Chapter 45: Densely packed on the reefs

Seeing so many shellfish on the reefs, everyone was excited again, and the disappointed mood just now disappeared without a trace.

Ye Yaodong was also beaming with joy. This tide had just receded a bit. If it receded to the bottom, more of the reef surface would be exposed.

"Everyone act on your own."

After speaking, he didn't rush to dig, but first looked around for a circle, until he saw a reef covered with wild small abalone, only then did he bend down to dig with a screwdriver.

This kind of wild small abalone adsorbed on the reefs is completely different from the abalone sold in the market. The size is much smaller, only a little larger than a one-yuan coin. It is oval, and its shell is also very thin.

This is what he loves to eat. It can be steamed with enoki mushrooms and scallion oil, it's fragrant to death.

With a slight pry of the screwdriver, the whole one fell off. He happily caught it with a bucket, pried off this whole piece, and then continued to look for it in the surrounding area.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a large piece of Buddha's hand in the reef crevice, densely clustered. This is also worth some money.

Buddha's hand is also called pen holder. The scientific name is *Pollicipes pollicipes*. Song Dynasty's "San Shan Zhi" records, "Named by shape, the meat in the depression is beautiful, and the large ones are like palms."

He first put on gloves to avoid being scratched by those juvenile shellfish, then reached his hand into the crevice and dug it out with a screwdriver.

Until he dug out this whole piece of Buddha's hand, he transferred his position to continue searching. Seeing large snails, he incidentally picked them up.

The most numerous snails on the reefs are spicy snails, as well as horseshoe snails, green shrimp snails, sesame snails, and flower snails.

As long as they were large, he didn't refuse anyone.

He dug the ones that could sell for some money. He dug the valuable ones first, and he didn't move the less valuable mussels, sand clams, and cow eyes first.

He didn't pry the juvenile shellfish growing oysters either. After he dug almost all the valuable ones, he would slowly tidy up those later.

He was looking for it when he bumped into A-Guang. He glanced at his bucket, everything was there, he didn't refuse anyone, estimated that he dug whatever he saw, and the whole bucket was almost full.

"It's full, why not dump it into the sack?"

A-Guang said innocently: "I only brought one bucket!"

Ye Yaodong was instantly unable to laugh or cry, "Then your bucket is full now, isn't it only able to sit and watch?"

"Pack it first. I only pick abalone and large snails now. I was too excited at the beginning, and everything was packed into the bucket. Now it's full, there's no room to pack, so I have to pick and choose."

A-Zheng also raised his head nearby, "My bucket is almost full..."

Fatty sat on the reef and sighed, "My bucket has long been full. I've already rested for a long time. Who knew there were so many things to dig on the isolated island."

Ye Yaodong was also speechless at them. Yesterday they saw him bring a sack, but today they didn't prepare at all.

Suddenly, he couldn't help but steal joy again. Fortunately, he specifically brought two sacks today, because he took a careful look when going ashore yesterday and saw it was densely packed, thinking there should be a lot of goods, fearing one sack wouldn't be enough to pack.

"I saw you had a large bamboo basket in your water bucket this morning?"

"Right, there are two sacks in the large bamboo basket. I specifically asked my wife to prepare them for me today. I told you guys yesterday that there must be goods on the isolated island, but you guys didn't prepare much. Now it's good. After your buckets are full, you can sit to the side and rest. After the tide recedes, you don't have to go to the sea!"

"How could we think of that? Yesterday, we just waded through the seawater and went ashore without looking carefully, and then went to the boat to get tools."

Everyone was very regretful that they didn't prepare early. After the water buckets were full, they could only sit on the rocks and watch Ye Yaodong dig.

Ye Yaodong was also full of interest. Where were there any goods on the reefs of the pier? He was picking the big ones from the short ones. Where was it like here on the isolated island, densely packed with good goods, and the size was also very large.

Like that mussel, there are two varieties of wild ones, one is emerald green, and the other is black with a bit of purple. The all-black ones on the market are farmed.

The emerald green ones are as big as eggs, and the black with purple mussels have a bit of white on the head, and the size will be slightly smaller, but they are also quite large.

After digging the mussels and cow eyes, he incidentally dug sand clams, picked snails, saw whatever he dug, and packed it with a sack, not like at the beginning, specifically picking.

Until a whole sack was almost full, he dragged it to the beach, and shook a sack out of the bamboo basket again.

"Are you tired, Dongzi? You really prepared two sacks to pack, why are you so diligent? One sack isn't enough, do you want to rest for a while?" Hearing Xiao Xiao lit a cigarette and looked at Ye Yaodong busy working with pleasure.

"Can't be diligent. The house construction at home needs a large sum of money. My eldest and second brother follow my father out to sea, and the money earned is used to build the house. I must also contribute. Getting more seafood for the workers as dishes can also reduce the family's expenses."

"Otherwise, I have to go to transport gravel and yellow soil. If I don't do anything, my father will break my legs."

A-Zheng smiled lightly: "Heh~ your father must just talk about it. How can he not know that you can't lift with your shoulders or carry with your hands? You've grown up, and you haven't been beaten less. What does it have to do with anything?"

"Words can't be said like that. My eldest son is 5 years old. As a father, don't I need face? And, building a house is a big event. How can I not care at all? I must help do something. After splitting the family, I still have to support my family."

Hearing Xiao Xiao nodded: "Makes sense!"

A-Zheng followed up and said actively: "Anyway, we are idle anyway. Tomorrow we will also go to help you."

"In this hot weather..."

"It's fine, we'll just help a little bit."

Ye Yaodong thought for a while, "I'll go back and ask if the workers are enough. If not, you guys come help."

"If there are enough people, we can also come to help. Anyway, we don't need to count wages, just manage the food."

"Fine, definitely manage the food. Then you guys look at it. If you have time, come. If not, forget it."

While talking, he had already pried half a sack of juvenile shellfish. At this moment, he didn't have time to open the oysters directly, but dug the whole juvenile shellfish and threw them into the sack, waiting to be brought back for the women at home to open slowly.

"You guys help me lift that sack onto the boat first?"

"Fine!"

As a result, just after lifting the sack onto the boat, they realized they had done a stupid thing! ===== CHAPTER 46 =====

While talking, he had already pried up half a small bag of juvenile shellfish. He didn't have time to open the oysters right now; he just dug the whole thing up and threw it into the sack. He would let the women at home open them slowly after he brought them back.

"Can you guys help me lift that sack onto the boat first?"

"Sure!"

As it turned out, the moment they lifted the sack onto the boat, they realized they had done something stupid!