While busy with his work, Wu An also kept an eye on things.
He was examining the mud crabs he had caught, checking if any of them were yellow crabs.
Butter crabs are quite easy to identify.
It's mainly about the color.
But after catching countless blue crabs, not a single yellow crab was found.
Ah Qing and Wu Ping must know about the yellow oil crab, but they haven't made a move yet, so they obviously haven't discovered it either.
“Strange… I remember my father wrote in his notebook that the villagers found the yellow crab and got into a physical fight while fighting for it. Luckily, my father was there and stopped them in time.”
"Where's the butter crab?"
He muttered to himself, "A single yellow oil crab costs at least a thousand yuan, which is equivalent to ten blue crabs."
There's nothing we can do about it.
Having so many blue crabs is already an immense fortune.
It's close to four in the morning, the time when people are most sleepy. Even the joy of "finding money" can't overcome the physiological response.
Wu An yawned as he picked them up.
Crabs were becoming increasingly difficult to find. Wu An glanced at the system and realized that his luck value was running low. He simply gave up on the tongs and only added 1 point of luck value to his gloves.
He used the excuse of checking on Aqing and Wuping's harvest to give each of them an extra point of luck.
"Let's work for another half hour and then head back."
"The tide is coming in soon. We can't keep up with the tide as fast as we can walk here, so we need to move ahead of time."
Wu Ping said, "Okay, I see that the snakeskin bags are all full."
Aqing said with some regret, "I should have brought more."
"How about I ask my mom to bring the snakeskin bag over?"
Wu An shook his head: "Stop making trouble."
"The wind and rain are getting stronger, we have to go."
He had just checked the typhoon's trajectory; it was heading this way.
I need to go home.
If they haven't returned by the time the typhoon hits, they might really be in danger.
Humans are inherently greedy.
He felt a little anxious working for an extra half hour.
He feared that greed would lead to uncontrollable consequences, like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.
Aqing and Wu Ping nodded.
The two stopped talking and quickly bent down to catch the blue crab.
When his luck ran out, Wu An continued to work for a while. It was obvious that blue crabs were hard to find, and it took a lot of effort to find them. There were several blue crabs in one of the puddles, and he almost got pinched when he tried to catch them.
If I hadn't been wearing gloves, there would have been bloodshed.
Wu Ping called out, "A'an, A'qing, these blue crabs seem to have become smarter."
"Be careful, you two. Don't touch it directly with your hands. Use tweezers instead."
"I almost got pinched just now."
The two responded.
After searching for several minutes, Wu An finally found a blue crab. He shook his head and said, "Alright, let's go back."
Wu Ping said, "There aren't many blue crabs left."
Aqing was so tired that she didn't want to talk and sat down heavily in the mud, panting.
The three of them struggled to walk back.
At first it was fine, but when they were almost on the shore, each of them had to pull two snakeskin bags uphill. They were already struggling to walk on the mudflats, let alone pull the heavy snakeskin bags.
Wu An took one look and said, "This won't do."
"Brother, let's make the delivery in separate trips."
"You two pull from the front, and I'll push from behind."
“Otherwise, if we keep crawling like turtles, we might not even make it to shore by dawn, not to mention the waves are getting bigger and bigger. I’m worried a typhoon is coming.”
Aqing: "I'll listen to my brother."
Wu Ping was also decisive: "Let's do as you say first."
This is indeed very efficient.
After half an hour of struggling, we finally managed to load all the burlap sacks onto the motorcycle.
Wu Ping said happily, "Luckily I bought a car, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to move this."
Wu An smiled. He had been preparing for this matter for some time, and looking at the several snakeskin bags that were full, he couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
The gains from this trip were enormous.
The three men packed up their gear, got in the car, and drove towards the village.
Upon reaching the rocky beach, a fierce wind and towering waves swept in, so strong that even after such a long journey, they could feel the spray hitting them.
Wu Ping's expression changed: "It looks like a typhoon is coming!"
Aqing's face was also deathly pale.
Wu An said, "Brother, don't be impatient."
"Maintain a steady speed."
"The old house is closer, let's go to the old house first."
As they were talking.
He took out his phone and called his sister-in-law, telling her not to worry and that they would go to the old house to lay low for a while.
After hanging up the phone, Aqing shouted nervously, "Brother, I feel the car is floating."
Wu An comforted them, saying, "The three of us, plus a whole carriage full of crabs, will weigh five or six hundred catties. We'll definitely be able to handle it."
Actually, he was also very nervous.
This is truly risking one's life to make money.
Wu Ping was extremely nervous; under these circumstances, he could clearly feel himself sweating profusely.
We arrived at the old house.
Ah Qing called out, "Brother, why is the light on? I remember turning it off when I left."
Wu An remained silent.
Hearing the door open at the old house, it was my sister-in-law, Mei Yueqin, who greeted me, "Come in, come in, come in first."
At this time.
The wind was already very strong.
It feels like you're about to be blown away if you're standing still.
Wu An shouted with all his might, "Sister-in-law, open the door completely and park the car inside."
Aqing jumped out of the car to help.
Moving the tables and chairs creates just enough space for the car to come in.
"Bang."
Wu An drove in, but lost control of the accelerator and crashed the front of the car into the wall. Wu Ping and A Qing worked together to close the door.
Fasten the locking pin.
The sounds of wind and rain immediately subsided.
Outside, the wind and rain were blowing, like layers of rain curtains constantly hitting the doors and windows, making creaking sounds. The windows were already wrapped with tape, looking very sturdy.
After getting off the bus.
Wu An called out, "Sister-in-law, what brings you to the old house?"
"You still came out when the typhoon came? Are you out of your mind?"
Mei Yueqin didn't respond, but pointed to the bed inside the curtain and said, "I brought some clean clothes, and there's also a thermos and a basin inside. You can quickly wipe yourselves down and change your clothes."
"Hurry up, don't catch a cold."
There's not much to say.
The eldest brother didn't mention the second brother; if we're talking about adventure, the three of them going to the beach in this kind of weather was even more adventurous.
There aren't many things in the old house.
If she hadn't come, the three of them would have had to tough it out on their own, and even the healthiest people couldn't have endured it.
Seeing that Wu An was about to speak, Wu Ping quickly pulled Wu An over at Mei Yueqin's signal. Besides clothes, there were also towels. Mei Yueqin had prepared everything very thoroughly. The three of them wiped their bodies with hot water, and they felt like they had "come back to life".
After changing into clean clothes that still smelled of sunshine, I felt incredibly comfortable. Looking at the several burlap sacks on the car, I felt a sense of exhilarating satisfaction, like the afterglow of a great battle and final victory.
Wu An told A Qing to quickly call home to let them know she was safe.
Aqing said, "I hit it."
“My mom wanted to come over, but I stopped her.”
Wu An was worried. Given his sister-in-law's experience, he was afraid that Aunt Li Juan might also come. So he took out his phone and called her, explaining repeatedly that everything was settled and that A Qing would be allowed to go home once the typhoon passed.
He hung up the phone and saw Wu Ping and A Qing preparing the crabs, so he quickly said, "Let's eat first, and then we can get busy."
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