He continued to walk around and found another blue crab buried in the soil not far away, with only its two eyes sticking out.
"Each one is better at hiding than the other!"
Fortunately, he has good eyesight and sharp eyes. He picked it up and took a look. It was a little smaller, but still a little over one kilogram. It was a male, not bad!
After putting the blue crab into the bamboo basket, he looked for it more carefully, fearing that it would be covered by mud and he would miss it if he couldn't see it clearly.
If there are stones around, he will move them to see if there is anything underneath.
But the area he was looking for was a mudflat with little water. He broke off several stones but didn't see any stranded fish or shrimps. He didn't get discouraged and continued to look patiently. After all, it was low tide and there was plenty of time.
After moving several stones, he finally saw two big blue crabs stacked high next to a big stone!
"Fuck, a wild fight, you guys are awesome!"
I picked up one, and the other one was stuck on it. I looked at the back and found that it was indeed one male and one female.
They were all blue crabs. Ye Yaodong guessed that it was because of the isolated island, with no one around and no threats. So after the tide went out, the blue crabs crawled onto the mudflats to relax and bask in the sun, and then returned to the sea when the next high tide came.
After he excitedly put both of them into his bag, he saw a small mudflat not far ahead. It was relatively flat and had many small holes on its surface.
He took a few quick steps forward and then squatted down. Unlike the small holes on the surface of the beach which had clams underneath, these small holes, based on his experience, should have razor clams underneath.
Razor clams are a type of invertebrate mollusk commonly found in the mud and sand of intertidal zones. They have narrow, long, razor-shaped shells that can move quickly up and down in caves and quickly retract into caves when frightened.
He muttered a few words: "It's a pity that I didn't bring salt, otherwise I could sprinkle some salt on the holes and the clams would come out by themselves. Now I have to dig them out myself, what a hassle!"
Putting the fire tongs aside, he dug the holes one by one with his bare hands. Fortunately, the holes were not deep, so they were easy to dig out.
After taking out a few, I saw a stone next to me, so I moved it away and found two jumping fish, which I threw into the bamboo basket.
No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat and it is a harvest anyway.
He worked skillfully for more than ten minutes, and after he had dug out all the small holes in this area, he estimated that he had harvested about three or four kilograms. He stood up with satisfaction.
It's just that he had been squatting for too long and his neck felt a little sore. His hands were dirty and it was inconvenient to press it, so Ye Yaodong had to twist his neck and look at those people at the same time.
Everyone’s share is quite scattered, and I don’t know what they have gained
He looked up at the sun again. It was still bright and dazzling. It was still early and the tide was not rising so quickly. He could only continue looking and occasionally pick up a few jumping fish.
People walked further and further out, and directly walked out of this small mudflat and reached an area of shallow mud and sand.
As soon as he stepped into the sea, Ye Yaodong sat on a big rock and planned to wash the mud off his legs first. The mud stuck to his legs and dried up under the sun, making his skin tight and not very comfortable.
Just after washing his feet, he saw a tentacle sticking out from under the crack of the stone.
"You've walked into a trap! Come out." He put on gloves and reached out to grab it. "Oh~ It's a little white seal!"
After throwing it into the bamboo basket, he continued to reach under the stone and tried to dig it out, "There's more!"
When I caught them, I found that there were two little white seals!
Fujianese people have a saying: Three little white stamps on top of a sheep!
Other octopuses are sold by weight, but small white octopuses are sold by the piece!
"We got a sheep!"
The resources on the isolated island were indeed much richer than those on the pier. After walking around the stone, he saw a few more snails.
There were not many, only seven or eight. The snail meat on the top was directly attached to the stone. He broke them off one by one and threw them into his hands.
Only snails that cling to rocks have meat inside, while those that soak in sea water often contain hermit crabs and have no meat.
Now that he had reached the shallow water, he planned to walk around it first.
"Hey, Shi Jiugong..."
Seeing a red figure swimming over there at the rubble pile, Ye Yaodong took a few quick steps over and found it was a stone nine-gong.
The stone nine-gong generally lives in cracks in rocks or caves in the sea. It seems that it cannot live without rocks. No matter how deep the water is, there must be rocks at the bottom for the stone nine-gong to appear and live there, and then the small shrimps at the bottom will be its food.
He put the bamboo basket and fire tongs aside, freed his hands, surrounded it with both hands, and caught it. The hard spines on its fins are poisonous, so he needed to be careful.
The bright red stone fish is quite pleasing to the eye and much more beautiful than ordinary fish.
Ye Yaodong was also in a good mood. No matter whether the goods were valuable or not, it was always a happy thing to have a gain.
The harvest was not much after that. By the time the tide began to rise, he had only caught three stone bass, just enough to make a bowl, as well as some jumping fish, stone crabs, a few miscellaneous fish, and three large blue crabs.
Wading through the water, he walked towards the reef where he had just disembarked. The others were still wandering around with their heads down. Ye Yaodong shouted to them, "The tide is rising!"
Everyone looked up in the direction of the sound, then looked down again. The water started to rise, but hadn't reached the target yet. The boat was still stranded on the beach, so why rush
When he got closer, he shouted again, "Aren't you hungry?"
"How can I not be hungry? I am starving."
"I've already eaten several shrimps raw."
He hadn’t really noticed that there were no shrimps in his catch today. “I didn’t even find any shrimps.”
"So what did you find?"
"Three small white snappers, three stone crabs, a few stone crabs, a few miscellaneous snails, three or four pounds of clams, seven large blue crabs..."
"Fuck, you found seven fucking blue crabs? How big were they?" Xiaoxiao, who was closest to him, looked at him in disbelief.
"They are all over one kilogram, and the largest one is probably almost two kilograms!"
The largest one was found under a rock in the shallow water when he was about to come over. Fortunately he found it, otherwise it would have returned to the sea when the tide rose.
Ah Zheng yelled in envy and hatred: "What luck you have! Not only did you pick up three or four pounds of clams, but you even picked up seven large blue crabs? I only picked up one."
"I picked one up too! It's quite big too, probably about 1.3 or 1.4 kilograms." Chen Wei also walked over and said.
"It feels like there are quite a lot of blue crabs here. I don't know if it's because it's an isolated island and the fishing nets can't be put here, but there are quite a lot of them."
"I think so too. It's probably because no one has ever visited here before," Xiao Xiao said while glancing at Ye Yaodong's bamboo basket. "Yours is already full."
"Dongzi has been really lucky these days! He got more than us in the same place."