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The little mermaid swam up and down in the barrier with her short tail, her hair swaying softly like seaweed. Seeing Du Heng and the others looking over, Nuonuo swam even more happily, her face pressed against the barrier, her two big ice-blue eyes looking at Du Heng brightly: "Bo Bo~"
Du Heng approached the barrier, and the little mermaid immediately swam over and stuck to the barrier in front of him. He gave Du Heng an innocent smile: "Bobo~"
Du Heng teased Nuonuo across the barrier: "Oh Nuonuo, why are you so cute?" Nuonuo smiled even more brightly, and his short tail wagged even more vigorously, and a circle of gorgeous splashes appeared in the barrier.
The barrier made by Xuan Yu was not hard, but felt soft and warm. Du Heng's fingers fell on the barrier, and Nuo Nuo quickly came over and leaned her cheek and head against his fingers. Nuo Nuo felt a little cold under the barrier, and Du Heng could feel the child's undisguised happiness.
Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyu tilted their heads and watched the interaction between Du Heng and Nuonuo. After a while, Xiaoxiao suddenly spoke up: "Du Hengheng, do you know?"
Du Heng was having fun with Nuonuo. He turned back subconsciously: "Huh? What do you know?"
Xiaoxiao said: "The children of the Feather Tribe and the Water Tribe are different from those of the Human Tribe. The advanced Feather Tribe and the Water Tribe can remember their relatives when they are in the eggshell. The dumber ones will regard the first person they see after breaking out of the shell as their parents."
Du Heng thought for a moment and said, "Ah, this is imprinting behavior, right?" Du Heng knew this because it was recorded in his junior high school biology textbook.
Xiaoxiao chuckled and said, "Xiaoyu thinks Du Hengheng is his daddy."
Du Heng's hand paused, and he looked at Nuonuo in the barrier with a confused look on his face. Nuonuo gave him a pure smile: "Bobo~"
Things got serious. As long as Du Heng left Nuonuo's sight, Nuonuo would burst into tears. You have to know that Nuonuo is a mermaid, and his voice is very aggressive. Even though he is just a small fish, that voice when he cries... is louder than Xixi's voice when she was a child. It was so noisy that it made everyone's head hurt.
Du Heng scratched his head in confusion: "What should I do? This is really a misunderstanding!" How did he know that the person Xiaoyu saw first was him? Logically speaking, Xiaoyu had been in the barrier for so long, and the person he saw must be Yan Huaizhen who was next to the barrier!
Jing Nan was so happy that he said, "Hehe, Yan Huaizhen gave birth to a baby prematurely, so the little mermaid's physical strength is still a little weaker than other mermaids. Originally, the little mermaid could open his eyes when he was born, but because he lacked strength, he waited until this morning to open his eyes."
If Du Heng had gone in later, the mermaid would not have recognized the wrong person. But there were such coincidences in the world, he went in at the right time, causing the mermaid to recognize the wrong father.
Du Heng tied a piece of cloth on his chest, and inside the cloth bag was a round water ball, and inside the water ball was Nuonuo playing with his fingers. Seeing Du Heng like this, everyone just wanted to laugh.
Xuan Yu comforted Du Heng: "It's okay, the children of the mermaids grow fast, and they will be able to leave the water ball in a few months." Du Heng covered his face in despair. Does this mean that he will have to take care of Nuonuo for a few months? The daylily is cold!
The coconut crab in the steamer was cooked. When the steamer was opened, the red coconut crab was squatting in the steamer. Xuan Yu took the steamer from the stove to the round table. Du Heng stood up and said, "I'll make the sauce for everyone."
As a result, Du Heng was stopped by Feng Gui and the others: "No need, just leave this kind of small matter to Xiaoyu, you just need to do one thing well now." Du Heng was puzzled: "Huh?"
Feng Gui pointed at Nuo Nuo in the water ball and said, "Take care of the child and stop him from crying."
It would have been fine if Feng Gui didn't speak, but as soon as he spoke, Nuo Nuo started to scream again. Jing Nan stuffed two balls of cotton in his ears: "Hey, if he wasn't so young, I would have thrown him into the sea a long time ago."
Xuan Yu said: "How about I set up a barrier and let him cry."
Du Heng quickly hugged the water ball in his arms: "You can't do this. The child can't speak. He can only express his needs by crying. He is thirsty, hungry, and uncomfortable, so he can only cry. If you can't hear his cry, who knows what he really needs? Right, Nuonuo?"
