Chapter 156 Grouper? Rockfish
The four of them were so excited that one of them took a bowl and rushed directly to the reef. They only focused on the oysters growing naturally on the stone wall. They turned a blind eye to other mussels, sea melon seeds, bergamot, small abalone, cow eyes, etc.
Now how can these be as attractive as oysters?
It's not too late to dig out those things later.
Few people come to these isolated islands. Occasionally, people with boats at home may come here to dig out some food to take back. Every day, fish and shrimps also need some shellfish to change their taste. People like them come here every three days to try their luck.
It's relatively rare. People would rather spend their time fishing in the sea in exchange for money.
Ye Huimei also happily took a bowl and joined their fresh oysters. After the first bite, she jumped up in surprise.
"Ahhh...Pearl!"
"Ah? What the hell?" Ye Yaodong turned around when he heard her voice of surprise, "You dig one out!"
"Ah~ let me see, let me see..." Others also ran over in a hurry, and they were all envious.
"How come you two siblings are so lucky?"
"Yes, I have opened several of them, but they have never been opened."
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "It's normal that no oysters have been opened. I heard that only one oyster can be opened out of 20,000. My sister must be a newbie and have a lot of staff."
Maybe he is blessed by Mazu! He will be blessed with luck when he is reborn!
Ye Huimei's face flushed with excitement. She held the pearl in her hand and kept looking left and right in the sun. "Third brother, give me the two you just gave me to compare."
Ye Yaodong dug into his pocket and found that the two ones he just had were exactly the same size and were rare to be even and round.
"I'm a lot smaller than you."
"It's pretty good. I'll dig up another pair and make them into pearl earrings for dowry in the future." Xiao Xiao said jokingly, causing Ye Yaodong to give him a sharp look.
"Hurry up and get to work. No one has visited this island for I don't know how long. Each of the oysters has a 5+ rating. They are super fat. If you dig two of them, you will find pearls. Maybe there are some."
The specifications of oysters are divided by weight. 1+ means 1 tael upwards, 2+ means 2 taels upwards, 3+, 4+ and so on. If 5+ is a first-class large oyster.
These pearls are the result of the oyster's biological processes as it protects itself from foreign substances.
A grain of foreign material, such as a grain of sand, may get into the oyster and get stuck between the mantle and shell. This can irritate the mantle, just like having sawdust on your fingers and you may get irritated by rubbing it.
To protect themselves, the oyster's natural response will be to mask the irritant, which it does by covering the irritant with a nacreous layer of mantle.
Pearls in shellfish are usually formed in this way, that is, the probability is relatively low, and it takes a long time to form.
Everyone didn’t understand what 5+ was, so they just skipped it and continued working with a bowl in one hand and a tool in the other, full of motivation.
Ye Huimei no longer wanted to go fishing, but also worked hard to open oysters.
The oysters were so big that Ye Yaodong's small bowl was filled up in a short time. He straightened up and looked around, and found that the tide had receded again, and more shellfish were exposed on the surface of the reef.
He thought that since there was nothing left to store, he might as well dig it back and open it slowly. He didn't know if he could still find pearls.
These two are enough. Xiaoxiao's words just now reminded him that he can keep them for himself and make a pair of pearl earrings for his wife in the future.
He took the rice bowl back to the place where the pots and pans were placed, took out a few sacks from the bucket, spread out three and shook them and grabbed them together in his hands. He did not go to their side to join in the fun, but went in the opposite direction to dig nearby.
, I dig whatever I see and just throw it into sacks by category.
Any snail on the island is as big as a longan, and every mussel is growing whole. Not to mention other things, Ye Yaodong picked up so much that he only regretted that he didn't have enough.
At this time, he heard another excited cry...
"Ah ha ha ha~ I finally dug one out!" The fat man held up a bead and was ecstatic.
Ah Zheng knocked the bowl with envy, "Made, when did oysters and pearls become so common?"
"That's right!" Xiaoxiao agreed unbalancedly.
The fat man said proudly, "This is my good luck, today is not in vain."
"snort……"
The two of them, who still found nothing, continued to work hard. The fat man seemed to have tasted the sweetness, and poured the full oysters in the bowl directly into the pot, freeing the bowl to continue filling.
Ye Yaodong took a look and couldn't help but sigh that the fat man was lucky. Looking at the sack that had just been filled with a lot of oysters, he wondered if he could get pearls when he took it home?
When the goods on the short reef were almost dug, he climbed up to a higher place with the sack in hand. However, due to the slippage on the soles of his feet and the weight of the sack in his hands, he fell directly and fell to the ground on all fours...
"Ah~fuck~"
Others heard his exclamation and thought he had found something good again. When they turned around, they found that he had dropped it.
"Hahaha~ I was a little nervous. I thought you had found something big again." Ah Zheng patted his chest exaggeratedly on purpose.
