What exactly does "the migration of blue crabs" mean in terms of its value?
Find any small puddle, stick the tongs in, and you'll poke out a hard crab shell. Then reach in and grab it; you'll catch it every time.
You can catch at least three or four blue crabs from a small puddle.
On the mudflat side, the puddles are as numerous as stars in the sky.
Wu Ping felt like he was dreaming: "How can there be so many blue crabs!"
Wu An casually remarked, "It's probably because a typhoon is about to hit."
Wu Ping scratched his head: "Usually there's a lot of seafood after a typhoon, but this typhoon hasn't even hit yet, so how come all the blue crabs have been brought here?"
Ah Qing called out, "Brother Ping, don't think about it so much."
Who cares?
"Maybe it was a gift from the Goddess Mazu."
Wu An also said, "Let's not think about things related to the sea too much."
Wu Ping nodded, agreeing that it made sense.
Making a living by the sea depends on luck.
Take two steps forward and you'll find a small puddle. Immediately stick the tongs in and you'll catch it every time.
The only troublesome thing is that after capturing them, they need to be tied up, which takes a little effort. He hadn't done this much before, so he was a bit slower than Wu An and A Qing.
With more to catch, the speed increased.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice is the best teacher.
It's no exaggeration to say that the number of crabs he tied up in just half an hour was more than most villagers tied up in six months.
Aqing and Wu An poured the crabs from the bucket into snakeskin bags, then tied the bags shut and tossed them aside. Aqing said with some concern, "Brother, I only took six snakeskin bags. I don't know if that's enough."
Wu An smiled and said, "That should be enough."
He casually tossed the swimming crab he had caught aside, throwing it a little further away so as not to catch another one later and delay his catching of the blue crab.
Wu Ping was also very fortunate that he had listened to Wu An and brought the motorcycle tricycle over; otherwise, he would have had to call Mei Yueqin and bother her to bring the vehicle over.
"Bang."
The clamp reached down and hit a rock.
He shouted, "There's a rock over here, and there are blue crabs underneath it."
Without turning his head, Wu An shouted, "Brother, don't waste your time."
"Come this way, there are plenty of blue crabs there."
"I feel the wind is getting stronger, let's hurry."
Wu Ping hesitated for a moment, then listened to the advice and abandoned the puddle. He walked towards the direction where Wu An and A Qing were. After only a few steps, he began to bend down and catch blue crabs.
There are indeed too many.
This is practically picking up money!
And there aren't enough to pick them all up.
...
On the other side.
Mei Yueqin waited and waited, and when she checked the time, half an hour had passed. Even if she walked there, she should be back by now.
Looking at the wind and rain outside, Mei Yueqin's heart was filled with anxiety.
After waiting for another ten minutes or so, Mei Yueqin called Wu Ping.
It took a while for the call to connect, and she asked anxiously, "Why aren't you back yet?"
Wu Ping said with a wry smile, "I can't come back."
"There are so many blue crabs here, I'm catching some with them."
"Don't worry, it's perfectly safe here."
Mei Yueqin said irritably, "This typhoon can come just like that, you'd better go home quickly."
Wu Ping said, "Okay, okay."
Mei Yueqin knew immediately that this was just a perfunctory reply: "If you don't come back, I'll come looking for you."
Wu Ping thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you can do it."
"Bring some snakeskin bags. We only have six here, and we don't know if that will be enough."
“I remember we had some ropes at home for tying up crabs, so I brought them all over.”
"It's better to be prepared."
Mei Yueqin didn't know what to say. She felt that her trip was like the Calabash Brothers rescuing their grandfather—she feared she might not make it...
Pshaw, pshaw, pshaw.
What am I thinking?
She quickly stopped her wild thoughts; this was bad luck.
Just as he was about to hang up, he heard Wu An shout from the receiver: "Sister-in-law, don't come."
"You boil water at home."
"We'll have to rinse it off thoroughly with hot water when we get back."
"And get some food and drinks too."
After an hour of intense "money-picking" work, I felt like I had already digested my dinner and the instant noodles I ate before coming here, and I was actually feeling hungry.
He didn't want Mei Yueqin to come. The mudflats here were difficult to walk on, and it took a lot of effort to take just a few steps. If they were struggling like this, it would be even more difficult for Mei Yueqin.
and.
He has a total of 55 luck points. Divided among three people, each person doesn't even have 20 points. If these are added to the clamps and gloves, they can only support about three hours of work time at most.
The main reason is that blue crabs are expensive, and they also consume a lot of luck points.
If you're catching clams and the like, it might take a whole day to use them all up.
So even though there are plenty of blue crabs and you could catch one with your eyes closed, it would increase the risk.
Using tongs and gloves that boost luck, you'll almost never get pinched by a blue crab.
It would be better to let my sister-in-law stay home and provide "logistical support." They've been working so hard in the wind and rain, and they're all sweaty. If they don't get some hot food and a warm meal when they get home, they might get sick.
Wu Ping added, "What A'an said makes sense."
"Don't worry about it."
"Just stay home and keep busy."
Wu An called out, "Sister-in-law, we'll be home in another hour and a half at most."
Mei Yueqin thought for a moment and said, "Alright."
"Then you must be careful."
After hanging up the phone, she quickly went to the kitchen to get busy.
On this rainy night, the entire village was shrouded in darkness, with only two places lit by faint lights: one was the village committee building, where people were smoking and others were snoring in their sleep, filling the room with a smoky atmosphere.
The other place is Old Wu's house.
...
The wind and rain are getting stronger.
Wu An stood up, twisted his waist, which was sore and painful. He heard his bones cracking and popping all over his body, but he felt a strange sense of pleasure.
I took my phone out of my pocket and checked the time; it was already 3:30 a.m.
Having worked continuously for almost two hours, he looked at Aqing and Wu Ping, whose movements were noticeably slower, clearly indicating they were also extremely tired.
"Brother, Aqing, take a rest."
"Take a few minutes' break before continuing."
He shouted.
Wu Ping and A Qing stopped, both of them exhausted. They didn't care about anything else, since they were covered in mud from head to toe.
The three of them sat down directly on the ground. As soon as they sat down, Ah Qing let out a strange cry and pulled two blue crabs out of the mud where they were sitting.
He exclaimed in frustration, "Damn it, there are so many crabs here, I could sit on one and kill two of them!"
Wu Ping and Wu An burst into laughter.
"Don't throw it away, keep it to make porridge when we get home."
"Yes, it's freshly dead."
While talking, the three of them didn't just rest; they took the opportunity to drink water. Aqing, who hadn't been able to quit smoking, felt the urge and took out a cigarette to smoke.
As a result, my hands were shaking so badly that I couldn't finish it after a long time.
"Damn, I'm not smoking anymore."
Seeing Wu An get back to work, A Qing threw down her cigarette and joined in the chores.
The wind and rain are getting stronger.
We must race against time.
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