I'll do the afternoon's work in the afternoon, but the most important thing now is to prepare a lunch.

The fishermen who had been swimming in the sea all morning were already hungry, and they urgently needed a hot and fragrant lunch to fill their empty stomachs.

Wang Yi asked: "Brother Damei, what should we do at noon?"

Wang Dongmei smiled and said: "Bake a cornmeal paste and add sweet potato cubes, I will paste it on the pancakes, and then fry shredded radish with shrimp paste and serve with stewed mackerel."

He thought for a while and stood up to look at the rocks above the water in Laolong Bay: "These things probably won't catch your eye, Teacher Wang. I heard you boldly said that you like to eat small seafood? Last time you ate sea melon seeds at his house

Full of praise?"

Wang Yi said: "Hey, don't listen to his nonsense, I can eat anything."

Wang Dongmei said: "That's good. Originally I wanted to say that if you are willing to eat small seafood, I will send you to the reef in Laolong Bay. There are a lot of small seafood here. We can find enough for you to have a meal. If you

If you can't eat anything..."

"Brother Damei, you'd better send me up there." Wang Yi sneered, "Besides, just make porridge and don't stick to the pancakes."

If given the choice, I would like to have a good meal.

Wang Dongmei said: "What will you eat if you don't stick pancakes on it? Oh, you don't bring any good food, do you?"

Wang Yi's reputation for eating and drinking has spread throughout the team.

The whole team wants to follow him to eat and drink...

Wang Yi nodded, and Wang Dongmei happily put down the cornmeal bag in her hand.

He propped up the raft and took Wang Yi to the rocks.

The reefs emerging from Laolong Bay are continuous and undulating, with puddles in them. This thing is the favorite of fishermen because it seeps fresh water out.

Even if Wang Yi doesn't ask, Wang Dongmei still has to go to the reef at Laolong Bay so that he can get fresh water.

The two of them carried buckets and net bags onto the rocks, and Lao Huang took the lead to explore the way for him.

The most treasured treasures on the rugged reef are various shellfish.

Wang Dongmei said: "I will make a soup for you at noon. It will be so fresh that you can swallow your tongue! Come on, follow me to find Chu!"

Barnacle is the local name for barnacles, which is a very unsightly small shellfish. Wang Yi has long heard of its deliciousness, but has never had the chance to see it.

Barnacles like to live near the intertidal zone of seaside rocks and like to live in aggregations. They have no ability to hunt themselves and need waves to bring tiny organisms in the sea water, so the place where they live must have strong winds and waves.

Laolong Bay is isolated on the sea, with complex terrain. Every day, waves roar like thousands of troops, hitting the rocks and shaking high, providing abundant food for barnacles.

The men on Tianya Island all know Laolong Bay well. Wang Dongmei led the way and quickly found two separate rocks.

Between these two reefs, there are countless small gray-white volcanoes, shaped like cones. They are densely attached to the reefs. They can be blown by the wind and waves, but I will not move!

The barnacle living area is a torture for patients with trypophobia. Fortunately, Wang Yi does not have this problem. He just feels happy when he sees so many barnacles growing densely.

Wang Dongmei warned him: "Teacher Wang, please pay attention to your steps. You must be careful. If you are hit by wind and waves, you will suffer!"

He brought a small ax and started picking barnacles against the rocks.

Wang Yi followed carefully. He lowered his head and looked down, and saw the tide rushing in.

The gap between the two rocks is narrow, and the tide surges left and right, rolling up thousands of piles of snow with all kinds of evil!

When the tide recedes, conches appear on the rocks.

It is also tapered, but flat and round, and there are longitudinal threads on the gray-brown shell.

Wang Yi guessed: "Brother Damei, is the thing down here a horseshoe snail?"

Wang Dongmei lowered his head and said, "Yes, horseshoe snails are hard to find. They usually live on rocks in the sea and are only exposed when the tide goes out. The tide here always rises and falls, exposing them.

Here you go, just wait and I'll pick some up."

Wang Yi said: "Don't, it's too dangerous."

Lao Huang, who was standing next to him, watched them pointing at the horseshoe snails, and immediately jumped off the rock nimbly and ran up with the horseshoe snails in his mouth.

Wang Yi was amused and quickly rubbed the dog's head: "I really didn't raise you in vain. You know how to find food for me!"

Wang Dongmei looked at Lao Huang carefully and said: "Teacher Wang, your dog is really understanding of human nature. It is definitely not a stray dog, but a water dog trained by someone. That's why it came back with a conch in its mouth. My guess is good, I'm afraid it will return again."

I’m helping you hold the net bag and pull the fishing net!”

Wang Yi recalled: "Yes, the first time I saw it, it came to me with a net bag full of seafood in its mouth."

