He originally wanted to look around to see if he could pick up a few more snails. There were only two, and it would be difficult to cook them in the pot, and it would be a waste of firewood. Then he heard his son calling, so he had to trot over.
"Here, here, Dad~ It's running sideways~"
Ye Yaodong was tall and had long legs. He took two steps and caught up with the crab. He used fire tongs to grab the crab that was trying to escape.
This devil crab is probably the ugliest crab. Its big eyes are on its butt. So disgusting!
"Ah, I caught it..."
"Dad, this crab is so ugly!"
"Well, this is a devil crab. It's a little ugly, but it tastes good."
"I don't want it, it's too ugly, I want to eat blue crabs!"
Ye Yaodong said unhappily, "You are a connoisseur of goods. You even know how to eat blue crabs. I'll give you farts to eat. Do you want to eat them?"
"No no no, eat your fart yourself!"
Ye Chengyang also followed suit and stuck out his butt, "No no no ~ I'll give it to you ~"
After releasing it, he immediately ran after it.
Ye Yaodong laughed and scolded behind him, "Run slower, don't run into the water, the tide is still receding ahead, don't get too close."
"Got it~"
The two of them ran and stopped until their hands were full and then they called them dad again.
Their hands were so small that each could only pick up two or three snails and clams.
"There are two more fish there than we can fit in our hands."
"Um."
He walked in the direction the two children pointed, picked up the two dead mud fish and threw them into the bucket. There was also a hairy clam the size of a pigeon egg next to it, which he also took.
Going fishing? That's the downside. The items are too scattered, there are too many varieties, and you have to pick them up one by one, not a whole bunch.
Even if they are supposed to be in groups, they will disperse when they are washed ashore, and the waves don't care whether you are a family or not.
After walking a few steps, he saw a black round ball in front of him. He took a few quick steps towards it and found it was another sea urchin. The two children could each have a bowl of sea urchin steamed egg.
As for why not just stew a big bowl
Of course, fighting will break out because of uneven distribution!
For the sake of family harmony and to have a quiet meal, each person must have a separate bowl of steamed rice. Otherwise, you will have a lot of "salads" after the meal.
"Dad, there's an ugly crab here, he's eating the clams!"
"It's a devil-head crab!" Ye Chengyang said in a baby voice.
Ye Yaodong is always available.
The two children were squatting there, watching with relish a devil crab pecking at the meat from a sand clam that was almost the same size as itself.
"Wow, Dad, its two big feet are so powerful that they can even pry open the mouth of a sand clam~"
This devil crab is really "ghostly": it uses its two pincers to forcefully pry open the two shells of a live clam, then uses one pincer to support it and the other to pinch the clam meat.
"That's why I keep telling you not to catch crabs. If they pinch you with their big legs, your fingers will break!"
Ye Chenghu stretched out his index finger and immediately retracted it in fear, "I didn't grab it!"
"Ah... I ate it, I ate it..."
When Ye Chengyang saw the sand clam meat being dug out, he instantly shouted excitedly.
"Well, let it have a good meal!" Ye Yaodong waited until it had its fill and then put it into the bucket.
This one might be more greedy. It is a whole circle bigger than the one caught in the bucket before. It looks to weigh about 100 to 150 grams and is very hard.
"Show me, how many did you pick up? Ah... There are two sea urchins, one for each of us..."
"Look a little longer, the one for tonight is still missing!"
"Okay, Dad!"
The two children ran happily on the beach again.
Ye Yaodong thought that maybe he could ask his father to make two small baskets for them to carry when he had free time later, so that it would be convenient for them to go fishing next time.
One adult and two children picked up things as they walked, and they picked up quite a few cat's-eye snails and clams, as well as several hairy clams.
Ye Yaodong didn't just look at his feet. From time to time he looked up to see where the two children were running to, and then looked back at the shore.
At this moment, Ye Chengyang was suddenly shocked and terrified, and burst into tears, "Dad~Dad~"
Ye Chenghu also said anxiously: "Dad, the octopus has climbed onto Yangyang's face..."
He thought something had happened and ran over anxiously.
I saw a small white seal crawling on Ye Chengyang's face, with its dancing tentacles spread out arrogantly, covering his entire face. Ye Chengyang was so scared that his hands and feet were shaking, and tears and snot were streaming.
He casually grabbed the little white seal and held it in his hand. "You scared me! I thought something happened. It's just a little white seal. I can just grab it. What are you afraid of?"
Ye Chengyang hugged Ye Yaodong's thigh and continued crying loudly.
Ye Chenghu said innocently: "I tried to catch it, but I couldn't get it off because its legs were too tightly wrapped around it."
"Don't be afraid. There's nothing to be afraid of. It's so small. I'll cook it for you at noon. Once you eat it, you won't be afraid anymore."
Ye Chengyang stopped immediately, but he still sniffed and relaxed his shoulders from time to time.
Ye Yaodong changed the subject, "Hey~ there is a translucent anemone in the water over there."
