Chapter 1684: Butterfly Effect 4
Next to them, the soldiers pulled up the net, and everyone who was chatting quickly went forward to help, except for Feng Qingxue and the old squad leader.
The old squad leader said to Feng Qingxue, "Since he’s an old comrade, when you return to the island, you might visit him. I’m telling you, Commander Du is a nice guy, but his wife isn’t easy to get along with, so be careful."
Feng Qingxue’s heart flashed a question mark, "Why?"
The old squad leader waved his hand, "It’s not good to gossip behind people’s backs, you’ll find out in due time. Pick a few pretty shellfish; later, I won’t stir-fry them."
There are many ways to cook shellfish, such as cold dressing and stir-frying.
To avoid damaging the shell, you need to use steaming and boiling to first extract the meat.
Feng Qingxue picked more than twenty shellfish with lovely patterns, and the old squad leader put them in a fresh water basin, added some salt, and let them rid of sand, then steamed them for over ten minutes with the rice, and took out the meat.
Feng Qingxue was currently free, so she helped out in the kitchen.
"Hey! There’s a pearl inside this shell!" The old squad leader exclaimed, and sure enough, he cut out three pearls—one large and two small—from the shellfish meat, all orange-red and shining with a gentle, crystalline gloss.
Feng Qingxue leaned over for a look, her eyes brightened, "Beauty Beads!"
Beauty Beads are a particularly expensive type of pearl, very costly and extremely rare. They can’t be artificially cultivated, with a probability of occurring at thousands to one. Feng Qingxue had not seen Beauty Beads in her past life or this one, but living in an era with abundant information, she had naturally read about them online. The orange-red Beauty Beads before her were the most precious.