Chapter 490 Those who drown will die

"Open one for you?!"

Wen Shixiao asked as he came back with a coconut. Yi Chichi glanced at him up and down and shook his head, "Let's drink it when we get home. You don't even have the tools to open a coconut here."

She also didn't think she could split a coconut with her bare hands.

The shell of this thing is really thick. Without some skills and strength, ordinary people really can't open it.

But when she smelled it, she opened a coconut.

Of course, it was not chopped open with bare hands, but with a dagger.

Looking at the coconut handed to him, and then at the sharp dagger in his hand, Yi Chichi's mouth twitched, "Have you always hidden your dagger on your waist?"

“No.”

Today is a special case. I had something to do after training and didn’t have time to take it off.

When I was done with my work and in a hurry to go home, I kept it with me.

"Drink it quickly."

He handed the coconut over, Yi Chichi took it and took a sip. The fresh coconut just picked from the tree had clear juice, a refreshing taste and a light fragrance.

It tastes great and quenches thirst.

However, she was six months pregnant and her belly was a little big, so she didn't dare drink too much water for fear of having an emergency.

So, after taking a few sips, she handed the coconut to Wen Shi and said, "Don't throw it away after you finish drinking it. Take it back."

"What?"

There's no point in keeping an empty shell.

When I heard it, I was confused while holding the coconut.

"Eat the coconut meat. It's such a waste to throw it away."

That is, if you don’t have butter, as long as you have butter, you can use coconut meat to make coconut flakes.

Wen Shi said "oh", and Dun Dun drank the water, leaving the coconut shell.

Then he urged, "You stay here, I'll go see mom and the others."

The tide is almost rising, so we should quit while we're ahead.

Otherwise, when the tide comes, people will be trapped on the reefs, which would be a lot of fun.

"good."

Yi Chichi nodded and watched Wen Shi go up the reef to meet up with He Yunsong and the others.

The distance was quite far and the sea breeze was strong, so unless you spoke at the top of your voice, you couldn't hear what they were saying.

When she saw him, she picked up something like a shovel and began to squat down to pry the oysters on the rocks. She withdrew her gaze and began to scan the surroundings like a searchlight.

Then, she found a small puddle next to the reef. She went over to take a look and saw a large and beautiful purple scallop. She was excited to see the prey and bent down to pick it up.

Another sea urchin was found, hiding in the crevice of the rocks like a ball of thorns.

This is good stuff.

Unfortunately, the distance was a bit far and I couldn’t reach it with my arm, so I gave up and decided to wait for Wen Shi to come back and pick it up.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Wen Shi and the others finally came back.

Mother Wen came to Yi Chi Chi with empty hands and a smile on her face, "My dear, we picked up a lot of abalone today. I will make you abalone and braised pork tomorrow."

"good."

She responded with a smile, pointing to the sea urchin and said, "Mom, there's a big sea urchin over there."

Wen's mother dislikes sea urchins and doesn't like to eat them.

But Wen Shi liked to eat it, so he waved his hand and said, "Xiao Shi, go and dig out the sea urchin."

Hearing this, he said "oh" and went over with a basket to pick up the sea urchins.

At this time, the tide had begun to rise, and the group of people no longer coveted the seafood on the beach, but went home.

If we meet people along the way who don't have enough knowledge about the dangers of high tides, we will yell at them to hurry up.

Don't try to race against the tide, you can't win.

Most of them would listen to advice and leave as soon as they were yelled at.

But there are strange things everywhere. For example, there was a woman who refused to go ashore and said that she could swim.

“Those who drown are those who can swim.”

Mrs. Lei didn't show any curiosity and started to retort, "Old Chen's family, come here quickly, otherwise you will be swept away by the sea and no one will save you."

Everyone started to persuade him, but he was still hesitating.

Comrade Lao Lei couldn't stand it anymore and yelled at the top of his voice, "If you don't come up, I'll make your Lao Chen write a self-criticism and report it to the whole army."

The threat was quite fierce and Mrs. Chen was frightened.

She picked up the basket and ran over here, shouting, "I'm coming up here, Chief, please don't let Lao Chen make a self-criticism."

He Yunsong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and complained to Wen Shi softly, "You still care about Old Chen."

Yi Chichi and Ji Jian exchanged glances and smiled without saying anything.

How can I not care?

The whole family depends on Deputy Captain Chen for support. If he ruins his work, the whole family will be left with nothing.

Mrs. Chen is just greedy for some free seafood, she is not stupid.

You can distinguish between one meal being full and another meal being full.

This is also the reason why Mrs. Chen immediately chased after him when she was threatened.

As she ran over, she sighed, "I didn't catch anything."

Mrs. Lei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Who told you to come late?"

People had been picking up things for a while before she came. All the good things had been picked up, so it would be strange if she could pick up too much.

"Come early next time when the tide is high, and you'll have a good harvest."

As she spoke, she glanced at Mrs. Chen's backpack, which contained a lot of shellfish and two medium-sized fish. "Are your fish fresh?"

Don’t eat it if it’s not fresh, as it may cause problems.

“Fresh.”

Knowing what she was worried about, Mrs. Chen smiled and said, "When I found them, they were still alive and doing well."

It is highly likely that he is not dead now, but it is hard to say when he gets home.

But it doesn't matter, such a short time won't affect anything.

Besides, the temperature is not as high as in summer, so it won’t deteriorate so quickly.

"Xiao Yi, why are you here?"

Yi Chichi smiled and replied, "I'm bored staying at home, so I went out for a walk."

"I have to go out for a walk. It's not good for my health if I don't move around with the baby in my arms."

As she spoke, she began to complain about her husband, "Thinking back to when I was pregnant, Lao Chen didn't have the conditions to allow me and the baby to join the army, and my mother-in-law didn't have any either. I had to do everything at home, it was really hard."

These words really touched the hearts of Mrs. Lei and the others.

They began to recall the hardships and fatigue they endured during their pregnancy.

Yi Chizhi didn't dare to respond. Compared with most of the sisters-in-law in the family compound, she had never suffered any hardship or fatigue, and was loved by her husband and mother-in-law, which made it easy for people to break down.

Therefore, the best thing to do is to keep silent and not compare your own happiness with the suffering of others.

As the person being criticized, Lao Li and others also did not dare to say a word.

Because they all owe a great debt to their families, wives and children.

They are not qualified as children, nor as fathers and husbands.

No matter what, what the female comrades said is the truth. At this time, it is actually a good thing to lie down and let them vent their dissatisfaction and complaints.

So, a group of people arrived home listening to Mrs. Chen and the others' complaints and grumblings.

After Wen's mother entered the house, she poured herself a glass of water and then directed Wen Shi to bring out a large wooden basin.

Yi Chizhi sat on the chair, stunned as he watched them pour the abalone from the basket into the basin.

"Such a big abalone?"

She thought that the abalone nest discovered by Wen's mother and the others contained small and worthless abalone, but she never expected that they contained large abalone such as three-headed and two-headed abalone.

“There are small ones that we are too lazy to pick up.”

As Wen's mother was picking out abalone, she said, "I don't know where this nest of abalone came from. I went there before to pry oysters and never found any abalone. But today I found them. I thought I was seeing things."