Although there is little water on the mudflats, there is still some water in this lobster hole. Bai Yu grabbed the lobster and rinsed it in the hole.
As the mud was washed away from the lobster, its unique patterns were revealed.
If the little green lobster is a simple, honest lobster in a single color, then this flowery lobster is a social lobster covered in tattoos. It is because of its colorful body that this guy has the name "flowery lobster".
Its scientific name is Chinese spiny lobster, and it is currently the most valuable lobster that can be caught in my country's waters.
This time, Bai Yu and his group are really going to make a fortune, based on what Bai Yu himself knows about the market.
Currently, wild flower lobsters on the market have grown to three or four hundred yuan per kilogram, and that was before the fishing ban. We don't know how much they've risen now.
As for whether this thing is allowed to be sold or not?
Of course they can be sold. Although in Bai Yu's memory the Chinese spiny lobster is a protected animal, it is not here.
To be precise, the flower lobster is not yet listed as a protected animal. It's only been 15 years, and according to Bai Yu's memory, it will be several more years before it is protected.
As for why Bai Yu remembers the splendid lobster so clearly?
That's because the price of wild spiny lobsters in his previous life scared him. With his salary at the time, even if he worked hard for a month, he might not be able to afford a five-pound wild lobster.
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Just as Bai Yu gave up the lobster hole, Li Xue quickly took over Bai Yu's position and reached in without hesitation.
Bai Yu had already scouted the way for her, so Li Xue was now basically there to pick up the scraps. Before long, she pulled a big lobster out of the hole.
Judging by size alone, these two lobsters are roughly the same size, both weighing over two pounds.
"Brother Bai, one after another! This lobster burrow is even a couple's burrow! Now look what happened, we've wiped them all out. Aren't we being a bit too cruel?"
Li Xue looked at the large lobster in her hand, then at the one in the white fishing bucket, and for a moment she felt a pang of tenderness.
"Xue'er, when you say that, can you control your expression? Look at your expression, you can barely suppress the urge to smile."
Besides, what's the big deal? A family should always be together. These two lobsters are clearly a couple. Let's catch them both so they won't feel lonely when they're separated.
Flower Lobster +2
Bai Yu wasn't as sentimental as Li Xue, and besides, he knew that Li Xue was just talking; it was impossible for her to actually release the animals.
Everyone here grew up by the sea and has experienced this kind of thing too many times. For them, any seafood is money.
Besides, if they don't catch them, these lobsters will eventually fall into someone else's clutches anyway, so they might as well keep them themselves.
"By the way, Brother Xiaobai, what do you think is the difference in taste between the flower lobster and the baby lobster? One is ridiculously expensive, and the other is even more ridiculously expensive."
After putting the two lobsters into the bucket, Li Xue started to have designs on them.
Unlike Bai Yu and Wang Hai, Li Xue wasn't particularly interested in catching seafood to sell for money; she was more interested in self-sufficiency.
The most satisfying thing is to eat the seafood you catch yourself.
In addition, Bai Yu had said before she went out today that all the catch from beachcombing this morning would belong to her, so Li Xue decided to try the difference between flower lobsters and small green lobsters.
"You're asking me about this? I'm not really sure either. I've hardly ever even seen a flower lobster, let alone eaten one."
Xue'er, don't tell me you want to eat this flower lobster! That lobster costs several hundred yuan. If you want to eat it, how about we eat this little green lobster instead?
If one isn't enough, let's look around here and try to catch a few more small green lobsters. Let's forget about the spotted lobsters.
As Bai Yu was talking, he suddenly realized that Li Xue had her eye on the flower lobster.
He followed closely, trying to persuade Li Xue to give up the idea, and for this, Bai Yu did not hesitate to sacrifice the little green dragon he had caught earlier.
Although this little green lobster is smaller and less expensive than the two spotted lobsters, a small green lobster weighing six or seven ounces can still sell for over a hundred yuan.
However, as long as Li Xue can give up the idea of eating the flower lobster, he can eat the small green lobster here. He still understands the principle of sacrificing the small to save the big.
Unfortunately, Bai Yu underestimated a foodie's obsession with delicious food. Li Xue didn't just want to eat flower lobsters; she wanted to compare them with baby lobsters.
After all, these two types of lobsters differ not only in appearance and size, but also in price.
Finally, at the insistence of Li Xue and Wang Hai, Bai Yu gave in and agreed that they would have lobster, small green lobster, and flower lobster for dinner that night.
There was no other way; the three of them voted to decide on this result. Besides Li Xue, who was a foodie, there was also Wang Hai, another foodie, in the trio.
Under Li Xue's patient guidance, this guy quickly sided with the lobster-eating camp, winning two to one against Bai Yu.
