311. A Surprise (2/10)
I saw that between the cracks of the messy reef, there were a bunch of large scallops and crabs stuck in the reef, the reef was scattered, like a labyrinth, these scallops and crabs lived in it, and they couldn't run, they could only survive in it.
In this way, the reef is a bit like the Bullreson farm, and the scallops and crabs are naturally the reserve food for its cultivation.
Great white sharks have a wide range of diets, ranging from large fish and small fish to cephalopods to shellfish. Because they have sharp, hard, dense teeth, they can bite shellfish such as scallops and crabs for food.
Qin Shiou was not interested in these scallop crabs, and what attracted him was a large shell more than ten centimeters long.
This shell is extremely beautiful, slightly oval in shape, with a high center on the back, and a thick, low and flat side with a smooth shape. The most exciting thing is its whole body of crimson color, the water surges, this red trance shines in a trance, like a flame.
At this time, the shell is perched on a gray-white reef, so that the contrast between the colors makes the crimson flame more vivid and dazzling.
After seeing this big shell, Qin Shiou was overjoyed, and he could see at a glance that this thing was a golden treasure snail that was famous in the shellfish collection world!
The snail is also called 'baby' among shellfish, which shows its preciousness.
In fact, most of the snails are not valuable, and they are widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate V≦ seas around the world, especially in the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific Ocean and the warm waters of the Atlantic Current.
The Golden Conch is one of the different species, and the reason why it has such a nickname is not that it is as precious as gold, but that it was before the hard currency of gold was not in circulation. Some ancient civilizations used this treasure snail as currency.
Now the role of the golden treasure snail is ornamental, and Qin Shiou is a well-informed marine person. His fishing ground also has a big dragon palace Weng Rong snail. But after seeing the golden conch, I still felt dizzy. This thing is so beautiful, the shell is so smooth and beautiful.
Swimming to the side of the reef and looking, Qin Shiou slowly became a little disappointed, this golden treasure snail was dead, and only the snail shell remained.
In this way, its value has been reduced a lot, and it is not a problem to sell it for more than 100,000 Canadian dollars, although it is not comparable to the national treasure-level storage zài of the Longgong Weng Rong snail.
It's okay if you're dead, you can take it back and give it to Winnie. This thing is much cooler to give to a girl as a gift than any gold or silver jewelry.
When he arrived here, Qin Shiou was also a little tired and was ready to return to the fishing ground to rest.
As a result, the Black Overlord saw that he was interested in the shell, and suddenly rushed over, put his head on the reef next to him, and knocked over the broken reef.
Qin Shiou was startled, this guy went crazy? Or is this little thing its forbidden body and doesn't want to let itself move?
Top the reef. The Black Overlord swept through the sand below with his fusiform mouth, revealing more than a dozen small golden conches of the same shape.
These small snails are still alive, and a few of them are still sticking out their tongues to feed, and the reef where they are hiding has been pushed open. Frightened, they quickly retracted their bodies and retracted into the shell.
Qin Shiou is happy now, there are still so many little cubs hidden here? Just right, take it back and raise it. This thing is very beautiful to keep in a fish tank.
After collecting these small treasure snails, Qin Shiou knocked the surrounding reefs away. Let's see if there are no fish that have slipped through the net.
The golden snail often inhabits the rocky and reef seabed near the low tide line of the intertidal zone, and the tide recedes. They like to hide underneath reef blocks, in the crevices of coral reefs, and in caves, so to find them, you have to break through the reef.
These small snails are only three or four centimeters long, much smaller than the snail shell, and it is thought that the female snail died after giving birth here, leaving the snail shell on the reef.
found a big scallop and ate the meat inside, Qin Shi Ou controlled zhì Baoluo cub slowly drilled into the scallop, added the big shell, put it in the mouth of the devouring shark, and took the black overlord to ride the wind and waves all the way to the fishing ground.
The Black Overlord followed suit, and Qin Shiou gave it a lot of Seagod Consciousness to help it recover from the wounds on its body, so that its speed and explosiveness could keep up with the Man-Eating Shark.
After giving the Man-Eater Shark the order to return to the fishing ground, Qin Shiou withdrew his Poseidon consciousness and began to sleep.
The next day when he got up early to exercise, Qin Shiou took Winnie to run on the beach deliberately, a wave surged and receded, and the golden sunlight sprinkled on the golden treasure snail shell, reflecting a gorgeous and dazzling light.
"What's that?" Winnie noticed it and ran over, and after picking up the golden conch, her face was full of surprise, jumping and shouting like a little girl, "Hurry up, Xiao Qin, come and see, it's a happy conch!" ”
For Qin Shiou, the golden treasure conch is something that can be sold for money, but in Winnie's eyes, it has transferred to another identity, the happy treasure conch.
The Happiness Conch is a nickname for the Golden Conch, which originated during the Mughal Dynasty in India. At that time, the emperor Shah Jahan met a beautiful girl who sold sweets, Jiman Banu, who happened to have a golden conch on him at that time, so he gave it to the candy girl and told her that she would make her happy for the rest of her life.
As a result, the golden conch later had this nickname, and in India it was also one of the courtship gifts of aristocratic youth.
One of the most famous love stories between Shah Jahan and Himaman-Banu is the Taj Mahal, where King Shah Jahan designed the world-famous mausoleum for her after the death of Princess Himeman.
In a sense, it is also because of the rendering of the love myth of the Taj Mahal that there is such a rumor as a happy treasure snail, Qin Shiou dares to bet that this thing is definitely a rumor made up by a sister master later.
But Winnie didn't care, she was very happy after picking up the conch shell, and what was even happier was that Qin Shiou helped her sweep away the sand and found two more small conch, and they were still alive.
Last night, Qin Shiou found a total of twenty-four live small treasure snails, twenty-two of which were sent to the coral reef area, and the other two were sent to the beach to be kept for Winnie as gifts.
Qin Shiou went back to the villa to find a large fish tank left over from before, cleaned it and put some reefs and tender seaweed in it, and Winnie put the snail shell and small treasure snail into it for breeding.
With the treasure conch found in the morning, Winnie was immersed in joy all day, and when she took the tourists on the tour, she was even more smiling, and a group of old men were fascinated.
Qin Shiou was more troubled here, and when he came back at night, Winnie saw him sullen and asked what was wrong, Qin Shiou sighed and said: "Isn't the eighteenth going to a party, there will be an auction dinner at that time, I don't know what I should take to auction." ”
He actually has a lot of valuable things on him, but almost all of them are alive, and he definitely won't be able to go to the auction of the dinner party.
Now Qin Shiou regrets it a little, he knew that he should have brought a few back when he found the Eagle Ocean Gold Coins, and if there were Eagle Yang Gold Coins, he would not be so embarrassed now.
Winnie blinked, she thought for a moment and said, "Actually, the question is very simple, we have great things to participate in the auction." ”
"What?" (To be continued......)