Wang Dongmei said: "That's right. This is a water dog that was trained by someone. I don't know how it escaped."

Old Huang continued to jump on the rocks, picking up the exposed horseshoe snails one by one.

Wang Yi was a little worried at first.

The waves here are a bit fierce.

It turns out that Lao Huang is very discerning. He reacts quickly and moves quickly. Every time he watches the waves fall down, grabs the horseshoe snail, and runs up before the waves charge.

Wang Dongmei quickly knocked down a bunch of barnacles and said, "Let's do these first. This thing is for making soup, so there is no need to do too much."

"Let's go find yellow snails. Now is a good time to eat yellow snails."

"On March 3rd, yellow snails climbed onto the beach?" Wang Yi said a local proverb that he heard from his students when he was leading them to fish for seaweed.

Wang Dongmei smiled and said: "Yes, yellow snails are fat and common now. If you find more, I will go back and make snail sauce for you. That one will be delicious."

They walked on the rocks for a while, and after Huang knew he needed shellfish, he began to show off his skills. Soon he came running with a ball of broken fishing nets in his mouth.

The fishing net was in a mess, with some black shells growing on it.

Wang Yi smiled and said: "Old Huang found some mussels."

Mussels are mussels. In some places, they are also called Haihong and Qingkou. They have many names.

Wang Dongmei said: "This is not mussels, this is Mao Niang, which is much more precious than mussels."

"I saw that they look the same." Wang Yi picked up the fishing net and looked at it. There were clearly mussels on it.

Wang Dongmei said: "They look almost the same. In fact, they are the same thing. However, mussels are farmed and are big in size. Mussels are wild, small in size and do not grow big, but their umami taste is much stronger and they are much rarer."

"Lao Huang is very good. This is the first time I've seen Mao Niang this year."

Wang Yi gave Lao Huang a head rub and decided to go back and get some rewards for him, such as a moma.

Yellow snails are beautiful, delicious, and rich in nutrients, but they are not easy to find. They usually hide in the mud and only emerge and move when the tide rises and recedes.

Fortunately, now is the most active season of the year for yellow snails. Wang Dongmei led Wang Yi to search along the reef and found some intermittently.

Wang Yi lowered his head and searched carefully, and saw several shellfish of different sizes stuck on the reef, and said: "Brother Damei, there are some seashells here, are they edible?"

Wang Dongmei looked at it and said, "It's edible, and it's delicious. That's a small abalone!"

Wang Yi said: "Little abalone? Doesn't it look like abalone?"

These seashells are really small, about the same as the belly of his thumb, and they have a blue-gray shell on top, which is completely different from the colorful shell of abalone.

Wang Dongmei explained: "Little abalone is its nickname. It is called Rouge Zhan, and it seems to be also called a limpet? Do you think it looks like a shell cap is worn on the snail meat?"

"We won't do this anymore. We can't do it. Even though they are not big, their adsorption force is very strong, so they are called small abalone. If we don't have an iron chisel, we can't get it off at all. Don't waste so much time. I will take care of you if you have this time."

You look for the Buddha's hand shell."

The name Buddha's Hand Shell comes from their resemblance to a Buddha's hand.

Wang Yi couldn't tell at all. This thing was so ugly that it could just as well be called a ghost hand.

The two of them fiddled around for a while and got some seashells, and then someone was already swimming back to the boat holding a gourd.

Wang Dongmei said: "Let's go and get water back quickly. This is almost enough for you to eat."

"You don't want to eat?" Wang Yi asked.

Wang Dongmei's face showed a look of boredom: "I'm really afraid of eating. If I eat too much of these things, acid will come out of my stomach. Alas, the taste is unpleasant!"

Seafood cannot be eaten as a meal!

They each filled half a bucket of water to support the raft back, and took all the people who had floated aboard with them on the way.

The sun is shining brightly at noon, so I can recover much faster after getting out of the water.

Wang Yi used a bucket to get water to clean the seashells.

Eating seafood at the beach is not easy. With a sea wolf like Wang Dongmei leading the way, the two of them and one dog worked hard but couldn't get many seashells.

As Wang Dongmei said, it is enough for him to eat.

While Wang Yi was cleaning, Wang Dongmei helped him cook the food.

These seashells are very simple to make, either boiled or made into soup.

For example, it is best to knock off the shells of barnacles and stir-fry them with the meat, steam eggs, and make soup. Just sprinkle a little salt and nothing else is needed to make a delicious dish.

Of course, it was not easy to knock off the shell, so Wang Dongmei made a soup for him with the shell.

At this time two more ships approached.

Liu Hongmei came over with three groups of them.

They had dinner together at noon, then rested for a while to change jobs. In the afternoon, the three groups went diving for ginseng. This is why Liu Hongmei said in the morning that she wanted to compete with Wang Yi.
To be continued...