The two searched by the waterhole, and in the end they were lucky enough to catch eight.

Chu Mingcheng hesitated for a moment, and finally released a male and a female. There are six of them, one for each person, and after all, there are coconut crabs.

After only a short time after the shrimp pots were lowered, they simply continued to explore the island.

As they walked, a strange smell caught the attention of the two.

The smell is like ugly socks for some people for a month, but for others it smells good.

"Ah Cheng, it seems to be durian!" Finally found the wild fruit, Jiang Luoluo's face was full of excitement.

"Luck is good, I hope there is maturity!"

Don't look at it now in December, in fact, tropical durian will bloom twice a year, the first time is June ~ August, and the second time is November ~ February of the following year.

Now in December, there is a chance to meet ripe durians.

And just by rushing to this distant taste, you can know that durian must be ripe.

There is no clear direction in the woods, and they cannot find a specific location by the taste.

Therefore, after continuing to wander around for more than half an hour, they finally found the tall durian tree.

Several rotten durians fell from under the durian tree, even if there were some rotten ones hanging from the tree.

"Luo Luo, take the bag first, I'll go up and pick two!" Seeing that there were indeed some ripe durians on the tree, Chu Mingcheng handed the bag to Jiang Luoluo and was about to climb the tree with a machete.

"Be careful!"

"Well, don't worry!"

Coconut trees can easily climb to the top of the tree, not to mention the durian tree.

Although this durian tree is also tall, it has a lot of thick branches that can be stepped on.

Chu Mingcheng climbed to the tree, stepped on a branch, picked up the machete and brushed it twice, and cut down two green and yellow durians.

The durian fell in response to the sound and fell on the leaves spread under the tree.

However, one of the shells was broken, but it was out of the way, and they took it back and ate it.

Jiang Luoluo hurriedly went over to pick up the durian, but she wasn't stupid enough to put it in her bag, so she just took it.

After Chu Mingcheng came down, he took out one of the nylon ropes that had been prepared in the bag a long time ago, tied the durian and carried it in his hand, and then returned to the position of the pool with her.

When I returned to the waterhole, I lifted all the shrimp pots in the water, and suddenly revealed the lively water shrimp and a few water bugs.

Snakes and the like don't, and they didn't have time to get in.

Pick out the shrimp in it according to the big one, just grab a small bag, and pour the remaining insects and small shrimp back into the pool.

Chu Mingcheng cleaned the shrimp pot, and then the two returned with a full load.

Regardless of the fact that they had just picked some fruit on the hill and caught some crabs and shrimp, it had been two hours since they got back to the beach.

The sun had shifted to the west, and Chen Yang and the four of them were setting up their tents.

"You've come back, what did you find?"

"Durian, Ganoderma lucidum crab and water shrimp." Chu Mingcheng put things on the table, and then found two coconut crabs in a plastic fish box next to him.

It seems that the few of them are still measured, and they just grabbed two of them to taste the taste.

"Ganoderma lucidum crab? Is it delicious, how much does it cost, do we have it in China? Zhang Wei was full of curiosity about the six purple crabs.

"It should be okay, I haven't eaten it either. There is production in Qiongzhou, and I heard that the output is rarely more than 600 catties. ”

"Young, it's so expensive, it has to be delicious if it's not delicious!"

Chen Yang seemed to know a little about this, and said speechlessly: "Don't listen to the Internet fooling!" What do you say about the medicine crab Ganoderma lucidum crab is only produced in Qiongzhou, and the domestic encyclopedia fools people. ”

"My brother has been in this pit for a long time, and finally he checked it and found out that the scientific name of this crab is the Lashi Crab, and there are actually places such as the maid country, Nicaea, various islands of the three kingdoms of Afghanistan, and treasure islands."

"It's not surprising that you'll come across it here, but this crab is one of the mountain delicacies, and it's worth trying."

"I see!" Several people, including Chu Mingcheng, looked stunned, saying that they had learned.

Then several people continued to be busy, setting up tents.

The tent was set up, and everyone returned to the Poseidon in batches in rubber boats, and each went to the room to change into a diving suit, ready to go into the water to find the white butterfly oyster.

After Chen Yang's diving shop opened, Zhang Youning and Bai Jing also learned to dive.

The technique is not very good, but diving in the water within twenty meters is not a problem, and they have their respective boyfriends with them.

Chu Mingcheng took Jiang Luoluo's hand and took her to the area where he had found more white butterfly mussels last time.

The water is 50 meters deep, and it is an area where the other four people cannot dive.

Jiang Luoluo has been affected by the aquatic illustrated book to a certain extent, and now she can dive to an area of fifty meters, but because of her physical strength, she can't dive a few times.