Xiaoxiao also said exaggeratedly: "It made me panic~"
"You're so stupid, you don't even know how to care about me."
Ye Huimei said with a smile: "Since Third Brother, you can still curse, then it should be fine."
He patted his butt and stood up, saying speechlessly: "The tide has gone out. If it hadn't gone out, it would have slipped off the rocks and rolled into the sea. Even if it wasn't serious injury, it would have peeled off the skin. If you can't swim, you would be in trouble."
"Then why don't you sit down and rest for a while? Stop crawling?"
He looked up at the steep reef. There were many shells growing densely on it. He hesitated whether to climb up again?
At this time, I realized that my left arm was a little painful. When I raised it, I saw that there were several long cuts, the clothes were torn, and a few blood beads popped out.
"Damn, it's so sharp."
Ye Huimei heard his movement and walked over to take a look, "Are you really hurt? Then sit down and rest for a while. Third brother, I'll dig more for you."
He patted her head and said, "You don't have to worry about it. Go ahead and do your thing. Don't dig so hard. Be careful and don't climb up. The tide has just gone out. These rocks are very slippery and the shells on them are very sharp. You
Just walk around down there."
"Oh fine."
He threw the sack aside, rolled up his trousers, and carried the bucket and fire tongs. He planned to go out to sea first and look for good things around the low tide, or where it was easier to climb.
Ye Huimei thought about it and gave up crawling. She also followed Ye Yaodong's example and rolled up her trousers and followed him with a sack, planning to dig some at the bottom where it was easy to dig.
He walked down until the tide reached his calves, and then he walked outside the rock. He saw a large nine-segmented shrimp swimming in the tide. He picked it up with a pair of tongs and threw it directly into the bucket.
One of them is quite small, almost one or two in size.
Not far away, there was an octopus shaking its tentacles. He swam in the sea water, walked a few steps quickly, stepped forward and caught it in the bucket.
At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a group of light brown fish swimming in a shallow puddle between two rocks.
His eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly took a few steps forward. After a closer look, he recognized that this was not a rock clam?
The body is light brown, mixed with blue tones, there is a blue vertical stripe under the eye sockets on the head, and the fins are yellow, so it is also called yellow-winged in some places.
This is a species of sea bream. No wonder its shape looks like a sea bream from a distance, but I am not sure what kind of sea bream it is.
This kind of fish generally travels at night and is a nocturnal fish. During the day, it mostly gathers around independent reefs or at the junction of sand and mud, and disperses out to look for food at night.
At this moment, the tide receded and they were exposed. Ye Yaodong made a rough estimate and found that there were about twenty or thirty fish here. Each one seemed to weigh more than two or three pounds. They were not small. This fish was still carved.
A class of nobles, not cheap.
From his surprise discovery to the moment he got closer and made a mental assessment, it only took a few seconds.
He excitedly shouted directly to Ye Huimei: "Little sister, go help me get the fishing net, hurry up."
There was so much joy in his voice that everyone could hear it.
"Did you find something good, Third Brother?"
"What else? Dongzi?"
"Go and get it for me first."
The sea water kept washing, and he was worried that they would swim out of the puddle and run to the sea, so they would not be able to carry them all together.
Seeing how anxious he was, Ye Huimei hurried back to help him fish the net.
The fat man climbed down from the rock and curiously planned to go over to take a look and stretch his waist. His waist couldn't bear to keep bending like this.
"Little sister, what did your brother find again? So excited?"
"I don't know either, I didn't even see it."
Ye Huimei took the fishing net and hurriedly sent it over. When she got closer, she saw it was a group of snappers.
"Ah? So many fish! Third brother, what kind of sea bream is this? I only know black sea bream, yellow sea bream and true sea bream!"
Ye Yaodong lifted the fishing net and replied happily, "This is a rock clam."
"Grouper? No, this is not sea bream..."
"It's a clam, a rock clam."
"Stone clams?" The fat man also came over, "Damn, there's a whole puddle full of them!"
His voice immediately attracted Azheng, who was still struggling.
"What? Groupers are everywhere in the puddle?"
"What kind of grouper is it? Tiger spot? Isn't it?"
The two of them were so surprised that they quickly came down from the rock.
The fat man said angrily: "You idiot, you've already said it's a rockfish! You guys are still giving me grouper, grouper, tiger, your head, tiger, tiger grouper is not as valuable as this fish..."
Ye Yaodong quickly divided the fish in the puddle into buckets many times, and happily handed them to the two people who had just come over to see.
"It's a rock clam!"
"Fuck~"
The two of them didn't know what to say anymore, so they could only say "fuck" in unison.
"There are no pearls, there are no fish, there are no fish, it's a waste of time, I'll just watch you get rich alone..."
"Made, this bucket is worth a lot of money. Dongzi has found it again! Let's go and carry the bucket around. He must have found all the good things..."
Chapter completed!