When we get to the sea, I will find some blue algae for you, and you and Nan Nan will feel better after using them."
Du Heng knew about the blue algae, which was a magical plant that grew in the sea. After taking it, cultivators could stay in the water for a long time without their cultivation being damaged. This grass was once sold at a high price of 100,000 spirit stones in the cultivation world.
Feng Gui said: "Thank you very much. I want to get angry every moment now." At this moment, Feng Gui was like a walking bomb. Whoever touched him would be in trouble.
Du Heng comforted her, "Don't be angry. I'll give you the first one to eat when the grilled eel is ready." Feng Gui smiled and said, "Give it to Xiaoxiao and the others."
Du Heng turned around and saw Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yu Mao blowing air into the grill with their cheeks puffed out. Du Heng laughed out loud: "We have everything. This fish is so big, everyone can have a share!"
When Du Heng walked to the grill by the window with the wooden basin, the charcoal fire under the grill was already red. Du Heng turned his head to look at Xiao Xiao and the others, and he received a tilted head kill from Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yu Mao. Du Heng was so cute that his face was bleeding. He used a clip to pick up the eel meat and put it on the grill: "Don't worry, it will be grilled soon."
The marinated eel with sauce made a sizzling sound as soon as it touched the hot grill. Du Heng's grill was half a foot wide, and if the meat was placed vertically, half of the eel meat could be placed on it at a time. This time the eel was big, and the half of the meat was one inch thick. He had never grilled such a big eel before.
The eel skin curled up slightly, but because the meat on top was thick, the fish meat did not curl up too much. The fat above and below the skin became slightly transparent due to the heat, and the juice mixed with the fat flowed down the grill. The sound coming from the charcoal fire became louder and louder, and the green smoke became thicker and thicker.
Fortunately, the formation in the car frame began to work, and the green smoke was drawn through the window into the water outside the barrier. There was no smell of smoke in the car.
Du Heng slowly and methodically made diamond-shaped cuts in the eel meat. After the cuts were opened, the juice marinated in the fish meat immediately gathered in the gaps.
When Du Heng used his spiritual energy to turn the fish over, the juice and fat started to drip down, and flames suddenly appeared on the charcoal fire. Du Heng had to let the meat hang for a while and wait until the flames went out before he covered it with the eel meat.
At this time, the fish skin had been roasted to a yellow-white color, and a strong aroma of fat wafted out. Just as Zhou Lianhua said, eels are delicious. Whether it is a river eel or a sea eel, they store a lot of fat under their skin. Don't they sizzle and ooze oil when they are roasted? Even if they are placed on the rack like this, Du Heng can hear the sound of them oozing oil.
Du Heng took out a small brush and evenly brushed the sauce made with soy sauce and honey on the fish skin. The sauce was made with soy sauce and honey and tasted salty and sweet. Du Heng had used this sauce before when making grilled wings.
After he brushed the sauce three times inside and outside, the eel was ready. You can't rush to grill eels, you need to grill the fat carefully, so that the eel can be delicate, fresh and fragrant without being fat or greasy.
At this time, the eel meat had changed from pink to brown, and the fat under the skin had shrunk a lot. Du Heng sniffed the smell, and it made him feel that it was very delicious. If there was rice, this half-foot-long piece of fish meat could go with three bowls of rice!
Du Heng greeted everyone and sprinkled white sesame seeds on the eels: "The eels are grilled! Come and eat!"
Xiaoxiao looked at the grilled eel with sparkling eyes: "Wow~ This fish looks so delicious. It feels as delicious as the peach blossom fish grilled by Longjun!"
Du Heng used a plate to pick up two pieces of fish for Xiaoxiao and the others: "Stop praising me, just try it and see how it tastes." However, he had a hunch that this time the grilled eel was a success. Just for the taste and color, Du Heng gave himself 80 points!
The grilled eel was a little crispy where it touched the charcoal fire, but the soft and tender meat was wrapped in the crispness. Chonghua picked up a piece of fish and stuffed it into his mouth. He took a sip and felt that the fish melted in his mouth! The tender and fragrant fish flowed down the esophagus into the stomach, making the tip of the tongue feel comfortable and the stomach comfortable.
Xiaoxiao exclaimed and praised: "Du Hengheng! Eel is so delicious?! It's plump, tender, crispy and crunchy, not fishy at all!"
Little Feather also praised: "Yes, the sauce tastes great. I thought the salty and sweet taste of soy sauce and honey would be hard to swallow, but I didn't expect the sauce to neutralize the fatty taste of the eel and leave only the tender taste. This taste... is amazing."
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Is this new knowledge? I've eaten this fish before, it has a fishy smell, but I can eat two pieces of it when Du Heng cooks it!"
Du Heng smiled and said, "You'll get sick of grilled eels if you eat too much of them. Eels are high in fat, so you should be careful." Especially since eels are large and contain more fat, Du Heng was worried that they would get tired of it and would not eat it again in the future.
The Zhou brothers ate so much that tears came out: "Wow, it's delicious. It's great to catch the eels and let Mr. Du cook them!" "We grilled them directly over fire, and although it tasted good too, it can't compare to what Mr. Du made."
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