"How can you say so exaggerated, these two bags add up to more than 100 catties." Li Xiaofeng said with a smile.

As he spoke, Li Xiaofeng, with the help of two people, poured the two bags of conch into the woven bag on the rubber boat.

After they were all poured, Li Xiaofeng said to the two of them again: "You also have to hurry up, this is a half-day tide, and it may not be long before the tide rises." ”

The Curved Strait is a typical semi-diurnal tidal pattern, with two high tides and two low tides in one day, and the two tidal differences are about the same, and the high tide and low tide are almost equal (6 hours and 12.5 minutes).

In addition to semi-daily tides, there are also places where there are full-day tides and mixed tides.

As the name suggests, the all-day tide is the high tide and low tide only once a day, as is the case in many areas of the Beibu Gulf.

Mixed tide means that sometimes there are two rises and two falls, but the time of the two rises and falls is very different, and sometimes there will be a rise and a fall.

When the two of them heard this, they both realized that the time was indeed urgent, and they both nodded hurriedly.

Seeing that both of them realized the urgency of time, Li Xiaofeng dived towards the bottom of the sea again with an empty net.

After seeing Li Xiaofeng leave, Han Minghua and Li Xiaoming also hurriedly seized the time to continue to pick up conches on the islands and reefs, and as the tide receded more and more, the area of the islands and reefs exposed to the water was also getting larger and larger.

After a while, Li Xiaofeng came to the bottom of the sea again, and he continued to take out his net bag and began his great business of picking snails.

Not only are they slow to move under the seabed, but they are not as attached to some hard rocks as many other conches do, and you have to break them off with great effort.

All Li Xiaofeng had to do was pick them up from the sand under the seabed and put them in his net pocket.

However, Li Xiaofeng didn't pick up a lot of smaller conch, and he picked some of the larger ones.

Suddenly, Li Xiaofeng looked up and saw that there seemed to be a brightly colored conch in the sand in front of him, which was obviously different from the surrounding conch.

Most of the conch around it is some earthy yellow, which should also be a protective color for them.

However, the color of this conch is very bright, and the shell of the conch is crisscrossed with white and coffee, and the whole is reddish-brown. Li Xiaofeng immediately swam towards them and began to observe them up close.

I saw that the tip of these conch conch was upturned, like a pouting mouth, and the snail lips were very thick but looked very rounded. There are many neatly arranged screws on the surface of the conch, and the whole looks like an abalone and a gold ingot.

At this time, Li Xiaofeng also recognized them and knew that they were not abalones, but a group of Wanbao snails!

Li Xiaofeng glanced at the map again, and also confirmed his guess, and couldn't help but be very happy in his heart.

Wanbao snail, Tang crown snail, phoenix snail and nautilus are known as the world's four famous snails, all of which belong to the more precious sea snails, and have quite high ornamental and collection value.

As one of the world's four famous snails, the Wanbao snail belongs to the gastropod and the crown snail shellfish, and its production area is mainly concentrated in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. In China, it mainly lives in some areas of the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

They feed mainly on fine algae, marine plankton, and organic detritus.

In the coastal areas of our country, Wanbao snail has a saying that it can attract wealth and enter the treasure, so many people like to put it at home, hoping to bring rolling wealth.

The placement of Wanbao snail is also very particular, the snail mouth is generally to the outside, facing the door, so that the meaning is to welcome the nobles, and to accept wealth into the treasure.

There are also many grades of Wanbao snails, which are generally regarded as first-class products with thick lips, bright colors, moderate oval shapes, and smooth appearances.

In addition, the bigger the snail, the rarer it is!

Most of the trading on the market are 8-15 centimeters, and those small Wanbao snails may be worth dozens of dollars, but if the Wanbao snail can grow to 14 or 15 centimeters, the price is relatively high, and if it can exceed 15 centimeters, it is very rare, and it is generally rarely circulated in the market.

