Chapter 29: Return with a Full Load

Ye Yaodong walked down to the shallow water area with the bucket again, and when he got closer, he shouted to them, “Did you get anything?”

“Is picking up a cat’s eye snail considered a harvest?” A Guang looked depressed.

“It’s better than nothing.” He walked towards A Guang and returned the bucket to him.

“It’s so empty that I feel embarrassed to carry such a big bucket.”

“Hahaha~” He also found it a little funny, “It’s okay, just go back and change the name!”

“Hey~ Let’s talk about it later, a snail needs firewood, it’s a waste, I’ll make up the number for you!” As he said that, he threw it into Ye Yaodong’s bucket, with a ding-dong sound.

“Look for it again, it’s just ebb tide, the tide hasn’t risen so quickly, maybe there will be more harvest.”

“It doesn’t matter, you continue, I’ll go around the reef wall to see if there is anything to pick up.” A Guang shrugged and walked directly to the reef wall at the edge.

“I just visited this reef yesterday. I picked up the slightly larger clams and snails, and I opened all the oysters that could be opened. There will definitely be nothing there if you go there now.”

“It doesn’t matter. I’ll just take a look around. If there’s nothing, I’ll go back to eat first.”

“Okay, then you can see for yourself. It’s so sunny, so if you don’t find anything, you might as well go back and rest early.”

“Yeah.”

Ye Yaodong looked around and saw that his friends should have searched all around, so he simply walked towards the rocks near the shore.

Unexpectedly, after taking a few steps, he felt something hard under his feet. He squatted down and saw a cat’s eye snail sticking out a little from under the sand.

He picked it up, and with his thumb, he scraped and pinched the soft flesh on the cat’s eye snail’s head that was full of seawater and had no time to shrink back.

Zi~ Several streams of water flew out~
He chuckled and rushed to A Guang who was in front of him: “A Guang, look, I picked up a cat’s eye snail behind you when I was walking, and it was quite big.”

“Fuck!” A Guang turned around and cursed, “I just walked over.”

Ye Yaodong threw it into the bucket and said with a smile: “I must have been lucky these two days!”

“I shouldn’t have come out today. It’s so comfortable to stay at home and sleep. I must have eaten too much and ran out to bask in the sun.” He walked around the reef while saying this.

Under the scorching sun, Ye Yaodong continued to search for treasure on the beach. He didn’t find any big stuff afterwards. Going to the sea is really all about luck.

Forty years later, even if there is a high tide, there are not so many things to pick up on the beach. There may only be some jumping fish, stone crabs, and big clams.

I don’t know what the reason is. It may be due to overfishing or pollution. There are fewer seafood. Only some uninhabited islands can have more seafood.

Watching the tide rise little by little, everyone wants to go back. It’s already past one o’clock and everyone is starving.

“Go back. There shouldn’t be anything to pick up. The tide is coming in.” Xiaoxiao shook the bucket and shouted to everyone.

“Okay, okay, let’s go back. It’s so hot.”

“There’s not much to pick up. Dongzi picked them all up.”

Ye Yaodong glanced at his half-full bucket and felt quite satisfied. “I didn’t pick up anything later. There were only stone crabs and jumping fish. These two things should be enough for one bowl.”

“You have that tiger grouper. It’s worth it. This trip today is not in vain.”

“And that nest of snow clams! I made a profit. I can also make two or three bowls of scattered seafood.”

He smiled. His harvest today was indeed good. There will be a high tide tomorrow, so he can continue to come and see if his luck is really good.

“Let’s go back. I’m so hungry.” He kicked the big stone at his feet casually and planned to go back.

Who knew that at the moment he was about to turn around, a tentacle stretched out from under the stone, and his eyes widened in surprise. “Octopus?”

“Ah? You found an octopus again?” Ah Zheng, who was not far away from him, ran over happily.

“It hid really well. If I hadn’t kicked it, I guess its tentacles wouldn’t have come out.”

“Catch it out and see if it’s a red, black or white octopus. It looks like it has small tentacles, so it shouldn’t be big.”

There are three common octopuses in their waters. The white octopus is also called the tide watcher. It’s very small, but the most expensive and tastes the best. The red octopus is second, and the black octopus is the cheapest. The meat is not that good, and it’s often hard to bite.

He reached out along the tentacles and dug it out, and grabbed it hard. “It’s really tightly wrapped. It’s a black octopus. Trash.”

“Well, it’s better than us not having any.”

“Dongzi, you’re a bit lucky today! Before leaving, you can still find a black octopus.”

“Look at your bucket. Today’s harvest is not small.”

Ye Yaodong looked at the octopus tightly wrapped around his wrist. He wanted to throw it into the bucket but couldn’t. He could only pull it off with his other hand and throw it in. But when he threw it in, its tentacles were wrapped around the bucket again and tried to crawl out.

“Damn, it can really crawl. I can only hold it in my hand. Can you help me move that stone and see if there is anything else underneath?”

“Do you think there is another nest?”

Having said that, everyone still worked together to help turn the stone sideways.

“Damn, there really is one,” he was surprised, “but it’s a little small.”

“It’s a black seal again, not bad, it’s always good to have a harvest!”

Xiao Xiao squatted aside to help catch it and put it in Ye Yaodong’s hand, “Okay, you can go back, you really came back with a full load today.”

He grinned, he could really have an extra meal in the evening, and today’s work was not in vain, there was food and money to make.

“You guys look okay, although there is no good stuff, the little thing can make up one or two bowls.”

A Zheng shook the bucket in his hand, “It’s okay, not as good as the best but better than the worst, eh~ where is A Guang?”

Originally wanted to make fun of A Guang, but didn’t expect to see him.

After his reminder, everyone realized that A Guang seemed to have disappeared.

“A Guang walked around the reef, but didn’t get anything. He went back because he was unhappy.” It’s true that he didn’t get anything. He visited here yesterday, so it would be strange if he got anything.

“He came out to bask in the sun for nothing.” A Wei was a little gloating.

“It’s okay. Let’s get our things together and go to his house to drink in the evening.” Ye Yaodong suggested.

It’s normal for friends to eat my food and I eat yours. He even got a free meal yesterday.

“Okay, it’s pretty good if we all get together, and we can have a decent table.”

“Let’s call Fatty. It doesn’t matter if Haozi is not at home.”

“The dead fat guy won’t come to bask in the sun, but he will definitely come to drink!”

“Let him bring two kilograms of rice wine brewed at home.”

“That’s fine.”

Everyone had already arranged the wine and food for the evening.

(End)