Chen Hong glanced at it and then covered her mouth to laugh. The bucket was mostly filled with clams and oysters the size of a fingernail.

"Mom, you must have spent a lot of time and effort on all this, right? Wow, that really is quite a lot!"

Okay, have some water and rest for a while. I'm going for a walk, and we'll go home together in an hour.

Everyone's coming over for dinner tonight, so I need to go home early to prepare.

Chen Hong poured the clams and seafood from the bucket into a large plastic bag, took off her shoes, rolled up her trousers, and waded into the seawater with the empty bucket in hand.

The tide had only been out for a little over two hours and was still receding. Chen Hong didn't like waiting on the beach to pick up seafood abandoned by the sea.

She likes to take the initiative and go to the sea to find the freshest and most vibrant catch.

Chen Hong lowered her head and searched back and forth in the knee-deep seawater.

There were more seafood in the water than on the beach, and Chen Hong found quite a few good things.

I'll take the flounder, which weighs a little over two pounds!

Big octopus, weighing half a pound, not bad, I'll take it!

Keep walking sideways forward, wow, the orchid crab is moving pretty fast underwater!

Chen Hong ran over quickly and, with lightning speed, scooped the crab out of the seabed from the murky sand.

Hehe, this one is quite big too, weighing a full half pound. Although it's not ripe yet this season, it's still tender and delicious, so I bought it!

Chen Hong continued walking forward, and the harvest was truly addictive; she caught more than a dozen octopuses.

The larger ones weighed half a pound, while the smaller ones weighed two or three ounces, and almost all of them were carrying roe. These were enough to make a whole pot, so Chen Hong decided to make spicy stir-fried octopus tonight.