Chapter 150: Coconut Crab
“Brother, quickly climb the tree and pick coconuts for me.”
At this moment, they had already arrived in a coconut grove.
Yun Jiao stood under the coconut tree, looking up at the coconuts with longing.
Yun Xiaowu had already climbed up the tree in a whoosh.
“Okay, you stand further away, this is very heavy.”
Yun Jiao nodded and moved further away.
Yun Xiaowu, lying on the tree, struggled to pick coconuts.
Yun Jiao, standing further away, searched the ground for any fallen coconuts to eat.
Who knew that instead of finding a coconut, she found a creature eating a coconut.
Hiss… this thing looks like a big spider!
To be precise, this thing looks like a spider, a crab, and a shrimp.
Its legs are very big and long, its head looks a bit like a lobster’s head, and its tail is also like a lobster’s tail, curled up at its abdomen.
Seeing it eating a coconut, Yun Jiao curiously approached to take a look, even reaching out her hand to poke it.
Who knew that this thing was quite aggressive, raising its large pincers as if to strike her hand.
Of course, Yun Jiao’s reaction speed was not slow either, and she quickly retracted her fingers.
She stared dangerously at the large creature.
“Jiaojiao, what are you doing?”
Yun Chennan walked over and, upon seeing the thing in front of her, exclaimed in surprise: “Coconut crab.”
Yun Jiao looked up at her third brother.
Yun Chennan squatted down beside her.
“This creature is rarely seen nowadays.”
“Can it be eaten?”
Yun Jiao asked.
This thing looked so strange, she wasn’t sure and wanted to ask.
“Yes, and it tastes very good.”
“Precisely because it tastes good and is large, it has been hunted by many people. In the coconut groves near our village, there used to be coconut crabs, but they were almost all eaten.”
This thing is bigger than a crab, has more and tastier meat than a crab, and can be sold for a good price. In any coconut grove near human habitation, as soon as one appears, it will be caught.
He had eaten it twice when he was young, but unfortunately, coconut crabs became fewer and fewer, and it hasn’t appeared for several years now.
Hearing that it was delicious, Yun Jiao no longer disliked the strange appearance of this large creature.
There are even stranger-looking creatures in the deep sea.
Upon closer inspection, it actually looked quite delicate.
“Brother, catch it.”
Finally, she added, “Not for sale, we’ll eat it ourselves.”
Yun Chennan chuckled, “Okay, we’ll eat it ourselves.”
Yun Jiao became interested and wanted to see if she could find any other coconut crabs on the island.
So she picked up a small stick and began to stroll around.
Meanwhile, Yun Xiaowu had finally managed to get two coconuts down, and in the blink of an eye, he found his sister was gone!
Where was his sister?
Yun Jiao was initially looking for coconut crabs on the ground, but suddenly heard a noise from the tree.
She looked up and was astonished.
This… this big crab can also climb trees!
That’s right, at this moment, a coconut crab was on the coconut tree.
That coconut crab was not small in size.
Yun Jiao tried to climb the tree, but she really didn’t have the talent for it.
After a few attempts, she gave up and decisively started calling for help.
“Brother!”
This shout brought several brothers over.
They all thought she had encountered danger.
There was no danger, Yun Jiao pointed at the large creature on the coconut tree: “Coconut crab, I can’t climb up.”
Yun Xiaowu and the others looked up and were also stunned.
“What kind of crab is this, that it can even climb trees?”
Obviously, Yun Xiaowu had also never seen a coconut crab.
“Third brother said this is a coconut crab, and it’s delicious.”
Hearing that it was delicious, Yun Xiaoliu immediately rolled up his sleeves, “I’ll do it!”
Yun Jiao: “Sixth brother, be careful, this coconut crab is very fierce.”
She handed Yun Xiaoliu a wooden stick.
“Poke it with this.”
Watching her sixth brother quickly climb the coconut tree, Yun Jiao was very envious.
The large coconut crab quickly fell, bounced on the ground, but didn’t die. After a while, it still lively raised its large pincers, not letting anyone approach.
Yun Xiaowu handed over a wooden stick, and the coconut crab easily snapped it in half.
“Hiss… good heavens, if one of these pincers got a grip, it would probably be the end of the arm.”
Yun Jiao nodded in agreement.
They wrapped the coconut crab’s large pincers with palm leaves like dumplings and tied them up, then confidently threw it into the bucket.
“Let’s go, we’ll keep looking.”
The group dispersed to look for coconut crabs and found three more.
However, two of them were small, and for sustainable development, they directly released the two small ones.
They caught three large coconut crabs.
“This one is so big.”
Yun Xiaowu held the pincer of the largest coconut crab, which, when fully extended, could cover his upper body.
“Such a big crab, the children in the village must have never seen it.”
“Heh, it’s a big crab that grows on land.”
These creatures are too few, they searched the coconut grove for so long and only found a few.
Yun Chennan: “Alright, it’s time to go back.”
They had been out for about three hours.
They had gotten addicted to tide pooling on the secluded island and had caught a lot of things along the way.
Fish, crabs, shrimp, octopuses, and conch, etc.
The buckets were already full, and the conch were put into sacks.
The coconut crabs were also put into sacks.
Yun Jiao rubbed her belly; she was hungry.
“Let’s go, let’s go, I want to eat instant noodles.”
Thinking of the taste of instant noodles, everyone swallowed their saliva.
They felt even hungrier.
They had planned to stay until the afternoon to go back, so they had also brought things to cook.
The siblings walked back cheerfully. Before they even reached their destination, Yun Xiaowu and the others started shouting loudly.
“Grandpa, Grandma, Parents…”
“We’re back, look what we caught.”
Shen Yunlian and the others had already started the fire.
They had even steamed a pot of oysters.
Granny Yun beckoned to them, “Quick, come and get ready to eat.”
The staple food was roasted mantou.
The oysters were pure meat. The plump oyster meat only needed to be dipped in the prepared dipping sauce, and with one bite, it was tender and fresh.
The three packs of instant noodles were naturally also brought. They were directly put into the pot to cook, along with some washed shrimp and crabs, immediately turning it into a deluxe version of seafood instant noodles.
“So fragrant…”
The whole family was extremely tempted.
After washing their hands and holding their bowls, everyone sat directly on the reef and started eating.
Yun Xiaowu and the others were extremely excited, chattering about everything they had found.
It was evident that their harvest was abundant.
“Jiaojiao found such a big clam.”
Yun Xiaowu stretched out his arms to gesture, with such exaggerated arcs that the adults in the family didn’t believe him.
Yun Chennan stated the facts: “It wasn’t as big as Xiaowu gestured, but it was about the size of the washbasin at home.”
“What? There’s a really big clam? Where is it? Let me see.”
Wang Mei was very curious, what kind of island was this, that clams could grow so big.
Grandpa Yun seemed to recall something: “It must be a giant clam.”
If it could grow this big, he couldn’t think of anything else.
Yun Chennan nodded, “Yes, it’s a giant clam.”
“Where is it? Where is it?”
Yun Jiao slurped the noodles in her mouth.
“We put it back in the sea. Third brother said it’s a protected animal and can’t be caught.”
