Digging hard
Ye Huimei happily looked at the bucket full of rock clams and said with bright eyes: "Third brother, how much does this fish cost per pound? Is it valuable?"
"Of course it's valuable. This is a noble member of the sea bream family. It's worth at least six or seven yuan per pound. It should be there."
"Ah? So expensive!"
Ye Huimei was stunned for a moment. She thought that one or two yuan was worth a lot, but she didn't expect that the fish was worth several yuan.
"Then this bucket of yours is worth hundreds, isn't it?"
"It's a must. I just got a big one. It looks like it weighs three or four pounds. It will definitely sell for a good price!"
Ye Yaodong felt so beautiful. The depression that he had just fallen over had already been wiped away when he discovered these fish.
“Fuck, fuck, I have one here too~”
Ah Zheng's excited voice suddenly came from a distance. Everyone hurried over in surprise. Ye Yaodong was also surprised. What else?
Taking a closer look, it’s really true!
"How many are there, Azheng?"
He was so happy that he almost showed his 18 teeth, "Not as many as you, but there are still 17 or 18."
"I'm so jealous that my back molars will break!" Xiaoxiao made a bitter look, almost crying.
"Hahaha~ Did you get poop yesterday? That's why you carry it like this today?" The fat man laughed at him with gloating.
Xiaoxiao kicked him directly, "Oh, you just got shit."
"Maybe there are more. Let's have a look. These fish live in schools. They stay around Jiao Shi during the day and only go out to look for food at night."
"What Dongzi said is human language!"
Xiaoxiao reluctantly carried the bucket and continued to circle around, no matter where the sea water was, it was full to his knees. It was not until he picked up two blue crabs stacked on top of each other that he temporarily soothed his depressed mood.
Ye Yaodong slipped the full bucket aside and continued with the empty bucket. Suddenly he heard another female voice exclaiming.
He happened to be walking towards Ye Huimei with a bucket, "What did you find?"
"Third brother, there are so many big snails on the rocks here! So big!"
Ye Yaodong looked in the direction of her finger and saw that the pieces were the size of an adult's fist, and some were as big as the mouth of a bowl!
"You're lucky, these are worth dozens of dollars, pick them up quickly."
"Uh-huh!"
Ye Huimei nodded happily as if she was pounding garlic. She used all her strength to break off the snails, which were attached to the stone wall one by one. She needed to use a lot of force to break them off.
Seeing two of them in the shallow water below, she tried to reach out to pick them up but was reminded by Ye Yaodong, "The ones in the water must be hermit crabs."
She picked it up and saw that it was really it!
"Meaty snails are usually attached to stone walls, especially when the tide is low. Those that fall into the sea are usually hermit crabs."
"I know, but looking at such a big size, I feel like it would be a shame if I missed it if I didn't pick it up and take a look."
"Um."
Seeing that she continued to break off the snails, he walked around again carrying the empty bucket.
When you see fish, shrimps and crabs, you put them into buckets first. If there are no valuable things on the stone walls, leave them there first. They can't escape anyway. Just go around and check them out.
But he didn't expect that there were actually kelp legs here, and they were bigger than the ones he dug last time. When he saw a small piece growing above his head, his eyes suddenly shone with joy.
Working from bottom to top, he buckled the low places first. After buckling, he put all the kelp legs he could see into the bucket, regardless of the fact that the rocks were slippery and difficult to climb, and there were all kinds of sharp shells on them.
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Maybe it was because the tide on this island never receded, and the terrain was extremely steep, so few people visited it before. The kelp legs that grew on it were all very big, and the sizes of other shellfish in their shells were also larger than what he had seen a few times before.
But he didn't even take a glance at it, and just waited to put it in a sack later.
During this period, he occasionally heard some exclamations, and he knew that they had found some good things. He just raised his head and glanced, not curious, mainly because he was too lazy to run around, and the island was not high.
, the time of high and low tide is short.
When the bucket was full, he had to climb down to find a sack to empty it.
I only brought two buckets in total. One bucket contained rock clams. At the bottom of this bucket were several rock clams, miscellaneous fish and crabs. They were all filled with kelp feet, so I had to pour them into a sack first.
Free up the bucket and come back to continue filling it.
He walked to the Scorpion Reef and specially took a sack to contain the chicken feet. It was different from other shellfish, so as to save time on picking. When he docked later, he would seize the time to send it to Hongsheng while it was fresh.
But he remembered that Hong Wenle had said before that if there were any more in the future, he would send them over again.
Just at this time, the fat man came over with his full bucket of shellfish and poured it into the sack. He roughly mixed all the shellfish and put them into the bucket without sorting them.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but said: "Why don't you divide it into pieces? Pick one kind at a time? Change it when it's full? There are so many on the reef anyway."
He scratched his head and said, "I dig whatever I see."
Ye Yaodong opened his bag, shook it, took out the chicken feet mixed in it, and showed it to him, "Don't say that my brother didn't remind you, this thing is not called Buddha's Hand, it's called Chicken of the Sea, and it's much more expensive than Buddha's Hand."
