Chapter 5 Shavings

She couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she thought, so she just threw it aside and carefully helped her cousin clean it.

One bucket of water was definitely not enough for two kids to wash, and she was too lazy to ask her aunt to buy water. She had just arrived in this world and had been tossed around for a day. Her health was not good to begin with, so she was already exhausted.

"These two girls just fell asleep without making a sound after taking a bath."

Song Wenhui opened the window, wiped the sweat off her daughter and niece with a towel, and then went out with the bucket.

Knowing that the two kids were asleep in the house, the three adults in the house subconsciously slowed down their movements.

Yin Huaishan didn't bathe at home. He rolled in the ditch to wash himself and then went ashore to dry his clothes. His clothes would dry quickly. At this moment, he was pulling the weeds on the land in front of the house, thinking of clearing it out and building a fence so that he could grow some vegetables.

He was halfway through cleaning when he heard footsteps coming towards his house. He looked up and saw a man and a woman.

The man was not very tall but very strong. He was wearing a short coat that revealed his well-developed arms with dark skin, and it was obvious that he was a fisherman who had been exposed to the wind and sun all year round.

"Is it Brother Yin?"

"Who are you?"

Yin Huaishan straightened up and thought that he seemed to have not seen these two people today. Then he heard the woman next to the man say: "We are from the old cow's family in front. This is my head of the family, called Daniu. Didn't sister Huaixi come to our house today? She saved the life of my calf, and we are here to give her a thank you gift."

As she said this, she shook the two fish in her hands. Yin Huaixi, who had just finished washing and was leaving, heard this and quickly refused.

"Sister Cuifang, I have already taken the duck eggs and vegetables from your house, so I cannot take any more fish. Xiaoniu just did this casually, and it is not worth it."

Duck eggs are only slightly less valuable than meat in the countryside. She had already collected the eggs, so how could she be greedy and take the fish?

Mao Cuifang insisted on giving it to the Yin family, but the Yin brothers and sisters refused to accept it. In the end, Mao Cuifang had no choice but to give up giving the fish and poked her husband to let him hand over the things in his hand.

"Brother Yin, if you don't want to take the fish, then take this wooden barrel. It's not worth much, and every household has one."

Without waiting for the siblings to say anything, Mao Cuifang said, "The tide will go out at 1:00 a.m. tomorrow. You can go to the beach and pick up some fish and shrimp to eat. Many people in the village will go there. Do you want to go? If you do, I'll call you when it's time to leave."

Rush to the sea!!

Yin Huaixi was so excited that she couldn't help but respond. They agreed to leave together and then she happily sent Cuihua and her husband off.

"Little sister, what is the meaning of chasing the sea?"

Yin Huaishan read widely but had never heard of the word "catching up with the sea".

"Catching the sea means taking advantage of the low tide to catch the sea creatures that don't have time to escape. Big brother, you haven't heard of it. I only learned about it by chance when I saw a miscellaneous book."

It was quite normal for the mistresses and young ladies to read storybooks in the lonely and boring backyard of the mansion, so Yin Huaishan did not ask any more questions. He thought that he would go with them tomorrow to take a look, maybe he could bring back some more fish and shrimp.

Two kilograms of corn is really not enough for a family of five. If there is no income, the family will run out of food in two days.

In the evening, the family cooked another pot of corn porridge. This time, they added a handful of green leaves instead of rice and cracked two duck eggs into it. When cracking the duck eggs, Yin Huaishan and his wife felt very distressed, and Jing'er said that only one egg would be enough.

Yin Huaixi was also heartbroken, but she knew the importance of her health even more clearly.

Now the health of the whole family is very poor and we must eat some nutritious food to replenish it. Only when the body is healthy can we regain other things.

The duck eggs were knocked into the porridge, and with the help of a wooden spoon, the egg liquid separated into thin strands and quickly took shape.

Although there is no seasoning in the porridge, the family still thinks it is very delicious.

After happily drinking the duck egg porridge, the mother and daughter returned to their small house in the afterglow of the setting sun.

