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  Chapter 156 Grouper? rock clam

  The four of them were very excited. One of them took a bowl and rushed directly to the reef. They only attacked the oysters that grew naturally on the rock wall.

  At this moment, which oysters are more attractive than oysters?

   It’s never too late to dig those things later.

Few people come to these isolated islands. Occasionally, those who have a boat at home may come to dig some food to go back. Every day, fish and shrimps also need some shellfish for a change of taste. People like them who come here every three days to try their luck are still there. It is relatively rare, and everyone would rather spend time fishing in the sea for money.

  Ye Huimei also excitedly took a bowl and added their freshly opened oysters. After the first bite, she jumped up in surprise.

   "Ahhh...Pearls!"

   "Huh? What the hell?" Ye Yaodong turned his head when he heard her surprised voice, "Dig out one!"

   "Ah~ Let me see, let me see..." The others also ran over in a hurry, all envious.

   "Why are you brothers and sisters so lucky?"

   "Yeah, I've opened several of them, but I haven't opened them yet."

  Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "It's normal if it doesn't come out. I heard that only one out of 20,000 oysters can be opened. My sister should be a newcomer."

   He might be blessed by Mazu! There is a lucky bonus when you are reborn!

  Ye Huimei's face was flushed with excitement, and she kept looking left and right in the sun with the pearl in her hand, "Third brother, give me one of the two you just had for comparison."

  Ye Yaodong took out his pocket, the two he had just now were exactly the same size, rare even and round.

   "I'm a lot smaller than you."

   "It's pretty good. Let's dig another pair and make them into pearl earrings as a dowry." Xiao Xiao said jokingly, causing Ye Yaodong to give him a hard look.

   "Hurry up, I don't know how long no one has visited this island. Every single oyster is 5+. It's super fat. If you dig a few, you'll find pearls, maybe there are still more."

  The specifications of oysters are classified according to weight. 1+ means 1 tael up, 2+ means 2 taels up, 3+, 4+, etc., and 5+ is a first-class large oyster.

   These pearls are the result of biological processes in the oyster as it protects itself from foreign substances.

   A foreign material, such as a grain of sand, may enter the oyster and become lodged between the mantle and shell. This will irritate the mantle, just like if you have sawdust on your fingers, you may be irritated by rubbing it.

   To protect themselves, the oyster's natural response will be to mask the irritant, which it does by causing the mantle to cover the irritant with a nacreous layer.

  Pearls in shellfish are usually formed in this way, but the probability is relatively low, and the formation period takes a long time.

  Everyone didn’t understand what 5+ was, so they just skipped it, and continued working with a bowl in one hand and a tool in the other, full of motivation.

  Ye Huimei didn't want to go to the sea any more, but also tried her best to open oysters.

   Oysters are big, and Ye Yaodong filled a small bowl in a short time. He straightened up and looked around, and found that the tide had receded again, and there were more shellfish exposed on the surface of the reef.

  He thought, since there is nothing left to store anyway, he might as well dig it back and open it slowly, and he doesn’t know if the pearls will come out.

   It is enough to have these two, Xiaoxiao reminded him just now, you can keep it for yourself, and make a pair of pearl earrings for his wife in the future.

He took the rice bowl back to the place where the pots and pans were placed, took out a few sacks in the bucket, spread out three and shook them together and held them in his hands. , Dig what you see, just throw it into the sack by category.

  Any snail on the island is as big as a longan, and mussels grow whole, not to mention other things.

  At this time, he heard another excited cry...

   "Ahahaha~ I finally dug out one too!" The fat man held up a bead in ecstasy.

   Ah Zheng knocked on the bowl enviously, "Made, when did oyster pearls become so common?"

   "Exactly!" Xiao Xiaoye echoed unbalanced in her heart.

   The fat man was triumphant, "This is my luck, today is finally not in vain."

"snort…"

  The two of them who still had nothing to gain continued to work hard, and the fat man seemed to have tasted the sweetness. He poured the oysters that were already full into the pot, and vacated the bowl to continue filling.

  Ye Yaodong glanced at it, and couldn't help sighing that the fat man was lucky. Seeing that there were a lot of oysters in the sack just now, he wondered if he could get pearls when he took it home?

  When the goods on the short reef were almost dug, he carried the sack and climbed up to the high place, but because of the slippery soles of his feet and the weight of the sack in his hand, he fell straight down, with his feet in the air...

   "Ah~fuck~"

  Others heard him exclaim and thought he had found something good again, but when they turned around, it turned out that it had fallen.

   "Hahaha~ I was a little nervous, I thought you found a big deal again." Ah Zheng patted his chest exaggeratedly on purpose.

  Xiao Xiao also said exaggeratedly: "It made me panic~"

   "Grass...you shit, I don't know how to care about it."

