Despite this, she was still following behind me, and except for being a little injured, she really didn't hold me back.
But for me, who grew up in the mountains, I know very little about seafood, and I don’t know what I can and cannot eat.
Wang Yi has quite a lot of research in this area. She told me that it is impossible to pick up seafood on the beach at this time, unless you dive into the seabed.
We walked all the way along the beach, and I also observed the sea. This is also the reason why I came to the beach. I wanted to see if there were any passing ships.
Even if the hope is slim, I don't want to let it go.
"Chen Feng, look." Wang Yi suddenly stopped me.
"what?"
I looked in the direction of her finger, and there was nothing there except a piece of rock.
"There are rocks there, there should be food." As she said that, she quickened her pace and walked towards the rocks.
I followed her, but she reached the reef before me and was already searching in the crevices of the rocks.
To say that she is really more familiar with the sea than me, I saw her digging through the cracks in the rocks and took out some shellfish and snails.
"Look!" She held the shellfish in her hands and said to me with a smile.
"What is this? Can it be eaten?"
"Of course you can. In fact, most things in the sea are edible, such as these shellfish and snails. If we take them back and boil them in water, they will taste better and you can drink the soup."
As she spoke, she continued to fumble in the crevices of the rocks.
Suddenly, she said "Ouch" and quickly pulled her hand out of the crack in the stone.
Then I saw a stream of blood flowing out from between her fingers. I frowned and said, "What's wrong? Did you get pricked?"
She squeezed twice and said: "I got pinched by a sea crab, it's okay."
After saying that, she put the injured finger into her mouth and sucked it.
I said to her: "Get out of the way and I'll do it."
"Be careful and try another hole. This crab seems to be quite small."
I smiled and said, "Isn't that good?"
After that, I put my hand into the crevice of the stone, explored it a few times, then grabbed the crab firmly and pulled it out quickly.
"Slow down, you slow down, be careful!"
"It's okay, bring the bag."
The bag is a discarded plastic bag we just picked up at the beach. It probably washed up on the island during high tide.
After putting the big crab into the bag, Wang Yi gave me a thumbs up and said, "You are really awesome, you got it out in one go."
"To deal with this thing, you have to be quick, accurate and ruthless."
"Do you often catch crabs?"
"I used to catch crabs when I was a kid. There is a creek not far from my house. Sometimes I would catch crabs with my friends."
"Then you'd better be careful, there might be some in these cracks in the rocks."
"That's just right, we're going to have a whole crab feast tonight." With that said, I started working again.
While touching it, I asked Wang Yi: "Hey, why are you so familiar with the seaside? Your home is not close to the sea!"
"I studied in college in a city near the sea. During the holidays, my classmates took me to the beach. After a while, I got to know it."
"So your college life is quite colorful?"
Wang Yi smiled and said: "It's not bad. The four years of college should be the happiest four years of my life."
"Are your college classmates still in contact?"
"No, we still kept in touch the year after graduation, but gradually we lost contact."
"If there was a chance now to take you back to your college days, would you be willing?"
Wang Yi said without even thinking, "Of course I do. I've always dreamed of going back and starting my life over again... It's a pity that I can't do it over again."
"Actually, you don't have to be so pessimistic. It's not too late... just treat this experience as a reshuffle."
Wang Yi laughed at himself and said: "It's easy to say, but my good cards have been beaten to pieces by me."
She and I were chatting while searching among the rocks. After a while, we actually got a lot of seafood.
There are shells, snails, crabs, and two sea urchins, which is enough food for us tonight.
I also found a stone platform the size of a washbasin, with a recess in it, like a small washbasin, so I took it with me and picked up a pebble along the way.
Wang Yi asked in confusion: "Why are you carrying this? It's so heavy."
"You'll find out later."
The stone platform is indeed a bit heavy, but without this thing, it really can't be done.
We also picked up a few bottles on the way and went to the small pool to get some bottles of water.
When I returned to the cave on the mountain along the same route, it was already dark. I took a look at the traps along the way, but still found nothing.
Go back to the cave and light the fire first.
Wang Yi asked me at this time: "It's over, we don't have a pot, how can we cook these things?"
I patted the stone platform next to me and said, "Didn't you just ask me why I bothered to get this thing back? Do you know now?"
Wang Yi looked surprised and said: "You want to use this as a pot?"
I smiled, then put all the pebbles I had just picked up from the beach on the fire, and then poured the purified water into the stone platform.
When the pebbles were heated to a high temperature of three to four hundred degrees, they were picked out with branches and thrown into the stone platform. The water inside quickly boiled.
Wang Yi looked on in shock and said with a smile: "You are really good at it. I also asked you why you spent so much effort to get these things. It turns out they are very useful!"
"Hurry up and praise me."
"Yes, yes, you are the most capable, you are the best!"
As she said that, she suddenly became serious: "Sincerely, Chen Feng, in fact, I have felt that you are very smart since I met you. Your smartness is not only reflected in business, but also in life."
"Do you know why."
"Because you've been through it?"
"It counts," I paused, and then said, "but more importantly, I grew up poor, so no environment can help me."
"I really admire you, especially in our current situation, you can still be so calm... It would be impossible for another person to do it."
I didn't reply. In fact, why wasn't I in a hurry?
I didn't sleep well at all these two nights, not because of the cold, not because of fear, and not because of despair.
It's because I'm worried about An Lan, her children, and the company...
Now that something like this has happened to me, I have no idea what kind of chaos the family is in, and what unexpected consequences that contract will bring to me?
I think about these all the time, and I think about An Lan and the children all the time...
But what can I do?
I can't fly, and I don't have the ability to reach the sky. I can only try my best to survive. Only by surviving can I hope to leave here.