Feng Ye hadn't taken more than a few steps when he noticed there was someone else beside him.
"Uncle, I don't want to dig for clams, it's too hard. Can I come with you?"
Feng Xidong raised his head and looked at him with hope.
"That depends on whether your mother agrees or not?"
"mother……"
Feng Xidong had just shouted when Du Guilan said, "You can go, but you're not allowed to go into the water, and you have to listen to your uncle."
"I see."
Feng Xidong was overjoyed and excitedly skipped ahead of Feng Ye, heading straight into the depths of the beach.
When you get to the area where the tide has just receded, there are fewer people, and the area becomes sparse.
As Feng Ye walked, he scanned his surroundings, looking for places where seafood might be hidden.
Before he could find anything, Feng Xidong, who was running wildly ahead, spotted a cat's-eye snail that was about to lie in the sand.
After picking it up, he presented it to Feng Ye like a treasure: "Uncle, I picked it up."
"Gather more, and I'll ask your grandma to cook it for you tonight."
Feng Ye took out the snakeskin bag, unfolded it, threw the cat's eye snails inside, and praised him.
"Okay, okay."
Feng Xidong turned around and started running wildly on the beach again.
Feng Ye took a few steps and saw a mound on the beach in front of him, along with traces of snails crawling on it.
He recognized it at a glance; the bulge was likely hiding a cat's eye snail.
Sure enough, he squatted down and dug with his hands, and saw a cat's eye snail lying in the sand.
They were quite large, especially the snail meat that was exposed and had absorbed plenty of seawater; it was almost the size of his palm.
At this time, cat's eye snails are quite fun to play with; almost everyone who finds one will play with it.
Feng Ye was no exception.
He gripped the meat of the cat's eye snail and squeezed it hard, causing several jets of water to shoot out.
The water in the snail meat is squeezed out, causing it to shrink rapidly and retreat into the shell.
Not far away, Feng Xidong excitedly ran back, clutching a sea urchin in his hand.
"Ouch, it's so prickly!"
Before she even reached Feng Ye, he threw her to the ground.
Feng Ye quickly took two steps forward, used fire tongs to pick up the sea urchin, and threw it into the snakeskin bag.
Sea urchins have relatively sturdy, hemispherical shells that are covered in spines, much like cacti.
The only edible part of it is commonly known as sea urchin roe, which is actually sea urchin eggs.
The roe in sea urchins is arranged in a five-pointed star shape inside the sea urchin, with distinct granules. The color is orange-yellow, like small millet grains, and each segment is only about the size of a little finger.
Sea urchin roe is boneless and sinewless, melting in your mouth, making it especially suitable for sashimi.
When eating it, you need to use appropriate condiments. After the wasabi and soy sauce have fully soaked into the sea urchin roe, carefully put it into your mouth and you will feel an unparalleled freshness.
Another way to use it is to steam eggs.
The smooth texture of the egg and the freshness of the sea urchin roe combine perfectly, making every bite unforgettable.
"Good luck, keep it up, find more, one isn't enough to go around."
"I'll keep looking."
Feng Xidong took off running again.
The two, one big and one small, walked and picked up a lot of cat's eye snails and shellfish, and also picked up several sea urchins.
There wasn't much fish on the beach, so Feng Ye simply led Feng Xidong to the other side of the reef area to see if they could get lucky and find some stranded fish.
Not long after entering the rocky area, Feng Xidong pointed to a rock and shouted, "Uncle, there's a blue crab here!"
Although he is young, he is familiar with common seafood such as blue crabs.
Feng Ye walked over and looked in the direction Feng Xidong was pointing.
Sure enough, a blue crab was spotted in a crevice in the rocks, with only its eyes showing, seemingly observing whether there was any danger outside.
He extended his fire tongs, slowly approached the blue crab, and then suddenly clamped them tightly, trapping the crab firmly in his grasp.
The blue crab struggled, using its large pincers to clamp the fire tongs, seemingly trying to break them off.
After picking out the crab and putting it into the snakeskin bag, Feng Ye patted Feng Xidong on the head: "Good lad, you have sharp eyes."
Feng Xidong chuckled, puffed out his chest smugly, and began searching in the rocky area again.
Not long after, the boy ran back, shouting, "Uncle, what's this thing called? I've never seen it before, it looks really strange."
"Oh, a horseshoe crab."
A hint of surprise flashed in Feng Ye's eyes when he saw the creature in Feng Xidong's hand.
The horseshoe crab, driven to the brink of extinction by human consumption, has blood that costs 100,000 yuan per liter.
Its body was bluish-brown, its cephalothorax was slightly horseshoe-shaped, its abdomen was hexagonal with spines on both sides, and its tail was a long sword.
It is not large in size, but it looks quite peculiar.
Its shape is somewhat like a crab, hence it is also known as the horseshoe crab.
However, horseshoe crabs are not closely related to crabs, and their relationship with spiders is much more distant.
The Chinese horseshoe crab is a treasure trove, possessing high nutritional and medicinal value.
Its blood is blue because it contains 28% copper ions, which have the property of immediately coagulating upon contact with a virus.
Based on this discovery, scientists extracted "Limulus amebocyte lysate" from horseshoe crab blood, which is used as a toxin contamination monitor in the pharmaceutical and food industries and to detect whether internal human tissues are infected by pathogens.
Its blood can also be used to extract a substance called horseshoe crab protein, which has anti-cancer, anti-tumor, and antiviral effects.
Its exoskeleton is also a very important raw material called methylformaldehyde.
"Adong, this is a horseshoe crab, an ancient marine creature that still retains its form and is known as a 'living fossil'."
Feng Ye took the two horseshoe crabs and said, "They have lived on Earth for more than 300 million years, even earlier than dinosaurs."
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