People who live by the sea know the term 'gathering seafood'. It means that humans use the law of the ebb and flow of the tide to catch or collect seafood from the beaches and reefs on the coast at the time of the ebb and flow of the tide.
Gathering seafood can often get a lot of unexpected gains, especially when the tide has just receded. The effect of gathering seafood is the best, and you can often harvest satisfactory seafood.
Ang Lee has always lived in Chang 'an and rarely comes to the seaside. He has never gathered seafood before. This time, it is the first time for him to gather seafood. However, he has already prepared everything needed for gathering seafood. After all, many of his soldiers live by the sea. They know how to gather seafood and prepare all the equipment needed for Ang Lee to gather seafood.
Li An and Yun'er were both empty-handed. There were six guards behind them, each holding a bamboo basket in their hands. They followed closely behind.
"Alang, look, there are so many small crabs! So cute! "
Yun 'er walked to the seaside and said excitedly.
"Crabs are very delicious. Quickly catch these crabs and put them in the bamboo basket behind you."
Ang Lee said softly.
Hearing this, Yun 'er quickly reached out to catch the small crabs. However, the small crabs are not to be trifled with. Seeing Yun' er reach out to catch them, they quickly put up two big pincers and put on a posture of fighting to the death.
"Ah Lang, this little guy has a pair of pliers. Won't he break my hand?"
Yun 'er was shocked by the small crab's momentum and quickly retracted her hand.
"It's okay. Such a small crab doesn't have much strength. Try it."
Li An said with a smile. Then, he pinched a naughty little crab with his own hands.
With Ang Lee's skill, it is absolutely impossible for him to be pinched by the crab's pincers. He easily pinched the back of the crab, making the crab angry and helpless.
Seeing Ang Lee easily take down a small crab, Yun 'er felt that she can definitely do it, so she squatted down gently and reached out to catch the small crab.
However, Yun 'er's reaction is too slow. She was accidentally bitten by the small crab's big pincers. Although the small crab's pincers are not strong, it is still painful enough.
"Wuwuwu … Alang lied, it hurts."
Yun 'er said aggrievedly.
Ang Lee said with a smile, "You are stupid. Who can you blame? Squat down, Alang will teach you. "
Yun 'er and the beauty obediently squatted down and looked at the small crab in Ang Lee's hand..................
Li An faintly smiled and threw the small crabs in his hand to the ground. He then looked at the two and whispered, "Look carefully. See how Ah Lang catches the crabs."
After saying that, he stretched out his finger in front of the crab. When the crab stretched out its big pincers, Ang Lee quickly stretched out his other hand and firmly grabbed the back of the crab, and gently picked up the crab. The action was done in one breath, but the small crab was helpless.
"Alang is too smart. He actually used one finger to deceive the small crab. We learned it."
The beauty said happily, and Yun 'er also laughed. She felt that she was too stupid to think of this.
In fact, they can't be blamed. These two maids usually serve Ang Lee. They don't know much about strategies. Of course, they don't know the use of diversion.
According to Ang Lee's strategy, Yun 'er and the beauty caught the small crabs, and they caught a lot of them in a row. They all threw them into the small bamboo basket behind them.
In addition to crabs, there are many shellfish and fish between the coral and the reef. There are many kinds of fish and shellfish. Ang Lee can't name them.
According to different classifications, crabs are packed in one bamboo basket, fish take up three bamboo baskets, and shellfish take up two bamboo baskets.
In just half an hour, Ang Lee and the other two picked up enough seafood and returned with a happy mood.
After all, there is a time limit to the withdrawal. If the tide rises again, it will be life-threatening if they don't withdraw in time.
On the beach at a higher position, Ang Lee and everyone stopped to rest, and the beauty and Yun 'er who were tired for half an hour directly sat on the beach.
"Put down the bamboo baskets, you all leave."
Ang Lee looked at the six guards and let them leave for the time being.
The bodyguards don't need to be too close, as long as they are nearby. Moreover, there is no danger on this island for a long time, so there is no need to face a great enemy.
"Yun 'er, beauty, you are tired!"
Looking at the two people who sat on the beach without caring about their image, Ang Lee asked with a smile.
