Except for the triplets, everyone else in the family stayed up, waiting for the typhoon to stop so they could go to the beach to catch seafood.
Everyone in the entire fishing village, except babies under three years old, was awake, waiting for this moment!
Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei took the triplets to Zhou Zhou's room to sleep, and asked Zhou Zhou and Zhou Ying to sleep with them so that they would not have to worry if the triplets woke up.
The two sisters can now look after the children for a while, and their grandparents are also at home, so Jiang Xia has nothing to worry about.
After settling the children, the Jiang Xia family took their gear and went out, where they met groups of families hurrying to the beach with flashlights and fishing tools.
People in the fishing village are very afraid of typhoons, fearing that the roofs of their houses will be blown off, but they like the beaches after the typhoon because many shellfish will be washed up.
Especially those who don’t have boats often hope to make more money after the typhoon.
An auntie saw the Jiang Xia family leaving and said with a smile, "Aunt Fu, your family is so rich, why are you still going to the beach so late?"
Zhou's mother: "Where is the money? We just booked a big ship and it's all gone!"
"Don't be so modest. The products sold by Xiaoxia's food factory in one day can buy a large ship! Who would believe you?"
Zhou's mother: "You don't have to believe me, but the money Xiao Xia earned from the food factory is used to build the factory, buy equipment, buy trucks for delivery, and buy buses to pick up and drop off workers. All the money she earned is gone, and she still doesn't make money."
"Besides, don't factories produce food without buying ingredients? They don't make much money! We spend all the money we make, and it's still not enough!"
Everyone believed it after hearing it.
Many people in the village work in Jiangxia’s food factory. They know that Jiangxia is expanding the factory again, adding a few more production lines from time to time, and also bought a bus and a large truck this month.
Trucks are used to ship goods, and buses are used to pick up and drop off workers.
The factory expanded its enrollment and the dormitories were no longer sufficient. In order to facilitate the workers' commute, Jiangxia bought buses to pick them up and drop them off, which was also safer.
The people in the village talked to Zhou's mother, praising Jiang Xia for her ability and praising Zhou's mother for finding capable wives for her sons.
Tian Caihua is popular in the village and is the leader of the gossipmongers; Jiang Xia is considered the owner of the rice factory in the village, and the salary of anyone working in her factory is more than enough to support a whole family; Ruan Tang is a doctor, and she never refuses to see anyone who asks her to see someone if they are unwell, whether they are adults or children.
Isn't it true that all daughters-in-law we marry are capable?
Zhou's mother is also satisfied with her daughters-in-law.
Zhou Chenglei pulled Jiang Xia down to the beach.
The couple swept their flashlights and headed in a certain direction.
The villagers were similar to them, running forward as soon as they swept the flashlight.
It's a red snail!
Many red snails were blown ashore.
The villagers call this kind of red snail because its meat is red. This kind of red snail is also delicious when dried and made into soup.
Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia wore gloves and pulled the snails into the net bag, and would clean off the sand and other things later.
After picking up a pile of red snails, he continued walking forward.
This time I encountered a small pile of white clams. There were not as many as red snails, but they were quite big.
Got it!
Including the sand, it weighs more than three pounds.
Jiang Xia used the flashlight to scan a big creature, ran over and picked it up. It was a giant conch, a huge one!
Three pounds!
There's another one in front!
Jiang Xia quickly ran over and picked it up.
This one weighs just over a pound, with about 4 ounces of meat, which is not bad!
This kind of conch is only found in the deep sea and is quite rare.
Its meat tastes like abalone.
There is one more!
Jiang Xia ran over again and picked it up. This one also weighed more than one kilogram.
Jiang Xia used the flashlight to scan again but found nothing. She ran back to Zhou Chenglei with the three conchs and put them in the bucket.
Zhou Chenglei also found a bunch of hairy clams and picked them up. He took a look and said, "Good luck."
"That's a must!"
Jiang Xia squatted down and helped him put the clams into the net bag, which weighed more than a pound.
Then the couple continued forward.
I encountered a bunch of snails, all of which were very large.
Got it!
The two of them had only been there for a short while and they had already filled half of the net bag, which was more than twenty pounds!
They continued to move forward
I no longer picked up the clams, snails, red snails and other shellfish scattered on the beach, but only picked them up in piles.
The same goes for other villagers.
At this moment, thousands of lights are gathered on the beach.
The beach is dotted with stars, and everyone is here with flashlights to catch the seafood.
Zhou Chenglei's flashlight picked up a coconut snail, and Jiang Xia immediately ran to pick it up.
It was inconvenient for him to carry more than 20 kilograms of things in his hands.
"This coconut snail looks quite tender. I wonder if it has Melo pearls."
Zhou Chenglei took a look and said, "I don't know, but it's possible."
Picking up coconut snails once a year is such good luck!
The couple continued to move forward and did not find any more piles of shellfish.
"Do you want to turn back?" Zhou Chenglei asked.
There is a reef area ahead, and he doesn't want to go there, for fear that Jiang Xia might accidentally fall.
The only scar on Jiang Xia's body was from a fall on a reef two years ago.
The scar on the knee is now almost the same color as the skin and cannot be seen unless you look closely.
"Let's go to the reef area and see if there are any good things in the cracks of the reef."
Having already picked up a lot of shellfish, Jiang Xia didn't want to pick any more because he couldn't eat them all.
When the time comes, you can collect some dried red snail meat from the villagers and keep it at home to eat slowly.
Now we might as well go to the reef area to see if there are any good things.
So the couple walked towards the reef area.
Along the way, we also saw a bluefin croaker that was washed up by the waves and died on the beach.
Zhou Chenglei shone a flashlight on the fish and picked it up because its gills were still bright red.
Continuing to walk forward, the couple saw many sea urchins.
Zhou Chenglei shone a flashlight over it and said, "This type of sea urchin is especially delicious. I'll pick some up and make some stewed eggs for the kids tomorrow."
Zhou Chenglei only likes to eat this kind of sea urchin and is not interested in other kinds.
"Okay." Zhou Zhou and the three kids all like to eat stewed eggs.
The triplets have never had sea urchin omelette!
Usually they are stewed with milk. After all, sea urchins are not often found even if you live by the sea.
Sea urchin Jiang Xia prefers to eat sashimi. She picked up a sea urchin with tongs and asked: "Is this sea urchin still alive?"
"Live ones." Zhou Chenglei took a look. "Dead sea urchins are softer, don't pick them up."
Jiang Xia also felt the sea urchin shrink a little, so he felt relieved.
The couple used tongs to throw sea urchins into the bucket one by one, and they actually picked up half a bucket!
The two came to the reef area.
It was late at night and there were a lot of shellfish to pick up on the beach, but there was no one here.
Zhou Chenglei put everything aside and took only a bucket filled with pliers and a net bag.
He held the bucket in one hand and held Jiang Xia's hand with the other, and the two of them walked carefully in the reef area.
Jiang Xia shone the flashlight around and saw two large blue crabs fighting in the puddle.
Mid-Autumn Festival is next month, and the crabs start to get fat at this time.
Zhou Chenglei caught two crabs and threw them into the bucket.
"Zhou Chenglei!" Jiang Xia casually swept the flashlight and saw a huge black creature in front of him. Most of its body was blocked by a reef, with only a small part exposed.
I can't see clearly, it looks like a fish's back but also like a human.
Not moving. (End of this chapter)
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