"Go back now? I haven't picked up enough yet." Jiang Yan said with some reluctance.
"That's right, my bucket isn't even full yet!" Li Letian was also a little dissatisfied.
It's like going up the mountain to pick up mushrooms. There are obviously a lot of mushrooms and the basket is not full, so you have to ask him to go back.
This feeling of unfulfilled feelings is really hard to let go.
"It's time to go back. It's almost 10 o'clock now. The tide is very scary at night. For everyone's safety, let's go." Chen Xiaoyun explained.
If you are accidentally swept into the sea by the tide at night, you will be dead.
The old fishermen on the beach are afraid of the big tide at night!
After hearing that it was very dangerous, a few people had no choice but to give up!
"Okay then, let's go back."
Chen Xiaohu, Chen Xiaonan, and Song Xiaoxing also gathered over.
"Brother Xiaoyun, it's time to go back. The tide will probably rise soon."
People rushing to the sea began to go ashore one after another to go home.
"Well, let's go to the shore first!" Chen Xiaoyun nodded.
Together, everyone returned to the shore.
"Brother Xiaohu, how was your harvest?" Jiang Yan asked.
"Hehe, we had a good harvest. We picked up a cat shark weighing more than two kilograms in a puddle under a reef." Chen Xiaohu said with a proud smile.
"Catshark?!"
Li Letian and He Qiang don't know each other very well, even sharks can be caught.
"Here, it's this kind. It's not big, looks like a small shark, and the color is different from the shark, but its name is cat shark." Chen Xiaohu took the cat shark out of the bucket and showed it to everyone.
The cat shark, also called the spotted bamboo shark, is light yellowish brown in color, with a long and slender tail, a broad and blunt snout, small eyes, and a large mouth!
"Isn't this thing protecting animals?" Jiang Yan asked curiously.
Chen Xiaoyun smiled and said: "Where are there so many protected animals? There are many cat sharks on the seaside. They are not endangered animals. Fishermen often catch them and take them home to eat."
"Oh! How does it taste?" Li Letian's eyes lit up.
Some people in southern Yunnan like to eat strange and unprecedented things.
"This cat shark costs over a hundred dollars per pound. The meat is made of collagen and the stew is delicious." Chen Xiaohu said happily.
"I picked up a lot of shrimps, and they were all Pipi shrimps." Song Xiaoxing likes to eat Pipi shrimps.
Therefore, he specifically picked up Pipi shrimps and didn’t want anything else.
"Wow, Xiao Song, that's okay. There's so much, maybe two or three kilograms." Jiang Yan said in surprise.
"Hey, we're lucky, no one picked up the piece we picked up." Song Xiaoxing said happily.
This was also his first time to experience traveling on the sea, and he also gained so much that he was so happy that he kept taking photos and posting them on WeChat to show off.
"Let's go, go back. These things will be enough for us to have a midnight snack." Chen Xiaoyun shouted, urging everyone.
The moonlight was very bright, and you could see the road without using a flashlight. Everyone walked back to Chen Xiaoyun's house talking and laughing.
Take out big pots and small pots and sort out the harvest.
"Hey, Brother Jiang, why did you pick some out of the blue?" Chen Xiaohu couldn't help but say when he saw Jiang Yan's harvest.
Sea shells, sea urchins, kelp, crabs, small octopus, small sea fish...
"This is called harvest diversity, do you understand?" Jiang Yan gave Chen Xiaohu a roll of his eyes.
"He picks up the good-looking things and the strange ones when he sees them. It's natural." Li Letian on the side said with a smile.
"Brother Chen will still pick them up. Look, there are so many sixty-year-old clams, white clams, and yellow clams." He Qiang said.
Everyone picked up all kinds of crabs, which totaled about three kilograms.
There are also a lot of conches and cat's-eye snails. It is estimated that they weigh three to four kilograms, which is enough to fry half a pot.
Chen Xiaonan also picked up a lot of sixty-year-old clams and yellow clams. Together with what Chen Xiaoyun picked up, it was enough to make a big deal.
Li Letian picked up a lot of sea hares.
"Let's go, Brother Xiaonan, let's catch the eels and frogs." Chen Xiaohu saw that there were a lot of people and was afraid that the seafood would not be enough to eat, so he said.
"Just catch frogs. We have to go fishing tomorrow, so don't catch eels." Chen Xiaoyun said quickly, fearing that everyone would run to the county town again tonight.
I still want to eat eels. Do you want to go fishing tomorrow?
"Oh well!"
Chen Xiaohu was negligent and ate eel tonight, fearing that he might not be able to get out of the sea again tomorrow.
"Be careful, there are a lot of snakes in the wasteland, so don't get bitten." Chen Xiaoyun reminded.
"Okay, we get it." Chen Xiaohu nodded.
So I went to catch frogs with Chen Xiaonan.
"Is there any other explanation for this?" He Qiang was a little curious.
How come the eel won’t be able to go out to sea tomorrow? !
"hey-hey!!"
Jiang Yan smiled and began to explain to He Qiang.
"You choose to clean it, I'll handle the sea shark stew first." Chen Xiaoyun lifted the cat shark into the kitchen.
Wash it, cut it into sections and put it in the pot. Add ginger, garlic, star anise, vanilla, red dates, wolfberry, and Codonopsis pilosula to stew together. Chen Xiaoyun added two drops of Lingquan water.
This pot of soup is enough for everyone.
After the soup was simmered, Chen Xiaoyun came out again, took in the washed sea rabbits, and boiled them all.
Take out all the boiled sea hares, put them into the prepared ice water, and pass them through a stream of ice water.
