Chapter 156: Try hard to scoop

Ye Huimei looked happily at the bucket full of stone-shell fish, her eyes shining as she said, "Third Brother, how much is this fish per jin? Is it valuable?"

"Of course it's valuable. This is a noble of the sea bream family. It's worth at least six or seven yuan per jin, should be."

"Ah? So expensive!"

Ye Huimei was stunned instantly. She thought it would be a lot if it was worth one or two yuan, didn't expect this fish to be worth several yuan.

"Then you have so many in this bucket, isn't it worth several hundred?"

"Must be. Just now there was a big one, looked like it was three or four jin, definitely can sell for a good price!"

Ye Yaodong felt beautiful in his heart. The depression from falling just now had been swept away when he discovered these fish.

"Holy crap holy crap—I have some here too—"

A-Zheng's excited voice suddenly came from afar. Everyone was surprised and hurriedly went over. Ye Yaodong also felt unexpected, there's more?

Walking closer to look, it really was!

"How many, A-Zheng?"

He was so happy he almost showed 18 teeth. "Not as many as you, but there are seventeen or eighteen."

"Envious to the point that my back teeth are about to break!" Xiao Xiao had a bitter face, and his expression was almost crying.

"Hahaha—did you get poop on you yesterday? That's why you're so unlucky today?" Fatty gloated and mocked him.

Xiao Xiao kicked him directly. "Damn, you're the one who got poop on you."

"Maybe there's more, everyone look again. This fish lives in groups, staying around the reefs during the day, and only goes out to forage at night."

"What Dongzi said is reasonable!"

Xiao Xiao unwillingly carried the bucket and continued to turn around, not caring that in some positions the seawater was up to his knees, until he picked up two green crabs overlapping each other, which temporarily soothed his depressed mood.

Ye Yaodong carried the full bucket aside, took the empty bucket, and continued. Suddenly, he heard another female exclamation.

He happened to be carrying the bucket and wanted to go to Ye Huimei's side. "Found what good things?"

"Third Brother, there are many big conch shells on the reef here! So big, so big!"

Ye Yaodong looked in the direction of her finger. Whole patches were the size of an adult's fist, and a few were as big as a bowl!

"Good luck, these are also worth several tens, hurry up and scoop them down."

"Mm mm!"

Ye Huimei nodded happily like pounding garlic. She tried hard to pry these snails. One by one, they were adsorbed on the stone wall, and she needed to use a lot of strength to pry them down.

Seeing that there were two in the shallow water beach below, she tried to reach out to pick them up but was reminded by Ye Yaodong. "The ones in the water are definitely hermit crabs."

She picked them up and looked, it really was!

"Snails with meat are generally adsorbed on the stone wall, especially when the tide recedes. The ones that fall into the sea are generally hermit crabs."

"I know, but looking at such a big size, I feel that if I don't pick them up and look, it would be a pity if I missed them."

"Mm."

Seeing her continue to pry those snails, he carried the empty bucket and went around everywhere.

Seeing fish, shrimp, and crabs, he put them into the bucket first. For things on the stone wall, if they weren't very valuable, he left them for now. Anyway, they couldn't run away. Going around once was just scouting.

Just didn't expect that there were also gooseneck barnacles here, and the size was larger than the ones he dug last time. He saw a small patch growing above his head, and suddenly his eyes lit up with joy.

From bottom to top, he scooped the low positions first. After scooping, he didn't care that the rocks were slippery and difficult to climb, and there were all kinds of sharp shelled things growing on top. He collected all the gooseneck barnacles he could see into the bucket.

Maybe it's because the tide on this island doesn't recede to the bottom, and the terrain is particularly steep, few predecessors have visited, the gooseneck barnacles growing on it are super large, and the sizes of other shelled shellfish are also much larger than the ones he saw a few times before.

But he didn't even take a look at them, waiting to use a sack to fill them casually later.

During the period, he occasionally heard some exclamations. He knew with his butt that they also found some good things. He just looked up and didn't feel curious, mainly because he was too lazy to run around. This small island has low terrain, and the time for rising and falling tides is short.

When his bucket was full, he had to climb down to find a sack to dump it.

They had only brought two buckets in total. One bucket was filled with stone-shell fish, and the bottom of this bucket had a few stone-nine-public fish, some miscellaneous fish, and crabs, while the top was filled with sea chicken feet. They could only pour them into a sack first to empty the bucket so they could continue filling it.

He walked to the scorpion reef position, deliberately took a sack to hold gooseneck barnacles, and separated them from other shellfish, saving the trouble of picking them later. When approaching the shore later, he would seize the time to send them to Hongsheng while they were fresh.

He remembered that Hong Wenle had said before that if there were any in the future, he should send them over.

Just at this moment, Fatty also carried his full bucket of shellfish over to dump into the sack. He roughly picked all the shellfish and put them into the bucket, without classification.

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but say: "You don't separate them? Pick one kind at a time? Change after filling? Anyway, there are so many on the reef."

He scratched his head. "I dig whatever I see."

