It is not difficult to make pickled fresh lobster. Lin Tao made it very successfully by following the recipe.

It just took a lot of time.

When the pot was so delicious that the lid was opened, the whole room was filled with the delicious aroma of the pickled and freshly stewed food. Lin Tao looked at the time and found that at this time of the day, she and Li Chengxi would have already finished their meal.

Normally at this time, she would be sitting in the yard enjoying the cool air while Li Chengxi would be washing dishes in the kitchen.

After Li Chengxi finished washing the dishes, the two of them went out for a walk to help digest their food.

Lin Tao was fine. She had eaten a lot of liangpi at noon, so she wasn't very hungry now.

I was just worried that Li Chengxi was hungry. He had been training so intensively for the whole day, and he must have digested his lunch long ago.

Fortunately, she had already steamed the steamed buns beforehand, and while the pickled mustard greens were not yet ready, she gave Li Chengxi a steamed bun, letting him eat it first with her fried spicy potato shreds to fill his stomach.

Lin Tao's spicy and sour potato shreds are also very delicious and Li Chengxi likes them very much.

But after the pickled fresh vegetables were ready, Li Chengxi ate six more steamed buns and drank several bowls of soup.

Lin Tao had a good appetite today. She ate two steamed buns and drank a whole bowl of fresh hot soup. In the end, she stopped because she couldn't eat any more.

The high tide had passed. After dinner, Li Chengxi took Lin Tao to the same place as before to take a walk, digest the food, and enjoy the sea breeze.

Before, she and Li Chengxi were the only ones who came to this place. Sometimes, when Li Chengxi saw that there was no one around, he would hold her hand and walk around.

But recently, people on the island saw that the couple always came here, and perhaps they also wanted to come and see what there was to see here, so more people came here for a walk after dinner than before.

Lin Tao and Li Chengxi's secret little world was discovered, but it didn't have any other impact except that Li Chengxi could no longer take advantage of the opportunity to hold Lin Tao's hand.

Li Chengxi felt helpless, and Lin Tao pursed her lips and smiled secretly.

After returning home and taking a shower, the two of them went to bed comfortably to read some books and chat.

Most of the time, it was Lin Tao who was talking, while Li Chengxi was listening quietly. Because except for the time after he went home, his time was usually quite boring, either in meetings or training. He would not tell Lin Tao military secrets, and Lin Tao did not like to hear them, and there was even less to say about training.

Lin Tao mostly talks about what happened at school. She loves her job.

I like the kids in school.

Every time she talks about her students, she can't hide the smile on her face.

Li Chengxi took his English book, translated it into Chinese and read it to Lin Tao. Lin Tao rested her head on Li Chengxi's legs and felt sleepy while listening.

Before falling asleep, all I could think about was: They are living such a comfortable life.

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On the other side, the Shen family had just finished dinner.

Lin Hui cleared the table and washed the dishes, and asked Shen Guobin to boil the bath water, as she had to bathe her three children later.

The oldest, Shen Jiahao, was only five years old. When he refused to call her mom, he didn't let her bathe him, but he couldn't wash himself clean. After the last incident, Shen Jiahao allowed Lin Hui to bathe him.

After bathing the three children, Lin Hui rubbed her aching waist and went to wipe Shen Jiayi's hair.

Shen Jiayi had short hair that reached her ears. Her hair quality was not very good and it was a little yellow, making her look like a yellow-haired girl.

But Lin Hui had a big star filter for her. In her eyes, no matter what, Shen Jiayi was the best looking one.

When Lin Hui took them to the supply and marketing cooperative today, she also bought two red silk hair ties for Shen Jiayi. After Shen Jiayi's hair was dry, she tied two small braids for her.

Shen Jiayi is not that pretty now, but she has fair skin, bright eyes, and a pleasing appearance.

Lin Hui said: "Our Jia Yi is so pretty, she is the prettiest child on the island."

Shen Jiayi looked at Lin Hui with her big eyes and said in a baby voice, "Stepmother, I'm not the prettiest girl on the island. Sister Fangfang is prettier than me. Everyone says that Sister Fangfang is pretty!"

The face of "Fangfang" mentioned by Shen Jiayi flashed through Lin Hui's mind. This girl was already fifteen or sixteen years old and quite pretty. However, she was the daughter of fishermen on the island and had been tanned since she was a child. What was the point of having a pretty face?

