Chapter 1144 — You Went Yourself
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"Nothing but little clams and tiny sea snails — that's all there is!" An Liwen said with a sour face.
"This should be about enough, shouldn't it? I don't think we'll catch anything more no matter how long we keep at it!" Su Taizao was already chilled to the bone. It was not yet midsummer, the sunlight was not yet strong, and the night sea was icy — it had not soaked up much warmth — so Su Taizao had long since gone stiff with cold. If not for An Liwen still being there, he would have scrambled ashore long ago.
"Fair enough. Let's take what we've got — it'll do for two people, at least. We'll give it to that little troublemaker and Yaoyao first; I can't look after anyone else!" An Liwen was only human, and he too was frozen half to death.
An Liwen and Su Taizao came ashore and found their haul was not bad at all — between the two of them they had gathered a basinful, enough to boil up a pot of seafood soup. So An Liwen, beaming, carried the basin of small seafood off to find Gu Mengyao.
"Yaoyao, I just caught a whole lot of seafood — all fresh, straight out of the sea!" An Liwen said, setting the seafood down in front of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
But before Gu Mengyao could say a word, Shen Yushu spoke up first: "What kind of seafood is this? Scrawny snails and clams — they're so tiny. How are we supposed to eat them?"
"Well... this is all there is right now... this is all you can catch in the sea at the moment..." An Liwen groaned inwardly. These miserable snails and clams, he thought, had cost him no end of effort to dredge up! At this hour of the night, catching even this much was no small feat!
"Oh, then you two eat them yourselves. We've got proper seafood — we don't need yours!" With that, Shen Yushu pulled a foam cooler out of the car's trunk and opened it. Inside was every kind of seafood imaginable, a bit of everything!
"Gah?!" An Liwen's eyes went wide.
"Whoever said you have to go into the sea to catch seafood if you want to eat it? You went and caught it yourself — I never told you to!" Shen Yushu rolled her eyes and looked at An Liwen with contempt.
"I... I..." An Liwen wanted to shout that he had been played for a fool again! But this was a loss he had to swallow in silence — he was the one who had misunderstood; what did it have to do with Shen Yushu? She had never told him to go catch anything. He had simply read too much into it...
"Brother Shield, let's grill seafood!" Shen Yushu said, ignoring An Liwen entirely, and cheerfully carried a box of seafood over to Wei Zhao's campfire. By now Wei Zhao had already set up the grill and was about to start cooking.
An Liwen stamped his foot in fury and went back with his little basin of snails and clams.
"Brother An, why are you back? How did Gu Mengyao take it? Was she moved that we went out in the middle of the night to catch seafood?" Su Taizao had been too far away to hear the earlier exchange between An Liwen and Shen Yushu.
"Moved, my ass!" An Liwen had already calmed down, but Su Taizao's question brought it all back, and he exploded: "They've got seafood — whole boxes of it, bought from the supermarket — and we went and caught our own. What idiots we are!"
"Huh? Then why didn't they say so?" Su Taizao was stunned, thinking that he had gone into the sea for nothing and nearly frozen to death.
"Ugh, it's my own fault for not asking!" Though An Liwen suspected Shen Yushu had deliberately kept it from him, he also blamed himself for not asking more carefully. This was the second time he had come off worse. If he had asked clearly back at Gu Mengyao's house what they wanted to eat, he could have just gone to the supermarket and bought it! And if he had asked just now whether they had any seafood, he would not have had to go into the sea at all!
"So... Brother An, what do we do now?" Su Taizao asked.
"We eat it ourselves!" An Liwen said gloomily. "Otherwise all that catching was for nothing!"