Chapter 6: A Shrewd Little Girl
Su Yumei looked at the sun, and before it was time to cook dinner, the three aunts and nephews walked in the direction of the low tide, planning to continue digging clams for a while.
Su Manjin walked to the position where the tide had just receded and looked, the beach was still wet.
She used the tongs as a rake, looking for hollows in the ground and digging them in.
In the last life, my mother-in-law liked to catch the sea very much, and she occasionally came to play, and her mother-in-law taught her the trick of digging clams, to find "eyes", and sometimes she could find a bunch of them.
Sure enough, the sand was lifted, revealing a clam three times the size of a clam. Another good thing! Mother-in-law mighty :)
Su Manjin took a step back neatly, continued to find the "eye" on the ground, and dug out a clam with a diameter of four or five centimeters.
"Auntie, the beach above is relatively dry, you can come here, the tide has just receded here, and there are more things underneath. Just dig in a place with a depression like this, and there are often clams in it. ”
Su Yumei thinks it's really strange, when did her niece know the trick of catching the sea? But it's time to go home in a while, Su Yumei didn't say anything, and hurried up to dig up.
Xiao Jinyang also ran to his aunt and sister, holding a small shovel, and digging with style.
"Wow, sister, I dug up clams!"
Su Manjin looked at his younger brother's excited little face and encouraged: "My Xiaoyang is awesome!" Keep up the good work! ”
As he spoke, he didn't stop digging and rummaging. Suddenly, the tongs touched a stone-like thing, Su Manjin shook his right hand, changed his gloved left hand to pull sand, and suddenly his eyes lit up, only to see a big clam with a diameter of about ten centimeters!
Su Manjin hurriedly cut the sand and took out the clam to show Su Yumei and Xiao Jinyang, and the three of them were very happy.
Busy until the sun was setting in the west, Su Manjin felt a little cold, afraid that his younger brother would be cold when the wind blew, so he took out the kettle he carried with him and gave Xiao Jinyang a few sips of warm water, and took his own small scarf to put on his younger brother.
Looking at the tip of Xiao Jinyang's slightly red nose, Su Yumei proposed to go home first, and it was almost time to make dinner.
The three aunts and nephews went to the puddle by the reef to wash their hands, and also washed the clams with sand in the basket, and found that today was really a good harvest.
There were all kinds of conchs, clams, oysters, and five big crabs under the bucket, and Su Yumei packed some seawater to raise.
The big basket is even more full of seven points, all of which are large and small clams and clams.
Xiao Jinyang's small bucket contains his favorite small fish and crabs, as well as a fat sea cucumber about ten centimeters long.
"Wow, sister, we've picked up a lot of things!"
"Yes, then we have to say thank you to the sea, these are all gifts from the sea!"
"Uh-huh, thank you sea!" As he spoke, he covered his little hands into a small horn and shouted in the direction of the sea: "The sea~~Thank you~~ We like the gift you give!" ”
Su Yumei looked at the laughter of her nephew and niece, and felt much lighter in her heart.
If you can have a bumper harvest in the sea, you can also find time to dig up things every day, add more food to your family, and save some money to buy meat. After all, some of the money that my mother's family borrowed from others for building an old house a few years ago has not been paid off.
Although the eldest brother built a house by himself, he borrowed it from his sister-in-law's mother-in-law. Now my sister-in-law also needs capital to open a store. After all, my brother and sister-in-law have grown up and separated from each other, so we can't help them, but at least we can't hold my brother and sister-in-law back.
The three aunts and nephews walked to the shore while talking and laughing, and saw a few people gathered together on the shore. Squatting on the ground was a dark-skinned man with a backpack in his hand, introducing himself to the tall and thin man next to him. The tall, thin man looked into the basket as if he were talking about a deal.
"Are these the only clams you have?"
"It's all here. There are also some clams. ”
"Clams don't work. The clam stew is nutritious. ”
The voice of the voice from the front came.
Su Manjin immediately came to the spirit, their clams can be sold!
"Uncle, are you buying and selling clams?" Su Manjin leaned up and asked.
Wang Chunfeng turned around and looked at the little girl in front of him with big eyes and a delicate smile, and his eyes swept over the basket she was holding on her arm, which contained several clams, which were quite big.
"Girl, do you want to sell these clams?" He looked at Su Yumei and asked. Thinking that this should be an adult who can call the shots in the little girl's family.
