Chapter 707 Sea Dragon?
"What, night sea voyage?"
Ye Xiaocui put down what she was doing. She just couldn't stop moving around. Even though Fu Laoda had already taken care of the dishes after she finished eating, she was busy soaking some dried radishes and preparing the ingredients for tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner.
Fu Wan nodded, "That's right, the ice on the beach has melted, and Big Brother hasn't taken the fish traps he put in this morning back in yet!"
"Oh dear, I had forgotten about it if you hadn't mentioned it."
Fu Ming scratched his head sheepishly. After all that back and forth with Qin Anning today, he had completely forgotten about the fish trap he had put in the sea that morning.
With nothing else to do, Fu Ming and Boss Fu agreed with Fu Wan's suggestion.
"Alright, let's try our luck at the beach!"
If we can catch a grouper or something, tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner will be even more sumptuous.
Seeing that they had made up their minds, Ye Xiaocui did not object.
"Then you guys go ahead, the kids and I won't go. It's too windy at the beach, let them stay home and watch TV."
As for herself, she is also very busy.
Upon hearing this, Fu Wan went inside to change into her waterproof trousers; she didn't want to be soaking wet in this cold weather. Qin Anning had originally wanted to go too, but Fu Ming had been too rough with her last night, and she was still feeling a bit unwell.
Fu Ming, the culprit, naturally noticed his wife's unusual behavior and immediately prepared some hot water for Qin Anning so that she could wash up and rest at home.
After Fu Wan changed her clothes, Boss Fu also prepared the flashlight and tools.
Fire tongs, bamboo baskets, nets, and buckets are all essential items.
Before heading to the beach, Fu Ming went to call Fu Liang along. Jiang Chunlan didn't come; she was busy cleaning up the mess she hadn't finished earlier.
Perhaps because of the cold weather and the fact that tomorrow is Lunar New Year's Eve, there were fewer people on the beach than usual. Looking around, there were only a few villagers with flashlights and kerosene lamps.
Fu Wan and the others nodded and greeted each other, then followed Fu Ming slowly toward the direction where the fish traps were to be placed. Why slowly? Because they were also observing the water or sand for any seafood along the way.
Even in such a cold winter, many seafood creatures still choose to come out and roam at night because of their nature. Fu Wan had only taken a few steps with the fire tongs when she found a long-legged octopus under a small reef.
She was immediately overjoyed, "Haha, we're opening tonight!"
She stealthily approached the octopus with the fire tongs, then quickly stabbed it with the tongs. Before Fu Ming and Fu Liang, who were walking in front, could react, Fu Wan had already pulled her catch out of the water.
"Haha, brothers, I'm the one who got the first thing today!"
Fu Wan triumphantly tossed the octopus into the bucket. The moment it hit the bucket, the octopus sprayed out a stream of black ink.
Hehe, no wonder she's considered a nightmare for fish; she even times the octopus's ink spray perfectly.
Fu Ming and Fu Liang gave her a thumbs up in admiration. As expected of Fu Wan, she opened for business in just a few minutes.
"Amin, it looks like we need to step up our efforts!"
"Hehe, you don't need to tell me!"
Before Fu Liang could finish speaking, Fu Ming pulled a fist-sized crab from under the rocks at his feet. Judging from its waving red claws, it was clearly a delicious red crab.
Well, with one or two people being so capable, it seems the only one who needs to work harder is myself.
Undeterred, Fu Liang immediately opened his eyes wide and began searching for seafood in the water. They were some distance from the villagers, and because there were few people around, the seawater was relatively clear.
There were many wakame seaweed floating in the sea. Fu Liang scooped up two pieces and then immediately found a large shrimp, about the thickness of a finger, not far from the wakame seaweed.
It's been a long time since I've had shrimp. Judging from the pattern on that shrimp, it must be an expensive mantis shrimp.
He approached silently, slowly reaching behind his back with his left hand to pull out the small net he had brought with him.
When it comes to escape speed, shrimp are no pushovers. With just a push of their tails, they can escape a meter or two in an instant.
Therefore, catching these shrimp while beachcombing is very challenging using tongs. Experienced fishermen usually place a hand net in front of the shrimp so that if the shrimp escapes, it will only escape into their hand net.
As soon as Fu Liang took out his net, Fu Wan knew that he had either seen a fish or a shrimp. Sure enough, less than two minutes later, Fu Liang quickly scooped the net out of the water and then smiled as he pulled out a rather large mantis shrimp.
All the children made some gains, and Boss Fu's side also didn't suffer any losses.
As he walked over, Fu Wan glanced at Boss Fu's bucket unintentionally, and was so startled that she almost dropped the fire tongs in her hand.
"Dad, when did you collect so many sea cucumbers?!"
"Hehe, they're right in the crevice of the rocks. Look at these sea cucumbers, aren't they pretty big?"
After Fu finished speaking, he picked up a sea cucumber that was half the length of his hand and showed it to them. Sea cucumbers of this size are at least eight-headed and are very expensive.
In just over ten minutes, he had collected half a pound of sea cucumbers. If he continued collecting at this pace for an hour, he would have collected at least two or three pounds.
Besides the ones for sale, we can also pick out some smaller ones to take home and cook. Hehe, it's the perfect time to nourish our bodies during the Lunar New Year!
Thinking this, Boss Fu got even more excited and immediately started searching among the rocks on the beach with his eyes like searchlights. Seeing this, Fu Wan, Fu Ming, and Fu Liang also hurriedly started looking down to search for seafood in the sea.
The old man is working so hard, so these young people can't lose to him.
Of course you should roll it up!
That was what Fu Ming was thinking. He took several steps forward, waving his flashlight, and suddenly spotted something strange crawling slowly on the beach.
"Oh my god, what is this?"
Fu Ming initially thought it was just a small sea fish, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that the creature's vibrant colors were clearly indicating that it was poisonous.
Remembering the poisonous crab that had killed Old Lady Shen last time, Fu Ming dared not make a move again and immediately turned to call Fu Wan and the others.
"Ah Wan, Ah Liang, come quick! There's something strange here!"
Hearing Fu Ming's urgent shout, Fu Wan and the others quickly stepped forward, and even Boss Fu, who was engrossed in picking sea cucumbers, hurried over.
When they saw the little creature struggling to crawl on the sand, Fu Wan and Boss Fu both frowned.
"This stuff is poisonous, don't touch it."
"Hey, I knew it was poisonous, but what is this?"
Fu Ming stood aside, still shaken, but his flashlight was still shining on the thing. In his more than twenty years of life, this was the first time he had ever seen something like that.
Boss Fu had obviously seen it before, and immediately called out its name.
"This is a sea dragon."
"What? A sea dragon? There really are dragons in the sea?"
Fu Ming looked incredulous. Wasn't a dragon just something from a storybook? And a dragon should be so big that it couldn't fit the entire Fu family village in it. How could it be as big as a crab? Was his father teasing him?
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