The years when I opened a farmhouse in my hometown

"What's going on?" Shen Xiaoyun, who was touching the snails by the river, heard the screams from the bank and the calls of the tourists, so she quickly climbed up, and arrived at the group of tourists besieging the city in two or three steps.

"Anchor, come and take a look, this brother's hand is caught in a clam shell, we can't break it apart no matter how hard we try?" The tourists told the truth.

"Anchor, do you have a good way to open it?"

Looking at the tourists who were all looking towards him and looking at him with hopeful eyes, Shen Xiaoyun thought to herself: Actually, you think too highly of me, this is also the first time I have encountered such a situation.

"It's okay, it's okay, just calm down and let me take a look." Shen Xiaoyun felt that it's better to calm down first, so that everyone can think of a way.

The onlookers made way for Shen Xiaoyun, Shen Xiaoyun squeezed in, squatted down, and saw a middle-aged man squatting on the ground with a flushed face, the flesh on his forehead was trembling, and he was clenching his teeth tightly. It was excruciatingly painful.

Between his hands, a river clam the size of a watermelon is clamping the hands of the male tourist. In both hands of the male tourist, except for the thumb and little finger, the other six fingers are exposed. They were all deformed by the two shells of the mussel.

"Anchor, don't bother to watch it, please open it for me..." The tourist was already in great pain, and after waiting for Shen Xiaoyun to come over to check, he thought you could open it right away, but in the end, he saw that Shen Xiaoyun was still studying, he He was angry and annoyed, and wanted to growl loudly, but because of the clam shells holding his fingers to his heart, the growling sound was soft and weak, and the growling turned into a pleading, just listening to it made him feel very pitiful.

Shen Xiaoyun looked at it for a few seconds, then silently looked away, and silently mourned for this middle-aged man for a second: "..."

He thought that the person whose hand was caught was a young man, but he didn't expect it to be a calm looking uncle.

Ugh……

"Be patient, I'll get the sickle." Shen Xiaoyun got up and took off the sickle tied to the bamboo pole. After taking it, he asked two boys to fix the clam shell. He inserted the sickle sideways into the clam shell first. The gap opened by the shell, and then turned the handle of the sickle hard.

The male tourist who successfully took out his hands seemed to be born again. He was still terrified when he saw the mussel, and he took a few steps on his hind legs.

The mussel was hurt by the sickle, opened the clam shell, and spit out some saliva, then closed it tightly, holding the sickle.

"How is it? Did you pinch your fingers?" Putting down the scythe, Shen Xiaoyun asked the male tourist to stretch out his hand to check the condition of his fingers first.

The male tourist was still breathing out in pain, but the situation was much better than before.

"It's really painful to pinch. Let me see, alas, two fingers are pinched purple..." Although the other fingers did not turn purple, the pads of the fingers were deformed, and the ends turned red.

Shen Xiaoyun looked at his hands for a while, and found that the two purple nails were not very serious, only a small part was purple.

"It's okay, it'll be fine in a few days. This purple piece is because some blood came out of the nail when I pinched it. Come with me first, soak it in cold water to reduce the swelling." Shen Xiaoyun comforted the tourist first, letting He calmed down, then took him to the river, found a safer place to stay, and let him soak his hands in the cold river water.

"I don't have ice cubes for you here, so you can soak in the river water for a while, and the river water is quite cold." The river water also flows from a stream branched from the pool in the back mountain, and the river water is still the same as in winter. It was crisp and cold.

The male tourist dipped his hand in the river water for a while, and found that the swollen and painful fingers were relieved a lot, and his facial expression was no longer twisted, so he breathed a sigh of relief silently.

"Thank you just now, and my tone was not very good at that time, I hope you don't take it to heart." After the male tourist found that his hand was fine, he found that Shen Xiaoyun was still standing aside, thinking of the reckless and embarrassing scene before. Some feel sorry.

"It's okay, it's okay, if your hands are still uncomfortable, go back and tell me, I'll find something to wipe for you."

"It's fine now." The male tourist felt that his hand was much better, but it still hurt a little when he took it out of the water.

"Alright then, I'll continue to touch some snails, you just watch on the bank, don't touch those mussels anymore." Shen Xiaoyun felt inexplicably funny, how could the mussels' shells be so tightly closed, how could they be caught? I caught it.

