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Chapter 9 Windfall
Ye Yaodong turned his gaze back from the boat, and looked at the surrounding rocks. There were densely packed small mussels, small sea melon seeds, and sea oyster shells that had been dug out of flesh.

The rocks here have been visited by people too many times every day. The slightly larger mussels and sea melon seeds have been dug up long ago. Only the extremely small ones, about the size of the fingernail of the little finger, still grow on the rocks.

Such small ones only have shells, and the meat is probably not as big as booger, so they cannot be eaten, but every time the tide goes down, some of them will inevitably grow up.

Right now, there are people looking for tools on the stone wall, and his mother is one of them.

He stepped forward and took a look. His mother was holding a water ladle in one hand and a small basket was hanging on her wrist.

There are already some small sea oysters in the water scoop, and there are also some slightly larger sea melon seeds and small spicy snails in the small basket.

"Mom, this dense patch of eyes can blind you, why don't you dig sand clams."

Ye Mu used a screwdriver to pry the sea oyster shells on the rock and said: "There are so many people in the family digging enough. I can dig a little sea oysters and cook sea oysters at night. The children in the family haven't eaten them for a while."

"There's not even a little bit of it. Hasn't our boat been repaired? Let Dad take you to the isolated island to dig. It's better to dig sand clams now. In two hours, the tide will fill this beach again."

"It's easy for you to say. The rocks on the isolated island are very slippery, but it's not easy to stand on. If the waves come up, if I'm not careful, I will be swept back into the sea to meet Mazu."

"Aha, no, just choose a day when the tide is calm and the tide is low."

Mother Ye raised her eyelids and squinted at him, "Then tell me the number of months, the weather is calm, the tide just goes down, and your father and brothers happen to be free!"

"Ah! How can I count this?"

The wind and waves on the sea are beyond the calculation of ordinary people like him!

What's more, how does he know when his father and brother are free?
Mother Ye gave him a blank look, "If you don't, then shut up and stay where it's cool, and don't delay my work!"

Ye Yaodong rubbed his nose, is he so annoying?

"How about I dig it for you? Are you going to dig sand clams?"

His legs are sore after squatting for a long time, so it is okay to dig oysters on the stone wall, anyway, he does not have trypophobia.

"You come?"

"Yeah, let me come, open sea oysters, dig sea melon seeds, I'm good at it."

Nothing else, he played a lot when he was young, and the skills he learned would not be forgotten with the passage of time.

Mother Ye looked him up and down, remembering that he had sworn in the room just now that after the separation, he would learn from his elder brother and second brother to be diligent and hardworking...

Is it true?

Transsexual?

"Then I'll let you come. When I go back, if you don't dig a bowl for me, I'll beat you to death!"

"Oh, I can dig as much as I can. It also depends on luck. How can I guarantee that I can dig a bowl before I go back? This sea oyster is only a little bit big..."

Mother Ye hung the basket on his wrist without any explanation, and stuffed the water ladle and the screwdriver into his hand, "Be careful with the search, I need to pry a bowl of sea oysters, dig a bowl of sea melon seeds, and dig a bowl of snails." Get out the bowl!"

Ye Yaodong stared, will he change, or can he do something?Also call him a whole three bowls.

"Dongzi didn't go out to play today? Why did you come to the beach?" His aunt was also looking for the stone wall with a water ladle, and asked curiously when she saw him.

"Well, it's too hot, I don't want to go out!"

"Huh? Isn't it hot when you come to the beach? The sun is so big!"

Ye Yaodong was a little embarrassed when he couldn't find the reason, "Ah, yes, just come out and have a look."

It's better to look for it quickly, stop chatting, dig for a while and wait for the tide to rise, just in time to go home for lunch.

Sea oysters are also called oysters, which grow on stone walls. They are actually plankton.

During the breeding season of oviparous sea oysters, the parent body excretes mature sperm and eggs, and the sperm and eggs are fertilized in seawater. After a period of planktonic life, they attach to other objects and become spat after solidification. Slowly grow up, pry off the shell, and there are sea oysters inside.

When a ship has been docked in the sea for a long time, spat will grow under the bottom of the boat. Most people will prop up the hull of the boat, and then pry all the spat off the bottom of the boat to reduce the weight of the hull. By the way, they can also put the spat in baskets Go back and open the oysters.

The spats on the stone wall are too small, and the sea oysters that come out are only a little bit bigger, yellow-green, like snot, and the white on the belly can only be seen when they are bigger.

"Knitting yarn, it's so big, when can I fill a bowl!" Ye Yaodong couldn't help muttering after opening one.

"There's no way to eat it. There are so many mouths in the house. It's good to dig a little. This is not a sand clam, and it's not something you can dig out every day."

His aunt responded, and then said earnestly: "Dongzi, you are the father of two children, you can no longer just idle around all day, you should find a job, and you will support your wife and children." Well, your parents can't support you until you grow old."

"Aren't I working? Auntie!"

"It's right to work, but you have to earn money, and you can't just work for one day. It takes years and months to support your family. You are a man, so you have to take responsibility and have a sense of responsibility..."

Eloquent preaching, blah blah blah blah blah blah

Ye Yaodong felt a little regretful that he had spoken out. If he had kept silent, his aunt probably wouldn't have the desire to talk to him.

It’s not easy for him to choke back. After all, he is an elder, and what he said is right and for your own good, but the endless talking makes him feel a little dizzy. Why not dig sand clams? Know that his aunt can read so well?

"Auntie, you dig slowly here, I'll go out and have a look."

Just as the tide receded a little, he simply picked it up from the farthest rock.

However, his luck seems to be a little bit better!

As soon as he walked to the rock position closest to the tide, he saw two small blue crabs in the rock pile in the shallow water area in front of him, and his eyes lit up. This is a good thing!

He quickly put the water ladle and the basket aside, and walked quickly towards the gravel pile. The two blue crabs didn't know the danger was approaching, and they were still fighting there with their big pincers!

One in each hand, Ye Yaodong grabbed the shells on their backs and carefully separated them, lest their big foot hooks get entangled and break off.

The value of a blue crab with a broken leg is greatly reduced, and of course it doesn’t matter if you eat it yourself.

The two blue crabs that were separated were still waving wildly with their large pincers. If they were pinched, it would be terrible, and the fingernails would directly break.

(End of this chapter)