What is it like to have piles of abalone piled in front of you but not being able to take them all home?
Jian Yuelan is not only heartbroken but also heartbroken.
However, the bucket is full and there is nothing that can be done about the heartache.
"Sister-in-law, let's go back, there's no place to pretend."
Chen Qiuju and Sister-in-law Bai looked at their buckets and then at the remaining abalones. They looked at each other and asked her, "Do you feel bad if you don't pick up so many abalones?"
"Distressed!"
It feels as bad as if someone robbed her of her money.
"Would you like to pick up some more and take them back?" Sister-in-law Bai was tempting.
The eyes that were always gentle and watery became cunning, as agile as a little fox.
The corner of Jian Yuelan's mouth twitched, she was teasing her like a child.
"Sister-in-law, please stop being so secretive. If you have any ideas, just tell me."
This is what she said, and Sister-in-law Bai was also unambiguous.
She smiled, pointed to the coconut tree more than ten meters away, and said, "Since you are so powerful that you can hammer a wild boar to death, it must not be a big problem to break a tree. I need coconut leaves to make a container for abalone. What do you think of this idea?"
how?"
Jian Yuelan's eyes suddenly lit up, "Okay."
She turned and left, "You two, please be safe. I'll be back soon."
"good."
So the three of them divided the work and cooperated.
Jian Yuelan went to pick coconut leaves, while Sister-in-law Bai and Chen Qiuju continued to pick abalone.
The bucket is full, but it can be placed on the reef.
When Jian Yuelan came back with coconut leaves, there were a bunch of abalones on the large rocks that were originally flat.
"Sister-in-law, I brought the coconut leaves back."
Sister-in-law Bai came up from the water, shook the water drops on her hands, sat on the rocks, took some coconut leaves, and started working.
Her hands were so fast that the coconut leaves moved as her fingers flew.
After a while, Tian Zi Ge appeared.
Jian Yuelan was quite surprised, "Aren't you a city girl? Why can you still knit?"
In her impression, this kind of skill usually appears in rural areas, and few people in the city have it.
Sister-in-law Bai didn't even raise her head, "Grandma taught me how to weave bamboo, rattan, leaves, and I can also knit sweaters."
"Then why can't you sew?"
Chen Qiuju was puzzled. The technical content of knitting was obviously higher than that of simple needlework. She could knit well but could not sew clothes, so she couldn't figure it out.
"The needle and thread are too thin."
Sister-in-law Bai kept moving her hands, looked at the sky and urged, "You two, don't be idle, hurry up and pick up abalones."
If you don’t finish eating it, you can dry it and sell it.
What a good thing. If I didn’t pick up more, I would be sorry for their hard work on this trip.
Finally, the basket made by Sister-in-law Bai was ready.
She braided it tightly and finely. Although the shape is not so pretty, it is stronger and stronger.
Jian Yuelan tested the firmness and found that it was better than she expected, so she said, "Let's see how much it can hold."
Chen Qiuju and Sister-in-law Bai immediately took the abalones from the rocks and put them into the baskets. Jian Yuelan helped.
Soon, the basket was full and could not continue, but there was still a lot left on the rocks.
"There are still so many things that haven't been installed yet."
Chen Qiuju looked reluctant to give up.
Jian Yuelan didn't want to leave, but it was getting dark and they really couldn't delay any longer.
"Sister-in-law, we can't take these with us."
The implication is: throw it back into the sea.
Sister-in-law Bai also agreed, "Xiao Jian is right, it's getting darker and darker, we should go back."
"OK."
Chen Qiuju gritted her teeth, endured the pain and threw the abalone back into the sea.
At this moment, the white waves hit the rocks and splashed with water.
Chen Qiuju was startled, looked at the waves, and said anxiously, "Let's go back quickly, the tide is about to rise."
"Walk!"
It is very exciting to compete with the tide. The terrain here is relatively low and the entire coastline will be flooded when the tide comes.
In order to avoid being drowned, the three of them walked quickly.
More than ten minutes later, the three people, almost trotting away from the danger zone, appeared on the higher beach.
The danger is completely eliminated.
Then they can walk sideways like crabs.