Chu Mingcheng took her to dive five times and found five palm-sized white butterfly shells.

Seeing that she was a little short of breath, he asked her to rest on the surface of the water and continued to search for her.

Naturally, it doesn't take so much to bake the scallops at night, but he has to open pearls, and this will dive again, so he must find more.

For this reason, Chu Mingcheng also deliberately brought a large net bag to buy goods directly under the water.

It wasn't until Jiang Luoluo swam over to find him that he suddenly realized that it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

As for the white butterfly shells, he picked up at least sixty or seventy of them, and the smallest was the size of a palm.

"I'll go, you've caught all the white lipped mussels!" Zhang Wei saw a large net of shells, and was immediately a little speechless, "Didn't you say that you would take us to pick up shells and open pearls together?" ”

"Rest assured, there are more of these white lipped mussels than you think. Didn't I buy two 100-meter snorkels, so that you can be underwater for a long time while biting on them. ”

"And there are not only one place for white lipped mussels, there are two or two places, what's the hurry."

Hearing Chu Mingcheng say this, Zhang Wei and Chen Yang were a little relieved, after all, they also wanted to open some pearls and give them to their women.

The few of them had already taken a shower and went to the beach to prepare dinner.

Chu Mingcheng took out a few white lipped mussels and asked them to bring them as one of the ingredients for dinner, and then continued to go into the water and hunted an eastern star grouper of more than ten catties.

The fish were there, so he went back to the boat to take a shower and then went to the beach.

Needless to say, tonight's dinner is known to be very rich, with fish and crabs, and grilled scallops with garlic.

It's just that when a few people ate the crab paste of Ganoderma lucidum crab, they all showed the expression of the subway uncle.

"It's so bitter~"

"It's too unpalatable~"

"Can this thing be sold for more than six hundred pounds?"

"But the crab meat is so sweet and fragrant, it's the best crab I've ever tasted."

"The crab paste is bitter at first, and there will be sweetness later, in fact, it's okay to get used to it."

That said, but in the end everyone chose to clean the crab paste and eat only the crab meat.

It may be because Ganoderma lucidum crabs often eat medicinal herbs, its crab roe is not only black and black, but it also tastes the same as eating traditional Chinese medicine, which is really unacceptable.

The coconut crab is only average in the evaluation of several people, it has the unique oil smell of mountain crabs, and those who are used to it are fine, and those who are not used to it will not be used to it.

In the end, the white butterfly shells were praised, and the ones given by Chu Mingcheng and the ones they found themselves were all relatively small, and the meat was more tender.

The disadvantage is that the small ones don't have pearls...

Dinner was eaten until eight o'clock in the evening, and then the garbage was collected and brought to the ship tomorrow.

On the starry night, Chu Mingcheng gathered the dead branches that everyone had found together and lit a big bonfire.

Everyone gathered around the campfire and sat and chatted.

Zhang Wei stared at the bonfire in front of him, and suddenly said, "Anyway, there are no pheasants on the island?" If we can catch one or two, it will be nice to bake and eat. ”

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"These things can't be moved in the country, and now that we're on the high seas, aren't we just making them?"

Chen Yang complained when he heard this: "What do you think, how can there be pheasants on the island, and there may be a few goats." ”

"How can there be goats on the island?" Zhang Youning suddenly asked suspiciously.

The three big men obviously understood what was going on, and they smiled.

"yes, how can there be goats on the island? It's just a magical master who has eaten it. ”

Chatting and complaining, the topic started with pheasants, and I don't know where the conversation went.

But unfortunately, the people who got up the next day did not find a goat entangled in vines, nor did they see any trace of pheasants.

Birds and insects are common on these offshore islands, but land animals are hard to come by.

Unless someone deliberately releases them, but the island where they are located is almost never passing, so naturally there is nothing.

After packing up the tent, the group brought everything back to the Poseidon with their belongings, including garbage.

Next, Chen Yang and Zhang Wei took his girlfriend to change into a diving suit, put on a snorkel, and the two women drove a rubber boat to the bottom of the sea to find the white lipped oyster.

Chu Mingcheng and Jiang Luoluo brought two small stools, a bucket and a small box, and two knives, ready to open dozens of white butterfly shells yesterday.

Opening a pearl is a bit of a blind box, and both of them are very interested.

Jiang Luoluo skillfully cut into the gap of the white lipped oyster with a knife, and then pulled twice to cut off its shell column, and easily opened the white lipped oyster.

"Ah Cheng, which part of this shellfish has pearls?"

"This, you reach out and touch it, if you touch it, then there is." Chu Mingcheng couldn't say where the shellfish was, he had figured it out before.