However, dinner was a matter for the evening; for now, Bai Yu and his companions still needed to search for prey on the mudflats.
After seeing these two lobsters, Bai Yu believed there were other lobster burrows in this mudflat. If he could catch a few more lobsters, he might as well have some tonight.
Besides, Li Xue and Wang Hai have already found the Lobster Cave, so it should be his turn next.
You have to understand, he's a man with a cheat code, and his luck stat is a whopping 41 today. There's no reason he shouldn't be better than two ordinary people.
Then, during the subsequent search, Bai Yu's expression became noticeably more serious than before.
Is it true that just being diligent in beachcombing will make things effective? It requires luck.
Being diligent was only part of the story, but the diligent Bai Yu did indeed reap a lot of rewards. This mudflat not only had lobster holes, but also many very small holes.
Upon seeing these holes again, Bai Yu immediately recognized them as breathing holes, and that seafood was hidden beneath them.
Before long, Bai Yu had dug up quite a few razor clams and scallops, and his biggest catch was a swimming crab weighing about four ounces.
As for the lobster, he didn't even see it, let alone catch it, so naturally he didn't catch it.
Bai Yu didn't find the Lobster Cave, but that doesn't mean Wang Hai and Li Xue didn't find it either.
Today, the lobster might not be Bai Yu's fortuitous encounter. When Li Xue and Wang Hai were hunting, they would occasionally find a hole in the mudflats.
Moreover, the cave yields an exceptionally rich variety of seafood. Not only can they find small lobsters and flower lobsters, but they can also dig out orchid crabs, blue crabs, and even sea snails.
On the other hand, Bai Yu's luck today can be summed up in one word: miserable.
The morning beachcombing continued until nine o'clock, when Bai Yu and his two companions left the mudflats with their buckets.
The three of them had caught nine small green lobsters, five flower lobsters, fourteen crabs, six large conch shells, and more than ten kilograms of various scallops.
Two of the lobsters had nothing to do with the white fish, at least not those he found. But he dug up all those scallops, razor clams, and the like.
He dug it out of the mudflats shovel by shovel, and he was so tired that he could barely straighten his back.
Although Bai Yu's harvest this morning was not great, he also did not use up much of his luck value today.
Even after they finished beachcombing, his luck stat still had 37 points left; he had only used up four or five points in the entire morning.
From this perspective, Bai Yu's bad luck today isn't due to bad luck, but rather because his good fortune hasn't arrived yet.
After finishing their beachcombing, Bai Yu and his two companions carried their buckets directly back to Bai Yu's home.
Bai Yu didn't plan to sell his catch from the beachcombing to his third uncle at the purchasing station. Instead, he called his father.
As mentioned before, Bai Yu's father works as a chef at a hotel in the county town, and he has already risen to the position of head chef.
Bai Yu and his friends planned to sell their harvest to Bai Yu's father's hotel. In the past, Bai Yu would never have dared to sell his harvest to a hotel.
After all, his best harvest in the past was only a few small green dragons. Not many of them were of high quality, so the hotels wouldn't even consider his catch.
But today is different. Today they caught a flower lobster, which is a much higher grade than a small green lobster.
In addition, the number of flower lobsters is decreasing day by day, so whenever wild flower lobsters are available on the market, they will inevitably attract competition from all sides.
Bai Yu plans to keep one lobster, two small green lobsters, and a pound of razor clams for himself, and sell the rest.
He originally didn't want to keep the razor clams, but since Li Xue and Wang Hai had found the baby lobsters and the flower lobsters, and they were going to be self-sufficient tonight, he couldn't fall behind.
Then he chose to keep a pound of razor clams for Bai Yu to use to make a good impression.
Half an hour after Bai Yu made a phone call to his father, an Audi A6 pulled up in front of his house, and Bai Yu's father and another middle-aged man got out of the car together.
"Dad, Uncle Sun."
"Godfather, Uncle Sun."
"Uncle."
The person who came with Bai's father was surnamed Sun. At this time, he was the owner of the hotel where Bai's father worked, and also Bai's father's high school classmate.
Bai Yu and his two companions were very familiar with Uncle Sun, as they had frequently dined at his hotel in recent years.
Uncle Sun's hotel and Bai Yu's school are both in the county town. Bai Yu and his friends usually live at the school, and everyone knows what the food in the school cafeteria is like.
Back when they were in school, Bai Yu would take Wang Hai and Li Xue to Uncle Sun's hotel every ten days or so to improve their meals.
They didn't go to the hotel to spend money; they went to freeload off the hotel's staff meals.
Bai Yu and his two companions didn't know how well Uncle Sun's hotel was doing, but the staff meals at their hotel were really delicious. Every time the three of them went there for a free meal, they would eat until they were stuffed before leaving.
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