Chapter 171: When a Child is Quiet, They Must Be Up to Mischief

"Dad, you’re finally here!"

When Mr. Yun saw the boat full of fish, his face immediately wrinkled into a huge smile.

"Good, good, good... So many fish. It’s a good haul today."

Sardines might not be worth much, but not when there’s such a huge quantity.

This haul certainly couldn’t compare to catching tuna, but it wasn’t like they could catch tuna all the time.

"I’ll steer the boat."

A wooden plank was laid between the two boats, and Mr. Yun, cheerful and full of energy, walked over to his own boat.

He let out a grunt as he started rowing the boat.

"This weight, it’s got some heft!"

Yun Chenbei said, "Dad, you all should come over here. I’ll take you back."

Several people still added up to a few hundred pounds.

It would be good to lighten the load on the old man’s side.

Luckily, they weren’t far from the dock; otherwise, a man of Mr. Yun’s age really wouldn’t have been able to manage.

By the time they reached the dock, he was panting from exhaustion.

The women from their families, who had been waiting at the dock, all swarmed over as soon as they saw the boats arrive.

Their boatload of fish was quite a spectacle, and it naturally drew a crowd of onlookers.

Yun Linhai and the others were already used to this.

"Whoa, so many sardines! Did you run into a school of them?"

"You don’t know? Someone who came back earlier said they seemed to have run into a killer whale group that was hunting. There was a huge school of sardines, and Yun Linhai and his crew went fishing right in the killer whales’ hunting grounds."

"What? They dared to get close even when killer whales were hunting?"

"That’s nothing. The killer whales even towed their boat back for them. Didn’t you see they were too exhausted to even row?"

"For real?"

It wasn’t just people from their village at the dock; there were people from other villages too.

Most people didn’t believe it when they heard this.

But the fishermen who had returned from the sea claimed they saw it with their own eyes, and more than one person was telling the story.

The stories Yun Linhe had made up before had also spread.

In response, everyone could only envy their good fortune.

Yun Linhai and the others, their arms completely spent, couldn’t be of much help, so they headed back first.

Before leaving, they gave a warning: "All of you, be careful. There might be sea snakes in with the fish."

"Got it."

"Oh, right, there’s also a swordfish. Ah Wang, weigh that swordfish first."

The swordfish and the box of ice had been buried under the sardines, so no one had noticed them.

Following the direction Yun Linhai pointed, they dug through the sardines and, sure enough, found a huge swordfish.

Ah Wang let out a gasp. "To catch a swordfish this big... You guys are really something, Brother Lin Hai!"

’Seriously, every time Brother Lin Hai and his crew go out to sea, they never disappoint.’

"Hehe, this was all thanks to Jiaojiao."

He didn’t explain the specifics, but Yun Wang indicated that he understood.

After all, having dealt with Yun Linhai’s crew for so long, he knew a thing or two about Yun Jiao’s incredible luck at sea—it was as if the heavens themselves were chasing her to hand-feed her.

’His third uncle’s family hadn’t just picked up some random girl; they’d brought home the sea’s own daughter.’

While her grandpa and mother were busy, Yun Jiao didn’t leave.

Two little puppies followed at her side, and a cat was also on the boat "helping."

While they were fishing, they had no time to see what other kinds of fish were in the nets besides the sardines.

But now, as they sorted through it all, they found plenty of shrimp, as well as some small yellow croakers.

All these things had to be sorted out separately.

With so many fish, the sorting alone would take a lot of time.

"Grandpa, there’s a snake here."

Yun Jiao held up a sea snake she had grabbed with her small hand.

The adults looked over and nearly choked.

"Don’t move, Jiaojiao! Whatever you do, don’t move."

Yun Wang walked over, carefully grabbed the sea snake by its neck, and took it from her, only then breathing a sigh of relief.

"You really are something else! You’ll just grab anything with your bare hands!"

Even adults are a bit scared of sea snakes, let alone children.

Yun Jiao’s nerve was something else.

Shen Yunlian and the others glared at Yun Jiao. "When you see poisonous things like sea snakes, don’t touch them! Stay away."

"You know what, just go home. Aren’t you tired?"

Yun Jiao shook her head. "Not tired."

’I don’t wanna go home.’

Yun Jiao squatted down and continued to help sort the catch.

Sometimes, when no one was looking, she would directly stuff things she thought were delicious into her mouth.

She also tried to stuff them into the mouths of the puppies and Cat Boss.

’Eat up, eat up.’

Cat Boss: ’No, thanks. Already full.’

Shen Yunlian, who had been focused on sorting fish, suddenly realized that things had gotten a little too quiet over where Yun Jiao was.

When a child goes silent, they’re definitely up to no good.

She walked over to take a look.

Shen Yunlian: "!!!"

"Jiaojiao, you..."

SLURP...

With a suck, Yun Jiao slurped the last bit of jellyfish tentacle into her mouth like a noodle.

CRUNCH, CRUNCH...

’It’s crunchy.’

"You... Is that..."

Yun Jiao said, "Mom, this is crunchy and delicious. I’ve eaten it before."

Shen Yunlian: "......"

She clutched her chest and took a deep breath, managing not to cause a big scene.

"Are you feeling sick anywhere?"

Yun Jiao shook her head. "Nope. This stuff is tasty. I used to catch and eat it in the sea with Turtle."

Shen Yunlian said, "What am I supposed to do with you? This stuff is poisonous!"

Yun Jiao blinked her eyes. "I know."

Her voice was soft and sweet. "I’m resistant to poison."

It took Shen Yunlian a moment to process this. Her own daughter could not only breathe in the sea but was also immune to poison.

Her feelings were complicated, but she was also happy.

Her daughter might be a little abnormal, but this also meant her safety in the sea was greatly increased.

Just as she was thinking this, she saw Yun Jiao grab another jellyfish and stuff it in her mouth.

’So now she’s not even hiding it and just eating it openly, huh?’

"At least prepare it a little before you eat it!"

Knowing her daughter had eaten it before without any issues reassured her, but watching her stuff her face like this still made her feel like she was having a heart attack.

Yun Jiao said, "Oh," and thought about the marinades Grandma used for her raw marinated seafood.

’I can take some back to try that.’

"Mom, you guys can eat this too."

Yun Jiao pulled a big, fat jellyfish out of the pile of fish.

Her small, chubby hand patted the transparent, mushroom-cap-like head of the jellyfish, making it jiggle.

"This part, the jellyfish skin, is edible."

That was true.

The jellyfish meat was thick, with a texture like transparent jelly.

However, the stuff was mostly water and had almost no flavor when eaten plain.

It was best used in a cold salad.

The short, stubby tentacles underneath the jellyfish were poisonous, but it was fine once you squeezed them off.

Yun Jiao used her bare hands to squeeze off the jellyfish’s tentacles.

Shen Yunlian grabbed her hand to take a look.

It was perfectly white and soft, without a single trace of being stung.

Now she truly believed her daughter was resistant to poison.

"Mom, here, for you. I’ll see if there are any more."

She picked up the jellyfish and put them directly into a small basin, also adding some shrimp, crabs, and other things she liked, intending to make a big basin of raw marinated seafood to eat.

Yun Jiao happily scurried around in the pile of fish, looking for her favorites.

Through everyone’s hard work, it took over two hours to finish sorting the sardines on the boat.

Among them were seven sea snakes alone.

Live sea snakes were dangerous, but they were also valuable.

Ah Wang bought the things for six yuan each.

Surprisingly, there were also about twenty large yellow croakers inside.

The glistening golden yellow croakers looked positively expensive.