"Why is it still so bitter?"
"Coffee is bitter."
"It's so bitter! Auntie, add more sugar next time, otherwise I won't like it!" Little Cherry no longer wanted to drink coffee.
It's so bitter!
Ruan Yunxi: "......"
In the afternoon, Ruan Yunxi rode her bicycle with Sister Sheng and the others to another beach to go beachcombing, and sure enough, quite a few people went.
The road was lined with women going to the beach.
Everyone was fully armed, wearing straw hats, covering their faces with cloth, wearing gloves, and carrying tools for beachcombing.
After the tide recedes, a large area of reefs appears at this beachcombing spot, covered with many snails, whelks, scallops, abalone, and large conch. How much they can find depends on their skill.
Besides the women from their family compound, there were also people from nearby fishing villages.
Seeing so many people arrive, everyone started grabbing at the items.
Seeing that there were many people, Sister-in-law Sheng let the two children play on the beach with the other children, and forbade them from going to the sea, lest they fall into the sea and not know. If anyone behaved well, they would be rewarded with two candies.
Upon hearing that there was candy to eat, Little Cherry and Little Potato obediently built sandcastles on the beach.
Ruan Yunxi agreed that if they didn't run around, each of them would receive a bag of sandwich cookies!
Little Cherry loves cookies with fillings; they're sweet, fragrant, and delicious!
"Don't worry, Auntie, I won't run around!"
Little Potato assured, "Don't worry, Auntie, I'll take good care of my little sister!"
Ruan Yunxi nodded in satisfaction.
When Ruan Yunxi and her group arrived at the rocks for beachcombing, there were already many people tapping and digging for oyster meat, prying open oysters, and picking abalone.
Ruan Yunxi also saw that some people had picked up a lot of sea cucumbers.
The sea cucumbers were especially plump at this time of year, and Ruan Yunxi picked one up herself, about the size of a thumb.
This size is too small for a sea cucumber.
Ruan Yunxi released it.
Seeing that others had reaped a good harvest from beachcombing, I only had a few snails and three or four whelks, and I didn't see a single abalone.
She didn't want to knock down the oysters.
Without this space, we probably wouldn't even have enough to eat tonight.
Ruan Yunxi found a secluded spot near the lowest point of the receding tide, fixed her gaze on a stretch of sea, and silently chanted: "Collect conch, scallops, sea cucumbers, abalone, squid, snails, whelks, and all kinds of fish."
After silently repeating the mantra three times, Ruan Yunxi collected all the seafood from that area into her spatial storage. She squatted down and pretended to crack oysters, but in reality, her consciousness went into her spatial storage and took some of the seafood she had collected from that area and put it in a bucket.
There's about half a bucket, enough to make it look nice.
After she had finished packing everything, big and small, she was about to call Sister-in-law Sheng back when she noticed that the tide seemed to be rising.
Many of the women turned back.
Just then, someone cried out in terror, "My son is missing! Has anyone seen my son?"
Ruan Yunxi thought of Little Cherry and Little Potato, and instead of looking for Sister-in-law Sheng, she went to the beach to look for them.
Fortunately, Little Cherry and Little Potato stayed obediently on the shore and didn't run around.
Sister-in-law Sheng heard the crying and realized that a child had fallen into the sea.
When they pulled the child out of the water, he was already dead.
The child's mother cried loudly, at a loss, and knelt on the ground to pray.
The person accompanying them was holding the child upside down, trying to pour out the water they had drunk.
Sister-in-law Sheng was still shaken by what she saw, and she held onto her two children tightly.
Ruan Yunxi watched them work for a while, but the child did not wake up. Looking at the child, who was about the same age as Xiao Yingtao, she recognized him as someone she had left while beachcombing. The little guy saw the pretty starfish she had picked up and wanted it.
Ruan Yunxi gave it to him, and the little boy said, "I picked up a pretty seashell for you."
I never expected that the child would fall into the sea.
Seeing that the little boy was probably beyond saving, Ruan Yunxi stepped forward: "I'll give it a try. When I was learning to swim, my coach said that if someone is drowning, they need CPR and artificial respiration. I happened to have learned that."
Desperate, they entrusted the child to Ruan Yunxi.
Ruan Yunxi put down the wooden bucket and began to perform CPR on the child, pressing on his chest and then giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
If it doesn't work the first time, try again.
The third time.
Time passed second by second.
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