"We've really caught the blood eel craze. I just came from the edge of the village, and everyone was catching blood eels."
Fu Laoda hurriedly picked up a net and joined the battle. He brought several larger nets, but the handles were quite long. Fu Wan tried them out, found them awkward, and threw them back.
My daughter's little hand net is still the best. The handle is only about a meter long, which makes it easy to handle the agile movements of the blood eels.
While scooping out the blood eels, Fu Wan asked her eldest son, "Dad, how much do you think these blood eels can sell for per pound?"
"It's hard to say, but it'll be at least two yuan per jin!"
Fu Laoda's tone was filled with excitement, "These things are extremely rare. They don't usually show themselves, and you can only catch a few when you're lucky."
"Let me put it this way, in my forty or fifty years of life, I've only ever encountered one blood eel tide."
These words made Fu Ming laugh out loud.
"Hehe, Dad, the good things that you only encounter when you're in your forties or fifties, I encountered before I was even thirty."
Well, all things considered, I'm luckier!
If he hadn't impulsively jumped into the water for a couple of laps, they might already be home, having missed the blood eel swarm.
Fu Wan and the others didn't refute these words, because what Fu Ming said was the truth.
If he hadn't been in a bad mood today, Fu Ling wouldn't have dragged him to the beach for a walk, and naturally, he wouldn't have jumped into the water and discovered the approaching tide of blood eels.
"Really? Ah Ming is lucky, our family is lucky!"
Ye Xiaocui was all smiles. She rarely went into the water, but this time she couldn't resist rolling up her trousers and wading into the water to frantically scoop up blood eels.
In her eyes, all the fish swimming around in the water now are "big coins" (referring to large sums of money), and catching one more means a few more cents.
As they were talking, the sound of running footsteps came from not far away.
The person hadn't arrived yet, but their voice came first.
"Uncle, is that you?"
Upon hearing this, Boss Fu turned around and saw that it was Fu Liang and Jiang Chunlan. He quickly responded.
"It's us! Hurry up and get down, or we won't be able to salvage anything when the tide goes out!"
Without saying a word, Fu Liang waded down into the seawater. Jiang Chunlan went over to Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu and exclaimed in surprise, "Oh my, our Lingling and Mingzhu can catch seafood too!"
"Let me see, is it really a blood eel?"
Just then, Fu Ling pulled a blood eel out from under a rock, which was about to burrow into the mud and sand. Upon hearing this, she presented it to Jiang Chunlan as if it were a treasure.
"Here you go, you can't take this away!"
Jiang Chunlan is an experienced fisherman, and she recognized at a glance that this was indeed a rare blood eel.
"Oh, it really is. I'd better hurry up and fish it out too."
Jiang Chunlan couldn't wait to go into the water. They were well-prepared and even wore waterproof pants for easy access.
Hearing her old friend's voice, Ye Xiaocui quickly greeted her.
"Chunlan, stop dawdling and come get it!"
"Here you are! Wow, you've already made so much! I can't fall behind, I'll go check over there!"
Although the two families were as close as one, Jiang Chunlan also knew that there were boundaries in interpersonal relationships.
With Ye Xiaocui and the others here, the mother and daughter can't make money here; they have to go somewhere further away.
Fortunately, this blood eel swarm covered a large area, and Jiang Chunlan quickly scooped up a net full of them.
It weighs at least three or four pounds.
Jiang Chunlan was so happy that she never stopped smiling. Blood eels are more nutritious than pork. She would sell the larger blood eels and keep the smaller ones to make soup for her daughter-in-law.
Wang Huiping didn't come over; her belly was already showing, and Jiang Chunlan and Fu Liang didn't want her to come out late at night.
If you lose your footing and fall, that would be terrible.
If it weren't for the fact that blood eels are a once-in-a-lifetime find, Jiang Chunlan wouldn't have come out with them. In her eyes, the child in her daughter-in-law's belly is the most important thing.
She didn't know how much time had passed, but Fu Wan felt a slight soreness in her arm. When she turned her head, she saw that the bucket next to her was also full.
She looked up and surveyed the water. There were significantly fewer blood eels on the surface; it took five or six minutes of shining a flashlight before one or two would dart out.
This thing is also somewhat phototropic, otherwise Fu Wan and the others wouldn't have been able to get it so easily.
They relied entirely on the flashlight they wore over their heads.
However, the flashlight had reached its limit at this point, and the light it emitted was much dimmer.
"Father, Mother, Eldest Brother, isn't that enough?"
She didn't bring a watch when she came out, so she didn't know what time it was.
But I estimate it's at least ninety points.
Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu were yawning constantly. Children are growing, and they would usually be asleep by this time.
Boss Fu had actually wanted to go back for a while. To be honest, at first he could catch several eels by blindly scooping them up with a net in the water with his eyes closed. But later, when there were fewer blood eels, he had to stand for several minutes to catch one.
His back was already bad, how could he withstand bending over for so long?
However, since everyone else in the family was busy catching blood eels, he couldn't say that his back hurt, so he could only stand up and rest for a while after catching them for a while.
Ye Xiaocui was in a similar situation. Fu Ming was having a great time scooping things up, but unfortunately the bucket was too full.
"Alright, let's just go back!"
Fu Ming took the net ashore and found a total of six and a half buckets of blood eels. The half bucket contained the catch that Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu had brought.
"It's not easy to carry all this goods back. How about I go back and change my clothes first, then ride my tricycle over to pick it up?"
Fu Ming was soaking wet. He had gone into the water shirtless, but luckily the temperature wasn't low and there was no one else around.
After thinking for a moment, Fu Wan nodded, "Alright, Father, why don't you sit down first? My elder brother and I will take the Lingling Pearl back. You wait here for us to come back."
After getting ashore, Boss Fu held his back, and Fu Wan could tell at a glance that his back was probably starting to hurt again.
"Okay, then you can go back. We'll stay here and keep watch."
Fu Laoda found a rock to sit on, while Fu Liang and Jiang Chunlan, mother and son, were still busy not far away, probably because the bucket wasn't full yet.
However, with Boss Fu and Ye Xiaocui watching over things, no one would be bold enough to directly rob the seafood.
With this arrangement, Fu Wan and Fu Ming took the child back home.
The two children were so sleepy they could barely keep their eyes open. Qin Mingzhu was still somewhat awake, but Fu Ling could fall asleep while walking.
"Lingling, come here, let your uncle carry you."
Fu Ming was still carrying a half-bucket of blood eels in his hand. This was just to scare people. With the villagers making such a commotion, it was impossible for his family not to have caught anything.
Fu Ling kept shaking her head with her eyes closed, clinging to Fu Wan and refusing to let go.
Helpless, Fu Wan had no choice but to carry her on her back herself. And to be honest, after more than a year of not carrying the child, she realized that Fu Ling had grown quite a bit.
She used to be a tiny little bundle on my back, but now she's grown into a young lady.
In a few years, I doubt I'll be able to carry her on my back anymore.
Fu Wan sighed inwardly. She didn't forget to hold Qin Mingzhu's hand, who was following beside her. The child had grown quite a bit taller, and in another year or two, she should be able to catch up with her.
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