Check-in: From third-rate anchor to top food god 174. Don’t compare your life to others, pursue different pursuits, and each has his or her own way of living. Laugh when you are happy and rest when you are tired.
174. Don’t compare your life to others, pursue different pursuits, and each has his or her own way of living. Laugh when you are happy and rest when you are tired.
Li Xiao dug very quickly, but instead of digging directly on the raised bulge, he dug out a large circle of sand around the outside.
In some unclear live broadcasts, the audience asked in confusion.
"Why didn't the anchor just dig on top of that sandbag? What's going on with all this digging?"
"I suspect that the anchor is thinking too much. He probably thinks that the thing hidden underneath is huge."
"No way, it's as big as two hands."
Although Li Xiao was digging in the sand with both hands, the screen of his phone was lying face up on the beach. He looked at the questions on the barrage and explained.
"The reason why I have to dig such a circle around the bulge is because many seafood left on the beach due to the tide still have the ability to escape. If I dig directly on the bulge or holes, these still moving seafood will escape.
Escape deeper into the sand."
"So when you encounter these bulges on the beach, the best way is to dig in from the outside. By the time these seafood are aware of it, they will no longer be able to escape from the sand."
Li Xiao grabbed the handle of the shovel with both hands and dug out the sand quickly. The circle of sand was completely dug up by it, leaving only a cone-shaped pile of sand in the middle of the sand pit.
He glanced at the screen in the live broadcast room to make sure he was not blocking the camera before speaking.
"Okay, the last tense moment has arrived. We dug the sand for more than 5 minutes. Now let's see what kind of Pokémon we got."
After hearing Li Xiao's words, everyone who was originally drowsy finally cheered up.
Li Xiao quickly dug away the sand layer by layer from the original bulge, and soon a round shell appeared in everyone's sight.
In fact, the moment the shell was exposed from the sand, he could tell what it was.
Cat's eye snail, a shellfish very common on the beach.
He smiled and held the cat's eye snail, which was only half the size of a palm, in his hand.
You just need to walk towards the sea and say to the audience in the live broadcast room.
"Okay, the handicap is over. The answer this time is [D: Cat's Eye Snail]."
"Congratulations to those viewers who got the answer right, but those who got it wrong don't need to be discouraged."
"After this morning's live broadcast in Hong Kong and Hainan, I will make all the proceeds into a lucky red envelope. At that time, there will be as many copies of this red envelope as there are viewers in the live broadcast room, so everyone can participate enthusiastically."
As soon as he finished speaking, he ended this round of handicap.
The income was considerable, more than 20,000 cat claws, which translates into more than 10,000 yuan in just a few minutes today.
Go to the water's edge and wash all the sand off the cat's eye snail.
There is a big difference between cat's eye snails and other shellfish. Other shellfish like to curl up their bodies inside the shells. They only extend their fragile bodies outside the shells when they are on the road or hunting for food.
The cat's-eye snail is different. It likes to expose most of its body tissues directly outside the shell.
However, this does not mean that cat's-eye snails have more meat than other shellfish. The reason for this is mainly because the meat quality of cat-eye snails is relatively special.
Its meat will be more hydrated because the habits of this cat's eye snail are rather strange.
Compared to sea water, they prefer land that is incompatible with them.
Other seafood is accidentally left on the beach and rocky beaches, but they are different. They stay on the beach deliberately and do not want to leave.
However, this special hobby does not allow them to ignore the differences between marine plants and land plants.
So whenever they are in sea water, their bodies will try to absorb as much water as possible.
In this way, when they stay on the beach or rocky beach, there will be enough water to cope with the evaporation after low tide.
Li Xiao wants to hold the cleaned cat's eye snail in front of the camera.
"Look, everyone, this is our first trophy."
Many people in the live broadcast room gasped
"This fist-sized conch actually has so much meat, it's so awesome."
"The meat of this conch is bigger than its shell. How do you retract it when you are in danger?"
"The meat is white and shiny, and you can tell it's delicious just by looking at it."
"Anchor, don't say anything else, just eat it first."
.....
Looking at the speech in the live broadcast room, Li Xiao smiled and did not continue to tease everyone. Everyone opened their mouths to explain.
"Actually, the meat on the outside of this cat's eye snail looks like a lot, but it's not."
After saying that, he didn't show off, and directly pinched the white flesh of the cat's eye snail with his fingers.
The feeling of sinking your fingers into the moist flesh is very wonderful.
With the squeezing of his fingers, the seawater stored in the conch meat immediately spurted out from the gaps between his fingers.
The snail meat loses the support of this moisture and quickly shrinks at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Watching the snail meat that was originally bigger than his fist shrink instantly, until the snail meat completely retracted into his shell.
"Good guy, is this the legendary bluff?"
"This is obviously a fake dog!"
"The pretending and bluffing upstairs mean the same thing."
"is that so?"
"But this snail meat is too unruly, there is so much water."
"Hey, hey, what are you talking about upstairs? Who told you that drinking too much water is not serious?"
