Chapter 340: Splendid Lobster

In the blink of an eye, it was already three days after they left Singapore.

Li Xiaofeng, who felt a little stuffy after staying in the cabin for a long time, came to the deck, and the fresh sea breeze was blowing in his face, making people feel very comfortable up and down.

Speaking of which, although their hometown is geographically located in the subtropical region, it is still quite cold in winter every year. This season, when you go out to sea to fish, the cold sea breeze blows on your body, which can make people cold from the outside to the bone marrow.

Li Xiaofeng remembers that when he was a child, every year in this season, his mother, who was busy at sea, would have frostbite on her hands, and her hands would basically be red and swollen for a winter, and there would even be a few long bloody cuts on her hands!

The long bloody mouth, when you go out to fish, you can imagine the taste of the cold and salty seawater!

But even in this case, my mother is reluctant to take a day off, no matter how cold the weather is, as long as the weather allows, she always wants to go to sea more to earn a little more income for the family.

Later, although the three siblings grew up and graduated from college and had their own jobs, the pressure of family life did not seem to have diminished in the slightest.

Because of their two brothers, they are immediately facing to buy a house in a big city and get married. Parents can only spin like a spinning top, and none of them can stop.

Although Li Xiaofeng has worked hard to make money as much as possible after graduation, the speed at which he can make money is still far from keeping up with the increase in housing prices.

In the end, I had to rely on my parents' savings and the money they borrowed to finally make a down payment.

After helping the eldest son, the parents have to find a way to replace the family's foreign debts, and then make money to help the younger son, which is really pitiful for the parents of the world!

When his parents took out their family savings to buy a house for him, they actually discussed it with their younger siblings.

Li Xiaoqiang and Sun Jingya didn't know that once they took all the money from the family to help his eldest brother buy a house, the family would definitely have no money to help them in a short period of time, but the two of them still agreed at that time, saying that they would come with the eldest brother first.

The two of them moved Li Yonglin, Liu Xuexia, Li Xiaomei and Li Xiaofeng very much.

You must know that in their village, because of the problem of money, even if it is a brother, a father and son who fall out, they are everywhere!

Since then, Li Xiaofeng has also been grateful to his younger brother and younger siblings, after all, his younger brother actually had the right to save money in the family at that time.

If this situation develops, it is estimated that Li Yonglin and Liu Xuexia may work until they are seventy years old in their lives, and they may not be able to stop!

In rural areas, situations like this are not uncommon.

In the countryside, where is there a retirement talk, because of the pressure of life, many people will stop when they can't do it at all.

Fortunately, he now has a chance to change his fate, and this opportunity will not only change his own fate, but also the fate of their family, and even their good relatives and friends!

Li Xiaofeng stood on the deck, blowing the sea breeze, thinking about things intently.

"Brother Feng, Brother Feng, Brother Hua didn't find you on the walkie-talkie just now, and he asked me to come over and call you to take a look in the cabin!"

At this time, Li Xiaogang ran over out of breath and said to him.

"Okay, you go back first, I'll go over and have a look right away!"

At this time, Li Xiaofeng realized that when he just came out, he turned around from the cockpit and pulled the walkie-talkie there.

Returning to the cockpit and picking up his walkie-talkie, Li Xiaofeng walked quickly towards the cabin.

At this time, the cabin was a busy scene, and everyone was busy sorting it.

Although they are now in the process of returning home, they will obviously not let go as long as they encounter fish on the way, and their harvest has been good these days.

"Fifth brother, what do you do with the lobsters in this basket?" Han Minghua quietly pulled Li Xiaofeng to a relatively quiet place in the cabin, pointed to the two lobsters placed in one of the baskets and asked.

"Big color TV!"

Li Xiaofeng blurted out in surprise, and then he quickly looked depressed again.

Seeing the two lobsters in the basket, one large and one small, Li Xiaofeng knew the reason why Han Minghua called him over.

It turned out that they had caught two flower lobsters in the net just now, which is what we often call splendid lobsters.

Splendid lobster is also called colorful lobster, gorgeous tropical lobster, and because of its colorful body surface, it is jokingly called "big color TV" by fishermen in many places.

The splendid lobster is the largest and most valuable species of lobster, and it is also one of the most important lobster species in the Indo-Western Pacific region.

Splendid lobster is very popular in our country, and is even called "god shrimp"!

Even if it is a farmed splendid lobster, it can be sold for three or four hundred yuan a pound in China, and if it is wild, it is even more sky-high in the past, here are a few examples:

In 2014, when a fisherman in Zhejiang went out to sea, he accidentally caught a colorful splendid lobster weighing about 6 catties, but a day later, he was bought by a hotel in Fuzhou at a high price, which was 600,000 yuan, which was definitely sky-high at that time!

In 2017, another Fujian fisherman was lucky enough to catch a large splendid lobster weighing 6.6 pounds and with tentacles more than one meter long.

As soon as he arrived at the shore, he was bought by a boss at a price of 350,000 yuan, but even if he sold it for so much money, many fishermen said that he sold it cheaply, saying that this big color TV could be worth 1 million!

From these two examples, you can get a glimpse of the price of this lobster in China.

But why is it said that it used to be sky-high, not now?

This is because the wild splendid lobster has now become a national second-class wild protected animal, and it is no longer allowed to be caught and sold!

But the problem is that the splendid lobster has become a wild protected animal, and this is only in China, and in Southeast Asia, they are not wild protected animals, just a lobster that can be eaten by people.

So here you know why Han Minghou called him over, now this thing is allowed to be caught casually here, and the price is so expensive, so he is reluctant to throw it away, but if he brings it back to China, he is afraid of causing trouble!

Now this situation makes Li Xiaofeng and Han Minghua very entangled.

In fact, there are quite a few cases like splendid lobsters.

For example, sharks, such as clams, and many birds, especially the ones that migrate every year.

They are wild protected animals in China, and we spend a lot of manpower and material resources every year to protect them, but when they go abroad, they are just a dish on people's tables.

So sometimes Li Xiaofeng wonders, what is the point of this protection?