Chapter 640: Refused

However, he had heard that the taste of shipworms is similar to the taste of razor clams and squid tentacles, close to mussels, and contains the fish oil fragrance of steamed grouper. It is elastic and tender, and has a little fresh sweetness, and there is no evil residue that makes people uncomfortable.

But...

Hehe~ that hurdle in the heart is not easy to pass.

Ye Yaosheng also squatted down and learned from him to find a hole and pick it a few times, but only picked off a piece of wood chips, and didn't see the shadow of the shipworm.

He didn't know the value of sea chicken feet. Those with shells had no attraction to him, not as good as shipworms...

"Still have to wait until I go back, take an axe and split it. Picking like this, I can't pick it."

"Take advantage of the fact that we haven't reached the place yet, pry off the sea chicken feet in this circle first."

When he was picking the hole, Ye Yaodong had already reached out and broken off several.

Ye Yaosheng also knew that the sea chicken feet he mentioned referred to these barnacles on the edge and sides of the hull, "I'll go get two screwdrivers."

"In the toolbox in the cabin."

"I know."

Ye Yaodong also went to the side to get a bucket, ready to load it later.

According to his visual estimation, all of them were buckled down, and it is estimated that there was only one bucket not full, about ten jin or so.

Because there were empty shells on it, there would be more young shellfish and net-patterned barnacles growing at the bottom of the boat, and there were only a few inside the boat.

Manpower is not as good as tools. The reason why humans evolve into advanced animals is that they will use tools.

It is much more convenient to pry with a screwdriver, and it is much more efficient. The sound of Dongdong dong also came from the water bucket.

When Ye Fu drove the boat, in addition to taking care of the front, he would turn his head from time to time to watch them work, feeling a little itchy. The sea chicken feet mentioned by Dongzi before were very valuable and sold for a lot of money. I don't know how much can be dug down?

The whole month of last month had no income, and he had been lying at home. It had only cleared up recently. Fortunately, Dongzi earned a lot from selling dried fish before the New Year, and the business had been quite good recently, otherwise he would not be able to sit still for him.

The final payment for the boat is still 8000!

I don't know how much cash he has on hand. When he was worried about him at night and couldn't sleep a while ago, he secretly calculated it with his mother, and felt that he didn't owe much, so he felt relieved.

Thinking that there is still a year or two, if he doesn't mess around with other things, even if he can't make as much money as last year, he will definitely be able to pay it back. Today's sea chicken feet are an extra income subsidy.

Take time to talk to him, don't mess around anymore. He has earned enough now, and he can just catch fish and dry fish with peace of mind.

Ye Yaodong was prying with a screwdriver, but the boat was too rotten. He hadn't dug a few times, and the wood was dug down with the shells.

Just as he caught it in his hand, he saw the white figure wriggling in the hole.

There is a small shell at its tail, which is very inconspicuous. People who are particular about it have to spit it out when they suck it. Of course, eating it can also supplement calcium.

"There really are shipworms!"

He used a screwdriver to reach in, picked out the shipworm that was moving, hung it on the screwdriver, and handed it to Ye Yaosheng to see.

"Your dinner, side dish for wine! It's quite big. Do you want to take a raw suck? Original flavor, right?"

Ye Yaosheng widened his eyes, "Eat raw???"

"Can't seafood be eaten raw? Try it? Suck it in with a sip, I guarantee you will explode in your mouth!"

Ye Yaosheng looked at the shipworm that was about to reach his mouth, couldn't help but take a step back, his scalp numb. Even if he was heavy-tasting, he couldn't accept eating it raw...

And explode in the mouth, Dongzi is too scary!

This is not an oyster, and you swallow it in one bite...

"No, no... how can this be eaten raw? This has to be fried and eaten..."

"Why not? Otherwise, I will take it to fresh water and wash it for you? Don't you like to eat it?"

Eating raw is a tribute to the Creator, and cold mixing with water is a eulogy to nature!

"That has to be cooked! Throw it on the boat, wait until I go back and split it to dig."

Ye Yaosheng slapped his arm, and the shipworm hanging on the screwdriver fell directly on the boat, and he felt relieved.

How can this thing be eaten raw? It's a pity he can think of it.

Ye Yaodong laughed loudly.

"Why don't you eat one raw and show me?" Ye Yaosheng saw him laughing so wildly, so he picked up the shipworm that was drilling a hole on the boat and sent it to him.

