Golden Fishery

I saw a bunch of large scallops and crabs stuck between the gaps of the messy reefs. The reefs were scattered like a maze.

In this way, this reef is a bit like Heibawang's breeding farm, and scallops and crabs are naturally its reserve food.

Great white sharks have a variety of feeding habits, and they can eat everything from large and small fish to cephalopods to shellfish. Because they have sharp, hard and dense teeth, they can crush shellfish such as scallops and crabs for food.

Qin Shiou was not interested in these scallop crabs. What attracted him was a large shell more than ten centimeters long.

This shell is extremely beautiful, slightly oval in shape, with a raised center on the back, thick and flat sides, and a smooth shape. The most exciting thing is its deep red color, the water is surging, and this red ball shines in a trance, like a ball of flame.

At this time, the shell was inhabited on a gray-white reef, so that the color contrast made the crimson flame color more vivid and eye-catching.

After seeing this big shell, Qin Shiou was overjoyed. He saw at a glance that this thing was the famous golden snail in the shellfish collection circle!

Baoluo has another name in shellfish, called "baby", which shows its preciousness.

In fact, most snails are not worth much. They are widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate sea areas all over the world, especially in the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific and the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean, where they can be easily found.

The golden snail is a different species. The reason why it has such a nickname is not that it is as precious as gold, but that some ancient civilizations used this kind of snail as currency before the hard currency of gold was not in circulation.

Now the role of the golden snail lies in its ornamental value. Qin Shiou is considered a well-informed mariner, and there is a big dragon palace Wengrong snail in his fishing ground. But after seeing the golden snail, I still feel dazzled. This thing is so beautiful, the shell is too smooth and beautiful.

Swim to the side of the reef and have a look. Qin Shiou was slowly disappointed, the golden snail was dead, only the shell remained.

In this way, its value will be reduced a lot. Although a live golden treasure conch that is normally so big and beautiful can't compete with the national treasures like Dragon Palace Wengrong Conch, it is not a problem to sell it for more than one hundred thousand Canadian dollars.

It doesn't matter if you die. You can take it back and give it to Winnie. It’s much cooler than giving gold or silver jewelry as a gift to a girl.

After arriving here, Qin Shiou was also a little tired,

Ready to return to the fishing ground to rest.

result. Seeing that he was interested in the shell, Hei Bawang suddenly rushed over, put his head on the nearby rock, and knocked over the broken rock.

Qin Shiou was taken aback. Is this guy crazy? Or this little thing is its restraint and doesn't want to move itself?

Pushing away the reef, Hei Bawang swept the sand with his fusiform mouth, revealing more than a dozen small golden conchs with the same shape.

These little treasure snails are still alive, and some of them were still looking for food with their tongues out. The reef where they were hiding was pushed away, and they were so frightened that they quickly retracted their bodies and retracted into their shells.

Qin Shiou is having fun now, are there still so many brats hiding here? Just right. Take it back and raise it, this thing is very beautiful in the fish tank.

After collecting these little treasure snails, Qin Shiou knocked away all the surrounding reefs to see if any fish had slipped through the net.

Golden snails often live on rocky seabeds near the low tide line in the intertidal zone. When the tide recedes, they like to hide under reef blocks, in the gaps and caves of coral reefs. So to search for them, you have to break through the reef.

These little treasure snails are only three or four centimeters long. It is much smaller than that snail shell, presumably the mother snail died after giving birth here. Leave that snail shell on the reef.

Finding a big scallop to eat the meat inside, Qin Shiou controlled Bao Luozi to slowly get into the scallop, together with the big shell, put it in the mouth of the shark, and took Hei Bawang to ride the wind and waves all the way to the fishing ground.

The Black Overlord followed suit, and Qin Shiou infused it with a lot of sea god consciousness to help it recover from the wounds on its body, so that its speed and explosive power could keep up with the man-eating shark.

After giving the White Shark the command to return to the fishing ground, Qin Shiou withdrew his sea god consciousness and began to sleep.

Waking up early the next day to exercise, Qin Shiou took Wei Ni to deliberately run on the beach. A wave came and went, and the golden sun shone on the golden snail shell, reflecting a brilliant and dazzling light.

"What's that?" Winnie noticed and ran over. After picking up the golden snail, she was full of surprise, jumping and screaming like a little girl, "Hurry up, Xiaoqin, come and see, it's the treasure of happiness." screw!"

For Qin Shiou, the golden snail is something that can be sold for money, but in Wei Ni's eyes, it has been transferred to another identity, the happy snail.

Happiness Conch is a nickname for Golden Conch, which originated from the Mughal Dynasty in India. At that time, the emperor Shah Jahan met a beautiful candy girl Jiman Banu in the market. At that time, he happened to have a golden conch on his body, so he gave it to the candy girl, and told her that it would make her a lifetime. happiness.

Therefore, the golden snail later got this nickname. In India, this kind of snail is also one of the courtship gifts of noble youths.

Regarding the love story between Shah Jahan and Jiman Banu, the most famous one is the Taj Mahal. After the death of Queen Jiman, King Shah Jahan was so sad that he designed this world-famous mausoleum for her. .

In a sense, it is also because of the exaggeration of the love myth of the Taj Mahal that there are rumors of the happy conch. Qin Shiou dares to bet that this thing is definitely a rumor fabricated by a certain pick-up master later.

But Winnie didn't care, she was very happy after picking up the snail shell, and what was even happier was that Qin Shiou helped her sweep away the sand and found two more small snails, which were still alive.

Last night, Qin Shiou found a total of twenty-four live little treasure snails, twenty-two were sent to the coral reef waters, and the other two were sent to the seaside to be kept as gifts for Wei Ni.

Qin Shiou went back to the villa and found a large fish tank left over from before. After cleaning it, he put some reefs and tender seaweed in it, and Wei Ni put the snail shells and small treasure snails in it for breeding.

With the treasure snail found in the morning, Winnie was immersed in joy all day long, and she was even more smiling when she took tourists on a tour, fascinated a group of old men.

Qin Shiou was more troubled here. When Wei Ni came back at night and saw that he was unhappy, she asked what was wrong. Qin Shiou sighed and said, "Aren't you going to a party on the 18th? There will be an auction dinner, I don't know what I should do." What to take to shoot."

There are actually a lot of valuable things on him, but almost all of them are alive, so they definitely won't be able to be auctioned at the dinner party.

Qin Shiou regretted it a little now. He knew that he should have brought a few of the Yingyang gold coins back when he found them. If he had the Yingyang gold coins, he wouldn't be in such a difficult situation now.

Winnie blinked her eyes wide. She thought for a while and said, "Actually, this question is very simple. We have great things to participate in the auction."

"What?" (to be continued)