Chapter 175 Seafood
Jian Mo had not eaten seafood since he came here, but he had eaten a lot of river seafood.
Wild river seafood tasted pretty good, fresh, sweet, tender, and without much fishy smell. Based on his past experience, he couldn't help but look forward to the long-armed shrimp and crabs on the stone slab.
The cooking method here is very primitive, just clean the translucent meat, put it on the shell as usual, and then place it on the stone slab to roast.
When roasting, the crab meat and shrimp meat quickly turned white, and the fresh and sweet taste and fragrance came out.
The people of the Cuxing tribe took a look and said to them, "It's ready to eat."
Jian Mo was not very familiar with seafood, so he asked, "Don't you want to cook it a little longer?"
The people of the Cuxing tribe said, "No, it will be overcooked if you cook it any longer."
As they said that, the people of the Cuxing tribe picked up the whitened meat with the shell and distributed it to Jian Mo and Wu Jiong: "Jian Mo, witch doctor, Wu Jiong, chief, you are guests, come and taste the crab meat and shrimp meat of our tribe."
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong hurriedly thanked them and then took it.
Xing Jiu very kindly placed the dipping sauce in front of them: "You can taste the meat first, and then dip it in the sauce."
Jian Mo: "Okay."
Jian Mo ate a crab leg. The freshly roasted crab meat was fragrant and tender, and it felt like it would melt on the tip of the tongue. It was very fresh and sweet when eaten alone.
I don't know if it's because it's sea crab, but even without any seasoning, the crab meat has a very light salty taste and is not bland.
The meat is extraordinarily thick, abundant and fragrant, and it tastes very good.
Jian Mo praised: "It's delicious. This is the most delicious crab meat I have ever eaten."
Xingjiu took a crab leg each and gave it to Jiujiu and Yingao to chew on, then turned around and smiled: "If it's delicious, you can eat more. We don't have much else here, but there are a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs."
Someone from the Xingchu tribe said: "Yes, we are a little tired of eating."
Jian Mo: "You make me jealous."
Xingjiu: "When you go back, you can bring some dried fish, dried shrimps, dried crabs and the like back. Sometimes we will come here specifically to hunt, and the leftovers will be made into dried seafood. These dried seafood can also be used as medicine to replenish those who are weak." Jian Mo: "I saw this. The prescription you gave me the day before yesterday included a recipe for using dried shellfish meat to strengthen the body."
Xing Jiu: "Yes, you have a good memory."
Jian Mo: "It's a good recipe. I must remember it carefully."
Eating seafood alone is delicious. Dipping it in sour and salty sauce has a special flavor.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong ate a lot while sitting in the crowd.
Xing Jiu saw that they liked it and said that he would take them to the bottom of the sea to collect seaweed the next day, which could be used to treat neck swelling.
Jian Mo didn't expect that they had such a prescription. After listening, he said, "I know a little about this. It's the iodine in the seaweed that worked."
Xing Jiu: "We don't know about this. It's just a prescription passed down by our ancestors. We have been using it and it's quite useful. We don't have many people with swollen necks here. You said that you are very far from the sea. I guess you can use it."
Jian Mo nodded repeatedly: "It can indeed be used. You are so thoughtful." Xing Jiu
waved his hand: "It's nothing. It happens that you are interested in these things. We will take you to see more before you go back."
The teaching of witch doctors here is different from what Jian Mo imagined. They don't compile textbooks first and then teach slowly according to the content of each section. Instead, they bring students with them and teach whatever they see in daily life.
Anyway, we all live in the same place. If we don't understand what we are learning, we can ask the teacher when we encounter difficulties after we become a master.
The witch doctors didn't have a teaching outline. If Jian Mo wanted to learn from them, they couldn't come up with an outline. They could only follow the traditional method, take Jian Mo to walk around and see more, and teach him whatever problems he encountered.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong have not been here for a long time. Because of this teaching method, they are already familiar with this place.
Learning in this way is fun and not tiring. Jian Mo quite likes this learning method.
The next day, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong got up and went to see Fenhui's condition first.
Fenhui's skin color became more normal, and he became a little fatter. It can be predicted that as long as he continues to adjust at this rate, he should recover soon.
Fenhui was not very familiar with the people of the Xingchu tribe, but he still felt that Jian Mo and Wu Jiong were very friendly: "Doctor Jian Mo, Chief Wu Jiong, why don't you take me with you when you go out? I'm doing nothing here, and I feel embarrassed."
Jian Mo looked at him with a smile: "Didn't the Xingyi witch doctor ask you to bask in the sun and rest more after drinking the medicine soup? There will be plenty of time to work in the future, so don't rush."
Fenhui: "It's just that seeing you all working, I feel a little uneasy."
Jian Mo patted his shoulder: "You are a patient, don't think too much. You should get better soon, and try to be almost well before we return to the tribe, so that we can ask you for help when we bring things back."
Fenhui nodded: "Okay."
After seeing Fenhui, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong went to meet Xingjiu.
As soon as Xingjiu saw them, he said, "We should be able to collect more today. Each person should bring two more baskets."
Jian Mo had no objection at all: "Jiujiu and Yingao will come with us. They can also help carry some things. We can carry a few more baskets."
Xingjiu smiled: "It's OK as long as you have no objection."