Su Yumei was stunned for a moment and didn't react. Su Manjin responded with a smile: "Then uncle, do you want to buy it?" ”
Wang Chunfeng didn't expect that it was the little girl in front of him who was in charge, "I want to buy it." I just talked to this brother about 10 yuan a catty, but he only has three, if you want to sell these, how about I buy them together? ”
Su Manjin visually inspected his own clams, which were relatively large, estimated to be four or five catties. She looked back at Su Yumei and said, "Auntie, let's sell some clams, keep some of them and clams, etc., and eat them ourselves?" ”
Su Yumei didn't expect that the things she dug up could be sold for money, so she nodded immediately.
Su Manjin turned back to the dark-skinned man on the ground and said, "Uncle, we didn't bring the scale out today, can we borrow it from you?" ”
Sheng Xiang nodded briskly, and took out a thin red plastic bag from his waist bag for Su Manjin to pack clams. Wait for Wang Chunfeng to select more than a dozen clams and weigh them, four catties and six.
When Wang Chunfeng chose the clams, he saw the bucket that Su Yumei put on the ground, and there were crabs and large conch in it, and immediately said that he wanted to buy it too.
Su Yumei thought that the conch and crab were caught by her niece, so she looked at Su Manjin.
Su Manjin looked at Wang Chunfeng: "Uncle, we only have five crabs, and we want to eat them ourselves, not sell them." If you want to buy a large conch, you can pick a few for you at the same price as the clams, and we will eat the rest ourselves. However, we have a fat sea cucumber that you can check out. ”
Sheng Xiang on the side was shocked, this aunt and nephew are too lucky. How to catch so many good things. I usually dig for a day and don't find so much.
When Su Jinyang heard his sister's words, he obediently handed over the small bucket and said to Wang Chunfeng: "The fat sea cucumber is very big, it's a gift from the sea." ”
Wang Chunfeng looked at the bucket with a smile, it is indeed a sea cucumber, more than ten centimeters long, this kind of goods can also be picked up? It can be seen that it is indeed a gift from the sea.
"Little girl, this sea cucumber is good, how about I buy it for you for 20 yuan?"
Su Manjin said with a smile: "Uncle, this is a wild sea cucumber, and it is hard to find." We originally wanted to take it home to replenish my mother's body, but we just happened to meet you to ask. If you really want it, this sea cucumber will be sold to you for 30 yuan. It doesn't matter if you don't want it, we'll keep it for ourselves. ”
Wang Chunfeng thought that these were indeed fresh and wild things, whether it was cooking for his own restaurant or making up for his daughter-in-law, it was okay. "Okay, then I'll buy it. You little girl is shrewd. ”
Su Yumei was stunned, a sea cucumber could be sold for 30 yuan! The sixth aunt next door went out to work on the construction site and earned only 30 yuan a day, and she had to move to resist, which was very hard. The work of the small worker is too hard, and he and his sister-in-law can't do it. I didn't expect my niece to pick up a day's salary?
What shocked Su Yumei even more was that Wang Chunfeng bought all the big clams, which was 46 yuan, five two catties of conch, 22 yuan, and 30 sea cucumbers, a total of 98 yuan.
Wang Chunfeng gave 100 yuan. Because he didn't bring any money with him when he went out to catch the sea, Su Manjin picked up the remaining 2 clams and 1 conch from the basket and handed them to him, "I'm sorry, uncle, we didn't bring change to go out, these will add 100 yuan to you, do you think it's okay?" ”
Wang Chunfeng looked at the little girl who was generous and could settle accounts, and felt that her personality was very similar to his daughter, so he readily agreed. "Little girl, I am the owner of Wangchun Restaurant in the town, do you often rush to the sea, if there are good things, my restaurant can accept it."
Su Man Jinle is happy, and he is thinking about opening up a way to make money, so here he comes. "Thank you, uncle. My name is Su Manjin, and this is my aunt Su Yumei. I still have to go to school, so I can only take the time to catch the sea, but my family can come, and we can go back and discuss. If there is seafood in the future, can we send it directly to your restaurant? ”
Wang Chunfeng nodded, "You can send it to the back kitchen to report my name, and I will explain it when I go back." "My own restaurant is one of the best in the town, and if you can have fresh seafood for your dishes, you can naturally improve your competitiveness.
Su Manjin politely thanked Sheng Xiang and said goodbye to Wang Chunfeng. Su Jinyang also learned from his sister: "Uncles, bye-bye~"
Su Yumei walked for a while, and she was still in a trance, and in less than half a day, she picked up 100 yuan? ! The niece also talked about a way to continue to catch the sea and make money?!
No, she needs to be calm and calm!