Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 955 962. Poisonous Crab (15)

After the crab was steamed, Ao Muyang brought it out while it was still hot. At this time, the crab was like a locomotive, all red, and hot air was coming out of the hole on its back.

He found a straw and gave it to Lu Zhizi, saying, "Come on, when the steam stops coming out, drink it. Just drink the water inside, no need to eat the meat."

The juice in the crab's body and the steam poured in made its stomach full of soup. With a light shake, one could feel the water sloshing inside.

The general, Wolf One, and Wolf Two smelled the delicious food and came over. They put their heads on Lu Zhizi's legs and shook their tails together.

Lu Zhizi said helplessly, "It's very hot..."

"Ah!" Ao Muyang screamed and kicked him.

There was a commotion, and the generals quickly avoided it.

There is not much meat in the crab, but the soup inside is very delicious. Lu Zhizi took a sip and closed her eyes. She sighed softly: "It's so delicious."

In the past three years, she has eaten seafood almost every day, and she is sick of it, but the delicious taste of the crab soup is still the best she has ever tasted.

Ao Muyang smiled and said, "Of course. Do you know what the soup dumplings that the imperial envoys used to eat were made of? The soup inside is the soup of water crabs. It tastes better if you suck it with wheat straw. The emperor can't eat it."

Lu Zhizi sipped the soup happily and retorted, "How is it possible? The emperor can't eat it, but the ministers can?"

"It's the imperial envoys who come to Hongyang for inspection. Only the imperial envoys who come to inspect can eat it, because in ancient times, there was no way to send fresh water crabs to the capital, and the imperial chefs lacked ingredients. Even if they could send it at the cost of manpower, the officials would not send it. You let the emperor get addicted to it. What if he wants to eat it every meal? Maybe you can send ingredients occasionally, but you can't send it every day. If you can't satisfy the emperor's appetite at that time, then wait for your punishment!"

Ao Muyang said a lot of things, and finally added, "Anyway, your current treatment is higher than the emperor."

Lu Zhizi's treatment was indeed very high. She only drank the soup of water crabs, Then Ao Muyang divided the remaining crabs into several portions and threw them to the naughty children.

There was no crab roe in the water crabs, and there was not much meat.

Seeing that Lu Zhizi liked to drink the soup of water crabs, Ao Muyang went to the sea to look for water crabs again in the afternoon.

He was familiar with the route, and this time he found the crabs faster.

He looked down and scanned the crabs, trying to find the big blue crabs that had just shed their shells, but when he scanned carefully, he found a few bright red crabs hiding on a reef.

Whether it is a swimming crab or a blue crab, they will turn red after being steamed. There are only two kinds of crabs that are born with red shells in the Hongyang Sea, one is the red-shelled crab, and the other is the embroidered ridge crab, commonly known as the mosaic crab.

Ao Muyang is very familiar with the red-shelled crab, and he has a lot of red-shelled crabs in his own fishery.

After three years of breeding, the red-shelled crabs have multiplied wildly, and now there are crabs everywhere in the shallow waters around Zhuantou Island.

The red-shelled crabs he saw now were not red-shelled crabs. Their carapaces were oval in shape, smooth in surface, and red in color overall, but if you look closely, you can see pink and white patches on them.

These were mosaic crabs, and the red and white patches on their backs were the source of their common name.

Ao Muyang's eyes widened immediately when he saw them. How could mosaic crabs appear in the sea outside their village? This was quite troublesome.

Most people didn't know about this kind of crab at all, and those who knew about it knew very well how terrible they were. This was the most poisonous crab known so far, and they contained complex toxins in their bodies. And strangely, the toxins in the bodies of mosaic crabs were not uniform.

Ao Muyang racked his brains to recall that according to the information he had read, it seemed that some mosaic crabs contained pufferfish toxins, some contained paralytic shellfish toxins, and some contained sea anemone toxins. This was an unsolved mystery in nature.

Some marine biologists speculated that the toxins were accumulated in their bodies after they ate poisonous algae and poisonous plankton, but there was no evidence to prove this.

However, no matter what kind of toxins they carry, they are equally terrible. In the most severe case, the toxins in an adult embroidered ridge crab can kill 45,000 mice!

Seeing these mosaic crabs, Ao Muyang did not alarm them, but surfaced to take a fishing net from the speedboat, and then caught the mosaic crabs together.

He marked the sea area and hurried back to the village with the crabs.

After the speedboat docked at the pier, the villagers greeted him. Ao Muyang nodded casually and walked quickly towards the turtle protection area. After getting off the pier, he remembered something and said to a few acquaintances: "Watch the tourists, let the old clerk shout on the loudspeaker that crab fishing is not allowed near the coast!"

"What's the matter, village chief?"

Ao Muyang did not answer. The situation was unclear and he didn't want to make a big fuss.

He took the poisonous crab to the turtle protection base. From a distance, he saw Mr. Li Ji squatting in front of a turtle. He held a jellyfish in one hand and a screaming chicken in the other. When the turtle came close to him and wanted to eat the jellyfish, he pinched the screaming chicken and made a shrill cry to scare the turtle away.

Ao Muyang waved from a distance and shouted, "Professor Li, come here."

Li Ji stood up and shushed him in dissatisfaction: "Why are you shouting? What if you scare the turtles? Many of them are female turtles who have just laid eggs. They are very weak now!"

Ao Muyang said unconvincedly, "You are still using screaming chicken to scare them."

Li Jidao: "What do you know, young man? I was training them to be wary of humans. Why are you looking for me? Oh, steamed crabs and brought them over? Haha, Xiao Ao, you are so polite."

Ao Muyang picked up the net and asked, "Can these crabs be eaten?"

"Then..." After saying just one word, Li Ji was startled when he stared at the crab. "The embroidered spine looks so familiar to a crab? Where did you find it?"

After receiving confirmation from experts, Ao Muyang's fluke disappeared: "I was diving just now and found this kind of crab on the sea surface. Is this really an embroidered ridge crab?"

Li Ji looked at it carefully and said: "Yes, it is definitely an embroidered ridged crab from the class Erythropodia, subclass Eumonychia, order Decapoda, suborder Gleuroderma, family Scutellariaceae, and genus Rhinoceros, which is called in some places in the south. They are thunder dragons, and some people call them mosaic crabs, that’s right.”

Ao Muyang said: "That vegetable is bad. I have to quickly mobilize the villagers to clean up the crabs."

Mosaic crabs are too dangerous. It seems that the clean waters outside the village not only attract some commercial seafood, but also attract many harmful species.

Most of the men with good water skills in the village have gone to sea, and the rest are lazy people like Ao Mudong.

Ao Muyang gathered these people together, and then showed the mosaic crab to them: "Starting tomorrow, go to the sea with me to find this thing. This is a mosaic crab. You probably know it, right? Don't leave any one, give it to me tomorrow Cut off the roots!"