mtl008 Chapter 152 Eat Shrimp with Shell
Chapter 152 Eat Shrimp with Shell
Yue Yue shook her head: "No, it was sent by a mermaid from another sea area."
The pink mermaid nodded: "Oh, usually only royal mermaids have blue beads. The mermaid who gave you the blue beads must be of high status. But since I gave you the blue beads, it means you are a good person. My name is Na Xier, what's your name?"
"Yue Yue."
Naxier nodded and circled around her.
"Are you here for tourism? But there's nothing fun here. Which planet are you from? You're pretty, too~"
Yue Yue smiled back generously: "You are also very beautiful, and your tail is very beautiful."
Naxier swung her tail proudly. "If you praise me for something else, I will be modest. But if you praise my tail, I am indeed the most beautiful mermaid in Hait. Of course, I cannot compare with all the mermaids in Hait. I think the mermaids in the royal family are the most beautiful."
The Royal Family...
Yue Yue thought about what Naxier had just said, that only those who could give the Youlan Pearl were members of the royal family, so Yan Laner was a royal mermaid?
Thinking back to how Yan Lan'er looked back then, she seemed really pretty, a different kind of pretty from other mermaids.
But now, let’s think about how to cook.
"Xi'er, if I want to cook something down here, do you think it's possible? I need to cook over a fire."
Naxier opened her mouth in confusion, "Ah? Cooking in the sea? Who are you cooking for? And why do you have to cook in the sea? This is the first time I've heard of cooking in the sea."
Facing her expression as if she was looking at an alien, Yue Yue felt a little embarrassed. How could he say something that would make himself appear to be a normal person?
……
It really doesn't seem normal no matter how I think about it.
"Actually, I'm a food vendor. I came to Hite by chance this week and decided to sell food here. But after I got here, I found that it seems impossible to start a fire in the sea, and eating should also be a problem. So I wanted to ask if you have any solutions, or if there is a place in Hite where humans can live."
Naxier thought about it carefully and said, "There is no place in Hait for you to cook, but you can borrow shells."
"shell?"
The first thing Yue Yue thought of was the scene of a huge shell with a mermaid lying inside it.
Naxier said something similar.
"Just swim here for about ten minutes, and you will reach the place where we collect sea crystals every day. There is a huge empty shell over there, which is where we store sea crystals. You can make it inside the shell, and then buy a protective cover online to cover the shell."
Yue Yue was stunned for a moment.
"If I want to buy a protective cover, can I just cover my food truck? I don't need to use shells."
"dining car?"
Naxier thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out what a dining car was.
Instead of explaining, Yue Yue directly put out the dining cart.
"This is it. Look, you can cook right here."
"Wow~" Naxier circled around the food cart again and again.
"This pink one is so pretty, it's a bit like the color of my tail. This is the first time I've seen something called a dining car. It's so magical, and it's quite big, but..."
Naxier changed the subject: "You can use a protective shield directly, but if you want to fire here, then when you hand it over after you are done, it will directly enter the sea water. But that big shell, even if the dining cart is put in, there is still a lot of space, and people can eat and then leave, which is much more convenient."
This was something Yue Yue had not expected. She had imagined that the largest shell could accommodate a dining cart. After all, her dining cart was already very big. She did not expect that there would be such a big shell.
"Then could you please take me to Beike, Xi'er? I'll order a protective shield on Starnet. When the first batch of crayfish comes out of the pot, if you have time, you can go to Beike and I'll give you one."
"Crawfish? What's that?"
Hmm? Yue Yue already had a hunch that even starfish were not as good as crayfish.
After searching on StarNet, it turned out that there was no trace of the existence of crayfish.
There are shrimps, and most of the starfish are shrimps, but many of them have very strange tastes. For example, it is said here that there are shrimps that taste spicy, shrimps that taste sweeter than desserts, and even shrimps that are so salty that they can kill you.
In short, there are all kinds of strange flavors.
Yue Yue thought that she should just stick to the crayfish she brought with her, as the shrimps here didn't look very tasty.
However, Yue Yue felt that she had to ask them first whether they ate shrimp.
"Crayfish is also a kind of shrimp, seafood. What do you usually eat?"
