The speed was so fast, it was as if a ghost was chasing them.
"Hey, hey!"
"Big Yellow, where are you running off to!"
Fu Ming instantly felt like he had been tricked, and in a fit of rage, he started yelling.
"How could you leave me behind and run away? Be careful when you get back, I'll give that big bone of yours to my little black dog!"
Da Huang ignored Fu Ming's threats, and Fu Wan and Fu Ling couldn't help but laugh at the scene.
Da Huang is deliberately teasing Fu Ming!
What a clever dog!
In the blink of an eye, Big Yellow swam ashore, shook off the water, and called out to Fu Ming.
"Woof!"
"You're still yelling at me? Now you want to apologize?"
Fu Ming scooped up a puddle of water and splashed it towards Da Huang. "Even if you apologize, I'll still splash you. Do you know how much I was hoping you'd come to save me just now?!"
"Woof!"
"What, you're still not convinced?"
The man and the dog chatted enthusiastically as Fu Ming swam toward the shore.
"Hey, what's this?"
Fu Ming suddenly felt something slippery and long bump into his hand. He knew something was wrong and instinctively tried to throw it away.
Those long, slippery things in the sea are most likely sea snakes!
May Goddess Mazu protect him, how could he have encountered such a thing?!
"Hey bro, wait a minute!"
Fu Wan noticed something was wrong with Fu Ming's side. Although there was no light on Fu Ming's side, Fu Wan's eyes were not affected at all, and she could see clearly what the thing in Fu Ming's hand looked like at a glance.
"It looks like a blood eel!"
"What?! Blood eel?!"
Fu Ming examined the long strip in his hand carefully, but without any light, he could only see a dark, long strip in his hand.
The long strip, about twenty centimeters long and as thick as a little finger, was struggling fiercely in Fu Ming's hand.
If Fu Ming hadn't habitually grabbed the thing by the neck, it probably would have run away long ago.
"Ah Wan, are you sure you're not seeing things? It really is a blood eel?"
Fu Ming grabbed the blood eel and asked anxiously. At this moment, Boss Fu and Ye Xiaocui also shone their lights in the same direction.
The light from a flashlight has a limited range, and Fu Ming was outside that range, so he couldn't be seen.
This really worried Ye Xiaocui.
"Hey, Ming, can't you swim forward?"
"Oh, you're right."
Upon hearing this, Fu Ming immediately grabbed the blood eel and swam quickly to the shore. Before long, he had reached the shore.
"Quick, quick, check if it's a blood eel!"
Before Fu Ming could even stand properly, he offered the blood eel in his hand.
Boss Fu was already waiting with the bucket that Fu Ling had brought. As soon as the blood eel was thrown in, he recognized it.
"It's a blood eel! It's a blood eel!"
"Woof!"
At this moment, Da Huang let out a cry towards the blood eel in the bucket.
Looking at Da Huang's appearance, Fu Wan suddenly had a thought: "Could it be that Da Huang suddenly came back just now because he found this thing?"
"Woof!"
Before anyone else could even answer, Da Huang barked again, as if in response to Fu Wan's words.
"Wow, is Big Yellow that powerful?"
If this blood eel hadn't bumped into his hand, he wouldn't have noticed it even after being in the water for so long.
Wait, did it hit his hand?
Fu Ming hurriedly picked up a flashlight and shone it quickly onto the sea, while Fu Wan, who was on the other side, also noticed this.
When the two of them saw the situation on the sea, they were so surprised that they didn't know what to say.
"My God, are all those blood eels swimming in that water?"
"Wow, it looks like we're going to strike it rich again today!"
A group of blood eels were being swept into the sea area in front of them by the waves. The water, which had been empty just moments before, was now filled with countless blood eels.
"Lingling, Mingzhu, quickly give me your hand-copied nets!"
Fu Wan hurriedly called out to Fu Ling, and before she could say anything else, Boss Fu also made a decision on the spot.
"There are so many blood eels at sea, we've probably encountered a blood eel swarm. You guys wait here, I'll go back and get a landing net!"
Now it was time to save money again. The purchase price of blood eels was very high. Before Fu Wan and the others could agree, Boss Fu had already started running back the way they came.
Not only do you need to bring a net, but you also need to bring several buckets.
She also informed Fu Liang, who was nearby, that someone was shouting. Fu Wan guessed that someone had probably discovered the blood eel.
Looks like this wave of blood eels is pretty big!
Blood eels are actually quite rare in the area. The last time Fu Wan saw a blood eel was more than ten years ago.
Ye Xiaocui found a pound of it while beachcombing. Because of its high price, her family couldn't bear to eat it and sold it all to buy more than ten pounds of high-gluten flour.
The overall shape of the blood eel is actually somewhat similar to that of the yellow eel, but the difference is that the blood eel is entirely red, similar in color to the sea cucumber.
This color is not actually formed on the surface of the blood eel, but rather it is the red color that appears when the blood inside shows through the thin skin of the blood eel.
Although both belong to the eel family, the living environment of the blood eel is somewhat different from that of the yellow eel.
Blood eels, also known as blood moray eels, generally live in brackish water where fresh and saltwater meet, feeding on small fish and insects in the mud and sand.
Blood eel is expensive because of its extremely high nutritional value. Moreover, its meat is very tender, making it an ideal choice for those who need nourishment and enjoy delicious food.
Image of blood eel (image removed due to copyright infringement)
Beside the sea near Fujia Village, there is a wide river. There is also a mangrove forest there where Fu Wan used to catch blue crabs. Fu Wan guessed that these blood eels were probably swept here by the seawater from there.
Judging from this, the waves have probably washed away the blood eel's nest.
Fu Wan didn't have time to think too much. There were many blood eels in the water, and they were very active. Fu Wan grabbed a net and started scooping them up.
Fu Ming was the same. After all that commotion, he had no time to think about anything else. All he could think about now was catching blood eels.
Ye Xiaocui didn't have a net for scooping vegetables, but she couldn't just sit there anxiously.
In just a short while, quite a few blood eels had been washed ashore by the waves.
These blood eels, upon seeing the mud and sand, acted as if they were back home, constantly burrowing downwards. Ye Xiaocui wasn't about to let them escape; she simply reached out and caught them one by one.
Not only Ye Xiaocui, but Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu were also busy.
Late at night, Ye Xiaocui wouldn't let them go into the water, so they followed Ye Xiaocui to catch fish on the mudflats.
Big Yellow joined in too. People couldn't hear the blood eels burrowing into the mud, but the dogs could.
Whenever Dahuang barks, Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu run over.
After the two children moved the stones, they quickly grabbed the blood eel by the tail and wouldn't let go. They weren't afraid of the thing. By the time Boss Fu ran over with his tools, Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu's buckets were already full.
The two buckets they were using were the ones their family used to use to store fertilizer. They were only about 20 centimeters high. The two buckets of blood eels together weighed at least 10 kilograms.
"Ah Wan, Ah Ming, take the bucket!"
Fu Laoda tossed the empty bucket in his hand over, and Fu Wan scooped it up. The bucket came at just the right time; she could barely lift her hand net anymore, and it was time to unload the goods!
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