The two people's attention was immediately diverted. Ye Chengyang didn't even sniff and ran over happily behind his father.
"Ah, anemone, so beautiful..."
Children are like this, their emotions come and go quickly.
The transparent anemone is buried under the sand with only its oral disc exposed on the beach. Dozens of tentacles sway in the shallow sea water, making it look like a flower.
Ye Chenghu curiously stretched out his hand to grab it, but Ye Yaodong slapped it away, "It's poisonous, don't touch it, I'll dig it for you, it's not easy to dig."
"How do you dig?"
"Watch, I'll teach you. Dig from the side. Cut diagonally into the sand next to it and start panning the sand... It's still growing underneath, it's very deep. Don't dig it through, pull it up by the roots."
Ye Yaodong started panning for sand while speaking, but unexpectedly pulled out a sand clam
After throwing it into the bucket, he continued digging, digging a big hole and reaching down to search.
The roots under the sea anemone are still very long and cylindrical, but when you take out all the roots under the mouth, you will find that it is a ball.
He pulled it up by the roots, shook off the water stains, and handed it to the two of them. "Save it for the hot and sour soup tonight. There's no portion for you!"
"Tsk~ We want to eat sea urchin steamed egg!"
"But there are only two in the bucket. Not enough for you to eat for two meals. Go find them quickly."
"A little bit~"
Ye Yaodong saw a few more nearby and dug them all out in the same way. One was not enough for a bowl.
Live by the mountain, eat from the mountain; live by the sea, eat from the sea. You can pick up goods at your doorstep and you will never have to worry about food and drink when you are by the sea.
Even though he had been surfing the sea since he was a child, he had long since gotten tired of it and no longer liked to come here. Otherwise, he could have picked up half a bucket of miscellaneous seafood to take home as food every day when the tide went out.
They followed the tide and walked downstream until they were about to reach the shallow water. He then stopped the two children from going forward and just let them wander around on the beach.
There are many more children on the beach at this time. Adults don't like to come to the beach to pick up these worthless and messy things. It's a waste of time, and the quantity is not much, so it's not worth their trip, but children like it.
Sometimes the adults in the family would ask the children to come out and pick up some things when the tide went out, to prevent the children from running around.
Ye Yaodong led them to the reef area on the side to see if there were any stranded fish to pick up. There were not many fish found today, only two mud carps.
"Dad, blue crab, blue crab~"
This is Ye Chenghu's favorite crab, of course he recognized it. Ye Yaodong used the fire tongs to pick it out from under the stone.
"Ask your mother to stew Codonopsis pilosula for you in the evening. It will give you strength!"
"Yeah!"
Ye Yaodong led them to squat on the beach next to him, tried to dig a few times, and dug out two sand clams. He was immediately satisfied and said, "You guys just dig sand clams here, don't run around. Your mother told you to dig more. I'll go to the side and take a look."
The reef area was full of rocks, so he decided not to take them with him. He only planned to take a walk around.
There were no big shellfish on the rocks, and he was not interested in the small ones, so he basically didn't look at the rock wall, but only looked to see if there was anything stranded.
There are quite a lot of stone crabs, blue crabs, and devil crabs. They can be seen everywhere in crevices, under rocks, and in piles of rubble... When the tide goes out, you can see them everywhere.
He was too lazy to catch the ones that were too small, so he picked the bigger ones. He estimated that there were ones weighing more than 200 or 300 grams and put them into the bucket. After a while, the upper layer of the bucket was covered with various crabs.
But I didn’t see any fish today, and only picked up 3 stone bass.
The tide level was not very low today, so people couldn't walk out far away. After Ye Yaodong took a look around and found nothing, he went back to look for his two sons.
The two of them were very serious and squatted there very hard without running around.
"How much have you dug?" he asked as he walked. When he got closer, he saw that there were two people digging a hole and they were not working seriously at all.
"I dug up two!" Ye Chengyang dug out two sand clams that he had buried in the sand as if he were presenting treasures.
"Good, keep working hard and stop playing. You have to complete the task your mother assigned you, otherwise there will be no sea urchin steamed egg for lunch."
"knew."
The two of them moved their little butts to the side and actually worked hard. However, they couldn't hold on for long before they let themselves go again.
Ye Yaodong didn't expect them to dig much, he just brought them out for fun.
"Don't get sand on your head, or you'll get beaten when you get home."
Don’t worry if it gets on your clothes, just pat it off with the sea sand.
"Ah! I dug up a really big one!"
Ye Chenghu was just digging sand for fun, but he didn't expect to dig out a sand clam that was bigger than his fist.
He was instantly excited, "Ahahaha, it's so big, I'm so awesome..."
"Good luck, dig a few more!"
"Uh-huh!"
He instantly became energized as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and started digging with great effort, panting heavily.
Basically he dug one with one shovel, and he actually dug quite a bit in no time. He became more and more excited as he dug.
"again… "
"besides… "
"Another big one..."