"You can tell he's a brat right away."
...........
Li Xiaozai gave a reminder in the live broadcast room.
"So when you buy this kind of cat's-eye snail in the future, you must pay attention to squeezing out the water from it, otherwise it will be uneconomical to buy a barrel of seawater at the price of the cat's-eye snail."
He casually threw the cat's-eye snail that had no water in it into the bucket. It could be regarded as his first trophy. Although the taste of the cat's-eye snail was nothing special, the meat was quite good, not as strong as other snails.
It tastes soft and waxy, like eating rice cakes.
You continue walking towards the rocky beach and encounter two more similar bulges on the road. He didn't let them go and opened the handicap twice more.
A horse-faced crab and another cat's-eye snail were dug out respectively.
However, the horse noodles were too small, only as big as two fingers, and there was no edible meat except the shell.
Li Xiao threw it back into the sea. After all, it seemed a bit inhumane to just throw it on the beach and let him die of exposure.
He smiled and said to the live broadcast room
"We should respect food. There is no need to deliberately waste food that cannot be eaten. Just like what I did just now, run two more steps and throw it back into the sea. Maybe he will come back to me to repay his kindness when he grows up.
By then it will be as big as a basin, and it will probably be delicious."
When the audience in the live broadcast room heard Li Xiao's beginning, they thought he was going to promote his ideas again, but they didn't expect that the conversation changed at the end.
"God, come back when you grow up to repay your kindness."
"It's so funny, I'm just that horse-faced crab. Host, you hit me so hard. Even if I grow up, I will definitely come to you not to repay a favor but to take revenge."
"Hey, call 110? Yes, I want to call the police. There is a horse-faced crab here that has become a spirit. Please send an adult from the Demon Slayer Department over here immediately to eliminate the demon."
Chatting with the audience while rushing on the road, it finally took more than half an hour to reach the destination. In fact, Li Xiao was walking quite fast.
After all, just three excavation operations wasted more than 20 minutes.
When he came to the stone beach, Li Xiao did not enter rashly, but stood there and observed it carefully.
After all, in horror novels, there must be some strange existence hidden in a rocky beach with strange rocks like this.
However, he quickly realized that what he was in was not some weird novel, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.
He smiled and said to the live broadcast room.
"After going through numerous difficulties and dangers, and ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties, we finally arrived at our destination this time."
"Now let's start today's sea operation."
He glanced at the time in the live broadcast room and saw that it was almost 7:00. He thought for a while and said,
"This time our sea meeting will last for two hours and end at 9:00. There will be a live barbecue at that time. We sincerely welcome all viewers in the live broadcast room to come and participate in the barbecue morning party."
People in the live broadcast room complained about it
"Good guy, if I hadn't been watching the whole live broadcast, I would have thought that the host had gone to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures."
"God damn it, ninety-nine and eighty-one are difficult, it's really outrageous."
"This invitation from the host is quite insincere. If I had said it last night, I would have rushed there even if it was an early morning flight."
"Yes, the anchor has two hours left before inviting everyone over for barbecue. Isn't that too insincere?"
"This guy is just teasing, haven't you noticed yet?"
"If I didn't have to go to work today, I would definitely drive there right away. I am only two and a half hours away from the anchor's place. I think I can catch up. Unfortunately, if I miss work for one day, my salary will be tripled and more than 3,000 yuan will be deducted. I can have a barbecue."
I’m not willing to give it up.”
"At first I thought there were hard-working workers like me upstairs, but I didn't expect that Versailles had completely lost down below."
"Originally, I had organized a 800-word touching and empathetic article. Unexpectedly, I was too naive."
"1,000 yuan a day, 30,000 yuan a month. I am so envious that I isolate myself."
.......
The structure of the rocky beach is a hilly structure with a high center and low surroundings.
The outermost periphery is filled with fragmented rocks and stones, the middle one is a rock half a person tall, and the centermost position is a huge boulder that is three people tall.
These rocks are washed by seawater all year round and remain moist for a long time, so the backlit surfaces of many rocks are covered with a thick layer of moss or seaweed.
Suddenly Li Xiao's eyes lit up, he took the camera and ran towards the edge of the stone beach.
Soon a long string of light green things appeared on his hand. Since it had been more than an hour since the low tide, this string of green things didn't have much moisture anymore.
Li Xiao asked in the live broadcast room
"I wonder if anyone recognizes what I'm holding."
Studio
"Isn't this just a big bunch of seaweed?"
"The concept of seaweed is too broad. The anchor probably wants to ask us what kind of seaweed this is?"
"Who knows, I don't live by the sea. The anchor's question is too overwhelming."
"Is this the seaweed we usually eat?"
"No, this is not seaweed."
Li Xiao saw that no one in the live broadcast room recognized him at all, and he didn't show off, so he spoke directly.
"This is asparagus. It looks like a dragon's beard. You should have seen it when eating cold salad."
"The long, crisp ones with small spines are like mini sea cucumbers. The ones that are light yellow or light green are asparagus."
