311. A Surprise (2/10)
I saw a bunch of large scallops and crabs stuck between the chasms of the reefs. The reefs were scattered, like a maze. These scallops and crabs lived in it and could not escape, so they could only survive in it.
In this way, this reef is a bit like the Black Ba Wang’s farm, and scallops and crabs are naturally the reserve grains for it to breed.
Great white sharks have a very diverse diet, from large fish to small fish to cephalopods to shellfish, they can be used as their food. Because they have sharp, hard and dense teeth, they can bite scallops and crabs to feed on shellfish.
Qin Shiou was not interested in these scallop crabs, and what attracted him was a large shell more than ten centimeters long.
This shell is extremely beautiful, slightly oval, with a high center of the back, thick and flat sides, and a smooth shape. The most exciting thing is its dark red color, water flows, and this red ball shines in a daze, like a ball of flame.
At this time, this shell is perched on a gray-white reef. In this way, the color contrast makes the dark red flame appear more vivid and dazzling.
After seeing this big shell, Qin Shiou was delighted. He could see at a glance that this thing was the Golden Treasure Snail, which is well-known in the shellfish collection industry!
The snail is also called "baby", which shows its preciousness.
In fact, most snails are not valuable. They are widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate sea areas around the world, especially in the Indian Pacific warm water areas and Atlantic warm current waters, which can be easily caught.
The golden treasure snail is one of the different species. The reason why it has such a nickname is not that it is as precious as gold, but that before the hard currency of gold such as gold was circulated, some ancient civilizations used this treasure snail as currency.
The function of the Golden Treasure Snail is now ornamental. Qin Shiou is a knowledgeable mariner. He also has a big Dragon Palace Wengrong Snail in his fishing ground. But after seeing the Golden Treasure Snail, he still feels dazzling. This thing is so beautiful, the shell is too smooth, and it is so beautiful.
Swimming to the reef and looking at it. Qin Shiou was slowly disappointed. The golden treasure snail was dead, leaving only the snail shell.
In this way, its value will be reduced a lot. Although it is so big and so beautiful, a living golden treasure snail cannot be compared with a national treasure-level existence like the Dragon Palace Wengrong snail, it will be no problem to sell for about 100,000 Canadian dollars.
It doesn't matter if you die. You can take it back and give it to Winnie. This thing is much cooler than giving it to a girl as a gift.
When Qin Shiou arrived here, he was also a little tired and prepared to return to the fishing ground to rest.
As a result, when Black Overlord saw that he was interested in the snail shell, he suddenly rushed over, pressed his head against the reef next to him, knocking the broken reef over.
Qin Shiou was shocked. Is this guy crazy? Or is this little thing his forbidden body and doesn’t want to move?
Pushing the reef, Black Overlord swept the sand underneath with his bobbin-shaped mouth, and more than a dozen small gold treasure snails with the same shape were exposed.
These little snails are still alive, and a few of them were stretching out their teeth and tongues to find food. The hiding reef was pushed open, which scared them so much that they quickly retracted their bodies and retracted them into the snail shell.
Qin Shiou was so happy now that there were so many little kids hidden here? It just so happened that I took it back and raised it. It was very beautiful to keep it in the fish tank.
After collecting these small treasure snails, Qin Shiou knocked away the surrounding reefs to see that there were no fish that had escaped the net.
Golden Treasures often inhabit the seabed of reefs near the low tide line of the intertidal zone. After the tide recedes, it likes to hide under the reefs, in the gaps and caves of coral reefs. Therefore, to search for their traces, you must break the reefs.
These little treasure snails are only three or four centimeters long. They are much smaller than the snail shell. I think it should be that the female treasure snails died after they were brought to the cub here. They left the snail shell on the reef.
After finding a large scallop to eat the meat inside, Qin Shiou controlled the snail to slowly drill into the scallop, plus the big shell, put it in the mouth of the man-eating shark, and took the Black Overlord to ride the wind and waves and rush towards the fishing ground.
The Black Overlord gained a lot of benefits. Qin Shiou inputted it with a lot of sea god consciousness to help it recover the wounds on its body, so that its speed and explosive power could keep up with the Man-Devouring Shark.
After giving the man-eating shark the order to return to the fishing ground, Qin Shiou retracted the consciousness of the sea god and began to sleep.
The next day to get up early to exercise, Qin Shiou took Winnie to run on the beach on purpose. A wave of sea surged and retreated. The golden sunlight shone on the golden treasure shell, reflecting a dazzling light.
"What is that?" Winnie noticed and ran over. After picking up the golden treasure snail, she looked full of surprise, and she jumped and shouted like a little girl, "Hurry, Xiao Qin, come and see, it's the happy treasure snail!"
For Qin Shiou, the Golden Treasure Snail is something that can be sold for money, and in Winnie's eyes, it has been transferred to another identity, the Happy Treasure Snail.
The Happy Treasure Snail is a nickname for the Golden Treasure Snail, which originated from the Mughal Dynasty in India. At that time, the imperial emperor Sha Jahan met a beautiful girl selling candy in the market. At that time, he happened to have a Golden Treasure Snail on his body, so he gave it to the Candy Girl and told her that she would make her happy for the rest of her life.
Therefore, the nickname of the golden treasure snail was later given, and this treasure snail was also one of the gifts for noble youth in India.
The most famous love story between Sha-Jahan and Jiman-Banu is the Taj Mahal. After the death of the Queen of Jiman, King Sha-Jahan was in pain and designed this world-famous mausoleum for her.
In a sense, it is also because of the exaggeration of the Taj Mahal's love myth that the rumors of the Happiness Treasures were caused. Qin Shiou dared to bet that this thing was definitely a rumor made up by a girl later.
But Winnie didn't care. She was very happy after picking up the shell of the snail. What was even happier was that Qin Shiou helped her sweep away the sand and found two more small snails, which were still alive.
Last night, Qin Shiou found a total of twenty-four live snails, twenty-two sent to the coral reef waters, and the other two sent to the beach to make gifts for Winnie.
Qin Shiou returned to the villa and found a large fish tank left behind before. After cleaning it, he put some reefs and tender seaweed inside. Winnie put the snail shells and Xiaobao snails in for breeding.
With the treasure snails found in the morning, Winnie was immersed in joy all day long, and she smiled when she took the tourists to travel, fascinating the big men.
Qin Shiou was quite worried. When he came back tonight, Winnie saw him being depressed and asked what was wrong. Qin Shiou sighed and said, "Don't you go to the party on the 18th? There will be an auction dinner at that time. I don't know what I should take to film."
He actually has a lot of valuable things, but almost all of them are alive and will definitely not be able to attend the auction of the dinner.
Qin Shiou is a little regretful now. He knew that he should have brought a few of them back when he found the Eagle-Ocean gold coins. If there were Eagle-Ocean gold coins, it wouldn't be so difficult now.
Winnie blinked her big eyes, she thought for a while and said, "Actually, this question is very simple. We have great things to attend the auction."
"What?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!