Chapter Fifty-Six: The Priceless Red Coral
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Leaving the ancient shipwreck, Cai Hongming let the pink manta ray carry him upstream.
When I arrived at the sea, I saw the vast sea everywhere, the waves were undulating, and the sound of the tide surging like music came into my ears.
I don't know where I was, Cai Hongming took out his mobile phone placed in the Heavenly Blessed Land in the Inner Cave of Yuding and looked at it, and found that there was no signal. But the mobile phone has a positioning, and after inspecting, I found that it was only a moment before I came to the vicinity of the Dongsha Islands.
This guy is swimming too fast, too!
Cai Hongming glanced at the excited pink manta ray under the seat and sighed.
He originally wanted to call Cai Hongsheng, but he had to give up when he saw that there was no signal on his mobile phone. At this time, he remembered that he seemed to have seized a satellite phone from the group of guys who wanted to kill them when he was in the western frontier, and took it out. After the phone was seized, I originally wanted to ask Qi Diao Jishao to help track down the source of the signal, but then I forgot about it.
After taking a look, he found that the satellite phone was still working, and Cai Hongming picked it up and was about to call.
After thinking about it, he gave up again, he was afraid that someone would track down all the information about him and his friends through the phone he made. It seems that I have to buy a satellite phone, otherwise I can't make a call if I want to.
This satellite phone can be used not only here, but also in the desert.
Every year when there is a sandstorm, the mobile phone signal will be interrupted, and sometimes there is no signal in the desert, so you should buy a few more and keep them at home to prevent accidents.
Since it was useless, Cai Hongming threw away the satellite phone, saving it from being placed in the blessed land of the cave to occupy a place. Then let the pink manta ray swim him back.
The pink manta ray is very fast, and with a swoop, it swims a long way. Cai Hongming held its flesh wings tightly while shining a flashlight in all directions. His flashlight is a military super-strong flashlight, which can shine up to a kilometer away on land, and is also waterproof and electricity-proof. It is also said to be bulletproof. He just wrapped it in a crisper bag just in case, who knows if it's really waterproof.
Although this flashlight can shine for a kilometer on land, it can shine a few hundred meters in the sea due to the seawater barrier.
Well!
Suddenly, the red light flashed in front of him, and Cai Hongming hurriedly asked the pink manta ray to stop and swim towards the place where the red light was emitted. It was a red coral tree, half a meter tall with thick branches, like a low plum tree. Very nice to see.
In ancient times, red coral was regarded as an auspicious and happy thing, representing noble power, so it was also called "Ruibao", a symbol of happiness and eternity. In "Joking about Qianlong" starring Zheng Shaoqiu, isn't there a story about Meizhou Mazu Temple dedicating red coral to the queen mother? You can see the preciousness of red coral.
During the Qing Dynasty, only the hats and pearls worn by the second-rank officials were made of precious red coral; Tibetan lamas and monks often hold rosaries made of red coral.
In the traditional culture of China, India and Indians, especially the nomadic peoples such as the indigenous Indians and the Tibetan people in China, they are particularly fond of red coral, and even regard red coral as a sustenance for self-protection and prayer for the blessing of the "Heaven (Emperor)".
According to historical records. The human use of red coral dates back to ancient Roman times.
The ancient Romans believed that coral had the function of preventing disasters, giving wisdom, stopping bleeding and repelling heat, while some seafarers believed in wearing red coral. It can prevent lightning and hurricanes, make the wind and waves calm, and the journey is safe! As a result, the Romans called it "red gold", which gave the red coral a mysterious color. Modern Westerners rank coral as one of the three major organic gemstones, along with pearls and amber, and are one of the "March birthstones" in the West. In the Oriental Buddhist scriptures, it is listed as one of the Seven Treasures.
It's just now. Due to human exploitation, red coral resources are decreasing, and coral trees that are more than two feet tall are very rare.
Cai Hongming didn't expect to find one here, this thing is simply a natural bonsai, and he only needs to make a base and place it in the hall after he goes back. It's a tall existence.
So, he took out the shovel from the cave in the jade tripod and dug it up.
After digging, he looked around and saw that it was a trench filled with all sorts of odd-looking coral reefs. After a while, he found another red coral tree in a reef that looked like a boulder. This red coral tree was much taller than the one he had just discovered, at least about one meter and a half, and the main branch in the middle was particularly thick, while the other side branches spread out from this main branch, forming a large tree.
Wrong.
After looking at it carefully, the more Cai Hongming looked at it, the more Cai Hongming felt that this coral tree looked like something, but he couldn't remember it for a while. I thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with a result, so I didn't care, picked up a shovel and dug up.
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and then looked at the tall red coral tree in front of him, and his eyes suddenly widened.
This tree is clearly like a thousand-armed Guanyin.
Look at the main branch, round and full, like the body of Tuas, and those side branches that stretch out, like those thousand hands, as if they are still holding a magic weapon.
This is a coral tree, and it is clearly a priceless treasure.
Although he knew that there was no one here, at this time, Cai Hongming looked around for no reason, for fear that someone would see him murdering people for money and killing people. At that moment, he hurriedly and carefully took the shovel and dug up the tree and the reef below. This is supposed to be a place where corals have multiplied for generations, otherwise there wouldn't be so many corals. It's not just corals, there's also nine shrimp here.
Ever since the last time he ate that oversized shrimp, he has never forgotten the taste of the shrimp.
When he came back, he passed by the aquatic market, and he specially asked about the current market of Jiujie shrimp, three hundred per catty, against the sky. After doing the math, the nine-section shrimp he caught that time was worth at least tens of thousands of yuan.
When he saw that there were nine shrimps, he caught them, and this time he brought a net, so he was not afraid that he would not be able to catch them. Not only nine shrimps, but also oysters, clams, moray eels, lobsters, abalone, sea bass, groupers, sea catfish, red sturgeon, squid, squid, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc., etc., there are so many species that it is not like words, it is estimated that this is a trench, and it is a place where coral reefs thrive, because this kind of place means that food is abundant.
There are many species here, and they are surprisingly large, especially abalone.
The last time he saw the basin-sized abalone that the pink manta ray had brought, he was so happy that he saw two. However, the abalone shell is covered with shellfish and seaweed, and it looks like it has patches of moss, which is very disgusting.
In fact, abalone tastes like that.
If you don't taste it carefully, you will think that you are eating gluten (the flour after removing the starch and impurities, there is no nutrition at all). And the meat of this big abalone is very old, full of muscles, and it may not be as delicious as small abalone when biting, but it tastes really good when used to make soup, especially when it comes to making that strange dish in Fujian, "Buddha jumping over the wall" is extremely delicious.
Cai Hongming is not too much of a good thing, especially now that there is a water space decoration of the platinum dragon seal, he is a big fisher, anyway, it is big, it is eye-catching, he is put into the water space to raise, if it is bred in the future, he will not have to drill into the sea all the time.
After fishing for a while, he caught a lot of money, and he caught three of them just one meter long stonefish, which is impossible to see in the market for such a big guy.
The things here are also considered to have been fished out by him, and if you want to see something bigger in the future, it is estimated that you will have to wait at least a few years.
Seeing that the catch was almost complete, Cai Hongming took the pink manta ray to his uncle's island.
This pink manta ray is also a stinky fart, and when it is almost close to the island, it suddenly rushes out of the sea, flapping its wings and flying in the sky, and the people on the island are stunned and scream. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)