As soon as he introduced it, someone immediately reacted, what on earth is this?
"Oh, so it's this thing. I didn't expect her to look like this."
"This thing is quite delicious, the texture is very crisp."
"I've eaten it, but it's not fresh, it's dried."
"Hey, what I eat is also dry food. I can soak it in water and boil it before eating."
.......
Li Xiao carefully pulled out some of the aged roots underneath the asparagus with his fingers, leaving only the fresh twigs, and rinsed them in the sea water.
While shaking the water, he walked towards his bucket.
Take out the simple windproof stove inside, add an appropriate amount of 98-degree alcohol to the center of the windproof stove, and finally put a wire mesh on it.
Li Xiao said to the live broadcast room,
"Actually, there are many ways to eat asparagus. In addition to the most common salad, fresh asparagus can be eaten directly by lightly burning it with a flame. It tastes very delicious."
"Alcohol, as a wilderness fuel, has a very good advantage, that is, it is very light and does not require a long waiting time like other fuels."
Li Xiao's fingers gently moved the windshield outside the stove and adjusted the size of the flame.
Adjusting the flame to the distance, there was still one centimeter away from the barbed wire. He nodded with satisfaction. This distance was quite good.
After all, the flame was too big and it burned my asparagus directly.
The flame is too small and the baking time is too long.
Put the washed asparagus on the wire mesh, and the asparagus immediately makes a sizzling sound, which is the sound of the water in its body and the water on its surface being evaporated.
The time required to grill asparagus is very short. When the flame and temperature are suitable, it can be completely cooked in about one minute. Of course, if you want the asparagus to become crispier, then this time will be longer.
Extend appropriately.
Li Xiao is the kind of person who likes crispy food. He used chopsticks to flip the asparagus easily to prevent it from being scorched by the flames.
However, with the [Roasted Bird Mastery] provided by the system, he also gained a new understanding of how to roast asparagus.
The body of asparagus is too slender. If you don't turn it over in time, the small thorns on the asparagus may be burnt, which will worsen the taste.
In order to prevent the asparagus from being inspected, Li Xiao held the tail of the asparagus with his chopsticks and kept turning it over. Although such rapid turning would prevent the heat of the flame from being fully transmitted to the asparagus, the heat would change.
Be more even.
It didn't take long for the originally green asparagus to turn into dark green. At the same time, the changed color also gave off a strong fragrance, a bit like the smell of roasted seaweed.
Li Xiao licked his lips and did not bother to explain to the audience in the live broadcast room.
He took out chili powder and salt powder from the bucket and sprinkled it evenly on the asparagus. When he was spreading the seasoning, he did not stop with his other hand so that both sides of the asparagus could be evenly sprinkled with seasoning.
, and then swept away the asparagus on the wire mesh with a sweep of the chopsticks.
As the old saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
As soon as the freshly roasted asparagus was put into his mouth, Li Xiao's tongue was immediately burned, but he was not willing to spit out the asparagus in his mouth.
Because the texture of asparagus after charcoal grilling is really great.
The thin skin of asparagus cracked and curled up under the flames, and then became brittle.
The cracked skin becomes crispy, and the burnt aroma has the unique fragrance of asparagus.
The texture of the charcoal-grilled asparagus is even better than that of cold salad. It is crispy and refreshing. It has only a slight salty and umami flavor. After adding chili powder, the slight fishy smell of the asparagus is also covered up by the spiciness.
Li Xiao praised
"It's great. This thing is really good, but in recent years, the number of wild asparagus has become much less."
"The light yellow asparagus that everyone usually eats is farmed, but the ones I just ate are purely wild and natural. Although the texture is crunchy, the wild asparagus has a particularly rich flavor.
The fragrance.”
Studio
"I also want to eat this wild asparagus. The anchor will deliver two kilograms to me to try it first."
"It turns out that the one I ate last time was farmed. No wonder it tasted tasteless, but the texture was indeed very crisp."
"My family used to live by the seaside, and we would often see this thing. I didn't expect that it can be eaten grilled in addition to being eaten cold. I have never tried it before, which is a pity."
"I have already signed up. I hope the host can take me to pick asparagus!"
"I have already signed up. I hope the host can help me roast asparagus!"
"I have already signed up. I hope the host can feed me asparagus by then!"
...
After wiping his mouth, Li Xiao turned off the windproof stove.
"Okay, after replenishing some strength, we continue to look for seafood." This time he did not bring the shovel he used before. It would be more convenient to use iron clamps in such complex terrain. After all, things under the rock crevices are handled by hand.
Neither the shovel nor the shovel are easy to grasp.
Some rocks may look small, but in fact the body hidden under the sand may be as high as a story.
This is the same as those men and women who have just dated. When asked how many dates they have dated, they will definitely answer that they have only dated two or three, or they have only dated for two or three months, or they have no relationship at all.
It looks like that, but what is the reality? Unless you really dig out the sand, you have no idea how deep it is.
Since not all rocks can be moved easily, the flexible use of long clamps is very useful.
