Chapter 308 Barnacles
After she finished speaking, she suddenly noticed something on its shell. When she looked closely, she found that it was a barnacle.
After observing the turtle shell for a while, she turned the giant turtle over and made it face up in the air, amid everyone's puzzled gazes.
Everyone: “…”
Giant sea turtle: "..."
[Is it polite to do this on our first meeting?]
Sure enough, Song Chuman also saw a large area of barnacles on the turtle shell below.
Song Chuhuai asked, "Sister, what are you looking for?"
Song Chuman straightened the giant sea turtle and took out a dagger from her bag. "I'm looking at the barnacles on the giant sea turtle. Look, these round things with white and black are barnacles."
The giant sea turtle thought to itself: Oh, so she wants to clean the barnacles from it. It doesn’t blame her for being presumptuous.
Song Chuhuai: "What are barnacles?"
As Song Chuman cleaned the barnacles, she explained, "Barnacles can be considered a type of seafood, but they are a type of marine parasite that many seafood species hate. They must attach themselves to the bottom of ships or to slow-swimming seafood, such as turtles and fish."
"Once barnacles get on them, they'll be covered in barnacles, just like the back of this giant sea turtle."
"Gradually, barnacles will grow all over its body, making it very uncomfortable, itchy and painful."
"Barnacles have a very strong adhesion. Even we humans have to use tools to remove them. They are generally unable to get rid of the barnacles themselves and can only let them grow more and more on their bodies."
"In serious cases, it may even endanger their lives."
In her previous life, she had seen that some small sea turtles, only the size of a palm, were covered with barnacles.
The barnacles growing on the turtle's body make it move slowly, as if a mountain is pressing on it, making it look very pitiful.
Everyone's expression suddenly became extremely serious.
There are such vicious seafood?
Yang Qingrui often cleans the boat and said, "So this is a barnacle. I've seen them under the boat before and thought they were just ordinary seafood. I didn't expect them to be so disgusting."
Song Chuman said: "Although barnacles are disgusting, they are actually a medicinal herb. Both the meat and the shell can be used as medicine."
"The shell has the effect of reducing acid and relieving pain, while the flesh has the effect of detoxifying and curing sores. It is mainly used to treat stomachache, excessive stomach acid, burns from water or fire, children's head boils, and carbuncle swelling."
"I read in a book that people in some places consider barnacles to be treasures. Their flesh is tender, sweet and delicious."
Song Chuhuai said angrily, "It's so bad, will we become bad too if we eat it?"
Song Chuman shook her head amusedly: "No."
As she spoke, she continued to clean the barnacles off the turtle.
Ever since his family's conditions improved, Song Chuhuai has always carried a knife with him for self-defense.
Seeing that there were quite a few barnacles on the giant sea turtle, he took out the knife he carried with him and went over to help clean the barnacles.
Others also went over to help.
With so many people around, the work was done quickly, and soon all the barnacles on the giant turtle's body were cleaned off.
Song Chuman cleaned the turtle's shell with seawater again and said seriously, "Giant sea turtle, you stay on the boat first and come back to my home with me later."
The giant turtle nodded.
【OK. 】
Anyway, it's a sea turtle and a mascot, no one will hurt it.
Song Chuman felt relieved.
Since some time had already been wasted, she ordered her men to close the net immediately.
A moment later, Zeng Xiaonan was very excited when he saw the two nets full of seafood on the boat.
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