The beachcombing continued, and according to Bai Yu's plan, their beachcombing this time would last until 11 a.m.
After 11 o'clock, they would all take a bus to the hotel for dinner and receive their year-end bonuses there.
It was only a little past nine in the morning, and Bai Yu and his group had been beachcombing for more than two hours. The tide was already starting to rise.
In this situation, Bai Yu immediately called Bai Tianhao and the other children to her side, and forbade them from running around.
After all, they were currently in a mangrove area, not the beach in front of the fishing village, nor the rocky beach next to it.
The water level here in the mangrove forest is relatively higher, so you can only come here to go beachcombing during high tide.
However, one should only go beachcombing during low tide; during high tide, one should stay away from the shore.
"Tianhao, the tide is coming in now. Take your younger siblings and head back. Remember to stay away from the waves and don't get too close to them."
Bai Yu called Bai Tianhao over and gave him a thorough explanation.
"Understood, Uncle. I will keep an eye on them."
After Bai Tianhao agreed, he led the team ahead, with the remaining three kids following behind him, and Bai Yu and Li Xue bringing up the rear.
Although they have started heading back now, they are not moving very fast because they are gathering seafood as they go.
Many others made the same choice, since it's easy to tell whether the tide is high or low, and nobody would go beachcombing during high tide.
However, as they walked, Bai Tianhao suddenly darted forward, ran to a rocky pit, rummaged around for a bit, and then produced a small white ball in his hand.
"Uncle, look! I found another white ball. What prize do you think is inside?"
"If you want to know what's inside, just open it yourself and you'll find out. Go ahead and open it."
Seeing that he hadn't gotten the information he wanted from his uncle, Bai Tianhao didn't hesitate and opened the small ball, taking out a piece of paper from it.
"Seven days of paid leave? Uncle, what does that mean? Paid leave, does that mean I can go out and have fun?"
Because Bai Tianhao was still quite young, he had no concept of paid leave and couldn't understand what the note meant.
"Seven days of paid leave, Tianhao, you're in luck. It's a pity you're not an employee of our company, so this reward is useless to you."
Paid leave means you get seven extra days off during the Chinese New Year holiday compared to others, and you receive your full salary and bonuses during this time, including a perfect attendance bonus.
Sometimes Bai Yu couldn't help but sigh that Bai Tianhao was really lucky, as evidenced by the little ball that the kid picked up.
It's worth noting that he only prepared two hundred small balls this time, but there were as many as five or six hundred people participating in the beachcombing.
On average, it would take two or three people to pick up one small ball, but Hao picked up two by himself during the day.
Neither reward is too bad; at least for company employees, both the afternoon tea and the seven-day paid leave are things that employees need.
Li Xue had no interest in the prize this time.
Since Bai Yue took over the company for a few months, Li Xue has had a much easier time. If she wants to take a vacation, it's quite easy; she just needs to let Bai Yue know.
Therefore, she doesn't need this prize.
After seeing that his aunt wasn't interested, Bai Tianhao immediately took his younger siblings and ran away to find someone who was interested in the prize.
His cousin Bai Yu was not even in his consideration. The company belonged to his cousin, so how could his cousin lack holidays or money?
In Bai Tianhao's opinion, his uncle definitely had everything he needed.
After several twists and turns, he finally managed to sell the seven-day paid leave voucher for 100 yuan. The buyer was an employee whose hometown was in the north.
The beachcombing isn't over yet, and Bai Tianhao has already earned 400 yuan. He also has a lot of seafood to sell.
At that moment, the little money-grubber took out the four hundred yuan he had earned and counted it several times over.
As time passed, it soon came to eleven o'clock, and the morning's beachcombing could be called over.
Around 11 o'clock, Bai Yu had already brought Bai Tianhao and the other children back to the beach, where they formed a long queue in front of Uncle Bai's house.
Uncle Bai runs a purchasing station in the small fishing village. When Bai Yu was a child, he would sell his catch from beachcombing to his family, and it is still the same now.
