Chapter 48 Trypophobia
"Damn, it's a flower dragon, playing on the swing by itself!"
"Flower dragon? Are you talking about the Splendid Lobster? No, no, take it out and let me see!"
Lin Baixian ran over here upon hearing this.
Liang Ziqiang reached out decisively, avoided the claws, grabbed the lobster's body, and pulled it out.
This lobster was quite large, weighing about half a pound.
Its body is turquoise, its breastplate is blue and purple, its antennae are bright red, and each segment of its abdomen has black horizontal stripes and white spots. The whole thing looks colorful and bright, and a bit majestic.
"This... is truly a splendid lobster!"
Liang Ziqiang didn't expect that when he wanted to take a random shrimp from the hole, he would take out a Splendid Lobster! Splendid lobsters are commonly known as flower lobsters. Although they are also found in other waters, they mainly live in China's waters, so they are called Chinese Splendid Lobsters.
But even in my country, it is not common. Because it is rare and majestic and beautiful, it was even called "divine shrimp" in ancient times.
Around 2014, Liang Ziqiang saw a news report on his mobile phone that someone had caught a one-meter-long lobster, which was sold on the spot for a high price of 600,000 yuan.
Of course, that era cannot be compared to the 1980s now;
It was a huge one, one meter long, so the one in Liang Ziqiang's hand was naturally far behind.
But even so, if this flower dragon can be sold through the right channel, the price will definitely not be low!
"Oh my god, it's a real shrimp, let me touch it!"
Lin Baixian quickly stretched out his monkey paw and said as he touched it:
"It would be great if we had a stove and a pot. It's a shame that we can only roast it!"
Liang Ziqiang almost raised his foot: "Fuck you, you've been eating and drinking as much as you can on the island for a few days. You really think you're a rich man, don't you? You have to use seawater to feed them, and you have to bring them back to sell for money!"
Of course, Lin Baixian was just talking nonsense for fun and had no intention of actually eating it.
He cooperated well and brought a bucket, filled half a bucket with water, and helped Liang Ziqiang raise shrimps.
While doing all this, he muttered something in his mouth, refusing to accept the defeat:
"Grouper isn't cheap, didn't you eat one this morning?"
"This grouper was stabbed to pieces by a spiked rake. Are you going to sell it to me? If you keep this shrimp in seawater, it will stay alive and kicking for a long time!"
As the two were talking, a yellowish-brown fish with brown spots all over its body and skin like tiger skin suddenly swam out from among the rocks.
"Hold the grass tiger stripe? Wait, where is the rake? Tiger stripe is a good thing!"
Seeing clearly that it was a tiger stripe, Lin Baixian immediately lost his composure and wanted to poke it with a rake.
Liang Ziqiang quickly grabbed him and said, "The tiger skin grouper is not cheap either. It is much cheaper than the eastern star grouper, but much more expensive than the bluestone grouper! Keep it, and consider it as a deposit for ourselves!"
Liang Ziqiang killed a grouper and ate it in a daze this morning. He still regrets it when he thinks about it now.
But at that time I had no idea whether I could walk out of the island alive, so I just ate it.
Now it was different. Since I could go back alive, there were so many good things on the island, so I would just leave them here, and every bit of it would be my future wealth.
Including Fox Bay Island, there are already two large deposits. Of course, the one on Fox Bay Island is far from comparable to this one.
You can’t eat this, you can’t eat that either. Lin Baixian, holding the rake, suddenly felt hesitant.
I was so excited to be able to get out alive, but suddenly I couldn't enjoy the food freely!
Fortunately, bluestone grouper is easier to find than tiger grouper.
The two men finally killed a relatively cheap blue grouper and took it back to the beach to roast it.
In addition, a few large scallops were caught with a scoop net.
For this meal, we had grilled abalone, grilled scallops and grilled grouper.
A dozen coconuts brought from the other side of the island were also placed on the boat. Two more were taken out from the boat and cut open.
The two of them took a few bites of abalone and grouper, and then drank a few sips of coconut milk. It was a perfect combination.
Since the coconut milk came into being, the only shortcoming of the rich man’s life has been made up...
After drinking the coconut milk, I didn’t waste the coconut meat and just smashed it and ate it.
After eating and drinking, before taking a rest, in order to prevent the old boat from being carried away by the tide, the two men worked together to push the old boat to the beach and put it there first, and at the same time tied the rope of the boat to the palm tree, which was also a double insurance.
After doing all this, before it got dark, the two of them went into the cabin and began to sleep.
The main reason is that I have been trying to save myself these past few days and I am so tired that I am on the verge of collapse.
Now that I have some time and feel relieved, I should get some more sleep, replenish my energy, and make preparations for my journey back home the day after tomorrow.
The next morning, when I woke up, I felt like my whole body was recharged.
But this also has certain side effects.
For example, Lin Baixian in front of us, when he was thirsty and tired, he collapsed in the boat like a dead dog.
Now he ate well, drank well, and slept well, and his fever had long since subsided. In the morning, he jumped out of the cabin, landed on the beach, raised his rake, and started yelling:
"The tide is receding, all the good stuff is coming out! Pick them up quickly, it would be a waste if you don't pick them up. Only an idiot would not pick them up!"
It switches directly from a dead dog to a mad dog without even any transition in between.
Liang Ziqiang pretended to kick him into the sea:
"He brewed it. You've only been on this damn island for a few days? You've already regressed to become a primitive man!"
Lin Baixian said as a matter of course: "The tide is receding on the 15th, and there are more good things than the previous two days. Can't I be excited?"
Liang Ziqiang looked up to the east and estimated, "It's only seven or eight o'clock now, the tide hasn't completely receded yet. Wait a little longer, then you'll be excited."
The tide starts to recede at around 6:00 a.m. on the 15th day of the lunar calendar, but it takes time for the water level to recede to a very low level until around 9:00 a.m.
Then at twelve o'clock noon, the tide will start to rise again.
So from around nine o'clock to noon, for these two or three hours, the water level remains low, which is really suitable for going to the sea to pick up goods.
Of course, it’s seven or eight o’clock now, the tide has receded a bit, and there are still things to pick up.
In fact, why did Lin Baixian need Liang Ziqiang to remind him of these rules? He also knew that it was not the most suitable time for ocean fishing, but he just couldn't sit still and made a fuss.
The two men caught a few large prawns and a golden retriever.
These two things were not too expensive, so I just took them as breakfast. While grilling the shrimps and fish, I slowly waited for the tide to recede.
I was thirsty, so I opened two more green coconuts.
Eating prawns and drinking coconut milk, this breakfast tastes a bit like eating fried dough sticks and drinking soy milk.
After another two hours, the sea water receded little by little.
In the few days since I came to the island, I have never seen the sea water recede so low.
If the sea was only half-hidden when they were looking for seafood near the reef a few days ago, then now the sea was meeting them openly.
The low-lying parts of the reefs that were submerged by the sea also gradually revealed their true appearances.
The two men walked to the reef area carrying tools, and Lin Baixian was like a tape recorder, saying "fuck, fuck" over and over.
Liang Ziqiang was also shocked by the scene before him.
As we walked along, we saw that the low places that had been soaked in water for a long time were now filled with so many seafood that the word could only be described as dense.
Even Liang Ziqiang, who has never had trypophobia, is about to develop it!
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