As long as the pearl is large enough, it will be very obvious to the touch, and even directly visible at a glance.

The pearl may not be touchable, but the small pearl is not valuable, he doesn't care.

When Jiang Luoluo heard this, he reached out and groped back and forth on the shellfish, but he didn't touch anything.

But she didn't give up yet, and used a knife to cut open the body of the white butterfly shell.

As a result, it is clear that if you can't touch it, you basically won't have it.

So she had to take out all the shellfish and put it in a bucket filled with some crushed ice.

These shellfish can't be wasted, whether it's bait or adding food to pets.

As for the outer shells, they will also be collected, and these can be used to process into jewelry.

Chu Mingcheng also opened one, and without touching it, an obvious bulge appeared in the sight of the two.

"Wow, you're so lucky, as soon as you open it?" Jiang Luoluo was stunned, such a big bulge, how big does the pearl have to be?

"Hehe, I've always had good luck." Chu Mingcheng himself was a little surprised, he didn't deliberately choose a big white butterfly shell, he just took a palm-sized one, but he didn't expect that there was such a big pearl inside.

Then he squeezed hard, and a pure white and shiny round pearl appeared in the sight of the two, almost the same size as the one centimeter in diameter.

"This one is good, it's about the same size as the original one, if you can open so big, you can quickly make up a bunch."

"It's hard to estimate, I think the size will have to match up when the time comes." Jiang Luoluo was not too optimistic.

If it is so easy to open, the price of white butterfly oyster pearls will not be so high, it is estimated that it will be the same as the price of water pearls, cabbage.

Indeed, as Jiang Luoluo said, such a large pearl is difficult to encounter.

Dozens of white lipped mussels are not easy to find, but they are very fast to drive.

In less than half an hour, sixty or seventy white lipped shells were opened by the two of them.

However, these dozens of white lipped oysters only produced seven pearls of good quality and very round, almost ten to one, and the probability of good pearls is quite high.

It's just one centimeter in diameter, and there is not a single one in the back.

There are a lot of pearls of six or seven millimeters, and four of the remaining ones are so large.

Jiang Luoluo carefully stored the pearls, then brought a stiff brush and began to brush the shells of the white butterfly oysters.

The shell of the white lipped shell is covered with a layer of soil, which is very dirty, and it is necessary to brush everything that can be brushed on the shell and then dry.

Next, you need sandpaper to polish and translude, which is a delicate job, and there are so many shells, of course, it is impossible for both of them to use them as jewelry.

These things cannot be brought back to China, and the origin is not clear.

The main thing is that they don't know the people who breed white lipped oysters, otherwise there would be nothing wrong with a certificate.

Then Chu Mingcheng changed into a diving suit again and continued to jump into the water to look for the white butterfly shell.

This time he swam to a farther distance, and the number of white lipped oysters in this sea area was indeed quite large, enough for them for the time being.

For two days in a row, the Poseidon stayed in place, and a few people in Chu Mingcheng watched a large number of white butterfly shells every day.

As for the shells of the white lipped mussels, most of them were placed on the island.

The three women all simply disposed of the shells they left behind, apparently planning to slowly make them into ornaments in the future.

Women seem to have a natural interest in handicrafts.

As for pearls, Chu Mingcheng has opened the most at present, after all, his diving ability is stronger, and he can go to deeper waters to find them.

He now has a total of 37 pearls of various sizes, the largest of which is 1.2 centimeters in diameter.

Among them, the largest number is 6.5~7.5, a full twenty-one, and there are only five of one centimeter.

Chu Mingcheng learned about the general requirements for the number of pearls in the pearl necklace on the Internet, and he wanted to make a necklace composed of three kinds of pearls of different sizes.

However, there are a lot of pearls needed, 5.5~6.5, about 65 pearls.

For 7.5~8.5, about fifty-five pieces are needed.

For 9.5~10.5, forty-five pieces are needed.

Adding up to a total of about one hundred and fifty, this is a very difficult task to complete, and Chu Mingcheng just wants to try it.

Normally, if the amount of one centimeter is enough, the smaller one will definitely be sufficient.

But this is only his highest requirement at present, naturally there are two and three plans, and the latter two have much less requirements for pearls.

At present, in this shallow water area in front of the island beach, the large white lipped mussels have been almost found, and there are still deeper waters, but Chu Mingcheng is not good at diving into the deep water area in front of everyone at present.

Anyway, he still has two target locations, so he activates the Poseidon and heads to the next area.

If the number of pearls is not enough this time, then he will definitely go to sea alone in the later time and continue to plague the white lipped oysters in the deep waters.