Prehistoric Asian beasts battle the ocean

It has been three and a half days since I came to the seaside. Except for one orc who kept pouring seawater to boil salt day and night, Hami and the others were like ants moving house, continuously transporting fish, shrimp, shellfish, kelp, etc. Next to the pottery vats of seafood, they are cooked one by one, and then the seafood is dried in the sun for dozens of miles around the cabin.

Since the fish picked up on the beach are all small fish, the meat of other shellfish and shrimps is not too much. Wanting to catch some heavy fish to dry in the sun and take them back, Fujiyan finally decided to go fishing in the sea with a fishing net.

There are too many seafood, and they are so busy that they don’t touch the ground. When they come to the beach, they don’t have a fixed time to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Anyway, the big ceramic tank keeps cooking seafood. Whoever is hungry will eat ready-made cooked seafood. That's it.

After Hami and Tengyan finished eating, they boarded the bamboo raft with Langmu. This time, the three of them were the first to try to catch a net, while Huyi and Chiguo's family stayed on the shore, one cooked salt and the other boiled seafood to dry.

They pushed the bamboo rafts into the sea, and then jumped on the bamboo rafts with fishing nets. There were more than a dozen backpacks stacked beside the bamboo rafts, ready to be used to hold the fish.

Hami took the penny on the boat, Tengyan observed the sea area for potential threats, and Langmu stood at the end of the bamboo raft, casting the net little by little, and finally tied two coffee bags on the fishing net as buoys. The dark red coffee The bag is very conspicuous on the surface of the sea. When the net is collected, the coffee bag net will follow.

Casting one net down, in order to catch more points with one net, Hami supported the bamboo raft and dragged the fishing net, chatting with Fujiyan Langmu, passing the boring time, until the bamboo raft drove slowly for two or three times. It took an hour to close the net.

The wolf eyes pulled the fishing net out of the water little by little. As soon as the fishing net was pulled out a little, various fishes were densely packed on the fishing net. The colorful scales shone brightly under the sun, dazzling people's eyes.

While pulling the wolf's eyes, the wolf picked the fish that were jumping around in the mesh, and threw them into the back basket. After a while, more than a dozen back baskets were full, and the bamboo raft was pressed to one side. The harvest of this net was not small. Conger eel, giant squid, mackerel, abalone, swordfish, scallop, sea cucumber, sea antler, conch, sea sausage, etc., and a lot of cuttlefish.

Hami's favorite food is the spicy cuttlefish. It tastes delicious, has a Q-bomb texture, and is hot and spicy.

The taste of sea sausage is also good, but most people don't eat it, because it looks like a long tube and round annelid. I was a little scared, but as long as I took a bite of the sea sausage fried with chili, the crisp and tender taste would never be forgotten.

Because there are too many seafood caught in this net, coupled with the waves rolling over the sea from time to time, the bamboo raft sways violently. Even a veteran punter like Hami is a little unsteady, and it is easy to fall into the sea. The key At this moment, Fujiyan flew into the air at a very high speed, and the tip of his tail rolled him between his wings.

Without the gravity of Tengyan and Hami, the draft of the bamboo raft suddenly became shallower, and gradually became more stable.

The wolf eyes put the fishing nets on the bamboo raft, then straightened the tilted back basket on the bamboo raft, picked up the fish that were jumping around on the bamboo raft and put them into the back basket, and some fish took the opportunity to roll off the bamboo raft and fall into the water. nautical mile.

Hami glanced at it regrettably, and then said to Langmu, "Langmu, I guess this bamboo raft can't support the weight of Tengyan and us, so, you support the bamboo raft for a while, and replace me when you get tired."

Although Langmu nodded, he didn't see him say he was tired after the bamboo raft traveled for a long time. During the period, Hami said several times to change him to support the bamboo raft, but he stopped him from going back.

Fujiyan, who had been silent all the time, said to Hami, "Let him go, he will support if he wants."

Hami touched his nose, "Don't you think he is too tired?"

Fujiyan shook his head, "He still has some physical strength." After a pause, he added, "Langmu is an orc with great pride."

Hami immediately understood what Tengyan meant. Just like what Tengyan said, although the wolf eye has no wings, his self-esteem does not allow him to sit on the body of another orc. If he does, then let him take the initiative. Admitting that you are weak.

Later, in order to respect the two orcs, until he returned to the beach, Hami didn't say anything about him coming to punting, but he was silently thinking in his heart, the next time he went fishing to change people, let Huyi follow them Come on, at least tiger wings can fly, so there is no such problem as facing wolf eyes.

