With time running out, Chen Zhiyao quickened her pace and continued her treasure hunt along the beach.
Many of the people who used to go beachcombing have already gone home, and the beach is becoming increasingly quiet, while more and more small seafood are coming out to forage for food.
After walking for less than 10 minutes, her bucket was filled with many more sea snails of various kinds.
Soon, she found several more horseshoe snails under a crevice in the rocks. Although they did not look particularly attractive, each one was exceptionally large.
Chen Zhiyao had just picked them up when she looked up and saw a lush green seaweed right in front of her.
Considering there were already three pieces of seaweed in the bucket, and that it was heavy and wouldn't fetch much money, she didn't really want it.
So Chen Zhiyao simply ignored it.
Unexpectedly, when I passed by, I saw a small bulge on the edge of the seaweed, and the bulge was moving slightly.
Seeing something hidden below, Chen Zhiyao immediately used tongs to pick up the seaweed in front of her.
Then she saw a swimming crab. The little crab was rather thin, weighing only about three ounces, just the right size to be eaten.
"Brother Crab, since we've met, it must be fate. You can stay here with peace of mind." Chen Zhiyao smiled and put it into her pocket.
Blue crab +1
Kelp +1
The waves crashed against the rocks, creating a series of loud crashes.
My home is far away, and the gentle sound of the waves sounds like a lullaby. But now, standing on the beach, I feel like I could be swept away by the waves at any moment.
She was about to walk back a bit, away from the annoying waves, when she noticed something floating on the distant waves.
"What good thing is this?"
Chen Zhiyao's eyes lit up, and she quickly took out the net and retrieved the red bag floating on the waves.
The bag felt light in her hand, and Chen Zhiyao opened it with a curious expression.
Then they discovered that the bag was full of empty snack bags; clearly, it was just a bag of trash.
Looking at the large bag of trash in her hand, Chen Zhiyao muttered to herself in disappointment:
"I thought it was something good, but I was so happy for nothing. I don't know who was so heartless as to throw trash into the sea."
She couldn't just leave this trash lying around, so she tied the bag to the bucket, intending to take it with her when she went back.
After walking a few more steps, she noticed a strangely shaped, ugly rock next to a large reef.
And the more I look at it, the uglier it seems.
Perhaps it was because Chen Zhiyao's gaze was too intense, but the ugly stone actually started to move.
First, it swung its tail twice, then quickly swam to a crevice in the rocks.
However, the fish was too big and pitifully kept outside.
"I knew it! This rock looked so familiar. It's a tigerfish."
Chen Zhiyao took two steps at a time and quickly picked up the unassuming tigerfish. "It's late at night, and this fish looks rather scary," she said.
She complained, but her hand holding the clip honestly clamped it firmly.
Although tigerfish are ugly, they are very expensive, selling for over 100 yuan per kilogram.
With a beaming smile, Chen Zhiyao placed the rather distinctive tigerfish into the bucket.
As it grew later, Chen Weiqiang and Grandpa Chen came to find her one after another, and the three of them started walking back with their things in their hands.
The three of them didn't rest on their way back. They were like bandits raiding a village, looting everything edible.
Octopus +3
Clam +6
Conger eel +2
Blue Crab +1
Orchid Crab +2
Flower snail +5
Oysters +18
...
When the three returned to where they had parked the car, they saw that Grandma Chen and Yan Shuting were already waiting there.
As soon as Chen Zhiyao saw the two of them, she happily ran over to them:
How was your day?
"It's alright, quite a catch, but nothing of high value."
Yan Shuting said it was alright, but the smugness in her eyes told anyone with eyes to see that she must have had a good harvest.
The live fish buckets beside the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were covered, but judging from the sounds of water coming from inside, they knew that the two had had a good catch today.
Chen Zhiyao silently complained to herself: I didn't expect my mom to like Versailles too.
It's already past 11 o'clock, and Grandma Chen suggested that they go directly to the village's purchasing station to sell their fish, so they wouldn't have to make a trip to the town's purchasing station so late at night.
However, Chen Zhiyao and Chen Weiqiang had slept too much during the day and were full of energy at the moment. The father and daughter volunteered to go to town to sell their catch.
Chen Weiqiang first took the three of them home, and then took his daughter and a car full of seafood to the Yang family's purchasing station.
The fishing boats return at different times, and quite a few people come to sell their catch in the evenings.
Therefore, the Yang family's purchasing station is basically open 24 hours a day.
At this time, Yang Jiajun and his wife had already gone back to rest, and only an uncle who was about the same age as Chen Weiqiang was in the store.
The Chen family members' fish catches were separated, and the uncle settled the bill for Chen Zhiyao, who had the largest catch, first.
Small lobster: 2.1 * 198 = 416 pieces; Conger eel: 7.6 * 56 = 426 pieces; Blue croaker: 3.5 * 88 = 308 pieces.
5 whelks * 48 = 240 pieces, blue crabs and orchid crabs * 50 = 430 pieces, red flower crabs * 62 = 174 pieces.
Horseshoe snails: 6.8 * 35 = 238 pieces; Octopus: 4.8 * 30 = 144 pieces; Spicy snails: 9 * 15 = 135 pieces.
5.6 * 26 = 146 pieces of piglet snails, 2.2 * 55 = 121 pieces of sesame grouper, and 2.3 * 88 = 203 pieces of dog shark.
(Does this make the format look better: quantity first, price second?)
Chen Zhiyao collected a total of 2,981 yuan, as well as a small bucket of various small seafood that she had picked out.
Although Grandpa Chen didn't manage to get any expensive seafood, he filled several net bags with various kinds of sea snails, earning a total of 1,160 yuan.
Chen Weiqiang is strong and spent the whole night turning over rocks. His biggest catch was various kinds of crabs and octopuses, earning him a total of 1,280 yuan.
Grandma Chen caught a large grouper, two sea bass, and several rockfish, earning a total of 892 yuan.
Yan Shuting was lucky and caught two sesame grouper and three pearl grouper, earning a total of 1,288 yuan.
Suddenly, Chen Zhiyao's points increased by several thousand. From the original points, they became 425,370 points.
Let me do a quick survey: Do you prefer beachcombing or fishing? Or if there's anything else you'd like to see, feel free to leave a comment.
There will be two more chapters tomorrow, but the posting time is uncertain. If you like this story, please consider giving it a free gift to support me! *^o^*
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com