How could she compare to Shen Jiayi? Her baby Shen Jiayi was going to be a big star in Hong Kong in the future!

Lin Hui shook her head and said, "Jiayi, don't listen to what they say. Fangfang is dark and thin. She is not as pretty as our Jiayi, who is white and plump and the most likable. Jiayi is the prettiest and the best looking. She is going to be a big star in the future."

Shen Jiayi didn't understand: "What is a big star?"

Shen Jiahao said: "How stupid, they are the ones who make movies. Just like the minefield we saw before.

Zhan, it was played by a big star." He turned around and asked Lin Hui, "Stepmother, right?"

Lin Hui smiled and said, "Jiahao is right, but our Jiayi will be even better than them in the future and will star in more and better movies."

Shen Jiayi's eyes widened when she heard this, her face full of pride.

She puffed out her chest as if she had become a big star.

Seeing his sister was a little unconvinced, Shen Jiahao asked Lin Hui: "Stepmother, what about me? Am I not awesome?"

"You are the best in the family. You are very smart and you will earn more money than you can spend in the future." Lin Hui said seriously.

Shen Jiahao looked proud: "That's right, I have been smart since I was a child, my grandpa and grandma all praised me."

Lin Hui doesn't think there is anything wrong with Shen Jiahao's arrogance. She believes that Shen Jiahao is a promising person. Is there anything wrong with being arrogant?

She took the opportunity to say, "When Jiahao makes a lot of money and buys a big house, will he let the stepmother live there? Will he treat her well?"

Shen Guobin, who had just finished taking a shower and walked to the door of the room: "..."

He frowned and glanced at Lin Hui, then said seriously, "Don't talk nonsense in front of the children. Teach them something useful when you have time. Jiahao, you should exercise more when you have time, so that you can be a soldier and fight like your father in the future."

If it weren't for the fact that Lin Tao had attended high school, Shen Guobin would have sometimes doubted whether she had really studied so much. She had no skills in speaking or doing things, and now she was actually telling her children these things.

Lin Hui agreed on the surface, but in her heart she was thinking, she would never let Shen Jiahao join the army, how much money can he make from being a soldier? Isn't this what life is like after working so hard?

Can you afford a big villa? Can you drive a luxury car? Can you become the richest man in Xiangcheng?

When Lin Hui knew that she was marrying Shen Guobin, many people in the village thought she was crazy. Such a virgin girl wanted to marry a man with three children and become a stepmother.

But she herself didn't think so. She had considered it carefully before deciding to marry Shen Guobin.

She is 20 years old this year, and she will be in her early 30s after the reform and opening up. In her previous life, after the reform and opening up, she also learned to do business from others, but she was not cut out for it, and all the goods she imported ended up in her hands.

In addition, since she cannot have children, the wisest choice is to marry Shen Guobin and raise a few promising children in the future rather than marrying someone else and becoming a stepmother.

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Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xu Yuting and Chen Shuifen reconciled.

This story started two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chen Shuifen happened to be at Lin Tao's house that day. Zheng Xiangyang's clothes were too small. Children of this age grow fast. If you don't pay attention, they will grow up a lot.

She planned to make a piece of clothing for Zheng Xiangyang, but she was slow at finishing the work, so she asked Lin Tao to borrow her sewing machine.

They were neighbors, and Lin Tao and Chen Shuifen had a good relationship, so Lin Tao naturally would not disagree and invited her to come to her house to make clothes that afternoon.

However, it just so happened that Xu Yuting came home to look for Lin Tao and unexpectedly ran into Chen Shuifen.

Both of them looked unhappy. Chen Shuifen finished half of the dress and said she was going home first and would finish it tomorrow.

Lin Tao didn't want to keep her, so she sent her out.

The two good friends had a bad relationship. It was okay if they didn't run into each other often before, but now they ran into each other face to face. Although Chen Shuifen left without saying anything, Lin Tao, as the middleman, was also quite embarrassed.

Before, Lin Tao was reluctant to ask about other people's private affairs, but now she thought it would be better to ask Xu Yuting what happened between her and Chen Shuifen.

After all, she had known them for such a long time and thought they were pretty nice people. Chen Shuifen was very friendly but her enthusiasm was genuine and not fake, and Xu Yuting seemed difficult to get along with at first, but in fact she was a very nice person.