After Shen Xiaoyun touched half of the snails in the basket, the tourists put the six mussels the size of watermelons into baskets and baskets respectively, and carried them back together.

"I rub it! It's really heavy. It's more than seven or eight catties, maybe ten catties. This old mussel has become a fine man." When these mussels were moved to the basket and put away, the male tourists couldn't help complaining .

Moreover, this clam is flat and has a slippery shell, which is really hard to handle.

"Then how much meat is there in this clam shell, should it be enough for so many of us?" The topic of foodie tourists was brought here again.

"There is always some meat in one or two plates. For such a big one, the mussel has more meat than other shellfish, and the meat is thick, so there must be a lot of it."

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On the way back, Shen Xiaoyun walked behind so that no one would be left behind. He was holding a bamboo pole in his hand. As for the baskets and baskets, they were snatched away by highly motivated tourists.

The male tourist's hands are fine for the time being, except that the nails of the two ring fingers are a little purple. He doesn't seem to care about this, and he has also joined the ranks of the hundred ways to eat river mussels.

That optimistic attitude made Shen Xiaoyun click his tongue.

This mentality is really good, although people are a little unreliable, but this kind of personality is still quite good, if she is always depressed, brooding over it, or even harboring resentment, Shen Xiaoyun will worry about it.

After returning, the snails were still kept in water, while the mussels were kept next to the well in the yard.

Those tourists who didn't go with them ran over curiously when they heard other people talking about the huge clam shell and whether there would be a big pearl in it.

"Is this a river clam? They are all so big."

"It's mutated. I remember that the mussels used to be slightly bigger than the green awns. They are like watermelons. The anchor, you said that the mussels here weigh a lot." The tourists looked at the big mussels in surprise. Extremely.

So those who took pictures took pictures, and those who sent them to Moments sent them to Moments.

Shen Xiaoyun was afraid that the yard would get dirty, so she first got some plant ash, and then some straw, spread them near the well, and then put the clam shells on it, waiting for disposal.

In this way, even if there is residual liquid seeping out, it can be sucked away by the plant ash.

In fact, people on their side used to go to the river or pond to process meaty things like chickens, ducks, geese, or fish in the past, because it will inevitably have some fishy smell. If the residual liquid is not properly disposed of , it will become smelly after a long time, giving off an unpleasant smell.

"Anchor, I found that you are really particular about what you do." A female tourist squatted aside, handing a basin or something from time to time.

She saw that many boys were careless in doing things, and they were also tiger-headed and tiger-tailed in their work, which made people feel inexplicably unreliable.

But after looking at Shen Xiaoyun a few times, I found that he is very meticulous in his work, and he is very attentive in every aspect.

Shen Xiaoyun smiled lightly, actually he didn't want to be meticulous, but otherwise the yard would be dirty.

And he put the mussels here, one is to show the netizens in the live broadcast room, and of course the most important thing is to show the strange things to the tourists from the city...

In order to pry open the clam's shell, Shen Xiaoyun found a lot of tools, such as scissors, side knives, axes...

I also brought two big soup pots, some salt, rice wine, and garlic, because the garlic was still whole, and the tourists peeled the garlic coat spontaneously.

Shen Xiaoyun asked a tourist to hold the phone for him, opened the live broadcast room, and greeted the tourists.

"Hi everyone, I went to the river with the tourists this afternoon to fish some mussels, and I plan to stir-fry them at night. Open the mussels later to see if there are any pearls in them."

It was still after three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was time for dinner in the evening, so there were not many people squatting to watch the live broadcast, but this did not affect the enthusiasm of netizens to watch the live broadcast in the slightest.

"Wow! River mussels, I've eaten them, they're delicious. Hehe, they're especially good for men, so they're suitable for eating more."

"The soup is very good. However, you must clean it, the anchor. You have to pick out its gills and internal organs, otherwise it will be very dirty and fishy."

"Gut must be removed! Emphasize this!!!"

"Hey! Why don't you realize how big these mussels are when you're so busy discussing food?"

"Well, I also found out, but I saw that the host's piece is not only big as a snail, but also a strawberry, and seeing how big these mussels are, it seems to be calm."

"It seems to be the same. What the upstairs said makes sense, and what you say counts."

"Hey, do mussels have pearls?"

