So if this fishing net can't be repaired, it can be said that his loss may exceed 100,000 yuan just for this meeting!

Fishing at sea is sometimes like this, when you find a school of fish, the money comes quickly, maybe tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars when you go down the net, but once you are unlucky, the loss will be very heavy, and you may even take your life in particularly bad weather.

Li Xiaowei and Li Xiaolong looked depressed and prepared to step forward to untie the fishing net and take out the stained and rotten wood wrapped in the trawl.

I don't know if it's because of the long time spent in the sea, some of the wood has been directly inserted into the fishing net, and the fishing net has been torn open with several large holes.

Fortunately, the wood is not very big, and most of them are only twenty or thirty centimeters in diameter and two or three meters long, which also makes the hole in the net not too big.

It seems that this trawl should also have the value of salvage, if the wood is a little bigger, it is estimated that this trawl can be thrown directly after it is returned.

But even so, they have no way to repair the trawl net on the boat now, so they can only bring it back to find a special person to repair it, but as long as the fishing net is still worth repairing, the fishermen are generally not willing to throw it away.

Now that the wood and fishing nets are tightly entangled, it is not easy to untie them, so everyone goes up together to help.

No matter how difficult it is, we have to find a way, the fish in this trawl still have to be unraveled, and these trawls must also be brought back, even if this trawl is worthless, it can't be thrown here to pollute the marine environment.

It took a lot of effort for Li Xiaolong to peel off the fishing net layer by layer, tear off a piece of wood stuck in the net, and stood up angrily, ready to throw it back into the sea.

Looking at the blackened wood in his hands, Li Xiaofeng's heart didn't know how to move.

"Xiaolong, you wait a minute, hand over the wood to me!" Li Xiaofeng raised his hand and stopped him.

"Okay, Brother Feng, this wood is quite heavy, you should be careful!"

Although Li Xiaolong didn't understand what this dirty and smelly rotten wood was so beautiful, he still handed him the wood with obedient hands.

"This is a rotten piece of wood that has been soaked in water for a long time, what's so nice about it?" Li Xiaoliang next to him also asked a little puzzled.

However, Li Xiaofeng didn't explain, because he just had a whim, and he felt a little unreliable.

When he took over this piece of wood, Li Xiaofeng's first feeling was that this wood was indeed very heavy, of course, whether it was heavy or not was also relative to its volume.

This shows that the density of this piece of wood is not small, it is very likely to belong to some kind of hardwood, and the price of hardwood is usually not low.

"If any of you have a knife on him, give it to me." Holding the wood in his hand, Li Xiaofeng asked the surrounding crew again.

"Brother Feng, I have it on me!" After speaking, Li Xiaoliang hurriedly handed him a short knife that he had brought with him, which he usually carried with him, and it was used to cut off some things that were usually wrapped in fishing nets.

Taking the knife from Li Xiaoliang's hand, Li Xiaofeng squatted down and used the knife to try to scrape the surface of the wood that had rotted and deteriorated.

Han Minghua, who was standing next to him, looked at his operation, and he also had some vague thoughts in his heart.

When he cut through the black rotten layer of the wood and tried to cut it in, Li Xiaofeng found that the wood was very hard inside, which further proved his idea just now, the texture of this wood was indeed very hard and dense, even larger than he expected.

It took him several more minutes to cut away a large black layer of decay from the wood, revealing the color of the wood itself.

In the process, the crew on the deck stopped what they were doing, and looked at him with a confused expression, not understanding what he was doing at all, or what the research value of this rotten wood was.

Rinse the rotten layer that had just been cut off with water, and when the purple-red color inside was revealed, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and then he seemed to be confirming something, and directly put the cut wood to his nose and sniffed deeply.

A faint scent of sandalwood lingers in the nasal cavity, yes, this is the smell!

The surrounding crew looked at him with a look at each other, and didn't understand what smelled good about this rotten log, the key was that their captain still had a look of enjoyment, could it be that this was some special hobby of the captain?

After confirming the idea in his heart, Li Xiaofeng stood up with a smile on his face, because he had not only seen this wood before, but also bought it as a gift to customers.

Looking at the smile on his face, now the blind man knows that this wood is definitely not simple.

"Brother Feng, what kind of wood is this?" Li Xiaoliang couldn't wait to ask.

"Little leaf red sandalwood!"

"Rosewood?"

Except for Han Minghua, two or three people in the surrounding crew seemed to understand something, and most of the others looked confused, including Li Xiaoliang.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiaofeng began to patiently explain the origin of the small leaf red sandalwood.

There are many varieties of red sandalwood, among which the small-leaved red sandalwood is the most famous.

Rosewood microphylla is also called sandalwood rosewood, which belongs to the fine quality of rosewood, mostly produced in tropical and subtropical primeval forests, especially in Mysore, India and Myanmar produced by the small-leaved red sandalwood is of the best quality.

The production speed of small-leaved red sandalwood is very slow, it takes five years to grow a round, it takes more than 800 years to become a talent, the wood is tough, dense, the texture is beautiful, and it is resistant to carving, plus the ancients took purple as the precious, which also made the small-leaved red sandalwood in ancient China became a special wood for royalty and nobles, known as "the wood of the emperor"!

The success rate of Rosewood is very low, known as the saying of "ten sandalwood and nine emptiness", which also leads to the price of Rosewood small-leaved from ancient times to the present is extremely high, and there is even a saying of "inch sandalwood".

There are very few big materials for small-leaved red sandalwood, and the largest diameter that can be seen on the market is more than 50 centimeters, and most of them are more than 10 centimeters, so Li Xiaofeng and the small-leaved red sandalwood with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters are already considered a good existence in the small-leaved red sandalwood.

What's more, there is no common cavity in the small leaf red sandalwood section in his hand, and the length of the material has reached two or three meters long, it can be said that it is now a relatively rare raw material of small leaf red sandalwood, Li Xiaofeng guessed that it should have been rescued and sunk into the sea many years ago.

Whether it is India's small-leaved rosewood or Africa's various mahogany, domestic imports and smuggling basically rely on this golden waterway to transport them by sea.

Throughout the ages, I don't know how many transport ships sank on this golden waterway, you must know that one of the purposes of Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty went to the West was to help the royal family collect these small leaves of red sandalwood.

This is also the reason why Li Xiaofeng had a flash of inspiration in his heart before, and felt that this wood might be a good thing.

"Brother Feng, how much is this small leaf red sandalwood worth?" Li Xiaoliang asked a little impatiently, and the surrounding crew members also pricked up their ears to listen to his answer.

Is it the "Emperor's Wood" Li Xiaoliang didn't understand, he now wanted to know if this-sounding little leaf red sandalwood could make up for today's losses on the ship.

(End of chapter)