She really couldn't figure out how these two people could have caused such a mess.

Even if two people don't like each other's personality, it wouldn't be so serious that they would make faces at each other every time they meet.

When Lin Tao asked, Xu Yuting did not hide the truth from her and told her why she disliked Chen Shuifen.

It turned out that when Xu Yuting first arrived on the island, Chen Shuifen was indeed quite enthusiastic. Although she was not used to dealing with such people at first, she did not dislike him either.

After all, such a big thing had just happened in her family at that time, and she followed Wang Yuanliang to an unfamiliar place. She was very grateful that someone showed kindness to her.

But she didn't expect that although Chen Shuifen looked warm and easy to get along with, she was actually the kind of person who said one thing in public and did another behind the scenes.

Xu Yuting said that her expression was not pretty: "I never thought she was that kind of person. She called me 'sister, sister' all the time and said bad things about me behind my back with Huang Aidi.

They said I was a daughter of a capitalist family and had no qualifications to marry Wang Yuanliang. They even criticized me for what kind of clothes I wore and how I walked. People like me should be overthrown..."

Xu Yuting's confidence is innate. She received a good education since she was young and usually walks with her chest held high. But behind her back, she was scolded as a capitalist, saying that she shouldn't hold her chest high and her head high, and should walk in the corner.

As Xu Yuting spoke, she curled the corners of her mouth and gave Lin Tao an expression that said, "Now you know why I hate her."

"In fact, since the incident in my family, people who used to be close to my family have all stayed away from us, fearing that they would be implicated by my family. If Chen Shuifen wants to think this way, I can't control her. But she shouldn't say one thing in public and another behind my back. Seeing me foolishly treat her as a friend, and then belittle me behind my back, is that happy?"

"In fact, I also know that Wang Yuanliang was influenced by me. I didn't agree with this at first, but I also understand my parents' painstaking efforts. They just wanted to protect me... Sometimes I wonder if he would have married me if my family hadn't helped him in the beginning."

Xu Yuting sighed. She had never asked Wang Yuanliang these questions, but this was also a knot in her heart.

She knew better than anyone how good Wang Yuanliang was to her, but she couldn't help wondering whether Wang Yuanliang was good to her because of her or because of the help her family had given him.

He was nice to her, was it just to repay a favor?

Lin Tao sat beside her and listened to her talk without interrupting.

Xu Yuting usually looks arrogant. She seems to have never been affected by the fact that she is a daughter of a capitalist family. She speaks loudly when she wants to and laughs when she wants to.

She directly tells the teachers at school which she thinks are not teaching well.

This was the first time Lin Tao saw Xu Yuting like this.

Perhaps Lin Tao herself had experienced something similar, so she could empathize with Xu Yuting. She held Xu Yuting's hand and patted it to reassure her.

"It's okay. Everything will be fine."

However, after Xu Yuting left, Lin Tao still went to find Chen Shuifen.

Because she felt deep down that there might be some misunderstanding. Chen Shuifen was not the kind of person who said one thing and did another. She also talked about Xu Yuting with Huang Aidi.

Bad words?

This doesn't make sense. Judging from the last time Huang Aidi was punished to write a self-criticism and Chen Shuifen's happy look, their relationship is not as good as Xu Yuting said.

Unexpectedly, after Lin Tao asked Chen Shuifen indirectly, Chen Shuifen opened her eyes wide with a look of disbelief.

Chen Shuifen: "Did Teacher Xu tell you this? Is that what she thinks of me? That was not the case at all. I, Chen Shuifen, can honestly say that I never said these words. The person who said these words was Huang Aidi, and I had a quarrel with her over this matter. We have not been in touch since then. I even went to Teacher Xu's house specially at that time, but as soon as I opened the door, she closed it as soon as she saw me. Really, who did I offend?"

After thinking about it, he muttered again, "So that's what happened. I was wondering why she had such a strange temper. She talked to me for the first few days, but then she ignored me. I tried to contact her at first, but after a while, she just kept doing whatever she wanted."

Lin Tao learned the whole story, and she helped to resolve the conflict between the two.

After all this, Xu Yuting and Chen Shuifen reconciled and no longer cared about what happened.

The first thing they did after the reconciliation was to go to the beach to catch some seafood.

