Chapter 54: Beachcombing in typhoon weather

Still need to bring a sack?

Are there many goods?

Lin Xiuqing followed Ye Yaodong to the seaside with suspicion. The tide had just receded a little bit. Looking at the waves rolling in layer after layer in the distance, it felt quite spectacular.

She had been married for 5 years and had never run to the shore during typhoon weather; she was either pregnant or looking after the children.

"Beautiful, right? The beach here is quite pretty."

It was just typhoon weather, so the seawater was a bit yellow.

"Didn't you say we were going out to see if there was anything to pick up? Let's go down quickly, let's go back early later, who knows when it will rain heavily?" Saying this, she walked down to the beach.

Ye Yaodong shook his head at her back; no romance!

"Ah, there really is something to pick up!" As soon as Lin Xiuqing stepped onto the beach, she saw a super large clam by her feet and was pleasantly surprised.

He took a few quick steps forward. "Didn't I lie to you? There really is something to pick up!"

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him. "It's not worth much, and you specifically ran out in typhoon weather to pick it up. If only there were good things for me to pick up."

"We'll see in a while, the waves are so big, it's hard to say there won't be seafood washed ashore."

"Mm."

Walking forward a few steps, she picked up another large clam. Lin Xiuqing's face was shining with happiness. This was different from squatting there and painstakingly digging for sand clams; this didn't need digging, and it was five or six times larger than a sand clam. The feeling of having things to pick up just by walking around was too good.

Ye Yaodong also bent down and picked one up. "Look, I have one here too, but it's not as big as those two of yours."

"Is there only this clam to pick up?"

"Let's walk a bit more and see."

According to his experience, in typhoon weather, the waves were big, so there should be seafood rolled in and stranded on the beach, which was why he didn't care about the typhoon weather and brought her out while the tide had just receded.

"Fish... fish fish..." Lin Xiuqing excitedly pulled his arm and pointed to the waves ahead. "There..."

Ye Yaodong looked in the direction of her finger and saw a silly fish being rolled out of the water by the waves. After the waves receded, this silly fish was stranded on the beach, still jumping around.

Lin Xiuqing quickly stuffed the clam in her hand into his arms and ran forward to pick up the fish, but saw it was very slippery. Even when she held it in her hand, it fell off.

Just as another wave was about to hit, Ye Yaodong kicked it toward the beach and hugged his wife in his arms, using his back to block the wave for her.

A big wave hit his back, giving him a thorough soaking. Seawater dripped down from above his forehead, while Lin Xiuqing was protected in his arms and wasn't hit by the wave; only the seawater on his head dripped onto her face.

Lin Xiuqing blinked, looking at him with suspicion and uncertainty. "Are you okay? Why did you... why did you block the wave for me? You're soaked through, go back and change your clothes..."

He wiped the seawater off his face and said indifferently, "It's fine, just take it off. You picked up that silly fish, it looks like it's five or six jin. Take it back, pickle half of it at noon and boil the other half into fish fillet soup."

"Oh, good, good."

Actually, the scientific name for this fish is the yellowtail amberjack, or herring, but the locals all call it the "dull fish," and most commonly "silly dull." It is very cheap; in later generations, villagers here buy it at the pier for 5 yuan a jin, while outsiders buy it for 8 yuan a jin. Right now, it probably only costs 4-5 cents.

As for why it is called "silly dull," it is entirely because it is stupid!

There is no fish sillier than it.

When fishing boats are sailing on the sea, this fish often delivers itself to the door, jumping onto the deck to give the fishermen a meal.

This kind of thing hasn't happened just once or twice; it is too frequent, so the local fishermen all call it "silly dull."

Lin Xiuqing tried to grab it several times but didn't grab it well, and it was flicked by its tail and fell onto the beach.

"You're so clumsy!"

Ye Yaodong took out the sack in his pocket, shook it, opened it toward the silly fish, and then kicked it, and it went into the sack. By the way, he threw the few clams in too.

"If I had known, I would have brought a water bucket. Putting it in a sack, won't it die?"

"It doesn't matter if we kill it as soon as we take it back. Do you expect to carry a bucket of water and raise it? Isn't it heavy? And it's not anything valuable, let's go."

"Alright then."

Before they had walked two steps, Ye Yaodong's sharp eyes saw a small section of a golden tail exposed next to a stone. He pulled his wife. "Look here..."

Lin Xiuqing instantly saw it too. "Ah, it's a pomfret! Such a big one!"

"Mm, golden pomfret! The size is not small, it's over a jin, but it's a pity it's not a white pomfret, white pomfret is delicious!" While speaking, he bent down and pried open its fish gills to look. They were bright red, indicating it was fresh and had just died, so it could be put into his pocket.

Golden pomfret looks better than white pomfret, but it's not very useful.

White pomfret meat is relatively delicate and fresh, while golden pomfret meat is relatively rough and thick. It's just that white pomfret fish are generally not large, usually within 1 jin, while golden pomfret fish are generally over 1 jin or larger.

White pomfret over 6 taels will double in price, and during the fishing ban period, the market can sell for over 120+.

As long as there is a harvest, Lin Xiuqing doesn't care whether it's golden pomfret or white pomfret. After all, she had just received a large sum of money. It's best if the seafood picked up can be sold for money, and if it's not worth much, it can be kept for themselves, so they won't lose out anyway.

"Coming out in typhoon weather really has things to pick up. If I had known, I would have called Eldest Sister-in-law and Second Sister-in-law out too."

Ye Yaodong curled his lips. Why call them?

To be a lightbulb?

It was rare for them as a couple to come out for a walk in leisure. Since he was reborn, they hadn't been alone so easily, and he hadn't planned to call anyone else just now.

"Let's go down, the tide has receded a bit more."

Just as he was about to follow the tide down, the small water pool between two rocks suddenly rippled. "Wait... I'll move this stone and see."

"Is there something?"

"Possibly. Just after the tide recedes, these low-lying places with stones are more likely to have stranded seafood."

Lin Xiuqing also curiously squatted down to watch him move the stone.

"Ah, it's a small mud crab."

Ye Yaodong also saw it. It was indeed small, probably not even half a jin, but it was a mud crab after all, better than a stone crab.

"Do you dare to catch it?"

"No, I'm afraid of its big pincers."

"Just grab its back, it can't bite you."

He grabbed it and suddenly handed it to her, scaring her so much that her body leaned back and she sat on the beach. "What are you doing!"

"Scaring you."

Lin Xiuqing glared at him, patted her butt, stood up, ignored him, and walked forward.

Ye Yaodong quickly threw the mud crab into the sack and followed her.

"Hehe, angry?"

"No, hurry up and look, the sky is overcast again, who knows if it will rain in a while."

The two of them bent down frequently on the beach following the tide. They were all clams, and each one was big. It was too cool to pick them up.

Many times, they had just picked one up and thrown it into the sack when the waves ahead rolled up again, and the clams were also rolled up, rolling on the beach. If their movements were a step slower, it might have rolled back into the sea with the tide. ===== CHAPTER 55 =====