"Yes, but there must not be as many as there are now. They are all raised in water, and it is inevitable to encounter a grain or two of sand."

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Tourists are also curious about whether there are pearls →_→

Now pearl mussels are cultivated artificially, more pearls are produced, and the price is also cheap, so it is not as rare and expensive as before.Tourists are mainly curious to watch, just like digging for treasure, with a little bit of inquiry.

"I'll get a scale and weigh them to see how heavy these mussels are." Shen Xiaoyun was also curious about the weight of these mussel shells after reading the comments from netizens.

"No need to take the scale, I have an electronic scale!" Shen Xinyue shouted, hurriedly ran to the bedroom, and took out the pink electronic scale that she brought over.

"You actually brought this here." The other tour guides looked incredulously.

"Yeah, it's quite light. I put it in the suitcase every time I go out, and I weigh myself every day. I used to be a model, and I was very strict about my weight. I weighed myself every morning, so I just weighed myself. I brought it here with me." Shen Xinyue really thought it was nothing, after all, it was her job requirement.

When I was a model in the past, I paid special attention to my weight, strictly controlled my diet, and my weight was also controlled within a very standard range.

Because once it is exceeded, many clothes cannot be worn, and you will face the terrible situation of unemployment.

In their industry, there are many bloody examples of this situation.

Shen Xiaoyun was not polite, picked up the mussels and weighed them. Of the six mussels, two weighed more than ten catties, the heaviest was twelve catties, and the lightest was seven and a half catties.

After weighing, Shen Xiaoyun began to pry open the mussels. With a lot of tools, the progress of prying open the mussels was quite fast. After prying open the mussels, the fleshy pieces inside were exposed. The flesh of the mussels was beige and juicy. Plump, especially fat and tender, the mussel meat is soft, tender, slippery, soft, and squirts water from time to time...

"It's still alive and super fresh. If it weren't for my health concerns, I would have wanted to try sashimi. The meat looks so tender."

"I can only admire you for a good man like you. Let's forget about sashimi."

"Let's stir-fry it, don't worry about eating it. Host, remove the meat and see if there are any pearls in it."

It's really the first time for Shen Xiaoyun to deal with this thing, and he's biting the bullet. This kind of soft, slippery creature is not easy to grasp, especially slippery.

After removing the mussel meat, Shen Xiaoyun used a knife to cut open the tender meat, and after searching, he really felt a hard spot.

Squeeze it out and see that it is a white bead the size of a peanut. The bead is bright and white, exuding a soft milky white luster, which is particularly conspicuous in the beige flesh.

"There are really pearls! It's not too small, you can look at it again, is there any more?"

Shen Xiaoyun searched for a while, and there was only one pearl in each mussel.

After washing the pearls, put them into a bowl, and when the pearls fell into the bowl, there was a crisp ding-dong sound, which was very pleasant.

"It's so beautiful! It's still very round."

"This kind of wild one, especially round, is quite valuable."

"How much is it worth?" The tourists were curious.

"I don't know either. You have to ask a professional. I've heard of it too. But there are still a few hundred dollars for an anchor."

Under the expectation of the audience and netizens, Shen Xiaoyun pried open the other ones. In the end, two of the six mussels had pearls, and one of them produced two pearls, one was the size of a peanut, and the other was only a soybean. size.

After taking the pearls, Shen Xiaoyun, with the help of experienced tourists, removed the gills and internal organs of the mussels from the rest of the mussels. After cleaning them, they poured rice wine and garlic cloves to marinate for a while.

After the mussel meat was processed, Shen Xiaoyun cleaned up the yard, and put the plant ash into the fermented fertilizer pond. The straw was burned and turned into ashes to be used as fertilizer.

After five o'clock, Shen Xiaoyun saw the cooking aunts start cooking, he took out the river mussel meat that had been marinated for a while, washed it, cut it into slices, put the garlic sprouts, peppers, coriander, Sesame, and starch to thicken the corn.

Heat oil on high heat, add dried chili, onion, ginger, and garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, put the chopped river clam meat outside, stir-fry on high heat, pour in garlic moss, after frying, pour in thickened cornstarch, coriander and sesame seeds, appropriate amount The salt can start the pot.

Because the mussels have a lot of meat and are still very tender, Shen Xiaoyun stir-fries them in two pots to avoid the situation of cooking in a big pot.