When the bamboo raft returned to the beach, Chiguo and the little tiger head had been waiting on the shore for a long time. He took a basket of fresh fish from Hami's hand and said excitedly, "So many? What a bumper harvest!"

"Well, great harvest."

Hami replied with a smile.

Everyone was very excited, and put the baskets full of fish into the cabin, but unfortunately the cabin was too small and there was not enough space, so the orcs quickly built two more small cabins next to the original cabin. In addition to putting the dozen or so baskets of fish in the wooden house, it also took in the dried seafood that was drying on the beach.

Tired all day, the three of Hami didn't even want to move at this time.

Chiguo put the little tiger's head in Hami's arms, and consciously started busy cooking. The sky was getting late, and the wind and waves on the sea were getting bigger and bigger, and the thatch on the cabin would fly up.

Hami shoveled a basket of soil clods and pressed them on the thatch. The sea breeze blew his hair up, and the sparks in the fire were blown everywhere.

In order to prevent the fire, Hami took out the burning wood from the fire, moved it to the wooden house and lit a fire, then poured several pots of sea water on the other fires by the beach to extinguish them, and continued cooking when the wind stopped tomorrow. Salt.

For dinner, there was a big stew made of red fruit, and all kinds of seafood were washed and cooked together in a pottery pot.

After eating seafood for several days in a row, the pickled green onions he brought had already been eaten up, and Hami's mouth almost faded out. He really wants to eat some chili now.

It's a pity that he didn't even find the chili pepper now, and he was reluctant to spend his life to buy it, so he ate another big conch in disappointment.

After dinner, Hami took out some dried fruit and made everyone a cup of fruit tea. With the unique bamboo fragrance of the bamboo bowl, he took a sip and sighed in enjoyment.

Now that half a jar of salt has been boiled, Hami leans against the salt jar and sits at the door of the cabin covered with animal skins. The days he is living now are bitter and tiring, but he feels that he is rarely at ease.

***

At three or four o'clock in the morning of the next day, when the sky began to get dark, the sea breeze had stopped. Hami rubbed his eyes and breathed out. Although he was very sleepy, he couldn't sleep anymore. He still had a lot of work to do, especially yesterday. He needs to clean up the caught seafood, otherwise it will be spoiled.

Orcs always sleep lightly in the wild. Hearing the sound of Hami washing and walking, everyone opened their eyes at the same time. Maybe Chiguo, like Hami, was also thinking about the seafood caught yesterday, and she woke up very early today. .

Everyone looked at each other and smiled at each other.

Chiguo wrapped the sleeping little tiger's head in animal skin, put it on her back and tied it with an animal skin rope, and left him alone to sleep in the cabin. No one looked at her. Don't worry, besides, Little Tiger's sleeping posture is really bad, always rolling around, there is still a fire in this wooden house, and his son is being bald, so the little seal will look down on his stupid son even more, then But it's over.

Chiguo and Hami each carried a basket of sea fish to the beach, and dumped all the fish in the basket on the beach. After being out of the water overnight, the fish were already dead. Hami took the fish and began to disembowel and remove the scales. The bloody water was rinsed repeatedly in the sea water and put into the basket. After the fish in the basket was processed, the fish was placed flat on the banana leaves to dry after the basket was moved to the opposite side of the cabin where they slept.

Hami wiped off his sweat and looked at a large piece of fresh fish spread on the green banana leaves on the beach. , enough for a few of them to have a good snow season, at least three meals a day is no problem.

Hami looked at the remaining large squids in the basket, and now he couldn’t finish them. If they were to be dried in the sun, the squids were thicker and he didn’t want to dry them. He frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of shredded squids.

It would be great if these squids were all made into shredded squid, which can be stored well, and the shredded squid is super delicious, especially when dipped in spicy sauce, the mouth will secrete saliva when you think about it.

To make shredded squid, you must go through the baking process, and there is no oven here, so Hami decided to use soil to make a 'soil oven'.

Hami first wove a rectangular bamboo basket with bamboo strips, the bamboo basket was very deep, and then buried the bamboo basket upside down and deep in the beach, leaving a half-meter-high space between the inside of the bamboo basket and the beach ground as an 'oven' .

Then he started to use sea water, sand, small stones and mud, put some thatch in the mud to increase its toughness, and then spread the mud on the bamboo basket, and waited for it to dry naturally.

