Chapter 29: Returning Fully Loaded

Ye Yaodong carried the bucket and walked down to the shallow water area again. After walking closer, he shouted at them, "Any harvest?"

"Does picking up a cat-eye snail count as a harvest?" A-Guang was depressed.

"Better than nothing." He walked toward A-Guang and returned the bucket.

"It's empty, I'm embarrassed to take such a big bucket."

"Hahaha~" He also felt it was a bit funny. "It's fine, change a name when you go back!"

"Sigh~ whatever, a snail still needs firewood, waste, give it to you to make up the number!" After speaking, he threw it into Ye Yaodong's bucket, with a clinking sound.

"Find again, just receded, the tide won't rise so fast, maybe there will be a harvest."

"Whatever, you guys continue, I'll go to the reef wall to turn around, see if there's anything to pick up." A-Guang shrugged and walked directly toward the reef wall on the edge.

"The reef wall here was patronized by me yesterday, slightly bigger sea clams and snails were all picked by me, the oysters that can be opened were also opened, you go over there now, definitely nothing."

"Whatever, I'll just turn around, if there's nothing, I'll go back to eat first."

"Fine, you look at it yourself, such a big sun, if there's no harvest, go back early to rest."

"Mm."

Ye Yaodong looked at the circle around him, which should have been searched by his friends, and simply walked toward the rocks near the shore.

Unexpectedly, just walked a few steps, he felt he stepped on something, hard, squatted down to take a look, a cat-eye snail exposed a little head from under the sand.

He picked it up, scraped with his thumb while pinching the soft meat that exposed from the cat-eye snail head and sucked full of seawater, too late to shrink back.

Sizzle~ several streams of water flew out~

He chuckled lightly and said to A-Guang, who was walking in front: "A-Guang, look, I even picked up a cat-eye snail walking behind you, and it's quite big."

"Damn!" A-Guang turned his head to look and cursed. "I just walked past."

Ye Yaodong threw it into the bucket and said with a smile, "Should be my luck these two days is a bit good!"

"Today shouldn't have come out, staying at home to sleep is so comfortable, really ate too full and ran out to get tanned." While speaking, he walked toward the rocks.

Under the scorching sun, Ye Yaodong continued to start treasure hunting on the beach. He didn't find any big goods later. Panning for seafood, this thing, really depends entirely on luck.

Forty years later, even if there was a big tide, there weren't so many things to pick up on the beach, only possibly some jumping fish and stone crabs, and big clams.

Don't know what the reason was, maybe overfishing of the ocean, maybe pollution, seafood became less, only some uninhabited small islands would have relatively more seafood to pick up.

Watching the tide rise bit by bit, everyone wanted to go back. It was already past one o'clock, and they were all starving.

"Go back, should be nothing to pick up, tide is going to rise." Hearing Xiao Xiao shook the water bucket and shouted at the crowd.

"Alright, alright, going back, hot as hell."

"Nothing to pick up, all picked clean by Dongzi."

Ye Yaodong looked at his half-full water bucket and felt quite satisfied. "I didn't pick up anything later either, just stone crabs and jumping fish, these two things should be able to make a bowl."

"You have that tiger grouper, that's enough, already worth the ticket, this trip today wasn't in vain."

"And that nest of blood clams! Earned, scattered seafood can also make up two or three bowls."

He smiled, his harvest today was indeed not bad. There's a big tide tomorrow, he could continue to come, see if his luck was really good.

"Go, go back, stomach is starving." Kicking the big stone beside his feet casually, he planned to walk back.

Who knew the moment he was about to turn, a tentacle stretched out from under the stone, and he instantly widened his eyes in surprise. "Octopus?"

"Ah? You discovered an octopus again?" Azheng, who wasn't far from him, ran over excitedly.

"Still hiding so well, if my foot hadn't kicked it, I guess its tentacles wouldn't have stretched out."

"Dig it out and see, see if it's a red octopus, black octopus, or white octopus, looking at the tentacles, it should be small."

The octopuses common in their sea area were of three types: white octopus, also called Wangchao, size is very small, but most expensive, taste is best. Red octopus is second, black octopus is cheapest, meat quality is also not so good, many times can't even bite.

He reached out along the tentacles and dug, pulling it down with force. "Still tangled so tightly, it's a black octopus, garbage."

"Also fine, better than us having none."

"Dongzi, your luck today is a bit good! Before leaving, still can find a black octopus."

"Look at your bucket, today's harvest is also not small."

Ye Yaodong looked at the octopus tightly tangled around his wrist, wanted to throw it into the bucket but couldn't throw it in, could only pull it down with the other hand and throw it in, but after throwing it in, its tentacles tangled on the bucket and wanted to climb out.

"Damn, really can climb, can only hold it in my hand, you guys help me move that stone, move it and see if there's anything underneath?"

"You think there's another nest?"

Saying so, everyone still joined forces to help turn the stone over.

"Damn, there really is," he was surprised. "Pity it's a bit small."

"It's a black octopus again, also fine, having a harvest is always good!"

Hearing Xiao Xiao squatted on the side and helped catch it down, putting it in Ye Yaodong's hand. "Alright, can go back, you are really fully loaded today."

He grinned, tonight can indeed add a meal, today can also be considered not busy in vain, have food and money coming in.

"You guys look also okay, although no good goods, small things can make up one or two bowls."

Azheng weighed the bucket in his hand. "Also fine, not enough for the top, more than enough for the bottom, eh~ where is A-Guang?"

Originally wanted to tease A-Guang, didn't expect not to see him.

Reminded by him, everyone discovered A-Guang seemed to have disappeared.

"A-Guang turned around the reef earlier, no harvest, in a bad mood so went back first." Wasn't it no harvest, he patronized it once yesterday, can have a harvest only if it's strange.

"Came out for nothing to get tanned." A-Wei gloated.

"Fine, let's gather the things, go to his house to drink tonight," Ye Yaodong suggested.

Between friends, it's normal to eat each other's food; he even got a free meal from him yesterday.

"Fine, gathering together is also quite impressive, can also have a decent table."

"Call Fatty, Rat is not at home, forget it."

"Let that fat pig get tanned, he won't come, but he will definitely come to drink!"

"Let him bring two jin of rice wine brewed at home, just right."

"This can have."

Everyone said one sentence, I say one sentence, and the wine and dishes for the evening had already been arranged.