Happy Fishing Village

Chapter 191 Pearl Picking

What Wang Hai chose were some big-looking clams, but they opened more than 30 in a row, and there were only seven beads.

"Then go on."Wang Hai cheered on himself, with so many clams, there will always be enough.

After more than an hour, Wang Hai collected a total of [-] pearls. Except for the two golden pearls found by the navigator at the beginning, Wang Hai only found one. The rest are mostly white, and the quality is naturally high. It's also worse.

"broken".Wang Hai suddenly slapped his head, he was so fascinated, he forgot the time, everyone on the island might be in a hurry.

The more anxious people are, the more likely they are to make mistakes. Wang Hai was on the bottom of the sea, and he tripped over after just a few steps.

"Grandma, you can't bully me."Wang Hai looked back and saw that it was a dead sea clam, but this sea clam was a bit too big, the shell was one meter long.

Wang Hai remembered that it seemed to be called something, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't remember it.

"Forget it, let's go back with a quick one."Wang Hai picked up the two shells and put them into the space. After dropping ten drops of psychic liquid, he quickly swam towards the island.

"Hey, Brother Haizi, you are back, everyone has been waiting anxiously."When Wang Yong saw Wang Hai came back, he hurried over. Although everyone knew that he was good at swimming, he would be worried if he didn't come back for a long time.

"I found a group of tiger crabs, and if I catch them for a while, the time is too late."Wang Hai said in embarrassment, and apologized to everyone.

"I'm sorry Captain, thank you."Wang Ying said this, but his face was full of excitement, because what Wang Hai brought back was a tiger head crab, that is to say, Wang Hai caught it specially for him.

"Okay, let's all go back to the boat, it's getting late."Wang Hu shouted loudly, and at the same time secretly decided that he would find an opportunity to talk about Wang Hai in the future. The sea is impermanent, and if something happens, he can't explain it to Liu Xia.

"Okay, let's eat."Wang Hu didn't go into the sea, he waited on the boat and cooked for everyone.

"How is everyone's harvest?"Wang Hai asked with a smile, it looks like it should be pretty good.

"It's okay, I caught a net of shrimp."Wang Yong said that although it is not very expensive, three or four hundred yuan is still available.

Most of what Wang Ying and others caught were crabs and shrimps, and some caught fish by casting small nets.

"Captain, when I came to Cangjiang, I saw a lot of decorations made of shells. They are very beautiful. Do you know where they can be processed?"Gao Mingxiang asked, it looks pretty good.

"Hey, those are all made by machines, and they are all the same. What's so good about it, it's only good if it's made manually."Wang Yunming sighed and said that it is a pity that machine production is popular now, after all, it is fast and the cost is low, while manual work takes a few days to complete, while machine production can be completed in less than half a day.

Now there are many shell crafts, shell paintings, shell pen holders, shell zodiac signs and so on.

Wang Hu said: "My second uncle can make this in the house where you live. You can take it back and let him have time to make it for you."

Wu Ming was overjoyed, and said: "That's really great, so our village has them."

Wang Hai is not very clear about this. It is estimated that the second grandfather would have learned it when he was young, but he has not done it for many years.

Many people think that shells are just beautiful, not of much practical significance, but just for viewing. However, in ancient times, this was not the case. A long time ago, shells were used as currency. Shell coins were the earliest used in history. , the longest currency and a treasure of traditional culture.In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, some places in Yunnan and Guizhou still used shell coins to exchange.

In ancient times, shellfish coins were used for small shellfish, oval, light yellow or golden yellow, with two gray horizontal stripes on the back, and the character shellfish came from this, the hieroglyphs.Moreover, many Chinese characters nowadays, as long as they are related to the economy, most of them will have a radical of Bei.

"By the way, Captain, I picked up a conch, take a look."With that said, Gao Mingxiang took out a conch.

I saw that this conch is oval in shape, the spiral layer is rolled inward, the shell mouth is long and narrow, the outer lip and inner lip have fine teeth, and the radula is tongue-shaped.The snail part almost disappears when it reaches the adult body, the shell surface is smooth and shiny, and the patterns and colors are rich.

"You're lucky. This is a treasure. It's called red peony snails. Most of them are distributed in the western Indian Ocean. There are relatively few domestic distributions. However, they are colorful and are loved by many collectors. They are also of good value. ".

In the collection of snails, there are four varieties that are the most popular, namely "Prince", "Tianwang", "Golden" and "Red Peony".

Wang Hai also explained that, in fact, there are four famous snails, but because they are too precious, they cannot be bought with money, and the number is very small.

Although Wang Hai said that the value of this precious snail is not bad, Gao Mingxiang does not intend to sell it. After all, it is not as embarrassing as it was a few months ago. There is no money to spend. This can be taken home, played by younger siblings, or collected up.

After all, this thing will not depreciate much, and it is okay to sell it when there are difficulties in the future.

In order to thank Wang Hai and everyone, Wang Ying took out the nine-section shrimp he caught and used it as a staff meal.

There is also a legend about the nine-section shrimp, that is to say, it has a special sense of integrity. After it comes out of the water, it will spit out some secretions to kill itself, so that those who like to try new things can't get it. feat.Therefore, people who raise shrimp should change the water frequently to wash away the secretions to prevent it from "suicide".

In fact, it’s just a legend. The origin of the name of the nine-section shrimp is not because of its integrity, but because there are deep and shallow horizontal lines on the shrimp. After cooking, there are nine white patterns, so it got its name.

Wang Hai peeled one, the shrimp meat was sweet and crispy, and it was even more delicious when dipped in ginger juice.

However, when cooking this nine-section shrimp, it is more sophisticated than other shrimps.Because the shell of the nine-section shrimp is hard, and the meat is tough.If it is too hot, it will affect the taste, but if it is raw, I am afraid that people with a bad stomach will not be able to stand it.

"I don't know, can I meet a big yellow croaker?"Wang Ying said, this big yellow croaker is hard to come by, sometimes, you want it, but you just can't find it.

"It depends on the situation, live with the situation, if it doesn't work, go to the market and buy two, the living can still be suffocated to death by urine"?Wang Hai said casually, now that there are tiger head crabs and pearls, the only thing missing is the big yellow croaker and the beautiful big lobster, which are available in the sea area where he dived, so just pick a smaller one later.

(End of this chapter)