Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 174 174

Li Xiao's digging speed was 10 minutes faster, but he didn't dig directly on the raised bulge, but dug out a large circle of sand around the periphery.

Some unknown live broadcasts, the audience asked suspiciously.

"Why didn't the anchor dig directly on that sandbag? What's the matter with digging a circle with all his strength?"

"I suspect the anchor is thinking too much, probably thinking about the super big thing hidden underneath."

"Impossible, this is as big as two hands."

Although Li Xiao dug the sand with both hands, the screen of the phone was placed face up on the beach, looking at the questions on the bullet screen, he opened his mouth to explain.

"The reason why I want to dig such a circle around the bulge is because a lot of seafood left on the beach due to the tide still has the ability to escape. If you dig directly on the bulge or the hole, these seafood that can still move will die. Flee deeper into the sand."

"So when you encounter these bulges on the beach, the best way is to dig in from the outside. When the seafood notices, they have no way to escape from the sand."

Li Xiao grabbed the handle of the shovel with both hands and quickly dug out the sand. The circle of sand was completely dug up by it, leaving only a cone-shaped pile of sand in the middle of the bunker.

He glanced at the screen in the live broadcast room and made sure that he didn't block the camera before speaking.

"Okay, the last tense moment has come. We dug the sand for more than 5 minutes. Now let's see what kind of Pokémon we have harvested."

Hearing Li Xiao's words, everyone who had been drowsy finally cheered up.

Li Xiao quickly dug away the sand on the bulge layer by layer, and soon a round shell appeared in everyone's sight.

In fact, the moment the shell exposed the sand, he could tell what it was?
Cat's eye snail, a shellfish that is very common on the beach.

He smiled, and took this opal shell, which was only half the size of a palm, in his hand.

You just need to walk towards the sea and speak to the audience in the live broadcast room.

"Okay, the handicap is over, this time the answer is [D: Cat's eye snail]."

"Here, congratulations to those audiences who answered correctly, but those who got it wrong don't need to be discouraged."

"After the live broadcast in Hong Kong and sea this morning, I will make a lucky red envelope for all the proceeds. At that time, there will be as many red envelopes as there are viewers in the live broadcast room, so everyone can actively participate."

After the words fell, he directly ended this round of handicap.

The income is quite considerable, more than 2 cat claws, converted into more than 1 yuan in just a few minutes today.

Come to the water's edge and wash off all the sand on the cat's eye snail.

There is a big difference between cat's eye snails and other shellfish. Other shellfish like to curl up their bodies inside the shells, and only extend their fragile bodies outside the shells when they are on the road or hunting for food.

Unlike the cat's eye snail, it likes to directly expose most of its body tissues outside the shell.

However, this does not mean that cat's eye snails have more meat than other shellfish. The reason for this is mainly because the meat quality of cat's eye snails is special.

Its meat will be when there is more water, because the habit of this cat's eye snail is rather strange.

Compared with sea water, they prefer land that is alien to them.

Unlike other seafood that accidentally falls on the sand and rocky beaches, they stay on the beach on purpose and don't want to leave.

However, this special habit cannot make them ignore the gap between marine plants and land plants.

So whenever they are in the sea, their bodies try to absorb as much water as possible.

In this way, when they stay on the beach or rocky beach, there is enough water to cope with the evaporation after low tide.

Li Xiao wanted to lift the cleaned cat's eye snail to the front of the camera.

"Look, everyone, this is the first trophy we have harvested."

Many people in the live broadcast room gasped
"This conch the size of a fist has so much meat, it's amazing."

"The meat of this conch is bigger than its shell, how can it retract when it is in danger?"

"This meat is white, you can tell it's delicious at first glance."

"The anchor don't say anything else, just eat it first."

Watching the speech in the live broadcast room, Li Xiao smiled, and didn't mean to continue teasing everyone, everyone opened their mouths to explain.

"Actually, the flesh on the outside of this cat's eye snail looks a lot, but it's not."

After finishing speaking, he didn't hold back, and directly pinched his fingers on the white meat of the cat's eye snail.

The tactile sensation brought by fingers sinking into the moist and moist flesh is very wonderful.

With the squeeze of his fingers, the seawater stored by the conch meat immediately sprayed out from the gap between his fingers.

The snail meat loses the support of the water, and quickly shrinks at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Watching the snail meat that was originally bigger than a fist shrink instantly, until the snail meat was completely retracted into his shell.

"Good guy, is this the legendary bluff?"

"This is obviously a fake dog!"

"The fake dog and bluff upstairs mean the same thing."

"Is that right?"

"But this snail meat is too unscrupulous, so much water."

"Hey, hey, what do you have to say upstairs? Who told you that it's not serious to have too much water?"

"You can tell it's a kid at a glance."

Li Xiao reminded me in the live broadcast room.

