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Lin Xiuqing followed Ye Yaodong to the beach with some doubt. The tide had just receded a little bit, and looking at the waves in the distance still rolling in layer by layer, it felt quite spectacular.
She has been married for five years and has never come to the shore during a typhoon. She is either pregnant or looking after or taking care of children.
"Isn't it nice? The beach here is pretty nice."
It was a typhoon day and the sea water turned a little yellow.
"Didn't we say we were going to see if there was anything to pick up? Let's go down quickly and come back early. Who knows when it might rain heavily?" As he said this, he walked down to the beach.
Ye Yaodong looked at her back and shook his head, so boring!
"Ah, there really are some to pick up!" Lin Xiuqing had just walked down the beach when she saw a huge clam at her feet and was surprised.
He took a few quick steps forward, "I wasn't kidding you, was I? There really is something to pick up!"
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him and said, "It's not worth much, and you came out to pick it up during the typhoon. If there is anything good, just pick it up for me."
"Let's see if there's any. The waves are so big, there's no guarantee that there won't be any seafood washed ashore."
"Um."
After walking a few steps forward, he picked up another big clam. Lin Xiuqing's face was shining with joy. This was different from squatting there and digging sand clams with great effort. This one didn't require digging, and it was five or six times bigger than the sand clams. It felt so good to pick up something just by walking around.
Ye Yaodong also bent down and picked one up, "Hey, I have one here too, it's not as big as your two."
"This is the only clam you can pick?"
"Walk around a bit more and take a look."
According to his experience, the waves are big during typhoons, and there will be seafood that is swept in and stranded on the beach. That's why he ignored the typhoon and took her out now while the tide was receding.
"Fish...fish..." Lin Xiuqing excitedly pulled his arm and pointed to the waves ahead, "There..."
Ye Yaodong looked in the direction where her finger pointed, and saw a fish being swept out of the water by the waves. After the waves receded, the fish was stranded on the beach and was still jumping around.
Lin Xiuqing quickly stuffed the clams in her hand into his arms and ran forward to pick up the fish, but found it very slippery and it fell out even when she held it in her hands.
Just as another wave was about to hit, Ye Yaodong stuffed the clams into his pocket, hurried forward to kick the fish onto the beach, and hugged his wife in his arms, using his back to block the wave for her.
A big wave hit his back, cooling him to the bone. The sea water dripped directly from his forehead. Lin Xiuqing was protected in his arms, so her body was not hit by the waves. Only the sea water on his head dripped onto her face.
Lin Xiuqing blinked her eyes and looked at him in doubt, "Are you okay? Why are you still... blocking the waves for me? You're all soaked. Go back and change your clothes..."
He wiped the seawater off his face and said nonchalantly, "It's okay, just take it off. Pick up that stupid fish, it looks like it weighs about five or six pounds. Take it back and marinate half of it and cook the other half into fish soup at noon."
"Oh, all right."
In fact, the scientific name of this fish is herring, but the locals call it stupid fish, most commonly called silly. It is very cheap. In later generations, people from this village went to the dock to buy it for five yuan a catty, and outsiders bought it for eight yuan a catty. Now it may be only 4-5 cents.
As for why it is called Silly, it’s because it is stupid!
There is no dumber fish.
When fishing boats are sailing on the sea, the fish often come to the door on their own, jump onto the deck and become a snack for the fishermen.
This kind of thing happens not once or twice, but too often, so the local fishermen call it "stupid".
Lin Xiuqing tried to catch it several times but failed, and it was always flicked by its tail and fell onto the beach.
"You're so stupid!"
Ye Yaodong took out a sack from his pocket, shook it, opened it towards Shadai, and then kicked it into the sack, throwing a few clams in as well.
"If I had known earlier, I would have brought a bucket. He would have died if he had been put in the sack."
"It doesn't matter if you take it back and kill it later. Are you going to fetch a bucket of water to keep it? It won't sink. It's not worth anything. Let's go."
"All right."
Before he took two steps, Ye Yaodong noticed a small golden tail next to a stone. He pulled his wife and said, "Look here..."
Lin Xiuqing also saw it instantly, "Ah, it's a pomfret! It's so big!"
"Well, golden pomfret! It's quite big, more than one kilogram. It's a pity that it's not white pomfret. White pomfret is delicious!" As he spoke, he bent down and pried open its gills to take a look. They were bright red, which meant they were still fresh and had just died, so he could put them in his pocket.
Golden pomfret looks better than white pomfret, but it is not very useful.
The meat of white pomfret is relatively delicate and tender, while the meat of golden pomfret is relatively rough and thick. However, white pomfret is generally not large in size, normally less than 1 jin, while golden pomfret is generally more than 1 jin or larger.
The price of silver pomfret will double if it weighs more than 6 taels, and can be sold for more than 120 yuan in the market during the fishing moratorium.
As long as there is a harvest, Lin Xiuqing doesn't care whether it is golden pomfret or white pomfret. After all, he has just made a lot of money. It would be best if the seafood he picked up can be sold for money, and he can keep the worthless ones for himself. It will not be a loss at all.
"There are indeed things to pick up when we go out on a typhoon day. If I had known earlier, I would have called my eldest and second sisters-in-law out."
Ye Yaodong curled his lips and asked, what should he ask them to do
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It was a rare opportunity for the couple to take a leisurely walk out. They had never been alone so easily since their rebirth, so he had no intention of calling anyone else.
"Let's go down. The tide has receded a little."
Just as he was about to follow the tide, the small pool under the stone where he picked up the white pomfret suddenly rippled, "Wait... Let me move this stone and see."
"Something?"
"It's possible that when the tide just receded, these low-lying areas with rocks are more likely to have stranded seafood."
Lin Xiuqing also squatted down curiously and watched him move the stone.
"Ah, it's a little green crab."
Ye Yaodong also saw it. It was really small, probably less than half a pound. But it was a blue crab after all, better than a stone crab.
"Do you dare to catch it?"
"I don't dare. I'm afraid of its big claws."
"Just grab its back. You can't bite it."
He grabbed it and handed it to her, scaring her so much that she leaned back and sat on the beach, "What are you doing!"
"Just to scare you."
Lin Xiuqing glared at him, patted her butt, stood up, and walked forward without paying any attention to him.
Ye Yaodong quickly threw the blue crabs into the bag and followed her.
"Haha, are you angry?"
"No, hurry up and look for it. The sky is getting cloudy again. It might rain again soon."
The two of them bent down frequently on the beach following the tide. They found clams everywhere, and each one was very big. It was so fun to pick them up.
Many times, just as they picked up a clam and threw it into the bag, waves came up in front of them and the clams were also rolled up and rolled on the beach. If they were a step slower, the clam might have rolled back into the sea with the tide.