Chapter 233 Discovering a Corpse at Sea While Beachcombing

But the important thing is clearly not the form of address.

She quickly pressed on, "What's wrong? You're not planning to pursue my senior brother anymore?"

Jia Zhenzhen frowned: "I don't know what happened, but my old man found out that I was pursuing Parman. He gave me a good beating yesterday. He told me that I'm not allowed to have any feelings for Parman anymore, and it seems like he's even planning to set me up on blind dates!"

A blind date?

"There's no need for that. You're only 20 years old. Why are we rushing to set you up on blind dates?" Su Yunyi said, feeding herself some jerky while looking at her.

"That's right! I guess someone told him about some of the stupid things I did before. He's very concerned about his image, and he's probably afraid I'll do something even more embarrassing for him, so he wants to marry me off as soon as possible!"

"Do you know who he wants you to go on a blind date with?" Qin Suisui also took a piece of dried meat from the bag in Su Yunyi's hand, and squatted down with them in the corner, chewing and comforting Jia Zhenzhen.

But Jia Zhenzhen didn't know who her blind date was. The group whispered among themselves for a while before getting to work.

The first batch of seedlings of Torreya grandis and Cycas revoluta that sprouted last year died inexplicably in November. These are the new seedlings that have been cultivated. Learning from the previous experience, Qin Suisui prepared the experimental field early and planted them in advance with Su Yunyi and Jia Zhenzhen.

When I got home from work in the evening, I ran into Sister Tang carrying a bucket and walking towards the sea.

"Sui Sui, the tide has just gone out, wanna go beachcombing?"

"Go, go, go!" Qin Suisui hadn't been to the beach since after the New Year. Now that the weather was warmer, more and more people were going to the beach. When they arrived, there were already many people there.

Even the spot where Qin Suisui and her friends used to shuck oysters has been taken over by others.

"Sister-in-law, why are there so many people today?"

"The tide is particularly high tonight. I heard that another typhoon is coming soon. I guess everyone wants to collect some seafood to take back for a meal."

Another typhoon? It's only March and there's already a typhoon?

I heard Pei Jiuyan and the others say that typhoons usually come to Qiongtan Island in the summer. Why are they here so early this year?

But as the saying goes, "It's like the sky wanting to rain, or a mother wanting to remarry," and no one can predict these things.

As more and more people gathered, Sister Tang led Qin Suisui directly to another "secret base".

This place is far from the large beach we just saw. There's a large reef more than two meters high in between, and you'll only see it after you climb over it. Behind it is also a shallow beach, with a few reefs interspersed here and there, forming small patches of land.

The tide had just receded, and there were still plenty of clams, shrimp, and crabs on the beach.

"Sui Sui, come quick!" Aunt Tang walked over quickly and waved to Qin Sui Sui.

Qin Suisui, however, set her sights on a shallow beach beneath the rocks. This beach connected to the rocks, and behind the rocks lay the sea, making it perfect for her to cheat!

She pretended to be slacking off as she bent down, but actually released the water from the spatial pool into it. Soon, the calm surface of the water rippled violently. Qin Suisui's eyes lit up—it's here!

The first wave of fish attracted included grouper, yellow croaker, and other fish that she had caught before. Most of them were mackerel, ribbonfish, threadfin bream, pomfret, and sardines. Many of them were species she had never encountered before. Could it be that after the space was upgraded, the types of fish attracted were gradually moving towards the deep ocean?

After storing the fish in the space, I saw that there were also tiger prawns, mantis shrimp, slipper prawns, as well as flower crabs, blue crabs, swimming crabs, and mud crabs that arrived late. There were also squid and octopus, and even jellyfish! Sure enough, after the space was upgraded, it attracted more seafood!

Qin Suisui stored the first batch of fish into her spatial storage, released a wave of water from the pool, filled half a bucket with the fish, and then stored the more conspicuous fish into her spatial storage before speaking to Sister Tang, who was still catching crabs on the beach: "Sister-in-law, come quick! There are so many here!"

"Where? Where?" Upon hearing this, Aunt Tang hurried over with a large bucket. Her eyes lit up when she saw the fish in the shallow water: "How come there are so many fish and shrimp! There are even ribbonfish and grouper! Sui Sui, you're so lucky!"

As she spoke, she helped pick things out of Qin Suisui's bucket.

Qin Suisui was taken aback: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Are you picking them into your own bucket?"

Sister-in-law Tang smiled and shook her head, her hands still busy: "These are all good things, and you found them yourself. How could I possibly take advantage of you? Hurry up, let me help you, or all these good things will run away!"

Qin Suisui chuckled: "Sister-in-law, what's our relationship? Don't be so polite! Besides, this ocean belongs to everyone, not just me. Hurry up, these ribbonfish, grouper, and shrimp are all highly nutritious. Eating them will be good for your breast milk, and the baby can get extra nutrition from the milk!"

Upon hearing Qin Suisui mention her son, Aunt Tang hesitated for a moment. She did not have much breast milk at the moment, so she nodded and said, "Okay! I'll take advantage of you. I'll make you spicy crab when we get back! And I'll make you a jar of clam sauce with the clams I just picked!"

"Alright!" Aunt Tang is a native of Sichuan Province, and her cooking is very much to Qin Suisui's liking, especially her spicy crab, which tastes so good that Qin Suisui can't learn to make it.

The two of them picked up seafood while talking in hushed tones, careful not to attract attention.

The seafood in the shallows didn't recede until both of their buckets were full.

Looking at the bucket full of fish and shrimp, Sister Tang's eyes crinkled with laughter. She pointed to the patch of ground where she had just been picking clams and said, "Sui Sui, you wait here and watch our two buckets. I saw some large pieces of seaweed over there. I'll go get some to cover them up, otherwise our stuff will be too conspicuous."

Qin Suisui nodded: "Okay, sister-in-law, be careful. I'll keep an eye on things here."

The spot where Aunt Tang was collecting clams was separated from this shallow puddle by a small, low rock. Aunt Tang ran over with a smile, and Qin Suisui took a towel from her waist, dried her legs, and then pulled down her trousers. Although Qiongtan Island is hot, the weather in March is not as pleasant as summer. If the water isn't dried quickly, it's easy to catch rheumatism, especially since the weather here is already quite humid.

Just as I pulled my trouser legs down, I suddenly heard Aunt Tang's piercing scream from the other side: "Ahhhhhh..."

Qin Suisui was startled and quickly picked up two large buckets and ran over: "Sister-in-law, what happened? Did you fall?"

As she climbed over the rocks, she saw Sister Tang sitting on the ground, her face filled with panic, her lips pale with fright.

Seeing Qin Suisui approach, she raised her hand, trembling as she pointed behind a rock more than two meters high: "Suisui, Suisui, there, there's a dead person there..."

Qin Suisui was startled, and her face paled for a moment. But to confirm whether it was true or not, she walked over there, tiptoed, and peeked out. Sure enough, she saw a small corpse floating behind the reef, head down, so she couldn't see the face. But the blue knitted sweater and black overalls looked strangely familiar to Qin Suisui.

"It's Ziming! It's Xue Ziming! He was wearing this outfit a few days ago!" Aunt Tang suddenly exclaimed.