Beachcombing: The beach is full of amazing seafood, but my wife won't let me get out of bed!

night.

The wooden door of the stone house was banged on loudly.

Chen Xue woke up with a start and quickly nudged Wu Sui, who was sleeping soundly next to her.

"Ah Sui, wake up, your older brother is calling you from outside."

Wu Sui groggily got up, picked up the alarm clock from the bedside table, and glanced at it.

11:10.

This guy is really desperate; the tide hasn't even gone out yet, and he's already banging on the door.

But what can be done once you're awake?

Resigned to his fate, he put on his clothes, pushed open the door, and went out.

Wu Gang stood excitedly in the yard, carrying a shovel and a bucket with a snakeskin bag inside.

"Second brother, hurry up, I'm all ready!"

Wu Sui yawned, walked to the water vat, and washed his face.

"Brother, you're being way too enthusiastic. The tide isn't going out yet."

Wu Gang leaned forward and lowered his voice, wringing his hands anxiously.

"Let's get there early to secure a spot. If we're late, we won't even get a speck of mud. Hurry up, let's dig as much as we can while everyone else is still sleeping."

Chen Xue came out of the house wearing a coat and handed Wu Sui a kettle.

The two of them worked all night yesterday without even having a sip of water, and their lips were chapped when they came back this morning.

"Slow down, don't go into deep water in the dark, safety first."

Wu Sui took the kettle and patted Chen Xue's hand.

"Don't worry, go back to sleep. You'll be counting your money tomorrow morning."

The two brothers walked along the village path towards the sea.

The sea breeze at midnight felt quite comfortable on my skin.

Wu Gang walked ahead, his steps quick, the beam of his headlamp swaying back and forth on the dirt road.

"Shall we go dig for sand worms on the beach again tonight? I brought two big shovels with me, let's try to dig up another two hundred pounds!"

Wu Sui shook her head: "I'm not going there."

Wu Gang got anxious, stopped and turned to look at him.

"Why not go? That's all money! Forty-eight yuan a pound, you can easily make tens of yuan just by digging a little bit. It's free money if you don't make it."

Wu Sui pointed towards the distant beach: "Big brother, look for yourself."

Following Wu Sui's finger, dozens of lights were shining on the distant mudflats.

The noise of people was loud and boisterous, carried by the sea breeze, and one could vaguely hear Zhao Laosi cursing.

"Those buckets of sandworms we brought back to the village this morning, do you really think everyone in the village is blind?"

"Zhao Laosi and his men have already figured out the location. They've probably searched that mudflat three or four times over by the whole village. There's not even a single sandworm egg left."

"If we go there now, we'll only be fighting with others for mud; we won't get a single hair."

Wu Gang slapped his thigh, his face full of annoyance, and stomped his feet in anger.

"These bastards are moving way too fast. Instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, they're all out digging in the ground."

He turned to look at Wu Sui, his tone full of disappointment.

"So where are we going tonight? We can't go back empty-handed."

Wu Sui thought for a moment and pointed in the opposite direction.

"Go to the flood control dike."

Wu Gang stood there, waving his hands repeatedly, his face full of reluctance.

"Why go to the flood control dike? That place is all rocks. Usually, apart from a few old women going there to harvest some oysters, there's nothing there."

Wu Sui smiled and said, "Let's go take a look. We won't find anything on the mudflats anyway, so why bother competing with those old women?"

"Even if there's nothing on the flood control dike, we can still harvest some oysters and take them home to eat."

"Brother, you can never earn all the money in the world, let's take it slow."

Although Wu Gang was somewhat discouraged, he still obediently followed along, thinking of the 4,400 yuan he had received during the day.

The flood control dike is located on the east side of the village; it is a long stone embankment.

Because of its treacherous terrain and slippery rocks, few people usually come here to go beachcombing.

Tonight, everyone in the village went to grab sandworms, and there wasn't a soul in sight here.

The waves crashed against the rocks, making a loud, muffled sound.

The tide had not completely receded, and the water level had just reached the boulders at the bottom of the flood control dike.

Wu Sui stood on the embankment, silently chanting in his mind, "Open the system."

The radar interface pops up.

On the screen, a large patch of dazzling green dots appeared densely packed in the area below the flood control dike.

The color of the light spot is even darker than that of the blue crab.

