"My God, it's a crab!"
Wen Yue was overjoyed and happily carried her bucket over.
"Ah Wan, can I have this crab?" She wanted to show it off to Wang Shuo later.
"sure."
Fu Wan threw the crab directly into her bucket. It was a blue crab, weighing about half a pound.
Wen Yue looked around at the crab with great interest. Thank God, this was the first time she had ever seen a crab with this color and pattern.
Haha, so many firsts today! Wen Yue was so happy she was practically disoriented. She had initially thought beachcombing wouldn't be as fun as fishing, but now, she had completely forgotten about fishing!
"When you see crabs, use tongs, don't grab them with your bare hands. Even though you're all wearing gloves, be careful not to get pinched by the crabs."
Fu Wan gave Wen Yue and Su Ran a few words of advice, and seeing that they listened, she walked over to Ye Xiaocui.
In the past, Comrade Ye Xiaocui was always accompanied by her sister Jiang Chunlan when she went to the beach. Today, Jiang Chunlan didn't come, so she definitely had to go and keep her mother company.
"Mom, you've collected so many seashells!"
You won't know until you come, and you'll be shocked when you do.
In the short time that Fu Wan was instructing Su Ran and Wen Yue on how to catch octopuses and crabs, Ye Xiaocui had already collected half a bucket of sea snails.
"Hehe, there are so many conch shells here, Awan, look how big these spicy conch and red conch are."
I threw away the smaller ones, otherwise there would definitely be more.
Ye Xiaocui looked up and replied with great enthusiasm, while Fu Wan squatted down and reached into the crevices of the rocks. When she found a conch, she pulled it down with all her might. It's no exaggeration to say that her hands could barely hold it all.
Upon closer inspection, the most abundant of them were the spicy snails. It looks like Fu Ming can enjoy a feast when he gets back!
"Hey, what's that red thing over there?"
Fu Wan, with her sharp eyes, looked up and suddenly saw a red figure lying under the rocks more than ten meters away.
She quickly stepped forward, picked it up, and then washed it in the nearby ditch.
"Mother, it's a Sun and Moon Clam!"
"Sun and Moon Clam?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaocui stood up in delight and hurriedly walked towards Fu Wan.
He walked over and took a look at Fu Wan's hand, then burst out laughing.
"Wow, it really is a Sun and Moon Clam! I haven't seen one of these in ages!"
Ye Xiaocui happily took the clam from Fu Wan's hand, examined it for a while and found that it was indeed fresh before throwing it into the bucket.
"Ah Wan, just look around here. We've almost finished collecting all the conches over there. Those clams must have been washed up from the seabed by the waves."
There's definitely one or two. You pick these up first, I'll go over there and call your brother to go cut some coconut leaves in the woods to make a fire."
Seeing that the sun was already high in the sky and it was almost noon, Ye Xiaocui didn't feel anything when she was busy, but now that she saw such a big sun and moon clam, she felt a little hungry.
Fu Wan nodded in agreement. She had just scanned the area and found several sun and moon clams hiding in the mud and sand.
"Okay, then I'll look for it, Mom. These clams are even tastier than scallops!"
"Really? I brought some sauce. We'll steam it later!"
Ye Xiaocui happily agreed, then quickly turned around to call Fu Ming to get to work.
Fu Wan continued to collect clams in the mud and sand. Ironically, although clams sound like clams, they actually look very similar to scallops.
This type of shellfish has a brownish-brown exterior and a shell diameter of about ten centimeters. If you look closely, you can see that the colors of the left and right shells are not the same.
Generally speaking, the surface of the left shell of the sun clam is a light rose color, while the inside is light brown. The surface of the other shell is light yellow and white, the inside is mainly white, and there is a distinct apricot-yellow ring around the edge.
It is called the Sun and Moon Clam because it looks like the sun and moon in the sky from a distance; it is large and dark in color.
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Locally, this type of shellfish is also called the flying shell or the moon and sun shell. It mainly lives in waters at depths of ten to eighty meters and generally feeds on plankton. Trawlers usually catch more, and it's theoretically rare to encounter one while beachcombing; otherwise, Ye Xiaocui wouldn't have been so pleasantly surprised.
Not only are the clams beautiful to look at, but their meat is also tastier than that of ordinary red scallops. If you can't finish the scallop adductor meat, you can take it out and dry it, and it will be sweeter than ordinary dried scallops.
The tide did bring up a lot of sun and moon clams. Fu Wan walked forward for about ten meters and then found a bunch of sun and moon clams under the mud and sand where there was still water.
She didn't even need a small shovel; she only needed to use both hands, just like when she was catching snails in Qingshan Village, she could catch them every time.
In less than ten minutes, Fu Wan's bucket was already half full of sun and moon clams.
However, as she picked them up, Fu Wan noticed something was amiss. It seemed that these clams might not have been brought up by the tide. Some of them were already dead and had a fishy smell.
Fu Wan had no choice but to find a bucket and start sorting the clams one by one again, otherwise one of them would easily affect the taste of the other clams.
But to Fu Wan’s surprise, some of the smelly clams were not entirely fruitless. Who would have thought that octopuses that eat scallop meat might be hiding inside the scallop shells!
We really have run into the marine food chain, one link after another.
"Holy crap, Wan, you picked up so many?"
Fu Wan was busy with her work when Fu Ming suddenly ran over.
Seeing that the bucket next to Fu Wan's legs was almost full, Fu Ming's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
He had just heard Ye Xiaocui mention that there were moon clams here, but he hadn't expected there to be so many.
If Fu Wan hadn't been still rummaging in the water, he wouldn't have believed that these clams were all harvested from beachcombing!
"Hey, that's all, bro! Don't just stand there, hurry up and finish picking them so we can eat. I'm starving!"
Fu Wan bluntly ordered Fu Ming to start searching for traces of the Sun and Moon Clams in the mud and sand. Fu Ming immediately snapped out of his daze and began searching for them in the mud and sand.
At this moment, the sea level receded considerably, revealing the sandy bed beneath their feet. Fu Ming hadn't experienced the exhilarating feeling of collecting scallops in a long time, and he was so happy that his eye wrinkles almost popped out from smiling.
"Haha, that idiot Fu Liang didn't have time to come out with us today. He'll definitely regret it when he sees all these Sun Moon Clams tonight!"
"Hey, what are you saying? Brother Liang had no choice. I heard that his son suddenly developed a fever last night and was taken to the hospital first thing this morning."
I don't know if it's because the weather has changed recently, but the child caught a cold. Last night, Fu Liang rushed over to borrow a car and took the child to the town hospital overnight.
Normally, villagers would see the village doctor for minor illnesses like fever and colds. But since Fu Liang's son was not even a month old, the village doctor didn't dare to prescribe antipyretics.
The child was unwell, crying and fussing at home and refusing to sleep. Fu Liang and Wang Huiping had no choice but to take the child to the nearest town hospital to see if the doctors there could help.
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