Today, a group of people went out to collect.
Jian Mo followed them out a few times and understood it.
The Xingchu tribe is located on the seashore, just like their tribe in the mountains. Most of the time, they have to go outside to collect, but others go to the mountains and they go to the sea. The principle is the same.
Xingjiu said that they were going to collect seaweed today and they were going to another shallower sea.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong had no objection at all. They went wherever they were led.
So Xingjiu and his group led them along the coastline for a long distance, and finally came to a place full of small islands.
Seawater flowed in between the small islands and the shore. The seawater here was also clearer, but shallower, about four or five meters.
Xingjiu said: "This area is only flooded with seawater in summer and autumn, so there are a lot of seaweed growing underneath. People here don't like to eat seaweed very much, and only occasionally take time to come here to pick seaweed, and pick it and dry it in the sun to eat for a year."
Jian Mo understood: "If there is meat, we also prefer to eat meat."
Xing Jiu smiled: "Really? Then let's go down and cut some seaweed. Just cut a little bit. It doesn't matter if we pull out the roots. Seaweed grows very fast. Even if we pull out the roots, it will grow again quickly."
Jian Mo nodded repeatedly: "We understand."
Xing Jiu turned to look at Jiujiu and Ying Ao: "Jiujiu and Ying Ao are waiting on the side, right?"
Jian Mo had no objection: "Okay, I'll tell them not to make trouble."
Jiujiu and Ying Ao could roughly understand what they said. Seeing that Jian Mo didn't let them follow, Jiujiu was a little unhappy, but still squatted under the tree and waited for them to come up.
After Jian Mo settled the two Jiujiu, he dived to the bottom of the water with the others.
There are so many seaweeds here, numerous and lush, with very thick leaves that look like an underwater grassland.
Jian Mo picked up a dagger and cut twice, and cut a lot of them.
No wonder everyone doesn't like seaweed. If you want to eat so many seaweeds properly, who knows how long it will take.
While cutting seaweed, Jian Mo found a lot of shellfish under the seaweed, including some that looked like abalone.
But the "abalone" here is much bigger than the abalone he has seen before, and it is as big as the palm of his hand.
While taking a breath, Jian Mo picked up two at random, floated to the surface and asked the people of the Star Storage Tribe: "Can this kind of shellfish be eaten?"
The people of the Star Storage Tribe: "Of course you can, but the taste is not very good. It needs to be stewed for a long time to soften it."
Another person added: "In fact, it has no taste, just a little bit of umami. We don't like to eat this kind of shellfish."
Jian Mo was surprised: "Don't you eat it?"
The people of the Star Storage Tribe corrected: "No, we don't like to eat it. If there is nothing to eat, we will eat even this kind of unpalatable shellfish. . "
Jian Mo didn't expect the abalone to fall to this state. He looked at the abalone in his hand and said, "Then I'll take it back."
Xingjiu swam to his side and said, "You can take it back too. This kind of shellfish can also cure neck swelling. It's just that it's too big. It's not easy to dry it in the sun. It's troublesome to cut it into small pieces and then dry it."
Jian Mo looked at the big abalone in his hand and said, "I don't mind the trouble."
Jian Mo didn't mind the trouble, so naturally the others didn't object. When they went diving to cut seaweed, if they saw abalone, they would help him pick it up.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong didn't go out of their way to catch abalone. When they finished cutting the seaweed, the abalone filled two baskets.
Jian Mo was so happy that he held the basket.
Xingjiu didn't quite understand: "This thing really doesn't taste good."
Jian Mo: "Maybe because to make this thing, you have to make it complicated to make it delicious."
Xingjiu didn't understand even more: "Some foods are delicious when they are simply cooked, why do you have to make these complicated foods?"
Jian Mo didn't know how to answer.
Wu Jiong said beside him: "Because I have expectations for life, even if the food is a little complicated, I don't mind cooking it."
Xingjiu smiled: "Then you can take it, but let me make it clear that you have to deal with it quickly after taking it back. If you keep it for a while, it may go bad soon."
Jian Mo promised: "I will deal with it as soon as we go back."
Xingjiu: "Don't you want to copy the prescription?"
Wu Jiong: "I can deal with it, leave it to me."
There are a lot of things collected today. When we went back, Jiujiu and Yingao took the initiative to divide several baskets, so it was not too difficult for everyone to carry them back.
As soon as they returned to the tribe, everyone divided the seaweed and went back to their homes to deal with it.
Xingjiu specifically told Jian Mo and Wu Jiong that the seaweed only needed to be spread out in a clean place to dry and then put away, and there was no need to make it complicated.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong agreed.
Xingjiu said that he would come over after dinner and continue to teach Jian Mo how to copy prescriptions.
Jian Mo quickly assured that they would also hurry up and get it done so that it would not delay copying prescriptions in the evening.
Wu Jiong took the initiative to take over the job: "What should we do with the abalone you mentioned?"
Jian Mo: "Peel it first, remove the dirt and wash it clean, then you can marinate it with salt. Wait until I finish copying the prescription before doing it."
Wu Jiong: "It seems that you can handle it."
Jian Mo squatted on the ground and smiled at Wu Jiong: "Not very well, but I know roughly. Anyway, it's not something rare. I'll try."
Wu Jiong handled the abalone: "It's already very good."
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