"Who's biting who?" Cheng Zhenzhu looked at Liu Tiao, who was showing off his tiny, sharp teeth, and threw the crab into the bucket Cheng Zhenbao was holding. "You little glutton. You can only eat it after it's cooked, okay?"

"Oh~" Liu Tiao was confused, his head dropped down, and his two big eyes stared into the bucket.

"Cold, one~" Peng Sandiao came over and showed his mother two crabs as big as fingernails. He tilted his little head back, and his bright eyes were full of "Praise me! Praise me!"

"Well, the three of us caught crabs, that's great." The uncle Cheng Zhenbao next to him praised quickly.

Cheng Zhenzhu nodded, then said, "It's just that there's no meat."

San Tiao blinked and decisively threw the little crab into the water. "I want meat, no meat, no~"

His little nephew knew how to make choices. Cheng Zhenbao glanced at his son, who was picking up everything nearby...

"Look at the meat..." The three threw away the small crabs and dug into the wooden barrel that had already been harvested, wanting to take a look. After a few glances, they saw six long fish and their saliva dropped. They spread their hands and said, "Twist the fish, drool, five long fish~"

Peng San Tiao was a clever child. Influenced by his two older brothers, he could already count on his two hands. He could even count from one to ten backwards. However, he didn't learn addition and subtraction from his two clueless brothers; he always did it on his own by counting on his fingers.

"You little drooling kid." Cheng Zhenzhu lifted Liu Tiao's sinking head back up and wiped the saliva off his head, looking a little funny.

"Ah da ah da~" Liu Tiao didn't know what it meant, and waved his hands like flapping little wings, trying to fly into the bucket.

"Dad, there are crabs here! Three of them!" Cheng Xiaohu shouted loudly not far away.

Cheng Zhenbao heard it, picked up the bucket and left. Liu Tiao watched helplessly, stretching out his two short hands to try feebly to scoop...

"Cool, catch one more, three of us will catch the big meaty one." Peng Sandiao failed in his first attempt and planned to try again.

"Go ahead, but don't get your hand pinched." Cheng Zhenzhu advised.

"Yeah." Peng San Tiao nodded vigorously to show that he had listened.

"Let's catch a big one." Cheng Zhenzhu continued to search around with Liu Tiao, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a small, uneven sand pile out of the corner of her eye.

The sand pile is moving, there is goods!

Cheng Zhenzhu picked up a stone and moved it twice, and a fat crab leg caught her eye.

Wow, there are actually crabs this big in this season. Cheng Zhenzhu dug the crab out, weighed it, and estimated it to be around 500 to 600 grams...

Cheng Zhenbao looked at the big crab and smiled from ear to ear, "Second sister, this crab is quite fat."

Normally, he wasn't a big fan of shrimp and crabs; they were just shells and had little meat. But today, after picking with the other kids, he seemed to have caught their attention and was obsessed with finding a big one. He even planned how to eat it when he got home...

"Almost done." Two hours later, the family had a bucket full of crabs and clams. The small ones were sifted out by the three fish.

"There's no meat on it, throw it away." Peng Sandiao saw another small crab in the bucket and was very brave. He reached his hand in directly, which scared Zhao Fangrui.

Fortunately, there was no danger in the end...

After the whole family finished collecting crabs, they didn't leave immediately. The children chased each other on the soft sand, while the adults enjoyed the sea breeze and chatted about family matters, feeling very comfortable.

Being rich and powerful was the most pleasant thing, and he would laugh out loud from time to time, and his laughter could easily reach the ears of passers-by.

A few passersby couldn't help but look over, their envy unspeakable. This was the difference between the rich and the poor. For them, picking up fish and crabs was life. But for Cheng Zhenzhu's family, it was just play.

Look, how happy they are! Crossing their legs, smoking a good Mudan cigarette, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. They are obviously not the same...

"Let's go back?" Zhao Fangrui sat for a while and then stood up. "Let's all go back and soak our feet."

"Okay, let's go back." Cheng Zhenzhu looked at the recipe for [Basic Crab Stewed Rice] that she had just obtained after completing the task, and was eager to try it.

This was her first time receiving a recipe reward, supposedly for achieving 99 crabs. She'd eaten crab rice before, but never made it herself, so it was unfamiliar. She wondered what it would taste like...

When the group returned, Zhao Fangrui asked her grandchildren to soak their feet in hot water and started washing the clothes they had taken off yesterday.

Wang Xiaomei was also washing.

After taking a shower yesterday, I went out for a walk. When I came back it was already evening, so I didn’t take a shower and it was delayed until now.

Cheng Zhenyu had no interest in washing clothes, nor did she fight with her mother and sister-in-law for the water or the bathtub. After they finished washing, she sent her husband Zhao Jiawang and the two older daughters to wash.

As for the little girl, Zhao Sanni, she was always a troublemaker and wasn't allowed to go. This morning, she was combing Sanni's hair and saw only a hair flower on her head. When she asked where it had fallen off, she had no idea. She was even dumber than her two honest sisters...

Cheng Zhenzhu took Liu Tiao for a few laps, then went to the kitchen to watch his father and Cheng Zhenbao clean the crabs. Neither man let her do anything, just let her use her mouth.

"Ah~" Liu Tiaozui was a diligent man, making "oh oh ah ah" gestures towards the half bucket of crabs...

"Okay, Dad, Zhenbao, leave the rest to me. You guys can go and take a rest." Having already asked his dad to cook for a few meals, Cheng Zhenzhu didn't let his dad cook this time. He stuffed the six pieces into his father's arms and pushed them out. Then his mother came in again, asking to help...

Cheng Zhenzhu didn't refuse again and asked her mother to help wash some green onions and chop some ginger and garlic. She then peeled and chopped a few cleaned crabs, then took out a carrot.

This is the ingredient called for in the recipe.

[Dice carrots and mix with rice]

Cheng Zhenzhu followed the recipe exactly, even down to the amounts. The recipe calls for five servings, but she has seven adults and seven children, so counting three adults as the children makes ten. So, she doubled all the ingredients.

[Sauté the scallions, ginger, and garlic until fragrant, then remove the crab pieces and stir-fry...]

Zhao Fangrui was even more confused when she saw her daughter placing crab shells on the rice and pouring in the broth from the stir-fried crab. It was strange enough to stir-fry freshly washed uncooked rice with carrots, but she also had to do all this nonsense. Was this how people here eat?

"Okay, let's cook as usual. Mom will just wait for us to eat." Cheng Zhenzhu covered the pot and planned to stir-fry the bacon and make fish soup. The only thing left was steamed crab.

These dishes are easy to make. Just prepare the bacon and fish soup, and the sauce for steaming crabs. Put them together in the steamer and steam them.

"Pearl, why is Liu Tiao crying?" Cheng Fugui took the little kid back to the house and played with him for a while. He found that the little kid had a frown on his face and pouted, looking unhappy.