Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

The Tangye Bencao states that oysters are "a drug for softening hard masses. Using bupleurum as a guide can remove hard masses under the ribs; using rong as a guide can eliminate tuberculosis on the neck; using rhubarb as a guide can eliminate swelling between the thighs; using rehmannia as a guide can replenish essence, astringe and stop urination. It is a drug for the blood of the kidney meridian."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "Cooking it can cure deficiency, blood and qi in women, and regulate the middle...Eating it raw in ginger and vinegar can cure erysipelas, fever after drinking, and quench thirst."

"Yi Lin Zong Yao" says: "Sweet and salty, cold. Clears the lungs and nourishes the heart, nourishes yin and blood." "Shi Fu Mi Shu" says: "Clears heat, regulates the middle, makes the skin smooth and beautiful."

The Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China states that oysters "can calm the mind, nourish yin and tonify yang, soften and disperse lumps, and astringe and consolidate. They are used for palpitations, insomnia, vertigo, tinnitus, scrofula, phlegm and cough, masses and lumps, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, spermatorrhea, metrorrhagia, and acid reflux."

Oyster diet therapy is suitable for symptoms such as insomnia, restlessness, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, and spermatorrhea caused by long-term illness and blood deficiency or depletion of yin and fluid after fever.

In the folk, it is even called "a gas station for men and a beauty salon for women". It can be said that oysters are well-known in the food, beauty and health circles. They are definitely the favorite of ordinary people for their good quality and low price!

Han Zhaozhao didn't even bother to put the water in the bucket. The rocky beach was uneven and the bucket couldn't be placed steadily. It fell over and over again, and it would be too time-consuming to pick it up again.

She simply dug the oysters off the reef and threw them on the ground. When there were a lot of them and they were moved to another place, she put them into the space.

"Crack, crack, clang, clang!" She dug for more than an hour before she dug out a small piece of oysters and got three big piles, probably weighing three or four hundred kilograms.

She only stopped digging with her sore hands after a pair of work gloves were worn out by the dryness.

After changing the place and running on the soft sand for a while following the tide, she discovered more than twenty sea cucumbers as long as a palm.

When I pinched it with my hand, it became hard! Hey, it feels really good, a bit like that... Han Zhaozhao thought obscenely.

Northern cold water sea cucumbers are so delicious!

Unlike the sea cucumbers in the southern waters, which are soft and make people lose their appetite at first sight.

Han Zhaozhao gave up other seafood and focused on finding valuable seafood. He walked around this area for a long time, bending over and staring, and finally picked up more than 30 plump and big sea cucumbers.

In addition, she also picked up more than a dozen abalone as big as fists from the rocks that had just emerged from the water.

These abalones are much bigger than the ones she picked up on the shore yesterday. Three or four of them weigh one kilogram each. They are definitely triple-headed abalones!

Valuable goods!

Han Zhaozhao immediately became excited. There must be something valuable under the sea!

She hurriedly put away the equipment she had used for fishing in the sea into her space, and waded through the water to climb up onto the slippery reef.

I returned to the space, found my diving equipment, and prepared to put it on and dive into the seabed to take a look.

Huh? Too big?

Han Zhaozhao touched his arms and legs. The diving suit was wrinkled and seemed a little too big. He looked like a child wearing adult clothes. It was so ugly and funny!

But she has to wear it. The water temperature is still very cold, and her small body may not be able to withstand it without a diving suit.

It's a bit big, but it looks a bit sloppy and is not very convenient to move around.

The main function of a diving suit is to prevent the body temperature from dissipating too quickly during diving, causing hypothermia.

Secondly, the diving suit can also protect the body from being cut by reefs and biological damage such as jellyfish and anemones.

As for whether it fits well or not, I can’t think about it now. It’s my own fault for not expecting to wear it in this era, so I prepared a small size in advance!

It’s good to have it, just use it!

With the oxygen tank on his back, Han Zhaozhao dived into the sea.

After getting into the water, she felt so relieved!

She was a fisherman in her previous life, so it can be said that she has a deep sense of belonging to the sea.

Every time she goes fishing, she goes diving, and sometimes even stays on the seabed for several days.

The colorful seabed made her linger.

It seems that the sea is her second home and diving makes her happy.

Playing with the fishes in the sea made her feel like she was also a creature in the sea and a companion of the fishes.

Due to the lower water temperature in the north, the seabed has fewer and shorter aquatic plants than in the southern waters, especially there is no underwater forest like that in the South China Sea.

Some reefs are even very desolate, and you can only find seaweed about a foot high when you swim closer.

Dark brown and light brown seaweed lie on the rocks on the seabed, just like the moss on the barren mountains in the north in winter. Some are sparse and some are dense, with occasional dark green broad-leaf seaweed mixed in.

There are also a few reddish-brown or purple knee-high wormwood-like algae swaying on the seabed with the ocean currents.

From a distance, it is not very eye-catching and is definitely not as colorful as the tropical waters in the south.

There are almost no corals, and colorful coral reefs are extremely rare. The seabed seems very barren, unlike the underwater world in the south, where all kinds of colorful tropical fish shuttle back and forth and the environment is very solemn and dignified.

When she swam closer, she discovered that there were plump large sea cucumbers hiding everywhere among the brown seaweed.

There are quite a few fish swimming around, but their colors are not as rich as those of tropical marine fish. Most of them are gray-black or brown, not bright or eye-catching.

The sharp and uneven reefs are covered with dark brown abalone, oysters with grayish white shells, and a large number of dark brown clams.

Hey, although the vegetation here doesn’t seem thick, there are actually a lot of good stuff.

Moreover, the seafood on this seabed is quite large, and it seems that no one has come to collect and harvest it for many years.

Yes, in this era, fishermen’s tools were still in their primitive state, and many fishing villages didn’t even have a motorized fishing boat.

Fishing is only possible near the coast, and you can't go to the sea farther away. This place is far away from human habitation, so isn't it an undeveloped virgin land?

Han Zhaozhao was extremely happy. There were many benefits to diving under the sea. There were so many good things in the sea that she could collect all by herself.

The light on the seabed is not very good. The Bohai Bay is where many freshwater rivers in the north converge into the sea, bringing a lot of mud and sand into the sea.

She held a waterproof flashlight in one hand and picked up plump sea cucumbers with the other, swinging her flippers leisurely as she searched every inch of the seabed.

Wow! These sea cucumbers are so big that she can’t hold one in one hand.

She picks, picks, picks!

You don’t even need a net bag, just pick up the things and put them directly into the big bucket in the space.

These are too small, skip them!

Gradually, Han Zhaozhao began to become picky. There were too many sea cucumbers, and the density of them was comparable to that of sea cucumber farms in later generations.

After wandering around for more than an hour, she picked up most of the large sea cucumbers on the seabed, leaving only the baby sea cucumbers for breeding.

She always kept in mind the principle of not draining the pond to catch fish.

Han Zhaozhao looked back at the big abalone on the reef on the seabed with nostalgia, his eyes full of reluctance and regret.

Those big abalones lay there quietly, not knowing whether they were laughing at her incompetence or feeling lucky to have escaped danger.

However, she knew she couldn't stay any longer, the time was up and she had to surface as soon as possible.