Chapter 76: Scouring the Sea after the Typhoon

"You're bragging!" Chen Yongwei glanced at him. "In the nooks and crannies of the islands and reefs along the coast, all the larger oysters have been pried out. If you want to pry larger ones, you have to go to the island to find them. It's hard to find oysters larger than your feet on the island, right?"

"Just wait and see if I am bragging or not!"

"Then I'll wait!" Chen Yongwei walked to the entrance of the alley, "I'll go back to sleep first, wait for me to call you."

Li Changle waved her hand, took the basket of vegetables and went home to take a nap. When she woke up, Zhou Ruonan had already prepared the meal.

"Where's my son?"

"Aniang makes corn cakes. We eat them at Aniang's place."

"Oh!" Li Changle picked up the bowl, "I'll go to the beach after dinner."

Zhou Ruonan stopped picking up the food and looked at him and said, "The typhoon just left and it's getting dark again. What are you doing at the beach?"

"I've agreed with Awei that we'll go fishing in the sea first. When the tide goes out, I'll take him to the caves to pry oysters. There might be some good stuff left in the puddles inside."

"How can such a good thing happen?"

"As long as you believe that good things will happen, miracles will happen."

Zhou Ruonan looked at him with amusement, "What a nonsense!"

"Eat!" Li Changle smiled and put some fried eggs and leeks into her bowl.

"There's a lot of seafood after the typhoon. How about I go with you?"

"You go during the day tomorrow and stay at home with your two sons at night."

"Yeah!" Seeing that he looked serious, Zhou Ruonan had no choice but to agree.

After dinner, he found a few net bags and took some oilcloth bags, and tied the plastic cans in the sacks together with hemp ropes. He thought that if he found plastic cans, he would come back again, so he would not take the cans with him this time.

Mother Li came over with wheat cakes and saw him packing up the tongs and rake. "Ah Le, are you going to fish in the sea?"

"Hmm!" Li Changle looked at the tortillas on the plate, picked up one, rolled it up and took a bite, "It's delicious. Why didn't you fry it earlier? We've all eaten it."

"Why don't you go get it yourself?" Mother Li rolled her eyes at him unhappily, put down the plate and said, "It's dark and you can't see clearly. Be careful of sea snakes when you go fishing."

"I know."

After he finished eating the tortilla and packed up his fishing gear, Chen Yongwei arrived.

"Brother, hurry up and go. The Agen brothers and several others are also going to the beach. Some of them said they were going to the mudflats to catch blue crabs, and some said they were going to the rocky beach to catch big fish."

People these days are very hardworking. There are more catches after a typhoon, and after the tide goes out, all the men and women in the village will go fishing.

In the evening, men usually go there while women stay at home to look after the children.

Li Changle knew that he was worried that the jar had been taken away. "Not to mention that we haven't retreated to the place where we put the jar. Even if we retreated to the place where we put the jar, the jar would be buried under the sand."

After hearing this, Chen Yongwei agreed. With such big waves, the bamboo poles inserted at both ends of the jar would most likely be swept away by the waves.

Li Changle picked up the backpack and said, "Anan, let's go."

"Be careful." Zhou Ruonan reminded in the kitchen.

"okay!"

As soon as the two of them left the house, Li Xiaohai and his brother, as well as Li Xiaoyang and others, came running over and said, "Dad (Third Uncle), we want to go too."

Li Changle decisively refused, "What are you going to do in the dark? Go with your mother tomorrow."

"Oh! Dad, please bring back some good stuff!"

"My eldest son is sensible and obedient!"

Li Xiaozhou hurriedly said, "Dad, I will go with Mom tomorrow too. I am also sensible and obedient."

"You are all good sons of dad!" Li Changle praised without asking for any money.

"Uncle San, I can do it. I can also use a scoop net."

"It's pitch black, and you're still trying to catch the fish with your net! A big fish might catch you!" Mrs. Li came out and slapped Li Xiaoyang, "Go back quickly! If you dare to sneak away, I'll beat your butt to pieces."

"If you don't want to go, then don't go." Li Xiaoyang turned around and ran towards his grandparents' room.

Mrs. Li glanced at him and turned her head to ask, "Ah Le, how long will it take you to come back?"

"If the waves aren't too big, let's find the plastic can first and come back." Li Changle saw that she and Li Ersao had come out, "Do you want to go too?"

"You guys go first, we'll wait until the tide recedes a bit before we go!"

"Okay, be careful." Li Changle waved his hand and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

It was dark, and they were worried about stepping on long insects in the cave, so they put on long rain boots and went up the mountain. Under the bright moonlight, they didn't even need to turn on the headlights, they could see the road clearly.

When the two men came out of the cave, they saw dots of flashlights and miners' lights moving on the beach.

After walking down the mountain and quickly reaching the beach, they met a few villagers walking over. When they saw the two of them, they turned on their flashlights and saw that it was Chen Dong. "It's you two, you're here to fish in the sea so late?"

"You're here too!"

"Did you find anything good?"

"Just arrived!"

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei walked towards the rocky beach while talking. The waves hit them one after another, and their rain boots were soon filled with sea water.

The two men simply took off their rain boots and put them in a backpack, then followed the tide towards the rocky beach, picking up whatever they saw and putting it in the backpack.

After walking for a while, they found that there was not a single person along the way. They probably went to the nearby mudflats to pick up seafood, dig sand slugs and blue crabs.

