Barnacles are the killer of many large marine creatures.

Many foreigners hate barnacles.

However, such an unpopular creature is extremely popular in the seafood market in my country. Even in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, many people think it is the most delicious seafood and call it a delicious food from hell.

Li Xuan had also eaten barnacles himself. He picked out the meat of this thing from the shell, then put a little onion and stir-fry it. The taste was so delicious.

The more common barnacles are usually attached to the bodies of whales, sea turtles, etc., which will endanger the lives of these large marine organisms.

In addition, barnacles will be attached to large hulls, submarine cables, etc., causing great harm. The world spends a lot of money to remove them every year, which is quite annoying.

In the coastal areas of our country, the number of barnacles is also uncommon.

For example, Yulong Bay where Li Xuan grew up.

Yulong Bay has a long coastline. Although seafood resources are not very rich, marine fisheries have long begun to dry up.

However, the shellfish in Yulong Bay is quite abundant and has never dried up since ancient times.

Although these shellfish are not valuable, even if the fishermen catch them, they cannot sell them to subsidize their household income.

But Yulong Bay is a small fishing village with a thousand-year history of fishing. Locals have made a living by fishing for generations.

After so many years of inheritance, of course, some people pick up the seafood that cannot be sold for themselves.

Although barnacles look ugly, they are not spared from the outside.

However, in Yulong Bay, there are still a very small number of fishermen who are willing to collect barnacles.

Because collecting barnacles is a very dangerous job.

Li Xuan once followed his father to board the reef on a small boat and knocked down the barnacles one by one with a special little hammer, and more than once.

Li Xuan still remembers that when he went to collect barnacles for the first time, his face turned pale.

Barnacles like to grow at the intersection of sea water and reefs. The waves will constantly knock on the reefs. When standing on the reefs to collect barnacles, they will be knocked into the sea or rushed into the pile of reefs. If they don’t die, they will be killed.

Loss of skin.

So at the beginning, Li Xuan was particularly annoying and disgusted with picking barnacles. Even if the purchase price of this thing can reach hundreds of dollars per pound, Li Xuan was unwilling to go because most of the barnacles were very large.

It is small, and to collect one pound, you need to stay on very dangerous reefs for a long time.

And the barnacles I picked up look is not quite as good as it is.

But after Li Xuan tasted the barnacle once, this concept completely changed.

Li Xuan discovered that under the ugly appearance of barnacles, there was a delicious food that was irresistible.

In Yulong Bay, there are three main ways to eat barnacles.

One is the simplest way to cook when fishermen go to sea. After collecting it, wash it and boil it in clean water. After cooking, dip it in vinegar or soy sauce.

This is impossible. After going to sea, the conditions are difficult and you can fill your stomach. There are not so many other requirements.

But after Li Xuan tasted the barnacle, he found that its taste was tenderer and smoother than shrimp meat, and its umami taste was more delicious than crab meat, so he was directly conquered by the barnacle.

The second way to eat is to pick out the barnacle meat piece by piece.

It is not difficult to pick out the barnacle meat. It has special tools and looks a bit like a dart. Just poke it gently into the hole and the barnacle meat will come out.

But Li Xuan doesn't like this way of eating, because he picks out a little bit of meat because he is very big, so the meat yield rate is really low.

Usually, Li Xuan and his son worked hard all day, but in the end they couldn't pick up a pound of barnacle meat. If there was a shell, at least it looked more. If there was no shell, the barnacle would really not be enough to eat.

Moreover, on the market, the meat of barnacles is cheaper than barnacles.

Generally, the purchase price of barnacles is about 60 or 70 yuan per catty. The size is relatively full and can be sold for more than 100 yuan.

The barnacle meat that I have worked hard to pick is about twenty yuan. Not only is it time-consuming, the price is even cheaper. If Li Xuan can like it, it would be strange.

Of course, ordinary fishermen pick out barnacle meat, but they don’t sell it.

It is one thing for those who collect seafood to be uneasy to collect dead goods.

The fishermen work hard and suffer losses, which is the same thing. Barnacles are not easy to preserve and transport. Dead barnacles affect the freshness and taste, and the price is very cheap.

The barnacle meat picked is usually used by the fishermen to make some wine.

Use the cooking method of stir-frying, without adding other ingredients, just seasoning.

Although a plate of fried barnacles looks average, the taste can be fresh and the tongue can be lost. As long as you eat it once, you will definitely never forget it for the rest of your life.

This last one is to make soup.

This is a habit in Yulong Bay. Everything can be made into soup. If you cook a large pot, the taste and nutrition are all in the soup. It is also Li Xuan’s favorite way to eat barnacles.

The other crew members who followed Li Xuan to the sea and saw Li Xuan prying barnacles on the back of the leatherback turtle, they all surrounded him and joined the barnacles one by one.

The back of this leatherback turtle was almost overgrown by barnacles. There were a lot of numbers and there were also abdomen. Although it was not as dense as the back, it was also quite large.

Li Xuan estimated that if he pried off all the barnacles on the leatherback turtle, the number would probably be dozens of pounds, and it would not be pried out in a short while.

But Li Xuan was not in a hurry, and he slashed it one by one.

Li Xuan was not in a hurry, but someone was very upset.

It was Chen Bin. After prying dozens of barnacles on the leatherback turtle, he put away the dagger, then pulled Li Xuan's arm and pulled it on the sea, and his other hand kept pointing to the sea.

Li Xuan had no choice but to see that Chen Bin seemed to have something to say to him, so he had to put down his work for the time being and follow Chen Bin upstream to the water.

"Brother Xuan, aren't we here to catch sea goods? Why are we helping the sea turtle prying barnacles? That's all, the expense of going out to sea is very high." Chen Bin said anxiously when he arrived on the sea.

Li Xuan laughed silently, "Isn't barnacles a sea of ​​goods?"

"What kind of sea goods are barnacles? This thing is not easy to store and transport. It's still a matter of whether it can be transported or transported back. A dead barnacle is only worth twenty yuan per catty. We may not be able to pry it for an hour.

Pry one pound down." Chen Bin said anxiously.

Li Xuan smiled slightly and shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate these barnacles. These are not ordinary barnacles. Moreover, even ordinary barnacles are not as cheap as you said. Don't worry, I'm

I won't do business at a loss."

"What else can I say about this barnacle?" Chen Bin said in confusion.
Chapter completed!