The rocks here are yellowish, and they are flaky rocks. Ye Cheng couldn't say what kind they were, but as long as there were pits, that was fine.
The three of them stood at the highest point and looked around. They needed to find a larger pit, as small pits generally didn't hold much cargo.
"Brother, do you think that's okay?" Xiao Hu asked, pointing to the puddle at their feet.
Ye Cheng glanced at it and immediately shook his head, "This pit is too big. Even if the three of us worked ourselves to death, we still couldn't finish it."
This isn't just a puddle, it's a whole expanse of water. Who could possibly get rid of all this water?
"No, Cheng, this is a series of small pits connected together. This is good, it's easy to find a large quantity. We can just dig through them one by one. They must be separated underneath."
Unexpectedly, Ye Guowei also agreed. Since two people agree, let's do it.
The three of them first found a puddle that drained well, then jumped in and started scooping water out with buckets.
With three strong laborers, the drainage was done very quickly, and the water level dropped rapidly. In about half an hour, the several puddles became independent, just as Ye Guowei had expected.
"I can't take it anymore, I need to rest." Ye Cheng was the first to give up.
Ye Guowei and Xiao Hu rolled their eyes at Ye Cheng, too lazy to say anything; he was just being evasive.
Seeing that the two animals wouldn't rest, Ye Cheng lit a cigarette and jumped in again. After more than ten minutes, the water level in the puddle reached his calves.
That's about enough. If we keep going, we'll have to bend over too much each time, which will be a waste of energy.
The three of them got a net and started scooping things up from the water. Actually, the net wasn't very useful, since they mostly had to feel around for the fish.
The fish, shrimp, and crabs here are all very clever; they all hide in the crevices of the rocks.
The rocks here are layered, with even more crevices. Ye Cheng casually touched one and found a very deep crevice. There must be something inside.
He put on his gloves and reached inside, but before he could get very deep, he felt something soft and long.
Ye Cheng grabbed it tightly and pulled it out. The thing struggled desperately, but it still couldn't resist Ye Cheng's strength and was pulled out of the water.
With a splash, the long thing struggled violently, trying to jump back into the water, but Ye Cheng caught it in the net, and it fell into the thief's net.
"What is this thing? It's so long." Ye Guowei looked over. He had just touched a stone snake, which wasn't very big, but Ye Cheng's was half a meter long.
Ye Cheng lifted the net and saw a small shark, light yellowish-brown, with brownish-brown horizontal stripes and many dark brown spots on its body.
This creature was darker in color when it was in the net, but its color lightened after it was taken out. It's a spotted bamboo shark, whose body color changes depending on its surroundings, making it a "chameleon in the shark family."
“Brother, a catshark, half a meter long, not bad,” Ye Cheng replied.
The spotted bamboo shark belongs to the cat shark family. Although it looks similar to the dog shark, the cat shark and the dog shark are not the same species.
Of course, since the prices are about the same, there is no difference for the fishermen; it's all the same price anyway.
This catfish could probably sell for around 100 yuan per kilogram, which is considered high quality.
After placing the catshark down, Ye Cheng continued to feel around in the crevices of the rocks. There was still a lot of water, so to be honest, it was still a bit difficult to feel around.
Ye Cheng just prayed that he wouldn't touch a crab; he was still a little afraid of those things.
Just when I was afraid, something hard pressed against my finger.
"Little Tiger!" Ye Cheng looked up and shouted at the top of his lungs.
Xiao Hu glanced at it, his mouth twitched, and he immediately understood. Helplessly, he walked over and reached down, only to find Ye Cheng's hand had pulled out a half-pound yellow oil crab, its joints oozing oil.
"Sure, young man, you've got good luck. Here, put it in." Ye Cheng chuckled as he took the bucket.
"Brother, we've been going to the beach for ages, can't you get rid of this habit of yours? It's not that I want to criticize you, but it's embarrassing to talk about this."
"Get lost, you're so cocky."
After chasing away Xiao Hu, Ye Guowei loaded a large truck onto his side, a tiger-spotted one.
Tiger grouper, also known as brown-spotted grouper or brown-spotted grouper, is a marine fish with high economic value, belonging to the genus *Siniperca* in the family Serranidae.
It gets its name from the dark brown spots that resemble tiger stripes on its body, and it is an important farmed and edible fish in Southeast Asia and coastal areas of China.
This tiger stripe is less than half a meter long, with a slender body, and probably weighs about one and a half pounds.
The three of them searched around in the pit for a long time and found several octopuses the size of fists. These things really can be found everywhere.
There are four or five blue flower crabs and a dozen or so rock crabs. There are definitely more, but I really don't want to touch them anymore.
The three of them moved to the middle puddle. Although it was in the middle, it was the shallowest one. It took them half an hour to poke the water out of it.
The water was shallow, so there weren't many big catches. I found a few blue crabs and a small blue dragon, and that was about it.
The last pit was the deepest. The three of them were already exhausted, so they had to rest for a while while draining the water before the water reached their calves.
As soon as he went in, there was a splash in the water, and a big fish rushed past Ye Cheng's feet. Without thinking, Ye Cheng scooped it up with his net and caught it.
A completely black fish fell into the net. Ye Cheng initially thought it was a black sea bream, but upon closer inspection, he was shocked to discover it was a black sea bream.
The black-haired fish, scientifically known as *Scutigera spp.*, is also called black hairy fish, melon seed fish, or black melon seed fish. It is a marine fish with high economic value. Its flesh is tender and delicious, making it popular among sea fishing enthusiasts and seafood markets.
The black-haired fish has an oval-shaped body, a purplish-black color, many small black spots on the scales on its sides, and many dark spots scattered at the base of each fin. Apart from these, there are no other obvious markings on its body.
Another thing that makes black bream famous is their strong pulling sensation. Fishermen would use the phrase "once a black bream is hooked, rock fishing is endless fun" to describe that strong pull.
Actually, in terms of appearance, the black sea bream is somewhat similar to the black sea bream, which is why Ye Cheng mistook it earlier.
The black-haired fish has a dark gray-black body, a small mouth, a flattened body, and a forked tail fin; while the black sea bream has a black-silver body with a metallic sheen, a thick, blunt mouth, and prominent hard spines on its dorsal fin.
Of course, there is another difference between the two, and that is the price.
Black sea bream is cheap, while black hairy sea bream is expensive; black hairy sea bream can generally sell for two or three hundred in the market.
Ye Cheng caught a black-haired fish that was less than 40 centimeters long and weighed about 2 kilograms, which was about the same price as the big cat shark.
Seeing that Ye Cheng had actually caught a blackfish, Ye Guowei and Xiao Hu got excited and started stirring the water with their feet, trying to scare the fish out.
Sure enough, two more emerged, only to be taken down by Ye Guowei in one fell swoop.
After carefully putting away the three black fish, Ye Cheng reached down and pulled out a small eel from a crack in the rock. It was only about fifty centimeters long.
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