Chapter 8 Scouring the sea and digging for sand clams
Their home is not far from the beach, and it only takes ten minutes to walk there. However, after arriving at the beach, everyone did not go directly to the beach, but continued walking along the shore and outside the pier.
There are also sand clams that can be dug under the beach, but you need to look for them. Their beach is not small. Sand clams are not distributed in every location, and they cannot be dug out with just a few shovels.
Sand clam is a kind of clam, it can also be called flower clam, but people in the village are accustomed to call it sand clam because it is dug out from the beach.
Even though they are dug out from the beach, most of them don't have sand in them. In rare cases, there is sand in them, and they only need to be raised for one night before they can be eaten.
Use it to make soup or noodles and put a few clams in it to make it more delicious.
Those clams in the market in later generations were not liked by the villagers. They were not as fresh as the clams they dug themselves from the beach, and the meat quality was not as good as their sand clams.
Moreover, the sand clams on their beach are somewhat different from the flower clams on the market. The sand clams come in different sizes, the small ones are about the size of a fingernail, and the big ones are the same as flower clams, but the small ones are also very fleshy.
There are two high tides and two low tides every day. During the daily low tide, there will be children digging and playing, but on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, there will be more people.
Moreover, people in their village are accustomed to digging outside the pier, because only on the first day of the lunar month and the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the tide will recede enough and the beach on the pier will be exposed. It is usually full no matter whether it is high tide or low tide.
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Whenever it is exposed, there are many sand clams to dig under the beach, and the rocks on the shore will also be exposed. There will also be sea melon seeds on the rocks, sea oysters can be pried, and spicy snails can be picked up.
Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea!
If you live by the sea and work hard, you won't go hungry.
After arriving at the pier, they walked slowly down the steep stone slope. By this time, the tide had receded, revealing a small beach. On the beach, there were already several women squatting there and digging for sand.
Generally, fishing is done by women and children at home. Ye Yaodong has not been to the beach since he got married. He is not a child, so he has no novelty to this beach.
But after he was reborn, he felt a sense of age, and his mood was different. He was a little more fresh about this beach.
He took the lead and walked over to look at the bucket next to the woman in the village. "Is there anything dug? Oh, there really is. How long has it been digging?"
Everyone was digging hard on the beach with spatulas, and no one paid any attention to him.
When a man idles around all day long, do you think they are the same as him? Wouldn't it be better to spend more time gossiping?
No one paid any attention to him, and Ye Yaodong was not annoyed. Seeing his son squatting alone on the beach and playing in the sand, he walked back to his wife and saw that in just a short period of time, there were already six or seven more things in her basin.
Sand clam.
Hearing two more ding-dong sounds, he squatted down and said, "You dig pretty fast."
The spatula is the most practical tool for digging clams, bar none!
Some people don't push the wooden handle up, so they use a spatula to scrape it there.
Lin Xiuqing also held the spatula, and she said without raising her head: "Practice makes perfect, and it doesn't require any skills, just dig the sand."
Well, he did this a lot when he was a child. Children who grew up by the sea, the most fun they had was digging in the sand.
Even though it was coming, he couldn't just watch. There was no spatula to dig with, so he just used his hands.
Ye Yaodong picked out the small bubble holes on the beach and found a sand clam, and he was sure to get it right.
Listening to the continuous ding-dong sounds in the basin, Lin Xiuqing looked sideways, so fast?
Ye Yaodong noticed her gaze and raised his eyebrows, "What are you doing? Do you think I'm awesome? Do you want me to teach you?"
As he spoke, he slapped the surface of the beach with both hands, and then another!
He dug into the basin and said, "This thing is very easy to dig out. I used to dig it out a lot when I was a kid."
"How do you get it right?" She was really curious.
Although her natal family is in the next town, her area is not close to the sea or mountains.
After being married to the seaside for several years, she always followed her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. She did whatever they wanted. Every time she went out to sea, she followed her. Everyone also used a spatula to go there in small pieces, unlike him.
It's buckled like this.
Ye Yaodong pointed to the small holes under the beach, "Did you see these? Sand clams also need to breathe. They breathe through these holes. There must be holes underneath."
While talking, he demonstrated and took out two more.
He's very good at buttonholes.
That is because it is approaching the first day of the new year and the tide has just receded on the beach at the pier, so it is so easy to get money. The beach in the middle of the beach is not so easy.
Lin Xiuqing also dug out curiously, and sure enough!
"Then why use a spatula? Just dig it out!" You have to dig hard with a spatula. After a long time, your hands will become very sore.
"You still have to use a spatula. It's more convenient to have a tool. I didn't have a spatula, so I dug it out with my hands. Some of them are on the surface and can breathe without the need for small holes. After a while, the beach will be stepped on.
You can’t see the holes anymore, that is, the tide has just gone out, so you can only see the bubble holes.”
Lin Xiuqing kept watching him talk. For so many years, except for the period when they first got married, they rarely had normal communication. He was always seen and heard, and when he came back, he would only eat and sleep, and at most he would ask a few questions every day.
Most of them looked carefree, and for a moment he spoke so seriously and taught her something, which really made her a little uncomfortable.
"What are you looking at? Dig!"
"oh!"
But after a while, more and more people came to dig clams. People these days are all very hardworking, except Ye Yaodong.
After squatting for a while, he felt his legs were a little numb, so he stood up, twisted his waist and neck, and looked at the sea in the distance.
Just dig for a while and show off a little, but don't show off too hard.
The tide was still receding at this time, and there were many small boats parked near the pier. Due to the tide, many boats were stranded on the beach and could only wait for the next high tide before they could return to the sea.
The time now is 9:30. Today's tide should reach the bottom at 10:30, and then start to rise again. It will be full around 4:30 in the evening. It will bottom out again around 11:30 at night, and it will be full around 7:00 in the morning.
Every day the tide rises and falls about 50 minutes later than the day before. Although Ye Yaodong has just been reborn today, he can tell by looking at the tide what time the tide will rise and fall tomorrow.
No wonder his eldest brother and his second brother wanted to go out to watch the tide and sail the boat. As the first day of the new year was approaching, the tide would recede even further in the middle of the night. The tide would reach the bottom at 12 o'clock on the first day of the new year. They would probably go out to sea around 1-2 o'clock at night.
The tide must not have risen much at that time.
There is not enough tide and the boat cannot get out.
Chapter completed!