The little mermaid cried loudly, her face flushed. After Du Heng tried to comfort her for a few times, she was still crying loudly. After thinking for a while, he asked a serious question: "What do the children of the mermaids eat when they are born?"
Zhou Xiyue said: "Eat fish!"
Zhou Lianhua said proudly: "My brother and I were able to eat a load of fish when we were born!"
Du Heng sighed: "Stop making trouble, Nuonuo is not even as big as a fish."
Xuan Yu removed the eight claws of the coconut crab and thought: "The habits of mermaids and Kunpeng are similar. It should be right for mermaids to eat fish. Zhou Lianhua, go catch some small fish."
Zhou Lianhua was drooling as he looked at the coconut crab on the table. When he was suddenly called, he could only respond in frustration: "Yes, Long Jun."
Du Heng coaxed Nuonuo softly: "Don't cry, there will be fish to eat soon."
Xuan Yu pried open the two large claws of the coconut crab, revealing the tender white crab meat in the orange-red crab shell. Du Heng sniffed the smell, and it was indeed fresh and tender. Xuan Yu shook the meat in the crab shell onto a large plate, and there was a layer of orange-red film on the crab meat shell.
Xuan Yu divided the crab meat into several pieces. He pushed the two largest pieces to Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yu Mao. The two children happily stretched their necks and took the meat. "Thank you, Long Jun!"
Zhou Lianhua was very quick, and soon he brought back a basket of small silver fish. The silver fish were as big as a palm, and each one was alive.
Xuan Yu picked up two and threw them into the barrier. Nuo Nuo stopped crying immediately. He pounced on them fiercely, grabbed the silver fish and started to eat them. Du Heng felt that he was eating the silver fish like noodles, and he was stunned.
The remaining two silver fish swam tremblingly in the water ball. Nono burped and ignored them, apparently they were full.
Xuan Yu took the two fish out of the barrier again. Nuo Nuo turned over with satisfaction, leaned against the barrier and Du Heng's chest and closed his eyes. Du Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This little guy, he just sleeps after eating."
Xuan Yu stuffed a piece of coconut crab meat into Du Heng's mouth: "Children usually sleep when they are full."
Du Heng ate a mouthful of coconut crab meat, which was sweeter than ordinary crabs and more flexible. If one were to describe the taste in one word, it would be fresh and sweet. Its meat had a faint coconut fragrance, probably because it feeds on coconuts.
The texture and taste are so good! Du Heng was addicted to it after just one bite: "It tastes really good!" No wonder Chonghua and the others were so happy to see the coconut crab.
Even without the sauce, everyone was able to share the whole coconut crab!
The meat of the coconut crab is gathered in its claws, and there is not much meat in its body. Its belly is a little soft after steaming. After Xuan Yu cut it open with a knife, a lot of thin yellow appeared in the belly.
The crab roe tasted different from the crab roe Du Heng had eaten before. It smelled more pungent. Du Heng couldn't tell what the smell was. He had never smelled anything like it before.
People who like this smell will like it very much, and people who hate this smell will stay three meters away from it. Du Heng is one of those people who doesn't like this smell very much. He thinks that he walked to the side while holding Nuonuo: "This smell is too stimulating."
Chonghua and Yunzheng rubbed their hands together, "Ah, so much crab roe! Mr. Du, you really don't want to have a bite?"
Du Heng leaned over to look at the cut open belly, and Xuan Yu peeled off the folded shell on the coconut crab's abdomen, only to see that the sunken crab shell was filled with crab roe.
Xuan Yu cut off a piece of crab leg, pulled out the meat from the crab leg and dipped it in the crab roe: "Du Heng, why don't you try it? Maybe you will like the taste?"
Du Heng looked at the meat with yellow on it, he took two steps forward and took a bite of the crab meat with his eyes closed. The crab roe tasted strange, slightly bitter and slightly sweet, and the taste was particularly fresh. It was not bad, but it was not what Du Heng liked.
Du Heng shook his head: "Forget it, the meat is delicious, but Huang really can't accept it."
After hearing this, Yun Zheng and the others looked at each other, and the next moment, these generals moved like the wind, and the next moment they fought for the crab roe. Jing Nan gnawed the crab meat and warned the group of people: "If the crab roe splashes on me, you will all lose a layer of skin today."