However, there were quite a few people coming to the beach today, and Bai Yu wasn't one to cut in line, so he naturally had to wait in line obediently.
The group consisted of six people, two adults and four children, and they had a pretty good haul. They collected a lot of crabs and lobsters of all sizes, as well as quite a few scallops and conches.
As for the stranded sea fish, they didn't catch much.
It's not that they didn't encounter any sea fish, it's just that they didn't try to catch them; catching fish was too much trouble.
In particular, most of the fish in the sea near the coast are small, miscellaneous fish. These small, miscellaneous fish are plentiful and not very expensive. Instead of catching these small, miscellaneous fish, you might as well catch a couple more crabs.
Of course, they wouldn't let go of any valuable sea fish they might encounter, but they just didn't.
Just as Bai Yu was still in line, Li Shuang and Ke Ke came over carrying buckets and cut in front of Bai Yu.
Before Bai Yu could even speak, Li Shuang took out two twenty-yuan bills from his pocket and placed them in front of Bai Tianhao and the others.
"Kids, whoever is willing to give me their seat, I'll give them twenty yuan, how about that? Anyone want to?"
"Thank you, Uncle."
"Thank you, Uncle."
Without hesitation, Bai Tianhao accepted the forty yuan offered to him. He then thanked Li Shuang with his sister Bai Kexin and walked towards the back of the line.
Anyway, they are from a small fishing village, so it doesn't matter if it's a little earlier or later. Their children have plenty of time, but if they miss out on this money, they will really miss out.
"Brother Yu, I know what you want to say. You mean don't cut in line, right? Look, I'm standing in here openly now."
Hahahaha!
"Tsk, Shuangzi, you're such a rascal, you even rip off kids."
Bai Yu felt utterly helpless in the face of Li Shuang standing before her.
If you say Li Shuang did something wrong, it doesn't seem quite right, because he bought his position with his own money; he bought one for himself and one for Keke.
However, if you say he didn't do anything wrong, then cutting in line like that is definitely not encouraged, especially buying a spot from a child, as it can easily have some negative consequences.
However, it seems that there are no negative impacts so far. After all, the people queuing here are all employees of their company. Even if there are a few children in the queue, they are all from their village and there are no outsiders.
Bai Yu then chatted with Li Shuang, mainly about how everyone's harvest was this time, and whether there were any fun things that happened.
Also, let's find out how many of the two hundred prizes he gave out have been found after a morning of searching.
The first question is hard to answer, since it's only time to gather and everyone hasn't sold their harvest yet. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't do so for the time being.
As for the latter question, that's quite easy to count, because their company has dedicated personnel to register and summarize these prizes.
In addition, any employee who finds a prize will immediately report it in the work group, which you could also consider as showing off.
So far, 181 of the 200 prizes have been collected.
Listening to the summary results given by Li Shuang, Bai Yu added one more item to the 181, which was the premium afternoon tea that Li Xue bought from Bai Tianhao.
As for the other eighteen small balls, either some employees were discreet and found them but hadn't had time to report it, or they were hidden in tricky locations and weren't discovered by the employees.
But it doesn't matter. There are only about ten small balls. If they weren't discovered, they weren't discovered. Even if they sank into the sea, these things won't affect the ocean.
Perhaps one day in the future, they will be carried to the shore by the waves and picked up by someone else.
In addition, the biggest prize among these prizes has been revealed: a nationwide travel allowance worth 100,000 yuan.
This money is not in cash, but rather a travel allowance for employees, along with a month's paid travel vacation.
During this period, domestic travel expenses up to 100,000 yuan can be reimbursed by the company; overseas expenses are not reimbursed.
This is the biggest prize. The person who found it is an employee in the company's post-production department, an employee who, judging from his appearance alone, is a typical nerdy guy.
I wonder if he'll go on a trip after finding this prize.
As more and more people lined up to sell their catch, the beachcombing trip officially came to an end. Now everyone could go have lunch and receive their year-end bonuses.
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