This idea was proposed by Chen Shuifen. She said that this is a good time to catch seafood because the seafood at this time is very fat, especially crabs, which have a lot of roe. If we can catch a few, it will be perfect to eat them on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Xu Yuting was a little unhappy, thinking it was stupid to go to the sea in such hot weather. If she really wanted to eat crabs, she might as well buy some from the food factory. The crabs from the food factory were not expensive and did not require a ticket.

However, Lin Tao was very curious about "catching the sea" and wanted to give it a try.

When she was in school before, she also heard students talking about catching up. You asked me what I caught up, and I asked you how much you caught up. It sounded quite interesting.

Seeing that Lin Tao wanted to go, Xu Yuting thought about it and directly overturned several of her previous words about how much she disapproved of Gu Hai, and went with her reluctantly.

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Lin Tao and Xu Yuting had classes in the morning, so the three of them planned to set out at noon.

As for Chen Shuifen's two children, they went to play at Ding's house. Zheng Hongxing was also two years old, and except for wiping his butt when he pooped, he didn't need to do anything else.

Chen Shuifen and Ding Sao

The two of them have a good personality and have been getting closer recently. Mrs. Ding will not refuse to help look after the child, so let her go without worry.

When Chen Shuifen left, she said that she would send some good things to her family when she found them.

Xu Yuting's home was closer to the back mountain and farthest from the sea, so Lin Tao and Chen Shuifen waited for Xu Yuting to come home.

At about half past twelve, there was a knock on Lin Tao's door.

Chen Shuifen said it must be Xu Yuting who came, and ran out to open the door. As a result, she saw Xu Yuting with her head and face wrapped in cloth, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

Chen Shuifen's eyes widened: "Oh my god, what are you doing?"

Xu Yuting said: "The sun is so strong, if you don't be careful, you don't know what you will get burned by."

Lin Tao heard the noise and came out to see what was going on. When she saw Xu Yuting like this, she couldn't help but want to laugh. If she hadn't recognized Xu Yuting's voice, she would have had a hard time recognizing the person in front of her because Xu Yuting was wrapped up with only a pair of eyes left.

Seeing that Lin Tao was not prepared, Xu Yuting also went to get the cloth to help Lin Tao wrap up, and said to Lin Tao seriously: "A Tao, your skin is so white and tender, you must protect it well. You'd better do the same as me and wrap your face. Don't underestimate the sun on the island, it's very harsh."

In the end, Lin Tao was not as exaggerated as Xu Yuting. She found a hat at home and a square piece of cloth, folded it into a triangular scarf, wrapped it around the hat, tied a knot under her chin, and felt that it was almost done.

Only Chen Shuifen did nothing and went out in the scorching sun with a gloomy face.

She said she has been surfing the waves for several years and her skin has gotten used to it and is not so delicate anymore.

Xu Yuting didn't say anything, but when they set out, she pulled Lin Tao aside and said, "Chen Shuifen will definitely get a tan."

After the preparations were completed, the three men each took a bucket and set out to catch the sea.

In the past, Lin Tao and Li Chengxi always watched the sea from above, the vastness of the sky, and the ebb and flow of the sea. This was the first time they had come to the beach like today.

She took off her sandals and stepped onto the soft sand.

The dry sand was a little hot from the sun, so it was more comfortable to step on the wet sand. The sand was fine and soft, and the sea water covered her feet, bringing a hint of coolness, which made Lin Tao sigh.

So comfortable.

Chen Shuifen said now is a good time to catch the fruit

As expected, there are more people rushing to the sea today than in the previous days.

However, the fishermen on the island have boats and usually go out to sea to fish.

Generally, those who come here to catch the sea are teenagers at home, or a few adults who have nothing to do like them and just happen to catch the sea.

Lin Tao and Xu Yuting had no experience in surfing, so when they got to the beach they played with the sand and water for a while. Chen Shuifen shook her head and said that if they were to act like that, all the good things would be taken away by others.

Lin Tao and Xu Yuting smiled at each other, stopped playing, and followed Chen Shuifen to learn from her how to "catch the sea".

Chen Shuifen explained to them as she searched: "When you go fishing, some things are directly on the beach and can be seen at a glance, while others are hidden in the sand. If you see a small hole like this, you have to pay attention, because there may be good things inside."