"Last time I picked out a bucket of more than five kilograms and sold it for 100 yuan."
"What? 100 yuan?" The fat man's eyes almost bulged out, "Isn't this a Buddha's hand? What's the sea chicken's feet? The sea duck's feet?"
"This scientific name is gooseneck barnacle, and its common name is kelp's foot. The neck of Buddha's hand is shorter, and this one's neck is longer. Didn't you find it?"
“Damn it, it’s really true, you didn’t tell me earlier!”
"I didn't know you also dug it? I just dug a bucket and came over, and saw that you also had it in your bag, so I reminded you. I didn't see you digging it last time, and that time
I’m not sure how much it can be sold for.”
"It's not too late to know now. This thing is so valuable, so you have to work hard to dig it up. I'll tell Azheng and Xiaoxiao. I just saw that they seemed to have found it too."
When Ye Yaodong saw him turning around and about to leave, he couldn't help but pull him, pointed at the pots and pans on the ground and reminded: "It's already noon, shouldn't you be cooking noodles?"
"Hey, what are you going to eat? I don't have time, so I'm going to be hungry!"
Making money is important, who has time to cook?
"Made, I thought there would be something to eat today. I brought everything with me, but I stopped cooking..."
"You can cook if you want, but I won't cook, I don't have time..." After saying that, the fat man directly pulled the clothes back from his hands, and then hurriedly ran away, for fear that he would be caught too late.
Ye Yaodong looked at the pots and pans on the floor and said, "I don't have time to cook either!"
He just picked up the bucket and sack and hurriedly continued to fight.
The pot was filled with the oysters they dug, and there was nothing left to put them in. He didn't want to bother doing such a thing.
I thought that the fat man was used to being a salty fish, so he could come over and act as a support person. I didn’t expect that he would be so active this time, because money is so attractive!
Passing by Ye Huimei, he saw that there were a few scattered things in her bucket. He also told her about it, which made her eyes shine brightly, as if she had been given a shot of blood and she was full of energy again.
He shook his head and walked aside again. This time he dug whatever he saw.
The number of chicken feet was indeed too small, so he couldn't just look for them. He brought both sacks and buckets with him. When one sack was almost full, he carried it to the boat first, lest the tide would come in late and it would be too late to move it.
He didn't climb up the rocky wall that was too steep, as it would be terrible if he fell off. He only climbed the easy-to-climb rocks, which were not very high.
He was digging on the reef, and Ye Huimei passed him unknowingly and walked along the reef to the untouched area on his right. The seawater was up to her knees, so she didn't care. Anyway, the third brother was diagonally above her.
At this moment, she exclaimed again, "Third brother, third brother, there are rock clams here again!"
"ah?"
Ye Yaodong quickly and carefully threw the half-full sack down, then jumped down from it with a bucket and walked to Ye Huimei's position. She had poured all the contents of the bucket into the sack, freeing up the bucket to hold the rock clams.
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"Hey, there are a lot of rock clams around here."
"Uh-huh."
Seeing the joy on her face, he couldn't help but ask: "Are you tired? If you are tired, go and rest for a while. The tide is about to rise."
"It's not tiring, it's quite fun. I'm always pleasantly surprised every time I find something. I feel so happy when I see the sack getting fuller and fuller. And the tide is about to come in. Shouldn't we hurry up and dig more?"
"Okay, this sack is almost full. Let me carry it to the boat for you first."
"Yeah! Thank you, third brother."
It was rare for Ye Huimei to be so polite to him. In fact, her third brother had changed a lot during this period, and she was happy with his change from the bottom of her heart.
In order to maintain balance, his sister's cargo was placed on one end of the boat and his on the other.
After releasing it, he hurriedly took the time to look for it. He could find rock clams one after another, and maybe there were more. Fatty and the others probably found them on the other side too.
But he was disappointed. After turning around for more than half a circle, he couldn't see it anymore, and seeing that the tide seemed to be rising, he didn't dare to waste any more time.
I just packed one bag of oysters, half a bag of chicken feet, and three sacks with just a little bit in the bottom.
"Hurry up, the tide is coming in soon." He shouted at the top of his lungs. I don't know if they heard it. Anyway, he worked hard after shouting.
Because he was in a hurry, he didn't classify anything this time. He picked out everything he could see and threw it into the bag.
By the time he loaded everything and carried it onto the boat, the water had already reached the small beach at Scorpion Rock.
The others were surprisingly diligent and clung to the rocks, and he helped get the pots and pans to the boat.
He waded through the sea water to find it, "Brothers, it's time to finish the work!"
"Ah? The tide is high?"
"So fast?"
"Damn it, I didn't dig much! I was just looking for that sea chicken leg." The fat man patted his thigh in annoyance, "Oh, hiss, it hurts."
Ye Yaodong hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, otherwise when the tide is full and the waves come up, how will you carry your things on the boat?"
"Dongzi, pick it up for me and carry it to the boat with me. The water is almost up to my butt.
There is another chapter which I am currently typing, I am not sure when it will be finished.
Chapter completed!