"Alang, we picked up six bamboo baskets, how can we not be tired? We are exhausted. "
Yun 'er said with grievance.
"Alang, we worked so hard, you have to reward us tonight!"
The beauty laughed.
Ang Lee was stunned, and a very dirty thought emerged from the bottom of his heart.
"You two little girls, don't worry, tonight, Alang will treat you well."
Ang Lee smiled evilly, and secretly gave the two a round of flirtatious looks.
"Alang is bad, he is talking about food. Today, we caught so much seafood, Alang can't finish it alone, we have to share some."
The beauty explained shyly.
"That's not difficult, you can eat with me, but Alang is in a good mood today, you can't avoid sleeping with him, you are not allowed to refuse."
Ang Lee said overbearingly.
"Yes, Alang, it is our blessing to be able to serve Alang."
Yun 'er and the beauty looked at each other and smiled.
Ang Lee picked up a bamboo basket full of shellfish and poured out all the shells inside.
"Alang, what are you doing! Why did you pour it all out? "
"Just admiring it, see what treasures you have picked up."
Ang Lee replied with a smile.
There were hundreds of thousands of shells in this bamboo basket, and there were no less than dozens of varieties. There were all kinds of strange shellfish, some of which Ang Lee could name, and some of which he couldn't name at all.
"Alang, they will escape, they have already begun to move."
Yun 'er reminded him when she saw many shellfish begin to escape.
"It's okay, shellfish run very slowly, they can't escape from our hands. Alang did this to make sure that the shellfish you picked up are alive, if dead shellfish can't be eaten, it will be poisoned."
Ang Lee picked up an oyster that was trying to escape and threw it into the bamboo basket, then continued to pick it up and throw it into the bamboo basket.
"Alang, what kind of shellfish is this? It's so big and looks so scary."
Yun 'er saw a big guy and didn't dare to reach out.
Ang Lee looked up and saw that it was a big geoduck, which was an excellent species of shellfish.
It was said that the geoduck was very nutritious and was rich in all kinds of nutrients that the human body needed. It was a very good delicacy. Of course, what made the geoduck famous was not its nutritious content, but its domineering appearance.
The geoduck looked like a man's big guy. It was said that when it was at its largest, the big guy could stretch more than one meter, which was very scary, but under normal circumstances, it was not so long. Moreover, after shrinking, it was not even half a meter long.
In ancient times, people thought that what they ate would be nourished. Walnuts were like the human brain, so people with poor brains liked to eat walnuts. The geoduck was like a man's big guy, so eating the geoduck was definitely very nutritious. Regardless of whether it was scientific or not, there would be ancient people who believed it.
However, in Ang Lee's impression, the geoduck was only produced in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. There was no geoduck in other places, but why was this guy found on an island in the south of Yazhou? Could it be that it existed here, but it became extinct because of climate change? Or maybe it was eaten up by people because it was very nutritious.
If it was eaten up, it would definitely be recorded in the ancient books. Obviously, there were no records of this in later generations. So, there was only one other situation left. This guy was originally very rare, but it became extinct because the climate was not suitable for it.
Of course, there was a greater possibility that someone caught this animal from the Pacific Northwest or Alaska, and then transported it here on a merchant ship. As a result, it was robbed by pirates. This guy was lucky enough to survive here, but because there were too few of them, ordinary people wouldn't be able to find them, let alone take them to heart. Perhaps in a few years, these lucky guys would become extinct here.
Ang Lee was very lucky to find such a delightful big guy here.
"Alang, I picked this up, but when I picked it up just now, it was not so big at all. Why did it suddenly become so big?"
Beauty looked at the squirming geoduck in confusion. She felt a little strange.
Ang Lee looked at the two of them slyly and whispered, "Look carefully. What does this guy look like?"
"What does it look like?"
Beauty and Yun 'er frowned and looked over.
At first, they were frowning, but when they saw this guy changing its size, they immediately blushed.
Obviously, they had thought of something, but they were too shy to say it.
"Do you know the answer? Tell me quickly."
Ang Lee asked eagerly.
"Alang is good or bad. How can I say that?"
"Alang …"
The two girls suddenly became shy.