But I don't know if it's the sand on the seashore or something else. The mud and the bamboo don't adhere to each other, and a lot of the mud fell off after a while.

No way, Hami poured the mucus of the crying tree into the mud. With the addition of mucus, the mud did not fall from the bamboo basket.

When wiping the sand, he left one side of the bamboo basket unsmeared, and then used a bone knife to cut a hole in the firmly woven bamboo strips, leaving an arch for holding squid.

After the bamboo strips were cut off, the surrounding area of ​​the arch was quite sticky. Hami picked up some stones. He first placed the stones on both sides of the arch, one more stone on the left side than the right side, and then rubbed each other between the stones. Slime, continue with a stone on the left and a stone on the right until the two stones meet at the highest point of the arch. In addition to Hami's thick layer of slime between the stones, there is still a squeeze between the two stones. The force of the pressure is firmly stuck together, even if you let go of your hand, it will not fall down.

In this way, the bamboo arch is decorated with stones to become a stone arch, and the hands are stretched back and forth into the 'oven' without piercing the arms at all.

Due to the uneven size of the stones, there are many gaps between the stones. Hami inserted two bamboo tubes into the two relatively thick gaps as chimneys. The gaps between the arches are smeared with mud to prevent the heat from being exposed and to further fix the arches.

Such an earthen oven has been completed. Looking at this 'oven', everyone is looking forward to it.

In order to make the mud on the outside of the clay oven dry as soon as possible, Hami lit a fire inside the oven. It is not known whether the clay oven can withstand the test of fierce fire.

Half an hour later, most of the sand outside had dried up, but there were also a few small cracks. Hami felt that the fire was too fierce, and it was directly cracked.

He wiped the cracks with mud, and turned the inside of the oven to a low fire, so that no cracks appeared again.

Hami makes a longitudinal cut along the back of the squid along the direction of the cartilage, cuts open the back, removes the head, internal organs and cartilage, and removes some squid that are incomplete and traumatized by fishing nets or stones.

After tidying up, pass it to Chiguo. Chiguo peels the squid and washes it several times in sea water. Because the squid itself has a slight salty taste, Hami does not add salt. If it is light when eating, you can adjust the spicy sauce to dip it. eat.

Hami bought four charcoal baking pans with his life points in the space, and spent dozens of life points, which gave him heartache for a long time.

He spread the squid slices evenly on the baking tray. In order to prevent the squid from being burnt and burnt due to different sizes and thicknesses, Hami also divided the squid into categories according to size.

At this time, Fujiyan had already burned a large fire in the earthen oven. He pulled out the ashes and covered the arch with a wooden board to prevent the heat from escaping. After the ashes in the earthen oven fell to the ground, he put squid Put the four large baking trays into the earthen oven, and then seal the hole with mud.

After more than 20 minutes, Hami knocked off the mud from the arch of the soil oven. After dissipating the heat for a while, with a thick plantain leaf in his hand, he first took out a squid on a baking tray.

The shredded squid on the baking tray was light yellow and uniform in color. Hami touched the squid and it was a little hot. He touched it twice quickly and felt a little moist. The squid meat would not be very dry and hard. Then he I hammered it twice with the back of the bone knife. After the hammer softened, I tore it into strips by hand.

Hami picked up a piece of shredded squid and put it into his mouth. Well, the meat was loose, chewy, and delicious. Once he took it, his mouth was filled with the unique aroma of shredded squid.

He tore the squid on this grill into strips and distributed it to everyone, and everyone was full of praise.

The orcs even decided to go out to sea to fish now, and catch more squid when they come back, so that they can be made into squid ribbons and brought back to the cave to eat during the snow season.

"Ah, don't go fishing for now, there are already a lot of dried fish and all kinds of dried seafood. I guess our two bamboo rafts can't hold so much seafood." He said while feeding the little seal and the little tiger head to eat shredded squid.

While watching Chiguo feeding the two little guys, Hami involuntarily had the weird thought of 'Chiguo must be a good mother-in-law'. He subconsciously shook his head, trying to get this thought out of his mind.

"Then what should we do? We have to bring back the food that we have worked so hard to dry." Hu Yi became anxious when he heard this, and his voice was slightly raised.

Tengyan was silent for a while and said, "Huyi, you and Langmu, you two should transport the food back first, and then come back."

"I'll go back with Langmu, and Huyi will stay here." Hami raised his hand and suggested, "I'm good at punting, so I can go faster. Huyi and Langmu are both newbies to punting, so they can do it slowly. It’s too time-consuming to go back and forth.”