Wu Sui's heart skipped a beat.

There's definitely something good down there!

"Brother, turn on your headlamp and come down with me."

Wu Sui climbed down the sloping stone wall.

Wu Gang quickly turned on his miner's lamp and followed cautiously behind.

"Ah Sui, slow down! This rock is covered in moss and very slippery. Falling on it is no joke."

The two descended to a flat reef that was more than a meter above the sea.

Wu Sui took the flashlight and shone it at the bottom of the rock wall that had been repeatedly washed by the sea.

The beam of light shone into the dark cracks in the rocks.

Wu Gang looked in the light and suddenly gasped.

He rubbed his eyes, snatched the flashlight from Wu Sui's hand, and peered closely at the stone wall beneath the water's surface.

"God……"

Wu Gang's voice trembled, and he could barely hold the flashlight steady.

The stone wall was covered with countless oval-shaped objects.

Its shell is covered with seaweed and has a row of small holes along the edge.

Wu Sui peeked over.

Nine-eyed abalone!

Wild-caught nine-eyed abalone!

This plant has extremely high requirements for its growing environment, and it only grows in places with fast-flowing water and many reefs.

They usually hide in deep water and only surface briefly during low tide.

They were all about half the size of a palm, stacked one on top of the other, completely filling the stone wall below.

"Ah Sui, this...this is abalone?" Wu Gang stammered excitedly, his mouth almost watering.

Wu Sui threw the bucket in his hand onto the reef and picked up a sand shovel.

"Don't just stand there, hurry up and pry it off! This thing is sticking really tight, you can't get it off by hand, use a sand shovel to pry it off!"

Wu Gang glanced at the shovel in his hand and was filled with regret.

If he had known he was harvesting abalone, he wouldn't have brought this huge thing.

Wu Sui glanced at his older brother's equipment and chuckled, "Brother, why don't you just take the handle off the shovel? Hurry up, or someone will come over and we won't be able to beat those old women."

Wu Sui glanced at the shovel in his hand, gritted his teeth, and smashed the handle with a rock.

Without saying a word, he jumped into the waist-deep seawater.

"You can't pry open an abalone slowly; you have to take advantage of its inattention, insert it all the way in, and flip it over with force."

The icy seawater poured into his trouser legs, but he seemed not to feel the cold at all.

He swung the shovel and pried it off the abalone-shaped rock face.

With a "click".

A wild nine-eyed abalone, weighing about three ounces, fell into the water.

Wu Gang quickly reached out and scooped it up. It felt heavy in his hand, with thick, firm flesh that kept shrinking inward.

"We're rich! We're really rich!"

Wu Gang threw the abalone into the bucket, turned around and shouted at Wu Sui, his face turning red.

"This stuff can sell for over a hundred yuan a pound in town, it's much more valuable than sandworms."

Wu Sui ignored him and jumped into the water, aiming his sand shovel at the crevice in the rock and prying hard.

Two large abalone stuck together fell directly into the net.

The system notified that a new illustration has been unlocked and 100 merit points have been added.

But at this moment, he had no time to care about merit points; they were all money.

The two brothers launched a frenzied sweeping operation below the flood control dike.

Wild abalone have an extremely strong adhesive force. If you don't pry it off on the first try, it will stick firmly to the rock, and it will take a lot of effort to get it off.

Neither of them cared about their aching hands; the beams of their headlamps and flashlights swept across the stone wall, and the sounds of shovels and sand shovels hitting the rocks echoed incessantly.

The abalone in the bucket visibly swelled up.

I worked for more than an hour straight, my hands never stopping.

Wu Gang was panting heavily from exhaustion. He planted his shovel in the water and shook his aching arms.

"Ah Sui, this area is almost cleaned up. My bucket is almost full; it probably weighs forty or fifty pounds."

Wu Sui straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and glanced at his half-full bucket of harvest.

"Let's change our location and walk east along the flood control dike. The water is deeper there, and there's definitely more water there."

Wu Gang, full of energy, carried the heavy bucket and followed behind Wu Sui.

"Let's go, let's go! We're not going back to sleep until we've emptied this flood control dike tonight."

The further east you go, the steeper the rocks become, and the rougher the waves become.

The two explored along the rock face, and the number of light spots on the system radar became increasingly dense.