"Mom, this cave is a bit low. Why don't we dig it a bit? This place hasn't been discovered for so many years, maybe we can come back again next time." Even if we don't come to go beachcombing, it would be nice to just play around here.

"No need. This is just a cover. Although there's no one here, the cave will still be more concealed. We'll go back to our own room later." Liu Fangmei had no intention of staying in the cave. It was perfect for her, an adult, to stay while the children stayed. She was too tired to stand up straight.

Soon the sun went down and the tide receded. Three children and one adult, each with a bucket and a pair of tongs, walked along the beach, picking up trash as they went.

Soon the buckets were full. Liu Fang didn't look at the buckets for the little ones, but burst into laughter when she saw her little girl.

The son collected mudskippers and some shellfish, which are at least edible. He cut them himself, and there were some shellfish in addition to fish, shrimp, and crabs. The little girl, on the other hand, collected only empty shells, including quite a few hermit crabs. In the end, these little things were completely inedible.

The two older brothers wanted to laugh when they saw their sister's bucket full of empty shells, but they didn't dare to, afraid that the little girl would get angry, so they put several bright moons into their bucket.

Xia Yutang was sulking. Of course she knew that the things she picked out were inedible, but she didn't want the edible ones either. Anyway, her mother and two brothers could find them, so one more wouldn't make a difference.

She intended to pick these and put them in the flowerbed in her own space, which is why she didn't pick the live ones.

"Okay, okay, you picked the best ones. Don't cry, we'll go grill seafood later." Liu Fangmei saw her little girl about to cry, so she quickly picked her up to comfort her and handed the rest to her two sons.

There was quite a lot of stuff, so they brought out a large cup basket to pick through it. They could still see a little light, so they quickly picked up everything that was edible.

When they could no longer see anything, they came over to take stock and found out how much they had collected. There were five buckets of various sizes, and four cup baskets were completely full.

This was on the premise that Liu Fangmei put those alive into the Qingyu Space Sea. Generally, as long as he caught something alive, he would throw it directly onto the shore of the Qingyu Space.

He hoped that the fish he threw in would reproduce, making it much easier for them to eat seafood in the future. Actually, he was more interested in getting some deep-sea fish, the more nutritious kind, because his children all needed some supplements.

Of course, chicken soup and seafood are both fine, but she thinks deep-sea fish are more nutritious.

"How about we go out to sea?" Xia Yutang, always eager for excitement, suggested that since the wind wasn't too strong yet, they could head out to sea.

"Don't cause any trouble, little girl. Do you even know what going out to sea means? We can just pick up seafood in this bay, but if we go out to sea, we'll be discovered." Although this place is practically completely closed off, if we go out to sea, we'll definitely attract attention.

"Then forget it. Our family has too many secrets. If we get caught by accident, we'll be in big trouble." Xia Qingshu was actually eager to try going to sea at first.

But when he kept hearing that he would be arrested, he gave up the idea. His family's good days had just begun, and he didn't want to push his family to the brink of danger.

"Mom, look at this huge crab..." While they were talking, Xia Qingyan, as if summoned by something, actually pulled out a large crab from under the rocks.

It was bigger than his face when he picked it up; he just didn't know how something so big had ended up on the beach with the tide.

"It's so big, is it still alive? If it is, let's take it back to our place to raise it." Liu Fangmei picked up the crab and shook it, finding that its legs were still moving. She turned it over to look at it again and found that it was a female crab. She then put it back on the beach in the jade space.

I just put the crabs, which were still not very alive, on the beach in the Jade Space, and they immediately became lively and fast.

She stopped paying attention to the big crab after it swam into the sea. She had brought in quite a few different kinds of seafood today, which should be enough for them to enjoy seafood freely for a while.

"Mother, what are the patterns of the tides? Do they occur at certain times?" They lived a bit far from the sea and didn't often go beachcombing, so they were quite confused about the patterns of the tides.

"This is a neap tide, which happens every day. It's called a semi-diurnal tide, meaning there are two neap tides every day. A true mixed tide occurs twice a month, but we won't be staying long this time, so we don't know if we'll encounter a big tide." Actually, he didn't really understand the patterns of tides. He had just stayed here and observed for a while, and after returning home, he asked the old man for advice, so he only knew the basics.

"It's called a small tide, but we've already collected so much stuff because of it. If a big tide comes, wouldn't we collect even more?" Xia Jingshu couldn't imagine how much stuff they could collect during a big tide.

The two brothers suddenly looked forward to the arrival of the mixed tides and were calculating in their minds how many baskets and buckets they needed to prepare to cope with a big tide.

It feels like a big tide could keep them at the beach for more than half a month.

"Alright, alright, it's already dark. It's not safe to stay on the beach any longer. Let's go back to the cave. We had a good haul today, so let's have grilled seafood." She really wanted to taste all those big and small seashells. When the two children asked her about it, she remembered that there was still a high tide. She felt the same anticipation for the high tide as the two children.

I found a few stones nearby and piled them up to form a rectangular grill, and then took a wire mesh of about the same length from the space.

After burning some wood inside the stone, the wire mesh was placed on top, and the seafood was cleaned one by one. You can grill whatever you want to eat.

They caught quite a few large crabs today, but only two died. The shrimp they caught today weren't very big enough to be used for display, so Liu Fangmei scooped up a few large lobsters from the sea in her spatial dimension.

It's the kind of lobster that weighs about two or three pounds, perfect for grilling.

Seeing the seafood on the grill, little Xia Yutang sat there playing with his seashell toys while swallowing his saliva.

Because the seasonings were taken from inside the space, they smelled incredibly fragrant. The aroma was so enticing that she couldn't concentrate on playing with her toys.

It smelled so good that, aside from smelling it, they really had nothing else to do but wait and see.

"Goodness, this is edible. These are wild oysters that I dug down from the rocks with my partner. Don't let their small size fool you, they're very nutritious." Because they occasionally eat a little spicy food, but their little girl can't handle it at all.

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