As she spoke, Chen Shuifen used her hands to pull away the top layer of sand, and then she saw a snail inside.

Chen Shuifen said, "This is a cat's eye snail. Take it home and cook it."

Lin Tao grew up in the inland and this was the first time she saw people rushing into the sea. She felt curious and excited. Her originally fair face was flushed, but it was not because of the sun, but because of excitement.

Even Xu Yuting, who had previously shown disdain for Gu Hai, now showed great interest in Gu Hai.

Both of them learned quickly. After watching Chen Shuifen pick up several seafood, they were able to start their own business.

The beach they came to must have been untouched by anyone, so there were a lot of things to pick up. Sometimes when Lin Tao and Xu Yuting came across something they didn't recognize, they would ask Chen Shuifen what it was and whether they could take it home to eat.

Once, Xu Yuting saw a sun-dried stony coral and thought it was edible, which caused Chen Shuifen to laugh at her.

Lin Tao is gradually getting better at catching fish in the sea. From being a little unfamiliar at first, she now knows where hairy clams and razor clams are likely to hide.

Before long, Lin Tao had harvested a lot of asparagus, cat's eye snails, hairy clams...

These things filled up half a bucket. Lin Tao felt very accomplished and didn't feel tired at all.

Xu Yuting was quite interested at first, but later she felt it was too hot and shouted that she wanted to go back.

Chen Shuifen listened and said with a smile: "You said you wrapped yourself tightly with cloth.

, there is no air at all, how can it not be hot! "

Lin Tao found a shady place for her, let her sit on the rocks to cool off, and asked Chen Shuifen how long it would take for them to return. Chen Shuifen looked at the beach and said that they would leave in about ten minutes.

During these ten minutes or so, Lin Tao picked up a particularly large clam, only to discover that the clam's shell was open, and inside was a ball of something with tentacles, which looked quite scary.

She threw the clam onto the beach and didn't dare to pick it up.

Chen Shuifen saw it, walked over and picked up the clam to take a look. Regardless of Lin Tao's dissuasion, she boldly took out the things inside. After taking a look, she laughed out loud: "What's there to be afraid of? This is an octopus. Take it home and fry it. It's very delicious!"

I don’t know if the octopus understood what Chen Shuifen said, and suddenly sprayed ink at Chen Shuifen.

Chen Shuifen was caught off guard and was sprayed with black ink all over her face.

Lin Tao and Xu Yuting were stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing. Chen Shuifen was also amused, and she touched her face with her sleeve, but the dirt on her face could not be completely wiped off.

"Damn it, you dare to spray ink on me!" She threw the octopus into Lin Tao's bucket and said to Lin Tao: "Teacher Lin, you should fry it severely when you go back. It dared to spray ink on my face, but you can't cure it!"

Lin Tao was really amused this time, her eyebrows curved, and she pursed her lips and said, "Okay, I will definitely take good care of it when I get back."

When they were about to go back, they met two students from Lin Tao's class, twins, one named Jianguo and the other named Jianye.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the school closed one day in advance, so today we only had one morning class. I didn't know when these two kids came, but they were already carrying a bucket full of hairy clams.

When the two saw Lin Tao, they called out at the same time: "Teacher Lin, you are here to catch up with the sea too!"

Then he walked over to Lin Tao and looked at the small half bucket of things in her bucket. The two looked at each other, as if to say, "How could Teacher Lin only pick up so little? How pitiful!" Then he generously gave Lin Tao a lot of hairy clams.

Lin Tao was reluctant to take the two children's food at first, but Jianguo said, "Teacher Lin, the food you picked is too little and not enough to eat."

Jianye pointed to the large cloth bag on his back and said, "It's full of food. We can't finish it at home."

Lin Tao had no choice but to accept the clams given by the students.

Seeing them leaving, Jianguo and Jianye were holding a few clams and swimming crabs. She remembered that she had brought some peach cakes with her when she went out, fearing that they might be hungry. She called Jianguo and Jianye and gave each of them a piece of peach cake to eat.

The two refused at first, but then Lin Tao said that if they didn't want the teacher's peach cakes, then the teacher couldn't have their hairy clams and crabs either.

The two children looked at each other and had no choice but to accept the peach cakes.

He thanked Lin Tao again and then left.

