"Ahem!" Ye Cheng coughed twice to attract their attention before speaking.
"You can't catch wild large yellow croaker, but there are ways to catch quite a few fish, it'll just be a little tiring."
Upon hearing that they could catch fish, and quite a few at that, Xiao Rou ignored the words "a little tiring" and was the first to raise her hand to participate. Cui Shuran, dressed more formally, had not intended to participate.
But Xiaorou pulled him aside and persuaded him for a few words, so he gave in.
Xiao Hu looked at Ye Cheng with curiosity, not understanding where Ye Cheng wanted to go. They always went wherever they could find fish, but there was no guarantee that there would be any.
Ye Cheng leaned closer and whispered a few words in Xiao Hu's ear. Xiao Hu's expression became quite interesting, and he whispered back four words.
"Bro, you're such a jerk!"
"roll!"
Led by Ye Cheng, the four walked towards the beach with more rocks. Xiao Rou followed along, her feet uneven, making the walk extremely uncomfortable.
"Ye Cheng, have we arrived yet? We've been walking for over ten minutes."
"We're here, we're here, this is it."
Ye Cheng pointed to a large puddle in front of him.
Seeing such a large puddle, Xiaorou had no idea what was about to happen.
Cui Shuran had already thought of it. He gestured with his hand, then turned to look at Ye Cheng, "With such a big pit, how can you catch fish if you don't drain the water?"
Upon seeing that Cui Shuran had figured it out, Ye Cheng immediately gave him a thumbs up and praised him, saying, "Young Master Cui is truly amazing; he saw the key point right away."
"Drainage is definitely necessary. We just said it would be a bit tiring, so we'll have to all work together to drain the water."
Cui Shuran looked at Ye Cheng resentfully. "We're all here to drain the water. There's so much water. When will we ever finish? Are you trying to make us laborers?"
Xiao Rou found it interesting and without hesitation rolled up her trousers and went downstairs to start draining water with a bucket.
The girls all went down, so the three men had no choice but to go down and start doing it together.
Actually, Ye Cheng didn't really trick them. This puddle was small; if it were a big one, four people wouldn't be able to dry it even if they worked themselves to death.
After only ten minutes, Xiaorou was already exhausted and kept waving her hands.
"You guys continue, I can't go on, I need to rest."
After saying that, she climbed up by herself, not caring about her image anymore, and sat down on the reef, panting heavily.
Well, at least there's still Young Master Cui as a free laborer.
Cui Shao is quite good. He must work out regularly and has great stamina. He worked with Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu for an hour before they had almost drained the water.
When they were halfway underwater, Xiaorou became incredibly excited and started pointing and shouting everywhere.
"Hey, there's one here, and one there too! Hurry up and catch it, Ye Cheng, hurry up and catch it!"
"Young Master Cui, you have one on your butt too."
The three men listened to her at first, but later they couldn't be bothered to listen anymore and decided to drain the water first.
Soon, the water reached knee-deep, and in some places, rocks were exposed. Fish tails were seen waving in several puddles.
"Alright, Grandma, you can come down and catch them now," Ye Cheng called to Xiao Rou.
Xiao Rou got off the train with a mixture of excitement and fear, and reached out to touch the back of a fish.
As soon as she touched the fish, it flicked its tail, splashing a cloud of mud onto Xiaorou's face.
"Oh, my face, you bad fish."
Xiao Rou's face, which was originally quite clean, was suddenly covered in mud splatters that she couldn't wipe off because her hands were also covered in mud.
Well, since it was already dirty, the girl decided to give up and pressed down with both hands, not caring about the dirt anymore, and pulled the fish out.
"Oh, a bluefin tuna, not bad," Ye Cheng said.
This is a bluefin wrasse that is over 20 centimeters long. It is very beautiful, but of course, no matter how beautiful it is, it will eventually be eaten.
Ye Cheng asked Xiao Hu to bring over the water tank, and Xiao Rou happily put the bluefish into her pocket.
Over there, Cui Shao's situation was similar to Xiao Rou's; his clothes were already covered in mud. Although he fished a lot, he didn't do much beachcombing.
It feels so good to be barefoot in the water catching fish right now.
He stared at the fish that were just above the water and began to catch them one by one.
"One red sea bream."
"This is a white pomfret."
"There's also a conch shell, not bad, not bad."
Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu fully demonstrated their sense of ownership—letting the guests play first.
The two men sat down by the puddle and started smoking, leisurely watching the other two busy at work.
"Xiaorou, go down into that puddle, there might be something under the rocks," Ye Cheng said, pointing to a puddle at Xiaorou's feet.
"Won't there be snakes if I keep touching them like this?" Xiaorou was a little scared; she only dared to grab the fish that she could see.
"No, if there were sea snakes, they would have come out by now. If you reached down, you would definitely find fish."
Xiao Rou hesitated for a moment, then actually touched it. After just one touch, her expression changed drastically. She looked up at Ye Cheng and said uncertainly,
"I think I touched a hard shell, could it be a crab?"
Upon hearing that it was a crab, Ye Cheng felt embarrassed to let the girl continue the adventure and gave Xiao Hu a wink.
Xiao Hu jumped down, told Xiao Rou to pull her hand back, and reached in himself to rummage around for a bit before pulling out a blue swimming crab.
This swimming crab has three parallel purplish-red round spots on its back. It is the red-spotted swimming crab, also known as the three-eyed crab.
In terms of taste, it is only slightly different from swimming crab; both are delicious, and the difference lies in personal preference.
"It's a red-spotted swimming crab. I like to eat this. I'll steam it when we get back." Xiao Rou excitedly took the water tank and had Xiao Hu throw the crab in.
The fish that could be seen on the surface of the water had been caught by Cui Shao and Xiao Rou. As for those that they wanted to touch, Xiao Rou didn't dare to, and Cui Shao was a little better, but he was also flustered.
Only Ye Cheng and Xiao Hu can come down and handle it.
Ye Cheng felt his way down the crack in the rock and touched something soft that immediately wrapped around his hand.
This texture could only belong to an octopus. Ye Cheng grabbed one of its tentacles and pulled it out, pulling out an octopus the size of a fist.
After cleaning up the octopus, Ye Cheng continued to feel around and pulled out several large, lively shrimp.
Xiao Hu then brought up a few more red-spotted swimming crabs.
Cui Shao and Xiao Rou were also collecting seashells, and the four of them quickly filled the water tank to about half full.
Ye Cheng looked at it; it wouldn't fetch much money, but it would be good to eat today.
Looking at the time, it was getting late, so the four of them grabbed their things and hurried back.
Upon entering the courtyard, Old Li and Old Zhao were instantly stunned by the sight of the four people.
Holy crap, are there four people?
They are four mud monkeys.
"Little Rou, if your dad sees you like this, he'll beat me to death," Zhao Zhiming exclaimed, speechless.
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