Naxier counted on her fingers: "Sea fruits, seaweed, and other small fish and shrimps. Sometimes we also order nutritional supplements on Star Online, but most of the time we still eat the nutritional supplements we make ourselves. Well, we just add the sea fruits we like to the original nutritional supplements."
Okay, that sounds pretty miserable.
"Then you can look forward to it. So far, no one has found the food I cook unpalatable."
Naxier smiled, but she didn't have much hope in her heart. She had eaten food outside except for nutritional supplements, and none of them suited her appetite, and could even be said to be unpalatable.
Because they couldn't swim very fast, Naxier just held Yue Yue's hand and swam quickly, and they arrived there in a short while.
Needless to say, Yue Yue had already seen the ridiculously large shell.
From a distance, it looks like a small shopping mall, but its shape is beautiful, like an angel's wings, very white, and with the ripples of the sea, it looks like a special effect, very beautiful.
It was a bit like a shellfish she had seen on the news before. She remembered it was called Angel Wing... Seagull Clam?
My memory is a bit fuzzy, but that should be what it was called.
The shell in front of me really looks like the Angel Wing Seagull Clam. The only difference is that it is many times larger than a normal shell.
This is all natural? That's too much.
Na Xier saw what she was thinking and said with a smile, "It's an exaggeration. This shell was made by the mermaids of our tribe a long time ago. It is used to place it conveniently when we pick sea crystals. It is not purely natural. After all, even the largest shell cannot be this big."
"Isn't there a cube? You can pick them and put them in the cube."
Such a big shell must have taken a lot of manpower and resources to build.
"No, you can't take the sea crystals out of the sea after you pick them. You have to soak them in the sea for a day and a night before you can leave the sea."
Yue Yue nodded and understood.
She was still thinking, if a purely natural shell could grow so big, she would suspect that there might be something wrong nearby.
When you get closer, this artificial shell looks even better, because only when you look closely can you see that the bottom is actually a dark blue, a bit like a radioactive blue, which is beautiful.
And probably because of the work, there are more lights here than in other places, and it is as bright as day.
There are many mermaids collecting sea crystals here. Yue Yue also took a closer look at the sea crystals. They are light purple with dark purple at the bottom. Their shape is a bit like a cactus, and they are quite beautiful.
Their collection method was also very primitive. Perhaps in order not to damage the structure or appearance, they directly pried it open at the bottom and then grind the bottom with a grinding stone, and then put it into the shell.
At a glance, those shells were filled with sea crystals, but they only occupied a small part, so there was more than enough space for her dining cart to enter.
but……
"Xi'er, if I make a protective shield to cover the shells, do I have to move all these sea crystals out? Wouldn't that be a bit troublesome?"
Na Xier shook her finger and said, "Don't worry, you have the Blue Pearl. This simple request is nothing to us. You can put the Sea Crystal anywhere. I'll go talk to them."
After saying that, Naxier swam away and talked to the mermaids one by one for a while. Then Yue Yue saw that all the mermaids put their sea crystals in other places. There was no displeasure on their faces. Instead, they looked at her expectantly.
After thinking about it, I guess he was looking forward to the crayfish she made?
The location was determined and an order was placed for a protective cover, which was delivered shortly afterwards. A machine that looked like a clownfish came down wagging its tail, was handed to Yue Yue, took a photo, and then swam away.
Yue Yue originally thought that he needed to go up by himself, but he didn't expect that he would come down directly.
In this technological age, things are indeed convenient.
It was already nine o'clock in the evening. Yue Yue started to fry crayfish in a shell. There were many mermaids watching outside, all of whom came here after hearing the news.
They have a special way of passing messages. When they hear humans here say they are going to make delicious food, they all come over. Looking around, there are at least hundreds of them.
Everything was fine when frying other ingredients, but when frying the spicy food, Yue Yue kept choking and the mermaids outside looked at each other in bewilderment.
“Is this really something we can eat?”
“It feels like it might be more unpalatable than seaweed?”
"I feel so too."
"No matter what, you should give him some face. After all, he is the one who has the Youlan Pearl."
"Yes, since she can give me the Blue Pearl, she must have a good relationship with me. If she reports this to the royal family, we will be in trouble."
