Chapter 9

Ye Yaodong's vision turned back from the boat and looked at the surrounding rocks, which were all densely packed with small mussels, small sea melon seeds, and oyster shells whose meat had been dug away.

The rocks here have been visited too many times in daily life, and the slightly larger mussels and sea melon seeds have long been dug out, leaving only extremely small ones, probably the size of a fingernail on the little finger, and they are still growing on the rocks.

They are so small that there are only shells, and the meat is probably not as big as boogers, so they can't be eaten. But every time the tide recedes, it is inevitable that some will grow up.

At this time, some people are looking for them on the stone wall with tools, and his mother is one of them.

He stepped forward and took a look. His mother was holding a water scoop in one hand and a small basket hanging on her wrist.

There were already some small oysters in the water scoop, and there were also some slightly larger sea melon seeds and small spicy snails in the small basket.

"Mom, this dense piece can make your eyes blind, why don't you go dig sand clams."

Ye Mu said while prying the oyster shells on the rocks with a screwdriver: "There are so many people in the family digging enough. I dig some oysters and can make oyster omelets in the evening. The children in the family haven't eaten them for a while."

"There is not a single bit of this. Isn't our boat repaired? Let Dad take you to the isolated island to dig, it's better to dig sand clams now, and the tide will cover this beach in two hours."

"You say it easily, the rocks on the isolated island are very slippery, and it's not easy to stand. If the waves hit, I will be rolled back into the sea to see the Mazu Goddess."

"Ah ha, not necessarily, just choose a calm day when the tide recedes to go."

Ye Mu lifted her eyelids and glanced at him sideways: "Then you calculate for me what month and day, calm, the tide can just recede very low, and your dad and brothers happen to be free!"

"Ah! How would I know how to calculate this?"

The wind and waves at sea are not something that mortals like him can calculate!

Besides, how would he know when his father and brothers are free?

Ye Mu rolled her eyes at him: "If you don't know, shut up, stay wherever it's cool, don't delay me from working!"

Ye Yaodong touched his nose. Am I so annoying?

"Or, I'll help you dig? You go dig sand clams?"

Squatting for a long time, his legs were sore. It's okay to dig oysters on the stone wall. Anyway, he doesn't have trypophobia.

"You come?"

"Yes, I'll come. Opening oysters and digging sea melon seeds, I'm good at it."

Nothing else, he didn't play less of these when he was young, and the skills he learned won't be forgotten with the passage of time.

Ye Mu looked him up and down, thinking of what he said in the house just now that he would learn from his eldest and second brothers to be diligent and hardworking after dividing the family...

Could it be true?

Changed nature?

"Then let you come. After going back, if you don't dig me a bowl, I'll beat you to death!"

"Oh my, how much you can dig is how much you can dig, it also depends on luck. How dare I guarantee that I can dig a bowl before going back? These oysters are only a little bit big..."

Ye Mu didn't say anything and directly hung the basket on his wrist, stuffed the water scoop and screwdriver into his hand: "Look carefully, you have to pry a bowl of oysters, a bowl of sea melon seeds, and a bowl of snails!"

Ye Yaodong glared. Is he going to change, or what? And he has to make three bowls.

"Dongzi, didn't you go out to play today? Why did you come to the beach?" His aunt was also looking for them on the stone wall with a water scoop and asked curiously when she saw him.

"Hmm, it's too hot, I don't want to go out!"

"Ah? And it's not hot when you come to the beach? It's such a big sun!"

The reason wasn't found well, Ye Yaodong was a bit embarrassed: "Ah, yes, just come out and see."

Better to find it quickly, don't chat, dig for a while and wait for the tide to rise, just in time to go home for lunch.

Oysters are also called oysters, which grow on stone walls. It is actually a kind of plankton.

Oviparous oysters are in the breeding season. The parents discharge mature sperm and eggs out of the body. The sperm and eggs are fertilized in the seawater. After a period of planktonic life, they attach to other objects. After solidification, they become young shellfish and then grow slowly. After prying off the shells, the inside is oysters.

If the boat is parked in the sea for a long time, young shellfish will also grow under the boat. Generally, people will prop up the boat body and then pry all the young shellfish under the boat, reducing the weight of the boat body, and by the way, they can use baskets to carry them back to open oysters.

The young shellfish on this stone wall are too small, and the oysters opened are only a little bit big, yellow-green, like snot, and only the white on the belly can be seen when they are bigger.

"Open wool, it's only this big, when can I fill a bowl!" Ye Yaodong muttered after opening one.

"There's no way if you want to eat. There are so many mouths in the family, so dig a little bit. This is not a sand clam, and it's not something you can come out to dig every day."

His aunt responded, and then said earnestly: "Dongzi, you are already the father of two children, you can't be idling all day anymore. You should find a proper job. Your wife and children need you to support them, and your father and mother can't support you until you are old."

"Am I not working now? Aunt!"

"Working is right, but you have to earn money, and you can't just do it for one day. Supporting a family is a long-term thing. You are a man, you must have responsibility, you must have a sense of responsibility..."

Endless preaching, blah blah~

Ye Yaodong regretted speaking out. If he had remained silent, he estimated that his aunt would not have the desire to talk to him.

He didn't want to choke back. After all, she is an elder, and what she said is right, and it is also for your own good, but the endless talking made his head big. It would be better to go dig sand clams. How did he not know that his aunt was so talkative?

"Aunt, you dig slowly here, I'll walk out and see."

Just as the tide receded a little more, he simply started looking from the rocks at the furthest point.

However, his luck seems to be a bit good!

Just as he walked to the rock position closest to the tide, he saw two small green crabs in the stone pile in the shallow water area, and his eyes lit up. This is a good thing!

He quickly put the water scoop and basket aside, walked a few steps toward the gravel pile. The two green crabs didn't know the danger was approaching and were still fighting with their big pincers there!

Ye Yaodong grabbed the shells on their backs with one hand each, and carefully separated them, so as not to let their big feet hook together and break.

The value of a broken-legged green crab is greatly reduced. Of course, it doesn't matter if you eat it yourself.

The two green crabs that were separated were still waving their big pincers. If they were pinched by this, it would be terrible, and the fingernails would be broken directly.