Chapter 640 There Is Something Inside the Small Wooden Boat

Before Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, Ye Yaodong had already recognized the things growing on the boat with his sharp eyes.

"Hey, my mother, these are the tentacles of the sea chicken's feet... Damn it, I was almost blind and didn't recognize it," Ye Yaodong suddenly said with joy.

"The tentacles of this monster are stretching out wildly, and the secrets covering the boat are numb. It's so visceral that it makes people panic. Only a ghost knows. I almost didn't scare to death. Fortunately, I didn't turn around and run away." Father Ye was confused when he heard his excited voice. After a moment, he remembered the chicken feet he had mentioned the year before last, and his eyes widened.

"Is this the valuable thing you dug up the year before last?"

"Yes, these are the legs of the sea chicken. The ones that keep moving around are its tentacles. They have all crawled out, and many of them are covered with shells. From a distance, you can only see these wriggling tentacles, which look like earthworms. It's just as dense and scary. There are some shells that are not outside and can still be seen clearly, so that's it..." Just like a clam in salt water, it will stretch out its tentacles. Or like the cat's-eye snail, when it is first dug out of the small hole under the beach, a large piece of soft flesh on it is exposed, and when someone touches it, it all shrinks back.

When Ye Yaosheng came over with the hook, he was a little confused when he heard them talking excitedly about sea chicken feet.

Getting closer, he could see more clearly the things clinging to the boat. They were pinkish-brown in color, and they were squirming like big worms, which made people even more panicked.

How could they be excited about such a disgusting thing?

"Sea chicken legs... what are they? Hey~? Could it really be the tentacles of the barnacle that A Dong mentioned before? When it usually grows on rocks, I never see it with its tentacles stretched out..."

"They usually grow on rocks. We only see them after the tide goes out. There is no sea water and they are dry. How can they extend their tentacles? Even if they die, they may not be exposed." Ye Yaodong explained.

"Yes, yes, yes, this is floating in the sea, surrounded by water, so the tentacles are stretched out. There are so many densely packed ones, no wonder they look so scary and they can move."

"Give me the hook." Father Ye took the hook from his hand. When the boat floated over, he leaned over the edge of the boat, half of his body lying out, and stretched out his hand.

He took the hook and gently touched the squirming strips of meat. If a foreign object invaded, the meat would retract instantly.

After a short while, a small area beside the boat was emptied out, and only the white-gray shell was visible.

"It's really the same thing as the sea chicken's feet you dug up the year before last." Ye Yaosheng was confused. Isn't this a barnacle?

What do they call sea chicken feet? There were doubts in his heart, and he asked at the same time. Ye Yaodong explained: "This is not an ordinary barnacle. It is called a gooseneck barnacle. It can also be called seafood from hell. It is also called chicken feet of the sea."

"It doesn't grow on ordinary rocks. It only lives in the crevices of islands and reefs where ocean currents exchange more frequently. As for this boat, I don't know if it was knocked off the shore by the waves and has been drifting on the sea, or if it was someone on top. There was an accident." Ye Yaosheng nodded in understanding.

He still doesn't quite understand. Barnacles are just barnacles, so why are there gooseneck barnacles? Is there a big difference? These are not very valuable things. Do you need to be happy?

But although he was puzzled, he didn't say it out loud. Anyway, it was a free thing. If you don't want it for free, maybe the boat can still be used.

Father Ye touched it tentatively a few times and saw that the gray-white shell of the boat was exposed. After confirming that it was correct, he used a hook to hook the small wooden boat to the side of their ship.

After the two boats, one large and one small, collided together, all the tentacles on the small wooden boat were frightened and they all retracted. In an instant, they didn't look so disgusting.

However, the sea chicken feet still grow very densely on the hull. People with trypophobia will still get goosebumps when they look at them.

Looking at it from a distance, it felt like the whole boat was full of small earthworms that looked like strips of flesh. Now that they were retracted, the inside of the boat was no longer so dense. There were only scattered growths, most of which were distributed on the edges and bottom of the boat. There are not only kelp feet, but also other barnacles and shells.

Ye Yaosheng saw it and said, "It doesn't look so disgusting now, it looks much more normal. Before, when I looked at it from a distance, I thought it was some bugs crawling all over the boat." Ye Yaodong nodded,

"It's much more pleasing to the eye."

"Don't talk about it yet. Let's lift the boat onto the deck together. We have to collect the nets later. We have other busy work, so we don't have time to waste time here." Father Ye threw the hook onto the boat casually, then leaned over to catch it. He stood on the side of the boat and called them to help.

Fortunately, this small wooden boat is not big, only about two or three meters, and three people can pull it up together.

They lay down on the edge of the boat together and could reach it by bending down. They did not need to use other tools. They worked together and lifted one side of the boat.

"Hey, try harder...be careful not to get cut by those shelled ones..."

"Pull up, pull up..."

"It's almost... It's almost... Just use a little more force..." The three people pressed the small boat close to their big ship, grabbed the edge of the small boat, and pulled the end of the small wooden boat up the edge along the hull bit by bit. .

