With a bucket in one hand and a pair of tongs in the other, Chen Zhiyao looked on expectantly as she prepared to walk into the cave.
Just then, Xiao Meng in my mind reminded me, "Tangtang, there's a big blue crab at the entrance of the cave."
Chen Zhiyao turned around and looked towards the cave entrance. Sure enough, there was another crab that had escaped the net, nestled between two rocks.
Blue crab
This guy is pretty fierce. When he saw Chen Zhiyao coming over, he immediately raised his two big pincers on his chest, wanting to attack her.
However, with her all-purpose pliers at hand, Chen Zhiyao is not afraid of even the fiercest pliers.
Before long, this menacing creature was bound hand and foot.
Large blue crab +1
This guy is much smaller than the two behemoths from before, weighing only about seven or eight ounces.
These blue crabs may not be as valuable as the small blue dragons in the cave, but they are more numerous and larger.
Walking from the cave entrance to the middle of the cave, Chen Zhiyao already had 10 giant blue crabs in her bucket.
Except for the third one, which was a little smaller, the rest were all over a pound.
The grandfather and grandson stood on opposite sides of the cave, each responsible for one side.
Grandpa Chen's situation was similar; there were about 10 large blue crabs in his bucket.
The further you go into the cave, the more blue crabs there are, but the ones inside are smaller, mostly weighing between half a pound and a pound.
When they reached the end of the cave, Chen Zhiyao lifted the bucket at her feet; it already weighed over 20 kilograms.
Inside were giant blue crabs, bigger than my own face.
But the surprises inside the cave didn't end there.
Grandpa Chen noticed water droplets seeping out from the rock wall at the very back of the cave.
Water dripping wears away stone; these water droplets polished the rock until it was very smooth, and many green mosses grew on the rock.
The water droplet looked somewhat like spring water. Grandpa Chen touched a drop with his finger, tasted it, and then said happily:
"It's fresh water."
“Freshwater, three-knife fish!” Chen Zhiyao exclaimed excitedly.
Fresh water seeped out of the cave, and Chen Zhiyao immediately thought of the three-knife fish that live in the brackish water.
Xiaomeng just said there were good things inside the cave, and she thought it was the big blue crabs she caught earlier.
Now she thinks differently; she suspects there's a "King of Fish," the three-knife fish, hidden here.
Chen Zhiyao lowered her head and carefully observed the area around the cave.
Before long, she found several cute little creatures with orange stripes in the cracks in the rocks near Grandpa Chen's place.
"As expected, there are three-knife fish."
Seeing these beautiful little guys, Chen Zhiyao was so excited that her voice rose considerably.
The crevice was too small for the net to fit, so they had to use tongs to reach inside and pull out the three three-sword fish one by one.
Each of these little guys weighs over a pound, and together they probably weigh four or five pounds.
At that moment, Grandpa Chen also found two three-knife fish, one large and one small, in a crack in the leaking wall.
The smaller one weighed only about half a pound, but the larger one weighed more than two pounds.
Grandpa Chen beamed as he held the oldest of the three-sword fish, his tone full of pride:
"Haha, such a big three-knife fish is not common. The price can probably double."
"I also have three three-knife fish here."
The cave was full of large blue crabs and three-knife fish, which made the grandfather and grandson so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.
Chen Zhiyao wandered around the cave again, and seeing that there were no fish that had escaped, she and Grandpa Chen walked out with smiles on their faces.
When she reached the spot where the cave entrance met the rocks outside, Chen Zhiyao was pleasantly surprised to find a small group of familiar little creatures.
Amidst a patch of barnacles that are inedible, there happened to be a small patch of goose barnacles. Although there weren't many, they were quite plump.
Goose barnacles
These goose barnacles all grow in the crevices of the rocks, and it's difficult to use a sand shovel, so Chen Zhiyao had to use tongs to pull these little guys off one by one.
There aren't many; if you pull up this whole patch, it'll only weigh a little over a pound.
Having made a lot of money recently, Chen Zhiyao doesn't plan to sell it; instead, she intends to take it home and cook it tonight.
At this moment, the seawater had begun to rise slowly, and a wave crashed over, washing Chen Zhiyao's face.
Seeing the waves crashing in the distance, one after another, the grandfather and grandson quickly climbed onto the small inflatable boat and hurriedly rowed towards the fishing boat.
As soon as they boarded the fishing boat, Grandpa Chen urged his granddaughter to change out of her wet clothes.
"Tangtang, hurry up and change into some clean clothes, don't catch a cold."
"Okay, I'll go change it right now."
As she spoke, Chen Zhiyao quickly walked towards the lounge and took out a change of clothes that she had prepared in advance.
Grandpa Chen also went to the crew room to change his clothes.
Chen Zhiyao changed into clean clothes and came out. By then, Grandpa Chen had already cleaned up the fish catch and weighed it.
"Tangtang, you have a good harvest today. You have 25 jin of mud crabs, 13 jin of which are more than one jin each, and the remaining 12 jin are between half a jin and one jin each."
"And those three three-knife fish, together they weigh exactly 5 jin (2.5 catties)."
Chen Zhiyao chuckled and asked in return, "Grandpa, what about you? You must have had quite a catch too, right?"
At this point, the old man's smile widened even more:
"The blue crab is about the same as you, a total of 24 jin. The three-knife fish is a bit less, only three jin for two of them."
"That's not bad either, they're all valuable and good stuff."
After lingering in Versailles for a while, the grandfather and grandson arrived at the spot where their fishing boat had been moored earlier.
This area is full of huge rocks and the water is quite deep, making it perfect for fishing.
The tide has already started to come in, so even if we go to the rocky beach, we probably won't find anything good.
So Chen Zhiyao decided against going beachcombing and instead decided to fish here.
The lucky fishing rod arrived last night, so it's a good time to test its performance.
Grandpa Chen originally wanted to use a fish finder to fish for big fish in more distant waters, but when he heard his granddaughter say that someone had caught a three-knife fish here, he immediately stopped going.
The old man glanced around, then quickly found a fishing spot he thought was good, baited his hook, and started fishing.
Chen Zhiyao wasn't in a hurry to fish. First, she turned on her fishing glasses and then leisurely strolled around.
The waters here are full of coral reefs, and there are quite a few fish, but they are not very big.
After walking more than 50 meters, Chen Zhiyao finally spotted a larger dark shadow under a boulder.
She baited a live shrimp onto her newly bought fishing rod and cast the bait to the left of the shadowy figure.
Then she glanced in her grandfather's direction to make sure he couldn't see her little actions from that distance.
She took out the Lucky Fishing Rod from the system toolbar.
He quickly hooked a live, large shrimp onto the lucky fishing rod and cast it straight toward the other side of the shadowy figure.
Chen Zhiyao held a fishing rod in one hand and looked at the water with great interest.
"I wonder which rod will catch a fish first?"
As soon as the words were spoken, the previously motionless dark shadow slowly began to wag its tail and then started to swim.
"It moved! It moved! Which bait will this guy take?" Chen Zhiyao stared nervously at the water, her heart pounding.
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