Originally I just wanted to see if I could catch a few little green dragons, but I didn't expect to get an unexpected surprise.
Wild sea cucumber is the "sea ginseng", the king of all tonics. According to ancient books, sea cucumber, wild cordyceps, mountain Ganoderma lucidum and forest deer placenta are collectively known as the "Four Natural Immortals".
Ye Yaodong threw the sea cucumber in his hand into the bucket of sea water, and also caught the escaped little green dragons and put them in. These little green dragons were also very fat, with their tails curled up, and each one looked to weigh about four or five taels.
There were several other fish caught on the deck, including three large shrimps, as well as sea bass, turbot, sole fish, small stingray, and several small colorful striped coral reef fish. They looked alive and their mouths kept moving, so he released them directly.
"I'll clean up, you continue to collect the traps." Father Ye urged him happily, and sorted the fish on the deck into other fish baskets.
Ye Yaodong clapped his hands and stood up, "Okay."
He pulled one end of the rope and continued to pull in the trap. He pulled up the second trap very smoothly. Through the fishing net, they could see the little green dragon crawling around inside.
"There are several more little green dragons."
The wrinkles at the corners of Ye's father's eyes were so deep that they formed several ravines. "Okay, okay, these fish are not bad either. Let's untie them first..."
As soon as the fish bag was opened, the fish scattered all over the ground again, but this time there was only one sea cucumber.
"I don't know how many years these sea cucumbers have grown, but they are all quite big, and their spines are thick and strong."
Wild sea cucumbers grow in deep sea areas. Due to the pressure of water depth, ocean currents, tides, and the need to rely on their own hunting and their high level of activity, the sea cucumber spines become thick, short and powerful.
The main thing to look at when evaluating sea cucumbers is whether their spines are thick and strong. Only those that are thick and strong indicate that they are full of vitality, and only then will the sea cucumbers have a high taste and nutritional value.
Farmed sea cucumbers have a short growth period and do not need to hunt for food on their own. The water they are farmed in is shallow, the pressure is low, the environment is relatively quiet, and there are no natural tides and other factors, so the spines of the sea cucumbers become thinner and longer.
What he caught were of course purely wild. He held them in his hand, rubbing and scratching them back and forth with his thumb a few times, and then he counted the sea cucumbers and small blue dragons again.
The second trap caught 1 sea cucumber, 3 small blue dragons, and five or six shrimps. I won’t talk about the other fish. After he had an idea of what they were, he gave them to his father to sort out and he continued to collect.
But when he tried to pull it, he found that he couldn't pull it anymore.
"Oh? It's over. You're hooked after all?"
"It's hooked?" Father Ye put down the goods in his hand, walked to the side of the ship, tried to pull it, and found that he really couldn't pull it.
"What should I do? I was worried that it would get stuck and I couldn't pull it out. It really got stuck, so I just pulled two of them out..."
Ye Yaodong had expected this. After all, there were reefs underneath, so it was normal to be hooked.
He calmly turned around and went to the small cabin to take out the diving equipment he brought with him at night, as well as the homemade net bag, and said, "I'll go in and take a look."
Father Ye watched him swiftly take off his coat, put on the mask and air tube, remove the solid plastic blocks from the foot covers, take off his shoes and put them on. He was amazed. How come Dongzi had all these things
"This... Can you take these with you? Will they work? When did you buy them? Will they work? The deeper the water, the greater the pressure..."
"I don't know if it will work, I'll try to see how deep I can dive. There are reefs underneath, and there was a shipwreck some time ago, so it shouldn't be very deep."
I got these from Linji. There are English words on them, so they shouldn't be too bad.
After doing some simple warm-up exercises, he jumped into the water under Ye's father's instructions.
He was not in a hurry to dive in. He tried swimming in the shallow water for a while to get familiar with it. He also tested the tightness of the mask to see if the fins would fall off easily during the swinging of the feet.
Feeling that everything was fine and after he had adapted to the situation, he dived deeper.
Last year, he didn’t have any tools, so he only dived less than ten meters before he felt the air pressure was a bit high and floated up uncomfortably. This time, he felt it was okay.
I slowly swung my fins and dived about five meters. The visibility of the sea water here is very good and the light underwater is relatively sufficient. I can clearly see the small fish and shrimps swimming around.
Looking down, you can just barely see a sunken ship tilted, with its bow facing upwards, close to the reef.
He continued to dive toward the underwater reefs and fishing boats.
After going down about ten meters to the bottom of the sea, he felt fine and had no discomfort. It turned out that he still needed the help of tools.
Although the surrounding underwater landscape is not very clear at this depth and feels a bit gray, the light is still very bright, and there are more big fish swimming around, but they are not in groups, just swimming around sporadically.