The generals were very skilled, and of course the crab roe didn't fly out at all. They even scraped the roe off the shell. As a result, when Xiaoxiao happily went to scrape the crab roe, she only saw an empty shell. Xiaoxiao was silent for half a cup of tea facing the empty shell, and the generals didn't dare to raise their heads.
Du Heng was almost laughing like crazy, but Feng Gui said something to stop Xiao Xiao from crying. Feng Gui said, "Coconut crabs hide during the day and come out at night. If you catch one, there will be a lot of them. Let's go outside tonight and catch them. There must be a lot of them."
Xiaoxiao laughed out loud: "Then I want to eat two!"
After eating the coconut crab, Xuan Yu cut the green grass jelly in the casserole into palm-sized pieces and placed them on a plate. He handed the plate to Feng Gui and the others: "Eat it."
Du Heng looked at the green grass jelly that was shaking like jelly, and he wanted to try it. However, before he opened his mouth, Jing Nan, who was the first to eat it, was already holding his head with disgust: "Ugh... so disgusting..."
After Jing Nan, Feng Gui and the others all showed expressions of agony, especially Xiao Yu Mao and Xiao Xiao, who were so sick that they were about to vomit.
Yun Zheng's face turned pale: "The power of the green grass... is too terrifying."
Du Heng was very curious: "What does it taste like?" Xuan Yu glanced at Du Heng, and he scooped a spoonful and handed it to Du Heng: "Would you like to try it?"
Du Heng sniffed it and found that the taste was fine, with a faint scent of grass. He took a bite and immediately felt sour, astringent, bitter, fresh and spicy in his mouth. A lingering greasy feeling spread from his mouth to his internal organs, making Du Heng want to vomit but unable to.
He finally understood why the generals had such expressions. This was really... too painful! How could they feel so disgusted when looking at such a beautiful thing?!
Du Heng took several breaths before he came to his senses. He finally understood why Xuan Yu only put one piece of Bi Bo Grass. One piece of Bi Bo Grass brought down so many big monsters. If he put three or five pieces, would they still have a chance to survive? !
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After waiting for the monks to finish eating half of the pot of green grass, everyone was lying flat on the ground. Jing Nan said in a trance: "I think that the monks who can eat green grass will not be afraid of the sea at all."
Every time he turned over, he could feel the lingering greasy feeling flowing through his meridians. He felt that his whole body was greasy like a fish. But it was also because of this that the feeling of being suppressed when entering the water magically dissipated!
Du Heng also ate a few mouthfuls of the green grass. He wasn’t feeling much better at the moment. He lay flat on the brocade step in the living room, with Xiao Yumao lying on his left and lying on his right. He smiled: “Ah… I vaguely saw Wu Wang standing by the river, waving at me.”
Xuan Yu smiled and handed Du Heng a hot towel: "Don't be silly, Wuwang has been reincarnated."
Du Heng took the handkerchief and wiped the two children's faces. "I didn't expect that the green grass could taste so bad. Now I want to know what the first person who thought of eating green grass did to it?"
The first person who discovered this use for Bi Bo Cao must be a talented person.
Xuan Yu said calmly: "Oh, the older the green grass is, the better the effect. It is said that the hundred-year-old green grass tastes sour. One flavor can be added every three hundred years, and the five-flavor green grass has the best effect. The older it is, the more greasy it tastes..."
Du Heng couldn't help but roll his eyes. Did he feel lucky to be able to eat the five-flavored Bibo grass? Forget it, he should think about making something delicious to appease his stomach.
Xiaoxiao groaned: "Du Hengheng... I feel so uncomfortable. I need to eat something delicious to survive."
Du Heng rubbed Xiaoxiao's head and said, "Coconut chicken... do you want to eat it?"
Xiaoxiao suddenly sat up from the brocade steps, his eyes shining: "Coconut chicken? Is it the same as coconut crab?!"
Du Heng smiled and shook his head: "No, it's a kind of chicken made with coconut juice and chicken. It tastes sweet and fresh, very good." Xiaoxiao revived with full blood: "Let's go, let's pick coconuts!"
Xuan Yu said to Du Heng slowly, "We will stay on the island today. Firstly, we can catch coconut crabs at night, and secondly, Nan Nan and the others also need time to digest the green grass."
Du Heng nodded: "Okay, Yan Huaizhen hasn't woken up yet, let's rest more, maybe he will wake up."
Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyu worked together to pick a bunch of the largest and yellowest coconuts. A few of the coconuts were broken by the coconut crabs, but the remaining coconuts were enough for Du Heng to use.
Xiaoxiao plucked a coconut and handed it to Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu, have you ever eaten coconut? This is edible." Since Xiaoxiao met Xiaoyu, everyone found that Xiaoxiao's words and deeds are very much like a teacher. He tells Xiaoyu everything he knows, and even teaches him how to eat a coconut.
Little Feather was very cooperative. He said seriously, "I've only read about it in books before. Shenxu Palace is located at a high altitude and there are no coconut trees."
Xiaoxiao cut off the top of the coconut neatly, and a round hole appeared on the cross section. Not a drop of coconut juice spilled out of the hole. Xiaoxiao handed the coconut to Xiaoyu: "Try it, it's sweet and refreshing."
Watching the two children chatting, Du Heng smiled and said, "Xiaoxiao is unexpectedly caring." Xuan Yu said, "He only takes care of Hong'er when it comes to food. Usually, Hong'er gives in to him."
Du Heng sighed: "If Tai Shuhong were still alive, he would be so happy to see Xiao Yu Mao now."
Xuan Yu put his arm around Du Heng's shoulders and said, "Don't talk about these unhappy things."
Du Heng smiled and said, "Well, let's not talk about it. By the way, I'm going to go see if Yan Huaizhen has woken up. Do you think I should prepare something to nourish his body?"
Xuan Yu said, "You do it as you see fit." Du Heng came over and tried to kiss Xuan Yu on the face, but Nuo Nuo in his arms got in the way. Xuan Yu smiled, "Go ahead and do your work. I'll get the coconut milk."
Du Heng said, "Remember to help dig out the coconut meat." Xuan Yu nodded, "Okay, don't worry."
Du Heng turned around and saw Jing Nan and Feng Gui standing next to the car, looking like they were watching a show. Du Heng was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Jing Nan smiled and said, "You and Xiaoyu look like an old married couple together. Now that you have a child, you feel like a family."
Du Heng glanced at Jing Nan and Feng Gui: "You speak as if you two are different."
Jing Nan spread his hands: "Hey, I don't have a baby in my arms." Du Heng was about to ignore Jing Nan. He lifted the curtain and stepped into the car. After the curtain was lowered, he could no longer hear Jing Nan's giggling.
Yan Huaizhen was still asleep, and Du Heng placed Nuonuo in the big barrier. Nuonuo sank to the bottom as soon as he entered the barrier, and the little mermaid was sleeping soundly with her thumb in her mouth.
Du Heng sat beside Yan Huaizhen's bed and looked at him. Yan Huaizhen showed no signs of waking up yet. He had lost so much blood and had been floating in the sea for so long in fear. It would probably take some time for him to wake up.
Du Heng sighed, "What a sin."
He had already imagined a bloody love story in his mind. Otherwise, how could a mermaid get caught in a fishing net with a big belly? In Du Heng's cognition, all pregnant creatures should be treated kindly. His wife was pregnant, but the husband not only did not stay by her side, but no one came to look for him after she had been missing for so long.
Du Heng felt really sad for Yan Huaizhen when he thought about it. He thought that he must love that man very much, otherwise he would not have endured such injustice.
When he went out, Du Heng tiptoed for fear of waking Nuo Nuo up. It is said that the time it takes for a baby to wake up is much shorter than the time it takes to fall asleep. He just made a fuss for a while and is now full, so he shouldn't wake up, right?
Sure enough, until Du Heng closed the door, Nuo Nuo was still sinking steadily to the bottom of the water. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and pulled off the gauze on his chest. It was quite inconvenient to hang such a big baby on his chest.
Xuan Yu had already taken the coconut milk. He also filtered the residue in the coconut milk and put the filtered coconut milk in a large bowl. The color was clear and the taste was fragrant. Next to the coconut milk bowl, there was also the coconut meat that Xuan Yu had dug out. The brown membrane on the coconut meat had been removed. Xuan Yu cut the coconut meat into long strips.
Du Heng pinched a piece of coconut meat and put it in his mouth to chew. The coconut meat was not crispy and tender, which might be related to the fact that the coconut was old. Xuan Yu asked: "Are we going to make coconut chicken now?"
Du Heng shook his head: "No, this dish is quick to prepare, and we can make it in time for lunch. Oh, and we can also have a hot pot! Coconut chicken hot pot is also great, and the taste is quite light."
