Chapter 6: Hold your breath for half an hour?
When her fingers touched the crab, the shell was very hard, and the edges were a bit rugged and raised. The claws were waving and hit Shi Qingqing several times. She was very cautious and careful, so she didn't get hurt.
Although she was from Fujian, not everyone grew up eating seafood. On the contrary, even if there was seafood at home that required money to buy, she rarely came across it.
Even though there was no younger brother to inherit the family business, she was not smart enough and was thin-skinned since she was a child, so delicious food often did not reach her mouth.
Looking up, I saw a bigger crab just a few steps away. Although my task was to pry oysters, I couldn't help but catch the crabs when I saw them. No matter how small they were, they were still meat.
It is delicious when used to make porridge, noodles or steamed.
After picking up crabs for a while, I saw a lot of shellfish around, and small holes that were blowing bubbles, which showed that there were fish. I was sure there would be a lot of clams, moon shells and the like.
But Shi Qingqing remembered that continuing like this would only delay the mission, as there would be no end to the seafood.
So I could only ignore it with great reluctance and go directly to dig oysters on the reef covered with shells.
At first, I poked with the knife for a while and almost cut myself. I failed to successfully dig out the complete oyster meat. Later, I found the weakest part of the shell, poked it twice, reached in and bumped it left and right, and then I could take the meat out.
Shi Qingqing smiled, casually tucked the hair that was flying in front of her eyes behind her ears, and continued to work.
It took some effort to carve two kilograms of oyster meat. She estimated the weight and submitted the task tentatively.
This mall is fully functional and allows you to calculate the weight yourself, but when you submit the form, it actually prompts that you still need another three taels to make two kilograms.
"I give up." Shi Qingqing looked at the part of her fingers where she was holding the knife. It was concave and had been in contact with the sea water. The skin on her fingers was still tingling with pain, and it seemed as if the coldness had invaded her skin.
"Don't do things halfway!" Shi Qingqing gritted her teeth and dug for a while longer, finally collecting two kilograms.
Looking at the meat that had been dug out, Shi Qingqing chose: "Submit!"
With the successful submission, the words on the primary task of digging two kilograms of oyster meat changed, and the points flew to the side of Shi Qingqing's portrait, showing 20, and a rice-grain-sized bead was added to the small warehouse.
It says on it that this is a low-level dragon ball. After taking it, you can hold your breath underwater for half an hour. The method of use is to swallow it.
Half an hour, it would be so convenient to catch fish or fish something out of the water.
Do I need to swallow it? Will there be any changes in my appearance?
For example, the nostrils become bigger and the neck becomes longer?
Thinking of everything in her dream, she swallowed the pearl without hesitation.
What is more terrible than being poor?
The beads immediately slid down my throat - they had no taste, and after eating them I didn't feel hot or cold, and nothing abnormal happened.
At this time, the tasks available below the progress bar are also refreshed.
[Primary task: dig 10 kilograms of oyster meat, duration 72 hours, reward points 100, failure will deduct one level from the upgrade progress bar.]
There is a punishment this time!
No, what is she excited about?
Punishment is obviously not a good thing!
"Progress bar." Shi Qingqing looked at the back of the task box and found a > that she had ignored. She clicked it and a five-grid bar popped up to the right, the same as the mobile phone charging progress icon in the dream. Currently, there was only one grid.
Shi Qingqing learned her lesson this time and didn't click to accept the task.
At first it was two kilograms, then ten kilograms, and the next time it will not be thirty or fifty kilograms of oyster meat.
There are five grids. If each grid increases, how many pounds will the last grid weigh?
As she kept calculating, she felt like she was about to turn into an oyster.
Just the two-jin task made her back ache. She didn't click on the task for the time being. She looked around and grinned. She started to look for conches, crabs, moon shells...
The moon clam can squeeze out water, which sprays out with a hiss. It actually feels a bit relaxing, but unfortunately I only found five based on the traces.
Looking at the vast ocean and thinking of the pearl that was swallowed, she wanted to try going into the water, hoping to gain more.
However, after she had walked just a dozen steps, the sea water reached her calves, and she suddenly discovered something.
She didn't bring any change of clothes! She would have to go back soaking wet.
She had never thought of making a living in the sea before, so she was not well prepared.
Shi Qingqing looked at the sea with regret and could only go to the shore.
She found her bike, packed up her things, and checked the mall.
There were really a lot of things in Yuhuo Mall. She looked through the categories and found the pork column. She found that a pound of pork was worth 3.5 points, a pig's trotter was worth 8 points, and a pack of pig's liver was worth 2 points.
I clicked on grain and oil again and found that a two-liter barrel of peanut oil cost eight points, a ten-jin bag of rice cost four points at the cheapest, and a one-kilogram bag of fruit candy cost two points.
Sugar is the cheapest.
However, it says Grade Three on it, so it’s obvious that the quality of a Grade Two or Grade One mark must be higher.
This purchasing power is roughly approximate. If we have to correspond it to the actual price, one point is about one dollar.
Points are hard to earn, so Shi Qingqing was reluctant to spend them.
The oyster meat had to be handed in, but the harvest in the bucket belonged to her alone. She covered it with plastic cloth and tied it to the front bar with a rope. Shi Qingqing rode slowly home in an awkward posture.
After arriving home, Shi Qingqing felt uncomfortable all over. She boiled a bucket of water, went to the small room to take a shower, and only then did she wash away the discomfort. It was fine when she was at the beach, but after leaving that area, she just felt a fishy smell all over her body.
When he came out, Zhao Fengnian was looking at the seafood in the bucket.
"You picked up a lot. Are you going to eat this tonight?"
"Well, if you don't eat it quickly, it will stink when you die." She processed it, scrubbed the shell clean with a shoe brush that had never been used at home, blanched it all, prepared a sauce, and fried some chopped preserved radish with eggs.
The staple food is sweet potato porridge, and the one for my husband is thicker and contains less sweet potato.
He said that he was fed up with eating this kind of sweet potatoes and other things in his hometown.
She is afraid too.
Both of them were satisfied with the meal tonight. After leaving the table, Zhao Fengnian habitually went to flip through the outdated newspaper. Noticing that his wife's hands were red, he stood up and put the dishes in the sink to wash them.
Shi Qingqing was stunned, looking at him squatting there washing dishes, and didn't move for a long time.
"Hello, the one from Pingnan, there's a call for you, come out and answer it quickly." Someone outside the door shouted twice in a hoarse voice.
The person shouting was the owner of a nearby grocery store. It used to be a supply and marketing cooperative, but later on, department stores appeared in the city and transportation became more convenient, so the store outside the alley was taken over by a private individual.
He installed a landline phone and put up a price tag. Anyone nearby who needed to make a phone call would go to his house. Not only did he have to pay for each call, he also had to buy something to take back.
Otherwise, if people remember you and don’t answer the phone next time they call you, you won’t know about it, which will delay things a lot.
Zhao Fengnian hurried out, saying "okay, okay", and thanked people along the way. Then he fell silent because he had walked away.
Shi Qingqing's heart, which had been shaken for a moment, shrank back again.
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