Before the roller shutter could be fully raised, Old Xie bent down and crawled out. Seeing a group of people standing outside, he stopped talking abruptly and asked, "What... what's going on here?"
"Old Wu, Old Chen..."
"Come on, have a smoke."
Chen Gui accepted the cigarette, but Wu Yingwei declined and asked, "Wu An and the others have been selling seafood here these past few days, right?"
Old Xie nodded: "Yeah, Old Wu, let me tell you, those two lads have become really diligent lately. They go out to sea twice a day, at noon and in the evening, and they always manage to catch some good catches..."
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Gui burst out laughing.
Everyone in this village could be hardworking, except for Wu An.
If Wu An had any sense of propriety, Wu Yingwei wouldn't have gone so far as to use the village loudspeaker to announce that he was severing his father-son relationship with Wu An.
Chen Gui asked with a playful tone, "Old Wu, do you believe it?"
Old Xie shouted in annoyance, "What do you mean?"
Do you think I can still lie?
"Well then... Ah An, what seafood did you get today? Would you mind seeing it now?"
The last question was directed at Wu An.
Wu An originally wanted to keep a low profile, but now that his father was here, he was afraid that if he didn't give an explanation, this matter would not be resolved. He nodded and said, "We'll see."
Old Xie opened his straw hat, looked down into the bucket, and his eyes widened in shock: "Holy crap!"
"Crab tigers, so many crab tigers!"
"Amazing, amazing! You always manage to find great stuff when you go beachcombing."
He couldn't stop smiling.
When everyone heard about the crab goby, they all crowded around to take a look. When they saw that the bucket was full of crab gobies, they were all wide-eyed with amazement.
"How could they catch so many goby crabs?"
"This thing is not easy to catch."
"Yeah, someone caught two last time and bragged about it so much the whole village knew."
"So many crabs and tigers must be worth a lot of money."
The people were whispering among themselves.
Chen Gui said, "Old Xie, take a closer look. Is it farmed?"
Old Xie shouted irritably, "I've been in the buying and selling business for over ten years. I can tell whether something is wild or not at a glance."
“These are definitely wild.”
"They are all quite large; there isn't a single small one."
"Did they release all the small fish?"
Wu An nodded.
Ah Qing said smugly, "Yeah, my brother said we shouldn't exhaust the resources..."
Someone corrected: "If you can't even learn to speak properly, that's called killing the goose that lays the golden eggs!"
"I didn't realize Ah An had this kind of awareness."
"If you had done this sooner, Old Wu wouldn't have..."
The man wisely refrained from continuing.
Ah Qing scratched his head and exclaimed, "My brother said that if we study hard now, it's called a prodigal son returning home... returning home..."
The man added, "It's priceless."
Aqing: "Yes, yes, yes, it's invaluable."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Old Wu's perpetually serious expression seemed to soften a little.
A faint smile played on his dark face.
Chen Gui frowned. This wouldn't do. He came to watch the show and hoped to see Wu Yingwei discover Wu An stealing other people's fish and then put righteousness before family.
Instead of Wu An turning over a new leaf now, which is more precious than gold, Wu Yingwei is gratified!
Someone asked curiously, "What's the price of crab tigers now?"
"It must be over a hundred, right?"
"This bucket of crabs must weigh at least ten kilograms."
"That would cost at least a thousand yuan!"
"Not only that, there's also half a bucket of blue crabs over there."
"What incredible luck those two bastards had!"
"Take note, Old Wu is here. Maybe Mazu (the goddess of the sea) saw that these two prodigal sons had turned over a new leaf, so she took special care of them."
"Ah An, where did you catch so many crab tigers?"
The reason there is seafood to collect on the beach is because of the ebb and flow of the tide. The seafood is pushed ashore by the tide, and then suddenly recedes, leaving it behind because it doesn't have time to escape.
During low tide, there's less seafood to collect.
Normally, you'd be lucky to make a couple hundred yuan from beachcombing.
Wu An and A Qing sold their two buckets of seafood for a thousand yuan or so, which made everyone extremely envious and jealous.
Some people say good things, some people say bad things; the true nature of humanity is clearly revealed.
Wu An casually remarked, "Over there on the mudflats."
The man pressed for the specific location, and Wu An looked in the direction of the voice and found it was Mao Wang, that shameless bastard. Chen shook his head: "It was too dark last night. A Qing and I were just wandering around and we were lucky to find it."
"If you ask me to explain, I really can't."
Mao Wang, like a persistent leech, asked, "Then can you take us there?"
Before Wu An could speak, A Qing cursed, "Mao Wang, are you just a big-faced guy or a handsome guy? Why should my brother and I take you with us?"
Mao Wang was scolded and wanted to refute, but he was in the wrong, so he was so frustrated that his face turned red.
Chen Gui suddenly said, "I see you can't answer that."
"Other people come to the dock from the beach to go beachcombing, why did you come from the village?"
"What's wrong?"
"Our village has crab-tiger caves?"
Ah Qing was about to say something, but before she could finish, she looked at Wu An.
My brother delivers seafood to our house secretly; he wouldn't dare tell anyone.
Seeing his expression, Chen Gui raised his voice several notches and shouted, "Can't speak now? Confess honestly, whose house did you steal from?"
Wu An cursed, "Are you an idiot?"
"I bet you're the one who got my dad to come here."
"You just want to see me make a fool of myself, don't you?"
"I'm sorry to disappoint you."
Feeling humiliated by Wu An's insults, Chen Gui shouted angrily, "It's you who are acting suspiciously!"
"Other people get all dirty when they go beachcombing, but you two are clean."
"How can you prove that you caught these goby crabs while beachcombing?"
Wu An was so angry he laughed.
He suddenly remembered seeing some bizarre news stories in his previous life, where someone went to an office after their father's death and was asked to prove that they were their father's son.
At this moment.
Some villagers who came from the mudflats saw a crowd gathered around Lao Xie and curiously came over. Upon hearing Chen Gui's words, they shouted, "I can vouch for you."
"I ran into Ah An and the others when I was out beachcombing."
"Yes, when they left, I checked their buckets, but they were covered with straw hats, so I couldn't see anything."
Several villagers came over and joined in the conversation. When they saw the tiger crabs in the bucket, they laughed and scolded, "Ah An, you're not being fair! You didn't say a word when you found the tiger crab's burrow yesterday."
"No wonder you ran so fast, you were afraid we would find out that you caught a goby in the mudflats."
"That explains why you covered it with a straw hat so we couldn't see."
Chen Gui was dumbfounded: "You...you guys..."
Wu An asked jokingly, "Chen Gui, you're not trying to say they're all shills I hired, are you?"
"Stop showing off your intelligence."
"Also, only people with dirty minds see everything as dirty."
"I didn't do it sneakily, I just kept a low profile. As for leaving the village, I went to deliver seafood to my home first."
At this point, he looked at Wu Yingwei, observing the change in his expression.
Dad isn't stupid. When he gets home and sees the crab tiger, he'll definitely guess it was from him. So he might as well say it first.
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