Lu Ao asked, "What do we need to prepare?"
"Hehe, we should at least bring iron tongs and buckets, right?"
"I've got those ready."
"Alright, then let's get going? The crabs should be coming out to move around."
Shrimp and crabs came out at night to forage, so they should have a good haul if they went now.
Lu Ao went to the storage room and found some iron tongs, giving everyone a pair, then took out two buckets.
He and Song Zhou shared one, while Ge Ranzhou had the other to himself.
They went to the shore outside the village to catch crabs. They would catch crabs all the way from here to Lin Family Village, then meet up at Lin Manzhang's house once they had caught enough.
When they reached the shore, Lin Manzhang looked at their group of six and suggested, "Should we split up? Otherwise, we won't catch much."
"Sure. Two teams or three?" Lin Gongshang readily agreed. "Lu Ao and Song Zhou are definitely one team. How should the four of us split up?"
"Two more teams." Lin Manzhang said to Lin Gongshang, "I'll take Qi Yan, and you team up with Ranzhou."
"No problem with that."
The others also said they had no objections.
Looking ahead, Lu Ao said, "We'll head upstream. You two teams go downstream."
"That works too. Let's catch crabs for two hours and meet at my house at ten thirty?"
"Fine by us."
The group went their separate ways.
Lu Ao and Song Zhou carried their bucket upstream, quickly leaving the other four behind.
They stepped onto the rocks. Wherever their flashlights shone, they could see crabs fleeing in all directions with claws waving.
Sensing the light, the crabs hurriedly crawled away, hiding in the sea or in cracks between