My uncle took the bed board in the small stone house to wash in the afternoon, and it is dry now.

Jiang Wan was lying on the bed with a lot of things he wanted to say to his mother, but he was so tired that he fell asleep in a few moments.

Yin Huaixi locked the door and lay down next to her daughter. However, she still didn't feel at ease and had to hold her daughter's hand to feel at ease.

She and her daughter came here for unknown reasons, and they would probably live here for the rest of their lives. She would definitely take good care of her daughter and raise her to be plump and fair again.

The mother and daughter slept well all night, but the Cai family stayed awake until dawn.

Because the house was ruthlessly taken away by the village chief, the family of more than ten people had no place to stay and had to live on the roadside.

They thought about going to stay with their neighbors, but when the neighbors saw more than ten of them, their faces changed. Those with good tempers closed the door directly, while those with bad tempers started swearing at them and even hitting them with sticks.

The Cai family's reputation for being shameless and shameless spread among the villagers on the first day they entered the village.

As it was getting dark, the Cai family had no choice but to find a slightly flatter place to rest for the night.

There was no place to cook that night, so the family could only drink water to fill their stomachs. They were so hungry that they couldn't sleep at all. Their hatred for Jiang Wan and her daughter was endless.

None of these affected the sleep of the mother and daughter. They slept for five hours and finally felt less tired when they woke up.

Jiang Wan got up and stretched her arms and legs, then went to the basin to look at herself and her current appearance and was shocked.

Is this a ghost?!

The original owner had suffered a lot. Her cheeks were sunken and her eye sockets were deeper. If her exile was longer, she would have turned into a skeleton.

"Wanwan, your Aunt Cuifang is here, we have to go!"

"Okay! Here I come!"

Sea, my baby, here I come!

Jiang Wan scrubbed his face roughly, wiped it dry with his sleeves, and quickly caught up with A Niang.

At this time, Yin Huaishan and his wife were also ready. They had two buckets in their house, plus the one sent by the Niu family yesterday, a total of three buckets carried by three adults.

Jiang Wan was very excited and went to her cousin and held her arm.

"Cousin, I've read some books about catching crabs before. I'm sure I can do it. I'll take you to catch crabs later~"

"Crab?"

What is a crab?

I have never heard of a rich lady named Yin Ning who never leaves her house. Jiang Wan gestured to explain to her cousin as she walked.

"Crabs have eight legs and a pair of large pincers, and they walk sideways. I read in a book that crabs like to hide in cracks between rocks and in the sand. Let's look for them carefully later."

"good……"

The novel things attracted Yin Ning's attention and made her forget about the unhappy things for a while. After passing through a coconut grove, the group soon reached the beach.

At this time, there were already quite a few women and children on the beach. Some of them were carrying buckets or had baskets hanging around their waists, and they also had rakes, sticks, etc. in their hands. They were fully equipped.

"It's not low tide today, so there may not be many fish and shrimp on the beach, but there are plenty of clams. They are all hidden under the sand. I will teach you how to identify them."

Mao Cuifang was eager to make friends with Yin Huaixi, so she was very enthusiastic. She took her family away from the villagers before putting down the barrel and starting to demonstrate in person.

"Well, a small hole like this in the sand usually means there are clams underneath. If you dig deeper, you'll find something."

Five people surrounded Mao Cuifang, staring at her movements without blinking.

Mao Cuifang brought a small shovel and easily dug up the sand with two shovels, and a fan-shaped clam was dug out.

Flower clams, a type of clam. Image source: Internet

"Look, this is it. It's the easiest to get near our seashore. Dig it up and put it in a basin of water for an hour or two to let it spit out the sand, then you can cook it and eat it. Don't worry about the shell, just boil it in water and it will open up. I just don't know if you are used to eating clam meat, because some people find it rare and some people find it fishy."

“You can eat it!”

Yin Huaishan was very excited.

After going through the hardships of exile, the family was so hungry that they wanted to chew on tree bark, so how could they refuse to eat something edible?

The whole family stared at the clam with burning eyes.