Chapter 149: Giant Clam
The fish in this area, although not in large schools, were still plentiful.
Yun Xiao Wu quickly caught a fish weighing about five catties.
Although it wasn’t a particularly valuable species, it had a lot of meat.
It would be good for them to eat themselves instead of selling it.
“I want to fish too!”
“It’s my turn, it’s my turn!”
Everyone was scrambling to fish, and Old Master Yun’s eyes were filled with longing.
Just watching one fish after another being caught made them feel very happy.
Therefore, going out to sea yielded much more than tide pooling.
“Sister, look, I caught a very beautiful fish!”
Yun Xiao Jiu pointed at the beltfish that Second Brother had scooped up with a net bag. The fish had quite a bit of strength and almost dragged him into the sea.
This beltfish was much larger than the ones that had washed ashore before. Its whole body was shimmering silver, as if it was glowing. It was truly beautiful, but it also died quickly.
It wasn’t long after it was caught that it kicked the bucket, and its silvery sheen faded.
Yun Xiao Jiu: “Ah… it’s ugly now.”
Yun Chen Xi comforted him: “Beltfish are like this.”
“Hey, I’ve got a bite here too.”
The old master didn’t compete with his grandsons for the fishing rods, but instead used the bamboo fishing rod he had made earlier to fish on the boat.
He played with the fish that had bitten the hook for a while before skillfully pulling it up.
“Sea bass.”
Not bad, the meat of this fish is quite delicious.
“The tide is going out.”
As the tide receded from the secluded island, it exposed more than half of the island.
“Quick, let’s go ashore.”
After mooring the boat, everyone put on their bucket boots and went onto the island.
“There are so many shells on these reefs, and they are so big.”
For Shen Yun Lian and Wang Mei, who often went tide pooling, the various shells on the reefs were already quite abundant.
They held their tools and eagerly went to gather shells.
Ding ding dang dang… these were the sounds of shells falling into the buckets.
“The oysters here are also very big.”
Yun Lin Hai: “Don’t worry about the oysters for now. Let’s go to the giant clam area. We promised to feed the orcas and that whale shark oysters yesterday, and we haven’t found any yet.”
Yun Lin He also said: “Right, yesterday we packed quite a few oysters, but didn’t bring them back.”
Yesterday, they were only focused on that bluefin tuna.
“So, are we going to open oysters on the island?”
“Yes, open a lot.”
Oysters are not valuable, so they didn’t feel bad about feeding them to the orcas and whale sharks.
It’s for Jiaojiao to maintain her fish affinity, so they don’t feel bad!
They themselves couldn’t eat so many. Opened oysters wouldn’t fetch a good price if sold, and they were reluctant to sell unopened oysters because they wanted to look for pearls. So, they could only eat them themselves.
Especially when they reached the area where oysters grew, seeing the dense, large oysters, they felt even less regret.
Let’s open them, and maybe find oyster pearls too.
The family swarmed forward, tools in hand, and began opening oysters, looking for oyster pearls, and finally throwing all the oyster meat into the buckets.
A few minutes later, Granny Yun’s voice was filled with surprise.
“I found an oyster pearl!”
“It’s not very round, though the size is quite large.”
“It’s fine, that boss should still buy it.”
This made everyone even more enthusiastic about opening oysters.
However, repeatedly opening oysters and looking for oyster pearls was tedious, and it took considerable strength to open these oyster shells.
Yun Xiao Jiu raised his slightly red and swollen hands, his eyes teary.
“Wuwuwu… I’m not opening oysters anymore, my hands hurt so much.”
He specifically ran to Yun Jiao to cry, he was very good at acting pitiful.
Yun Jiao touched his hands and pouted, blowing on them a few times.
“Ninth Brother, you’re not opening oysters anymore, are you?”
Yun Xiao Wu and the others also dropped their oysters: “Parents, we’re going to explore other places to see if we can find any big catches.”
It was rare to come out, so what was the point of just sitting here opening oysters.
How could Yun Lin Hai and the others not know what these stinky kids were thinking.
“Go ahead, be careful.”
Wang Mei: “Third Brother, Fourth Brother, you two follow them and don’t let them go into the sea.”
The younger ones were like newborn calves fearless of tigers, they were incredibly bold.
If they weren’t watched, they were afraid they might follow Yun Jiao into the sea.
Yun Chen Nan and Yun Chen Bei responded, grabbed empty buckets, and followed.
Yun Jiao: “Third Brother, Fourth Brother, take bags.”
What if they found something good and the buckets weren’t enough to hold it? The experience of these two was clearly not as much as Yun Jiao’s. Hearing this, they packed two bags and hung them on their waists.
A group of people left lively, leaving the patient adults behind to continue opening oysters.
It was probably because the tide had just gone out, so there were still quite a few marine creatures on the island that hadn’t managed to retreat with the tide.
“Sea cucumber, I found a sea cucumber!”
It was dark, and only about the size of a palm.
“There’s a nest of scallops here.”
Yun Xiao Liu: “Third Brother, Fourth Brother, come quickly! I found an eel, but I don’t dare to catch it. This guy is too fierce.”
Tide pooling on this secluded island was truly enjoyable.
Because not many people had come before, the island was quite abundant with resources.
Yun Jiao also found a nest of shrimp in a puddle.
They were prawns.
She squatted down and threw the prawns into her small bucket one by one.
There were also two small white octopuses.
“Eh?”
Yun Jiao discovered a great treasure.
It was stuck in a crevice of the reef below.
She jumped down, stuck her butt out, and rummaged for a while before hugging the thing out.
“Wow… what a huge clam.”
This was the largest clam she had seen since coming to this world.
However, she wasn’t too surprised. In her previous life, she had seen even larger ones, after all, she had a giant clam shell that could fit her adult merfolk form.
She suddenly missed the round and shiny pearls in her large clam shell bed.
“Jiaojiao, what are you doing?”
Yun Jiao’s older brothers found her and their eyes widened when they saw the large creature she was holding.
“What… what is this thing, such a big clam?”
Yun Jiao excitedly held up the large clam in her hands and showed it to her brothers.
“Brothers, look what I found!”
She was very excited, and waddled over to her brothers with it in her arms.
A group of people gathered around the large clam, full of surprise.
Yun Xiao Wu and the others had never seen such a large clam before, and they all touched it for a while.
Yun Chen Nan: “We can’t take this thing back.”
His expression was serious: “This thing is called a giant clam. I heard from my teacher that due to overfishing in the past, it’s very rare now and seems to be listed as a protected animal.”
“What? Animals can be protected?”
They had truly never heard of such a thing.
Yun Jiao also looked at her third brother curiously.
Yun Chen Nan patted her head: “We can just look at the giant clam, but let’s not take it back. I’m afraid something bad might happen.”
Yun Jiao said “oh.”
“So we can’t eat it then.”
She felt a little regretful, the meat looked like there was a lot of it.
Yun Chen Nan: “Let it go.”
Everyone else was quite regretful.
Such a large clam, who knew how much it would sell for.
But… they were also genuinely afraid of trouble.
Although Yun Xiao Wu and the others were young, some things they saw in their childhood were deeply ingrained in their memories, even leaving some trauma.
For the safety of their family, it was better to let it go.
Yun Jiao, holding the giant clam, directly threw it into the sea.
“Bye-bye, I’ll come see you next time!”
Yun Xiao Wu: “Will it still be here next time?”
Yun Jiao squatted on the reef, watching the giant clam sink to the seabed.
“I don’t know, I’ll come look for it next time.”