Then prepare the dipping sauce for dipping sea rabbit.
Seafood such as conches, scallops, yellow clams, and white clams are boiled in boiling water, then picked up and washed before frying.
Chen Xiaoyun didn't think it was troublesome, so he fried it in a pot. Stir-fried the garlic bean paste, added beer, simmered over high heat, and removed the juice before serving.
Shrimps, crabs, octopus, etc. are all boiled in one pot and can be eaten by dipping them in water, which is also convenient.
It’s also authentic and not overcooked.
Chen Xiaoyun cooked the frogs that Chen Xiaohu and Chen Xiaonan had caught.
"Ah...it smells so good. Can you eat it?" Song Xiaoxing looked at the seafood snack on the table and couldn't help but rub her hands.
"It's ready to eat. I'll just bring the soup over." Chen Xiaoyun said with a smile.
"Here, serve the soup yourself!" Chen Xiaohu held out seven small bowls.
"Let's eat, don't wait, why do you have to wait for me." Chen Xiaoyun put the cat shark stewed soup on the table and said.
"Hey, you are the chef, so I have to wait for you." He Qiang said with a smile.
"Brother Qiang is right!" Jiang Yan agreed very much.
"Okay, we can start eating now." Chen Xiaoyun said with a smile.
"Well, this sea hare looks very white and tender. Let me try it first." Li Letian picked up a sea hare.
"Brother Li, wait a moment." Chen Xiaoyun said hurriedly.
"Huh? What's wrong!" Li Letian was stunned for a moment.
Chen Xiaoyun picked up a sea hare and said: "Brother Li, the cartilage on the back of the sea hare is inedible. You need to take it out and then dip it in water and you can eat it."
Chen Xiaoyun demonstrated once, taking out the sea hare cartilage, then dipping it in water and eating it in one bite.
One word: fresh, tender and delicious!
After Chen Xiaoyun's demonstration, Jiang Yan and Li Letian followed suit, taking out the sea hare cartilage and dipping it in water to eat.
"Well, it's delicious. The meat is plump and tender, fresh and sweet, and the taste of dipping it in water is very special!" Li Letian's eyes lit up.
"It's really delicious. It's such a small one, one bite. It's delicious, sweet, crispy and delicious." Jiang Yan couldn't help but eat the second one after eating one.
"Not to mention, this is the first time I have eaten this kind of seafood. It is really delicious. The taste is unique and it is hard to put it down." He Qiang has eaten a lot of seafood, but none of them are as delicious as this gadget.
Although now you have money, you can eat seafood everywhere.
But it was his first time to experience such fresh and delicious seafood.
"Sure enough, the seafood you catch yourself is delicious."
Song Xiaoxing was peeling the shrimps like crazy. He liked to eat shrimps.
"Try this soup. It's very nutritious and delicious!" Chen Xiaoyun took a sip of the soup and said to everyone.
"The soup stewed by cat shark is indeed very nutritious, and the meat is also full of collagen." Chen Xiaohu also filled a bowl of soup.
Thinking of replenishing the protein lost last night.
Song Xiaoxing filled a bowl and took a sip, feeling her taste buds explode instantly.
"It tastes good. I'm impressed by Brother Chen's cooking skills!"
After finishing two gulps, he took another bowl. He felt that the soup stewed with bird's nest, shark's fin, and abalone was completely different from this soup.
A large pot of soup quickly reached the bottom, and the meat was also used up.
"Following Brother Chen, my life is better than that of a god." Song Xiaoxing felt that this was many times more interesting than going to ktv857.
"Well, this frog meat is no worse than eel meat. It's very delicious. The meat is firm, tender, and has a delicate texture. Just like eel, it has a light fragrance that makes people want to stop eating it."
Li Letian didn't want to leave here. Whatever dishes Chen Xiaoyun cooked were delicious, and the taste was so good that people will never forget it.
"Indeed, this frog meat is delicious. I remember when I was a child, I would go to the fields, catch it, put it in a steamer, and steam it with bowls and chopsticks.
The meat was all steamed and fell off in the soup in the bowl. The soup was so delicious that I miss it now. "He Qiang said fondly while eating.
"We also have this way of eating it over there. We put lard and chopped green onion in the bowl and steam it. The soup is simply outstanding." Li Letian also said.
“It’s a pity that in our area now, frogs are almost only found in rural areas and mountains, and there are very few of them.
Stone frogs are now protected animals, and everything they can eat is farmed. "
Everyone didn't drink, so they ate late night snacks, drank soup, and chatted.
Before I knew it, it was almost twelve o'clock.
"I've finished my midnight snack. Let's wash up and prepare to rest. We have to get up early tomorrow." Chen Xiaoyun said after looking at the time.
"Well, Brother Qiang and Brother Song, you can sleep at my house tonight. I still have two empty rooms in my house." Chen Xiaohu said to the two of them.
"Okay, thank you Brother Xiaohu for the hospitality!" He Qiang thanked him.
Chen Xiaohu smiled and said: "You are guests, of course I have to treat you well. Come on, follow me to my house."
"Xiaoyun, I'm going back to rest too." Chen Xiaonan also said.
"Well, get up early tomorrow." Chen Xiaoyun nodded.
Chen Xiaohu and the other two said goodbye and went back. Jiang Yan and Li Letian also helped Chen Xiaoyun clean up the dishes.
"Okay, Brother Jiang and Brother Li, you take a shower first and then rest." Chen Xiaoyun said.
"OK, all right!"
After the three people took a shower, they rested.
Late at night, the tide came in, and the waves crashed against the coast again.
There is a sound of frogs in the rice fields...
