After lunch, Lin Qingmei took a hatchet and a basket and went up the mountain.
The mountain in Linjia Bay is not very high. When you climb to the top, you can see the sea not far away. It is not low tide yet, and there is no one on the beach.
The sea is still unpolluted and looks like a sapphire from afar. Seabirds fly over the sea, startling the schools of fish that are just taking a breath.
There is no time today, so I can only wait until the tide goes out tomorrow to go to the beach. It turns out that I am tired of eating seafood, but Lin Qingmei has never eaten seafood before! Before the end of her previous life, she lived in an inland city, where seafood was very expensive. As a shrew with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan, how could she afford to spend a lot of money to buy seafood?
After the apocalypse, all the animals in the sea mutated, and the small shrimps and crabs turned into man-eating beasts. It was not like she wanted to die, so how could she dare to go to the sea to get food?
Lin Qingmei originally planned to go up the mountain to chop firewood, but when she climbed to the top, she found that there was no dry firewood here. The mountain was so small that all the dry firewood had been chopped down in advance.
The south is different from the north. Here people don't heat the kang in winter. It doesn't matter if there is no dry firewood. She can just chop some branches and cut some weeds to have enough to burn.
Grandma Lin has been bedridden for the past few months. It turns out that she is not good at working, so now the woodshed at home is really empty.
She could only pick up some branches, tie them with straw ropes, and then gather a basket of pine needles and go back. That's all she picked up today, it would be enough for her to stay for two days.
The next morning, Lin Qingmei got up early. The tide would go out at six in the morning, and she had to reach the beach before six.
There are two ways for villagers in Linjia Bay to earn work points. The first is to work in the fields, and the other is to go fishing.
When Lin Qingmei arrived at the beach with her fishing tools, there were already quite a few people standing on the beach.
"Qingmei, come over here quickly."
"Aunt, why are you here so early? There are so many people fishing today. It seems that there weren't so many people fishing before."
"Today is a high tide, and people from several neighboring villages have come to this beach to catch seafood, so there must be more people. In addition, the weather is cool now, and there is nothing to do in the fields, so everyone comes here to catch seafood. You can come with me later, I know a place with a lot of clams." The village head's wife took a look at Lin Qingmei's fishing tools, and then nodded with satisfaction. This child brought a complete set of tools, and it seems that he really wants to earn work points steadily.
"Oh, then I'll go fishing with you later. I used to go fishing alone and I didn't dare to go too far."
"You were too timid before, and you didn't like to play with the younger people in the village. I don't know what your grandma was thinking, locking you up at home to study all day long, and she wasn't afraid that you would get bored."
Grandma Lin is not only proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also can weave and embroider. The double-sided embroidery she embroiders is truly lifelike.
She didn't play with the children in the village before because she didn't have time. In addition to going to school, she also had to learn painting, calligraphy, and needlework. But now, what she learned was not public. Now was the craziest time of the Red Movement, and she didn't want to be dragged out by the Red Guards to be criticized.
After six o'clock, the sea water receded two kilometers, and the people who had just been chatting on the shore picked up buckets and went to places they were familiar with to catch seafood.
Lin Qingmei also followed the village chief's wife and walked in the opposite direction of the crowd. After walking for about ten minutes, they finally came to a beach close to the reef.
"Look, these holes are full of clams. The clams move very fast. We have to dig them quickly." The village chief's wife took a small shovel and started digging. She was very skilled at digging clams. She could dig several clams with one shovel.
"Can't we add salt to lure it out? Why do we have to go through so much trouble to dig it out?" Lin Qingmei took out the salt jar from the bucket. In her previous life, she saw those celebrities who went to the beach to catch clams adding salt, so she couldn't have remembered it wrong!
Village Chief's Wife..............
"But salt is expensive. Only you are willing to use salt to lure the clams out. We have plenty of strength anyway, so why waste salt?"
The village head's wife had a new understanding of Lin Qingmei. This kid really didn't know how expensive firewood and rice were until she ran the household. A pound of salt cost two taels of silver, which was equivalent to four work points.
But I don’t lack salt, Lin Qingmei only dared to mutter in her heart, for she was afraid that if she said it out loud, the village head’s wife would think she was crazy.
In order to avoid being called a fool, she had to put the salt jar back into the bucket. It would be better for her to go to the beach alone next time. It was really not free for her to go with others.
Lin Qingmei shoveled a few times but didn't see any clams, so she stopped. It happened that this place was not far from the reef, so she planned to go and see if there were any fish in the puddle.
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