MTL - Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982-Chapter 8 Amoy sea digging sand clams

  Chapter 8 Scouring the Sea and Digging Sand Clams

  Their home is not far from the beach, and it takes only ten minutes to walk there. However, after arriving at the beach, everyone did not go directly to the beach, but continued to walk along the shore to the outside of the pier.

   There are sand clams that can be dug under the beach, but you need to look for them. Their beach is not small, and sand clams are not distributed in every location, nor can they be dug with just a few shovels.

  Sand clam is a kind of clam, and it can also be called flower clam, but people in their village are used to calling it sand clam because it is dug out from the beach.

  Although they are dug out from the beach, most of them have no sand in them, and very few cases have sand in them, so they only need to be raised for one night before they can be eaten.

  Use it to cook soup, or put a few sand clams when cooking noodles, not to mention how fresh it is.

   Those clams in the future market are not liked by the villagers. They are not as fresh as the clams they dug themselves from the sea, and the meat quality is not as good as their sand clams.

  And the sand clams on their beach are somewhat different from the flower clams on the market. The sand clams are of different sizes, the small ones are the size of a fingernail, and the big ones are the same as flower clams, but the small ones are also very fleshy.

  There are two high tides and two low tides every day. During the daily low tides, there will be children digging and playing, but there will be more people during the low tides on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year.

And people in their village are used to digging outside the pier, because only on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, the tide will recede very low, and the beach on the pier will be exposed. Usually, whether it is high tide or low tide, it is full. .

   Whenever it is exposed, there are many sand clams to dig under the beach, and the reefs on the shore will also be exposed. On the reefs, there will be sea melon seeds, sea oysters to pry, and spicy snails to pick up.

   Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the sea to eat the sea!

   If you live by the sea and work harder, you won’t be hungry.

  After arriving at the pier, they walked slowly down the steep stone slope. At this time, the tide had receded, revealing a small piece of sandy beach. There were already several women squatting there and scratching the sand.

  Generally, the women and children of the family do sea-scouring. Ye Yaodong has never been to the beach to play since he got married, and he is not a child. He has no novelty about this beach for a long time.

  But after being reborn, I don’t know if there is a sense of age, and his mood is different, and he feels a little fresher about this beach.

  He took the lead and looked at the bucket next to the women in the village, "Is there something to dig? Oh, there really is. How long have you been digging?"

  Everyone took a spatula and dug **** the surface of the beach, but no one paid him any attention.

  A man who idles around all day, think they are the same as him, wouldn't it be better if he has the time to gossip?

No one paid attention to him, and Ye Yaodong was not annoyed, he saw his son squatting on the beach alone playing with sand, and then he walked back to his wife, only to see that in just a short while, there were already six or seven of them in her washbasin. sand clams.

   Hearing two ding dongs, there were two more, he squatted down, "You dig pretty fast."

  The spatula is the most practical tool for digging sand clams, bar none!

   Some people didn't press the wooden handle, so they took a spatula and planed there.

  Lin Xiuqing was also holding the spatula, and she said without raising her head: "Practice makes perfect, and it doesn't require any skills, just plan the sand."

   Well, he did this a lot when he was a child. Children who grew up by the sea usually play with sand digging the most.

   It’s all here, and he can’t just watch. There is no spatula to dig, so he just uses his hands.

   There are small air bubble holes on the beach, Ye Yaodong picked them out casually, and they turned out to be sand clams, and he picked them out accurately.

  Listening to the successive ding-dong sounds in the washbasin, Lin Xiuqing looked sideways, so fast?

  Ye Yaodong sensed her gaze, raised his eyebrows and looked, "Why? Do you think I'm very good? Do you want to teach you?"

   As he spoke, he tapped the surface of the beach with both hands, and another one!

   Dig into the washbasin, and said: "This thing is very easy to dig. I didn't dig less when I was young."

   "How did you get the right one?" She was really curious.

  Although her natal family is in the next town, her area is not facing the sea and relies on mountains.

Married to the seaside for several years, she always followed behind her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and she did whatever they did. Every time she went to the sea, she followed, and everyone used a spatula to plan small pieces. It was deducted like this.

  Ye Yaodong pointed to the small holes at the bottom of the beach, "See these? Sand clams also need to breathe. They breathe through these holes. There must be holes below."

  While talking, he was doing a demonstration, and took out two more.

   Button hole, he is very good at it.

   It is because the first day of the new year is approaching, and the tide on the beach at the pier has just receded, so it is so easy to dig out. The beach in the middle of the beach is not so easy.

  Lin Xiuqing also dug out curiously, sure enough!

   "Then why do you use a spatula, just dig it out!" With a spatula, you have to work hard to plan, and your hands will be sore after a long time.

"I still need to use a spatula. It's more convenient to have tools. I use my hands because I don't have a spatula. Some are on the surface and can breathe without small holes. After a while, the beach will be stepped on. You can no longer see the holes, that is, the tide has just ebbed, so you can see the air bubble holes."

  Lin Xiuqing has been watching him and talking. For so many years, except for the period when they were just married, it was rare for them to have normal communication. He can't see the beginning and the end all day long, and when he comes back, he usually eats and sleeps, and at most has a few daily questions and answers.

  Most of them looked like they were fooling around, talking so solemnly for a while, and even teaching her, really made her a little uncomfortable.

   "What are you looking at, dig!"

"oh!"

   After a while, more people came to dig clams. People these days are very hardworking, except Ye Yaodong.

  After just squatting for a while, he felt his legs were a little numb, so he stood up, twisted his waist and neck, and looked at the sea in the distance.

   Dig for a while, just show it a little bit, and don’t show too much hard work.

  At this moment, the tide is still receding, and many small boats are parked near the pier. Because of the tide, many boats are stranded on the beach, and they can only return to the sea after the next high tide.

  The current time is 9:30, and today’s tide should have receded to the bottom at 10:30, and then started to rise again.

  Every day, the rise and fall are about 50 minutes later than the day before. Although Ye Yaodong has just been reborn today, he can tell when the tide will rise and fall tomorrow just by looking at the tide.

No wonder his elder brother and second brother wanted to come out to see the tide and sail the boat. As the first day of the new year approached, the tide would recede even more in the middle of the night. On the first day of the new year, the tide would recede to the bottom at 12 o'clock at night, and they would go out to sea around 1-2 o'clock at night. The tide must have not risen much then.

  The tide is not enough, and the boat cannot get out.

  (end of this chapter)