Just like when they first tried to support the bamboo raft, the bamboo raft kept spinning on the river surface. It was only after I taught them how to support the wormwood that they could prop up the bamboo raft.

"That's right." Langmu glanced at Tengyan, and continued, "Besides, we don't have much dry firewood, so we need to keep two orcs here, one to protect Chiguo and Xiaohutou to cook salt, and the other to protect Chiguo and Xiaohutou. Need to collect firewood."

Then he glanced at Hami again, and said frankly, "I don't have wings and I can't fly. In addition, the body of the beast is afraid of water. I might as well let the tiger wings go. If I encounter any fierce water Beast, at least at critical moments, Tiger Wings can bring you back safely."

Hami nodded, "You are right."

In the end, it was decided that Hami and Huyi would go back the same way and send back a batch of dried seafood first.

***

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Hami and Huyi had a quick meal, and loaded the seafood on the bamboo raft one by one. Soaked, Hami put a lot of banana leaves in the basket for dry seafood, and spread a lot of leaves on the bamboo raft.

Looking from a distance, it is lush green.

After Huyi jumped onto the bamboo raft, Hami was about to jump on it. Suddenly, he felt a tightness in his calf. Looking down, he saw the little seal holding his calf with two small fins, and then opened and closed its small mouth, chattering. talking about something.

Hami looked at it for a long time before he realized that the little guy wanted to go back to the cave with him. He asked, "We are going to a very far place, and it will take a day and a half at the most to get back. Your family can't see you. Will you be in a hurry?"

The little seal shook its head in a humane manner, and its two small fins hugged Hami's thigh even more tightly.

Hami reluctantly picked up the little guy, jumped on the bamboo raft and sat on the bamboo stool, put the little guy on his chest and smoothed it back and forth.

Anyway, there is a waterfall near the cave, so it should be fine for the little seal to stay there for a day or so. After all, he can't bring it back to the tribe, and seals can't leave the water for too long.

Hami waved to everyone, and the tiger wings supported the penny and lifted it up again, and the bamboo raft floated far away along the current.

Hami picked up a bundle of bamboo strips, tried to weave a straw hat, and made a straw hat to block the sun. The sun on the sea was too poisonous, and his exposed skin was covered with a layer of skin, which was burning and painful. Especially on the face, not to mention the collapse of the porcelain, two lumps of plateau red appeared on the cheeks.

Hami couldn't bear to have two red cheeks on his face, so he dug out a little lard and wiped it on his face, only to feel that his face was not so tight, but it felt greasy.

Hami weaves the bamboo strips into seven-strand braids, makes a spiral bottom by hand, then bends it into a head-sized arc and continues weaving, and then uses the method of pressing and picking one by one to weave a circle on the brim of the hat. A straw hat is It's done.

Since Hami hadn't learned how to make a straw hat before, he could only do it by himself. The brim of the round straw hat he made at this time was a bit crooked, but it was better than nothing.

He put this straw hat with a horrible shape on his head. Although it is not good-looking, it has the same function as it should have. It can not only shade the sun but also ventilate it, making it very cool.

The little seal stared at it, and the little fish fins were on the straw hat and said nothing to let Hami wear it. Hami touched its little head with a smile and asked, "Do you also want a straw hat like this?"

The little seal looked at the straw hat eagerly and nodded.

At this time, the bamboo raft has swum out of the sea and entered the fork of the river. From time to time, there are tall unknown grasses and colorful flowers growing on the emerald green river. Hami stretched out his hand to pull some off, and made a small flower pattern for the little seal with various flowers. , put it on its head, and after it took a good look at the water surface, Mei's little tail kept slapping the bamboo raft.

Hami thought, since the little seals all had straw hats, they would not be short of Huyi, so Hami made a straw hat for Huyi, and Huyi felt a lot cooler when he put on the straw hat.

After returning to the cave, the wooden lock at the entrance of the cave was intact, and the yard was the same as before they left. It seemed that no small animals had visited.

Hami opened the wooden lock with a bamboo stick, and then he and Huyi put the dried seafood into bamboo cabinets for storage, and then took the bitter mango chestnuts out of the jar, put them in a large ceramic jar, and soaked them in water. Soak for about seven days. Longer time is better to soak the chestnuts without hard core. During the soaking process, change the water from time to time, otherwise the water will become sour and the chestnuts will be broken.