Before Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, Ye Yaodong had already recognized what was growing on the boat with his sharp eyes.
“Oh my god, these are the tentacles of Chicken of the Sea… Shit, I almost didn’t recognize them,” Ye Yaodong suddenly said happily.
"It has tentacles everywhere, covering all kinds of secrets on the boat. It's so creepy to watch, I almost got scared to death, luckily I didn't turn around and run away."
Father Ye was stunned for a moment when he heard his excited voice, but then he remembered the chicken feet of sea that he mentioned two years ago, and his eyes widened.
"Is this the valuable thing you dug up two years ago?"
"Yes, these are the feet of sea chickens. The ones that have been moving around are its tentacles. They have all crawled out, and many of them have covered the shells. From a distance, you can only see these wriggling tentacles. They look as dense and scary as earthworms. There are also some shells that are not outside, and you can still see them clearly. That should be it..."
Just like clams kept in salt water, which will stretch out their long tentacles, or like cat's eye snails, when they are just dug out from a small hole under the beach, a large area of their soft flesh is exposed, but when someone touches it, it all retracts.
When Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, he heard them excitedly talking about chicken feet of sea cucumber and felt a little confused.
As he got closer, he could see more clearly the things stuck to the boat. They were pink-brown in color and kept wriggling like giant worms, which was even more frightening to look at.
They are actually excited about such disgusting things
"What are sea chicken feet? Hey~ the wriggling strips of meat underneath, some of which have white shells on them, look like barnacles? Could they really be the tentacles of the barnacles that A-dong mentioned before? When they usually grow on rocks, I don't see them stretching out their tentacles..."
"They usually grow on rocks, and we can only see them after the tide goes out. There is no sea water and it is dry. How can they extend their tentacles? Even after they die, their tentacles may not be exposed." Ye Yaodong explained.
"Yes, yes, that's right. It's floating in the sea, surrounded by water, so its tentacles are sticking out. There are so many of them, no wonder it looks so scary, and they're moving."
"Give me the hook."
Father Ye took the hook from his hand, and when the boat floated over, he leaned over the edge of the boat, half of his body lying out, and stretched out his hand.
He held the hook and gently touched the constantly squirming strips of meat. As foreign objects invaded, the pieces of meat shrank back instantly.
After a short while, a small area beside the boat became empty, and only the white-gray shell was visible.
"It really looks exactly like the thing called sea chicken feet that you dug up two years ago."
Ye Yaosheng was puzzled. Isn't this a barnacle? Why do they call it chicken feet of the sea
He had doubts in his mind and asked them out loud at the same time.
Ye Yaodong explained: "This is not an ordinary barnacle, it is called gooseneck barnacle, it can also be called seafood from hell, also called sea chicken feet."
"It doesn't grow on ordinary rocks. It only lives in the crevices of island reefs where the ocean currents are more frequent. As for this boat, I don't know if it was knocked off the shore by the waves and has been drifting on the sea, or if the people on it had an accident."
Ye Yaosheng nodded, not quite understanding.
He still didn't quite understand. Barnacles are barnacles, so why are they gooseneck barnacles
Is there a big difference? They are both worthless things, is there any need to be happy
Although he was puzzled, he didn't say it out loud. After all, it was a free thing, so he might as well give it up. Maybe the boat could still be used.
Father Ye touched it a few times tentatively and saw that the gray-white shell on the boat was exposed. After confirming that it was correct, he used a hook to hook the small wooden boat to the side of their boat.
After the two boats, one big and one small, collided with each other, the tentacles on the small wooden boat were all frightened and retracted, and suddenly they didn't look so disgusting anymore.
However, the chicken of the sea feet still grow very densely on the hull, and people with trypophobia will still get goose bumps when looking at them.
Originally, when looking from a distance, it seemed that the whole boat was filled with small earthworms that looked like strips of meat. Now that they have shrunk back, they are not so densely packed inside the boat. They are just growing sporadically, most of them are distributed on the edge and bottom of the boat. There are not only chicken of sea feet, but also other barnacles and shells.
Ye Yaosheng saw it and said, "It doesn't look so disgusting now. It looks much more normal. Before, when I saw it from a distance, I thought it was some bugs crawling all over the boat."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "It's much better to the eye."
"Don't talk for now, let's lift the boat onto the deck together. We have to collect the nets later and there is still a lot of work to do. We don't have time to waste here."
Father Ye threw the hook onto the boat casually, then leaned over and grabbed the side of the boat, calling on them to help.
Fortunately, this small wooden boat is not big, only about two or three meters, and three people can pull it up together.
They lay on the edge of the boat together, and they could reach the objects by bending over. They did not need any other tools, and they worked together to lift up one side of the boat.
"Hey, use some strength... Be careful not to get your hands cut by those shelled ones..."
"Pull it up, pull it up..."
"Almost...Almost...Please try harder..."
The three men put the small boat close to their big boat, grabbed the edge of the small boat, and pulled one end of the small wooden boat onto the edge of the boat little by little along the hull.
