647. The first gift (1/5)
The big dragon's number slowly floated on the sea, and Ao Muyang asked for a cigarette, saying, "How many days have we been out?"
Ao Mudong asked without answering, "Oh, Longtou, are you smoking too?"
Ao Muyang held it in his mouth and said, "It's so boring, just pass the time."
"It's almost a week since I came out, and it's the twelfth lunar month." Ao Qianwen said, spitting out a smoke ring.
This trip went to sea to harvest a lot, including fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish, and the cabin was full of things.
Ao Daguo shouted in the cabin: "The water here is very shallow, I have to turn, you guys are careful."
"Okay, turn around, everyone is fine."
Before I finished speaking, someone suddenly shouted: "Hey, hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, what are you doing? The Black Dragon jumped into the water, break down quickly!"
Ao Muyang quickly walked to the stern of the boat and asked, "Where has he jumped?"
Black Dragon is very introverted. He has no communication with anyone except following him on the boat, nor does he communicate with him. Occasionally he would scream at the queen, but the queen doesn't buy his account.
The waves rolled in the water, and Ao Mupeng pointed, "It's there, I don't know what's going on, I suddenly jumped down."
The big dragon number opened to the periphery, Ao Muyang took off his clothes and said, "I'll go down and take a look."
He jumped into the water from the stern of the boat, and at this moment, the black dragon suddenly emerged.
The black dragon that appeared scared Ao Muyang. There was an orange-red thing wrapped around the guy's neck, like a wide sea snake, or a scarf with thick flesh thorns.
This scarf is alive, and it keeps squirming after being carried on his shoulder, and it looks a bit cunning.
Ao Muyang looked closely and found that the thing must be seventy or eighty centimeters long and nearly ten centimeters wide. It is orange-red all over. There are dense thorns on the outside. The bases of these thorns are connected and look petal-shaped.
Jiang Caoqi, who was watching the fun at the stern of the boat, shouted: "Damn it, what a big plum ginseng!"
Ao Muyang was surprised and asked, "Is this plum ginseng?"
"Yes, plum ginseng and pineapple ginseng, this thing is so precious. How did the Black Dragon discover it?" Jiang Caoqi said.
Ao Wenchang asked: "Can you be sure? This is the plum ginseng? This is the legendary plum ginseng?"
Jiang Caoqi focused on the key point: "You can't read it wrong. I'm far inferior to you about ordinary fish, shrimps and crabs, but I've seen more of this precious seafood. As soon as I remembered when I was a child, my grandfather started eating this kind of sea cucumber until he died later, so I'm very familiar with it."
Plum ginseng, almost the most precious sea cucumber produced in the South China Sea. It often lives at the bottom of coral groups in deep waters, and the water depth of the living environment is generally more than ten meters.
Just like what Ao Muyang and the others saw, this sea cucumber is very long and can grow to one meter long. It is rich in nutrients, good quality, and has excellent taste. It is very popular in Southeast Asia and is considered to be the best one of the edible sea cucumbers.
Due to the extreme competition in the commercial market, they have encountered overfishing in the waters of countries such as China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other countries and are already on the verge of extinction.
Ao Muyang has never seen this kind of sea cucumber because it only lives in the southernmost end of the China Sea and the South Pacific Ocean. It grows in the coral barrier reefs and coral lagoon zones that grow in the tropical ocean. Its yield is very low and rarely flows into the market. It is even rarer in recent years.
However, people who eat water have heard of its great reputation. Its value is greater than that of wild yellow croaker and can be as famous as marine gold such as bluefin tuna.
The black dragon swam over and handed the sea cucumber to Ao Muyang nodded, probably in response to Ao Muyang's previous inquiry.
This is plum blossom ginseng.
Ao Muyang reached out to try it. The sea cucumber was very heavy. One sea cucumber weighed several pounds. After getting used to the thorn ginseng and black dog ginseng that were the size of an adult's palm, the plum ginseng opened his eyes.
Holding the plum ginseng with both hands, he felt that the ventral surface of the sea cucumber was very flat, but there were small and dense tubes all over it.
When it fell into his hands, the sea cucumber opened its head and mouth, and then slowly spit out some gray-black, brown-green things.
This further verifies the identity of plum ginseng. Plum ginseng is sensitive to environmental changes. When stimulated, such as fishing, changing the ambient temperature, deteriorating water quality, etc., they will spit out internal organs.
Scientifically, it is believed that plum ginseng is a stress response, but some people think that it is to protect itself. The internal organs of plum ginseng are also very nutritious. It spits out internal organs in the face of predators, which is a self-protection behavior of a general cutting his wrist and a gecko cutting his tail.
However, there is no need to worry about their lives. After sea cucumbers are discharged from their internal organs, as long as the water quality is good, their organs will regenerate.
Ao Muyang threw away the organs of plum blossom ginseng, and the black dragon gave him a big gift. This sea cucumber is very valuable.
But he didn't want to simply sell the sea cucumbers, he wanted to raise plum ginseng.
Plum ginseng is on the verge of extinction and is very rare on the market. It is unprecedented to grow so big. It can be said that it is like a thousand-year-old ginseng and is a rare treasure.
Ao Muyang felt that killing it and selling it was a waste of resources, so it would be better to send it to his own fishing ground for breeding.
He thought that plum ginseng likes to live in a sea with excellent water quality and coral reefs. The fishing ground meets this condition, the water quality is very good, and coral reefs are expanding.
He made a quick decision and fed the sea cucumber a little gold, so he had to save his life first.
Sea cucumbers have poor eating ability, and after the golden drops are released, they are not eaten as soon as possible.
At this time, something more interesting happened. A fish emerged from the butt of the sea cucumber. The fish was probably as long as the length and thickness of his fingers, and the whole body was brown and red, similar to the color of the back of the plum ginseng.
After it came out, it wanted to eat gold. Ao Muyang scared it and it got back into the sea cucumber's butt - to be precise, the fish was entering the sea cucumber's cloaca.
This is a symbiotic fish of ginseng. It can eat the internal organs of sea cucumbers, but it will also help ginseng eat parasites on its body, forming a unique symbiotic relationship between the two sides.
In addition, it is more sensitive to environmental changes. When the water quality deteriorates, the fish will stick its head out from the inside of the ginseng body and then take the ginseng to leave the polluted sea area.
After the sea cucumber slowly ate the golden drops, Ao Muyang took it onto the fishing boat and waved to Ao Mudong to bring a large fish tank quickly.
As soon as he put the plum ginseng into the fish tank filled with clear sea water, the black dragon emerged from the water again. He raised his hands out of the water and took out another plum ginseng in his hand.
This plum blossom ginseng is not that big, but it must be half a meter...
Ao Muyang was full of heart: "The grass, is there a plum blossom ginseng tribe under the water?"
He quickly jumped into the water, and as he searched carefully, he found a plum ginseng at the bottom of a coral reef.
Chapter completed!