"Wow, this fish is so slippery!"
Ye Yaodong had just poked it and made it swim out, so he tried to catch it, but it ran away again and slithered back into the water.
The stone was too big to be moved, so he could only continue to stir it with the tongs to make it come out again.
Ah Guang squatted down, holding his bucket and pointed it at the crack under the stone. "My bucket is empty anyway, so I'll lend it to you to catch this fish first."
Ye Yaodong looked at his empty bucket and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Everyone had gained something, but his bucket was still empty, with nothing in it.
"Okay, install it for me first!"
Ah Zheng's eyes narrowed into slits as he smiled, "A Guang must be very depressed, but he still has to put on a smile, so pitiful! Good brother!"
"Alas~"
“Hahaha~”
Listening to them continue to tease Ah Guang, Ye Yaodong raised his lips. He used the tongs to stir the stone for a long time, but found that the tiger grouper did not run out for a long time. "Go to the other side and see if it has run to the other side?"
"Here! Here! Swim out here and give me the bucket!"
“It’s quite big.”
"It looks like it should be about one or two kilograms."
"Dongzi is really lucky!"
Xiao Xiao took the bucket that Guang handed over, aimed it at the tiger grouper, and scooped it directly into the bucket, "Alright, I caught it!"
Several heads popped over and looked at the lively fish in the bucket with envy on their faces.
Buy, it's not that everyone can't afford it. Going to the sea is all about the fun and satisfaction of catching seafood, and this is not just any fish, it's a tiger grouper. Everyone couldn't help but complain about Ye Yaodong's luck.
"There's too little seawater in this bucket. Add some more. Don't kill it."
Ah Wei said, "I just have two jumping fish. Put them in your bucket and use them to scoop water."
Xiao Xiao said with a smile: "Then I also earned two fish!"
After half the bucket was filled with water, Xiao Xiao handed the bucket to Ye Yaodong and asked, "Do you plan to keep it for yourself or sell it?"
"Sell! Of course I will sell it. If I don't eat it, my mother will scold me and break my legs. I caught two small crabs yesterday and was planning to keep them for food, but she scolded me and told me to give them to the children. Then she looked a little better, but she still sold them."
This tiger grouper is much more valuable than the two small blue crabs from yesterday. If he stews it, not only will his mother scold him, but his wife will also be angry with him for a few days.
It would be nice to sell it for a few dollars and give it to her, so she doesn't have to spend a whole day weaving a net and not even make a dollar.
Although he didn't know how much his wife had saved so far, he knew it was definitely not much.
"We have to sell them. The older generation was reluctant to eat or wear them. This pound costs more than one dollar. This big one can probably be sold for three dollars, which is enough for them to make a net for three to four days. It would be a waste to just waste it like this."
"Yeah, it's fine if you just eat the worthless seafood, but you should sell this!"
"While you are still alive, you should go to the dock to buy goods first. This will give us the opportunity to look for large cargoes. Otherwise, all the cargoes will go into your bucket, and I will return with an empty bucket!"
Everyone said so, and Ye Yaodong nodded, "Okay, then you guys play here first, I'll be back soon."
Ah Zheng said with a chuckle, "It's okay, just stay for a while. It's okay if you don't come back. We are here, so we don't need you!"
He laughed and cursed, "Fuck, you are jealous of my good luck. If I'm not here, you will definitely not be able to find any good stuff."
"Get out of here~Get out of here~"
He happily carried the bucket towards the group of people digging for sand clams. After finding Lin Xiuqing, he placed the bucket in front of her and said, "I found a grouper, a tiger grouper. You can take it to the purchasing point and sell it."
"Ah? Tiger grouper!" Lin Xiuqing looked at the bucket with eyes shining with surprise, "It's so big!"
"What tiger grouper? Third brother, did you catch a tiger grouper?" Ye's mother also came over in surprise.
"Tiger grouper?"
When the people around heard this, they gathered around and said in unison: "It really is tiger stripes!"
"Where did you catch it? Are you so lucky?"
"How many stone crabs are there?"
"Hey, there are also snow frogs..."
"Where did you find it, Dongzi? There are so many things, how come we have never seen them before?"
"When we go to the beach, we only pick up a few jumping fish and stone crabs. Dong is really lucky!"
Ye Yaodong ignored the surprise of the people around him and said to Lin Xiuqing, "Please clear out a bucket to put the fish in, and then take this tiger grouper to the purchasing point to sell it. This bucket belongs to A Guang, I'm going to give it back to him, and by the way, I'll go around and see if there's anything else I can pick up."
"Okay, I'll pour the clams into the bucket, you wait a moment." Lin Xiuqing smiled brightly and quickly cleared the bucket.
He estimated that he could only sell this tiger grouper for three dollars, and he was too lazy to go to the purchasing point. After pouring the fish into his wife's bucket, he took the empty bucket and his own bucket and continued walking down to the beach.
"Wait a moment!"
Ye's mother called him, "Don't you still have snow frogs in your bucket? How many are there? If there are too many, take them all out and ask A-Qing to take them to the purchasing point to sell them. Why are you still leaving them in there?"
"Ah? You want to sell snow clam too?"
"Of course, the valuable ones should be sold," Ye's mother took his bucket and shook it. "The ones you picked up are almost as big as fish balls. They look like they weigh more than a pound and can be sold for one or two yuan. If you don't sell them all, are you going to eat them?"
"Okay... let's sell them together."
Lin Xiuqing actually wanted to say this just now, but she was afraid that he would be unhappy. After all, he had already contributed a tiger grouper, and now hearing what Ye's mother said, she happily wanted to take it out.
"Be careful, the big claws of those stone crabs can pinch you. Let me do it."
Ye Yaodong stopped his wife from reaching out, and went to the bucket to take out a few stone crabs, stepped on them with his feet to prevent them from crawling around, and then took out the snow clams and threw them into the bucket containing the tiger grouper.
"Is this okay? There are only a few worthless stone crabs and sword shrimps, as well as jumping fish, and there is only one nine-segment shrimp that can't be sold for money."
Mother Ye nodded in satisfaction. "You've been lucky these past two days. People may not come across tiger grouper even once in several years of fishing at the beach. Go around again. If you find something good, bring it over to your wife to sell."
"How could it be so easy to find it? Do you think it's cabbage? It's only these two days when the tide is high that there are some things to pick up. It's a matter of luck. Do you really think that there are goods all over the beach and you can find them just by picking them up?" Then why does A Guang have an empty bucket all the time? Seeing that the women beside him were very interested, he quickly said.
Otherwise, they would not be digging for clams, but would go down to the sea to catch seafood, and he wouldn't have to go.
I’ve been really lucky recently!
"I just said that. If I didn't tell you this, you would have done it to me the next time!" Ye's mother glared at him unhappily.
Everyone knows that he is just trying his luck. How many things are there on their beach? How could she not know that
"I sent it here, didn't I? How can I use it..."
"Go, go, go, go down and take a look around again."
Alas, everything has been handed over, and his mother is still nagging. It is really not easy to change his family's opinion of him. But it doesn't matter. According to his previous life, he lived to 65 years old, so he still has many decades to go. It's better to take it slowly and accept it imperceptibly.