Chapter 11: Selling the Blue Crabs (Please collect!)

Everyone in the Ye family also saw Ye Yaodong’s harvest at this time. Ye’s mother was surprised and asked first: “You also caught two blue crabs?”

While she was talking, she pinched them with her hands and said happily: “They are quite hard. The two of them should be more than one pound in total, and they can be sold for one or two yuan!”

“What are you selling? Take them home and eat them yourself!”

“You only know how to eat, you loser. Your wife can’t make 1 yuan a day by fishing. These two blue crabs can be sold for one or two yuan, and you actually want to eat them!” Ye’s mother glared and slapped him several times.

Ye Yaodong took two steps back to avoid his mother’s palm. His mother worked all year round and her hands were covered with calluses. It hurt when she hit him.

“Mom, I didn’t think about eating it myself. It’s rare to catch two blue crabs. I want to stew them for the children at home…”

Mother Ye’s face instantly became better, and her tone was also gentle. It was a good thing that she would think about her children. “There are so many children at home, who can eat these two?”

“One foot for each person to drink some soup is fine!”

“There are so many children, there is no crying and fighting. This thing is worth some money, so you should sell it. Yesterday your father also left a few swimming crabs and a pound of small sword shrimps. Eat those.”

Ye Yaodong frowned. These two blue crabs together only weighed more than a pound. According to the current price, they only sold for more than one yuan, which was too cheap compared to the future.

Blue crabs are also called sturgeons, and they also call farmed blue crabs vegetable sturgeons.

Wild blue crabs in the future are cheaper at the dock, and they all sell for 150 per pound. Wild blue crabs are not available in the market. The market is full of farmed blue crabs, which also cost 150 per pound.

Seeing him frown, Ye’s mother winked at him and snatched the rope, “I’ll take it to the dock to sell it. You wait here and dig some more sand clams. The tide will soon rise.”

This stupid guy, his wife worked so hard to make money, and he finally caught two blue crabs. They were about to split up again. Instead of thinking about selling some money to give to his wife to save, he actually wanted to share it?

Ye Yaodong watched his mother walk quickly towards the shore and had to give up. Selling a little bit is a little bit. It was also because he didn’t understand it for a while. After all, the money is valuable now, so it’s good to sell a little bit.

Lin Xiuqing saw her mother-in-law carrying the blue crabs and selling them quickly, and she was relieved. Those two blue crabs were worth the fishing net she made for several days.

Everyone has selfish desires. Her husband is lazy and can’t make money like his elder and second brothers. She doesn’t want to give out the extra one or two dollars she makes to everyone.

When Mrs. Ye saw what her mother did, her mouth pursed, but she didn’t say anything. She had to sell it too, so she squatted down and continued to dig.

Sister-in-law Ye was a little curious, “Yaodong, where did you catch the blue crabs? No wonder I didn’t see you just now.”

“Over there!”

After what happened just now, he didn’t want to talk to these people. He casually shook his head, gave a direction, and walked towards his wife, looking at the almost full washbasin beside her.

“It’s a good harvest. I dug a lot.”

Lin Xiuqing smiled lightly, “It’s okay, but it’s almost high tide. It will recede at night, so I can only come again tomorrow.”

She glanced at his trouser legs rolled up high, and then looked at the rocks, “Did you go outside the tide to dig these?”

At least he smiled at him, and Ye Yaodong nodded, “Well, there’s nothing on the stone wall nearby, and the clams and snails are only a little bit big, so I went out a little, and I guess those weird-shaped big rocks blocked my figure, so you didn’t see it.”

Has he really become more diligent? He actually dug for so long? No wonder there was no figure nearby, and he actually went outside the tide.

“These clams and snails are still a little small.” She reached out and picked them up in the basket.

“I have tried my best to dig up all the edible ones. Clams are okay. They will open when they are cooked. Although they are a little small, they should be quite meaty. The snails are a little small. Take them home and divide them. Let the children smash them with stones and steam them with scallion oil.”

“What? Scallion oil? Do you need oil to cook snails? Just boil them with water and pick out the meat. Where did you get the idea to eat snails with oil?”

Lin Xiuqing frowned and looked at him in disbelief. It’s true that you don’t know how expensive tea, rice, oil and salt are if you don’t manage the household!

“Uh… heh… I heard that. Let’s blanch them.” Ye Yaodong smiled awkwardly. He habitually brought the way of eating from his family in the future. He forgot that he was eating lard now, so it was not popular to cook like this.

Just blanch fresh seafood. Their family now blanchs it whenever possible, so they don’t waste money on seasoning.

Lin Xiuqing frowned and looked at him strangely, then squatted down again, “Mom hasn’t come yet, I’ll dig for a while, you can take your son to the shore and wait.”

“Okay!”

Just right, he didn’t want to do it anymore! It’s uncomfortable to soak your feet in the water for too long.

Ye Chengyang buried both of his feet in the sand, still giggling there, he directly picked up the child who was playing enthusiastically, and then stuck him under his armpits, and took his harvest to the shore first.

As soon as the child was clamped under the armpit, he started to cry loudly, his limbs flailing, and he jumped out two words at a time, “I want to play, I want to play, no, go home!”

“The tide is rising, everyone has to go home!”

“No, no, Yangyang, I want to play!”

“Next time you come, there is still corn at home. Do you want to eat it? If you go back too late, your brothers and sisters will eat it all.”

When it comes to food, the child does not struggle, but says: “I want to eat, Yangyang, I want to eat!”

After Ye Yaodong got ashore, he put him down and let him sit on a stone on the shore, “Sit down and wait for your mother to finish digging before we go back together.”

“Hungry…”

“Why didn’t you say you were hungry when you were playing just now? Wait for me!”

Ye Yaodong was used to the dissatisfaction of his two sons decades later, and they would talk back from time to time and criticize him with disappointment. I am not used to seeing him become so small and speak so softly now. The contrast is too big, and I can’t feel pity for him…

Ye Chengyang’s mouth was flat, and he looked a little aggrieved. He was about to cry but didn’t cry. His mother, who happened to be walking over, and Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua who had parked the boat saw him.

Ye’s mother felt distressed immediately, “What’s wrong, Yangyang? Who bullied you? Tell grandma, and grandma will beat him!”

With a backer, Ye Chengyang opened his mouth and howled loudly, “Dad, it’s dad!”

Ye’s mother immediately pretended to hit Ye Yaodong twice, “Grandma has already beaten your dad for you, be good, don’t cry.”

Ye Chengyang immediately closed his mouth and stopped howling, and his tears shrank freely. Only when his eyelashes were a little wet did you see the traces of crying.

Ye Yaodong couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth!
Naughty child!
No wonder he is so unpleasant even when he grows up!
“Grandma, I’m hungry, corn!”

“Okay, we’ll go home and cook right away.”

After comforting her grandson, Ye’s mother shouted to the daughters-in-law on the beach: “Go home, stop digging, it’s getting late, it’s time to go home and eat.”

The three daughters-in-law had been growling with hunger for a long time. When they saw their mother-in-law calling them, they each took a washbasin and bucket and went ashore, because the tide was coming up soon anyway.

(End of Chapter 11)