Beachcombing: The beach is full of amazing seafood, but my wife won't let me get out of bed!

The roar of the water pump gradually subsided.

The water jet from the pipe began to come out intermittently, making a "whooshing" sucking sound.

Wu Sui turned off the water pump and looked down into the pit.

The water level had dropped to ankle height, revealing large areas of thick, black silt.

At this moment, the bottom of the pit was like a boiling pot, the mud was stirred up and became extremely turbid, and the surface of the water was full of jumping and splashing seafood.

Small crabs scurried about in the mud, while various unidentifiable fish struggled in the shallow water, flinging mud high into the air.

"My goodness!" Wang Feng stood on the rocks, eyes wide, pointing at the bottom of the pit and gesturing wildly.

"There's quite a lot of stuff in this pit!"

Chen Yang was so anxious on the shore that he kept rubbing his hands together, his eyes fixed on the bottom of the pit.

"Brother-in-law, hurry, hurry! That big one is about to burrow into the mud. If we don't catch it soon, we'll never find it again."

Wu Sui pulled his rolled-up trouser legs up even higher, stepped on a moss-covered stone, and jumped directly into the pit.

He slipped and wobbled, almost falling into the mud.

"Slow down, slow down, what's the rush?" Chen Xue, who was watching from above, was very worried and quickly spoke up to remind her.

Wu Sui steadied himself, and as soon as he stood still, he felt something slippery under his feet.

The thing was still writhing violently, with tremendous force.

He bent down, plunged his hands into the muddy water, and scooped up a plump fish, its body pitch black and its scales gleaming in the sunlight.

The fish, plump and chubby, struggled desperately in Wu Sui's hands. With a flick of its tail, it smeared mud all over Wu Sui's face.

Wang Feng, with her sharp eyes, recognized her at a glance and was so excited that she slapped her thigh.

"Black Hair, Ah Sui, it's Black Hair!"

"Black Hair?" Chen Yang was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding.

Wang Feng loudly explained the science to him.

"Melon seed fritters!"

"These things are very clever; they usually stay in deep-water reef areas and are very difficult to catch."

"Wild ones that grow to this size could sell for at least seventy or eighty yuan per kilogram!"

"Quickly put it in the bucket, don't let it escape!"

Wu Sui wiped the mud off his face and casually tossed the black hairy cat into the large plastic bucket that Chen Yang was carrying.

"Xiao Yang, stop standing there, come down and get to work!" Wu Suichong waved from the shore.

Without saying a word, Chen Yang kicked off his shoes and jumped into the pit without even taking off his socks.

The two began to search the bottom of the pit.

They ignored the tiny, palm-sized fish and only picked out the big ones.

Wu Sui kept thinking about the brightest greenish-blue lights he had seen with the radar earlier.

The system interface appeared in his mind again.

The light screen flashed, filtering out the faint white light representing ordinary seafood in the pit and locking onto a large rock at the innermost part of the pit.

The stone was half-buried in the silt, its surface covered with sharp oyster shells, and it looked quite heavy.

"Xiaoyang, come here!" Wu Sui waded through the mud and pointed to the big rock. "Let's lift it up."

Chen Yang came closer and circled the rock, somewhat puzzled: "What could be underneath this? This rock looks like it weighs at least a hundred pounds."

There's something down there.

Hearing that there was stock available, Chen Yang stopped hesitating.

The two shouted "one, two, three" and exerted their strength at the same time.

The silt under the rocks was sucked up with a "splattering" sound.

The stone was overturned to the side, splashing up a cloud of mud and water.

Once the stone was opened, a crater the size of a washbasin was revealed underneath.

In this pool of water, seven or eight plump black-haired creatures were huddled together.

Suddenly without cover, the fish panicked and scrambled outwards.

"Holy crap!" Chen Yang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and he swore excitedly, "Brother-in-law, a whole litter of black bastards!"

These black-haired creatures were even bigger than the one we caught earlier, each weighing over half a pound, forming a dense, black mass.

Chen Yang didn't even bother to grab the net; he plunged straight into the muddy water and pressed down on the largest one with both hands.

He slipped and fell face-first into the muddy water with a "plop".

When he looked up again, his face was covered in black mud, with only his two eyes rolling around.

"Hey, Xiaoyang, be careful! That's a stone, not cotton!" Wang Feng laughed as she watched from above.

Chen Yang didn't care at all, and casually wiped the mud on his face to spread it evenly.

He pulled out the large, struggling black hair from under his body and held it high.

"Got it! This one's the fattest!"

Wu Sui ran over with the bucket, and the two of them hurriedly grabbed the whole nest of black fur and put it inside.

Wang Feng watched from the shore as more and more black hairs accumulated in the bucket, already making plans in her mind.

"One, two, three... Ah Sui, there are more than a dozen black-haired ones." "If each weighs half a jin, that's six or seven jin."

"Seventy yuan per pound, so... you've got 500 yuan in hand?"

As Wang Feng did the calculations, she herself gasped in surprise.

In the short time it took to pump water, more than 500 yuan came out like it was free.

Little Tiger on the shore watched with eyes reddening, swinging his little plastic shovel with great speed.

"Second Uncle, Second Uncle... I want to catch fish too, let me down!"

Wang Feng grabbed him, saying, "Stop fooling around. It's all mud in there. If you go down, you'll be covered in mud. Who's going to wash your clothes?"

Xiao Hu resisted, twisting his body and struggling: "I want to go down. My second uncle and my younger uncle are both grabbing me, why can't I grab them?"

Wu Sui grinned as he looked at Xiao Hu's flustered and pale face.

He walked to the edge of the pit and stretched out his hands.

"Sister-in-law, it's okay. Let him come down and play for a while. He can rinse off when he's done catching them."

Before Wang Feng could agree, Wu Sui grabbed Xiao Hu by the armpit and pulled him into the mud pit.

As soon as Little Tiger's feet touched the ground, he roared with joy, his feet stomping and splashing in the mud. With his short little legs, he went off to chase after a pufferfish.

"Second Uncle, look, I caught one!" Xiao Hu shouted excitedly as he slapped the pufferfish with a plastic shovel.

When the pufferfish was stimulated, its body swelled up, becoming like a round ball.

Yaya on the shore was furious.

The little girl watched her brother splashing around happily in the water, while she could only watch from the shore. Her little mouth twitched, and her big eyes filled with tears.

"Mommy..." Ya Ya tugged at Chen Xue's trouser leg, her voice trembling with tears, "Ya Ya wants to catch big fish too... Ya Ya wants to go down there too..."

Chen Xue quickly squatted down to coax her, "Yaya, be good. It's too dirty down there. There are big crabs inside that will pinch your legs. Let's watch Daddy hold on from up here, okay?"

"No, no!" Tears streamed down Ya Ya's face as she sobbed, "Brother's gone down... Daddy's mean, he won't hold Ya Ya..."

Seeing her daughter crying with tears streaming down her face, Wu Sui felt heartbroken.

"Wife, put Yaya down too."

"It's the middle of summer, what's wrong with being a little dirty? We won't get cold."

Chen Xue rolled her eyes at him and said reproachfully, "You just spoil me like that. We'll see how you wash it when we get back!"

Despite her complaints, Chen Xue still handed Ya Ya over.

Wu Sui caught Ya Ya and placed her on a slightly cleaner, flat rock. Then he picked up a pufferfish from the side.

"Don't cry, Ya Ya, look, a big fish!"

Ya Ya held the round pufferfish in her two little hands, her tears turning into laughter, and she giggled.