The eldest child quickly covered his buttocks and said, "You, stepmother, you hit someone. I will tell dad."

Ning Tang was happy, "Go ahead and sue me. Go now and ask your dad if he is willing to let me take you to the sea."

Of course they wouldn't want to, Big Boy pouted, "Then it's a deal, we'll be good this time, and you can take us there next time."

Da Wa thought about it and thought that if they were obedient this time, Ning Tang could take them to go fishing next time, which was still a good idea.

The three of them could still distinguish between chasing into the sea once and chasing into the sea every time.

Ning Tang snorted, "It depends on your performance."

Mrs. Luo watched Ning Tang bickering with the three kids and laughed so hard that she couldn't stop. "You guys are really making me laugh to death."

She didn't expect that Ning Tang got along so well with the three children of the Shen family at home. The eldest son and the other two even dared to talk back to Ning Tang. They didn't act like elders anymore. They got along like friends. Anyway, she had never seen a family getting along like this on the entire island.

Ning Tang asked Sister Luo, "Sister Luo, what tools should we bring when we go to the sea?"

She recalled the day she first arrived on the island, she saw Mrs. Luo wearing a pair of plastic shoes and carrying a bucket and pliers.

"Yes." Mrs. Luo said, "See if you have any rubber shoes, a bucket, a pair of pliers or a crowbar at home. Oh, and bring a small bag of salt."

The three children all had rubber shoes, so Ningtang wore his own plastic sandals. Ningtang found four buckets, one big bucket and three small buckets. There was no crowbar and only one pliers, which he used as a fire tongs for clamping firewood. As for salt, there was some in the kitchen, and Ningtang took half a bag.

By the time everyone was ready, it was already four in the afternoon. Seeing that it was getting late, they quickly set off for the beach.

It was a long way to walk from the military compound to the beach, but the two adults, Ningtang and Mrs. Luo, didn't think it was a big deal, and the three children didn't even complain. They must have known that they were going to the sea, so they were so excited that they didn't care about anything.

When they arrived at the beach, Ning Tang was immediately mesmerized by the scenery before him.

Looking out, the azure sky meets the sea, the water and the sky are one color. Fishing boats pass by from time to time on the sea, and from a distance they look like a few small black dots. On the edge of the golden beach, the waves hit the black reefs, making waves of pleasant sounds. How can one word "beautiful" describe it?

Ning Tang took off his shoes, stepped barefoot on the soft beach, opened his hands into a trumpet shape, and was ready to shout towards the sea.

"ah--"

Ning Tang turned around and saw that the people making the noise were the three children. They were more excited to see the sea than Ning Tang. If they hadn't remembered Ning Tang's instructions, they would have probably run away playing happily.

Mrs. Luo noticed Ning Tang's happiness and said with a smile, "Your reaction is just like when I first saw snow in the north. I was so excited."

Ning Tang also smiled and said, "Don't blame me for being excited. This sea is really beautiful."

She walked to the beach and grabbed a handful of sea water. The azure blue water flowed through her fingers. "I have never seen such a blue sea." It was even more beautiful than sapphire.

Ning Tang was not bragging. She had been to the beach before, but she had never seen a sea as blue as the one at Hailang Island. This kind of blue really made people feel happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Although Ning Tang was excited, she did not forget her business. She looked at Luo's wife with sparkling eyes and said, "Sister-in-law, let's go to the sea now."

"Okay, let's catch some clams first," Mrs. Luo replied.

"Where are the clams?" Ning Tang looked around.

Mrs. Luo pointed to the beach below her feet and said, "The clams are right here."

Da Wa puffed up his cheeks and said, "Sister Luo, you are lying. There is only sand here, no clams."

Mrs. Luo was amused. "Big boy, Mrs. Luo is not a liar." She pointed to the holes on the beach that were as thick as an adult's thumb. "The clams are right here."

