In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 22

Pen holders are also called turtle feet and stone larvae.

For Lao Tie on the seashore, it is a rare delicacy, and its delicious taste is not inferior to the gooseneck barnacles in the West.

Since this thing cannot be artificially bred and grows in the most dangerous place, the price has never come down.

By 2020, Li Duoyu remembers that pen holders have been sold for 150 yuan per catty, and 200 yuan is not a problem for those with good quality and a lot of meat.

Also because it is very expensive, there are many professional pen holder pryers, usually in groups of two. The person in charge of prying the pen holder must tie a safety rope to his body, and the other will hold the rope in a safe place.

But even so, some bad news can still be heard every year.

Take advantage of the white waves to retreat.

Li Duoyu quickly took the shovel, jumped onto the rock below, and shoveled down on the roots of the whole cluster of pen holders.

Most of the meat of the pen holder is on the base, so to pry the pen holder, you must pull it up.

Otherwise, the pen holder that was pried off would not have much meat at all, it would all be the soft shell covering the meat.

Once the pen holder is attacked by the outside world, it will shrink into the gap, leaving some hard thorns.

At this time, if there is no special pry tool, it will be difficult to do it. Fortunately, there are enough pen holders on the reef, and Li Duoyu's shovel goes down, and the number of pen holders pried up is quite a lot.

There are more than ten of them.

And all of them are full.

But when Zhou Xiaoying on the shore saw this scene, her heart was raised in her throat, but the more she was at this time, the less she dared to call him.

Little Fatty looked adoring.

"Wow, when did my uncle become so powerful, when I grow up, I will pry that thing too."

Li Duoyu wasn't greedy either.

After digging, climb up to the reef directly, because the waves will come up again soon.

Li Duoyu has been told since he was a child that he must not be lucky when facing the sea, and he must abide by the rules of the older generation, because you can get lucky many times, but as long as you make a mistake once, you will be gone.

After repeated several times.

Li Duoyu knocked half of the pen holder of the iron bucket, and then came up from the reef below. There are still many on the reef, but he didn't pry it to sell, so there is no need to continue to take this risk.

Seven sea clams, half a bucket of pen holders.

This is what Li Duoyu is currently receiving from the sea. They are all shellfish, and it feels like something is missing.

Li Duoyu continued to turn over a few rocks.

A rotting wooden boat was found, with a large number of barnacles and sea melon seeds attached to it, as well as wild kelp.

The local species of wild kelp are thin and small. Those who raise pigs often feed wild kelp and sea vegetables to pigs.

After overturning the rotten wooden boat, Li Duoyu found a large pile of round black thorny gadgets in the crevices of the reef not far away.

Purple sea urchin.

A kind of local sea urchin with very long thorns and little meat. It only has ointment in certain seasons. This stuff can be said to be the most hated by fishermen. If it is caught in a fishing net, it will have to be cursed.

It is often smashed and used for retting.

At this time, the fishermen don't even look at it, but the islanders like it so much that they often eat it raw.

Li Duoyu tried to eat it several times during the days when he was working illegally in the island country. To be honest, even if he grew up eating seafood from a young age, he still didn't like the taste very much.

After a trip to the sea, Li Duoyu found out.

The more things fishermen don't eat now, the more expensive they will be in future generations, such as these sea anemones, sea urchins, pen holders and the like.

Li Duoyu took a few steps forward.

After seeing those things beside the reef, his eyes lit up instantly. This is a sight he has only heard from others but never seen before as a fisherman for so many years.

In the crevice of the reef, a snake-like moray eel covered in spots is biting a much larger red octopus. It is doing a death roll, its entire head covered by the tentacles of the red octopus.

And the most interesting thing is that there is also a dying pup shark lying nearby.

If Li Duoyu's guess is correct, not long ago, there should have been a scene of "mantis catching cicadas, and oriole behind".

And this kind of moray eel is called bare-breasted eel, because the patterns on its body resemble coins, local fishermen generally call them money eels, also called, very ferocious.

Adult money eels can bite off fishermen's fingers. In the offshore area, it can be said to be the top of the food chain.

Even if this kind of big red badge, which can prey on dog sharks, has only one fate when it encounters money eels, it will be torn up and eaten by it.

But this kind of eel meat is not very tasty, and Li Duoyu really doesn't want it very much.

But after this player saw humans, he was still reluctant to give up his prey and escape, which made Li Duoyu feel that his majesty had been challenged.

Since you also want to be eaten.

Then I will fulfill you.

Li Duoyu took out the tongs, opened them, and moved towards the crevice of the reef, and lifted the money eel and the octopus bitten by it to the small sandy land beside the reef.

For all sea fish, even if they are dragons in the sea, they are all worms when they reach land.

After arriving on land.

Only then did Qian Eel realize that something was wrong, he gave up the octopus in his mouth, and planned to escape.

Too bad it's too late.

It also didn't expect that this human being was so ignorant of martial arts.

The shovel in Li Duoyu's hand had already been slapped on its head.

"Bang bang bang" a few times.

The dying money eel turned over several times in pain, and curled up into a ball without moving.

Seeing that it was no longer moving, Li Duoyu threw it into the bucket. There was a reason for him to do this. His iron bucket didn't have a cover.

And this kind of slippery money eel, if you don't shoot it half to death, maybe it will jump up and bite your hand carrying the bucket.

That's a loss outweighed the gain.

Li Duoyu turned over again, the red octopus whose head was bitten off by the money eel, but still desperately crawling towards the cave.

There are many kinds of octopus in Dantan Island.

This kind of red seal is the most unpalatable, with many suckers, and the firewood is hard, and the cooking is still difficult to taste. Like sea urchins and sea anemones, they can't be served on the table.

On the contrary, the dying puppy shark was not bad, weighing seven or eight catties. Li Duoyu held its tail and threw it into the iron bucket.

Looking at the full iron bucket.

Li Duoyu is quite satisfied, and I don't know how long it has been since I didn't feel this barrel-exploding feeling.

After he returned to the shore.

Zhou Xiaoying's tense expression eased instantly.

The little chubby pier looked at the big iron bucket, and his eyes straightened on the spot: "There are small sharks and moray eels, so many pen holders have been dug up."

The third aunt who just came from the beach.

After seeing Li Duoyu caught so many seafood, he was also a little envious: "Duoyu, can you sell me those two dog sharks and moray eels, I'm going to get some fish balls to eat."

Li Duoyu was still having a headache.

How to make these two delicious things, but the reminder from the third aunt immediately made him realize that the authentic fish balls are made from the meat of dog sharks and conger eels.

"Auntie, I'm also going to make fish balls, why don't I send some to you after I finish making them."

"Ah, that's so embarrassing."

"Dear relatives, don't be so polite."

"Then I won't be polite. When you're done, tell me and I'll go get it."

Among all the relatives, the third aunt's family is considered good. After his accident in the previous life, the third aunt's family also entered one, but because of their solid foundation, they were not affected much.

Later, I heard from Zhou Xiaoying that when he went to the island country, the third aunt's family also helped her a lot, which allowed her to survive that difficult period.

(End of this chapter)