"He shouldn't be that kind of person, right? He looks like a nice person."
"Then how do you know? You can only know a person's face but not his heart."
"Too."
"So we're just going to stay outside and guard it? I want to go back."
"Of course, I don't say that everyone must stay here. I just have never seen that red thing called crayfish. It looks good, so I'm staying here."
"Okay, I'll wait a while and see what the shrimp tastes like."
Those who are still waiting here are all because of their curiosity about the crayfish. As for Yue Yue's cooking skills, they really don't have too many expectations, especially when they see Yue Yue coughing the whole time.
If Yue Yue knew what they were thinking, she would definitely cry out in protest.
In the past, even if the food on the food trucks was very spicy, it wouldn’t be choking because it was always in an open-air environment. But now it’s different. Although the shells are big, they are closed, so they won’t be choking.
After frying about twenty portions, Yue Yue waved for them to come in.
"Let's go in."
"Does this lobster have to be eaten?"
"Since you've waited so long, let's try it."
"I don't know if it's expensive or not. If it's expensive, I won't eat it."
"Let's take a look."
The moment all the mermaids entered the shell, their eyes instantly turned red with choking.
"Ahem, what on earth is this fried food? It's so choking, is it really edible?"
"I have no doubt that I will be eaten to death."
"I won't eat it anymore. I'm afraid it will be gone after I finish it."
When Yue Yue heard what they said, she felt helpless and had to find a way to solve the ventilation problem.
If it needs ventilation, water will definitely get in. If it doesn't need ventilation, the smell will linger for a long time. If it's just spicy or thirteen spices, it's fine. It will just smell very fragrant at most. But for spicy, if you reduce the amount of peppercorns, it will taste almost the same as spicy. It's better not to do it.
After trying all his stuff, Yue Yue still couldn't completely solve the ventilation problem. So he had to move a few large fans out of the space.
Fortunately, there was enough space inside, so the smell was blown away to other places, which made it much better.
The mermaids with red eyes finally felt better.
Naxier jumped to Yue Yue and got close to smell it.
"It smells so good. It smells so magical. I have never smelled anything so fragrant. It smells even better than sea fruits."
Other mermaids also came over one after another, and when they saw the crayfish that Yue Yue had packed, they all wanted to get close to the crayfish to take a look.
"Is this a crayfish? This is the first time I've seen one."
"She's pretty cute."
"Which sea area is this found in? We don't even have this species in Hite."
"I guess it's rare. I don't think I've seen this before in other waters I've been to. There are some that look similar, but they're not as cute as this one, and they don't seem to taste good."
"So this shouldn't... taste good either?"
"It looks good, looks delicious, and smells good too. How about...trying it?"
"The price is acceptable. I heard that a portion of ancient oriental dishes outside is often sold for tens of thousands of yuan. This one is only 88 yuan, and it's two kilograms. I think it's quite cheap."
"Indeed, the star coins sold for a sea crystal are more expensive than this."
"Then give it a try."
The people gathered in the front decided to give it a try, and the products sold out faster than Yue Yue had imagined. She thought they would have to prepare themselves mentally for a long time or try the food before they would buy.
Of course, the first one was given to Naxier, and no money was charged.
Then all the mermaids stared at Naxier, ready to see her reaction first.
Yue Yue originally thought that since they eat seafood all year round, they should know how to eat it. However, when he saw Naxier separate the shrimp head and body and put the lower half directly into his mouth, he reached out to stop him.
"You need to peel off the shell and eat the meat inside. The one inside the head is yellow and you can eat it too. For big shrimps like this, there is also edible meat in the claws. The shrimp threads have been removed. These are the only ones you can eat. Would you like to try it?"
Naxier looked at the peeled shrimp in her hand and fell into deep thought.
Is this how you eat all shrimps? Or is this how you eat crayfish?
The mermaid next to him was also confused.
“Is this how you eat shrimp?”
"I don't know. I always just tear the head off and eat the lower half."
"Me too, I've never seen her eat like this before."
"But if you take off the shell, it won't be chewy anymore."
"Yes, it tastes better if you eat it with the shell on."
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