Chapter 19: The barrel exploded
Li Xiaozhou poked the big eel in the bucket with a sand shovel, "It can be sold for money again!"
"Brother, come here." Li Xiaohai waved to him, "Look, this blue crab's pincers are as thick as your wrist, and dad even caught it."
Li Xiaozhou jumped up with joy after seeing it, "Wow! There really are blue crabs, dad is so awesome!"
Li Changle felt so beautiful when he heard that, he grinned and slapped someone on the head, "Have you guys come over and tell my mother-in-law?"
"I told you!" Li Xiaohai pointed to the big rock over there, "My mother is here too, and she and my uncle are digging oysters on the rock over there."
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"Then you obediently take your brother here to guard the backpack, while father and uncle Awei go to the waterhole in front to have a look." Li Changle happily looked at his eldest son who was answering questions and felt that he is still such a big son. So coaxing.
It's not like the later generations, they don't react even if they say bad things, they treat themselves like air, and they feel heartbroken just thinking about it.
"Okay, let's stay here and not go anywhere." Li Xiaohai smiled and narrowed his eyes. It turned out that what his father said was true. The family was not short of money before, so his father did not come to Taohai to make money.
Lao Wai’s father has also come to hunt for sea food. Let’s go and see what he has found later. He is definitely not as much as my father!
Li Changle strode towards the puddle in front. Li Xiaohai and Li Xiaozhou took small rakes and carefully plowed through the remaining puddle next to the reef. Suddenly, there was a sound of "Chu Chi" in the sand, and then the sand fell out of the puddle. A pair of small light blue pliers stood up from inside.
Li Xiaozhou shouted excitedly: "Brother, there are small blue crabs!" The people who breed blue crabs at the pier charge five cents for each small blue crab.
Li Xiaohai pressed down the blue crabs with a rake, "You hold down the rake and I'll catch them."
"Oh!" Li Xiaozhou took the bamboo pole and pressed it down, not forgetting his thoughtful advice, "Be careful, Axiang's nails were blackened by the small green crab claws!"
"What a waste of time!"
Li Xiaohai stepped forward, pressed his thumb on the crab shell, and placed his index and middle fingers against the crab's navel. With a strong grip, he picked up the small blue crab from the sand. "Look, brother, it's not too small. Such a big one should cost seven or eight cents."
"Brother is so awesome, he didn't even get caught!" Li Xiaozhou let out a rainbow fart sweetly.
"Grandma taught us, first... next time you see me, do as Grandma said, and you won't be caught by it." Li Xiaohai practiced like a little adult before he took the green crab. Put it in the basket and continue raking.
Li Xiaozhou watched for a while, then stepped into a shallow puddle, hunched over and groped in the water. His fingers touched a hard object, and in an instant he saw a flower crab raising its pincers and quickly retreating.
"Ouch! Brother, come quickly, there are flower crabs here!"
"Here it comes!" Li Xiaohai ran over dragging the rake, "Where is it?"
"Over there!" Li Xiaozhou pointed to the flower crab with its hind claws exposed under the stone crevice in front.
Li Xiaohai stepped forward, grabbed its claws, and slammed it into the puddle. A large flower crab drew a beautiful arc and landed in the puddle with a splash of water.
Li Xiaozhou hurriedly used a rake to press it, but it was empty. He quickly stepped on it with his feet, and the flower crab huddled in the puddle. He raised his beautiful blue pliers. He was so frightened that he quickly backed away, "Brother, I can't catch it."
"Here it comes!" Li Xiaohai ran over and grabbed a ball of sand and threw it on the flower crab. The flower crab was swinging its two large pliers and was a little dizzy. The little guy immediately stepped forward and pressed its shell, pulling it Caught it.
"Oh! We caught a giant flower crab! Brother is so awesome!" Li Xiaozhou hugged him happily and jumped up.
In the puddle over there, after Li Changle picked up a few green shrimps, he turned to look in the direction of the brothers. Seeing that the brothers were still there, he continued to search the puddle with confidence.
After touching the shallow puddles one by one, a Shi Jiugong quickly swam out from the cracks in the rocks. The hard spines on the fins of this fish were poisonous. Li Changle used the handle of the net to drive the fish out, picked it up and poured it into the bucket.
After walking a few steps, I found another half-disabled blue crab. One was only as big as an adult’s little finger, and one was bigger than an adult’s big toe. Blue crabs with claws of different sizes like this were either used during a fight or in battle. Those who cut themselves off to escape because they couldn't win, or they had their limbs cut off after being captured and then grew back after escaping.
As he walked past, there were all bottomless puddles, and there were people in the shallower puddles. Only then did he realize that the sky was getting dark. He thought of taking the children to the town to see his grandpa, so he turned around. Go back.
Seeing Chen Yongwei squatting under a big rock, his hands kept digging on the beach, "Awei, what are you doing there?"
"Digging clams!" Chen Yongwei put the dug clams into the bucket and waved to him, "Brother, there are many Buddha's hands in the cracks of this stone."
Li Changle walked over and saw that the beach under the rocks had been plowed by him, as if it had been gnawed by a dog. Sand crabs lurking under the beach in the distance were densely foraging on the beach like sun-dried millet. If there was any slight disturbance, they would immediately burrow into it. When you enter the cave, you can't see a single one.
He withdrew his gaze and looked along the crack in the stone he was pointing at. He saw that it was indeed covered with Buddha's hands. The big ones were as big as the big toes. Unfortunately, the crack in the stone was too narrow and people couldn't squeeze in.
"I'll go!" Li Changle kicked Chen Yongwei, "You still call me over like this, so you can get in and get it out for me?"
"Hehe!" Chen Yongwei smiled naively, "Brother, just tell me how big these Buddha's hands are?"
Li Changle thought of those in the cave, "It's not bad!"
Chen Yongwei looked at him mischievously and whispered: "I know a place where the Buddha's hands on the island are much bigger than this one. A Dong said he charges 50 cents a pound!"
"Fuck!" Li Changle's eyes widened and he pointed at the Buddha's hand in the crack of the stone. "A bigger one is only five cents?" In later generations, the wholesale price of such Buddha's hand snails was still two hundred or three hundred pounds.
Now... alas!
Why didn't the reborn god give him a space-time warehouse, send the things of this era there and sell them, and make a fortune in a few months!
Chen Yongwei glanced at him and said, "How much do you want to sell per catty? If you charge a dime per catty like this, everyone is rushing to dig it out. When you think about it, it only costs a few per catty. It's a lot of pressure on the scale!"
"Yeah!" Li Changle nodded with interest, then he thought again, what kind of man would he be if he kept thinking about the future generations if he had to go on living his life?
You can rely on the mountains to live on, and live on the sea. As long as you are diligent and willing to work, even if you cannot give your parents, wife and children a rich and generous life, it will not be like in the previous life...
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing!" Li Changle retracted his thoughts and thought that he would need bait to lay crab pots at night. People in the fishing village would prepare some rotting dead fish and shrimps. This kind of bait has a strong fishy smell and crabs like it the most.
In later generations, there were shops selling fishing tackle that specialized in selling bait, but they were purely meant to deceive people who had never fished in the sea and were stupid and had a lot of money!
"Awei, take some snails back by the way, break them into pieces, and put them in cages at Changtangkou in the afternoon."
Chapter completed!