Ye Huimei looked at the bucket full of stone clam fish happily, and asked with sparkling eyes: "Third brother, how much is this fish per pound? Is it valuable?"
"Of course it's valuable. This is a noble species of Sparidae. One pound is worth at least six or seven dollars. It should be worth it."
"Ah? So expensive!"
Ye Huimei was stunned for a moment. She thought that one or two dollars was already a lot, but she didn't expect that the fish was worth several dollars.
"Then this bucket of yours is so big, isn't it worth several hundred?"
"Of course I will. I just caught a big one that looks like it weighs about 3 or 4 kilograms. It will definitely sell for a good price!"
Ye Yaodong was so happy. The depression from falling just now was swept away when he found these fish.
"Fuck, fuck, I have some here too."
Ah Zheng's excited voice suddenly came from a distance, and everyone hurried over in surprise. Ye Yaodong was also surprised. What else
When I got closer, it really was!
"How many are there, Zheng?"
He was so happy that he almost showed all 18 teeth. "Not as many as you, but still 17 or 18."
"I'm so envious that my back teeth are about to break!" Xiaoxiao had a bitter face and looked like she was about to cry.
"Hahaha~ Did you get covered in shit yesterday? That's why you're so unlucky today?" The fat man laughed at him with glee.
Xiao Xiao kicked him directly, "Fuck, you're the one who got stained with shit."
"Maybe there are more. Let's look for them again. These fish live in schools. They stay around the scorched rocks during the day and only go out to look for food at night."
"Dongzi said what people say!"
Xiaoxiao continued to walk around with the bucket unwillingly, not caring that some places were filled with sea water up to his knees. It was not until he picked up two blue crabs that were overlapping each other that his depressed mood was temporarily soothed.
Ye Yaodong put the full bucket aside and continued with the empty bucket when he suddenly heard a female voice screaming again.
He was just about to walk towards Ye Huimei with a bucket in his hand. "What did you find?"
"Third brother, there are so many big conches on the rocks here! They are so big!"
Ye Yaodong looked in the direction of her finger and saw that most of them were the size of an adult's fist, and some were as big as a bowl!
"You're lucky. These are worth dozens of dollars. Hurry up and take them down."
"Uh-huh!"
Ye Huimei nodded happily, and she tried hard to pry open the snails. They were attached to the stone wall one by one, and she had to use a lot of strength to pry them off.
Seeing two in the shallow water below, she tried to reach out and pick them up, but Ye Yaodong reminded her, "The ones in the water must be hermit crabs."
She picked it up and saw that it was real!
"The snails with meat usually cling to the rock walls, especially when the tide is out, and the ones that fall into the sea are usually hermit crabs."
"I know, but seeing how big it is, I feel like it would be a shame if I don't pick it up and take a look. "
"Um."
Seeing that she continued to crack the snails, he walked around again with the empty bucket.
Put all the fish, shrimps and crabs you see into buckets first. As for the things on the stone wall, if they are not valuable, just leave them there. They cannot escape anyway, so just take a walk around and check the area out.
But he didn't expect that there were also chicken of the sea feet here, and they were bigger than the ones he dug last time. When he saw a small piece growing above his head, his eyes lit up with joy.
Starting from the bottom to the top, he picked the low spots first. After that, regardless of the slippery rocks that were difficult to climb and the sharp shells on them, he put all the chicken feet of the sea that he saw into the bucket.
It may be because the tide never recedes to the bottom of this island and the terrain is particularly steep, so few people have visited it. The chicken of the sea feet growing there are super big, and the sizes of other shellfish in their shells are also much larger than those he had seen in the previous times.
But he didn't even look at it, and just packed it in a sack later.
During this time, he heard some exclamations from time to time. He knew without thinking that they had also found some good things. He just looked up and was not curious. Mainly because he was too lazy to run around. The terrain of this small island was not high, and the high and low tides were short.
When his bucket was full, he had to climb down and find a sack to empty it.
In total, I only brought two buckets. One bucket was filled with stone clams, and at the bottom of this bucket were a few stone nine-tailed fish, miscellaneous fish and crabs. The top was filled with sea chicken feet, so I could only pour them into the sack first, free up the bucket and then continue filling them.
He walked to the Scorpion Reef and took a sack to pack the chicken's feet in, to distinguish them from other shellfish. This would save him the time of picking them out, and when he reached the shore later, he could deliver them to Hongsheng while they were still fresh.
But he remembered that Hong Wenle had said before that if there were more in the future, he would send them over again.
Just at this time, the fat man also came over with his full bucket of shellfish and poured it into the sack. He roughly mixed all the shellfish into the bucket without sorting them.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you share it? Pick one at a time? Change it when the bag is full? There are so many on the reef anyway."
He scratched his head. “I dug up whatever I saw.”
Ye Yaodong opened his bag and shook it, then took out the chicken feet of the sea mixed in and showed it to him, "Don't say that I didn't remind you, this thing is not called Buddha's hand, it's called chicken feet of the sea, and it's much more expensive than Buddha's hand. Last time I picked out a bucket of more than five kilograms and sold it for 100 yuan."
