Return to the small fishing village of 1982

Their home is not far from the beach, and it only takes ten minutes to walk there. However, after arriving at the beach, everyone did not go directly to the beach, but continued walking along the shore and outside the pier.

There are sand clams distributed in every part of the beach, and they cannot be dug out with just a few shovels.

Sand clams are a type of clam, and can also be called flower clams, but people in their village are accustomed to calling them sand clams because they are dug out from the beach.

Even though they are dug out from the beach, most of them have no sand inside. In rare cases, there is sand in them, and they only need to be raised for one night before they can be eaten.

Use it to make soup or noodles and put a few clams in it to make it more delicious.

Those clams in the market in later generations were not liked by the villagers. They were not as fresh as the clams they dug themselves from the beach, and the meat quality was not as good as their sand clams.

Moreover, the sand clams on their beach are somewhat different from the flower clams on the market. The sand clams come in different sizes, the small ones are about the size of a fingernail, and the big ones are the same as flower clams, but the small ones are also very fleshy.

There are two high tides and two low tides every day. During the daily low tide, children will dig and play, but on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, when the tide ebbs, people in their village are accustomed to digging outside the pier.

Because only on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, the tide will recede very low and the beach on the pier will be exposed. It is usually full whether it is high tide or low tide.

Whenever exposed, there will be sea melon seeds, sea oysters to pry, and spicy snails to pick up on the beach surface.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea!

If you live by the sea and work hard, you won't go hungry.

After arriving at the pier, they walked slowly down the steep stone slope. By this time, the tide had receded, revealing a small beach. There were already several women squatting there and digging for sand.

Generally, fishing is done by women and children at home. Ye Yaodong has not been to the beach since he got married. He is not a child, so he has no novelty on this beach.

But after he was reborn, he felt a sense of age, and his mood was different. He was a little more fresh about this beach.

He took the lead and walked over to look at the bucket next to the woman in the village. "Is there anything dug? Oh, there really is. How long have you been digging?"

Everyone was digging hard on the surface of the beach with spatulas, and no one paid any attention to him.

When a man idles around all day long, do you think they are the same as him? Wouldn't it be better to spend more time talking about gossip?

No one paid any attention to him, and Ye Yaodong was not annoyed. Seeing his son squatting alone on the beach and playing in the sand, he walked back to his wife and saw that in just such a short time, there were already six or seven more things in her basin. Sand clam.

Hearing two more ding-dong sounds, he squatted down and said, "You dug pretty fast."

The spatula is the most practical tool for digging clams, bar none!

Some people don't press the wooden handle up, so they use a spatula blade to scratch there.

Lin Xiuqing also held the spatula. She said without raising her head: "Practice makes perfect, and it doesn't require any skills. Just dig the sand."

Well, he did this a lot when he was a child. Children who grew up on the seaside played most often by digging in the sand.

Even though it was coming, he couldn't just watch. There was no spatula to dig with, so he just used his hands.

There were small bubble holes on the beach. Ye Yaodong took out a sand clam and found it accurately.

Listening to the continuous ding-dong sounds in the basin, Lin Xiuqing glanced sideways, so fast?

Ye Yaodong noticed her gaze and raised his eyebrows, "What are you doing? Do you think I'm awesome? Do you want me to teach you?"

As he spoke, he slapped the surface of the beach with both hands, and then another!

He dug into the basin and said, "This thing is very easy to dig. I used to dig a lot when I was a kid."

"How do you get it right?" She was really curious.

Although her natal family is in the town next door, her area is not close to the sea and does not have a mountainous backing.

After being married to the seaside for a few years, she always followed her mother-in-law and did whatever she wanted. Every time she went to sea, she followed her, and everyone used a spatula to go there in small pieces, unlike him. It's buckled like this.

Ye Yaodong pointed to the beach and they breathed through these holes. Where are the holes?

As he talked, he demonstrated and took out two more.

He's very good at buttonholes.

It's because it's the first day of the new year and the beach at the pier is exposed, so it's so easy to find. The one in the middle of the beach is not so easy.

Lin Xiuqing also dug out curiously, and sure enough!

"Then why use a spatula? Just dig it out!" You have to dig hard with a spatula. After a long time, your hands will become very sore.

"You still have to use a spatula. It's more convenient to have a tool. I didn't have a spatula, so I dug it out with my hands. Some of them are on the surface, and you can breathe without the need for small holes. After a while, the beach was stepped on. You You can’t see the holes anymore, you just have low tide now, so you can see the bubble holes.”

Lin Xiuqing kept watching him talk. Over the years, except for the period when they first got married, they rarely had normal communication. He never saw the dragon all day long. When he came back, he would only eat and sleep, and at most he would ask a few questions every day.

Most of them looked carefree. For a moment, he spoke so seriously and lectured her, which really made her a little uncomfortable.

"What are you looking at? Dig!"

"oh!"

But after a while, more and more people came to dig clams. People these days are all very hardworking, except Ye Yaodong.

After squatting for a while, he felt his legs were a little numb, so he stood up, twisted his waist and neck, and looked at the sea in the distance.

Just dig for a while and show off a little bit, but don't show off too hard.

The tide was still receding at this time, and there were many small boats parked near the pier. Due to the tide, many boats were stranded on the beach and could only wait for the next high tide before they could return to the sea.

The time now is 9:30. Today's tide should reach the bottom at 10:30, and then start to rise again. It will be full around 4:30 in the evening, and it will bottom out again around 11:30 at night, and it will be full around 7:00 in the morning.

Every day the tide rises and falls an hour later than the day before. Although Ye Yaodong had just been reborn today, he could tell by looking at the tide what time the tide would rise and fall tomorrow.

No wonder his eldest and second brothers wanted to go out to watch the tide and sail the boat. It was approaching the first day of the new year, and the tide would recede even further in the middle of the night. They would probably go out to sea around 1-2 o'clock at night, and the tide must not have risen much at that time.

There wasn't enough tide and the boat couldn't get out.