#The Story of the Sea I Say #Coming to Dalian from a small mountain village and becoming a righteous Dalian person is a dream but a fulfilling ecstasy.
Dalian is a scenic coastal city, and naturally the most attractive thing to me is the sea.
At that time, I went to technical school, eighteen or nineteen years old, with energy and time, full of happiness for the future life.
What is happiness? The family gets along harmoniously, accompanies the warmth and liveliness, and does what they like to do, which should be expected by everyone.
Parents, relatives and sisters, both love the sea, so they choose to catch the sea as the most fun activity on the weekend.
A large group of people, with tools to catch the sea, is their own iron fork, and a few plastic bags, in fact, did not hold to catch many sea objects, mainly want to appreciate the beauty of the sea, by the way also exercised.
But the results were better than expected. Because of the low tide, the black tidal flats and reefs of different sizes are exposed, and there are no worries about being kissed by the waves, and there are not many people, which is a good time to catch the sea.
This sea is the fujiazhuang sea, at the southern end of Dalian, at that time it was not like now, there were many high-rise buildings everywhere, private cars everywhere, so it was relatively primitive and hidden.
It was a cold wind that day, it should be spring and March, the sea was full of dark clouds, but the enthusiasm of catching the sea was smoked with desire, and there were family members talking and laughing, so only happy memories were left.
It is really unexpected that there are clams in the flat mud and sand. The mother said that you can't dig it casually, you have to look at the traces. As long as there is a long line, digging a little bit from the line, you can definitely dig up clams.
Seeing that my mother's plastic bag had already filled half a bag of clams, my father and brother and my cousin and cousin were all red-eyed, and the big guy bent over to look around for the footprints of clams.
Mother said it reasonably, look carefully, you can find long lines everywhere, and then use an iron fork to pull, clams are exposed, sometimes dig a nest at once, there are four or five, but after all, it is not farmed, and it is not big. Mother said that wild ones are more delicious. Think about it, anyway idle is idle, dig it.
There were many people, the enthusiasm was high, and I dug up a lot of fun. In addition to the clams, we also picked a lot of shampoo snails on the high reef, which were densely packed on the reef covered with seaweed, and it was almost at your fingertips. We picked the big ones, and finally our arms were sore.
The luckiest one was that I smashed a few big and fat sea nuts on the reef, smashed the shell off, and shoved the soft oyster meat directly into my mouth, which was tender and delicious! You can never describe its taste without tasting it directly.
Finally, full of loads, the whole family ended the sea in the song of victory.
At that time, my parents were still young, and when they returned home, they immediately washed their hands and went into the kitchen to make clams into noodles, and also wrapped up a part of the clam meat and fried it in oil.
How to eat the shampoo snail? Very simple, put salt in the water to cook, and then use a needle to pick meat to eat, although the meat is not large, but it can not stand and fresh and fragrant, so that the more you eat, the more addictive.
Chambord snails are best eaten while watching TV, without delaying the eyes and mouth, killing two birds with one stone!
Catching the sea adds endless fun to the magical adventures of the young age, and also makes our family more and more intimate. Now that I am getting older, but the memories are getting clearer, the sea, love you!