Chapter 3 This golden finger is amazing, or you are lucky

Chen Hui sank and floated several times.

Rebirth, White Moonlight, Golden Finger.

Three things shocked me today, each one more unbelievable than the last.

"Chen Hui! Chen Hui!!"

On the shore, Chen Xiaoqiao shouted at the top of his lungs at the surging sea under the moonlight.

I felt so regretful. I should not have asked Chen Hui to go to the sea to catch snails.

"Uncle Xiaoqiao, stop shouting!" Chen Hui couldn't stand it anymore, responded loudly, and then found a place to go ashore.

"You bastard, you want to scare me to death, how dare you go into the water?"

Chen Xiaoqiao stopped walking back to the village to call for help. He turned around and saw Chen Hui, who was safe and sound. He was so angry that he wanted to hit him.

"That's a matter of skill. As long as you have enough skills, there's no sea you can't explore."

Chen Hui picked up the wooden barrel and tongs and walked through the rocks. In addition to the oyster snails, there were two crabs and a fish in the wooden barrel.

"Uncle Xiaoqiao, your snails always keep their promises."

Chen Hui poured all the snails in the bucket to Chen Xiaoqiao, caught two crabs and a fish, and exchanged the bamboo basket with a lid from her fellow villager who was fishing at the beach.

"Take it and take it."

Normally, you would just pick some snails among the rocks, while fish and crabs would be unexpected gains if you were extremely lucky.

The aunt from the same village who came to catch the snails was afraid that Chen Hui would change his mind, so she didn't even want the snails in the basket.

He tied up the crabs and fish with straw ropes and walked away with big strides.

"Why did you bring back this broken basket?" Chen Hui's actions stunned Chen Xiaoqiao.

"Where is it broken? This bamboo basket is obviously newly woven."

"Uncle Xiaoqiao, don't leave so quickly. I'll get you some good things and pick up Auntie tomorrow. Lend me your belt."

As Chen Hui spoke, he untied one end of the bamboo basket's cross-body strap and pulled out a bamboo strip from it.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

Chen Xiaoqiao was puzzled, but he did not stop what he was doing. He untied his belt and handed it to Chen Hui.

"Let's go down to the water. A wooden barrel can't carry it down. This bamboo basket is just right."

Chen Hui buckled the bamboo basket up and down with his belt, divided the bamboo strips he had just removed into three parts, and fixed the belts on the bottom and both ends of the bamboo basket.

Then wrap the bamboo shoulder strap that was originally worn across the body around the belt ears on the waistband to secure the bamboo basket firmly at the waist.

The belt buckle is fastened to ensure that the lid of the bamboo basket will not be washed open in the water flow.

After getting ready, Chen Hui took the pliers and walked towards the reef again.

"You better pay attention. The tide will rise in an hour at most," Chen Xiaoqiao reminded.

"I see. I can't stay in the water for an hour."

Chen Hui said this and went into the sea again from his previous position.

This time, Chen Hui didn't think any more and kept diving deeper, collecting all the snails he encountered along the way into the bamboo basket.

After turning over the reefs and dead corals, we soon found several sea cucumbers as thick as index fingers.

Unfasten the belt buckle, open the lid of the bamboo basket, put the sea cucumber in, and then close the lid again.

Before Chen Hui could fasten his belt, a fish startled by the noise of turning over rocks swam by.

Chen Hui almost didn't think twice. He pressed the lid of the bamboo basket with one hand and reached out to catch the fish that passed by.

Looking at the fish in his hand, he was dumbfounded.

Chen Hui found that in addition to having clear vision in the water, he also did not feel the need to hold his breath and return to the surface to breathe. Even when diving deep into the water, he did not feel uncomfortable.

The most important thing is that I seem to be able to sense where something is.

Chen Hui felt like he was not a person who went into the sea, but more like a part of the sea. The fish in his hand jumped, broke free and swam away.

Chen Hui did not rush to chase it. He watched it quietly until it swam behind a reef, then he slowly swam over and casually stretched out his hand without seeing the fish.

"Hi~"

Chen Hui greeted the struggling fish in his hand and put it into the bamboo basket.

I continued to touch some snails around and caught two blue crabs.

After passing a large pile of rocks on the seabed, Chen Hui stopped, swam back a little, went around the back of the reef and took a look.

The tail of a dark red leopard gill bass sways gently in the water among the mottled reefs.

"Wow!"

Chen Hui couldn't help but sigh, but his voice was drowned out by the sea water.

The leopard grouper is also known as the eastern star grouper, and most of them are less than three pounds in size.

Judging from the length and width of the tail, Chen Hui boldly assumed that it should weigh about three kilograms, which would make it worth a lot of money.

The eastern star grouper is ferocious and aggressive by nature.

Since it couldn't run away anyway, Chen Hui didn't act rashly.

First go back to the shore, pour everything in the bamboo basket into the wooden barrel, and then go into the water again with the empty bamboo basket.

Without gloves, in order to protect his hands, Chen Hui could only take off his shirt and put them on his hands for protection.

He reached in from the other direction, grabbed the grouper's belly with both hands, stuffed the fish into the bamboo basket, closed the lid, and fastened the leather belt buckle.

The intense struggle of the red snapper and Chen Hui's actions stirred up the moss on the reef and blurred the vision.

Chen Hui grabbed his clothes with one hand and protected the bamboo basket with the other as he swam upstream.

The high tide was approaching, and Chen Xiaoqiao was waiting anxiously at the beach.

Seeing Chen Hui coming ashore, he hurried forward to pull him up and said, "Why did you take so long?"

"Yes, the tide is about to rise. Let's go quickly. These two blue crabs are quite big. Uncle Xiaoqiao can take them to pick up Aunt Shuhui tomorrow."

Chen Hui took the two blue crabs from the bucket to Chen Xiaoqiao's bucket.

Draw a bucket of sea water and put the grouper and the bamboo basket into the barrel.

Carrying the heavy wooden bucket, I walked along the rocks to a flatter place, took off my clothes and squeezed out the excess seawater, and put on my pants and rain boots again.
"That's good."

The price of blue crabs is not low. Two of them can be sold for more than one dollar in town.

Chen Xiaoqiao was overjoyed and did not pretend to be polite to Chen Hui.

Seeing that the bamboo basket was filled to the brim, he asked curiously, "What did you catch that's so big?"

"We caught a grouper, it must weigh about five or six kilograms," said Chen Hui.

"What? Eastern Star Spot?"

"Can this thing be caught with bare hands? And it weighs five or six kilograms? How many meals would it take?" Chen Xiaoqiao's voice suddenly became higher.

When using a flashlight, you can see the dark red color of the Eastern Star Grouper through the gaps in the bamboo basket in the water light.

"Good luck, good luck."

"I plan to sell this tomorrow and use the money to pay for Wenjing's medical expenses. The rest can be used to nourish her body."

Although life was a little poorer, Chen Hui was still very happy because he had regained his youth and health and could marry his beloved Bai Yueguang.

And now that I have this ability, I can make a living by the sea and never have to worry about not making money.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're already so rare even before you get married."

"If the news that An Wenjing is going to marry you is made public, I wonder how many young men will be heartbroken."

"You are so lucky, this is what they call good things happening to good people."

(End of this chapter)