"So when you buy this cat's eye snail in the future, you must pay attention to squeezing out its water, otherwise you will have to pay the price of cat's eye snail, and it is not worthwhile to buy a bucket of seawater."

He casually threw this cat's eye snail, which had run out of water, into the bucket. It was probably the first trophy. Although the taste of the cat's eye snail was nothing special, the meat quality was quite good, not as firm as other snails. It tastes soft and glutinous, like eating rice cakes.

You continue to walk towards the rocky beach first, and you encounter two similar bulges on the road, and he doesn't let them go, and makes two more handicap.

A horse-faced crab and another cat's-eye snail were dug out.

But the horse noodle is too small, only the size of two fingers, and there is no meat at all except the shell.

Li Xiao casually threw it back into the sea. After all, it seemed a bit inhumane to let him die in the sun by casually throwing it on the beach.

He smiled into the studio and said
"We should respect food. Food that cannot be eaten. There is no need to waste it on purpose. Just like I did just now, take two extra steps and throw it back into the sea. Maybe he will come back to me to repay his favor when he grows up. By then, it will be as big as a washbasin, so it will probably be delicious."

When the audience in the live broadcast room heard Li Xiao's beginning, they thought he was going to promote his own ideas again, but they didn't expect to change the subject later.

"God, come back and repay your favor when you grow up."

"Laughing, I'm that horse-faced crab, the host, you threw me so hard, even if I grow up, going to you is definitely not revenge but revenge."

"Hello, is it 110? Yes, I want to call the police. There is a horse-faced crab here that has become a spirit. Please immediately send the master demon slayer over here to eliminate the demon."

Chatting with the audience while hurrying, it took more than half an hour to reach the destination. In fact, Li Xiao's walking speed was already quite fast.

After all, more than 20 minutes were wasted in just three digging operations.

When he came to the rocky beach, Li Xiao didn't rush in, but stood there and observed it carefully.

After all, in horror novels, there must be some weird existence hidden in the rocky beach with strange rocks like this.

But he quickly realized that what he was in was not some weird novel, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

He smiled and said to the live broadcast room.

"After all kinds of difficulties and dangers, ninety-nine and 81 difficulties, we finally arrived at our destination this time."

"Now we will start our sea catching operation today."

He glanced at the time in the live broadcast room, it was almost 7:00 now, he thought for a while and said,
"This time our Sea Catch will last for two hours and will end at 9:00. At that time, there will be a live barbecue. We sincerely welcome all the audience in the live broadcast room to come and participate in the barbecue morning meeting."

There are complaints in the live broadcast room

"Good guy, if I hadn't watched the live broadcast the whole time, I would have thought that the host had gone to the Western Paradise to learn Buddhist scriptures."

"God damn it, ninety-nine and eighty-one is difficult, it's outrageous."

"The host's invitation is quite insincere. If I said last night, even if I took an early morning flight, I would rush over there."

"That's right, the anchor has two hours before inviting everyone to have a barbecue, isn't it too dishonest?"

"This guy is just molesting, haven't you seen it yet?"

"If I didn't have to go to work today, I would definitely drive there right away. I'm only two and a half hours away from the anchor, so I think I can catch up. It's a pity that absenteeism will cost more than 3000 yuan a day, and I will have a barbecue. I don't want to."

"At first, I thought the upstairs was a laborer who was as hardworking as me, but I didn't expect that the Versailles was completely lost."

"Originally, I had already organized an 800-word essay on empathy, but unexpectedly, I was too naive."

"1000 yuan a day, 3 yuan a month, I am envious and isolated."

The structure of the rocky beach is a hilly structure with a high middle and a low surrounding.

There are some fragmented rocks and stones on the outermost periphery, rocks half a person's height in the middle, and a huge boulder as high as three people in the center.

These rocks are washed by seawater all the year round and keep moist for a long time, so many rocks are covered with a thick layer of moss or seaweed on the backlit surface.

Suddenly Li Xiao's eyes lit up, and he took the camera and ran towards the edge of the rocky beach.

Soon a long string of light green things appeared on his hands. Since it was more than an hour before the low tide, this string of green things didn't have much moisture.

Li Xiao asked in the live broadcast room
"I don't know if anyone knows what I'm holding."

Studio

"Isn't this just a bunch of seaweed?"

"The concept of seaweed is too broad. The anchor probably wants to ask us what kind of seaweed it is?"

"Who knows, I don't live by the sea, the question of the anchor is too difficult."

"Is this the seaweed we usually eat?"

"No, this is not seaweed."

Li Xiao saw that no one recognized him in the live broadcast room, and he didn't pretend to be a joke, so he spoke directly.

"This is asparagus, like a dragon's beard. You should have seen it when you eat cold salad."

"The long, crunchy ones with small thorns are like miniature sea cucumbers, and the ones that are light yellow or light green in color are asparagus."

As soon as he introduced it, someone immediately responded, what is this?
"Oh, it turned out to be this thing. I didn't expect her to look like this."