Ye Yaodong looked at the shipworm that was about to reach his mouth, his pupils shrank, and he hurriedly covered his mouth in panic, and slapped his hand away.

"Do you have to be so disgusting?"

"Didn't you say eat raw?"

"Where? I am taking care of you. I don't eat this disgusting thing. Sea silkworm fried with leeks is much better than this."

"Each has its own taste."

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, it should be said that everyone's taste is different.

After the two scared each other, they both honestly dug, and no one dared to make any more moths, and that shipworm was still drilling holes in the wooden boat.

In the era when boats are still mainly made of wood, if small wooden boats are not maintained and cleaned regularly, they will leak, sink, and fall apart in a few years. The reason is basically because of this shipworm.

This boat must have been drifting on the sea for a long time. The boat was rotten, the bottom was full of various shells, and the inside was also occupied by shipworms.

However, he tended to think that this boat was stuck in a reef crevice, so it was never discovered. It had been raining for a while, the rain was heavy, and the water level rose, so it was washed out, so many sea chicken feet grew on it.

Those shipworms have existed on the earth for no less than the history of human civilization. Countless wooden ships have been ruined. Its gnawing has also caused many strange shipwrecks.

A long time ago, some people tried to apply asphalt and wax to the hull, as well as lead and tar, but for shipworms, they were all extra meals.

It was not until later people invented glass fiber reinforced plastic to wrap the bottom of the boat and the keel that the damage of shipworms to the boat was significantly slowed down.

Some people also painted a layer of red paint containing highly toxic substances cuprous oxide and mercuric oxide on the bottom of the boat, completely solving the problem of marine organisms parasitizing the hull.

But as time goes by, more and more marine parasitic organisms have gradually adapted to this toxicity and evolved corresponding resistance. Barnacles still need to be removed manually, but the young barnacles growing under the red paint cannot be eaten, because they have the poison of the paint.

And shipworms are even more immortal, they can't be killed, can't be removed, and can't be eaten, which makes people angry and greedy.

Iron ships are the health club for shipworms, not to mention wooden ships, which are simply their spa centers.

Shipworms can secrete an enzyme that can digest wood, and they cause serious damage to wooden piles and wooden ships.

Once the whole piece of wood or the whole boat and the whole wooden pile are occupied by them, it becomes their comfortable home and sweet cake, and the problems of eating and living are solved together.

This enzyme can slightly corrode metal, and some starving shipworms can even eat stones.

Eating stones and pulling sand, the style of returning to the basics, has provided necessary help to the human building materials market.

Common shipworms are 2-3 cm long, and the maggot kings under some big ships can develop to more than 1 meter.

It is unreasonable not to eat this thing openly, just because of its name~

Otherwise, we Chinese can eat it to the point of farming!

The two of them only dug sea chicken feet first, and other shellfish were not in a hurry.

Having work to do, they didn't feel how cold the sea breeze was, just that their ears were a little red from freezing, and everything else was fine.

However, Ye Yaosheng's hand holding the screwdriver was exposed, and it looked like he had chilblains. Each one was red and swollen, and it felt like it was as thick as a sausage.

Originally, when men do rough work, their finger joints are big, and his hands felt like gloves couldn't fit in.

"Do you wash your clothes yourself?"

Ye Yaosheng was stunned when he heard him ask about washing clothes, feeling a little inexplicable, "Yes, what's the matter?"

"Nothing, wait until the second uncle retires that marriage for you, I will lend you some money, you get a small wooden boat to catch fish?"

"Ah? No, no, don't lend it to me, I don't have urgent use, just work slowly and save money."

It's rare that he was merciful and wanted to help, but he actually refused?

Ye Yaosheng smiled and said: "I'm not poor enough to open the pot, and I don't have to borrow money. I don't have any urgent use, so why do you need to lend me money."

"Isn't this wanting to help you?"

"Don't listen to my dad, my dad is just a bit calculating, his heart is not bad..."

"Am I the kind of person who listens to your dad? Which relative doesn't feel that they need help? I just think you are not easy."

"It's okay, it's okay, hehe, with hands and feet, it's better than many people. Just earn money slowly. I owe people money, and I don't feel at ease in my heart."

Ye Yaodong really looked at him with admiration. Is it a good bamboo shoot from a bad bamboo?