Chen Zhiyao originally intended to go directly to the bottom of the puddle.
Unexpectedly, as she passed a relatively low-lying area, her gaze was drawn to a stone.
Several plump abalones were tightly adhered to the surface of the stone.
Hidden in the crevices beneath the rock was a black sea bream weighing nearly two pounds and several lively rock bream.
Seeing so many wonderful things, Chen Zhiyao was overjoyed.
Without hesitation, she reached out and forcefully lifted the stone in front of her.
The next second, the fish hiding under the rocks were startled and began frantically wagging their tails, trying to escape the suddenly exposed danger.
However, the water here had long been drained by pumps, so the fish couldn't swim at all and could only struggle to burrow into the mud and sand.
Looking at the trapped fish, Chen Zhiyao felt very sorry, but her hands moved very quickly.
Before long, one after another, the playful little fish fell into the bucket at her feet.
When she reached the bottom of the puddle, her dad had already caught most of the big creatures inside.
Seeing his daughter arrive late, Chen Weiqiang couldn't help but complain:
"By the time you get here, all the fish will have escaped."
"Isn't that what you're here for? With my dad's abilities, no fish can escape."
"You know your stuff."
Chen Zhiyao's sweet words were like honey, and she quickly coaxed Chen Weiqiang into submission.
She turned her gaze to the enormous bucket at her father's feet and was immediately speechless with astonishment.
There were several large bass, each weighing six or seven pounds, lying in the bucket.
Not only that, there was also a large blue croaker weighing about 10 jin (5 catties) and two cuttlefish weighing more than one jin (5 kg) in the bucket.
Chen Zhiyao stared intently at the blue dress worth several thousand yuan, feeling a pang of jealousy as she thought, "Why wasn't it her who caught it?"
I wish I had come sooner. How great it would have been to catch this big guy myself!
Just then, Chen Weiqiang suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahaha, I finally caught you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he excitedly stood up from the puddle and grabbed a huge eel as thick as an arm with both hands like iron clamps.
This flower eel was slightly inferior to the one Chen Zhiyao had caught in international waters before.
But it weighed a good eleven or twelve pounds, and its body length exceeded one meter. Its powerful tail thrashed wildly in the air, trying its best to break free from Chen Weiqiang's restraints.
Seeing the eel struggling fiercely, Chen Zhiyao quickly handed over the bucket of water she was carrying:
"Dad, quick, quick, put it in the bucket, don't let it escape."
If such a big eel gets away, her dad's thigh will probably be swollen from being slapped.
"Don't worry, it definitely won't run away."
Chen Weiqiang grinned and happily put the struggling sea eel into the bucket, then quickly covered it with something.
"There's no way he can escape now."
Once the large eel was settled, Chen Zhiyao finally turned her attention to the large puddle at her feet.
The big fish is gone, but there are still plenty of small fish below.
These little guys huddled together pitifully, wagging their tails restlessly in the water, making it very murky.
Just then, a white figure suddenly leaped out of the water. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a small, silvery-white sea wolf.
It traced a graceful arc in the air before quickly falling back into the water, splashing up a dirty spray.
As if startled, the little sea wolf darted into a nearby crevice at lightning speed and vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this, Chen Zhiyao quickly walked to the crevice and gently moved the two obstructing stones away with her hands.
As the stones were removed, the fish hidden underneath were gradually revealed.
There are quite a variety of species, including large white pomfret, blue wrasse, yellowfin bream, greenfin bream, and black sea bream.
Soon, Chen Zhiyao caught all the delicious little creatures.
After catching all the fish in the open, the father and daughter did not stop there, but turned their attention to the strangely shaped stones.
Chen Zhiyao bent down, and with a exertion of the muscles in her arms, easily lifted a rock weighing several tens of kilograms.
At the bottom of the rock, there were several brightly colored whelks and a moss-covered conch.
As the stones were turned over one by one, various small seafood hidden underneath were gradually revealed.
Various conches clinging tightly to the surface of the rocks, frantically trying to escape eels, plump sea urchins resembling hedgehogs...
There was also a domineering crab, waving its pincers, clearly unhappy that its territory had been invaded.
In just 10 minutes, Chen Zhiyao filled the bucket in her hand with these gifts from the sea.
After getting a new bucket, she went to a small puddle a little above the bottom of the pit.
Looking down, I saw two dog sharks trapped inside.
One of them was rather large, weighing over two pounds. The other was relatively small, weighing only about one pound.
Chen Zhiyao quickly caught the two lively dog sharks, feeling that she was really lucky today.
Her gaze continued to the side, and unexpectedly, there was a large bass weighing five or six pounds hiding in a crevice in the rocks.
The fish was quite large, but the crevice was too small, so it could only barely hide half of its body, with its thick tail still sticking out.
"Hahaha, you're just burying your head in the sand. You think I can't see you just because you're hiding here?"
Chen Zhiyao walked over excitedly and pulled the thing out of the crevice.
It was then that she discovered a huge coconut snail hiding behind the bass.
This coconut snail is quite large; it's rather heavy in your hand.
Chen Zhiyao roughly estimated that it weighed about two kilograms and could sell for several hundred yuan.
She eagerly brought the coconut snail closer to her hand and examined it carefully.
Unfortunately, she looked for a long time but couldn't find Melozhu.
Chen Zhiyao sighed softly, but quickly cheered up again, after all, today's harvest was quite good.
This large puddle, nearly 10 square meters in size, yielded several buckets of fish.
The most valuable items were the 10-pound large blue eel and the 12-pound giant flower eel.
In addition, items like coconut snails, conch, blue crabs, and red flower crabs are not cheap either, and together they would be worth more than 10,000 yuan.
The father and daughter had a bumper catch of fish, and it took them several trips to carry the valuable catch aboard.
At this time, Grandpa Chen and his two companions had also thoroughly searched the larger puddle nearby.
Compared to the father and daughter's side, there weren't as many good things over there.
Apart from two tiger prawns weighing about half a pound each and a zebra mantis shrimp weighing over a pound each, the rest were some common sea fish and sea snails.
If the price isn't enough, make up for it with quantity; the total value should be several thousand dollars.
The trip to the beach was incredibly fruitful. If we hadn't brought a few small carts, it would have been difficult to move all those heavy fish.
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