Chapter 54 Typhoon weather and the sea
Need to bring a sack?
Is there a lot of goods?
Lin Xiuqing followed Ye Yaodong to the beach with suspicion. The tide had just receded a little, and it felt quite spectacular to see the waves in the distance still rolling in layer by layer.
She has been married for five years, and she has never come to the shore during a typhoon, either to be pregnant or to take care of the children.
"Isn't it nice? The beach here is quite beautiful."
It's a typhoon day and the sea water turns a little yellow.
"Didn't I tell you to come out and see if you can pick up anything? I'm going down soon. I'll go back early. Who knows when it will start raining heavily?" He said and walked down the beach.
Ye Yaodong looked at her back and shook his head, not interested!
"Ah, you really need to pick it up!" Lin Xiuqing was pleasantly surprised when she saw a huge clam at her feet as soon as she walked down the beach.
He took a few steps forward and said, "I didn't lie to you, did I? I really picked up something!"
Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look and said, "It's not valuable, so I came out to pick it up during a typhoon. It would be great if there are some good things for me to pick up."
"Let's see if there are any in a while. The waves are so big, it's hard to guarantee that no sea goods will be washed ashore."
"Um."
She walked a few steps forward and picked up another big clam. Lin Xiuqing's face was filled with joy. This was different from squatting there and digging hard for sand clams. This one didn't need to be dug, and it was still five or six times the size of sand clams.
, it feels so good to pick up something just by walking around.
Ye Yaodong also bent down and picked up one, "Hey, I also have one here, it's not as big as your two."
“Is this the only clam you can pick?”
“Let’s take a walk and have a look.”
According to his experience, when a typhoon is strong and the waves are strong, there should be sea cargo swept in and stranded on the beach, so he ignored the typhoon and took advantage of the fact that the tide had just receded, so he ran out with her.
"Fish... fish fish..." Lin Xiuqing pulled his arm excitedly and pointed to the waves ahead, "There..."
Ye Yaodong followed her finger and looked over, only to see a silly creature jumped out of the water by the waves. After the waves receded, the silly creature was stranded on the beach and kept jumping.
Lin Xiuqing quickly stuffed the clam in his arms into his arms and ran forward to pick up the fish, but saw that it was so slippery that it fell down even after she held it in her hand.
Just as another wave was about to hit, Ye Yaodong stuffed the clams into his pocket and quickly stepped forward to kick the fish onto the beach. He held his wife in his arms and used his back to help her block the wave.
A big wave hit him on the back, giving him a chill. The sea water dripped directly from his forehead. Lin Xiuqing was protected in his arms. Her body was not hit by the wave, only the sea water on his head.
Water dripped on her face.
Lin Xiuqing blinked her eyes and looked at him in confusion, "Are you okay? Why are you... protecting me from the waves? You're already soaked. Go back and change clothes..."
He wiped the seawater from his face and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, just take it off. I picked up the silly one. It looked like it weighed five or six pounds. I took it back and marinated half of it and boiled it at noon."
Fish fillet soup.”
"Oh, good."
In fact, the scientific name of this fish is sea herring, but the locals call it stupid fish, and the most common name is stupid fish. It is very cheap. In later generations, local people went to the pier to buy it for 5 yuan a pound, and outsiders bought it for 8 yuan.
A pound of money may cost 4-5 cents now.
As for why we call it silly, it’s entirely because it’s silly!
There is no fish more stupid than this.
When the fishing boat is sailing on the sea, the fish often comes to the door and jumps on the deck to feed the fishermen.
This kind of thing happens not only once or twice, but too often, so the local fishermen call it silly.
Lin Xiuqing tried to catch it several times but failed to catch it properly. The cat's tail flicked it and it fell to the beach.
"You are so stupid!"
Ye Yaodong took out the sack in his pocket, shook it, opened it towards Shadai, then kicked it and it went into the sack, throwing a few clams in as well.
"If I had known better, I would have brought a bucket. If I had put it in a sack, I would have died."
"It doesn't matter if you take it back and kill it later. Are you going to get a bucket of water and keep it? It won't sink. It's not valuable. Let's go."
"All right."
Before taking two steps, Ye Yaodong's sharp eyes saw a small golden tail exposed next to a stone. He pulled his wife and said, "Look here..."
Lin Xiuqing also saw it instantly, "Ah, it's a pomfret! It's such a big one!"
"Well, golden pomfret! It's quite big, weighing more than a pound. It's a pity that it's not white pomfret. White pomfret is delicious!" He said as he bent down and opened its gills to take a look. The bright red ones meant it was still fresh.
It just dies and can be pocketed.
The golden pomfret looks better than the white pomfret, but it is more attractive than the white pomfret.
The meat of white pomfret is relatively delicate and tender, while the meat of golden pomfret is relatively rough and thick. However, white pomfret is generally not big in size, usually less than 1 catty, while golden pomfret is generally more than one catty or larger.
The price of white pomfret will double as long as it exceeds 6 taels. During the fishing moratorium, the market can sell for more than 100 taels.
It was good to get something. Lin Xiuqing didn't choose whether it was golden pomfret or white pomfret. After all, she had just bought a lot of money. The best way to sell the seafood she picked up was to sell it, and she could keep the worthless ones for herself, so she wouldn't lose anything.
"Sure enough, I found something to pick up when I came out during the typhoon. If I had known, I would have called my eldest sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law out."
Ye Yaodong pouted, what did he ask them to do?
As a light bulb?
It was rare for the couple to go out for a leisurely walk. They had never been alone so relaxedly since they were reborn. He had no intention of calling anyone else.
"Let's go down, the tide has receded a little."
Just as he was about to follow the tide, the small pool under the stone where he picked up the white pomfret suddenly started to ripple. "Wait a minute... I'll move this stone away and take a look."
"Is there something?"
"It's possible that after the tide has just gone out, these low-lying areas with rocks are more likely to have stranded seafood."
Lin Xiuqing also squatted down curiously to watch him move the stone.
"Ah, it's a small green crab."
Ye Yaodong also saw it. It was really small, probably not even half a catty, but it was still a green crab, better than a stone crab.
"Do you dare to catch me?"
"I don't dare, I'm afraid of its big pliers."
"Just scratch its back. You can't bite it."
He grabbed it and handed it to her with a fierce force. She was so frightened that she leaned back and sat on the beach, "What are you doing!"
"Scare you."
Lin Xiuqing glared at him, patted her butt, stood up, and walked forward without paying any attention to him.
Ye Yaodong quickly threw the green crab into the bag and followed her.
"Haha, are you angry?"
"No, hurry up and look for it. The sky is getting cloudy again. It may rain again soon."
The two of them followed the tide and bent down frequently on the beach. They were all clams, and they were quite big. It was so exciting to pick them up.
Many times they would just pick up a clam and throw it into a bag, but the waves would come up in front of it, and the clam would be picked up and rolled on the beach. If they had been slower, it might have rolled into the sea again with the tide.
Chapter completed!