Chapter 708 Fish Stolen
Seeing Fu Ming's disbelief, Fu Wan spoke up to explain on behalf of Boss Fu.
This thing is indeed called a sea dragon, but that's what the local fishermen call it. According to the magazine encyclopedia she saw later, this little thing should be called a sea slug (kuo yu), also known as a sea unicorn.
Sea slugs have no shells and curl up into a spiral shape. They are usually white and light blue, with forked tentacles, smooth surfaces, and are very beautiful, making you want to touch them.
Sea slug image from the internet, please delete if infringing. Do not touch it!
But beautiful things often come with danger. This marine creature generally lives in the middle layer of the ocean and feeds on plankton, including jellyfish, which are highly poisonous.
If you're eating poisonous food, it wouldn't make sense if you didn't become poisonous yourself.
If a person touches a sea slug without being able to resist, the little creature may release the toxins stored in its body after eating jellyfish, causing severe pain to the person who touched it.
At the same time, it can also cause headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Of course, in severe cases, it can be life-threatening. Most importantly, not only are live sea slugs poisonous, but dead ones are also poisonous.
After hearing what Fu Wan said, Fu Ming felt as if he had been given a second chance at life.
Good heavens, if he hadn't been able to resist and had hit her, wouldn't he have been carrying an injury into the new year? He just got married, and he doesn't want to go see his great-grandmother so soon!
Fu Ming immediately retreated two or three meters away. Boss Fu took out the sand shovel he always carried and scooped up the sea slug along with the sand, then threw it forcefully into the sea.
It's best to keep such a poisonous little thing at home. Don't let it hurt anyone at the beach during the Lunar New Year. If the village children find it and pick it up to play with, the consequences could be unimaginable.
The sea slug was thrown into the sea, and Fu Wan and the others continued their search for seafood.
After walking for more than half an hour, they finally arrived at the spot where Fu Ming had set the trap. In that short half hour, Fu Wan caught another half bucket of crabs and two octopuses.
Fu Ming also caught mostly crabs, and he even caught a half-pound red grouper.
As for Fu Liang, he was too lazy to put the net back after grabbing it, and focused on catching shrimp. Of course, he didn't let any crabs he came across go either, so he caught about two pounds of mantis shrimp, as well as quite a few crabs.
The crabs were all stone crabs and red-shelled crabs. Boss Fu also caught two orchid crabs, but because they were too small, he threw them back into the sea.
In the end, his harvest consisted of only about two pounds of sea cucumbers, a few crabs, and a handful of fresh wakame seaweed.
"That's about enough. Let's put the trap back in and then head back!"
"OK!"
Fu Laoda looked at the moon in the sky and estimated that at least an hour had passed since they came out. Fu Wan and the others naturally had no objection to going home. After an hour, their dinner had long been digested and their craving for beachcombing had been satisfied, so of course they could go home.
Fu Ming threw in ten fish traps that morning, and also brought two hundred bamboo tubes. But this kid wasn't as reliable as Boss Fu; for some reason, a few of the fish traps were unusually close to the shore.
"Amin, why did you throw that trap so close together?"
Boss Fu stepped forward, picked up the rope of the fish trap, and quickly pulled it back. With that pull, he knew there was no seafood inside.
However, Fu Ming's expression quickly darkened, and he strode forward to take a look at the location of the cage.
"Someone tampered with my cage!"
Damn it, could it be that someone stole the fish from the fish traps because I was too late collecting them today?
Upon hearing this, Fu Wan and Fu Liang rushed over to check, but unfortunately the tide had already come in the afternoon, and now, apart from the traces they left when they walked over, there was no indication that anyone else had been on the beach.
"Brother, is it because you didn't throw the trap further away this morning that it's empty?"
Just like fishing, setting fish traps doesn't always guarantee a catch.
Unexpectedly, Fu Ming shook his head and pointed to the cage that had just been pulled up, saying, "Look, I didn't tie the rope knots at the top."
Fu Ming's rope-tying technique was taught by Boss Fu himself, and Fu Wan also knew Fu Ming's habit of tying ropes, which was to tie the rope completely without leaving any gaps. However, the rope on the ground cage now had a lot of extra length.
This has clearly been opened before.
Fu Wan had almost forgotten that such unscrupulous people existed because her fish hadn't been stolen in so long.
"Damn it, I hope I don't run into that bastard, or I'll teach him a lesson he won't even recognize his own grandfather!"
Fu Ming angrily cursed, "It was me who set the traps today. If everything inside is stolen, then all those nets I threw out would have been for nothing!"
Faced with Fu Ming's anger and self-blame, Fu Wan and Fu Liang quickly offered words of comfort.
"Brother, forget it. There are still a lot of traps left to collect. Maybe that guy didn't have time to collect them all."
"Yeah, Ming, next time we'll ambush them here and see who's got the guts!"
Fu Liang was also angry, but the beachcombing haul tonight was pretty good; at least he didn't come back empty-handed. Why let himself be unhappy during the New Year?
Fu Ming silently stepped forward to continue collecting the trap. Fu Laoda noticed the frustration on his son's face, coughed, and said in a low voice, "Alright, consider this a lesson. Next time, we'll just come earlier."
These days, no household has much money. It must have been because someone saw Fu Ming setting the fish trap that someone collected the seafood from the trap before they did.
Boss Fu curses this kind of person so that he'll never be able to eat two dishes in his entire life!
All ten fish traps were retrieved, and there was some harvest. The first six traps yielded nothing, but the traps further from the shore at the back contained more than half a bucket of crabs and two half-meter-long seven-star eels.
Fu Wan and Fu Liang pulled up all the bamboo tubes. The man didn't touch the goods inside the bamboo tubes, but perhaps because the weather was too cold, only a small half-bucket of octopus was poured out of the two hundred bamboo tubes, which looked to be less than three pounds.
At least they had some success, and Fu Ming's expression improved a bit. After collecting the fish, the group headed home with their belongings. Fu Wan glanced at her watch; it was almost ten o'clock.
When they got home, Qin Anning had already taken the children to their room to sleep. Ye Xiaocui finished preparing the groceries for tomorrow and then sat in the main room waiting for Boss Fu and the others to return.
Hearing the commotion outside, Ye Xiaocui hurriedly got up and went out.
"Why so late? Did you make a catch?"
"There's definitely been a harvest, Mom. You're still awake?"
Ye Xiaocui shook her head, then took the bucket from Fu Wan's hand.
Fu Liang was about to go back, but after thinking about it, he said to Ye Xiaocui, "Auntie, bring a basin. I won't sell the shrimp here to Uncle San. We'll split them equally between our two families and have them for New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow."
"What kind of shrimp? Oh my, you even caught mantis shrimp? These shrimp aren't cheap, Liang, why don't you just sell them!"
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