Xu Xiuyuan thought at first that her niece had picked up a broken fishing net, and with a look of disgust on her face, she told Xu Suizhu to throw it in the yard and not bring it into the house: "What is the use of such a broken fishing net? It's not like there are no seaweeds at home. Pull off the seaweed and feed it to the ducks, so throw away the fishing net."
Come in and change your clothes quickly, look at how dirty you are, don’t hug me until you’re clean.”
"Don't throw it away, aunt, look at what's inside!" Xu Suizhu let go of the hole in the fishing net and motioned to her aunt to come over and take a look.
"What can there be? Can we still catch fish?" The next second he was stunned, "This, this..."
"Girl, do you think I'm lucky? I caught a broken fishing net, and there were so many good things hidden in it!" Xu Suizhu said happily, rubbing her cheeks with both hands, grinning so hard that her cheeks became sore.
Xu Xiuyuan: "..."
I really don't know how to praise this good luck.
"Hurry up and take it to the house. What if someone sees the pile here? You thought we stole it from the fishing ground, you silly girl, you have such a big heart!"&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Xu Suizhu twitched her mouth, who didn't allow her to move into the house just now? Now she thinks she's arrogant again. You are the aunt and you are the biggest!
"Who would guess like that! Fishing boats that sail to the middle of the sea may not be able to catch such large wild products. If such good things can be stolen in the fishing grounds, the benefits will not be so bad that they need to be remade..." Xu Suizhu muttered.
Her uncle gave her a white look: "Stop being so verbose, is this what you can say? Why don't you hurry up and go into the house? I'll take care of this. Go wash your face and change your clothes. It's so dirty that you can't even see it."
Xu Suizhu obediently went to wash up. When she saw her aunt boiling a large pot of hot water, she simply took a bath, washed her head, put on clean clothes, and dried her head before going to hug the little bun.
"Hey! How lucky is Mom today? You caught a bunch of abalones and sea cucumbers, hahaha! Do you want to eat them? Those abalones are bigger than your little fist. If you take them out, they will probably sell like crazy! But still, it's okay.
Anyway, the royalties have been paid. We and I are living a comfortable life, so we won’t sell it anymore, which will make people jealous.”&1t;i>&1t;/i>
"Eaaah!"
"You also agree not to sell it and keep it for us to eat, right? Hehe, your aunt will definitely scold me for being a prodigal later, so you have to stand by Mama!"
He quickly dressed the little bun and carried the stocky little guy to the kitchen.
Her aunt was quick with her hands and feet. She had already removed the internal organs of the sea cucumber, cut off the spit, and cooked it in a pot.
Because sea cucumbers will autolyse when left in sea water and cannot be stored without treatment. As Xu Suizhu knows, seafood processing plants in later generations all use ultraviolet rays for drying. People on the beach do not have this condition, so how should they be processed?
——Remove the viscera and sand spit and then process it in boiling water. After it is cool, marinate it in salt water for eight hours. After drying the water, mix it with the plant ash and spread it out in a cool and ventilated place to dry. After drying, pat the plant ash on the surface of the sea cucumber clean and it can be stored.
Xu Xiuyuan cooked sea cucumbers and started sorting several other items. Conches, shells, and abalone could be raised in sea water. She kept them in basins. Then she boiled half a pot of ginger syrup on the briquette stove and filled a bowl of ginger syrup for
Niece, I took the little bun.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
"You didn't catch a cold after the wind blew, did you? Tell me, you ran to the beach on such a cold day and almost drank the ginger syrup, sweating. How do you plan to sell these? No one in the town can afford them. And it's so close.
, it’s not good to be seen.”
Xu Xiuyuan was happy to have caught so much big stuff, but she was also a little worried, fearing that outsiders might suspect her family of stealing goods from the fishery.
Xu Suizhu drank the hot ginger tea slowly and said to her aunt: "Aunt, I don't plan to sell it. Professor Feng and the others have helped me a lot. I plan to give some to them and keep the rest for ourselves.
"
"It's good to give them away. You don't need to eat such a big one for yourself. Sell these for money. If you want to eat them, I'll keep an eye on you. When the fishery net arrives, I'll buy some and bring them back for you to try."
I knew her aunt would say that.
But Xu Suizhu really doesn’t want to sell it. A good thing with a price but no market may happen once in this life. If you sell it, it will be gone.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Xu Xiuyuan saw that her niece insisted on not selling it no matter how much she tried to persuade her, and there was nothing she could do about it. Her stubborn temper was exactly like her father's.
He poked Xu Suizhu's forehead with his index finger and said angrily: "You! You are such a loser!"
"Hey!" the little bun chuckled.
Xu Suizhu made a face at the little guy, then took her aunt's arm and smiled flatteringly: "Aunt, it's not easy to own such a good thing again after selling it. You see, my income is stable now, and I also have royalties.
, you don’t have to worry about food and clothing, why should you cheapen others when you have such good things?”
Fortunately it wasn't sold.
Several geoducks were cut open, and each dug out a round white pearl, which was as big as a thumb. It had not been processed yet, but the quality looked better than the seawater pearls Xu Suizhu bought for five figures in his previous life.
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The aunt and nephew looked at each other.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Xu Xiuyuan swallowed deeply and pinched her arm flesh in disbelief: "Susui, am I right? Did you really dig out pearls?"
Xu Suizhu nodded: "Girl, why don't you pry open the conches and shells, maybe there are some inside."
"How is this possible!" Xu Xiuyuan denied it. How can pearls be produced in a swarm? Do you really think that this luck was borrowed from God?
"Let's dig it open and take a look, just in case there is any." Xu Suizhu took the small shovel in her aunt's hand and pried off all the large shells and conchs that might produce pearls.
Xu Xiuyuan felt very sad to see it: "I could have kept it for a few more days, but now it was all cut open. How did you get so much meat!"
"It's okay, don't waste it. Leave part of the snail meat to eat fresh, and the rest to make sauce. You can keep it for a long time. You can also steam vermicelli with scallop meat and dry it in the sun. Scallops are a hot commodity. Isn't this what you often say?
?”
That's what I say, but ordinary sun-dried shell meat is basically picked up from the sea. Where can I find such a big one? This one can take up several of the usual ones, right?
Xu Xiuyuan's heart was still throbbing with pain. She watched helplessly as her niece picked up and dropped the knife quickly, clutching her chest and unable to say anything.
"Whether it's big or small, isn't it all for food?" Xu Suizhu comforted her aunt while digging.
This dig revealed a big surprise: six pearls were dug out from three large conches, four white and two pink.
I don’t know how many years the two pink ones have grown, but they are actually bigger than a five-cent coin.
The white pearl is about the size of a nickel, but it is rounder and more translucent than any ocean pearl Xu Suizhu has ever seen before.
The large shells were even more productive, and a total of eleven were dug out. Except for one shell that only gave birth to one pearl, the others were all double pearls.
The size is slightly smaller than the conch pearl, between two cents and five cents. The color tends to be white, but if you look closely, it looks like a light pink.
After washing away the dirt and looking at the bright light, it seems to be exuding holy fluorescence.