As they chatted, Chen Zhiyao suddenly noticed Liang Yue's slightly protruding belly.
"Yueyue, are you pregnant?"
Liang Yue gently placed her hand on her lower abdomen. "Yes, I'm just over four months pregnant now."
Congratulations! Babies born every month must be especially adorable.
"Thank you, you should hurry up too."
Married people often have one flaw: they like to urge single people around them to find a partner quickly, and those in relationships are urged to get married.
Chen Zhiyao smiled without saying a word; she wasn't in a hurry at all.
After chatting for a few more minutes, Liang Yue went home for dinner, while Chen Zhiyao continued her beachcombing.
Men will only slow down her earning speed.
At low tide, besides people gathering seafood, the beach is mostly filled with seagulls foraging for food.
Hearing a noise overhead, Chen Zhiyao looked up and saw many seagulls circling in the air. Seagulls: Dinner time! Charge! Charge! These seagulls came aggressively, and the small fish, shrimp, or even small octopuses on the beach became their meals.
These seagulls were too strong to fight, and there were too many of them, so Chen Zhiyao deliberately avoided them and continued walking forward.
After walking a few steps, I saw several transparent shrimp in a small puddle.
The shrimp, each about the size of a finger, are crystal clear and look delicious.
Before the seagulls in the sky could spot the shrimp, Chen Zhiyao quickly scooped them all up.
Shrimp +5
By this time, the tide had been out for some time, and many of the small animals on the beach had burrowed into the sand to hide, waiting for the tide to come in.
Therefore, the beach is covered with small bumps and breathing holes.
These cute little drums are almost always filled with something.
Octopus, cat's eye snail, moon clam, and flower crab—you can dig them up one by one.
You need to carefully distinguish the breathing holes; some have something inside, while others are empty.
Chen Zhiyao dug out more than a dozen mantis shrimps and several sea bean sprouts from these breathing holes.
The razor clam, however, was all alone, and quite small and thin.
As she walked, Chen Zhiyao suddenly saw a dark object on the beach.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a large hairy clam covered with a layer of black hairs.
Hairy clams may not look as pretty as other shellfish, but they are really big; one is as big as two clams.
The clams are very plump in winter. Chen Zhiyao had already picked up four clams after walking only two or three meters, almost all of them as big as her fist.
"Splash, splash..." A wave crashed over, and Chen Zhiyao walked quickly forward.
Suddenly, she saw a handful of things that looked like strands of hair floating in the seawater.
Seeing this late at night is quite scary.
However, people who grew up by the sea know that this is dragon's beard vegetable.
Chen Zhiyao walked over happily, "These seaweeds are growing quite well. We'll have enough for two meals if we take them home." Seaweeds, like kelp, are plants that grow in the sea. Whether used in salads or soups, they taste pretty good.
Seeing that the dragon beard vegetables were still quite tender, Chen Zhiyao quickly picked them all.
After walking another three or four meters, she was pleasantly surprised to find a small patch of clams.
Some of these clams were lying openly on the beach, while others were carefully hidden in the sand.
She didn't bring a sand rake when she went out, so she could only put all kinds of shellfish and sand into the net, just like she had done when she was catching snails, and then filter them one by one.
At first, we dug out mostly clams, but unexpectedly, we also found quite a few razor clams and yellow clams in the middle.
Clams and yellow clams are several times more expensive than regular clams, so Chen Zhiyao immediately sped up her work.
By this time, it was already dark, and many people had gone home for dinner.
Since it was already dark, no one could see what she had dug up, so no one came over to take it from her.
It took Chen Zhiyao 20 minutes to remove all the shellfish from the small piece in front of her.
The clams were the most numerous, weighing a full 10 jin (5 catties), while the razor clams and yellow clams were fewer, each weighing about three or four jin (1.5-2 catties).
The clams and yellow clams weren't very big, but the razor clams were all large, plump, and exceptionally beautiful. As the razor clams walked, they unknowingly arrived at the rocky beach.
By this time, it was completely dark, and the conches and crabs came out to forage for food.
Chen Zhiyao spotted a stone crab ahead and immediately gave chase.
Soon, she arrived at a huge reef and watched as the crab scurried into a crevice.
The crevice was very deep, giving the impression that you couldn't see the end of it.
Chen Zhiyao immediately turned on her X-ray glasses and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was actually a crab nest inside the crevice.
She squatted down in front of the crevice, stretched out her arm, and fiddled around for nearly 10 minutes, pulling out a total of 6 stone crabs, including 4 large and 2 small ones.
The larger ones weighed about half a pound each, and Chen Zhiyao took them all.
The two smaller ones weighed barely two ounces each and luckily escaped death.
Just as she finished tying up the crabs, she discovered a small nest of eight whelks under the nearby rocks.
Thanks to the X-ray glasses, Chen Zhiyao's bucket is brimming with more and more good stuff.
Blue Crab +2
Orchid Crab +3
Giant Octopus +1
Horseshoe snails +5
Flower snail +6
Spicy snail +9
...
There was a colorful starfish right under a puddle in front of us. It was a perfect square five-pointed star and it looked really nice.
Chen Zhiyao was so captivated by the sight that she couldn't move and quickly ran over.
Upon closer inspection, we discovered several sea urchins and two plump sea cucumbers at the bottom of the puddle.
Starfish +1
Sea urchin +5
Sea cucumber +2
Horseshoe snails +2
There are quite a few good things here on the rocky beach, with all kinds of crabs and sea snails appearing one after another.
Chen Zhiyao was so busy at this time that she almost forgot that she came here for a walk.
Tomorrow we're going to the reef island to go beachcombing and pump water. Around 8 o'clock, Chen Weiqiang called to urge her to come home.
Knowing she had to get up early the next day, Chen Zhiyao could only reluctantly walk back.
She didn't stop along the way; she scraped away everything edible.
She even collected all sorts of dead seafood, planning to use them for fishing the next day.
When she arrived at the white sand beach, her family was already waiting for her.
As soon as Chen Weiqiang saw his daughter, he immediately stepped forward with a smile and took the heavy bucket of water from her hands with complete ease.
"Let's go sell our catch."
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