Jiang Michia stood up, "What's wrong?"
"I saw something strange." Song Jingyun rolled up his sleeves higher, then bent down and reached into the river.
There was a sound of water, and a fan-shaped object appeared in Song Jingyun's hand.
"This is..." Jiang Michia walked closer to take a look, "Clam?"
"Is it great to catch this thing...?"
Song Jingyun scratched his head in embarrassment, "This is very easy to catch. There is still something in it. Look, madam."
While talking, Song Jingyun fished out another river clam and showed it to Jiang Michia.
Jiang Michia, "..."
"I mean, this thing is called a clam, a river clam."
Instead of praising you for being great.
"Oh." Song Jingyun looked at the two unattractive-looking things in his hand, which were also a bit bluish-black in color. "The names of these things are really weird, and they don't look very good-looking either."
"Can I eat it?"
"Yes, it can be used for stir-fry or stew. It tastes fresher than fish, and there are no thorns." Jiang Michia said, "But you have to clean it up when you go back, pry open the clam shell, remove the internal organs, and take out the inside Let’s eat clean clam meat.”
It’s edible, and it’s even tastier than fish.
No need to bother to remove it.
Song Jingyun's eyes lit up, and he didn't care about anything else. He just reached out and picked up river mussels again, throwing them to the river while picking them up. He picked up seven or eight in one breath before stopping.
There was originally half a basket of fish in the bamboo basket, but now with the addition of these large river clams, it was almost full.
"Let's go home." Jiang Michia took the pole to hook the barrel.
Song Jingyun looked at the size of the barrel, stretched out his hand to lift it, looked at himself again, put the bamboo basket down, and took the pole from Jiang Michia's hand, "I'll do it."
"you sure?"
Jiang Michia thought of the last time her son-in-law was unable to move when he was carrying bamboo, and his face was full of distrust.
"I've eaten so much recently and I feel stronger." Song Jingyun shook his arm.
The little husband-in-law’s arms are really not much thicker than Jiang Michia’s.
But if we are honest, my son-in-law is still a bit stronger now than before.
And he has grown taller.
There is also flesh on the face, making him look less frail and more youthful at his age.
The little son-in-law has grown up visibly to the naked eye.
Jiang Michia blinked.
In line with the educational principle of allowing the son-in-law to try as much as he wants when there is no cost of trial and error, Jiang Michia, although he did not trust him very much, handed the pole to Song Jingyun's shoulders.
He picked up the bamboo basket next to him with one hand.
Song Jingyun first put the pole on his shoulders to try, then took a deep breath, said "Hey" and stood up.
His body swayed slightly, but he quickly stabilized himself, and then tried to take two steps.
It worked. Although it was not quite stable, the water in the bucket did not spill out. Song Jingyun also felt that he could bear the weight of the two buckets of water.
Song Jingyun immediately became more confident and walked home with his head held high.
good.
Jiang Michia also nodded slightly.
My little husband-in-law is strong enough to help with some hard work.
As a wife, I suddenly feel happy that my husband-in-law has just grown up.
Jiang Michia hung the bamboo basket on his left shoulder and followed with a smile.
Jiang Youcheng and Liu were already used to the fact that Song Jingyun could catch a lot of fish.
But this time I was a little surprised to see so many river clams.
They knew that there were river mussels in the river, and they had picked them up before, but this was the first time they had picked up so many big clams at once.
"This clam is really big, and I guess it has a lot of meat." Full of joy, Mrs. Liu found a wooden basin, scooped out water, put the clam shell in and spit out the river sand.
Fresh clams need to be soaked in water with a little salt for two full days. They also need to be washed and soaked in water.
Next, break the shell, remove the gills and intestines, leaving clean and tender mussel meat, and you can cook as much as you like.
River mussels are not something we often eat, and Liu is not very skilled at breaking their shells.
When Jiang Michia saw this, he came to help, giving full play to his strength.
He made a slit with a hatchet, inserted a kitchen knife through the gap, and pried it hard. The shell of the river mussel could be opened smoothly, and Mrs. Liu could remove the internal organs of the river mussel.
"Yeah." Ms. Liu suddenly shouted.
"What's wrong? Did you get the stroke?" Jiang Youcheng, who was knitting a needlework basket on the side, hurriedly dropped what he was doing and ran over, grabbing Mrs. Liu's finger to look at it.
"It's not hurt." Mrs. Liu hurriedly explained, then looked up and saw no one around, then spread her tightly clenched hands, "There is this in the river mussel..."
Even Jiang Michia was stunned when she saw what Liu was holding.
"This is... a pearl?"
Jiang Michia picked up the small cylinder in Liu's hand, looked at it carefully, and nodded, "It's a pearl."
It's not too big, smaller than a soybean, not particularly round, but oval, fairly neat, with no bumps or holes, and the overall quality is pretty good.
Jiang Youcheng and Mr. Liu had also heard about pearls emerging from river clams.
But there is no such thing in Jiangjiacun. It happened once in Sunjiacun, and it happened several years ago. A young woman whose family was too poor to eat, ran to the river all day long, catching fish, shrimps and mussels, thinking about her whole family. Can fill the stomach.
As a result, a pearl the size of a broad bean was found among the river mussels that I picked up that day. I exchanged a lot of money for it, bought land and built a house, and I never felt hungry again.
So in the past few years, the river was full of people fishing for mussels every day. Not even a small mussel could be seen in the river, but no pearls were found from any of the mussels fished back.
Everyone said that they probably picked up the silver outside and did not dare to say it. They only said that they fished for pearls in exchange for it. It was impossible to get pearls out of these river mussels. The people who went to the river to fish for river mussels slowly began to Reduced or even gone.
Unexpectedly, pearls came out of the river mussels that Song Jingyun picked up today!
Jiang Youcheng and Liu glanced at each other and nodded in unison.
"Go inside first." Jiang Youcheng's voice was trembling, and he walked into the house carrying a wooden basin filled with river mussels.
When I entered the house, I tripped over the threshold and almost fell.
There were six or seven clams in the basin, and four people were busy trying to open them all.
Connect the first one and get three pearls in total.
The largest one is about the size of a small peanut oil bean, which is quite big, but not round. There is also the smallest one, which is about the same size as a mung bean. It is small, but it is round in shape.
Looking at these three pearls, the whole family was silent for a while.
It always feels like it’s not quite real.
Finally Jiang Michia spoke, "Then let's take it to the county town tomorrow to see the price?"
"Yes, yes, let's go take a look and see how much it can sell for." Jiang Youcheng and Liu nodded repeatedly.
Pearls are something that should not be eaten or used. They are the most useful thing only if they are exchanged for money.
Song Jingyun interrupted, "Then..."
