Golden Fishing Village

The water quality of the seawater around Laolanggou is not very good. Although there is no pollution, there are too many aquatic algae here, which are messy. There are usually water blooms on the beach, and no one cleans them up, causing many water blooms to be washed up on the beach by the waves, making it look dirty.

But it is not difficult to find agar. Agar grows close to the water surface, at most one or two meters underwater, and will not grow very deep. They are brown-red or dark purple, about 20 to 30 centimeters in size, and the whole is flat and upright floating in the water. The seaweed has many feather-like branches, with branches opposite each other, spreading out.

Lu Wuyi squatted at the bow and looked down. After a while, he raised his head and swallowed his saliva and said, "Brother-in-law, I feel that the sea here is not right. My sixth sense tells me that there may be sea snakes under the water."

Ao Muyang said, "Don't worry, it's impossible. There are no wild sea snakes in our sea. Come on, change clothes and go into the water to pick agar."

Ao Xiaoniu took off his coat and big shorts, leaving only a pair of swimming trunks, and jumped into the water and started to get busy.

After Lu Wuyi changed into swimming trunks, he thought about it and still hesitated: "Brother-in-law, how about I meet you on the boat, and you go down and pick the agar and hand it to me! Oh my god!"

Ao Muyang kicked him up and kicked him into the water.

Lu Wuyi hurriedly climbed onto the boat, but when he saw Ao Muyang standing on the bow, he rolled his eyes and became honest. He knew that he couldn't climb up at this time, and wanted to wait until Ao Muyang went into the water before going back.

Ao Muyang waved to the general and the brothers of the Wolf family, pointed at Lu Wuyi and said, "Keep an eye on him, don't let him get on the boat."

After giving the instructions, he jumped into the water.

Lu Wuyi quickly pulled the side of the boat and stretched his head to the general and the other two and said, "Give me some face and let me get on. I've been very kind to you these past two days. You've eaten a lot of bones I gave you, right?"

The general and Wolf One and Wolf Two tilted their heads and looked at him, looking confused.

Lu Wuyi climbed up, and just as he was about to climb up, the three canine bullies pounced on him together. Lu Wuyi screamed and fell backwards into the water.

As soon as he stood firm, a black shadow appeared above his head, and Wolf Two attacked him with a black cloud!

"Brother-in-law, help!"

Ao Muyang ignored him and fished out the agar-agar on his own. He did not shovel out the agar-agar as a whole, but cut off its vines with a sharp fish-killing knife, so that the agar-agar could be restored to its original state next year.

Agar is slippery and cold to the touch. It is suitable for making sea jelly in summer, but Ao Muyang didn't find it in summer. This time, it was Fu Guozheng who found it. Yesterday, it rained and there was nothing to do. Several village cadres got together for dinner, and he told me about this place.

There are also crabs underwater. September is a good time to eat crabs, but the crabs here are small. The largest ones are as big as the mouth of a teacup, so they are not worth catching.

Lu Wuyi struggled to climb up the mudflat, and then he screamed again: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, come quickly..."

"What's wrong?" Ao Muyang was so angry, "Why are you so troublesome?"

"I don't want to, I'm trapped in quicksand, come and save me." Lu Wuyi screamed hoarsely.

Ao Muyang rolled his eyes and walked over and said, "Didn't I tell you to fish for agar in the water? Why are you crawling on the mudflat? Are you looking for death?"

"Save me first, hurry up, I dare not move." Lu Wuyi shouted in horror.

Wolf Two chased him onto the mudflat, and when he found that he was motionless, Wolf Two's front half of his body retracted backwards, and his limbs muscles tensed up. It seemed that he was going to play the wolf-shaped cannonball trick again, jumping up and hitting him.

This scared Lu Wuyi: "No, no, no, Meng Yi, you are my brother, don't do this...ah!"

Wolf Two still jumped up, and Lu Wuyi screamed.

In the end, Wolf Two did not hit him, because his limbs were stuck in the mud, and he did not jump far enough, but just jumped out of the mud.

After jumping out and landing, he looked down at the mud on the mudflat, and then he became interested and no longer cared about Lu Wuyi, but jumped on it by himself, like a little deer.

Lu Wuyi was desperate: "Damn it, how can it struggle out? Brother-in-law, pull me out quickly."

Ao Muyang stood at the edge of the mudflat and handed him his hand, pulling him out like pulling a carrot.

This time Lu Wuyi was obedient and followed him to collect agar.

After working for more than an hour, Ao Muyang felt that the harvest was enough, so he gave Lang Er a bath and took them back home.

There were a lot of agar on the sampan, which was estimated to be worth 1,800 yuan.

A boatload of agar was naturally unavoidable to the eyes and ears of the villagers.

As soon as the boat approached the small pier, someone immediately asked: "Village chief, where did you get this agar?"

"It's a vendor. Teacher Lu's brother knows a seafood vendor and asked him to buy some agar. The price is cheap. You should come and get some back." Ao Muyang smiled.

Lu Wuyi said sadly: "When I was in Jinling, I knew developers, IT bosses, and rich second-generations. What the hell are these seafood vendors?"

When villagers came to ask for it, he would just take some and give it to them.

The villagers who eat agar-agar make their own sea jelly instead of using it as a cold dish. Sea jelly made from agar-agar is very easy to make. Just put a small handful into a pressure cooker and add a little vinegar to make a pot of jelly.

Ao Muyang made such a pot of sea jelly when he went back. After the pressure cooker cooked it, he didn't clean up the sea jelly residue and simply left it in.

The residue that the pressure cooker couldn't cook is the fiber component of agar-agar, which can clean the intestines when eaten.

After cooling, a big lump of sea jelly appeared in the pot.

Ao Muyang dug out a large piece and chopped it into small pieces, then added chicken essence, light soy sauce, rice vinegar, chopped carrots, minced garlic, millet pepper, and paired it with chopped pickles and sesame oil to make this small cold dish.

He also made red sweet potato tips as a cold dish, blanch them in boiling water, and then mix them with chili oil, oyster sauce and balsamic vinegar. The steps are simple and the taste is delicious.

During lunch, Lu Wuyi wolfed down a bowl of sea jelly.

"Is it so delicious?" Ao Xiaoniu muttered.

Lu Wuyi squinted at him and said, "What do children know? You can make enough food and clothing by yourself. No, the fruits of your own labor are delicious!"

The sea jelly itself has no taste, it is cool and tender, and is crispier than jelly in the mouth. There is almost no need to chew. The sea jelly becomes sticky when you click it in your mouth.

While eating, Lu Wuyi's cell phone rang. He glanced at it and then at Ao Muyang, then put down the phone and ignored it as if he had made up his mind. Lu Zhizi asked, "Who's calling?"

"Cao Nuan, I guess you're here to ask me why I haven't called you back yet."

"Why didn't you answer his call?"

"Because I am no longer the Cao family soldier that they bullied whenever they wanted! Now, I have said goodbye to the past. The days when Cao Nuan and the others could do whatever they wanted to me are over!"