A stunning mermaid dressed in the 1980s, the whole family lined up to pamper her endlessly.

Chapter 150 Coconut Crab

"Brother, hurry up and climb the tree to pick some coconuts for me."

They had now arrived at a coconut grove.

Yun Jiao stood under the coconut tree, looking up at the coconuts on the tree with longing.

Yun Xiaowu had already climbed up the tree in a few swift movements.

"Okay, stand back a bit, this is heavy."

Yun Jiao nodded and moved a little further away.

Yun Xiaowu was struggling to pick coconuts while perched on a tree.

Standing a little further away, Yun Jiao looked around on the ground to see if there were any coconuts that had fallen and could be eaten.

Instead of finding a coconut, they spotted a guy eating one.

Hmm... this thing looks like a giant spider!

To be precise, this thing looks like a spider, a crab, and a shrimp all at once.

Its feet are very big and long, its head looks a bit like a lobster's head, and its tail also looks like a lobster's tail, curled up in a ball on its abdomen.

Yun Jiao watched it eating a coconut, and curiously leaned closer to take a look, even reaching out to poke it.

Who knew that thing was quite aggressive, actually raising its large pincers to try and strike her hand.

Of course, Yun Jiao reacted quickly and pulled her finger back.

She stared at the big guy with a dangerous look in her eyes.

"Jiaojiao, what are you doing?"

Yun Chennan walked over and exclaimed in surprise when he saw what was in front of her: "Coconut crab."

Yun Jiao looked up at her third brother.

Yun Chennan squatted down beside her.

"This kind of thing is very rare nowadays."

"Can you eat it?"

Yun Jiao asked.

This thing looks really strange, I'm not sure, let me ask.

"Yes, and it tastes great."

"It is precisely because it tastes good and is large that it has been caught by many people. There used to be coconut crabs in the coconut groves near our village, but they have been eaten almost all of them."

This thing is bigger than a crab, has more meat and tastes better, and can fetch a good price. If one of these pops out in a coconut grove near where people live, it will be caught.

He ate coconut crabs twice when he was a child, but unfortunately, coconut crabs have become increasingly rare, and they haven't appeared for several years now.

Hearing that it was delicious, Yun Jiao no longer cared that the big thing looked strange.

There are very few creatures in the deep sea that look stranger than it.

Upon closer inspection, she's actually quite pretty.

"Brother, they've been arrested."

She added at the end, "I'm not selling it; I'll eat it myself."

Yun Chennan chuckled: "Okay, eat it yourself."

Yun Jiao became interested and wanted to see if she could find any other coconut crabs on the island.

So he took a small stick and started wandering around.

Yun Xiaowu finally managed to get two coconuts down, but in the blink of an eye, he discovered that his sister was gone!
He has such a big younger sister.

Yun Jiao was looking for coconut crabs on the ground when she suddenly heard a noise coming from the tree.

She looked up and was stunned.

This...this giant crab can even climb trees!

That's right, a coconut crab is currently on a coconut tree.

That coconut crab was quite large.

Yun Jiao tried to climb the tree, but unfortunately, she simply didn't have the talent.

She tried a few times but gave up and decisively started calling for backup.

"elder brother!"

That shout brought several of his older brothers over.

Everyone thought she was in danger.

There was no danger. Yun Jiao pointed to the big guy on the coconut tree: "Coconut crab, I can't climb up there."

When Yun Xiaowu and the others looked up, they were also stunned.

"What kind of crab is this? It can even climb trees?"

Clearly, Yun Xiaowu had never seen a coconut crab before.

"My third brother said this is a coconut crab, and it's delicious."

Upon hearing that it was delicious, Yun Xiaoliu immediately rolled up his sleeves: "I'll do it!"

Yun Jiao: "Sixth brother, be careful, this coconut crab is very fierce."

She handed Yun Xiaoliu a wooden stick. "Use this to poke."

Yun Jiao was envious as she watched her sixth brother quickly climb up the coconut tree.

The large coconut crab quickly fell down, bounced on the ground, but didn't die. After a while, it was still full of energy, raising its large pincers to prevent anyone from getting close.

Yun Xiaowu handed over a wooden stick, which the coconut crab easily snapped in half.

"Ouch... Goodness, if this hand gets pinched, it'll probably be ruined."

Yun Jiao nodded in agreement.

They wrapped the coconut crab's large claws in palm leaves and tied them up like a rice dumpling before safely tossing it into the bucket.

"Let's go, let's keep looking."

The group split up to look for coconut crabs, and later found three more.

However, since two of them were small, for the sake of sustainable development, the two small ones were released.

I caught three big coconut crabs.

"This one has to be big."

Yun Xiaowu was holding the largest coconut crab's claws, which, when fully extended, could cover his upper body.

"The children in the village have never seen such a big crab before."

"Hey, it's a big crab that grows on land."

There are still too few of these; they've searched this coconut grove for so long and only found a handful.

Yun Chennan: "Alright, it's time to go back."

They've been out for about three hours.

They got hooked on seafaring on the island and caught a lot of things along the way.

Fish, crabs, shrimp, octopus, snails, and so on.

The buckets were already overflowing, so the snails were put into burlap sacks.

The coconut crabs were also put into the burlap sack.

Yun Jiao rubbed her stomach; she was hungry.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I need to eat instant noodles."

The thought of instant noodles made everyone swallow hard.

I felt even hungrier.

They planned to stay until the afternoon, so they brought cooking utensils with them.

The siblings went back in a lively atmosphere, but before they even arrived at their destination, Yun Xiaowu and the others started shouting loudly.

"Grandpa, Grandma, Father, Mother..."

"We're back. Look what we caught."

Shen Yunlian and the others had already started the fire.

They had even steamed a pot of oysters.

Grandma Yun called to them, "Come and get ready to eat."

The staple food is baked steamed buns.

Oysters are pure meat; plump oyster meat only needs to be rolled in the prepared dipping sauce for a tender and fresh bite.

I also brought the three packs of instant noodles, which I put directly into the pot to cook. I also added some washed shrimp and crab, and it immediately became a deluxe version of seafood instant noodles.

"smell good……"

The whole family was incredibly tempted.

After washing their hands and grabbing their bowls, everyone sat down on the rocks and got to work.

Yun Xiaowu and the others were so excited that they chattered away, revealing everything they had found.

It is evident that the harvest was quite fruitful.

"Jiaojiao found such a big clam."

Yun Xiaowu spread his arms wide, gesturing with such an exaggerated arc that the adults in his family didn't believe him.

Yun Chennan said truthfully, "It's not as big as Xiao Wu gestured, but it's about the size of a washbasin at home."

"What? There's a really big clam? Where is it? Let me take a look."

Wang Mei was incredibly curious. What kind of island was this? How could a clam grow so big?

Grandpa Yun suddenly realized something: "It's a giant clam, isn't it?"

He couldn't think of anything else that could grow to such a size except a giant clam.

Yun Chennan nodded: "Yes, it's giant clam shell."

"Where is it? Where is it?"

Yun Jiao slurped up the noodles in her mouth.

“We put it in the sea. My third brother said it’s a protected animal and we can’t catch it.”

(End of this chapter)