Chen Shuifen watched from the side and said, "No wonder my son Xiangyang always says that you are a good teacher. All the students in your class like you. Even the first graders like you and want you to teach first graders someday."

Xu Yuting sat in the shade and said, "That's not true. Ah Tao is very popular in school. Not only the first graders, but also the students in other grades want Ah Tao to teach them. This makes their Chinese teacher very angry."

One of the teachers had never gotten along with Xu Yuting, and the two had quarreled over something before. Seeing her so angry, Xu Yuting was very happy.

Lin Tao is quite popular among students in school. Not only is she good at teaching, she is also gentle and always speaks softly. She also never punishes students. Students love her class the most.

Lin Tao has only been at the school for two months, but she has already become the most popular teacher in the school.

After class, no students were seen at other teachers' desks, except for Lin Tao, where there was always a group of students surrounding her desk, all of whom came to ask her questions.

Xu Yuting added, "I have been teaching for two years. I taught English to the entire elementary school. The two brothers just now were called Jianguo and Jianye, right? I am also their teacher, but I have never seen them give me any help. Humph, next time they have words they can't write, I will punish them to write fifty times, no, a hundred times!"

This sour tone made Lin Tao angry and amused.

But she knew that Xu Yuting was joking and she would not be jealous of her.

But to be honest, Xu Yuting is a teacher who is very responsible to her students. Unlike Lin Tao, who only teaches one class, she teaches English to the entire grade, and yet she can remember the names of Jianguo and Jianye and know where their learning problems lie.

If you want to know why she is not as popular among students as Lin Tao, it is undoubtedly due to her mouth.

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She is always merciless with her mouth. Sometimes she doesn't care even if what she says hurts others, which causes many students to be afraid of her.

Lin Tao had told her about this before, and Xu Yuting had tried to change it, but the habit had become natural. As the saying goes, it is difficult to change one's nature, and this kind of thing cannot be changed overnight.

We still have to take it slow.

Lin Tao glanced at her bucket, which had suddenly become so full, and then looked at Xu Yuting, who had only found less than one-third of the bucket's worth of seafood. She smiled and said, "Okay, okay, if your students won't give it to you, I will."

Xu Yuting pouted, still sourly: "I don't want it, it's a gift from them."

At this moment, Chen Shuifen called from a distance: "Teacher Lin, Teacher Xu, what are you talking about? Come over here quickly, look what good stuff I found, such a large piece of clams, all of them!"

After hearing what Chen Shuifen said, Lin Tao and Xu Yuting no longer cared about joking or bickering. They looked at each other, smiled, and walked towards Chen Shuifen hand in hand.

When we got there, we saw that it was really a densely packed area. As far as the eye could see, it was all clams.

Xu Yuting quickly picked up a few. She had just gone to rest and hadn't managed to catch anything today. She picked up some clams and brought them back to make a dish of snacks for Wang Yuanliang.

Lin Tao also helped her pick them up.

After the two of them had picked up only a few, Chen Shuifen took a small dustpan and scooped up the clams. The clams and the sand were all scooped into the dustpan. Then Chen Shuifen walked to a place with sea water and shook the dustpan in the sea water. After a while, the sand in the dustpan leaked back into the sea through the gaps in the dustpan.

After being washed in sea water, a basketful of clams became clean and dry, without a speck of sand.

Seeing this, Xu Yuting and Lin Tao stopped picking up clams. They knew it would take them forever to pick up so many clams, which were so small and dense. Chen Shuifen was the one who had experience in picking clams.

Chen Shuifen just picked up a few baskets, which was enough for the family to share.

She put away the dustpan and said with a smile, "When you encounter these clams, you have to do what I do, otherwise it will take a long time to pick them up one by one."

A few people washed their feet, rinsed off the sand on their feet, put on their shoes and prepared to go back.

Today's Sea Rush activity ends here

At the end, the three of them walked towards home together.

Chen Shuifen picked up the most things. She had everything that Lin Tao had, and she also had a lot of things that Lin Tao didn't have, including starfish, anemones and oysters.

There weren't many starfish and anemones, just a few here and there, and since her two children loved to eat them, she kept them for herself. But she did share the oysters she picked with Lin Tao and Xu Yuting.

Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting didn't pick up any asparagus, so Lin Tao gave them some more. As for Xu Yuting, she wanted to give them some of what she had picked up, but when she saw that her harvest was so meager, she really had nothing to show for it, so she simply gave up.

