59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

Chapter 390: Delicacy Ignored by Fishermen

The next morning after breakfast, Zhou Jing and his aunt responded to the call of the commune and went to work planting rice and taking the lead in farming.

Chen Jianjun, Chen Feng and others went to the beach to "fish for sea cucumbers".

Zhou Xiaoya came early, carrying a fishing rod and a small bucket.

Her younger brother Zhou Xiaosong also came, and she had originally planned to let her brother play with Chen Li.

As a result, Chen Li insisted on going to watch fishing.

Chen Feng was worried that if he left her at home, the two elderly people would not be able to look after her, which would be even more dangerous, so he took her along.

"Xiaoya, do you have a brother named Zhou Xiaofeng?"

Chen Hao’s question made Chen Feng a little bit unbelievable. Is this still his poor academic brother?

"Yes, my eldest brother is studying in the city."

When talking about Zhou Xiaofeng, Zhou Xiaoya felt very proud and talked a lot about her elder brother.

For example, if one is good at studying, he can skip three grades and go to technical secondary school at the age of fourteen.

Chen Jianjun asked in confusion: "Since your brother has good grades, why doesn't he go to high school and take the college entrance exam?"

He didn't believe that the old patriarch couldn't tell the difference between a technical secondary school and a university.

"Ah, isn't a technical secondary school better?" Zhou Xiaoya asked puzzledly.

"Uh." Chen Jianjun didn't know how to explain.

"Each has its own advantages." Chen Feng said with a smile.

Going to a technical secondary school is not a bad thing. If her brother goes to high school and then to college, it would basically be a waste.

It’s better to go to a technical secondary school now and start working early.

A technical secondary school degree is already very good, at least when you start working you will be treated as a quasi-cadre.

After walking for a few miles, we came to a beach area with a lot of seaweed growing on the coast.

"Cousin, there used to be sea cucumbers here, but there may not be any now." Zhou Dinghai walked into the water wearing straw sandals.

Everyone changed into straw sandals, except Chen Li and Zhou Xiaosong, who were not allowed to go into the water.

"Is God not giving me face this time?"

Chen Feng looked around and indeed did not find any sea cucumbers.

But his gaze soon rested on the bottom of the water.

Sea intestines!

Sea intestines are worthy of their name, they look like intestines and are disgusting.

Not only is this thing delicious, it's also rich in nutrients. It's as delicious as sea cucumbers, but it can grow in shallow waters, such as the shallow waters of the Bohai Sea.

"Dinghai, there are so many sea intestines, don't you like to eat them?"

He picked up a sea cucumber.

Zhou Dinghai and Zhou Fubao looked a little strange.

Zhou Fubo whispered, "Cousin, you can't eat this kind of thing."

Chen Feng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why?"

Zhou Dinghai said blankly: "Grandpa said that at most it can be used to feed chickens and ducks."

Chen Feng was also a little confused. Sea cucumbers are clearly naked sea cucumbers, which are rich in amino acids and collagen. They contain a variety of physiologically active substances such as anticoagulant peptides and plasmin in their bodies. They have high edible and medicinal value.

Why don’t the fishermen eat it?

He didn't know that sea cucumbers would be used in delicacies in the future.

Although sea intestines were discovered by fishermen early on, they have always refused to eat this disgusting-looking thing. Some superstitious old people even associate it with ghosts and dead people.

When material resources became abundant in the future and fishermen had plenty of condiments, they discovered the deliciousness of sea cucumbers.

"Can this thing be eaten?" Chen Jianjun also grabbed one and felt like throwing it away.

"They can't be eaten. They were washed up on the shore during the Qingming Festival last month, but no one picked them up." Zhou Dinghai shook his head and said, "Cousin, they really can't be eaten. My grandmother wouldn't let me feed them to the ducks. They insisted on eating small fish and shrimps, saying that they have foul smells."

Well, Chen Feng now understood a little bit why fishermen don’t eat sea intestines, and why these unfortunate things were washed to the seaside by the waves for a month without anyone catching them.

