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Chapter 214 213 Eating clams

Tang Zhitong entered the gate and put his bicycle away. He picked up a large yellow clam from the space and filled half of it into a net bag before entering.

Tang Zhitong regretted a little. He regretted selling all the dried fish at a price to the escort department. He should have left some for his family to try. There are many in my space, but I can't explain their origin, so I can only choose yellow clams, which look a bit like river clams, an enlarged version.

"Is this a gala?" Zhang Guifang was choosing vegetables. The two girls came home from school for lunch and asked when they saw her son carrying a bag of yellow clams. In many inland areas in the north, shellfish are collectively called Gala, while in coastal areas, they are generally called "clams".

"Well, river clams, I went to buy books for my sister-in-law's children and I came across them." River clams are also called river clams. They are common in rivers with good inland water quality. , the lies come out as soon as you open your mouth.

"Isn't it cheap? Don't spend money randomly in the future, save some." Zhang Guifang has seen children digging Gala in the river, but they are not that big, and they do look similar.

"I didn't spend any money. I exchanged food stamps with others. I went to Anton and had a few meals with my uncle and sister-in-law. The counterpart unit also provided hospitality, and I saved a lot of food stamps. The man was quite pitiful, so I exchanged it. Anyway, It's a piece of meat, let's try it." Tang Zhitong continued to make it up, and now he desperately hoped that winter would come soon. By then, once the things in the sea were frozen, he could say that they were bought or exchanged from outside, and the source would be better explained.

"Is this alive or dead? Do you have to spit out the sand?" Zhang Guifang has never eaten it, but she has heard of it.

"The living ones are still dripping with water, and I don't want the dead ones. You have to spit out the sand. Find a bigger basin and we can eat it at night." Seeing that his mother gave up questioning, Tang Zhitong breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Guifang found a big basin, and Tang Zhitong poured yellow clams into it and then poured half a bucket of water into it.

"Why is it so fishy?" Zhang Guifang has never eaten yellow clams, but she has eaten sea fish and it tastes a bit like them.

"Maybe he has become a sperm because he is too old. Maybe he just came back from visiting relatives with the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and he brought back a fishy smell." Tang Zhitong started to mess around, and he couldn't explain the fishy smell of the sea! After saying that, he didn't forget to sprinkle some salt into the basin, stir it up with his hand, and wait in the corner for the yellow clams to spit out sand.

"You kid, stop talking nonsense. The loudspeaker said there is no Dragon King on earth. Your sister thinks my cooking is not delicious and wants to eat your cooking. Go ahead and do it." Zhang Guifang couldn't help but slap her son in the face. When he asked again, he sat aside and picked up pine nuts.

"Okay, just hold it up!" Tang Zhitong didn't know if there was a Dragon King, but he knew that there was a Sea King, the kind that raised many fish at one time. However, this guy's mother didn't know much about it, so he didn't say anything and instead said happily Cooking is one of his great hobbies. He has been out for a few days without touching the pot, and he really misses it. Besides, Fengzhi is satisfied if he opens his mouth once.

Even if the pine nuts open their mouths, they are not friendly enough for adults, and it is still difficult to pick them up.

"Mom, try it with pliers." Seeing Zhang Guifang struggling to open it with her nails, Tang Zhitong wanted to buy a set of shell-opening tools. It would save time and effort, and it would not be easy to crush. He wanted to do it later, but he couldn't. I want to know if there are similar products abroad and if I can make some money.

Speaking of earning foreign exchange, there has been no news from Ye Zhijuan, and Tang Zhitong doesn't know how it is going.

Tang Zhitong is just an ordinary person. It is definitely not possible to make motorcycles, tractors, tanks, nuclear bombs, etc., but relying on the knowledge of the previous life, it is still possible to make some small inventions.

Take this nut opener for example. It is hard for Chinese people to imagine that there is such a tool for opening nuts because everyone is too poor and cannot eat it even once a year. Therefore, no one has ever thought of inventing this tool. thing.

"No, it's too easy to crush." ​​Zhang Guifang followed her son's instructions and pinched a few with pliers. Because she couldn't control the strength, they all crushed into pieces. She felt very distressed. She put down the pliers, picked up the broken pine nuts and stuffed them into herself. In the mouth.

"Mom, you can eat it yourself. You don't need to chop it and keep it." Tang Zhitong saw his mother's behavior in his eyes. He knew at a glance that it was for Fengzhi, who is also the youngest in the family. He spent a long time in the morning and just finished it. Picked them apart. "Well, concentrate on cooking your food." Zhang Guifang agreed, but did not stop the movement of her hands.

Which mother is not like this? There is only one mother in the world who can care for her children without reservation. Tang Zhitong was speechless about this. He knew that he could not persuade him, so he stopped trying.

The two sisters, Fengzhen and Fengzhi, got stuck and went home. As soon as they got home, they each shared a small handful of pine nuts. The two girls were also filial. They both filled two pine nuts for Zhang Guifang and then shared them with Tang Zhitong before eating by themselves.

"Brother, is this Gala for food?" Fengzhi saw the basin in the corner, squatted down and played with the yellow clams, protruding the outside of the shell and retracting it when touched with his hand. Many children like to play with it.

When shellfish expose this part of their body outside the shell in a quiet environment, some people say it is the "head", some say it is "feet", and some say it is "tentacles". None of them are correct. This is actually the "inlet and outlet pipe" of the shell. "Outlet pipe".

"Yes, spit out the sand and eat at night. Wash your hands and come over to eat." Tang Zhitong took out the dishes. The two sisters had to take a nap after eating, so there was not much time.

Although Tang Zhitong asked Fangyuan to go back to the Escort Department to move the logs, he had been out at sea and drinking for the past ten days, so he didn't sleep well, so he relied on his youth and energy to survive.

After dinner, Tang Zhitong also went back to the west wing to catch up on his sleep. Thanks to the thick bricks of the city wall that could withstand the sun, otherwise the house with its east and west sides would be uninhabitable and extremely hot.

This time, she slept until her sister got out of school. Fengzhi couldn't help but come over and ask her brother to get up and make Gala. Before she could eat the yellow clams, she managed to get Zhang Guifang's slap in the face, because she thought she was disturbing Tang Zhitong's sleep.

Tang Zhitong got up and stretched, and he kept inking until Wang Jingwen got off work before steaming yellow clams. This must be eaten while it's hot, as it smells fishy when it's cold.

It was hot and there was no room to sit in the house, so one family moved to the yard to eat.

Thanks to constant hygiene campaigns, there are very few mosquitoes this year, so you don’t have to worry about being bitten outside.

The shelf that Tang Zhitong built a while ago is now covered with loofahs and gourd seedlings. It is so lush and lush that it is a unique experience to sit under the shelf and eat.

"Mom, why do I hear there are two grasshoppers? Did you buy another one?" Tang Zhitong was the only one in the family who had experienced the baptism of yellow clams. It was the first time for the others to eat them. The umami taste easily conquered everyone, and there was no trace of it at all. People pay attention to the movement in the yard. Two grasshoppers seem to be competing, one chirping more happily than the other.

"I didn't buy it. There are a lot of vegetables in our yard. Maybe I came here by myself." Zhang Guifang guessed.

"Oh." Tang Zhitong nodded, happily watching the family eating seafood. It will be better in winter, when they can take out other seafood in the space and enjoy it.

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