Once the bow was pulled up, the effort behind was saved. With a little effort, the entire small wooden boat fell onto the deck, and some of the barnacles on it were knocked off and scattered everywhere.
Ye Yaodong patted the water stains on his body, squatted down and took a closer look at the boat.
"It's quite long. I don't know how long it has been floating on the sea?"
The bottom of the boat was densely covered with barnacles and juvenile clams, the sides of the boat were covered with chicken of the sea, and there were some scattered water spinach growing inside, probably because there was less seawater washing inside.
I don't know if this boat can still be used after all these things are pried off? If it can still be used, I can give it to Brother Asheng to use as a transition.
Father Ye also said: "I don't know if it can still be used. It would be a pity if it can't be used."
"You go and start the boat first, I'll take a look."
Father Ye looked at it reluctantly, and Ye Yaosheng said, "I'll go open it, you guys study it."
"We've changed the location. You don't know which area the network is in. You have to let my dad open it."
Father Ye looked at it a few more times before walking towards the bow. Business was more important. Dongzi would know it later when he finished studying it.
Ye Yaodong looked around the boat, thinking of picking at the wood to see if it was rotten, but there was no place on the edge where he could start, so he had to reach towards the inside of the boat.
I wanted to find a gap that was not occupied by barnacle juveniles, but I found that there were many small holes in the places that were not occupied by barnacles
I didn't look at it carefully just now, my attention was on the feet of the sea chicken, and I was estimating how many pounds I could dig out.
He closed his eyes and leaned over to look into the hole, but saw nothing. He stretched out his index finger again, wanting to poke the hole, but his index finger just poked into the hole.
I don’t know if it was because his index finger was too thick and the hole couldn’t accommodate it, so some small wood chips fell easily from the edge
He picked at the edge and ended up picking off another small piece
"Is this wood? It's obviously tofu dregs! It's so easy to buckle, but the wood is rotten..."
Ye Yaosheng listened to his complaints and smiled, "Maybe it has been drifting on the sea for too long, the wood has rotted a bit, so it didn't fall apart. Maybe it's because there are shells crawling on the bottom. I guess if it grows a little longer and the bottom of the boat becomes heavier, and no one finds it, maybe the waves are bigger, and it will fall apart after a few hits."
Ye Yaodong was also muttering in his heart, fortunately no one had just told him that if the boat could be used, he would be given it, otherwise he would have been disappointed.
"I don't know if there are shipworms in these holes, but they look like holes made by shipworms."
Ye Yaosheng thought about it and said in surprise: "Just now we saw a lot of meat strips on the boat that looked like earthworms. Could some of them be shipworms?"
"That's impossible. Shipworms usually don't show their heads. Those are just tentacles extending from the legs of sea chicken."
"Oh, then we have to wait until we return to tow the boat to the shore, split it open, and take out the maggots inside..."
Ye Yaodong looked at him in surprise, "You still want to catch him? What do you want to do?"
“Eat!”
Listening to Ye Yaosheng saying "eat" as a matter of course... Ye Yaodong felt his scalp tingling. Is it so heavy
Do you want to eat shipworms too
Although the shipworm is more pleasantly called the shipshell, they call it shipworm in their local dialect.
It's maggots...
Ye Yaodong immediately thought of the dry toilet, and the visual stimulation of the wriggling movement lingered in his mind...
He shuddered instantly; it was too strong.
Although he knows that this thing is delicious to some people, and that many people eat it, especially in Southeast Asian countries, where they specialize in eating shipworms, he doesn't eat it, and he absolutely won't eat it!
I usually don’t see anyone around me eating this kind of thing, I didn’t expect Brother A Sheng to have such a strong taste!
Shipworms are terrorists in the ocean and should not be listed as seafood, even though they have managed to evolve a dangerous appearance. The rings of life are outlined on their backs, and the mucus of their soft bodies is like will-o'-the-wisp in the wilderness.
All clues point to the fact that the meat is inedible, but the arrogant cavalry will not let go of any weak prey, as there will always be someone who can see the deliciousness in it.
But he is definitely not in there!
He is also a picky eater...
Although sandworms look very similar to this thing, they are not called maggots...
They also live under the beach, so they have no psychological burden when eating it, they just think it is delicious.
"If you want to eat them, wait until we get to the shore and I'll pry off all the shells on top. Then I'll give you the boat and you can take it back and crack them."
Ye Yaosheng laughed, knowing that he was disgusted by the shipworms. Most people would not eat them, but when they were young, their living conditions were poor, so they ate whatever was available, including any insects.
"Okay, when we get back, chop it for yourself. It's more fun to chop it and catch it yourself. When we were kids, we would rush to pick up the wood floating on the sea."
The corners of Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched.
I guess what he said is more interesting. It may be similar to eating crayfish without peeling the shrimp, eating melon seeds without cracking them, lacking fun. Eating shipworms should be the same. You have to open the wood yourself, so that it is more enjoyable to eat...
Evil~can’t think, can’t think…