Just at this moment, two bass, one big and one small, were coming towards him. The big one weighed about five or six pounds, and the small one looked to be about three pounds. Unfortunately, he didn't have any suitable tools to catch them, so he had to pass them by.
There were seven or eight blackfin mullets swimming in front of him on the left at the same time. He also avoided them and continued to dive below.
He didn't know how deep he dived, probably about thirteen or fourteen meters. He didn't feel any discomfort, so he boldly dived towards the reefs around the fishing boat.
Not far away, he saw small green dragons swimming around, as well as a small group of nine-segmented shrimps, various small fish, and a ground trap stuck on the reef nearby.
Having found the target, he was immediately overjoyed and swam towards the reef with his flippers flapping.
Just then, a small green dragon was swimming towards him. Since something was given to him for free, he just grabbed it.
It was seen struggling hard, its tentacles moving around, its body curling up and relaxing, curling up again, trying to escape, but how could Ye Yaodong let go of the thing he had already got and let it run away.
He happily put it into the net bag at his waist and stretched out his claws towards the surrounding nine-segmented shrimps.
The small group of shrimps were frightened and ran around in panic. He used both hands at the same time, but only caught two.
After putting it into the net bag, he did not continue to catch it, but first moved the hooked trap away from the reef and put it aside, so that he could pull it up after getting ashore.
There were several pleasing little green dragons crawling in the trap, but he was in no hurry to catch them now. He could pull them up and untie them later as he had other things to put in the net bag.
The reef nearby was densely packed with conches and abalone, with a few small green dragons and small fish occasionally swimming through the crevices, all of which looked at him with excitement.
He grabbed the little green dragon that he could reach first.
To catch a lobster, you have to catch it from behind because it swims backwards by flicking its tail.
Because there were crevices among the reefs all around and the space was small, it was easy to catch them as long as the hands could reach them. He caught three in a row, but one ran away and the others hid too deep in the crevices. Without the right tools at hand, he couldn't reach too deep.
I still have too little experience, otherwise I could just bring a small hand-copied net.
He glanced around again and didn't see Xiao Qinglong anymore. He saw that he was not far from the bottom, so after thinking about it, he went down a little bit and put his feet on the ground first.
As for the abalones that were crowded together on the reef, he was not in a hurry to pick them up, as they could not escape.
It is not known whether the water in this area is not very deep because it is near the sea or because the bottom crust has moved. He estimated that it is only about ten meters from the sea surface.
There was soft mud and sand under my feet, and various large and small stones on the edge. I looked around and it felt a little scary how quiet it was except for the sound of water. Fortunately, there were many sea creatures around.
Large patches of seaweed and seaweed are swaying in the water, some fish are swimming around the water grass, and not far away there are small coral reefs, with small blue dragons and coral reef fish interspersed among them.
The seabed here is not as colorful as imagined, and there are no schools of fish surrounding it, but it looks thriving.
He looked around carefully and saw a sea cucumber hidden in the dense seaweed in front of him. He moved his feet, pushed aside the low seaweed, grabbed the motionless sea cucumber, and cursed in his heart.
"It was hidden very well. I almost missed it. Fortunately, I have sharp eyes."
He put the sea cucumber in his hand into the net bag, but suddenly he saw another one hidden under the mud at his feet, with several of the thick short spines on its back exposed to his eyes.
He tried to pick it out with his hands, and he actually pulled out another one.
He muttered to himself, "Fortunately, I have good eyesight, so I can pick this out."
It was inconvenient for him to kick the mud and sand with his feet because he was wearing flippers, so he simply skipped over the bottom and caught the little green dragon hiding in the seaweed first.
Don't ask him how he knew there were lobsters in the seaweed. The reason is that there are two long tentacles in front, sticking out from the emerald green seaweed. He can be sure that they are lobster tentacles just by thinking with his butt.
Looking at the slender branches and leaves swaying with the sea water, suddenly his mind went out of control and began to chant strangely.
Seaweed, seaweed, drifting with the waves...
Seaweed, seaweed, dancing in the waves...
His body shuddered instantly.
This song is too magical.
He shook his head, expelling the devilish music from his mind, and stepped forward to push aside the lush water plants. The little green dragon was frightened by his action and was about to escape, but he was quick to grab its tentacles.
But just as the hand touched the tentacles, the seaweed was stirred suddenly, and the water around the seaweed immediately became turbid as if dust was raised.
It hit his thigh unexpectedly and then went under his crotch in an instant.
He turned around and chased it, only to see it flee into the seaweed again. Afraid that it would escape again, he approached it cautiously, and when it was about to flee again, he quickly pressed down with his Five Fingers Mountain and finally caught its body.
"You want to run away after I found you? No way..."
All of this stems from his psychological activities. Who isn’t an old boy
This one is quite big, it looks like it weighs about 70 or 80 taels.
Ignoring its struggle, he put it back into the net bag around his waist.