Yu Xiaocao rubbed her nose, embarra.s.sed by her ignorance. She was a girl who lived in the inner regions of the mainland, so she didn't understand the dangers of the sea. It just looked like a milky-white and crystal-like 'mushroom', but it actually had the potential to be deadly. She really learned something new today!

　　'Slos.h.!.+' 

　　The siblings heard the sound of slas.h.i.+ng nearby and turned their heads towards the direction of the sound. They looked over and saw Yu Hai coming out of the water. He wasn't wearing an upper garment, exposing his lean and st.u.r.dy chest.

　　"Cao'er, look at what I found!" Yu Hai exclaimed with a grin and revealed a mouth full of white teeth, which made his complexion appear even darker. However, his tan skin made him look even more masculine!

　　Little s.h.i.+tou immediately rushed over and shouted, "Abalone! It's an abalone! Father, you found abalones!"

　　Xiaocao was curious and hastily went over. She saw several dark greenish-brown colored sh.e.l.lfish within Yu Hai's big hands. Each one was around ten centimeters in length and looked rather una.s.suming. Was this the highly popular abalone?

　　"Such a large abalone would cost at least a few hundred copper coins [1] if we sell it in town. Father got nine of them. If we sell them to a big restaurant, we should be able to get two or three taels!" Yu Xiaolian also came over and exclaimed in surprise.

　　Two or three taels? Based on Xiaocao's understanding of the current economy, two or three taels can buy three to four hundred catties [2] of first-cla.s.s white rice, one hundred catties of first-cla.s.s pork, around seventy or eighty chubby live chickens… Two to three taels were enough to buy one year's worth of food for her entire family, which consisted of over ten people.  

　　However, Yu Xiaocao knew an abalone's nutritional value. Her original plan of using the abalones to nourish her family's health was disrupted by the value of abalones.

　　Xiaocao had a basic grasp of her new grandmother's personality. With her grandmother's temperament, she would tear down whoever dared to suggest that they eat the abalones! If they take them home, then it would just be like throwing a meat bun at a dog——it will never return!

　　Yu Xiaocao's eyes darted about, then she acted like a spoiled child and asked, "Father, are these all for me?"

　　After hesitating for a moment, Yu Hai nodded and said, "I already mentioned it earlier, if we find abalones, we'll use it to cook nutritious foods for you and your mother. We were quite lucky today. If we can't finish them, then we can slowly eat them after they're dried."

　　Yu Hang and Yu Xiaolian casted a skeptical gaze at their father. They knew exactly what kind of person their father was. He was someone who would work wholeheartedly without any complaint. Even if Madam Zhang made unreasonable demands, he would never refute her.

　　Even s.h.i.+tou, who was five years old, knew that if they brought the abalones back, then they wouldn't even be able to touch them, let alone slowly eat them!