1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 68 Xishi Tongue

Liang Ziqiang carried the bucket, and the three of them continued walking along the beach.

Da Huang was acting sneakily at this moment. He approached the bucket in his hand and looked inside with his head tilted.

Liang Ziqiang discovered that when they were discussing the clam, Dahuang was fluttering around nearby, with his curiosity about the clam written all over his face.

Now he was actually moving towards the barrel. Liang Ziqiang was a little scared and waved his hand to blast him:

"Don't bite this. If you bite it to pieces, you won't be able to pay for it even if you sell your body!"

Chen Xiangbei on the side didn't want to hear this anymore, so she spoke up for Da Huang:
"Don't underestimate Da Huang. He's very sensible, he just looked around out of curiosity. Just let him take a look, it won't hurt anything."

It seemed to be true as she said. Da Huang took a closer look and then lost interest. He ran away with an expression that said it was nothing special and even dogs were too lazy to look at it.

The three of them walked along, looking around the beach and shallow water to see if there was anything they could dig or pick up.

After walking a few steps, Liang Ziqiang squatted down, pointed at the small round hole in the sand and said:

"Bring the rake."

Liang Lizhi quickly handed the rake in her hand to her second brother. She asked happily:
"Is it the same clams as last time? Will we dig up a large bunch again?"

Liang Ziqiang shook his head and said:
"We don't know how many we have dug out yet, but this kind of hole is different from that of clams. It is definitely not a clam. I think it may be a clam."

As he spoke, he used the rake to dig deep into the sand, and then raked a complete path in the sand as if he was turning the soil.

The sand was rolled up by the rake, but immediately leaked out through the gaps between the rake teeth. In the end, all that was left on the rake was a clam of medium size.

Liang Ziqiang swung the clam shell in the shallow water beside him. When he looked at it again, he found that the shell of the clam was smooth with delicate lines. The entire shell was in the shape of a folded fan and had a very beautiful shape.

"It's really Xi Shi's tongue!" Liang Ziqiang said.

"Are you talking about the legendary beauty Xi Shi? Why is it called Xi Shi She? Is there any connection with Xi Shi?"

When Chen Xiangbei heard the name, she became curious and couldn't help asking.

Liang Ziqiang happened to pick up another one. The shell of this one was not completely closed, and half of the white and translucent shellfish meat was exposed, the color was as transparent as jade.

He pointed and told her:
"See? The exposed flesh looks like a human sticking out his tongue. As for why it is related to Xi Shi, it is because of a legend left by our ancestors."

"What legend?" Lizhi asked anxiously before Chen Xiangbei could say anything.

"Want to hear?"

Seeing that Lizhi was in high spirits and Chen Xiangbei also seemed a little interested, Liang Ziqiang sorted out the story in his memory and began to talk:
"In ancient times, didn't Xi Shi help one king to destroy another? After the beauty trap was successful, she had nothing else to do, so she traveled around like a fairy.

One day, I came to the beach of the South China Sea and was stunned by the beautiful scenery. I was about to stick out my tongue to praise it, but I accidentally opened my mouth and dropped half of my tongue onto the beach.

But think about it, this tongue belongs to the concubine after all, right? After a while, the tongue came back to life and turned into this beautiful seashell. Of course, the fishermen called it Xishi Tongue! "

Although Liang Ziqiang could read and write, he was not well educated after all. He could not talk about King Goujian of Yue and King Fuchai of Wu in such depth and detail, so he just gave a vague account of the story.

Although it was simplified, the taste remained the same after he said that. Anyway, Lizhi's ears perked up when he heard it.

Chen Xiangbei smiled and said, "You fishermen are quite interesting. You can make up strange stories about these little creatures in the sea."

"That's right! There are many different versions of this Xishi tongue, and one of them is even scary!"

When Lizhi heard her second brother say that there was a horror version, she immediately pestered him and asked him to tell the story again.

Liang Ziqiang briefly told another version, which is actually the more popular version among fishermen:
"Didn't it say that Xi Shi helped one king to destroy another king? The king who won also favored Xi Shi. But his wife, the queen, refused to accept it, so she sent someone to trick Xi Shi out, tied her to a rock, and sank her to the bottom of the sea. After Xi Shi died, she must have felt wronged. She turned into a clam that looks like a human tongue, and waited in the muddy sand by the sea, waiting for someone to find her, then stick out her tongue and tell of her grievances."

Lizhi was a little unhappy after hearing this, Nana said:

“I still like the previous story!”

Chen Xiangbei came to a completely different conclusion:
"It seems that you fishermen are usually bored sitting on the boat while fishing at sea, so you just make up so many stories."

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and found that his wife was very sharp in her views on things. He agreed with this point. Isn't it boring for fishermen to stay on the boat when they go out to sea? If they don't make up some strange legends, won't the people on the boat have nothing to say?

Although he was talking about the stories of Xishi tongue from time to time, his hands did not stop. In just a short while, he dug out more than a dozen Xishi tongues from the sand.

It looks like, just like last time when I shaved clams, I might be able to dig out a lot of them.

"Dig more, I'll use it to make lunch when I get home, and use it to make soup. It will be so delicious!" Liang Ziqiang picked up two more and had already arranged their destination in his mouth.

"Aren't you going to sell it for money?" Chen Xiangbei asked.

"Well, this thing is just like clams, it can't be sold at a high price, only a few bucks per pound. But if you eat it yourself, the meat is quite sweet and tender, and it is even more delicious when made into soup. Unless you have too much to eat, you will definitely take it home, and you will make a profit if you eat it!"

"Then dig more!" Chen Xiangbei became greedy after hearing what he said, and also swung the shovel vigorously to shovel the sand.

Litchi didn't want to stand by and watch, so he used a chisel to scratch the sand a few times, and occasionally he could dig out one.

All three of them were busy. No, that's not right. All four of them were busy.

Liang Ziqiang suddenly turned his head and saw what Dahuang had done, and his expression became strange.

The silly dog ​​didn't want to be lonely, so he dug with his claws and dug out a small pile of sand.

The movements were exactly the same as theirs, just like an imitation show.

"What the hell are you doing? You've been digging for so long but you haven't even seen a single clam!"

Liang Ziqiang looked at the empty sand pit dug out by Dahuang and couldn't help but complain.

Dahuang himself seemed to be losing interest and stopped playing. He turned around and ran ahead.

The three of them continued to dig up a pile of sea cucumbers and were about to get up to pick up some snails, crabs, etc.

"Wang! Wang Wang!"

Suddenly, Dahuang's excited cry came from afar.

"What happened to Da Huang?"

Chen Xiangbei looked over in confusion.

Da Huang was standing by a reef in the distance and calling out, but there was no one or anything nearby. Could it be that there was something on the reef?
Liang Ziqiang and the other two stood up and planned to go over and take a look.

Over there, Da Huang seemed to be impatient and used his mouth to bite something in the shallow water. It seemed that he couldn't bite it, so he used his head to push it.

After a few moves, a round figure was pushed onto the beach by him, and then slowly pushed towards Liang Ziqiang.

Da Huang pushed closer and closer, and Liang Ziqiang and the other two also got closer and closer.

When Liang Ziqiang saw clearly what Dahuang was pushing over, he was so happy that he didn't know what to say!
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