Chapter 312

Tomorrow is the 16th of the lunar month. The tide will be full around 12 o'clock in the morning, and then it will maintain a full state for more than an hour before it starts to recede.

Ye Yaodong dozed off, and when it was about 1:30, he climbed up lightly.

He tried his best to lighten his movements, but the creaking of the bed boards still woke up Lin Xiuqing. With a baby waiting to be fed beside her, her sleep was already light. If there was any movement, she would wake up to touch the baby.

But this movement, one could tell it wasn't made by the baby.

Listening to the sound of him rustling to put on clothes, it didn't seem like he was getting up to go to the bathroom.

"Adong? In the middle of the night, are you really taking Ayuan to forage by the sea?"

"We'll go out for a stroll and come back, you go to sleep."

He also really wanted to go see what kind of harvest they could have at night?

"Ayuan really deserves a beating. Only thinking about playing, not enough playing during the day, and still thinking about going at night."

"Don't blame him, I want to go myself too. Anyway, being idle is being idle."

"In the middle of the night, everyone is sleeping, what are you idle for?"

"Shh, don't wake the baby. I'll go and come back, very quickly~" After saying this to appease her, he slipped away quickly.

As soon as he opened the bedroom door and was about to call Lin Guangyuan next door, he saw the door in front of him also open.

"Ah!" Lin Guangyuan patted his chest and said in a low voice, "You scared me!"

"Shh, you're quite alert."

"I've been half-asleep and half-awake. I heard the sound of your door opening and got up quickly."

"Don't wake everyone else up. I'll go pee first, you wait for me at the door."

"Okay."

As a result, after he finished peeing, there was one more person at the door. He stared at the two people whispering excitedly, "Since when did you two become so close?"

"Third Uncle isn't loyal, taking Third Aunt's nephew but not his own nephew!" Ye Chenghai accused.

"Aren't you already out? Let's go, the tide has already started to recede."

Taking one is taking, taking two is also taking. Fortunately, he didn't wake up the other little ones.

Before lying down, he had already put the tools into the bucket. He was used to preparing everything that should be prepared in advance. Now he could just pick it up and go without searching again.

The two half-grown boys followed behind excitedly, "Third Uncle, do you think there will be more cargo at night than during the day?"

"Don't know!"

"Little Aunt's husband, have you never been to the beach at night?"

"Don't you need to sleep? Do you think I'm very idle every day?"

"Aren't you idle?"

Ye Chenghai interjected, "My Third Uncle used to be very idle. I don't know what medicine he took wrong in the past year. Suddenly he became active, striving, and upward. If his personality wasn't still the same as before, we would have thought he was possessed..."

Is it okay to say this in front of the person involved without avoiding suspicion?

Ye Yaodong said unpleasantly, "Shut your mouths, if you nag again, don't go."

"Hehe, a bit unaccustomed to it being so quiet, let's talk a bit?"

"Are you sure if you come out, you can get up for school tomorrow?"

"Do you think my mother is a vegetarian? She'll definitely be able to drag me up!"

Lin Guangyuan laughed hahahaha, "Same as my mother, fortunately I don't have to go to school."

"You're still better, don't have to go to school, don't have to go to the pier to carry cargo, playing comfortably at home..."

"Who said that? I also have to help work in the fields..."

Ye Yaodong listened to their chat and pursed his lips. One is more useless than the other, no doubt about the family genetics.

"Don't go into the water later, you know?"

"Got it."

As soon as they walked down to the beach, Ye Yaodong gave them each a bucket. The two shared a flashlight, while he himself wore a headlamp and carried a sack. This was more suitable for him and matched his temperament!

"Sea snail, sea snail... Little Aunt's husband, such a big sea snail... it rolled... it rolled..."

Ye Yaodong also saw the sea snail that the tide had just sent up. It hadn't stopped yet and was rolling back into the sea. He trotted forward and stepped on it to stop it. After picking it up, he casually threw it into Lin Guangyuan's bucket.

"The size is not bad, quite big. Look for more, the tide is still receding, slowly follow and walk forward."

"Sea urchin, sea urchin... there are two..."

"Here... here... the tail of this fish is still moving, it's still alive, hahaha..."

The two walked and picked, extremely excited, and the bucket also kept making *ding-ding-dong-dong* sounds.

Ye Yaodong also picked up a black sea bream, two white pomfrets, one big and one small, and some large clams.

When walking to a small pile of gravel, under the swaying light of his headlamp, he saw a pile of stone crabs crawling around, and occasionally a few swimming crabs.

The two boys following beside him also shone their flashlights back and forth, and said happily, "Ah, so many crabs~"

"Haha, I said we should come out at night~"

"There are many stones here. When the tide recedes, seafood easily gets stuck by the stones. Hurry up and catch them. Catch the big ones, don't take the small ones. Be careful not to get pinched."

There were also many clams stuck by stones around, as well as some small fish and shrimp. Ye Yaodong picked up everything he saw and put it into the sack.

All three were bent over, shining their flashlights back and forth, busy as could be. They picked up all the miscellaneous cargo in this small pile of gravel, and their buckets were almost one-third full.