Ye Yaodong pulled his bag open and shook it, took out the gooseneck barnacles mixed in it, and showed him. "Don't say I didn't remind you as a brother. This thing isn't called Buddha's hand, it's called gooseneck barnacle. It's much more expensive than Buddha's hand. Last time I picked a bucket separately, over five jin, and sold it for 100 yuan."

"What? 100 yuan?" Fatty's eyes were about to pop out. "Isn't this Buddha's hand? What gooseneck barnacle? Sea duck foot?"

"The scientific name of this is goose-neck barnacle, the common name is gooseneck barnacle. The neck of Buddha's hand is shorter, the neck of this is longer, didn't you notice?"

"Holy crap, it really is. You didn't say so earlier!"

"I didn't know you also dug it? I also just dug a bucket and walked over, saw you had some in your bag, so I reminded you. Last time I dug, I didn't see you guys dig it, and at that time, I wasn't sure how much it could sell for."

"It's not too late to know now. This thing is so valuable, must dig hard. I'll go tell A-Zheng and Xiao Xiao, I just saw them seem to have dug it too."

Seeing him turn around and about to leave, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but pull him and pointed to the pots, bowls, and ladles on the ground to remind him: "It's noon, shouldn't you cook noodles?"

"Damn, eat what? I have no time, starve!"

Making money is important, who has time to cook things?

"Damn, thought there would be things to eat today, brought everything so completely, actually not cooking anymore..."

"You cook if you want to cook, I'm not cooking, no time..." After speaking, Fatty pulled his clothes directly from his hand and then hurried away, fearing that he would be caught as a strong laborer if he was late.

Ye Yaodong looked at the pots, bowls, and ladles on the ground and left a sentence: "I don't have time to cook either!"

Then he carried the bucket and sack and hurried to continue fighting.

The pot was filled with the oysters they dug. Wanting to empty it, there was nothing to hold them. He didn't want to bother with this kind of thing.

Thought Fatty was used to being a salted fish and could come over to serve as logistics, didn't expect him to be so active this time. The charm of money is still great!

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Passing by Ye Huimei's side, seeing that she also had a few scattered in the bucket, he also told her about it, which made her eyes shine, as if she had been injected with chicken blood and was full of motivation again.

He shook his head and walked to the side. This time he dug whatever he saw.

The number of gooseneck barnacles was indeed too small. He couldn't just stare at this and look for it. He brought both the sack and the bucket. When a sack was almost full, he carried it to the small boat first, fearing that it would be high tide later and it would be too late to move.

He didn't climb up the reef wall that was too steep. If he fell down, it would be terrible. He only climbed the ones that were easy to climb and not very high.

He dug on the reef, and Ye Huimei unknowingly surpassed him, walking along the reef to the area on his right that had not been involved. The seawater was up to her knees, but she didn't care. Anyway, Third Brother was diagonally above her.

Just then, she exclaimed again, "Third Brother, Third Brother, there are stone-shell fish here too!"

"Ah?"

Ye Yaodong hurriedly and carefully threw down the half-full sack first, then jumped down from above carrying the bucket, and walked to Ye Huimei's position. She had already poured the contents of her bucket into the sack, emptying it to hold the stone-shell fish.

"Damn, there are so many stone-shell fish around here."

"Mm mm."

Looking at her joy, he couldn't help but ask: "Tired? If tired, go to the side and rest for a while, it's about to be high tide."

"Not tired, quite fun. Every time there is a discovery, it's so surprising. Looking at the sack getting fuller and fuller, I'm so happy, and it's about to be high tide, shouldn't we seize the time and dig a bit more?"

"Okay, this sack is almost full, I'll carry it to the boat for you first."

"Mm mm! Thank you Third Brother."

It was rare for Ye Huimei to be so polite to him. It was really because her Third Brother had changed so much during this period, and she was also happy from the bottom of her heart for his changes.

To maintain balance, one end of the boat was filled with his little sister's goods, and the other end was filled with his.

After putting them away, he hurriedly seized the time to look for more. Since he could find stone-shell fish one after another, there might be more, and he estimated that Fatty and the others had also found some on the other side.

But he was disappointed. He went around more than half a circle and didn't see them again, and looking at the tide, it seemed to have signs of rising. He didn't dare to delay time anymore.

Just now, he only filled a sack of oysters, half a sack of gooseneck barnacles, and three sacks were only filled with a little bit at the bottom.

"You guys seize the time, it's about to be high tide." He shouted, don't know if they heard it, anyway, after shouting, he worked hard.

Because he was in a hurry, he didn't classify them this time. Everything he saw was scooped down and thrown into the bag.

When he filled everything and lifted them onto the boat, the seawater had already covered the tiny patch of beach on the scorpion reef.

The others were still rarely diligent and still climbing on the rocks. He helped move the pots, bowls, and ladles to the boat.

He waded through the seawater and looked for them. "Brothers, work is done!"

"Ah? High tide?"

"So fast?"

"Holy crap, I didn't dig much! Just now I was looking for that gooseneck barnacle," Fatty patted his thigh in annoyance. "Ouch—hiss—pain—"

Ye Yaodong hurriedly urged: "Hurry up, otherwise if the tide rises later and the waves hit, how will you move your things to the boat?"

"Dongzi, help me pick it up, carry it to the boat with me, this water is about to be up to my butt."