"This thing is delicious, and the taste is very crisp."

"I've eaten it, but it's not fresh, it's dried."

"Hey, what I eat is also dry food. It can be eaten after soaking in water and cooking."

Li Xiao carefully pulled out some aged roots under the asparagus with his fingers, leaving only fresh twigs, and washed them in sea water.

While shaking the water, he walked towards his bucket.

Take out the simple windproof stove inside, add an appropriate amount of 98-degree alcohol in the center of the windproof stove, and finally put barbed wire on it.

Li Xiao said to the live broadcast room,
"In fact, there are many ways to eat asparagus. In addition to the most common cold salad, in fact, fresh asparagus can be eaten directly with a light flame. The taste is very delicious."

"Alcohol has a very good advantage as a wild fuel, that is, it is very light, and there is no need for a long waiting time like other fuels."

Li Xiao gently moved the windshield outside the stove with his fingers, and adjusted the size of the flame.

Adjusting the flame to the distance, there is still a centimeter away from the barbed wire, he nodded with satisfaction, this distance is quite good.

After all, the flame was too big, and it directly scorched his asparagus.

But the flame is too small, and the baking time is too long.

Put the washed asparagus on the wire mesh, and the asparagus immediately makes a sizzling sound, which is the sound of the water in its body and surface being evaporated.

The time required for charcoal-grilled asparagus is very short, and it can be completely cooked in about 1 minute under the right flame and temperature. Of course, if you want asparagus to become more crispy, then this time needs to be Appropriately extended.

And Li Xiao is the kind who likes to be crispy. He uses chopsticks to easily flip the asparagus to prevent it from being scorched by the flames.

However, with the [Roasted Bird Proficiency] provided by the system, he also gained a new understanding of how to roast asparagus.

The body of the asparagus is too slender. If it is not turned over in time, the small thorns on the asparagus may be burnt, and the taste will deteriorate.

In order to prevent the asparagus from being inspected, Li Xiao held the tail of the asparagus with his chopsticks and kept turning it over. Although such rapid turning over would prevent the heat from the flame from being fully transmitted to the asparagus, the heat would become less more evenly.

It didn't take long for the green asparagus to turn dark green. At the same time, the asparagus that changed color gave off a strong fragrance, a bit like the smell of roasted seaweed.

Li Xiao licked his lips, but didn't bother to explain to the audience in the live broadcast room.

He took out chili powder and salt powder from the bucket and sprinkled them evenly on the asparagus. When spreading the seasoning, he did not stop the movement of his other hand, so that the asparagus on both sides could be evenly sprinkled with the seasoning , Then the chopsticks swept away the asparagus on the barbed wire.

As the old saying goes, you can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry.

As soon as the freshly roasted asparagus was put into his mouth, Li Xiao's tongue was burned immediately, but he was not willing to spit out the asparagus in his mouth.

Because the taste of asparagus after charcoal grilling is really great.

The thin skin of the asparagus cracked and curled up under the flames, and then became brittle.

The cracked skin becomes crispy, with the unique fragrance of asparagus in the burnt aroma.

The taste of charcoal-grilled asparagus is even better than that of cold salad. It is crispy and refreshing. It has only a slight salty and umami taste. After adding chili powder, the slightly fishy smell of asparagus is also covered by the spicy taste.

Li Xiao praised

"Very good, this thing is really good, but in recent years, wild asparagus has become much less."

"The light yellow asparagus that everyone usually eats is farmed, but the ones I ate just now are purely wild and natural. Although the taste is crunchy, the wild asparagus has a particularly strong flavor. scent."

Studio

"I also want to eat this wild asparagus. The anchor will send me two catties to try it out."

"It turns out that the one I ate last time was farmed. No wonder it didn't taste good, but the taste is really crisp."

"My family used to live by the sea, and I often saw this thing. I didn't expect that it could be baked and eaten in addition to cold salad. I haven't tried it before. It's a pity."

"I've signed up, I hope the anchor will take me to pick up asparagus!"

"I've signed up, I hope the host can help me roast asparagus!"

"I've signed up, I hope the host can feed me asparagus!"

After wiping his mouth, Li Xiao turned off the windproof stove.

"Okay, I've regained a little strength, and we'll continue to look for seafood." This time he didn't bring the shovel he used before. It would be more convenient to use iron clips in this complex terrain. And the shovel is not easy to grasp.

Some rocks look small, but in fact, the body hidden under the sand may be as high as a floor.

This is the same as those men and women who have just been dating. When the other party asks how many times they have taken pictures, they will definitely answer that they have only taken two or three, or they have only talked for two or three months, or they have no relationship.

It looks like that, but what is the truth, unless you really dig the sand, you don't know how deep it is at the bottom.

Since not all rocks can be moved easily, the flexibility to use the long clips is very useful.

(End of this chapter)