"So many, it's really good by the sea."

"It's okay, there isn't this much cargo every day. It depends on the tide. You came at the right time." Although Ye Chenghai wasn't old, he understood what he should understand, being a sea person.

Ye Yaodong also straightened his waist and rubbed it, then shook the sack. The bottom layer was already covered full.

He looked up again, shook his head left and right to look around with the light of his headlamp. After finding nothing, he called the two to continue forward.

"Let's go, walk a bit further. The tide is receding bit by bit. When it recedes to the bottom, we'll go back. That's about it, go back to sleep early. You are all growing, it's too late..."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly and was stunned.

He suddenly saw the seawater dozens of meters ahead shining with light. It was that kind of hazy light, like the last bit of brightness of a night-light float, a large circle dozens of meters in diameter.

The two boys saw him staring blankly at the sea surface and also looked over following his line of sight.

"Aha? What is that? Little Aunt's husband?"

"Could it be blue tears again, Third Uncle?"

"Probably not, it doesn't look like it."

There are many things in the sea that can glow at night, such as fish eggs, red tide noctiluca, squid, etc. Looking at this phenomenon at night, one could tell it wasn't blue tears.

That hazy light became brighter and brighter, brighter and brighter, surging to the surface of the water, seemingly still moving and spreading.

It lasted for about ten seconds, the light gradually spread out, and then dissipated.

"Gone?"

"What is that? Your seaside is so magical..." Lin Guangyuan was incredibly curious, "What are blue tears?"

Ye Chenghai said perfunctorily, "It's just seawater glowing blue, it looks very good at night..."

"Walk forward and see." Ye Yaodong took the lead and stepped forward.

Just at this moment, they all discovered that there were things in the water not far away crawling onto the shore, and dense sounds came from all around.

Between the *swish-swish* sounds, it was pitch black all around, and it was still at a distance, so it wasn't very clear even when shining with a flashlight.

"What is it? The sound is a bit strange..." Lin Guangyuan came to the beach at night for the first time, and his scalp felt numb listening to the strange sounds.

Ye Yaodong trotted forward a few steps and shone his headlamp. Looking closely, aren't these crabs?

"Damn, so many crabs?"

*Swish-swish*, they were all stone crabs and swimming crabs, crawling from the water onto the shore following the tide.

The two boys behind him also followed him running, and were also surprised.

"So many crabs!"

Ye Yaodong was incredibly happy. He took a new sack out of his pocket again and handed it to them, "Hurry, hurry, stop talking, hurry up and catch them. Damn, this is too damn many, densely packed. I thought it was something else just now."

Crabs like to come ashore during high tide, but they usually stay on the reefs close to the shore. It's very rare for them to run directly onto the shore like this.

The sea is infinitely vast, and human exploration of the sea is still very little. There will always be magical things happening.

"Third Uncle, how many sacks did you bring? Why do I always see you able to take sacks out of your pocket? Just like someone doing magic tricks."

"What do you know? This is called being thorough. Sacks have many uses! Bring a few more, just in case. Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and catch them."

The two boys didn't talk nonsense either. They poured the cargo in the bucket into the sack first, then hurried to catch them.

Ye Yaodong also threw the fire tongs aside. It was too slow to catch them with this. He squatted down and caught them with his hands, which was faster.

As the tide receded, more and more crabs crawled onto the shore, making the three of them shout repeatedly, so many, so many...

"So many! We should have called everyone at night. How long will it take to catch them all?"

"Catch as many as you can. Catch them and sell them for money tomorrow to buy you good food as a reward."

"No, we should share a portion. Third Uncle, you can't be too stingy! We are not children anymore."

"Damn, still want to share a portion, you have guts, you really dare to think." Ye Yaodong said unpleasantly.

"Hee hee~ everyone who sees it gets a share!"

"Fine, tomorrow we'll divide it into three portions. Give the money for your portion to your mother. I'll buy things for the little ones later, don't you eat any."

Ye Chenghai stared, "Why give it to my mother?"

"If you want to share the money, of course you have to hand the money to her."

"Can't you give it to me?"

"Of course not, children can't have too much money."

"You are so treacherous!"

"Hurry up and work, tell me what you want to eat, I'll buy it for you tomorrow."

Lin Guangyuan said, "Little Aunt's husband uses food to trick people into working every day. Fortunately, I'm not a child."

"You're going to eat and live off me for the next few days, do you have the nerve to share the money?"

Lin Guangyuan pursed his lips, "Zhou the Skinflint!"

"My surname is Ye!"

"Oh, Ye the Skinflint!"

"Haven't watched enough little movies?"

"Hmph, I can walk several miles to other villages to watch movies!"

"Don't be glib, hurry up and work. If we earn money, I'll give you pocket money tomorrow."

The two boys complained, but they still worked very hard, actively catching crabs one by one into the bucket, and pouring them into the sack when it was half full.

Even though it wasn't May yet, the wind blowing at night was cool, but they were sweating from the heat.

"Third Uncle, they seem to be running back into the sea again?"

"Hurry up and catch them, hurry up and catch them~"