Around 4 or 5 a.m., Bai Yu and his three companions had already stopped their work and stopped catching people.
At this moment, the group was sitting on a rock, looking eastward; the sun was about to rise.
"Bro, how much longer until the sun comes out? We've been sitting here for over ten minutes already. If it doesn't come out soon, I might as well go home and sleep! Aha!!!"
Bai Yue looked towards the distant east, where everything was ablaze with red, as if the sun would rise from that direction at any moment.
But that wasn't actually the case. Bai Yu and the others had been waiting there for more than ten minutes. Just ten minutes ago, the sky was a fiery red, and it was still the same ten minutes later. They just couldn't see the sun come out.
"Don't rush, it'll be out soon. And be quiet, can't you see I'm filming a video right now? Let's talk after I'm done filming."
"Bro, who wants to chat with you? I just want to go home and sleep. We've been at the beach all night, I'm so sleepy, aha!!!"
"Aha!!!" x3
As Bai Yue spoke, she yawned several times. It didn't matter that she yawned; seeing this, Bai Yu and the other two were also infected and yawned several times as well.
"Hang in there a little longer, the sun will be up soon. I'll take a video and then we'll head back. How about we have instant noodles when we get home?"
"No problem, Brother Yu, I want to add seafood!"
"Brother Bai, my crab!"
"My tiger prawns are here!"
As Bai Yu and the other three were discussing what to eat for breakfast, the sun began to peek out from the horizon. In that instant, the four of them fell silent and focused on watching the sunrise.
The process of waiting for the sun to rise is long, but from the moment the sun begins to peek out until it is fully visible, the process is very quick, taking only a few minutes.
"Alright, the sun is up now, let's take our things and go home."
"Going home, I'm so sleepy."
"Let's go, let's go."
On their way home, Bai Yu and Wang Hai each carried two buckets, while Li Xue and Bai Yue carried the other items, such as crab tongs and landing nets.
There was no other way; these buckets contained quite a lot of produce, and Li Xue and her companion couldn't carry them very fast.
After returning to his doorstep, Bai Yu carried his things into the yard and then left them there; he was going to make breakfast.
As for the four of them, Bai Yu and Wang Hai's harvests were combined, since they had an agreement to share the income from beachcombing.
Li Xue and Bai Yue's seafood was kept separately, and whoever caught the seafood kept it for themselves. Each person was responsible for their own.
Fortunately, Bai Yu's family had a lot of aquariums, four or five of various sizes. The largest one was naturally taken over by Bai Yu and Wang Hai, while Li Xue and Bai Yue used the smaller aquariums.
However, even if all the aquariums are used, some of the harvest cannot be put in, and some things cannot be put in at all.
For example, crabs, whether blue crabs or mud crabs, are best not to be put in the aquarium. If you must put them in, it is best to keep them separate.
These aquariums are currently filled with fish and shrimp. If we were to put crabs in them, it would be no different from putting a tiger into a flock of sheep.
Don't underestimate crabs just because they may not eat many fish and shrimp. They can be quite aggressive. For example, they can easily crush a shrimp with their big pincers, tear apart the tail of a fish, or leave you with minor injuries.
So all the crabs they caught on this beachcombing trip were left aside; they weren't qualified to be put in the aquarium.
After preparing in the kitchen for a while, Bai Yu went to the yard and glanced at the aquarium and the three of them, including Wang Hai.
"Do you have any freshly dead seafood over there? If so, bring it to me. I'm going to cook it in my instant noodles. You can also bring any seafood that isn't very lively."
"Yes, brother, I have a few tiger prawns here that are about to die. You can take them and cook them."
"Brother Xiaobai, I have two crabs here with broken legs. They won't sell well if the legs are broken, so we might as well eat them ourselves."
"Brother Yu, catch whatever you like. Besides, these are all freshly killed."
Believe it or not, just after Bai Yu finished asking, Wang Hai and the other two came over with a lot of seafood, some of which were lifeless and on the verge of dying.
There were also some that weren't in good condition and wouldn't fetch a good price. As for the dead seafood, there were quite a few, especially small squid and shrimp. The three of them brought out at least three or four pounds of them.
Even though these seafoods are dead, they are still edible. After all, they haven't been dead for long, and they died after being caught by Bai Yu and his group.
Let me put it this way: even if these seafoods are dead, they are still fresher than most seafood on the market. Bai Yu and his team caught these themselves, and they know their quality. As for the seafood sold in the market, who can say for sure what level it is?
However, there was really too much dead seafood. Bai Yu and his three companions couldn't possibly eat that much in one meal. He only picked out some shrimp, a few crabs with broken legs, and some conch and scallops.
As for the rest, just put them in the freezer and freeze them for the next meal.
Bai Yu and his three companions ate seafood instant noodles for breakfast. The four of them ate six packs of instant noodles, six eggs, and a certain amount of seafood.
