After a busy year, whether we've gained something or suffered some losses, we should all be happy and have a good time during the Spring Festival.
Bai Hao and his companions were like that; as the Lunar New Year drew closer, the small fishing village became increasingly lively.
Many of their friends from the village had also returned home, and the first thing they did upon arriving was to seek out Bai Yu.
Perhaps it's because of his status as an Olympic champion, but Bai Hao often encounters people in the village who want to take photos with him.
Many of these people were their childhood friends, who used to play together every day when they were young. Even before this year, they often met in the village, but they never asked to take a photo together.
But just a year later, after Bai Yu won a championship, the number of people wanting to take photos with him increased.
However, taking photos with others is not a big problem for Bai Hao, as long as they don't ask him for autographs. He only signs on objects now, not on paper.
However, during this time, they still managed to find a few friends to go beachcombing in front of the small fishing village and play on the beach.
That is, the day before the Spring Festival, which is the early morning of New Year's Eve.
Around 1 a.m., Bai Hao and his three companions, each wearing a headlamp, walked along the roads of the small fishing village toward the sea.
It wasn't just Bai Yu and his group who were dressed like this in the small fishing village; the whole village was filled with the light of flashlights or overhead lamps.
This light extended all the way to the seaside, and lights were present everywhere on the beach and rocky shore.
Even though it's already past one o'clock, there are still quite a few villagers searching for something on the beach.
What are they looking for?
What else could they be looking for? If they're not sleeping at night, they must be out at the beach catching seafood.
The reason we're all going beachcombing tonight is because it's spring tide, and the tide will be receding quite far today.
In this situation, at low tide, a lot of seafood will be exposed from the seawater, which is the best time for fishermen to go beachcombing.
Especially the beach in front of Baiyu's village, which is very well protected by the village, and the marine resources here are almost in a natural state.
In addition, the sea area here is shaped like a bay, just like the fourth competition location of their previous fishing competition, which is also a natural harbor.
In all sea areas, those that can form an inner bay and provide shelter from the wind are generally rich in resources.
This is why so many villagers are attracted to come out to the beach at dawn, hoping to catch as much seafood as possible before the Lunar New Year so they can save money by buying it later.
Don't forget that if you can't catch valuable seafood while beachcombing, it's because the beach is overdeveloped. The sandy beach and rocky reefs in their village are very rich in resources.
So much so that Bai Yu and the other three took their beachcombing tools and went out, joining the beachcombing army.
For these few people, coming to the beach to go beachcombing was just for fun. After all, with their combined wealth, what kind of seafood could they not afford?
But the ones you buy definitely don't taste as good as the ones you catch yourself.
Bai Yu has only two goals for tonight: to catch two small green dragons and seven or eight crabs. As for the rest, he doesn't care what they are.
The requirements may seem modest, but they are full of challenges.
Putting everything else aside, those two little green dragons alone would keep him searching for quite a while.
After all, there are a lot of people out beachcombing tonight, so even if there are little green dragons here, it's not necessarily his turn to catch one.
Of course, he might not catch many small green lobsters, but he's sure to encounter another type of lobster tonight: the Chinese spiny lobster.
Before this, when Bai Yu and his friends had just returned home for vacation, they found a lot of Chinese spiny lobsters on the beach, and those guys were huge.
Bai Yu encountered four in total, each weighing no less than four pounds, and some were even larger than his forearm.
However, these creatures are now protected, so even though their village has a large number of Chinese spiny lobsters, they can't do anything about them.
I remember a few years ago, before Bai Yu went to university, he made a lot of money from these lobsters, and he sold them all to Uncle Sun.
Now, only a few years later, they can only look at the Chinese spiny lobster and can no longer make money from it.
As for why Bai Yu and his group always have Chinese spiny lobsters?
The reason is simple: their environment is excellent, and it's a safe haven, making it ideal for the Chinese spiny lobster to thrive.
There are several lobster populations settled here. Some live in the waters of the inner bay, some live in the mangrove areas on both sides, some live in the rocky beach areas, and some even live on the mudflats.
Before this creature was protected, the villagers in Baiyu's village often caught these lobsters to sell for money. However, they wouldn't catch all the lobsters at once; they would always leave some for the villagers to keep alive.
Later, it was protected, and the Chinese spiny lobster had no natural enemies in their area, so its population multiplied and increased.
The number of lobsters has increased so much that the village chief is planning to apply to the fisheries administration next year to allow the village to catch some lobsters to control their population.
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As Bai Yu and his three companions carried their buckets to the beach, they headed straight for the rocky shore.
When beachcombing, the best place to catch lobsters and crabs is definitely the rocky beach, especially the crevices in the rocks, where there are bound to be plenty of seafood.
These seafoods aren't stupid; for their own safety, they know to hide in safe places like crevices in the rocks or caves.
Only big idiots, or those with mobility issues, would leave them completely exposed to the air.
"Hey, I'm having a lucky day. I found a baby snail right away. Did someone else miss it?"
Bai Yu had just reached the rocky beach, and his right foot had just stepped onto it when he felt himself stepping on something.
He initially thought it was a rock, but when he looked down, he realized that he had stepped on a small snail instead.
Then, among the four, Bai Yu was the first to open a business!
Even piglet snails are a harvest.
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