This thing does look a bit disgusting and can easily make people associate it with something ominous.

"This is good stuff!"

"Let's pick this up and take it back together!"

Zhou Dinghai, Zhou Fubo and Zhou Xiaoya didn’t quite understand, but since he said so, they just did it.

At worst, I can just feed it to pigs.

There are a lot of sea intestines in this area, and because there are no fishermen to pick them up, they all become cheap to them.

Soon the wooden barrels brought by several people were filled with this stuff.

Chen Li and Zhou Xiaosong sat on the shore, looking at the wooden barrel.

The two little guys had no taboos and were full of curiosity about this thing that looked like intestines. They touched it from time to time.

Zhou Xiaoya was a little scared, so she went ashore early when she had caught most of the fish.

For more than three hours, several people were looking for sea cucumbers on the mudflats.

By after 11 o'clock, the six wooden barrels were not full, but all the fish in the nearby one-meter-deep sea area had been caught clean, leaving only the deeper seaweed area to be searched.

However, the water was only 1 meter deep, so Zhou Dinghai and his team could not see clearly.

Only Chen Feng can see the sea cucumbers under the water.

"Let's go home and cook you something delicious."

Chen Feng gave up on the other sea cucumbers and prepared to wait for them to reproduce before coming back.

It's because fishermen don't eat this stuff now.

"Cousin, is this thing really edible?" Zhou Dinghai asked while holding a wooden barrel.

"It's edible, and very delicious!" Chen Feng said confidently.

Sea cucumber is an important ingredient in Shandong cuisine in later generations. There are many ways to cook it. "Leek Sea Cucumber" made with sea cucumber and first-cut leeks is a famous Jiaodong dish.

In addition, "dried sea intestine", "boiled sea intestine soup", "sea intestine with minced meat" and other dishes are all very local dishes.

Fresh sea intestines can also be used to make dumplings, steamed buns, etc. Especially "fried leek with sea intestines", leek seeds and sea intestines contain many trace elements such as VE needed by the human body.

"I always feel like I can't eat it." Zhou Fubo muttered, and then whispered, "Cousin, you make it, you eat it yourself, I won't eat it!"

"You said it!" Chen Hao said with a wicked smile, "Don't eat it when my elder brother is done."

Chen Feng took a look at the sea intestines in the fish bucket in his hand and thought about how to cook them.

Of course, there is no way to prepare sea intestines in Tan’s cuisine.

Fishermen don't eat it, and nobles don't eat it even more.

Fortunately, he had eaten sea cucumber in a restaurant before. With his current cooking skills, he could analyze the general cooking methods by thinking about the dishes he had eaten.

When we got back to my grandfather's house, the two old people looked at the six barrels of sea cucumbers and started to persuade us again.

After much persuasion, Chen Feng finally explained that this thing had nothing to do with the drowned fisherman, it was just a kind of seafood from the shallow sea area, which was not only delicious but also nutritious.

"Grandpa, I read this in a book. Don't worry, this thing is clean. Just like abalone and conch, it is edible."

Pick up the scissors and cut the sea cucumber.

I found that the mucus on it was difficult to clean, so I tried using wine, soy sauce, salt and vinegar to clean it. In the end, I found that vinegar + salt worked best.

"Xiao Feng, you use vinegar to wash?"

Chen Jianjun couldn't help but speak out.

This is too luxurious!

"There's nothing I can do, Dad. Water won't work. I can only use vinegar to wash off the slime, and then rinse with water."

Pour some vinegar into a basin, sprinkle some coarse salt on it, rub and stir it with your hands to wash away the impurities and mucus in the sea cucumber.

Then he threw it to Chen Hao, Zhou Fubo and a few others.

The four foodies immediately grabbed the sea cucumber.

Chen Li was the fastest and took the sea cucumber in her hand after washing off the mucus and impurities.

"The big pot can't be cleaned, and snot is coming out again."

Chen Feng put down the sea cucumber in his hand and looked at the little thing in Chen Li's hand. This thing secreted a little bit of mucus again.

“Is this thing so difficult?”