The joy of the harvest made the three of them happy, talking and laughing all the way.
When she reached the junction of the beach, Jian Yuelan found that there were people crowding in front of her.
There were also faint sounds of crying.
Her heart skipped a beat, couldn't it?!
Maybe they encountered another unexpected incident.
"Go and have a look?"
Sister-in-law Bai had a gossipy face and was ready to make a move.
"Walk."
Jian Yuelan raised her feet and walked toward the crowd.
Sister-in-law Bai and Chen Qiuju followed immediately.
When I took a look, my dear, Xiao Xiaocao was sitting on the ground crying.
My whole body was as wet as a drowned rat, and my hair was still dripping with water.
"Why is she crying?"
Jian Yuelan was curious and asked softly the sweet girl Zhang Xiuxiu next to her who looked a little strange.
"Sea goods are gone."
Zhang Xiuxiuyan briefly and comprehensively told what happened. It turned out that Xiao Xiaocao was thinking of picking up more seafood and did not retreat with the crowd in time. When the big wave hit, she slipped and rolled down the rocks.
Had it not happened that a few fellow villagers with good water skills rescued her regardless of their own safety, this person would have died.
But on the contrary, the fruits of her hard work for several hours were gone.
No, after the fear subsided, the sea creature who thought of her could no longer hold back his sorrow and howled loudly.
"Don't you have anyone to advise you?"
Sister-in-law Bai asked Zhang Xiuxiu.
This guy has a bad temper and is even more aggressive than that hot girl Zheng Wan.
Hearing what Sister-in-law Bai said, she said angrily, "I tried to persuade her, but this Sister-in-law Yang is nothing. She..."
"You are nothing. You little whore. I will tear your mouth apart. Believe it or not."
Xiao Xiaocao, who had long ears, didn't care to cry anymore, jumped up and turned around to confront Zhang Xiuxiu.
But her eyes met Jian Yuelan's, and she was suddenly startled.
"You, you guys also come to catch the sea."
She sneered, her wet and dripping hair stuck to her pale face, and she looked really embarrassed.
Jian Yuelan didn't want to talk to her, so she told Sister-in-law Bai and the others, "Let's go back. I think she still has the strength to curse, so she doesn't need our sympathy and care."
If it were someone else, they would have to comfort and take care of him, so Xiao Xiaocao would be fine.
This is a person who only holds grudges but not gratitude.
"Haha, my sister-in-law is right, some people don't deserve sympathy and care."
Zhang Xiuxiu still remembers Xiao Xiaocao's words about "little whore". According to her temper in her hometown, she would have to have a fight with Xiao Xiaocao.
But now that she is a member of the military, she has to think about her men as well as herself.
Thinking of this, she waved to Shu Ju and the others, "Let's go, let's go back too."
Shu Ju and the others immediately followed.
Xiao Xiaocao looked at the group of people gradually retreating, his eyes were so red that he wanted to bleed.
Thinking of the seafood she had been swept away by the sea, she couldn't help crying again.
Hearing the cry from behind, no one looked back.
After returning home, Jian Yuelan and the others began to count today's harvest.
One bucket of abalone per person does not need to be divided, whoever picks it belongs to whomever.
What is in the basket needs to be divided equally.
In the end, the three of them got more than thirty kilograms of abalone.
The harvest is quite good.
Jian Yuelan did not plan to sell these abalones, but planned to dry them and send them back.
The next day was a nice day, so the staff at Jian Yuelan's food station asked for advice on how to dry abalone, and then went home to play with it.
There are two ways to dry abalone, namely direct drying and hanging up to dry.
Jian Yuelan chose to hang herself in the sun.
It's too troublesome to dry in the sun directly. You have to turn it over after three hours.
Hanging in the sun is not that troublesome, and it can also help with nausea and vomiting.
Just after hanging the abalone, the sound of rapid footsteps suddenly came.
"Brothers and sisters!"
Zheng Yong's voice was heavy.
Jian Yuelan had a bad feeling in her heart.
She looked at Zheng Yong. The man had a haggard face and scarlet eyes, filled with grief and apology that could not be hidden.