Chapter 1364 Broken Engagement 13
Yuanchun left the crowd and went to a less crowded place.
She exerted her mental power, and all the seafood hiding under the reefs were visible. She took out her tongs, and while catching crabs, she released her mental power, and collected all the giant eels, groupers, giant crabs, octopuses, sea urchins, swimming crabs, etc. trapped in the water into the space.
She also took advantage of the high tide to get close to the sea area and gathered a large group of seafood swimming happily in the sea: octopus, mantis shrimp, squid, lobster, abalone, scallops, tiger prawns, blood clams, sea cucumbers, orchid crabs, conger eels, etc., and brought them into the space.
In order to store these seafood, Yuanchun used her spiritual power to open up a large pool in space, filled it with sea water, and kept all the seafood in it.
Just as Yuanchun was happily collecting seafood, she suddenly heard someone shouting, "The tide is rising, the tide is rising, hurry up."
Yuanchun hurriedly picked up the wooden bucket and ran to the shore with the crowd.
She saw Aunt Erniu and walked over to her, "Aunt Erniu."
"Yuanchun, you're here."
Aunt Erniu held a hurricane lantern in her hand, shone it into her wooden barrel, and pouted, "You only picked up these little things, not enough for a meal. But there are only two of you in your family, so you can't eat much."
In Yuanchun's bucket, there was only one orchid crab, two large blue crabs, a handful of clams, and five or six scallops.
There were more than ten scallops, seven or eight crabs, five or six big fish, and more than three pounds of clams in Zhang Erniu's bucket.
Yuanchun looked envious, "Aunt Erniu, you are really amazing."
"Of course." Zhang Erniu said proudly, "Every time I come here to catch seafood, I get a lot. There are few people in our village who can catch seafood better than me."
Zhang Erniu grabbed a handful of clams from her bucket and threw them into her bucket, saying, "I'll give you a handful of clams so you can make a plate of them."
"By the way, Yuanchun, where is your Yuandong? I haven't seen him for a long time." Zhang Erniu suddenly asked.
Yuanchun smiled and said, "Yuandong has found a job, and it's a formal job."
"What, Yuan Dong...he went to work in the city?" Zhang Erniu was so envious, "This kid suddenly became a city dweller, and no one in the village knew about it. You are so tight-lipped that you actually kept it a secret."
Yuanchun smiled bitterly, "Aunt Erniu, it's not that I'm tight-lipped. If I had spread the news that Yuandong had found a job earlier, Li Chunlan would definitely make trouble. She might even force Yuandong to give the job to Shen Yuanpeng."
"Oh, what you said makes sense. Li Chunlan has never done anything human." Zhang Erniu pulled Yuanchun, "Come on, everyone has left. Let's go back too. We'll go fishing tomorrow."
"Aunt Erniu, are you going to keep these seafood for yourself or exchange them for food?"
Zhang Erniu's eyes flickered as she said, "We won't exchange for food. We can eat some at home and leave some for my boss to send to our relatives in a couple of days."
Yuanchun understood immediately.
They didn't give them to relatives, they must have saved them up and sold them on the black market.
The villagers can take the seafood they get to the village brigade to exchange for food, and the village brigade will then send it to a state-owned restaurant or a seafood processing factory to exchange for money or food. The village brigade will definitely charge a fee for this.
Therefore, many villagers would secretly save up the good seafood they got and then sell it on the black market, which was more cost-effective than exchanging it for food from the village brigade.