As soon as they stepped off the coastal path, they saw a green car parked to the side.

The chubby girl stopped in her tracks when she saw the people sitting in the car.

Lu Yun Shen?

She turned to look at her friend, but Ayan seemed not to see her at all.

"Hurry up, or we'll miss the train." Lin Ziyan tugged at her sleeve.

The chubby girl nodded, thinking to herself, "Was Ah Yan really out of her mind before?"

As the two were crossing the car, they were stopped by a shout.

"Lin Ziyan," Lu Yunshen called out.

The chubby girl tightened her grip, looked at the people in the car, and then glanced at Ah Yan next to her.

Why did she feel her heart racing, as if her gossipy nature had been piqued?

"Where to?" Lu Yunshen asked.

He glanced at Lin Ziyan's braid, his dark eyes flashed, and he pursed his thin lips.

"The city."

Lin Ziyan replied indifferently, glanced at him, and then saw the man leaning against the driver's seat, watching her with great interest.

The chubby girl blinked; she felt there was something different about these two...

"It's on my way, get in." Lu Yunshen's tone was calm, revealing no emotion.

"No need, we'll take the shuttle bus." Lin Ziyan said, then pulled the dazed chubby girl away.

Yang Yanzhou propped his head up with his hand, looked at his friend beside him, and narrowed his eyes.

Something's not right, these two are acting strange...

Lu Yun Shen didn't seem embarrassed by not refusing, "Aren't you going to drive?"

If it weren't for his grandmother's constant nagging, he wouldn't have let Yang Yanzhou park the car here.

Yang Yanzhou, "..."

He became a driver?

…

It was already noon when Lin Ziyan and her group arrived in the city.

The two grabbed a quick bite of a steamed bun and headed to the shrimp fry market.

Although it's called a shrimp fry market, it's actually just a small distribution center.

Lin Ziyan originally intended to buy shrimp seedlings in the county town, but after hearing Uncle Chen say that when they opened their shrimp farm, they bought shrimp seedlings in the county town for convenience, but all of them ended up having problems, she gave up the idea of ​​buying them in the county town.

The nearby fishing villages almost all bought their shrimp larvae from the county town, and none of them escaped the shrimp plague.

That means these shrimp larvae have very poor resistance and will be very weak after being raised.

"Ayan, the shrimp larvae here aren't as alive as the ones you raised..." the chubby girl muttered under her breath.

The two squeezed into the crowd and looked at the shrimp seedlings at several stalls.

Lin Ziyan browsed through several stalls and was somewhat disappointed.

Indeed, I didn't see any good quality shrimp, and there were very few stalls selling shrimp larvae.

The two walked from one end to the other without finding anything suitable, and their mood became somewhat down.

The chubby girl's face was sunburned, and sweat kept dripping from her forehead.

"Let's go take a look over there." Lin Ziyan looked into a small alley where several houses had set up ponds, but only a few children were sitting there, and there were no adults.

This small distribution center smelled fishy and foul, and the ground was always wet.

Even with a mask on, Lin Ziyan could still smell a strong fishy stench.

She thought to herself, "Luckily I didn't eat too much just now, otherwise my stomach would be churning."

Lin Ziyan walked quickly, thinking that if all else failed, she would go to the big reef to fish for shrimp, but that was a last resort.

“Young girls, those are all diseased shrimp larvae. You’ll be wasting your time going there,” an old woman with cross-eyed eyes said, stopping them.

The chubby girl frowned, hesitating whether to go in.

The alleyway looked eerie, and the stench was even stronger.

"Grandma, let's go in and take a look." Lin Ziyan pursed her lips, a hint of suspicion flashing in her eyes.

This old woman seems to be sitting here deliberately to block people.

A little girl sitting in the alley looked at them with anxious eyes.

Lin Ziyan stepped past the old woman and pulled the chubby girl inside.

She didn't like the shrimp larvae outside, and if there weren't any in the alley, then this trip would have been a waste.

The alley was very narrow, and there were some miscellaneous items piled up outside.

The two did not walk very fast.

Lin Ziyan came to the red basin that the child was guarding, squatted down and looked at it.

She was shocked to discover that these were exceptionally well-bred shrimp species.

And it wasn't just a few, there were more than twenty.

The chubby girl squatted down beside them, not understanding what was going on, but she could tell that the shrimp were very energetic.

"Sister, do you want to buy it?" the little girl asked cautiously, her eyes full of anticipation.

"Who would buy you diseased shrimp!" came a sharp voice from an old woman.

"You good-for-nothing, get inside! Who are you trying to kill by staying here? You're just like your mother, that wretched slut..."

The old woman muttered curses, hands on her hips, her eyes darting around.

The little girl clutched the hem of her clothes, said nothing, and didn't go inside either.

Her top was made of patchwork scraps of fabric, and her pants were neither long nor short, looking as if they had been washed and shrunk repeatedly.

The little girl was dark-skinned and thin, with bright eyes, and she looked stubbornly at the old woman.

"Ah Yun, someone's here?" A woman carrying a child came out.

The old woman wanted to continue cursing, but seeing the neighbor who came out to watch the commotion, she swallowed her anger.

"Ever since Ah Sheng went to sea and didn't come back, this old woman has never stopped causing trouble. Sigh, this world..." an old man muttered, but pulled up a rattan chair and sat down at the door.

"Sister, do you want to buy shrimp?" The little girl looked at them nervously.

"Hmm, I want these..." Lin Ziyan hadn't finished speaking.

“Little girl, there are better ones in that alley over there, I’ll take you there.” The old woman suddenly interrupted her, and tried to reach out and pull them.

The chubby girl stood in front of Lin Ziyan, glaring at the old woman.

The chubby girl wanted to yell back at the insults she'd just heard.

The chubby girl was so angry at being so harsh on a little girl that she wanted to scratch someone.

"I want these shrimp, please pack them for me." Lin Ziyan looked at the woman.

The woman only hesitated for a few seconds before placing the child in the little girl's arms, making sure she held him securely, and hurriedly found a small plastic bucket.

She scooped up the shrimp, checked them, and then put them in the bucket.

"Young lady, if you want the shrimp larvae to survive after you get home, go ahead and buy some oxygenators..." the woman carefully instructed, adding that there were many things to be careful about.

Lin Ziyan gave her a deep look, never expecting to run into someone who knew about shrimp species.

However, the fact that they can raise shrimp so well shows that they have some skill.

"These are shrimp seedlings, so each one costs two yuan..." The woman was a little embarrassed, afraid that they wouldn't want them, but she insisted on the price.

"Two dollars! Are you robbing me?" the old woman shouted again.

The woman stood in front of the old woman, her gaze sharpening. "Mother, if you're too free, you can help me look after A'duo."

The old woman cursed a few more times and then jogged away.

"I'm sorry, you all had to see this." The woman pursed her lips, her eyes shining.

Lin Ziyan smiled faintly, "I'll take these shrimp."

"But why didn't you use shrimp fry to cultivate shrimp seedlings?"

Raising shrimp larvae will only generate more profit.

The woman gave a bitter smile. "My husband went to fish in the sea and probably won't come back. We'll leave here after we sell the shrimp fry."

She touched the little girl's hair next to her, her eyes slightly red.

"These shrimp are being raised very well," Lin Ziyan thought to herself. In this day and age, there are too many people dreaming of getting rich by going to sea.

But most of them are forced by life's circumstances to leave their families behind and venture out on their own.