Hearing the word "light", Feng Gui protested: "The soup is bland and tasteless, it must be not delicious." Du Heng glanced at Feng Gui: "The dipping sauce contains chili peppers."
Hearing this, Feng Gui raised his eyebrows and said, "That's fine."
Du Heng looked around, but Yun Zheng and the others were nowhere to be seen. He wondered, "Where are Yun Zheng, Chonghua and the others?"
Xuan Yu turned to look at Du Heng and chuckled, "The Zhou brothers took them to the sea. They said they had never seen the scenery in the sea and wanted to go and take a look."
Around noon, Chonghua and his companions finally returned with a full load, their storage bags filled with all kinds of fish, many of which Du Heng couldn't even name.
Lao Dao and the others handed the storage bag to Du Heng: "Mr. Du, we brought you some fish. See if you can use them." Du Heng took the storage bag with trembling hands. He knew that Yun Zheng and the others had gone to the sea for a reason!
It's fine for the monks on the shore to enjoy the scenery in the water. After watching for an hour or two, they must have other intentions! These small hills of fish are what they want!
After everyone arrived, Du Heng prepared to make lunch.
He took out the hot pot and placed it in the middle of the table. When everyone saw Du Heng bringing slices of fruits, vegetables and meat to the table, they understood that he was going to make hot pot!
He poured coconut milk and coconut meat into the pot, and also put in a few red dates and a handful of wolfberries. The charcoal fire at the bottom of the pot was boiling slowly, and Du Heng pushed the peeled and cut water chestnuts into the pot.
Chonghua was stunned for a moment: "Eh? Water chestnuts and coconuts... seem to be sweet." Could it be that today's hot pot is not spicy? But sweet? How should I eat it then?
Du Heng smiled: "Yes, it is sweet, but don't worry, you will like it when it's made."
As the water temperature rose, the coconut milk in the pot began to boil, and a sweet scent of coconut spread out. Xiaoxiao took a deep breath: "Ah, it smells so good, I can drink two bowls of this soup base!"
Du Heng pushed the three chopped chickens into the pot: "You can drink the soup after the chicken is cooked." Xiaoxiao looked at the pot anxiously: "When will it be cooked?"
Du Heng explained: "These chickens are very tender and will be ready in just one stick of incense. Once the water in the pot boils, you can start the timer."
Xiaoxiao stared at the pot, and waited for half a cup of tea before the soup in the pot boiled again. At this time, a layer of golden fat floated on the clear coconut soup, and there was some foam in the fat. Du Heng carefully skimmed off the foam with a wooden spoon, and when no new foam was produced, he covered the pot.
The waiting time was not boring either. The generals took the side dishes on the table and started to eat them. Some were eating duck necks and chicken wings, some were eating beef tendons, and some were picking salted peanuts.
Du Heng was preparing the sauce. He took a large bowl and added half a bowl of soy sauce to it, then added a handful of chili rings and a little ginger. Originally, adding sand ginger to the soup would have a better effect, but Du Heng couldn't find sand ginger for a while, so he had to use ginger instead.
After putting the ginger froth into the seasoning bowl, Du Heng took out the most important seasoning for this dish, a yellow-orange sour fruit. The sour fruit tastes very similar to the lemon in my hometown, but it looks flat and round, which is very cute.
Du Heng cut the sour fruit with a knife and squeezed the juice of half of the sour fruit into the seasoning bowl. After a little stirring, the seasoning for dipping the chicken was ready. He placed a small bowl of sauce in front of each person: "This can be used to dip the chicken."
Feng Gui frowned as he looked at the dipping sauce bowl in front of him. There were only two chili rings floating in the bowl. He was not satisfied: "Ah... where is the chili you promised me?"
Everyone looked at each other, and after a moment, the chili rings in other people's bowls were piled into Feng Gui's small bowl. Feng Gui looked at the half bowl of red chili and was satisfied: "Hmm! Very red!"
After waiting for a while, Xiaoxiao reminded Du Heng: "The incense stick has arrived!"
Du Heng opened the lid of the pot, and a burst of chicken aroma filled the air. The soup in the pot was golden in color, and the aroma was mellow and rich. Xiaoxiao took a deep breath of the aroma: "Ah~ This soup base tastes even better than before!"
Du Heng called everyone: "Have a try! You're welcome."
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