Before we reached the rocky beach, we already had a bucket full of worthless shellfish and sea fish.

"How come I didn't find any good stuff? Could it be that someone has already come to confiscate it?"

"It's possible. They are all waiting for the tide to go out so they can pick up seafood!"

"Is that all you're going to do to get us out of here?"

Li Changle suddenly saw a black object on the beach. He quickly took off his headlamp and shone it over there. It turned out to be a large conch. When he got closer, he saw a few colorful snails not far away.

It is estimated that the typhoon blew all these shellfish up.

The scientific name of the flower snail is Dongfeng Conch. The shell is large and spiral-shaped. The surface of the shell is white or yellow with irregular reddish-brown stripes. The snail meat is plump and delicate, and tastes delicious. It is known as the "pearl on the plate".

Li Changle picked up the conch and threw it into the bucket. "The conch meat and celery are quite delicious. The shells make a perfect pair. Xiaohai and Xiaozhou should each take one."

"It would be nice to pick up more!" Ah Wei ran a few steps and happily picked up the flower snails. "The price of flower snails is not bad, I can sell them for 50 or 60 cents per pound."

"Yes!" Li Changle said with a smile, "The task of polishing the conch shell is now left to you."

"Okay, I have nothing to do today, so I'll just polish the conch at home. It will be done in two days."

"The ground traps and crab pots are almost done, and I've had enough sleep. It would be nice if it rains every once in a while."

Li Changle lowered his head and suddenly saw a golden smear swimming in the muddy yellow waves. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was a large yellow croaker that was rolled up by the waves. "Fuck! Here comes the good stuff!"

He quickly picked up the scoop net from his backpack and chased after it. He didn't catch it until the water was above his thighs.

As soon as he started to fish, the waves splashed all over his head and face. He staggered. When he stood firm again, he found that the yellow croaker had been swept away by the waves.

Seeing the duck in his mouth fly away, he hurriedly chased after it with the scoop net. The sea water surged at the right time, and the big yellow croaker was sent up again. He quickly scooped up the fish and lifted the scoop net upwards.

"Hahaha, hard work pays off, I finally got you."

Li Changle weighed it excitedly. It was about eight or nine kilograms. Looking at the golden yellow croaker in the scoop net, he suddenly remembered a colleague in his previous life who sold a single fish for hundreds of thousands. That fish was about the same size as his...

You know, it only takes two or three years for a yellow croaker to grow to two kilograms from birth.

However, the growth rate of yellow croaker will be very slow after it weighs two kilograms. It cannot grow more than half a kilogram of meat a year. It will take at least ten years to grow to eight or nine kilograms.

The large yellow croaker not only has delicious meat, but its maw is also the raw material for some Chinese and Western medicines. The traditional Chinese medicine "fish maw glue beads" made from the fried, roasted and yellowed fish maw can treat peptic ulcers, kidney stones, etc.

After grinding the otoliths into powder, they are mixed with other Chinese medicines to make "Yu Nao Shi San", which has a good effect on the treatment of sinusitis.

Li Changle excitedly walked towards the shore with the scoop net, and then he found that Chen Yongwei had run away. He shouted as he walked, "Awei, Awei... Look, I caught a big yellow croaker."

"I'm here!" Chen Yongwei answered, standing by a large rock. "It's just a big yellow croaker. The seafood store only charges 50 cents per catty for more than 70 grams. It's not even as valuable as a big blue crab!"

After saying that, he proudly waved at him while holding a black object, "Brother, come here quickly."

"Ang~" Li Changle had a basin of cold water poured on his head, and his mouth opened into an O shape. He was stunned for a long time before he reacted. He was too excited just now and forgot that yellow croaker is still a precious commodity these days.

Like a deflated ball, he lazily walked towards the backpack with the scoop net in his hand. Then he thought again, if he sent such a big fish to a restaurant, he should be able to sell it for more than one yuan per pound, right?

Eight or nine kilograms can be sold for ten yuan, and this is just the beginning! There are so many good things on the beach, as long as you are lucky enough, it is not impossible to break a hundred again!
Thinking of this, I felt much better and quickened my pace towards the backpack.
Chen Yongwei turned around and saw that he hadn't come over yet, so he ran over and pulled him, "Brother, I found a lot of sea urchins, hurry over and help pick them up!"

"Sea urchin?" Li Changle looked at him in surprise.

"Yes, there are a lot. Hurry up, someone will be here soon." After Chen Yongwei said this, he ran away as if his butt was on fire.

"oh oh!"

Li Changle hurriedly poured the yellow croaker into the backpack, picked up the backpack and ran after him. When he got there and took a closer look, he saw a lot of dark purple spiky balls in the bucket. He exclaimed, "Fuck, it's purple sea urchins!"

"They're all over the ground, why don't you pick them up quickly!" Chen Yongwei said, pointing to the edge of the reef.

Li Changle then noticed that there was a sea urchin every one or two steps along the reef, and there were at least a hundred of them. He became excited now, took out his gloves, put them on quickly, and started picking them up.

The edible part of the purple sea urchin is its gonads, commonly known as sea urchin roe. Purple sea urchins have a lot of roe, and their gonads are arranged in a star-shaped shape. They are orange-yellow in color, with distinct grains like yellow rice.

It is also a marine organism with high edible and medicinal value.

Medicinal sea urchin is salty and flat in nature, and has the effects of softening and dispersing lumps, resolving phlegm and reducing swelling. It also contains a large amount of calcium.

(End of this chapter)

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