These oysters are plump and delicious, even better than those sold in grocery stores.

Lin Tao and Xu Yuting were both embarrassed. Lin Tao asked, "Sister, why didn't you keep any of these oysters? Wouldn't it be nice to save them for Xiang Yang and Hong Xing?"

Chen Shuifen shook her head: "Those two kids don't like to eat this. As for my husband, forget it."

After saying that, she looked at Lin Tao and Xu Yuting again and laughed. For some reason, Lin Tao always felt that Chen Shuifen's laugh was a little strange, not as cheerful as usual.

Sure enough, she guessed it right. Chen Shuifen's smile contained other meanings.

Chen Shuifen lowered her voice and said in a teasing tone: "Let Captain Li and Captain Shen take this as an incentive, and you two should try to have a baby by the end of the year."

Lin Tao didn't expect Chen Shuifen to suddenly talk about this outside. Her fair cheeks couldn't help but turn red. Fortunately, it was half covered by a cloth, so it couldn't be seen clearly.

When Xu Yuting heard the word "child", her eyes flickered for a moment, but she didn't say much.

Chen Shuifen said with a smile: "I can't tell from the two of you that eating this stuff is good for men, and it makes them more powerful in bed."

After saying this, I felt embarrassed, laughed a few times and didn't talk about it anymore.

Lin Tao was so shocked by Chen Shuifen's words that she was too embarrassed to say anything. Although when she was in the countryside, there were many married women who liked to get together and make such jokes, Lin Tao was not married at that time and was just a little girl, so they would not make such jokes in front of her.

After getting married, she followed Li Chengxi to the island, so for all this time, no one had ever told her about these things.

Normally, such things are known only to her and Li Chengxi.

Xu Yuting blushed at first, but recovered after a while.

Back to normal.

He caught a few oysters and threw them into Chen Shuifen's bucket, jokingly saying, "Come on, Captain Zheng, how can you let this go? You must have a third child, right?"

Chen Shuifen was a little embarrassed and quickly changed the subject. She could already bear the two little brats at home, but she didn't dare to have another one!

The few of them walked to a fork in the road. Xu Yuting's home was in another direction. She waved to Lin Tao and Chen Shuifen and said see you tomorrow.

Before I got home, I happened to meet Li Chengxi who was coming home from get off work.

Li Chengxi was wearing a white navy uniform, standing with the others. Perhaps because Lin Tao was a lover, she saw beauty in everything, and when she looked at them, she felt that her Li Chengxi was the one with the most upright posture and the best appearance.

Li Chengxi had his back to this side and was instructing Xiaoning on some things for tomorrow.

Xiao Ning happened to see Lin Tao and Chen Shuifen not far away, and said to Li Chengxi: "Captain, is that your sister-in-law?"

Li Chengxi turned around and saw Lin Tao wearing a Douli hat. The Douli hat looked very ordinary on other fishermen, but on Lin Tao, Li Chengxi subconsciously thought it looked good.

Seeing Lin Tao holding a bucket on her arm, he nodded and said to Xiao Ning, "Okay, there's nothing for you to do now, go back."

Li Chengxi sent Xiao Ning away, and walked over to Lin Tao, reaching out to take the bucket. He felt a little distressed when he saw a red mark on Lin Tao's fair and slender arm caused by the wire.

But Chen Shuifen was there, so Li Chengxi didn't know what to say. He looked at the bucket that was half full of seafood and asked, "Did you go fishing with your sister-in-law today?"

Lin Tao pursed her lips and smiled, then nodded, "Well, my sister-in-law said that it's best to go fishing around the Mid-Autumn Festival. I thought to myself that I've never gone fishing before, and I wanted to try what it feels like, so I went."

"How does it feel?" Li Chengxi asked, not realizing that the tone he used when talking to Xiaoning before was completely different from his current tone.

Lin Tao smiled and said, "It's quite interesting."

Chen Shuifen, who was standing by, listened to the couple talking to each other, one with a loving look on his face and the other speaking in a gentle and soft tone.

I couldn't help but laugh and joke, "Oh my god, Captain Li, you are so good to your family. Wow, it's really enviable! Unlike my husband Zheng, if he could love his wife half as much as you do, I would be so happy."