After returning from the beach, Feng Ye didn't go anywhere and stayed at home taking care of her son.
It wasn't until almost dark that the others returned from the beach carrying their buckets.
"mother……"
As soon as the little guy saw Ye Qingling return, he slid off Feng Ye and ran straight to his mother with his short legs.
"Look slowly, be careful not to fall."
Seeing her son run out of the main room, Ye Qingling quickly stepped forward and picked up the little guy.
How many clams did you dig up?
Feng Ye got up and walked outside.
"More than half a bucket."
A smile appeared on Ye Qingling's lips; this was her biggest harvest since she started fishing.
Feng Ye was speechless. What was there to be happy about with a half-full bucket of clams? They wouldn't sell for much money anyway.
But it wouldn't be good to dampen her spirits, so I'll just let her enjoy herself.
"Dad, brother, did you find anything good?"
As he spoke, he leaned closer and looked at their respective buckets, and was immediately a little disappointed.
For most of the afternoon, the seafood consisted mostly of shellfish, small fish, shrimp, and rock crabs. The only thing that was worth a little money was the mud crab.
"There are too many people. Anything of even moderate value can cause a frenzy, unless you're lucky enough to be the only one who sees it."
Feng Jiaqing shook his head and went into the main room to drink tea.
I spent most of the afternoon at the beach without drinking a drop of water, and I was very thirsty.
Although Feng Xuan was also thirsty, he said excitedly, "I didn't find much cargo, but I did see a lot of excitement."
"What's all the commotion? A buying frenzy?"
Recalling his own experience in the reef area, Feng Ye asked curiously.
Feng Xuan nodded: "For ordinary things, people just exchange a few insults, but for more valuable things, it's not so easy to resolve. If they can't win an argument, they'll snatch it, and in the end, it'll be a fight."
"Nothing serious happened, right?"
"Usually it's the women who do the fighting, the men don't participate. At most, they pull hair, tear clothes, and slap each other. It's exciting, but it doesn't cause any serious damage. But... Lai the Cripple is in a bad way. His head is broken, and he also lost an arm."
By the end, Feng Xuan was gloating.
"Whose things did Lai the Cripple steal this time?"
The fire of gossip within Feng Ye blazed fiercely.
Lai the Cripple, as his name suggests, was a cripple and had a terrible reputation in the village.
This person has been a petty thief since childhood, and has been caught countless times, but never learns a lesson.
He became a cripple because he was caught stealing and beaten until he was crippled.
Feng Xuan laughed and said, "A grouper, weighing seven or eight pounds, is stranded in the reef area..."
"A seven or eight-pound rat-spotted rat? There really is a big catch today."
Feng Ye exclaimed in surprise.
The spotted mouse gets its name from its long head and pointed snout, which resembles the shape of a mouse.
This is much more valuable than the tiger grouper they caught on the island.
Despite only a one-word difference and both being named after their appearance, their prices are worlds apart.
Tiger grouper is considered a valuable grouper, but mouse grouper is even more expensive, only slightly cheaper than the same weight of large yellow croaker.
This one rat spot alone is worth more than what he and Feng Xuan got together yesterday.
What surprised Feng Ye even more was that he had never heard of anyone finding a rat-spotted plant after this typhoon in his previous life.
He wasn't sure if it was due to his ignorance in his past life or the butterfly effect of being reborn.
"Yes, it's a rat-spotted plant, but unfortunately I wasn't the first to see it."
After sighing, Feng Xuan continued:
"The two families happened to see the spotted rat at the same time. Since it was such a valuable item, neither of them was willing to give it up. They started arguing, and then the argument escalated into a fight."
While the two families were fighting, Lai the Cripple secretly kidnapped Rat Spot. The two families were naturally furious and beat Lai the Cripple up together.
If it weren't for the bystanders who intervened and separated them, Lai the Cripple would have suffered more than just a broken head and a severed hand.
After finishing his speech in one breath, Feng Xuan felt even thirstier and went inside to drink tea.
"Lai the Cripple really deserved it; he's lucky he wasn't beaten to death."
Feng Ye said something, but his mind was in turmoil.
He recalled carefully that in his previous life, a few days after a typhoon, he had seen Lai the Cripple, who was completely unharmed at the time.
He had no liking for Lai the Cripple and didn't care how serious his injury was, but the occurrence of this event had already deviated from his memory.
In other words, this is the butterfly effect brought about by his rebirth.
On this day in my past life, there certainly weren't so many people at the beach, or rather, out of fear of the surging waves, hardly anyone went down to retrieve anything, so Rat Spot naturally went unnoticed.
Otherwise, it's unlikely he wouldn't be able to hear.
Of course, it's also possible that someone discovered it and secretly took it elsewhere to sell, thus keeping it from everyone.
But today's incident can be entirely attributed to him.
Envious of his profits yesterday, many people came to the beach today to try their luck, which led to this incident.
He didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.
He's conflicted about whether to tell others that the typhoon will turn back, and if so, how.
If he doesn't give a warning, he worries that the butterfly effect will cause more people to lose their lives.
After all, they were from the same village, and many of them were related by blood or marriage, and some had even been kind to his family in their past lives.
After finishing his tea, Feng Xuan came out and poured out his catch to sort it out. He continued, "The last grouper was split between the two families. It was sold at Uncle Fa's shop for 1,582 yuan, with each family getting nearly 800 yuan."
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