Chapter 230 The Baby Discovers a Pearl
The next morning, many of the teams of 50 people who had arrived early the day before got up very early and arrived at the fishing grounds before dawn.
The closer you get to the depths of the bay, the greater the chance of catching a Tier 3 sea beast. Those who arrive first can naturally choose the ice cave first, so everyone is scrambling to get there.
Tier 3 sea beasts are not easy to encounter. Yesterday, only three appeared in total. One of them, a Tier 3 blue marlin weighing over a thousand kilograms, happened to appear in a small team of only a dozen people.
This fish was already quite ferocious before it mutated, and it's even more so after the mutation. The ice arrows it spews from its mouth have extremely strong penetrating power, instantly piercing through the fishing net.
In addition, the team's combat strength was not very strong, and they were almost injured by this Tier 3 Blue Marlin when they were trying to capture it.
In the end, the net broke, the fish escaped, and all their hopes were dashed.
After this incident, hunters no longer felt that it was advantageous to team up in smaller groups.
After all, a third-tier sea beast usually weighs several hundred or even thousands of kilograms, and the price of third-tier sea beast meat is 3 to 5 times higher than that of second-tier sea beast meat.
Hunting a single Tier 3 sea beast is equivalent to the harvest of twenty or thirty Tier 2 sea beasts, which is why the organizers have dozens of people form a team.
Zuo Shan and the others got up a little late today. When they arrived, there were only two ice caves left near the shore, so there weren't many options. Kang Zhenghao jokingly teased Achen, "Baby, let's choose a lucky cave for us!"
Ah Chen hadn't slept enough and was listless. He raised one chubby paw and waved it at the hole on the left, so everyone unanimously decided to choose the hole on the left.
Perhaps because there were too many hunters, and after yesterday's harvest, and because their location was too shallow today, there were significantly fewer fish caught in their nets.
However, with yesterday's harvest as a foundation, Zuo Shan felt that it wouldn't matter if the harvest was less in the next nine days.
Kang Zhenghao and Master Liu were behaving strangely today, looking up at the sky from time to time. Zuo Shan couldn't help but complain: "Could there be a third-tier sea beast in the clouds?"
Today's biggest harvest was Tier 1 clams. Wastelanders mostly don't know how to cook these; they just steam or boil them directly. Not only are they fishy, but they also contain sand, so they are the cheapest among sea creatures.
Seeing the nets full of first-tier clams, Kang Zhenghao couldn't help but sigh: "Looks like I used up all my good luck yesterday. Today I can only watch the other teams make a fortune."
Zuo Shan laughed and said, "Don't be discouraged, I can still grill these clams and make them taste great for you!"
Kang Zhenghao and Master Liu both expressed their doubts. In the past two days, they had heard locals talking about the taste of various seafood, and the least popular one was this type of clam.
Zuo Shan didn't argue. He asked Master Liu to take out a wooden basin, scoop up some seawater, added salt, and then put the clams in and stirred them to marinate.
Half an hour later, the marinated clams were scooped out, leaving a layer of mud and sand at the bottom of the basin.
"Hey? Your method works pretty well! It washes away all the mud and sand, so it definitely won't hurt your teeth when you eat it now," Kang Zhenghao exclaimed in surprise.
Zuo Shan smiled but said nothing, took out a barbecue plate she had borrowed from the hotel kitchen, and smeared it with the lard she had brought with her.
Actually, when she used to picnic with her friends, they used butter, but in the wasteland, it's good enough to have lard as a substitute.
The most important thing when grilling is the heat. 5-7 minutes is just right. If the time is too short, the clams will not be cooked through. If the time is too long, they will be tough and not juicy.
When it came out of the oven, she sprinkled it with Sichuan peppercorn powder, as well as wild onion powder and lemon juice that she had specially prepared before leaving home.
The wild onions were cultivated from the roots cut off from the old housekeeper's plant. The lemon juice was made from the newly grown lemons that grew after the original mutated lemons in her yard were transplanted, and then stored in her spatial storage to keep them fresh.
These are all seasonings she usually wouldn't use, but she's really going all out for this seafood barbecue.
They initially doubted that clams, such a low-grade ingredient, could taste good when grilled, but before they were even cooked, Kang Zhenghao and Master Liu were already drooling over the aroma.
Since only two second-class ribbonfish had been caught this morning, everyone had given up hope of a good harvest. So when they smelled the aroma, everyone stared intently at the grilled clams.
Kang Zhenghao, who was originally pushing the stroller around, also came over and refused to leave.
As soon as the first batch was baked, he couldn't wait to grab it and eat it.
While eating, he kept exclaiming, "I never thought first-tier clams could be so delicious! We're not selling them anymore! We're keeping them for ourselves!"
Clams are the most abundant crop, and based on the current harvest, at least a thousand kilograms of clams will be harvested by the end of the season.
Zuo Shan was very suspicious that with so many clams, everyone might get sick of eating them.
As Zuo Shan was placing the second plate of clams into the baking pan, the baby in the stroller suddenly cried out "Ah ah ah," pointing with his chubby paws at a clam in Zuo Shan's hand.
Zuo Shan can now understand some of her baby's baby talk, which means she has discovered something new.
Grilled clams are usually served without shelling, but Zuo Shan pried open the shell and exclaimed: Wow! There was a pearl inside! And a rather rare aquamarine pearl at that!
Kang Zhenghao laughed as soon as he saw it: "Oh my! Our little Chen is really a lucky star. He just pointed and found a pearl!"
If you're not careful and bake it directly, the pearl will crack. It seems this pearl is destined for our baby; we'll have someone make a bracelet out of it for him to wear later.
Wastelanders don't value jewelry much; food comes first. No matter how beautiful the jewelry is, it can't be eaten when you're hungry.
Zuo Shan also felt that the pearls produced by first-tier clams weren't very valuable, so upon hearing his words, he unceremoniously put them away.
What she didn't know was that this pearl was no ordinary pearl, but a water-repellent pearl. Although it wasn't of high grade, wearing it would ensure that she wouldn't get wet.
That's a story for later, so let's leave it at that for now.
Zuo Shan was still very happy to receive a pearl, even though it wasn't worth much. After all, in the eyes of the people of Blue Star, natural pearls are still very valuable. They usually can't tell the difference between real and fake pearls when they buy them, but this one was one she found on the spot.
When Zuo Shan decided to grill clams, Kang Zhenghao and Master Liu thought that although this kind of food was hard to eat and gritty, they should at least give Chef Zuo some face and eat some.
Unexpectedly, they ended up eating too much again.
As dusk approached, Zuo Shan and her team were about to finish their last net and call it a day when suddenly the rope in their hands was pulled downwards by a strong force.
Even if they haven't eaten pork, they've seen pigs run. Although they haven't caught any big ones before, this one must weigh at least three or four hundred pounds.
With their combined strength, these superhumans wouldn't have had much trouble pulling the net around. The problem was that this one was incredibly restless, darting left and right through the net and nearly smashing the ice cave next to it.
It was churning in the water, and it was hard to tell what kind of creature it was, but it seemed very fierce.
Zuo Shan glanced at everyone, thinking that if things really didn't work out, she could just give up. But everyone's face was full of fighting spirit, as if they had been injected with chicken blood, so she couldn't bring herself to say that she wanted to give up.
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