Chapter 11: Going Beachcombing

Song Chuman knew her parents certainly wouldn't agree, so she feigned compromise. "Alright, then my brother and I will go play with Xiaohua, okay?"

Xiaohua was Yang Qingrui's daughter.

Song Hexiu nodded. "That's fine, you two go ahead."

Overjoyed, Song Chuman pulled her brother and happily headed out the door.

Taking advantage of her family's lack of attention, she quietly grabbed a wooden bucket and two small shovels.

She didn't go to find Xiaohua, of course; she went straight to the beach in front of the cave.

Seeing his sister taking him to the seaside, Song Chuahai asked in confusion, "Aren't we going to look for Little Sister Xiaohua?"

"No. Things are difficult at home right now. Starting from today, we have to work hard to make money."

"Sister, but we're still small. How can we make money? By foraging the beach? But there isn't much seafood left on the beach; the other villagers have already picked it all clean."

Song Chuman sighed helplessly. "How could it all be picked clean? There's plenty."

In this era, there were no high-tech fishing boats and fishing techniques were backward, so the resources in the ocean were actually quite abundant.

The reason there was little seafood on the shore was that the people of Qingyu Village came to forage whenever they had free time, and they also didn't know the proper methods.

Some seafood was incredibly clever and very good at hiding.

Moreover, she had her "golden finger."

As they chatted, they soon reached the beach.

Song Chuman frowned. She didn't know what kind of world this was, but the times for high and low tides could not be determined using Earth's time at all.

Most of the time, the tide went out in the early morning and came in during the afternoon.

Of course, sometimes there would be two high tides and two low tides in a single day.

At this moment, the tide had receded early, and many areas had already been excavated.

The beach of Qingyu Village was divided into northern and southern sections.

The part close to Song Chuman's cave was the northern section, which consisted entirely of fine sandy beaches.

The southern part was all rocky shores, filled with numerous reefs and fierce waves. It was relatively dangerous, so fewer people went there.

After all, the waves were violent; a single massive swell could sweep a person into the sea.

Looking across the beach now, there were still dozens of people searching for seafood.

Some villagers, thinking of their livelihoods and realizing they would just be idle if they went home, did not give up even if much of the seafood had already been taken by others.

Even if they spent an hour wandering by the shore only to find two or three clams, they were still very happy.

Song Chuman thought of her superpower. It was still in the elementary stage, but the system had said it would be more than enough for finding seafood.

The method for upgrading was also very simple: increasing her mental strength.

If she used it all up every day, she could increase it a little bit the next day.

With that thought, she followed the instructions in the system manual and spread her mental strength outward.

In an instant, in some areas of the beach covered by her mental strength, white smoke actually began to rise.

However, her mental strength was currently very low, so the range of her radiation was also very small.

Song Chuman asked, "Ah Huai, do you see anything different about the beach compared to usual?"

Song Chuahai stared straight at the beach and soon shook his head. "Nothing is different."

Song Chuman frowned; it seemed she was the only one who could see that white smoke.

In an instant, the smoke vanished.

In the places where the smoke had appeared, there was actually a small white dot.

Song Chuman froze. Could it be that the places where those dots appeared were where the seafood was?

She pulled her brother and ran forward, saying as she ran, "Come on, let's go foraging!"

Seeing his sister so excited, Song Chuahai was also infected by her energy and ran with great enthusiasm. "Foraging! Foraging!"

(End of Chapter)