It's another beautiful day.
"Ring ring ring ring ring..."
At 5 o'clock sharp, Chen Zhiyao woke up on time from her 1.5-meter-wide bed.
I rubbed my eyes and then grabbed a handful of my messy hair, and my sleepy brain woke up again.
After quickly washing up, Chen Zhiyao skipped downstairs.
At this moment, Grandma Chen had already prepared a pot of fragrant seafood noodle soup.
"It smells so good!"
Octopus, clams, baby squid, and noodlefish, topped with a small handful of vibrant green scallions—one look and Chen Zhiyao was captivated.
The family sat neatly at the dining table, no one speaking, all heads down, slurping their noodles with gusto.
In just a few minutes, Chen Zhiyao finished three large bowls of seafood noodles, and her belly started to bulge out.
After eating and drinking their fill, Chen Zhiyao took her grandparents and mother straight to the rocky beach where they usually went beachcombing.
On the way, Chen Zhiyao kept chattering away:
"White Beach is the closest to the village, and there are a lot of people there, so you can hardly find anything good there."
“I’ve been beachcombing on the rocky beach for the past few days. There are plenty of valuable things there. You guys come with me to beachcomb today.”
Yan Shuting rolled her eyes at her daughter, "You silly girl, when we were making money by going to the beach, you were probably still nowhere to be found."
Everyone knows the rocky beach has a good harvest, but the rocks there are covered with seaweed and sharp oysters, so it's not very safe.
Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen are getting old, and for the past two years, they haven't allowed the elderly couple to go to the beach to go clamming.
When the group arrived at the rocky beach, it was only 5:30 a.m., and the tide had just begun to recede.
Chen Zhiyao locked the car, and everyone, each carrying a small bucket, happily dispersed to go treasure hunting.
Yan Shuting was worried about the elderly couple, so she deliberately let them go beachcombing at the junction of the sandy beach and the rocky reef, while she turned around and walked towards the large rocks.
Chen Zhiyao carried a small bucket, staring intently at the sand and stones beneath her feet.
A moment later, she spotted a pink figure.
Chen Zhiyao walked over quickly and saw that it was a scallop, and it was quite big.
scallop
Chen Zhiyao picked up the little creature and found that it was still alive, with a small mouth that almost pinched her finger.
After putting the little guy into the bucket, Chen Zhiyao continued walking briskly forward.
Immediately afterwards, several small pink figures appeared before her eyes.
scallop
"So many scallops!"
Chen Zhiyao didn't dare to stop for a moment and quickly picked up all the little guys and put them into the bucket.
In just a short while, the bucket contained about 3 kilograms of scallops.
The scallop is about the same size as the moon clam, but its shell is thinner and more vibrant.
After taking only two steps, Chen Zhiyao was pleasantly surprised to find that there were even more scallops here.
These little guys are bright red and look absolutely gorgeous in the sunlight.
Meeting time!
Chen Zhiyao's smile grew even brighter, and every strand of her hair revealed her joy and excitement.
The scallops filled almost half a bucket. Chen Zhiyao lifted the bucket and estimated that it weighed about seven or eight pounds.
However, from then on, until she came to the place where she had placed the trap, Chen Zhiyao found nothing except two octopuses and a cat's eye snail.
She set four fish traps here yesterday, but the three closer to the white sand beach have all disappeared, leaving only the last one.
When setting the fish trap, Chen Zhiyao made a point of putting stones inside, so it was impossible for them to be swept away by the waves. The only possibility was that someone took them.
"Who's so despicable as to come and steal the fish trap?"
Chen Zhiyao was furious and pulled up the last cage while cursing.
The fish trap was quite heavy, but since she had already put stones inside, she couldn't see what was inside and therefore couldn't tell what was inside.
Chen Zhiyao was still cursing the person who stole the trap through gritted teeth, but after seeing what was inside, she immediately grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.
The last trap contained a full five large blue crabs, four of which weighed about five or six ounces, and the largest one weighed at least one pound and two ounces.
"Not bad, not bad, these big guys should sell for around 300 yuan."
Looking at the large blue crabs, Chen Zhiyao's previous gloom vanished, replaced by a beaming smile.
Chen Zhiyao deftly took out the cable ties and carefully tied up the little ones.
Crabs love to fight, so if they're not tied up properly, they'll end up with broken limbs and won't fetch a good price.
Someone was stealing fish traps here, so she didn't dare to continue setting them down. She took her only seedling and put it in the car.
The scallops in the bucket were quite heavy, so Chen Zhiyao poured them into a net bag and placed it on the back of the tricycle.
Then, full of joy, he carried several large blue crabs and hurried towards the large puddles where the traps had been set.
Along the way, they saw quite a few oysters and raw oysters, but they were all small and Chen Zhiyao didn't like them.
Upon reaching the first puddle, Chen Zhiyao's bucket now contained an additional orchid crab and about two pounds of spicy snails.
The catch from the fish traps in the first pond was mediocre, with only two golden pomfret weighing a little over a pound each.
Next, she came to the second puddle, which was at least two or three meters deep and very large, about ten square meters.
This time, the fish trap was much heavier than the previous one, and Chen Zhiyao was very excited.
"It's so heavy, it must be a big fish weighing at least several kilograms. I wish it were a grouper."
With considerable effort, Chen Zhiyao finally managed to lift the heavy cage up.
However, after seeing what was inside, the smile on her face faded a little.
Inside the cage were two small sea wolves, each weighing two or three pounds. They had probably fought inside, as they were covered in wounds and were on the verge of death.
A large sea wolf weighing over ten kilograms only costs 10 yuan per kilogram. People at the purchasing station are unwilling to take more of these small creatures, offering them at most seven or eight yuan per kilogram.
These two sea breams look heavy, but they're actually not as heavy as the two golden pomfret we just saw.
The third trap was also quite heavy, and it felt similar to the second one. Chen Zhiyao was a little scared, feeling like it was another pair of little sea wolves.
However, as the earth dragon slowly surfaced and Chen Zhiyao saw the large creature inside, she finally showed a satisfied smile.
Inside the cage, there was a tall, slender figure in silver-white.
Chen Zhiyao was also very familiar with this guy; he was a large blue-spotted cat weighing about six pounds.
Such a large wild green grouper could sell for at least forty or fifty yuan per kilogram.
This big guy is worth at least 300.
Carefully placing the grouper into the bucket, Chen Zhiyao walked towards the fourth trap with a beaming smile.
"It's so heavy."
Chen Zhiyao felt the heavy weight of the cage and the things inside struggling and jumping.
At this moment, she was so excited that her palms were sweating, and her eyes were fixed on the fish trap that was about to emerge from the water.
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