Chapter 200:
Yun Jiao mentally acknowledged it, no wonder they were so anxious.
But!
Why should they cause trouble for their family.
Thinking of the injuries on her family members, Yun Jiao was simply indignant.
She had to find an opportunity to beat up Yun Zhuangzhuang again.
After finishing the gossip and returning home, Yun Linhai and the others were discussing what gift to give for the apprenticeship.
For things like tobacco and alcohol, it felt like Old Master Xu, an old Chinese doctor, wouldn’t really use them.
The specialty of their coastal people was seafood, but they hadn’t been to sea for a long time, and they didn’t have any impressive seafood at home.
Old Master Yun, while smoking his pipe, said, “How about this, let’s see what the weather is like tomorrow. If we can go to sea, then you all go to the mangrove forest on the island and see if you can catch something good.”
Lin He nodded, “That’s a good idea. If we really can’t find anything, we’ll buy something to give.”
Yun Jiao raised her small hand, “I want to go too, I want to go too.”
Her reason was quite valid: “Jiaojiao wants to find a gift for Master herself.”
Yun Linhai picked her up and sat her on his lap, “Alright, if the heavens are gracious tomorrow, we’ll all go together.”
Everyone was happy, so no one brought up the matter of Yun Dana’s family.
It would be too much bad luck to mention them now.
After resting for a day, the next day the heavens were very gracious.
The weather was good, and although it was cold, the sea surface was calm, with not a cloud in the sky.
Yun Jiao put on her bucket boots and a set of light yellow raincoats.
From a distance, she looked like a fluffy little yellow duck.
She carried a small bucket and a water kettle slung across her body, waddling behind her father and uncle.
When they left, she looked back and waved goodbye to everyone.
“Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Aunt…”
“Goodbye, we’ll be back soon.”
She didn’t find it troublesome to greet everyone one by one.
In the somewhat gloomy cold weather, the bright yellow little girl added a vibrant and good-looking color to it.
After the tide receded, the mangrove forest was a stretch of muddy ground.
It was somewhat difficult for people to walk in it.
But it was the place where crabs, shellfish, and shrimp liked to inhabit the most.
Their village also had a mangrove forest nearby, but too many people went there, so it was a bit difficult to find good things inside.
The mangrove forest they were going to today was one discovered on the island previously.
Because they had been looking for other things on the island before, they hadn’t visited the mangrove forest on the island yet.
The mangrove forest on the island was not large, but no one had visited it, so there were likely many good things inside.
After landing on the island, as soon as the tide receded, they headed straight for the mangrove forest.
Along the way, Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe kept instructing her.
“Jiaojiao, you must follow us. The paths in the mangrove forest are not good, and you have to be careful of snakes…”
Yun Jiao listened attentively and nodded.
Upon reaching the mangrove forest, the marsh-like sticky mud was indeed difficult to navigate.
Especially since Yun Jiao was short.
But she was strong enough to pull her short legs out of the mud.
“Hey, I found a really big green crab, this one must be three catties.”
A great start, not long after entering the mangrove forest, Yun Linhe found a green crab.
A green crab this big was not cheap, and it would be impressive to give as a gift.
This mangrove forest was rich in food. Even though it was past the season when green crabs were plumpest, the shrimp and crabs here were still quite large and plump.
“Wow, this is a roe crab too!”
Roe crabs, among green crabs, were even more expensive than ordinary green crabs.
The roe inside was the most delicious.
Soon, Yun Linhai also found something.
Digging along a hole, he unearthed something that looked like a wild loach, but this type of loach had a larger head, somewhat triangular.
It was a bone eel.
This creature was highly nutritious, and many locals liked to stew it as a tonic.
Yun Jiao saw that her father and uncle had both made a harvest, but she was still struggling with the sticky mud, and immediately felt annoyed.
Could you please not like me so much!
Walking arduously in the mud, Yun Jiao glanced around for a moment and saw a rather large bulge.
The mud here was already shallower, and some places were even dry.
Yun Jiao felt that there must be something in the bulge.
So Yun Jiao took her small shovel and dug with all her might.
This hole was very deep and difficult to dig.
After struggling for a long time, she finally dug out the thing.
“Dad, look what this is.”
Yun Jiao held its long tail, it was very large, almost as long as her small arm.
She hadn’t seen this before, it looked a bit like a shrimp, but also like a scorpion.
Yun Linhai took a look and thought, “Huh? It’s something I don’t recognize!”
“Lin He, quickly look at the thing in Jiaojiao’s hand. I feel like I’ve never seen it before?”
Yun Linhe took a look, “Hiss… I haven’t seen this thing either.”
It was actually a new species.
The two brothers stopped looking for other things and quickly came to Yun Jiao’s side to study the thing.
“Is this a type of shrimp? But its tail is too long, it looks like a scorpion.”
“It looks a bit like a lobster.”
“It’s quite large, and plump.”
Yun Linhe rubbed his hands, his tone excited, “We haven’t seen it, so it definitely wasn’t here before. Let’s take it back and ask someone, it might be something valuable.”
“Jiaojiao, where did you find it?”
Yun Jiao pointed to where she had just dug.
“Let’s look too.”
Yun Jiao threw the large shrimp into the bucket and also started searching seriously.
Only then did she discover that there were quite a few of this type of shrimp in this area.
Some had even crawled out.
But the ones in the holes were particularly difficult to dig out.
They were too deep, and some of the shrimp would escape when they heard movement.
However, these catches were enough to make them grin with joy.
Yun Linhe said, “Brother, Jiaojiao, you guys keep catching this thing, I’ll go look for green crabs.”
Compared to this shrimp of unknown name, taste, and price, green crabs were clearly more reliable.
Tomorrow is Yun Jiao’s apprenticeship, and they plan to give green crabs as a gift.
“Alright, be careful yourself.”
Yun Jiao didn’t just look for that shrimp; she also looked for other things.
For example, bone eels, green crabs, and some fish from the mangrove forest.
Anyway, she threw anything she found into the bucket.
“What is this thing? It looks so strange too.”
Yun Jiao found another strange thing, it looked like a large beetle, with a tail very similar to a manta ray behind it.
She poked it, and the thing immediately moved.
She flipped it over and found that the shell of this thing was really large, and underneath the shell, there was almost no meat visible, but many legs.
It looked even more like a large beetle.
“Dad, what is this?”
Yun Jiao lifted it by its tail.
Yun Linhai took a look, “This thing, it seems to be a horseshoe crab.”
“The blood of this thing is blue, it’s very strange, and there’s not much meat, so not many people eat it.”
Yun Jiao let out a sound, and after shaking the horseshoe crab by its tail, she threw it back.
She patted its shell.
“Go on, go further away, don’t let me step on you.”
After releasing the horseshoe crab, Yun Jiao continued to look for other edible things.
Eh, there seems to be a very large green crab over there, even bigger than the three-catties green crab that Uncle found first!