The bow of the boat was pulled up, which saved the effort behind. With a little force, the entire small wooden boat hit the deck, and some of the barnacles on it were also smashed and scattered everywhere.

Ye Yaodong patted the water stains on his body, squatted down, and took a closer look at the boat.

"It's grown quite a lot. I don't know how long it has been floating on the sea." The bottom of the boat is densely covered with barnacles and spat, the sides of the boat are covered with kelp feet, and a few dandelions are growing here and there. Maybe there will be less sea water washing inside.

I don’t know if the boat can still be used after all these things are pried off? If you can still barely use it, you can give it to Brother Asheng to make a transition.

Father Ye also said: "I don't know if it can still be used. It would be a pity if it can't be used."

"You go ahead and sail the boat, and I'll take a look." Father Ye looked at it reluctantly, and Ye Yaosheng answered,

"I'll go and drive it, you guys can study it and take a look."

"We have changed the place. You don't know which area is under the net. You have to let my father drive it." Father Ye looked at it a few more times before walking to the bow. Business is important. Dongzi will study it later. , he naturally knew.

Ye Yaodong looked around the boat, wanting to pick at the wood to see if it was rotten, but there was no place for him to start at the edge, so he had to stretch his claws towards the inside of the boat.

I wanted to find a gap that was not occupied by barnacle spats, but found that there were many small holes in some places that were not occupied by barnacles?

I didn't take a closer look just now, my attention was focused on the feet of the sea chicken, and I estimated how many kilograms I could dig out.

He closed his eyes and leaned over to look inside the hole, but saw nothing. He extended his index finger again, wanting to poke the hole, but he just poked it.

I wonder if his index finger is too thick and the hole cannot accommodate it, so a small piece of sawdust easily fell out from the edge?

He picked at the edge and pulled out a small piece?

"Is this wood? This is obviously tofu! It's so easy to buckle, and the wood is rotten..." Ye Yaosheng smiled after listening to his complaints.

"It may be that it has been floating on the sea for too long, and the wood is a bit rotten. If it is not falling apart, it may be because the bottom is crawling with shells. It is estimated that if it is longer, and the weight of the bottom of the boat is heavier, and no one is discovered, the waves will probably be bigger. It will probably fall apart after a few hits." Ye Yaodong was also muttering in his mind. Fortunately, he didn't just say that if the boat could be used, he would use it, otherwise he would have been disappointed.

"I don't know if there are shipworms growing in each of these holes. It looks like holes dug by shipworms." Ye Yaosheng thought about it and said in surprise: "Just now we saw that the boat was densely packed with earthworms. Could some of the meat strips be shipworms?"

"It shouldn't be possible. Shipworms generally don't show up. Those are the tentacles extended from the feet of sea chickens."

"Oh, then we have to wait until we return, then drag the boat to the shore, crack it open, and catch the shipworms inside..." Ye Yaodong looked at him in surprise.

"You want to arrest him? Why arrest him?"

"Eat!" Listening to Ye Yaosheng talking about eating as a matter of course... Ye Yaodong felt his scalp was numb. Is it such a heavy meal?

Want to eat shipworms too? ? ? Although the name of shipworm is more pleasant, it is also called shipworm, but in their local dialect, it is called shipworm.

It's maggots... Ye Yaodong immediately thought of the aqua toilet in his mind, and the visual stimulation of the winding and squirming lingered in his mind... He shuddered instantly, it was too strong.

Although he knew that this food was delicious to some people, and he also knew that many people ate it, especially in Southeast Asian countries, they also specialized in eating shipworms, but he would not eat it, and he would definitely not eat it!

I don’t usually see anyone eating this food around me, but I didn’t expect Ah Seng to be so heavy-handed! Shipworm is a poison in the ocean and should not be classified as seafood. Even though it has worked hard to evolve into a dangerous appearance, the annual rings of life are outlined on its back, and the soft mucus is like a wild animal. Will-o'-the-wisp.

All clues point to inedibility, but the arrogant cavalry will not let go of any weak prey, and there will always be someone who can discern the fatness within it.

But there is absolutely no him in it! He is also a picky eater...Although lugworms look very similar to this thing, they are not called maggots...they also live under the beach, so there is no psychological burden at all when eating them, they only feel delicious .

"If you want to eat it, I will pry off all the shells after we dock, and then I will give the boat to you, and you can take it back and crack it open." Ye Yaosheng chuckled, knowing that he was disgusted by shipworms. Most people They really don’t know how to eat it, but the conditions were poor when they were young, so they ate whatever was available and could eat any bugs.

"Okay, I'll crack it myself when I get back. It'll be more interesting to crack it and grab it myself. When we were kids, we all rushed to pick up the wood floating on the sea." Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched.

I guess what he said is a little more interesting. It may be similar to eating crayfish without picking the shrimp, and never eating melon seeds. It lacks fun. The same is true for eating shipworms. You have to open the wood by yourself, and eating it will make you feel excited... Oh~ I can't think of it. , can’t think about it...