Chapter 808: Sea-gleaning

Ye Yaodong carried the bucket and walked back slowly. Seeing that there was no one left on the spot, the spotted dog glanced into the distance and then quickly ran wildly to catch up.

Accidentally running too far, it emergency braked and turned back.

Seeing that it didn't have anything in its mouth, he glanced at it and then went his own way, not stopping.

However, this dog persevered and chased up again, blocking his path, and when he lifted his legs to detour, it spat out a blood clam from its mouth.

"Ouch, my god... you still had a blood clam in your mouth, no wonder you blocked me and wouldn't let me leave."

Ye Yaodong hurriedly bent down to pick up the blood clam on the ground. It was quite large. He happily weighed it a few times in his hand, then threw it into the bucket. "Alright, you performed very well today. Later, bring your brothers and sisters out to work too."

"Woof woof~"

After Xiaohua barked twice, it ran wildly towards the group of children.

The few dogs around also rushed towards it. The dogs barked a few times and then ran towards him.

"1, 2, 3, 4... can even divide the work and cooperate, huh? Leaving half to watch the house, running half out, then why didn't you know to run a few more over to be my helpers?"

"Woof woof woof woof..."

"Go away, go away, blocking the road. I'll bring you later, first take Xiao Jiu home, and by the way, get a colander."

Ye Xiaoxi was sitting on the beach playing happily with a group of children, giggling and laughing, which could be heard from far away. But after walking closer, the smile originally on his face was left with only a sigh.

This was so dirty, he didn't even want her anymore.

There was a pile of sand on top of her head, her ear-length short hair was also stained with wet sand, her cheeks were too, and her neck, arms, legs, and feet were all covered in sand. Her clothes and pants had long been wet, sticking tightly to her body.

Just now, looking from afar, she was still sitting. After he walked closer, her whole person had become lying on the beach, and she was desperately scraping sand to dig a pit, saliva dripping from her mouth, the saliva thread stretched very long, but then he saw her suck it back in, and then spit out sand there again.

It was simply unwatchable.

Those few stupid dogs, just now he wanted to say they were quite smart, but now they were actually stupidly running up to help dig the pit together. 4 dog heads plus one human head, 5 heads were all surrounding one pit.

This made him depressed enough to step forward with two kicks, kicking all those dogs aside, and then put the spatula into the bucket.

"Are you stupid? Playing so dirty, if we go back, not only will you get scolded, I will also get scolded."

Ye Yaodong stretched out his hands wanting to hold her, but felt there was no way to start. Her body was dirty and wet, how could he hold her?

Stretching out his hands and struggling for a while, he simply changed to carrying her, grabbing her clothes from behind and lifting her up. It was just convenient for him to lift her up with one hand while she was lying down.

"Ah? Daddy? Dad?"

"Told you, just call me Dad, don't call them together. Let's go, going home, you're too dirty, playing too terrifyingly."

The other children didn't look much better than her, all covered in mud and sand, presumably they wouldn't be able to escape a beating when they got home.

The few adults in the house were still sitting there watching television, watching the news broadcast in a daze. He didn't know what they saw, but he didn't even see them move their butts.

If this were a television series, it would be fine, they could watch it for an afternoon without blinking. The key was this news broadcast, they could only watch this one channel in total, and they could actually watch it for so long, and with such relish. It could only be said to be the novel magic of first contact.

"A-Qing, stop watching television, come quickly and look at your daughter..."

Lin Xiuqing stood up in confusion and looked at the "thing" with bared fangs and brandished claws that he was holding, and instantly frowned.

"How did she get so dirty? No wonder you said 'your daughter', in the past you always said 'my daughter, my treasure', now it's become mine again?"

"Quickly get some warm water to rinse her, it's so dirty, her head is also full of sand, there isn't a clean spot on her whole body."

"How did you watch her? You took her out to play, and let her play like this... how am I supposed to grab her?"

Ye Yaodong hurriedly put her on the ground, but she immediately hid behind him...

"What are you doing? Hurry up and go take a bath."

"Scared... beating..."

"You still know how to be scared? It's right to be scared, otherwise no one will discipline you, hurry up and go take a bath."

Lin Xiuqing also glared at the father and daughter angrily, took a basin from the basin rack, and prepared to fetch water.

Ye Yaodong carried the child to her feet, took the large colander from the stove, and went out first.

Taking advantage of the fact that it wasn't mealtime yet, he would take a few dogs to pick up some more. They wouldn't be going out to sea for the next few days, but he could take time every day to wait for the tide to recede and take the dogs to pick up some, otherwise, there would be no fish to eat for several days.

