The most challenging thing about beachcombing is having good eyesight. If someone has good eyesight, it's easy to spot fish dozens of meters away on the beach.
Li Xue has had excellent eyesight since childhood, and even after starting school and studying hard, her eyesight remained excellent and perfect.
Therefore, every time Bai Yu took Li Xue to the beach, she could easily discover seafood that others could not.
Today, as usual, she was searching for prey on the beach. Suddenly, she noticed a small bulge not far away. Based on past experience, Li Xue quickly determined that there was something inside the bulge.
Excitedly, she carried the plastic bucket and ran towards it. Upon closer inspection, she realized that the bulge was quite large, with a diameter of over ten centimeters. Judging from its appearance, there was likely a shellfish hidden inside.
As for what kind of shellfish it is, we'll only know once we dig it out and see.
Then Li Xue took out a sand shovel from the plastic bucket and started digging at the small bulge.
After digging with just two shovelfuls, Li Xue spotted a white seashell in the sandpit. Then, with another shovelful, she unearthed a huge moon clam.
"Brother Xiaobai, what do you think of my moon shell? Is it big enough?"
"Hey, Xue'er, you're in luck! Ah Hai and I haven't even made a sale yet, and you've already found such a big moon shell. Not bad, not bad, keep it up!"
Li Xue happily put the moon shells into the bucket, and then continued searching for targets on the beach.
She soon discovered another bulge, but this time it was a little different from the previous ones. This bulge actually had legs, and a lot of them at that.
Just by looking at all those legs on the outside, Li Xue didn't even need to dig them out; she could tell what was hidden in the sand.
It's obviously a crab lying in the sand.
Sure enough, after a few scoops with her shovel, a spotted crab appeared before her eyes—it was clearly a blue crab!
The crabs are good crabs, but they're a bit small, about the size of a palm. But that's okay, judging by their size, they should weigh over three ounces. I can take them.
Li Xue thought so, but the orchid crab was not going to surrender easily. Instead, it waved its two pincers and tried to fight back.
Unfortunately, its resistance was very weak. Li Xue simply pressed down on it with a sand shovel, and the orchid crab was immediately immobilized.
Then Li Xue picked up the crab, tied a cable tie to its two large claws, and put it into the bucket.
Orchid Crab +1
While Li Xue was making successive gains, Bai Yu and Wang Hai were not idle either; the two brothers also began searching the beach.
Just like before, Bai Yu was only responsible for catching the animals, while Wang Hai followed behind him and filmed the scene.
However, they both put in effort when searching for prey.
After all, searching together is always much more efficient than searching alone. As for the footage of them searching for prey...
None of that matters. Since it's a short video editing project, the content of the video must be of high quality and useful information.
What's the real story behind beachcombing videos? It's finding and catching the prey, of course. As for the search process, that's not important; those are basically unusable shots that need to be edited out.
At this moment, Bai Yu was searching for prey along a stream on the beach. This stream was located in the middle of the beach, like a small creek, dividing the beach in two.
As Bai Yu walked, he suddenly stopped. A small white flower appeared in his field of vision.
That's right, a small white flower appeared on a beach filled with seawater. Could a flower that appears under such circumstances be a normal flower?
The answer is, of course, impossible!
Actually, this white flower is not a plant, but a marine creature called a sea anemone.
Sea anemones are a rare delicacy. Besides their delicious taste, eating more sea anemones has other benefits, namely nourishing yin and strengthening yang!
Unfortunately, because sea anemones are difficult to catch and they don't look very good, they are not very expensive.
Bai Yu wasn't very familiar with other regions, but he had at least sold sea anemones before. Back then, they were only bought for a dozen yuan per kilogram! Even if market conditions have changed and prices have risen, the increase probably won't be too significant.
After all, these kinds of seafood are really ugly. Some look like large intestines, while others look like underdeveloped lotus root segments. They don't look like seafood at all, so people have no desire to buy them.
However, beachcombing to catch sea anemones is a very stress-relieving activity. Sea anemones are marine cnidarians, and some sea anemones look like radishes, short and plump, making them easy to catch.
Some sea anemones, however, grow like bean sprouts, thin and long, with roots that can penetrate 30 to 40 centimeters deep into the sand.
If you encounter a long and thin sea anemone like this, digging it up is quite stress-relieving. If you can dig it out intact, the sense of accomplishment is also very different.
At this moment, Bai Yu set his sights on the sea anemone. After Wang Hai came over with the camera, he picked up a sand shovel and started digging while explaining the situation.
"Brothers, we encountered a sea anemone while beachcombing. We need to be careful when digging for it, as the anemone's skin is very fragile. We must be careful not to dig up the anemone with our sand shovels."
Also, if the sea anemone you encounter is long and thin, don't blindly pull it when you grab it. While it may feel great to pull it out intact, the chances of the sea anemone breaking off are also very high.
Everyone can do what I did, just take a sand shovel and dig it up, first dig away the sand around the sea anemone..."
Digging in the sand was a very easy task. In just two minutes, a whole sea anemone appeared in Bai Yu's hand.
When it was first dug out, this thing was 30 to 40 centimeters long, but now it has shrunk to less than 10 centimeters. After shrinking, the sea anemone is about three times the width of a pig. It is short and chubby, and looks more and more like a large intestine.
But it doesn't matter, so what if it's ugly?
Regardless of anything else, this sea anemone was Bai Yu's first catch of the day, so he definitely had to keep it and put it into the bucket.
After digging up the sea anemone, Wang Hai called Bai Yu away. He had also found several bulges, but considering that Bai Yu was going to film a video, he didn't dig them up himself and waited for Bai Yu to do it.
Wang Hai has one redeeming quality: he always keeps Bai Yu's words in mind.
Although he sometimes didn't understand what Bai Yu meant, that didn't stop him from remembering it. If he didn't understand, he could understand it later.
Then two more diligent gardeners appeared on the beach. They treated the beach like a garden, digging and digging with sand shovels, taking away all kinds of creatures that were hiding in the beach.
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