Putting aside whether instant noodles and seafood go well together, let's just say whether they can be paired together and whether it's extravagant enough.
The only pity was that after searching the sea all night, Bai Yu and his three companions didn't catch a single lobster. Not even one, let alone a large lobster, they didn't even see the more common small green lobster.
However, Bai Yu no longer wanted to go lobster. It was already getting light, and the tide would be coming in soon. Even if he wanted to continue beachcombing, he would have to wait until the tide went out in the afternoon.
After having breakfast, Bai Yu left a note on the table, and then went upstairs to wash up and prepare for rest.
Having not slept all night, he was already exhausted. After washing up, he lay down on the bed and truly embodied the old saying: "Youth is wonderful, you can fall asleep as soon as you turn your head."
He didn't know how much time had passed, but Bai Yu, still half asleep, felt that it was so noisy outside that he couldn't fall asleep. He opened his eyes impatiently and looked out the window.
"Damn, I forgot to close the window. No wonder it was so noisy. Oh well, I'll get up and go check it out."
Bai Yu, upon waking up, only glanced at the window and immediately knew what had happened.
Based on the sounds coming from downstairs, Bai Yu heard the voices of his second uncle and aunt. It seemed that his second aunt's family had also arrived, along with the voices of many children. It was these children who were disturbing him.
Since he had already been woken up, Bai Yu decided not to go back to sleep. He picked up his phone and checked the time. It was already 11 o'clock, and they had slept for about five hours, which should be enough time.
After getting up and washing up in five minutes, Bai Yu dressed neatly and went downstairs.
"Second Uncle, are you cleaning the fish? Have you killed the tigerfish I caught last?"
Upon entering the courtyard, Bai Yu immediately saw his second uncle cleaning a fish by the pond. However, what puzzled him was that his second uncle was not cleaning a tigerfish, but a freshwater blackfish.
“Tigerfish are so expensive. I told your dad that we’ll just have this blackfish for lunch today. You can sell the tigerfish to the hotel where your dad works later. Those fish should fetch a few hundred yuan.”
Uncle Bai Yu said without turning his head.
"So what if it's a bit expensive? Does that mean we can't eat it? It's precisely because tigerfish is expensive that we're determined to have it for lunch today and see why it's so expensive."
"But Uncle, you still need to kill this blackfish. After you're done, help me slice it up; I'm saving it for hot pot tonight."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he took the net and walked towards the aquarium, scooping out three tigerfish. His family would eat two today, and the other one would be prepared by Bai's father and sent to Wang Hai's family.
As for the tigerfish, last night, no, it should be early this morning, they caught quite a few at the beach, especially around three or four o'clock, when they caught six in a row.
When they returned home in the morning, there were now as many as twelve tigerfish.
That's why Bai Yu was able to be so arrogant, preparing to eat three right away. As for the remaining nine, whether to eat them or sell them would be decided later.
He dared not kill the tigerfish. Bai Yu took the three tigerfish into the kitchen and went straight to his father.
"Dad, could you help me cook these tigerfish? Let's try what this high-end seafood tastes like, something that can sell for over a hundred yuan a pound."
"Tigerfish? Didn't your second uncle say he wouldn't eat it? He even told you to take it to your third brother to sell."
“My second uncle’s opinion doesn’t count. We caught this fish ourselves, so I have the right to decide its life or death. Besides, Grandpa and Grandma are coming to our house today, so we can cook it for them to try. They probably haven’t eaten this kind of fish before.”
"Grandpa? You don't need to worry about him. He's eaten more fish than you've ever seen. You should think about yourself."
"Fine, since you have such filial piety, I'll cook these tigerfish."
After Bai's father finished speaking, he kicked Bai Yu out, feeling that the boy was getting in the way of him cooking in the kitchen.
The rejected fisherman was not upset. Instead, he returned to the aquarium and looked at the various seafood inside, trying to find two more to enrich the lunch table.
Unfortunately, before Bai Yu could figure things out, his mother called him away to do chores.
"Hey kid, stop looking there and come over here to clean all these conches and scallops. Your dad will need them later."
Not long after, his grandparents arrived and gave their opinions on Bai Yu and the other three's masterpiece from the previous night, and then that was it.
Then Bai Yue and Li Xue came downstairs. As soon as they arrived, they greeted the elders and then each carried a small chair to Bai Yu's side.
Just when Bai Yu thought the two of them would help him clean the seashells, the two of them started chatting and completely ignored Bai Yu, who was still working.
Bai Yu could only helplessly lower his head and continue working. As for asking the two of them to help him? Bai Yu could only think about that himself; as for that, he should forget about it.
As the clock struck 12:30, Bai Yu's family began their lunch on time. There were a total of fourteen people eating at noon, and Bai's father prepared sixteen dishes, most of which were related to the sea.
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