Before Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, Ye Yaodong had already recognized the things growing on the boat with his sharp eyes.
"Oh, my mother, these are the tentacles of the sea chicken's feet... Damn it, I was almost blind and didn't recognize it," Ye Yaodong suddenly said with joy.
"The tentacles of this monster are spreading wildly, and the secrets covering the boat are numb. It is so disturbing that you can only see it. I almost didn't scare to death. Fortunately, I didn't turn around and run away."
Father Ye was stunned for a moment when he heard his excited voice. Then he remembered the chicken feet he had mentioned the year before, and his eyes widened.
"Is this the valuable thing you dug up the year before last?"
"Yes, these are the legs of the chicken of the sea. The ones that have been moving around are its tentacles. They have all crawled out, and many of them are covered with the shell. From a distance, you can only see these wriggling tentacles, which look like earthworms.
It’s so dense and scary. Well, there are some shells that are not outside, and you can still see them clearly, so that’s probably it…”
Just like a clam raised in salt water, it will stretch out its tentacles, or like a cat's eye snail, when it is dug out from a small hole under the beach, a large piece of its soft flesh is exposed.
Outside, when someone touches it, they all shrink back.
When Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, he heard them talking excitedly about sea chicken feet and was a little confused.
As he got closer, he could see these things clinging to the boat more clearly. They were pink-brown in color, and they were squirming like big worms, which made people even more panicked.
How could they be excited about such a disgusting thing?
"Sea chicken feet... what are they? Hey~ The squirming meat strips below, some with white shells on them, look like barnacles? Could they really be the tentacles of barnacles that A Dong mentioned before?
Right? When it usually grows on rocks, I don’t see it extending its tentacles..."
"They usually grow on rocks. We only see them after the tide goes out. There is no sea water and it is dry. How can they extend their tentacles? Even if they die, they may not be exposed." Ye Yaodong explained.
"Yes, yes, yes, this is floating in the sea, surrounded by water, so the tentacles are stretched out. There are so many densely packed ones, no wonder they look so scary and they can move."
"Give me the hook."
Father Ye took the hook in his hand, and when the boat floated over, he leaned over the edge of the boat, with half of his body lying out, and stretched out his hand.
He took the hook and gently touched the squirming meat strips. If a foreign object invaded, the meat would shrink 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's feet that you dug up the year before last."
Ye Yaosheng was confused. Isn't this just a barnacle? Why do they call it chicken feet?
There were doubts in his heart, and he asked at the same time.
Ye Yaodong explained: "This is not an ordinary barnacle. It is called a gooseneck barnacle. It can also be called seafood from hell. It is also called chicken feet of the sea."
"It doesn't grow on ordinary rocks. It only lives in the crevices of islands and reefs where ocean currents exchange more frequently. 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 it was someone on top.
There was an accident.”
Ye Yaosheng nodded in understanding.
He still doesn't quite understand. Barnacles are just barnacles, so why are there gooseneck barnacles?
Is there a big difference? They are both not very valuable things. Is it necessary to be happy?
But although he was puzzled, he didn't say it out loud. Anyway, it was a free thing. If you don't want it for free, maybe the boat can still be used.
Father Ye touched it tentatively a few times and saw that the gray-white shell of 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 ship.
After the two boats, one large and one small, collided together, all the tentacles on the small wooden boat were frightened and retracted. Instantly, they no longer looked so disgusting.
However, the chicken feet still grow very densely on the hull. People with trypophobia will still get goosebumps when they look at them.
Looking at it from a distance, it felt like the whole boat was filled with small earthworms that looked like strips of flesh. Now that they were retracted, the inside of the boat was no longer so dense. There were only scattered growths, most of which were distributed on the edge and bottom of the boat.
, and there are not only kelp 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 looked at it from a distance, I thought it was some kind of bugs crawling all over the boat."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "It's much more pleasing to the eye."
"Don't worry about talking for now. Let's lift the boat onto the deck together. We will collect the nets later. We have other things to do, so we don't have time to delay here."
Father Ye threw the hook onto the boat casually, then leaned over and grabbed the side of the boat, calling 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 down on the edge of the boat together and could reach it by bending down. They did not need to use other tools. They worked together and lifted one side of the boat.
"Hey, try harder...be careful not to get cut by those shelled ones..."
"Pull up, pull up..."
"It's almost... it's almost... just use a little more force..."
The three people held the small boat close to their big ship, grabbed the edge of the small wooden boat, and pulled one end of the small wooden boat up the edge along the hull bit by bit.
