What?! A conch shell!
Fu Wan heard the excitement in her older brother's voice, picked up her tools, and pulled Qin Anning along quickly toward Fu Ming.
"Let's go! My brother and his men must have made a great haul!"
The two walked over to Fu Ming and the others. Before Fu Ming could even greet them, Fu Wan saw the spectacular scene on the reef.
"My God, what's that on the rock..."
Qin Anning shone his flashlight on the dark reef, where countless seashells were densely packed together, clearly not part of the reef itself.
"These are mussels!"
Mussels, also known as jade mussels or sea mussels, are a common catch from beachcombing. Because they are so common, they are cheap; even local fishmongers won't buy them, so villagers usually keep them for their own consumption. [Image of mussels from the internet] One of the cheapest seafoods. Stir-fried with chili peppers, ginger, and garlic, and then a splash of Shaoxing wine, they taste quite good.
Even if you can't finish it, you can take it home, scoop out the meat, dry it, and save it for winter or during the busy farming season. Adding some seaweed to make soup is also a good option.
However, Fu San might not necessarily refuse the mussels in front of them now, because these mussels are particularly large, almost each one is as wide as two adult fingers.
"Quick, quick, pull them into the bucket!"
Fu Ming didn't even have time to greet Fu Wan and the others; his men were busy harvesting large mussels.
Fu Wan immediately joined the mussel-picking team. She opened her gloved hands wide, grabbed a handful of mussels, and gave them a strong shake, separating them from the rocks and placing them in her hand.
Qin Anning found it very interesting and tentatively pulled out two mussels. This was the first time she had ever picked up such things on the rocks.
"Wait, what's this?"
Fu Wan was holding onto the reef with one hand and using the other to pull out mussels when her hand holding the reef seemed to touch something.
She traced the outline of the thing, then twisted it hard, and the thing was immediately removed.
"Haha, it's actually an abalone!"
Although it's not a two-headed abalone, it's at least a three-headed abalone!
When Fu Ming saw that Fu Wan had pulled out an abalone, who would still want the cheap mussels? He stood up and rushed over to Fu Wan.
"Ah Wan, where did you find that abalone?!"
Fu Wan patted the side of the reef, "This way!"
Fu Ming shone his flashlight over, but couldn't see a single abalone.
Hey, where's his shipping business? Where's his abalone?
Fu Liang wasn't as dejected as Fu Ming, but he wasn't interested in mussels anymore. He took a flashlight and started looking for more valuable seafood on the rocks.
"Amin, there's abalone here!"
"No, no!"
With a cry of surprise from Fu Liang, Fu Ming was fully revived. Fu Wan looked over at the sound, and although she didn't have a flashlight in her hand, she could see clearly by the moonlight.
There were quite a few abalone on the reef that Fu Liang was on.
Although it wasn't as big as the one she had just had, it still looked about the size of a duck egg.
There must be at least five or six pounds of abalone in that area!
The brothers all went to find abalone, but Fu Wan was too lazy to go.
Qin Anning was still struggling with the mussels on the rocks. "Anning, let's look for crabs!"
She prefers crabs to shellfish.
Qin Anning was somewhat bewildered. She had learned how to pick mussels, but how did she find crabs?
Fu Wan smiled mysteriously, then lifted up a small piece of coral reef beside her. A shadow flashed by so quickly that Qin Anning didn't even have time to exclaim before Fu Wan's shovel was already there.
Fu Wan initially thought the shovel had covered the object, but when she removed it, there was nothing underneath except a few red snails hidden under the coral reef.
Well, red snails are good too!
Who let the crab escape!
"Ah Wan, the crab went that way!"
Qin Anning saw it clearly and immediately pointed out the rocks next to Fu Wan.
"Okay, I'll lift the stone up, and you can use the pliers to hold it, okay?"
Although Qin Anning was somewhat unsure whether she could do it, she didn't shake her head in the face of Fu Wan's expectant gaze.
Fu Wan handed her the fire tongs, then gripped the bottom of the reef with both hands, took a deep breath, and slowly lifted it upwards.
Qin Anning held a flashlight in one hand and fire tongs in the other.
Sure enough, the crab was hiding under the rock. She boldly grabbed the fire tongs, aimed them at the crab's body, and slowly approached.
At this moment, Fu Wan could only hear her own breathing and Qin Anning's breathing. Just as she was about to lose her balance on the reef, Qin Anning swiftly struck with the fire tongs, clamped the crab tightly, and threw it into the bucket.
Wow, I actually caught a crab!
Qin Anning was overjoyed. She couldn't believe that the big guy in the bucket, wielding pliers and full of energy, was actually someone she had caught!
Fu Wan put the rock down, which gave her a chance to examine the crabs in the bucket.
This crab is clearly different from the blue crab, swimming crab, and three-eyed crab we've seen before. This crab weighs about a pound and has two large, powerful claws.
Its back is mostly bluish-gray, but the edges of the crab's back are dark red, as are the insides of its two large claws.
It looked like he was wearing a set of red armor.
"Wow, this crab is so fierce!"
It's fierce, isn't it? The three-eyed crab we just caught was so scared that it huddled at the edge of the bucket, not moving an inch, afraid that this guy would give it a pincer.
Seeing the light shining from Fu Wan's direction, the crab raised its pincers and looked around, as if searching for the culprit that had dragged it into the bucket.
"This is a red-shelled crab!" A picture of a red-shelled crab from the internet. My mouth is watering. My family didn't expect that instead of catching a blue crab, they caught a red-shelled crab first.
Sure enough, because few people come here, the variety of seafood is much richer than back home.
"Red Armor, that name is quite fitting!"
Qin Anning praised it repeatedly, saying she liked the crab no matter how she looked at it!
"Anning, you're amazing! I never knew you could catch crabs so quickly and accurately!"
Qin Anning blushed a little from Fu Wan's praise. She laughed heartily, "That's all thanks to you, Awan. If you hadn't brought me out to go beachcombing, I would never have had this experience."
The two exchanged a smile, while Fu Ming, who was standing nearby, was somewhat puzzled by the commotion.
Why is he laughing when he was happily beachcombing?
"Alright, let's hurry up and catch some crabs!"
Crabs don't always hide under rocks at night; many lie in the mud and sand, blowing bubbles as they breathe in the seawater from the trench.
Fu Wan and Qin Anning quickly found a burrow of crabs by the trench. The two grabbed fire tongs and swiftly attacked. By the time the crabs realized what was happening, they had already been thrown into a bucket for a feast.
Perhaps because they had a clear goal, the two of them filled their buckets more than halfway with crabs in no time.
There were many kinds of crabs, including blue crabs, three-eyed crabs, red-shelled crabs, and even several blue crabs!
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