People by the sea, the table can have no vegetables or meat, but it cannot have no fish.

As soon as he walked out of the courtyard gate, all the dogs rushed out in a swarm. He looked left and right, feeling that it was better to treat everyone equally.

He called the roll of the dogs that hadn't appeared just now, and also called the spotted dog Xiaohua, after all, it was quite capable just now. Then he kicked the others back and closed the courtyard gate slightly.

"You guys watch the house well, I'll change you tomorrow."

The dogs behind the door whimpered unwillingly, but his heart was like iron, he didn't care about them, and directly took the five by his feet and ran quickly to the beach.

After running to the beach, he waved his hand. "Woof woof teams move out, sea-gleaning is your task today, no matter what you find, bring it back to me."

The slogan shouldn't be wrong, right?

He felt good about himself and tilted his neck, but when he lowered his head to look, he saw the dogs by his feet still squatting there motionless...

"Damn, why are you still here? Go sea-gleaning, go find stranded sea goods? Go, go, hurry up, what are you still looking at?"

The dogs took a few steps back, but still tilted their necks to look at him.

Ye Yaodong was speechless, why was it different from what he imagined?

Wasn't that Xiaohua just now quite smart? It even picked up several things for him, why were they all stupid now?

Damn it, didn't he just have a nervous breakdown? Was it worth looking at him so stupidly?

One person and five dogs stood in a stalemate for a while, Ye Yaodong stared and stared, and only then remembered to dump the bucket in his hand onto the beach, pouring out all the goods.

"Look, recognize it, later if you find these, bring them back to me, understand?"

Fortunately, when he carried it back just now, he took it out again, thinking that since it was just a little bit of stuff, he didn't pour it at home.

After speaking, he patted the spotted dog's head again. "Hurry up and go to work, go sea-gleaning for me."

"Woof woof~"

This dog was still smart. After barking twice, it ran away, and the other dogs also swayed and wandered around.

"Fortunately, I brought Xiaohua out, these few look like they aren't very smart?"

Ye Yaodong shook his head while walking, feeling that his grand plan of sitting and waiting for the harvest was going to fail.

"Relying on dogs is not as good as relying on oneself, wanting to be lazy won't work, damn it, so useless, these few kids only trained them halfway, I'll have to bring them out to train more in the future, teach them how to go sea-gleaning."

"Sigh~ no hope~"

He walked slowly towards the small bay where he had just discovered the mud snails.

But before he could reach the place, the sea-gleaning god dog Xiaohua brought another fish over, it was half a small white pomfret, the tail was broken at the mouth, one look and you could tell it was snapped by a crab's large pincers.

After he took it, he threw it into the bucket and stroked its fur again. "You're still the one, well done, go find some more."

The dog rubbed against his palm, and then happily continued to look.

"Fortunately, it wasn't hanged to death a few months ago, otherwise, such an obedient dog, what a pity."

Ye Yaodong walked to the bay and saw a large area of mud snails scattered there. He used his large colander to scrape a piece over, full and carrying heavy sand, heavy and solid.

He walked to the small puddle on the side, put the colander on the water surface and sifted it a few times, the sand all sank into the water, and only a cluster of mud snails remained on the colander. After lifting it up, the weight became light and airy.

He conveniently drew some seawater into the bucket, only then poured the clean mud snails from the colander into it to raise them, and then he continued to return to the bay to scrape mud snails.

Mud snails are typical intertidal benthic crawling animals, mostly inhabiting the middle and lower tidal zones, on mud-sand or sand-mud tidal flats, and are especially dense in bays with small wind and waves and slow currents.

If he scraped and sifted this whole area clean, he could probably get seven or eight jin, and keeping them there would be enough to eat for a few days.

While he was working hard to sift the mud snails, other stupid dogs finally had some gains, and several of them came running over one after another.

Some had fish in their mouths, some had mantis shrimp, and some were biting cat-eye snails; the soft flesh on top hadn't even been sucked back in before the dogs bit down on them.

Ye Yaodong was so happy he collected them all into the bucket, and he petted every single dog, patting their heads as a reward.

"Not bad, not bad. Practice makes perfect; go find some more."

He felt gratified; they were teachable.

It was still better to have a reference point; after pouring them out for them to see, each one was able to react.

It'll be easier from now on. Perfect.

He sifted six or seven times in a row, and finally, he sifted all those mud snails clean and poured them all into the bucket.