Chapter 171: A Quiet Child Must Be Up To Mischief
“Dad, you’re finally here!”
Seeing the boat full of fish, Old Master Yun’s face was instantly creased with smiles.
“Good, good, good… so many fish, a good harvest today.”
Although sardines are not valuable, they are numerous.
This harvest can’t compare to tuna, but tuna isn’t caught often.
“I’ll steer the boat.”
A plank was placed between the two wooden boats, and Old Master Yun, full of spirit, happily walked onto his own boat.
He let out a grunt while rowing.
“This weight feels great!”
Yun Chenbei said, “Dad, you guys come over here, I’ll take you back.”
Several people added up to several hundred pounds.
It would be good to lighten the load for Old Master’s boat.
Fortunately, the dock was not far away, otherwise Old Master Yun at his age truly couldn’t manage.
Upon reaching the dock, he was also panting from exhaustion.
Several women waiting at the dock rushed forward as soon as they saw the boats arrive.
Their boat full of fish was quite a spectacular sight, naturally drawing a crowd of onlookers.
Yun Linhai and the others were already accustomed to this.
“Wow, so many sardines, did you run into a sardine school?”
“Don’t you know? Someone came back earlier and said it looked like they encountered an orca pod hunting, a huge school of sardines. Yun Linhai and the others went fishing within the range of the orca pod’s hunt.”
“What? They dared to approach orca hunting?”
“That’s nothing, their boat was even towed back by an orca. Didn’t you see they were too exhausted to steer?”
“Really?”
This dock wasn’t just for their village; people from other villages were also there.
Hearing this, most people didn’t believe it.
However, those who had returned from sea said they witnessed it with their own eyes, and more than one person said so.
The stories Yun Linhe had woven earlier had also spread.
In response, everyone could only envy their good luck.
Yun Linhai and the others’ arms were strained, and they couldn’t help much here, so they went back first.
Before leaving, he admonished, “Be careful, there might be sea snakes among these fish.”
“Understood.”
“Oh, and there’s also a swordfish. Awang, weigh the swordfish first.”
The swordfish and the box filled with ice were also submerged by the sardines, so no one noticed.
Following the direction Yun Linhai pointed, after digging through the sardines there, they indeed found a very large swordfish.
Awang grunted, “You caught such a big swordfish, you really are something, Brother Lin Hai!”
Truly, Brother Lin Hai and his crew never disappointed him on their fishing trips.
“Heh heh, this is all thanks to Jiaojiao.”
He didn’t elaborate, but Yun Wang indicated he understood.
After all, he had dealt with Yun Linhai and the others for so long; he knew about Yun Jiao’s incredible luck at sea, as if heaven itself was feeding her.
It was as if his third uncle’s family had found the sea’s own daughter.
While Grandpa and Grandma and the others were busy, Yun Jiao didn’t leave.
Two small puppies followed beside her, and a cat was also on the boat helping.
When fishing, they didn’t have time to check what else was in the nets besides sardines.
Now, as they sorted through them.
There were also quite a few shrimp, and some small yellow croakers.
These things all had to be picked out separately.
With so many fish, just sorting them would take a lot of time.
“Grandpa, there’s a snake here.”
Yun Jiao held up a sea snake with her little hands.
The adults looked over and almost couldn’t breathe.
“Don’t move, Jiaojiao, absolutely do not move.”
Yun Wang walked over and carefully grabbed the sea snake by the neck, then breathed a sigh of relief.
“You really are something, grabbing anything you see!”
Even adults were a bit wary of sea snakes, let alone children.
Yun Jiao’s courage was extraordinary.
Shen Yunlian and the others also glared at Yun Jiao, “When you see venomous things like sea snakes, don’t touch them, stay away.”
“Forget it, you should go back. Aren’t you tired?”
Yun Jiao shook her head, “Not tired.”
She wasn’t going back.
Yun Jiao squatted down and continued helping to sort the fish.
Sometimes, when no one was looking, she would directly stuff food she thought was delicious into her mouth.
She even gave some to the puppies and the cat leader.
Eat quickly, eat quickly.
Cat Leader: I’m not eating, I’m already full.
Shen Yunlian, after picking through fish for a while, noticed that Yun Jiao was being too quiet.
When a child is quiet, they’re surely up to something.
She walked over to see.
Shen Yunlian: “!!!”
“Jiaojiao, you…”
*Slurp…*
Yun Jiao sucked with her mouth, drawing the last jellyfish tentacle, like noodles, into her mouth.
*Crunch, crunch…*
Crispy.
“You… that’s…”
Yun Jiao said, “Mom, this is crispy and delicious, I’ve eaten it before.”
Shen Yunlian: …
She clasped her chest and took a deep breath, not making too much of a scene.
“Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere in your body?”
Yun Jiao shook her head, “No, this is delicious. I used to catch and eat it in the sea with Turtle Turtle.”
Shen Yunlian: “What can I say about you, that thing is poisonous!”
Yun Jiao blinked, “I know.”
Her voice was soft, “I’m immune to poison.”
Shen Yunlian was speechless for a while. Her own daughter could not only breathe underwater but was also immune to poison.
Her mood was complex, yet happy.
Although her daughter was a bit abnormal, in that case, her safety in the sea would be greatly increased.
As she was thinking, she saw Yun Jiao grab another jellyfish and put it in her mouth.
She’s eating them openly now without even hiding it from me.
“At least process it before you eat it!”
Knowing her daughter had eaten them before without ill effect put her mind at ease, but seeing her gobble them down like that still gave her heartburn.
Yun Jiao said “oh,” and then thought of the dipping sauces Grandma used for her marinated raw seafood.
She could bring those back to try.
“Mom, you guys can eat these too.”
Yun Jiao grabbed a large, plump jellyfish from the pile of fish.
She patted the transparent jellyfish head, which looked like a mushroom, with her little hands, and it swayed.
“The jellyfish skin can be eaten.”
That’s true.
The jellyfish had thick flesh, appearing like transparent jelly.
However, it contained a lot of water, and eating it directly had no taste at all.
It was great for cold salads.
The short, stubby tentacles below the jellyfish were poisonous, but if you squeezed them off, it was fine.
Yun Jiao directly squeezed off the jellyfish tentacles.
Shen Yunlian grabbed her hand and looked.
It was fair and tender, with no marks of being stung.
Now she truly believed her daughter was immune to poison.
“Mom, here you go. I’ll look for more.”
She directly picked up the jellyfish and put it in a small basin, also adding some shrimp and crabs she liked, planning to make a large plate of marinated raw food.
Yun Jiao happily searched through the fish pile for her favorites.
The sardines on the boat were sorted by everyone’s efforts over two hours.
There were seven sea snakes among them alone.
Live sea snakes, although dangerous, were valuable.
Awang bought them for six yuan each.
There were also about twenty large yellow croakers.
Golden large yellow croakers, looking quite valuable.