  Ye Huimei smiled and said: "Since you can still curse, third brother, it should be fine."

  He patted his buttocks and stood up, speechless: "The tide is out. If the tide hadn't ebbed, it would have slipped and rolled into the sea from the reef, and the skin would have peeled off if it wasn't a serious injury. Those who couldn't swim would be doomed."

   "Then you sit down and rest for a while? Stop climbing?"

  He looked up at the steep reef, which was densely covered with many shells. He hesitated whether to climb up again?

  At this time, I felt a little pain in my left arm, and when I lifted it up, I saw several long cuts, my clothes were torn, and a few blood beads came out.

   "Damn, so sharp."

  Ye Huimei heard his movements, and walked over to take a look, "Are you really hurt? Then sit down and rest for a while, third brother, I'll dig you out a little more."

He patted her on the head, "Don't worry about it, go play with yours, don't dig so hard, be careful, don't climb up. The rocks are very slippery just after low tide, and the shells on them are very sharp. You Just turn around underneath."

"Oh fine."

  He threw the sack aside, rolled up his trousers and carried the bucket and tongs, intending to catch the sea slowly, and by the way, find where there are good things around the low tide, or where it is easier to climb.

  Ye Huimei stopped climbing after thinking about it, and imitated Ye Yaodong by rolling up her trousers, and followed him with a sack, planning to dig some places underneath where it was easy to dig.

He went down until the tide was full to his calf, and then he walked out of the rock, and saw a big nine-section shrimp swimming in the tide, he grabbed it with tongs and threw it directly into the bucket. One is not too small, it seems to be close to one or two.

   Not far away, there was an octopus shaking its tentacles. He drenched in the sea water, walked a few steps quickly, and stepped forward to clamp it into the bucket.

  At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a group of light-brown, bream-like fish swimming in the shallow puddle between the two reefs.

  He immediately walked forward a few steps quickly with his eyes shining, and after a closer look, did he recognize that this is not a rock clam?

  The body is light brown with blue tones mixed in between. There is a blue longitudinal stripe under the eye sockets on the head, and the fins are yellow, so it is also called Huangzhizai in some places.

   This is a species of bream. No wonder he looks like a bream from a distance, but he is not sure what it is.

  This kind of fish usually travels at night and is a nocturnal fish. During the day, most of them gather around independent reefs or at the junction of sand and mud, and they disperse to look for food at night.

Now that the tide receded, they were exposed. Ye Yaodong roughly estimated that there were about 20 or 30 fish here, and each fish seemed to weigh more than two or three catties. Not too small, this fish is still carved Class aristocrats, not cheap.

  It only took a few seconds from his pleasantly surprised discovery to the moment when he approached and calculated in his heart.

  He shouted at Ye Huimei excitedly: "Little sister, go and help me get the fishing net, hurry up."

  The voice was full of joy, and everyone could hear it.

   "Did you find something good, third brother?"

   "What's the matter? Dongzi?"

   "Go and bring it to me first."

  The sea water kept scouring, and he was worried that they would swim out of the puddle and run to the sea, and there would be no way to collect them all.

  Ye Huimei saw that he was in a hurry, so she hurried back to fish for him.

   The fat man climbed down from the reef, and curiously planned to go over to have a look. By the way, he stretched his waist a little bit. His waist couldn't stand it if he kept bending like this.

   "Little sister, what did your brother find again? So excited?"

   "I don't know either, I haven't seen it."

  Ye Huimei took the fishing net and hurriedly sent it over. When she got closer, she saw that it was a group of snappers.

   "Ah? So many fish! Third brother, what kind of sea bream is this? I only know black bream, yellow bream and real bream!"

  Ye Yaodong lifted the hand net, and replied happily, "This is a rock clam."

   "Grouper? No, it's not sea bream..."

   "It's a clam, a rock clam."

   "Stone clam?" Fatty also came over, "Damn it, there's a whole puddle!"

  His voice immediately attracted Ah Zheng who was still struggling.

   "What? Groupers and puddles?"

   "What grouper? Tiger spot? Isn't it?"

  The two of them were surprised and went down from the reef in a hurry.

   The fat man said angrily: "Grass, hard of hearing, everyone said it is a rock clam! You still have grouper, grouper, tiger, your head, tiger, tiger spot is not as valuable as this fish..."

  Ye Yaodong quickly divided the fish in the puddle several times, scooped them all up into buckets, and happily handed them to the two people who just ran over.

   "It's a rock clam!"

   "Fuck~"

  The two of them didn't know what to say anymore, so they could only say **** in unison.

   "Pearls, no pearls, no fish, no fish, I'll just watch you get rich all by yourself..."

   "Made, this barrel is worth a lot of money, and Dongzi found it again! Let's walk around, and we also carried the barrel around, but he found all the good things..."

  (end of this chapter)