Chapter 8

Their house is not far from the beach, and it takes ten minutes to walk there. But after arriving at the beach, everyone didn't go directly down to the beach, but continued to walk along the shore to the outside of the pier.

There are also sand clams to dig under the beach, but you need to look for them. Their beach is not small, and not every piece of land has sand clams distributed, nor can you dig them up by shoveling a few times.

Sand clam is a kind of clam, which can also be called flower clam. It's just that people in their village are used to calling it sand clam because it is dug out from under the beach.

Don't look at it being dug out from under the beach, but most of them don't have sand inside. In very few cases, there is sand when dug back, and it only needs to be raised for one night to eat.

It's delicious to cook soup, or put a few sand clams when cooking noodles.

The clams in the market in later generations are not loved by people in their village. They are not as fresh as the ones they dig by themselves by the sea, and the meat quality is not as Q-bouncy as their sand clams.

Moreover, the sand clams on their beach are different from the flower clams in the market. The size of the sand clams varies. The small ones are the size of a fingernail, and the big ones are the same as flower clams, but the small ones are also very meaty.

There are two high tides and two low tides every day. In daily low tides, there will be children digging for fun, but when the tide recedes on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month, there will be more people.

And people in their village are used to digging outside the pier, because only on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month will the tide recede very low, and the beach by the pier will be exposed. Usually, whether it is high tide or low tide, it is full.

Whenever it is exposed, there are many sand clams to dig under the beach, and the reefs on the shore will also be exposed. On the reefs, there will be sea melon seeds, oysters to pry, and spicy snails to pick.

Rely on the mountains to eat mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea!

Living by the sea and being diligent will not starve.

After arriving at the pier, they walked down the steep stone slope slowly. At this time, the tide had already receded, exposing a small piece of beach. There were already several women squatting there digging the sand.

Generally, beachcombing is done by the women and children in the family. Ye Yaodong hadn't come to the beach to play since he got married, and he wasn't a child, so he had no freshness for this beach long ago.

But having returned from rebirth, I don't know if it's because of a sense of the times, his state of mind is different, and he has a few more points of freshness for this beach.

He took the lead to shake over and look at the buckets beside the village women: "Is there anything to dig? Oh my, there really is. How long have you been digging?"

Everyone was burying their heads in the sand with pot spatulas, and no one paid attention to him.

A man idles all day, do they think they are the same as him? Is it not better to dig two more times if you have the time to talk?

No one paid attention to him, and Ye Yaodong was not annoyed. Looking at his son playing with sand alone on the beach, he walked back to his wife's side, only to see that in just such a short while, there were already six or seven sand clams in her basin.

Listening to the ding-dong sound, two more were added. He squatted down: "You dig quite fast."

The pot spatula is the most practical tool for digging sand clams, none of them!

Some people didn't put the wooden handle on, just took a pot spatula piece and dug there.

Lin Xiuqing also took a pot spatula piece. She didn't lift her head and said: "Practice makes perfect, and this doesn't require any skills, just dig the sand."

Well, he didn't do less of this when he was a child. The children who grew up by the sea played the most with digging sand.

Since he came, he couldn't just watch. Without a pot spatula to dig, he just used his hands directly.

There were small air bubble holes on the beach. Ye Yaodong dug one at will, and it was a sand clam, and he was accurate every time.

Listening to the ding-dong sound in the basin, Lin Xiuqing looked sideways. So fast?

Ye Yaodong noticed her gaze, raised his eyebrows and looked: "What? Do you think I'm very powerful? Do you want me to teach you?"

Saying that, he buckled the surface of the beach with both hands, another one!

He dug into the basin and said: "This thing is very easy to dig. I didn't dig less when I was a child."

"How do you manage to be accurate every time?" She was really curious.

Although her mother's family was in the neighboring town, that area was not by the sea, but by the mountains.

After being married to the seaside for a few years, she followed behind her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law. Whatever they did, she did. Every time she went beachcombing, she followed. Everyone took a pot spatula and dug piece by piece, not like him.

Ye Yaodong pointed to the small holes under the beach: "See these? Sand clams also need to breathe. They rely on these holes to breathe. There must be sand clams under the holes."

While speaking, he demonstrated and dug two more.

Buckling holes, he is very good at it.

It is also because it is close to the first day of the lunar month, and the beach in this area of the pier has just receded, so it is so easy to dig. The beach in the middle of the beach is not so easy.

Lin Xiuqing also followed curiously and dug it, sure enough!

"Then why use a pot spatula, just dig directly!" Using a pot spatula is laborious, and after a long time, your hands will be very sore.

"You still have to use a pot spatula, it's more convenient to have tools. I use my hands because I don't have a pot spatula. Some are on the surface, and they don't need small holes to breathe. In a while, the beach will be stepped on by people, and you won't be able to see the holes, which is just now that the tide has just receded, so you can see the bubble holes."

Lin Xiuqing kept looking at him and talking. For so many years, except for the period when they were just married, they rarely had normal communication. He was a dragon who didn't see the end of the day, and when he came back, it was all for meals and sleeping, at most asking and answering two sentences daily.

Most of them were slouchy, and it was really uncomfortable for her to speak so seriously and teach her.

"What are you looking at, dig!"

"Oh!"

However, in a short while, there were more people digging clams. People in this era are all very diligent, except for Ye Yaodong.

After squatting and digging for a while, he felt his legs were a bit numb, so he stood up to twist his waist and neck, and looked at the distant sea.

Dig for a while, just show it a little, and you can't show it too diligently.

At this time, the tide was receding, and there were many small boats parked near the pier. Because of the tide, many boats were stranded on the beach and had to wait until the next high tide to return to the sea.

The time is 9:30, and today's tide should recede to the bottom at 10:30, and then start to rise again, rising to the full at about 4:30 in the evening, receding to the bottom again at about 11:30 at night, and rising to the full at about 7:00 in the morning.

Every day is about 50 minutes later than the previous day. Although Ye Yaodong just returned from rebirth today, he knows when the tide will rise and fall tomorrow at a glance.

No wonder his eldest brother and second brother want to come out to see the tide and open the boat. Close to the first day of the lunar month, the tide will recede even lower at night. On the first day of the lunar month, the tide will recede to the bottom at 12:00 at night. They will probably go to sea at about 1-2 o'clock at night. At that time, the tide must not have risen much.

The tide is not enough, and the boat cannot go out.