The bow of the boat was pulled up, which saved the effort at the back. With a little force, the entire wooden boat hit the deck, and some of the barnacles on it fell 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 is densely covered with barnacles and spat, the sides of the boat are covered with kelp feet, and there are some scattered mussels growing inside, maybe because there is less water washing inside.
I don’t know if the boat can still be used after all these things are pried off. If it is still barely usable, it can be used by Brother Aseng to make 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 ahead and sail the boat first, and I'll take a look."
Father Ye looked at it with some reluctance, and Ye Yaosheng answered, "I'll drive it, and you guys can study it."
"The place has been changed. You don't know which area the net is in. You have to let my father drive it."
Father Ye took a few more glances before walking to the bow of the ship. Business was important. Dongzi would study it later and he would naturally know.
Ye Yaodong looked around the boat, wanting to dig at the wood to see if it was rotten, but there was no place for him to attack on the edge, so he had to extend his claws to the inside of the boat.
I wanted to find a gap that was not occupied by barnacle spats, but I found that there were many small holes in some places that were not occupied by barnacles?
I didn't look carefully just now, my attention was all on the feet of the sea chickens, and I estimated how many kilograms I could dig out.
He closed his eyes and leaned over to look inside the hole, but saw nothing. He extended his index finger again, wanting to poke the hole, but he just poked it.
I wonder if his index finger is too thick and the hole cannot accommodate it, so a small piece of wood fell out easily from the edge?
He picked at the edge and pulled out a small piece?
"Is this wood? This is obviously tofu! It's so easy to buckle, and the wood is rotten..."
Ye Yaosheng listened to his complaints and smiled, "Maybe it has been floating on the sea for too long, and the wood is a bit rotten. If it is not falling apart, maybe it is because there are shells crawling underneath. It may be longer and the weight of the bottom of the boat will be heavier.
If it is not discovered again, the waves will probably be a little bigger, and it will probably fall apart after a few hits."
Ye Yaodong also murmured in his heart. Fortunately, he didn't just say that if the boat could be used, he would use it, otherwise he would have been disappointed.
"I don't know if there are shipworms growing in each of these holes. It looks like holes dug by shipworms."
Ye Yaosheng thought about it and said in surprise: "Just now we saw densely packed meat strips on the boat that looked like earthworms. Could some of them be shipworms?"
"It shouldn't be possible. Shipworms generally don't show their heads. Those are the tentacles extended from the feet of sea chickens."
"Oh, then we have to wait until we return, then drag the boat to the shore, split it open, and catch the shipworms inside..."
Ye Yaodong looked at him in surprise, "You want to arrest him? Why arrest him?"
"Eat!"
Listening to Ye Yaosheng talking about eating as a matter of course...Ye Yaodong felt his scalp numb. Is it such a heavy meal?
Want to eat shipworms too???
Although shipworms have a nicer name and are also called shipworms, they call them shipworms in their local dialect.
It's maggots...
Ye Yaodong directly thought of the aqua toilet, and the winding and squirming visual stimulation lingered in his mind...
He shuddered instantly because it tasted too strong.
Although he knows that this food is delicious to some people, and he also knows that many people eat it, especially in Southeast Asian countries, they also specialize in eating shipworms, but he doesn't eat it, and he definitely won't eat it!
I don’t usually see anyone around me eating this food, but I didn’t expect Ah Seng to be so heavy-handed!
Shipworm is a terrorist in the ocean and should not be classified as seafood. Even though it has worked hard to evolve a dangerous appearance, the rings of life are outlined on its back, and the soft mucus is like a will-o'-the-wisp in the countryside.
All clues point to inedibility, but the arrogant cavalry will not let go of any weak prey, and there will always be someone who can discern the fatness within it.
But there is absolutely no him in it!
He is also a picky eater...
Although lugworms look very similar to this thing, they are not called maggots...
People also live under the beach, so there is no psychological burden at all when eating it, they just feel delicious.
"If you want to eat, wait until we reach the shore and I will pry off all the shells on top. Then I will give the boat to you and you can go back and split it open."
Ye Yaosheng chuckled, knowing that he was disgusted by shipworms. Most people really wouldn't eat them, but when they were young, their conditions were poor. They could eat whatever they had and could eat any bugs.
"Okay, I'll split it myself when I get back. It'll be more interesting to split it and catch it myself. When we were kids, we would rush to pick up the wood when we saw it floating on the sea."
Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched.
I guess what he said is a little more interesting. It may be similar to eating crayfish without picking up shrimps, and never eating melon seeds. It lacks fun. The same is true for eating shipworms. You have to open the wood by yourself, so eating it is exciting...
Evil~can't think about it, can't think about it...
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