Li Xiaofeng carefully observed the Wanbao snail in front of him, where the Wanbao snail was nesting quietly in the sand, and they were large and small. The large one is estimated to be more than ten centimeters, and the small one is not as big as Li Xiaofeng's fist.

In addition to these live snails, there are also some empty shells of dead snails scattered in the surrounding sand, and it is obvious that these snails have been living in this sea area for a short time.

Li Xiaofeng thought about it, and finally selected more than a dozen relatively large empty snail shells, and picked two relatively large live Wanbao snails and put them in the net pocket together.

He is going to give away the snail shells of the Wanbao snail, and he is going to take the two live Wanbao snails back, and when the time comes, he will order a large fish tank at home and keep them in the fish tank.

He is not worried about whether these two snails will not survive, and the snail is a kind of conch with strong vitality, so many people at the seaside regard them as a symbol of health and longevity.

For the other snails, let them continue to live quietly on the bottom of the sea.

He estimated that the length of the two live snails should reach 167 centimeters, and the current world record for the largest 19.7 centimeters is 19.7 centimeters, and this record has been held for more than 20 years. So all those manbao snails that claim to have more than 20 centimeters are almost certainly fake!

The shells of these empty Wanbao snails selected by Li Xiaofeng were also carefully selected by him, first of all, the general length was more than ten centimeters, and the largest one Li Xiaofeng estimated that it should be almost eighteen centimeters.

Secondly, the color is also very gorgeous, the shape is oval, the appearance is smooth, the snail lip is thick, the weight is relatively pressing, and there are almost no traces of seawater corrosion on the surface.

After carefully putting these Wanbao snails into the bag, Li Xiaofeng was also happy in his heart, and continued to pick up the snails.

He was like a porter on the bottom of the sea, going back and forth between the bottom of the sea and the rubber boat.

Before you know it, the fog on the sea surface has gradually dispersed, and the warm sunlight has begun to shine on the bottom of the sea, which also makes the view of the bottom of the sea clearer.

This also made it easier for Li Xiaofeng to find the conch from the fine sand on the bottom of the sea, which greatly accelerated his efficiency.

When Li Xiaofeng dragged the two bags of conch to the kayak again, he also decided to end his trip to pick up conch today.

If it wasn't that he had picked up the conch on the bottom of the sea, the snail he fished might not even be one percent of the plain under the sea.

But he felt that he couldn't delay the entire fishing boat's trip because he was fishing for snails here, so he chose to end his trip to fish for snails.

Li Xiaofeng sat on the kayak panting, and shouted to Han Minghua and Li Xiaoming, who were still busy on the islands and reefs: "Bring all your things, we are ready to go back!" ”

Hearing Li Xiaofeng's shout, although Han Minghua and Li Xiaoming were still a little reluctant, they were still very obedient and took the two big bags of conch they picked up at the end and started to walk back.

In fact, at this time, the sea water here has been rising for a while, and the area of the island and reef outcropping is getting smaller and smaller.

But if it weren't for Li Xiaofeng calling them back, the two of them would still be reluctant to come back, even if they pick up one more conch, it is all a money, you must know that the weight of these conches is not light!

At this time, there were already eight or nine snakeskin bags of conch on the rubber boat, which was fortunate that their kayak belonged to the kind of relatively large ones, so they could fit so many conchs.

After Han Minghua and Li Xiaoming both returned to the rubber boat, the three of them began to row the rubber boat with great difficulty, rowing towards the fishing boat.

The weight of this time is much heavier than when I came.

The three of them took turns rowing for more than 20 minutes before they reached the edge of the fishing boat.

The crew of the fishing boat had already seen their return.

Under Li Yonglin's command, a rope was lowered from the fishing boat and helped them hang bags of snakeskin bags full of conches.

In the end, Li Xiaofeng and the three of them put away the rubber boat again, and they all climbed onto the fishing boat along the rope ladder.