"What? 100 yuan?" The fat man's eyes almost popped out, "Isn't this Buddha's hand? What kind of chicken of the sea foot? What about sea duck foot?"
"This is scientifically called gooseneck barnacle, and commonly known as chicken's foot. The neck of Buddha's hand is shorter, but this one has a longer neck. Didn't you notice?"
"Fuck, it's true, why didn't you say so earlier!"
"How could I not know that you had found some? I just finished digging a bucket and came over. I saw some in your bag, so I reminded you. I didn't see you guys find some the last time I dug, and I wasn't sure how much it would sell for at that time."
"It's not too late to know now. This thing is so valuable, we have to work hard to dig it up. I'll go tell Zheng and Xiaoxiao. I just saw that they also seem to have dug it up."
Seeing him turn around and leave, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but hold him back, pointing at the pots and pans on the ground and reminding him, "It's noon now, shouldn't you cook some noodles?"
"Fuck, what to eat? I don't have time, just starve!"
Making money is important, who has time to cook
"Damn, I thought there would be something to eat today. I brought so much food, but they didn't cook..."
"If you want to cook it, you do it. I won't. I don't have time..." After saying that, the fat man pulled the clothes back from his hands and ran away quickly, fearing that he would be conscripted if he was too late.
Ye Yaodong looked at the pots and pans on the ground and said, "I don't have time to cook either!"
He picked up the buckets and sacks and hurried back to fight.
The pot was filled to the brim with the oysters they had dug, and there was no room to put them in. He didn't want to bother with such a thing.
I thought the fat guy was used to being a lazy guy and was willing to come along to provide some logistics support, but I didn't expect him to be so active this time. It seems that money is so attractive!
Passing by Ye Huimei, he saw a few scattered pieces in her bucket, so he talked to her about it, which made her eyes light up and she became full of energy as if she had been injected with chicken blood.
He shook his head and walked to the side again, this time digging up whatever he saw.
The number of chicken feet of sea was indeed too small, and he couldn't just focus on looking for this one. He had to bring sacks and buckets with him. When a sack was almost full, he would carry it onto the boat first, in case the tide came in later and he would be too late to move them.
He did not climb up the steep reef wall because he would be in danger of falling. He only climbed the easy ones that were not very high.
He was digging on the reef, and Ye Huimei unknowingly passed him and walked along the reef to the untouched area on his right. The sea water was up to her knees, but she didn't care, because Third Brother was just diagonally above her anyway.
At this moment, she exclaimed again, "Third brother, third brother, there are stone clam fish here again!"
"ah?"
Ye Yaodong hurriedly and carefully threw the half-full sack down first, then jumped down with the bucket in his hand and walked to Ye Huimei's position. She had already poured the contents of the bucket into the sack, leaving the bucket free for the stone clams.
"Shit, there are a lot of rock clams around here."
"Uh-huh."
Seeing her happy face, he couldn't help but ask, "Are you tired? If you are, go and rest for a while. The tide is coming in soon."
"It's not tiring. It's fun. Every time I make a discovery, I'm so surprised. I'm so happy to see the sack getting fuller and fuller. Besides, the tide is coming in soon. Shouldn't we hurry up and dig a little more?"
"Well, this sack is almost full. I'll carry it to the boat for you first."
"Yeah! Thank you, Third Brother."
It was rare for Ye Huimei to be so polite to him. It was because her third brother had changed so much during this period of time, and she was happy about his changes from the bottom of her heart.
To maintain balance, his younger sister's goods were placed at one end of the boat and his own at the other.
After releasing them, he hurried to look for them again. He found stone clam fish one after another, so maybe there are more. He estimated that Fatty and the others had found some on the other side as well.
But he was disappointed. He didn't see it after turning around for most of the way. Moreover, the tide seemed to be rising, so he didn't dare to waste any more time.
I just filled up one bag of oysters, half a bag of chicken of the sea feet, and the other three sacks were only filled with a little at the bottom.
"Hurry up, the tide is about to rise." He shouted at the top of his voice. He didn't know whether they heard him or not, but he worked hard after he shouted.
Because he was in a hurry, he didn't sort them this time. He picked up everything he saw and threw them into the bag.
By the time he had loaded everything and carried it aboard, the sea had already flooded the small stretch of beach at Scorpion Reef.
The others were surprisingly diligent and still climbed on the rocks, and he helped bring the pots and pans to the boat.
He waded through the sea water and looked over, "Brothers, it's time to call it a day!"
"Ah? The tide is rising?"
"So fast?"
"Shit, I didn't dig much! I was just looking for that chicken of the sea foot." The fat man slapped his thigh in annoyance, "Oh~hiss~it hurts~"
Ye Yaodong hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, otherwise when the tide comes in and the waves come up, how are you going to move your things on board?"
"Donzi, help me catch it and carry it to the boat with me. The water is almost up to my butt.