"Why can't you say it? You are so strange."
Ang Lee pretended to be innocent and said, "Let me tell you! This guy is called geoduck because the thing it stretches out looks like the trunk of an elephant, so it is called this name. Don't you think so? "
After that, he looked at Yun 'er and Beauty with judgmental eyes.
Yun 'er and Beauty were stunned and secretly thought that Ang Lee was shameless.
"Alang, the trunk of an elephant can't change its size, but this shellfish can."
Beauty didn't care about the appearance, but the function of this guy. After all, this guy could change its size several times, but the trunk of an elephant couldn't.
Ang Lee nodded, looked at Beauty, and asked, "Then what do you think this guy is like? What else is like this shellfish that can change its size?"
Beauty leaned over to Ang Lee's ear and whispered, "Alang … Isn't that enough?"
"Hehe, Beauty is shameless, but Alang's is not that big."
Yun 'er heard the whispers and said mockingly.
Ang Lee looked at Yun 'er unhappily and said softly, "Who said that? How can this little geoduck be compared to Alang's? Tonight, I will let you see it. "
"Hehehe …"
The two girls laughed shyly.
Since ancient times, the words used to describe delicacies were exotic delicacies. Exotic delicacies referred to eight kinds of exotic delicacies, such as bear paw, deer antler, rhinoceros nose, camel hump, civet, leopard embryo, lion's milk, and monkey brain.
Seafood referred to eight kinds of exotic delicacies, namely shark fin, abalone, fish lip, skirt, dried scallop, fish crispy, and husky film.
Exotic delicacies represented the most delicious delicacies in the world. The island was not big, and there were almost no exotic delicacies, so there was only seafood. Among the shellfish picked up by Ang Lee and the other two, there really were eight kinds of exotic delicacies.
"Look, what is this?"
Ang Lee picked up an abalone and played with it in the palm of his hand.
"Alang, what is this called?"
Yun 'er asked.
"Uh, this is called abalone. It is a very delicious tonic. Eating it is very good for the body, especially for you women. Eating more water is good for the body."
Ang Lee introduced.
"Abalone, this is obviously a shellfish, how can it be called a fish?"
Yun 'er said.
"That's right, it doesn't look like a fish at all. Moreover, it looks really shameless, actually …"
The beauty looked quite shy.
Ang Lee smiled mischievously and said softly, "Alang thinks this abalone looks very good, much better than the two of you. Look, it is still moving around. Ouch, there is so much water! "
After the fingers were inserted, the abalone was probably not far from death, but before it died, it could secrete more mucus, making the fingers feel very smooth.
"Alang is so bad, this disgusting thing is not as good looking as us, humph."
Yun 'er and the beauty were a little angry.
Ang Lee smiled and said, "Good, good, good, you two are beautiful, you two are the most beautiful, okay? Tonight, let Alang appreciate it."
All the shellfish that escaped were thrown back into the bamboo basket, and those that had been motionless were all thrown on the beach, because these guys were dead shellfish, which were poisonous and absolutely could not be eaten.
After sorting out the shellfish, Ang Lee and his party returned to their residence and asked the kitchen to immediately make these caught seafood into a delicious meal.
The beauty and Yun 'er went to do their own things, and Ang Lee also had to deal with some affairs.
"How's the matter of the Huan Kingdom?"
Ang Lee asked his subordinate.
"Assistant Minister Li, the news has just been sent back from Zhancheng. The King of the Huan Kingdom has rejected our reasonable request and will continue to levy a 100% heavy tax on the merchants of the Tang Dynasty."
The subordinate reported truthfully.
Ang Lee was very unhappy when he heard this and said angrily, "The Huan Kingdom actually doesn't give us face. How dare they!"
"Assistant Minister Li, the official sent to negotiate only has two steam gunboats and more than 500 soldiers. He dares not to use force rashly, so he still needs to ask Assistant Minister Li."
The subordinate said.
"How far is Zhancheng from this island?"
Ang Lee asked.
"Assistant Minister Li, it's only a few hundred miles away. The warships of the Tang Dynasty can set off from here and arrive there in a short time."
The subordinate answered truthfully.
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