"Then let's catch more leeches." Shen Li said with a smile, "Let's make a big dinner tonight!"

"Yes!" Lu Minghui nodded, then took his own shovel and started to shovel where there were small holes.

He was very smart and learned things quickly. Soon, he picked out the leeches and threw them into a small bucket. Worried that the leeches would crawl out, Lu Minghui put some sea water into the small bucket.

"Minghui, you can sprinkle some salt on the hole. This way you don't have to carry a shovel yourself. When the salt accumulates on the hole, the leeches will pop out of their own accord." Shen Li said, taking out a bag of salt from the small bucket she carried with her, tearing open the lid of the salt bag, and pouring the salt into the small hole of the leech hole.

Lu Minghui held the small bucket and watched carefully from the side.

When salt was sprinkled on the hole, within a few seconds, the white leeches inside quickly popped out like spring bamboo shoots after the rain.

Shen Li had been waiting for a long time. Seeing this, she quickly reached out and pulled the leech out, then threw it into a small bucket.

Lu Minghui looked at this scene with curiosity.

Mom is so smart!

How could mom come up with so many wonderful ideas?

"Mom, pour some salt into my palm and let me try it." Lu Minghui said.

"Yeah." Shen Li fell into the little guy's white and tender palm.

Lu Minghui held the salt and poured it carefully into the hole of the leech cave.

In an instant, the leech inside popped its head out.

Then, as soon as it shows up, it's gone.

Lu Minghui seemed to have discovered an interesting game. He squatted on the ground and kept spreading salt and catching leeches.

Soon, Lu Minghui's small bucket was filled with a pile of densely packed leeches.

This amount of meat is enough to make a pot of delicious leech soup.

"Our Minghui is really amazing." Shen Li smiled and touched Lu Minghui's head, "What you caught is enough for our whole family to have a full meal."

At this time, Duoduo was carrying a small bucket with her two little hands, staggering towards this side. The expression on her little face looked like she was trying her best, and because she was trying too hard, her face turned red.

"Mom, look, there are so many beautiful shells." Duoduo walked over to Shen Li, wiped the sweat off her little face, and looked at Shen Li with sparkling eyes.

"Yeah, that's right." Shen Li chuckled, "Our Duoduo is great."

"Put this small bucket aside. Mom will take you to catch other things." Shen Li said with a smile.

"But if that's the case, will someone steal my little shell?" Duoduo was a little confused.

After all, the small shells in the bucket were carefully selected by her, and they were the most beautiful ones!

"No." Shen Li chuckled, "Look, everyone is busy catching up with the sea, no one will pay attention to your little bucket."

To children, the shells are very beautiful and they are very popular. However, to adults who have lived on the island for many years, these beautiful shells are no different from the small ones on the ground.

Young people come to the sea to catch some seafood to improve their diet.

"Yeah!" Duoduo felt relieved after hearing Shen Li's words.

The mother and son continued to walk inside.

"Mom! Look what this is, it moves!" At this moment, Duoduo pointed at a red snail not far away in surprise. At this moment, there were several black crab legs inside the red snail crawling on the beach.

"How can a snail have legs?" Duoduo was a little surprised, but she dared to look at it and did not dare to touch it.

Lu Minghui was braver. He quickly grabbed the red snail with his rubber-gloved hands.

"There's a crab in here!" said Lu Minghui.

"This is called a hermit crab." Shen Li walked over and said, "Because hermit crabs have soft abdomens and no hard shells to protect them, they choose harder shells to survive and avoid the dangers brought by other animals living in the ocean. These moist shells can help hermit crabs lock the water inside, making the temperature and humidity in the space more suitable for their survival."

"So that's what it is..." Duoduo looked at the crab inside curiously, "But where's the meat inside the snail?"

"It will be eaten by hermit crabs." Shen Li said.

"The hermit crab is so bad! How can it rob other people's houses?" Duoduo's face was full of wrinkles.

Shen Li chuckled helplessly, "This is the law of survival in nature. Just like big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, shrimp eat seaweed, this is a complete ecological chain."

This is not only true in nature, but also in society.

"Oh." Duoduo nodded, not quite understanding.

"This hermit crab is relatively small," Shen Li said, "Let's release it."

Lu Minghui was very obedient and did as Shen Li said.

"Mom, look, there's a little fish here." Duoduo bent down, pointed her little finger at a "little fish" in the shallow beach and whispered.

Shen Li walked over and took a look. "This is a pufferfish."

As she spoke, she picked up the pufferfish, which was the size of a small fish, and rubbed its white belly with her fingers.

In an instant, the pufferfish's belly swelled up and gradually became foamy, as if a round ball had grown in its stomach.

"Mom! Why does it look like there's a ball in its belly?" Its big eyes like black grapes stared at the scene.

"Because the pufferfish is angry." Shen Li said with a smile, "The pufferfish's belly becomes bigger as a mechanism to protect itself. This way, predators who want to eat it can't swallow it. There are also these little vertical spines on its body, which means it has turned on the defensive state."

"You can eat big pufferfish," Shen Li said. "It tastes very delicious, but it's poisonous."

"Poisonous?" Lu Minghui asked in surprise.

"Yes, in the past, some food lovers died from eating puffer fish. Of course, nowadays there are people who die from eating the poisonous parts of puffer fish. Eating puffer fish requires professionals to carefully clean out its toxic internal organs to ensure that it can be eaten normally." Shen Li said.

"It's better to release such a small puffer fish." Shen Li threw the puffer fish into the sea.

The pufferfish, now free, swam away happily, flicking its tail.

The mother and her two children continued to surf at the beach. Shen Li would tell the two children anything new and interesting, and the two children were very excited.

After a while, Shen Li's bucket was filled with sea urchins, big swimming crabs, big octopuses, big squids, as well as some oysters and scallops.

The family returned home carrying buckets full of water.

…

In the evening, Shen Li prepared a large table of seafood.

There were egg and leech seafood soup, spicy fried squid, steamed swimming crab, sea urchin sashimi, and a large pot of crab meat pot. The whole family enjoyed the meal happily.

Not far away, little An An, who was lying on the bed, stared at the table full of delicious food with his eyes wide open, drooling.