Erniu lay on the beach and peered into the hole, "Sister Luo, where are the clams? Erniu didn't see any."

"Silly girl, you won't be able to see it just by looking at it like this." Mrs. Luo said, "You need to use the salt you brought to catch these clams."

Catching razor clams with salt? This was the first time Ning Tang had heard of it.

She just couldn't connect the three things, salt, clams and holes, so she looked at Mrs. Luo with half belief and half doubt.

Mrs. Luo did not explain. She took out the salt she brought with her and poured a pinch of it into a hole on the beach. "Watch carefully."

Ning Tang and the three children stared at the hole. After a while, a clam with a light brown shell came out of the hole, just like it was poked out of a sand hole.

Ning Tang's eyes widened in surprise, "So salt can be used like this!"

Mrs. Luo picked up the exposed clams and threw them into the bucket. "Yes, it saves effort to catch clams this way, but it's more wasteful to throw them. Most people are reluctant to do so. They just aim at the sand hole, then use a shovel to shovel the sand flat and dig out the clams, but it's also easy to break the clams with a shovel."

The eldest child raised his hand and said, "Stepmother, I want to catch clams too!"

Ning Tang handed him the salt and said, "Catch a big one and take it back to have your dad make a dish of stir-fried clams with green onions and ginger."

The eldest boy took the salt, picked a sand hole with great interest, squatted beside the hole, and carefully poured salt grains into it.

After a while, a razor clam emerged.

The eldest, second and third children clapped their hands excitedly and shouted, "Great! We caught clams!"

Ning Tang held the clam in her hand. The clam that Da Wa caught was as long as her palm, and it was fat and big. It was not an exaggeration to call it the king of clams.

She praised them generously, "Well done. The task of catching razor clams will be handed over to you three. Any problem?"

The eldest, second, and third children followed Shen Lie's example, holding the buckets and saluting crookedly, and shouted, "No problem!"

The three children were catching razor clams on the beach. Ning Tang turned to ask Sister Luo, "Sister Luo, where can we get abalone?"

Compared to razor clams, abalone is definitely more interesting to her.

"We have to go there to catch abalone." Mrs. Luo pointed to a reef not far away.

Ning Tang nodded and said to Da Wa, "Dai Wa, I'm going to the reef in front with your wife Luo to catch abalone. You three stay here and catch razor clams, okay?"

The eldest boy was trying hard to catch them, but he waved his hands and said, "You guys go ahead, we promise not to run around."

Ning Tang was still worried, so he picked up some branches and circled a circle for them. "You can only move around in this area. If I see you running to the seaside, I won't bring you here next time."

Erniu pouted, "Stepmother, we are not children anymore, we won't run around."

Ning Tang pinched her little face and said, "Erniu, let me remind you that you are only five years old. If you are not a child, then who is the child?"

Ning Tang actually just said a few words of advice in vain. The black reef was only twenty or thirty steps away from where the three children were picking clams, and it was a place that could be reached by running a few steps.

With Mrs. Luo helping to keep an eye on them, the safety of the three children is guaranteed.

Mrs. Luo smiled and said, "Xiaoning, don't worry too much. The three children are smart and will call for help if anything happens. There are many people chasing the sea on this beach. If others find something wrong, they will lend a hand."

It's almost evening now, and more and more people are rushing to the beach, basically one person every ten steps.

Ning Tang felt relieved and climbed onto the black reef with Mrs. Luo.

Catching abalone is different from catching razor clams. Abalone is not as secretive as razor clams, but you still need to observe carefully for a while to find their hiding places.

The abalone with a dark green-brown shell is attached to the reefs of varying sizes on the shore, almost blending into the reefs. If you don't look closely, it's easy to overlook it.

"Wow, this abalone is quite big." Mrs. Luo was surprised. She quickly picked up a pair of pliers, grabbed one and threw it into the bucket. "Let's pick it up quickly, or there will be too many people to pick up later."