After a while, Xiang Yang discovered that the sea lion that had been following him had not caught up with him.
"Gone?" Xiang Yang was a little disappointed. He really liked that cute sea lion.
In Yanlong Village, there has always been a saying that dogs bring wealth, which means that whenever a stray dog or a lost pet dog runs into a house, it means the family will get rich. Although this is just an illusory saying and very metaphysical, the people in Yanlong Village are willing to believe it. Although sea dogs are different from ordinary dogs, they have the word "dog" in their names after all. Xiang Yang felt it was a pity that they got lost like this.
"Maybe the little guy hasn't eaten enough and went to look for food again." Xiang Yang thought to himself that if he had known this earlier, he should have fed the sea lion one more clam shell.
"Huh?" After turning another corner, Xiang Yang found the figure of the sea lion again in front of him. It was using its front limbs to vigorously pull at a huge rock that was more than one person tall, and its teeth were tearing and biting the rock, as if it was eager to overturn the rock.
It turns out that the little guy ran here.
Xiang Yang showed a smile and swam quickly towards the sea lion.
When he swam closer, Xiang Yang casually glanced under the rock.
However, Xiang Yang was stunned at this glance.
"A single-headed abalone, the one below is definitely a single-headed abalone!" Xiang Yang was ecstatic. He saw an abalone bigger than a vegetable bowl in the gap between the rock that was more than one person tall and another rock.
The abalone was hiding motionlessly in the gap between two reefs. Its calcareous shell looked rough but was actually shiny and round, with countless brown spots on the surface, making it look classic, noble and elegant.
Xiang Yang immediately squeezed over and helped the sea dog to break the abalone.
In addition to being a rare delicacy that is hard to come by on the table, abalone this large is also ornamental. Apart from anything else, the size alone has a huge visual impact.
In addition, such a large natural abalone is a top-notch "magic medicine" for treating various human diseases and balancing human nutrition.
In a nutshell, single-head abalone is not abalone at all, it is a sea treasure, its whole body is the essence of the ocean.
And this statement is not an exaggeration at all. Many organisms growing in the ocean are precious sources of medicine. Among them, abalone shells can treat many difficult and complicated diseases of mankind. This characteristic has resulted in no one proposing to protect abalone even though the number of natural abalone has been decreasing sharply in recent years. At most, they have suggested that scientific methods should be used in development and utilization. Because you have introduced a policy to protect abalone, but other countries have not, in the end you will be the only one to suffer.
Xiang Yang put his hand into the crevice of the stone, feeling slightly excited.
People often say that even money can’t buy a double-headed abalone. If people knew there was such a big abalone here, they would go crazy.
Abalone of this size is naturally better in taste and nutrition than ordinary abalone. It is a top-notch ingredient that you can savor for a whole year after eating it once.
Of course, although abalone of this size is very rare, it does exist.
Xiang Yang even knew that there was a larger abalone abroad. That abalone could grow to a diameter of 30 centimeters, as big as a car tire. The largest abalone recorded in the world was that kind of abalone, a California red abalone with a diameter of 31 centimeters!
In California, the biggest feature of abalone is that it is big!
It is so big that it limits people's imagination. People there don't even judge the size of abalone by its head.
In California, abalone over 22 cm is called medal-grade abalone, abalone over 25 cm is called beast-grade abalone, and abalone over 30 cm is called sea monster-grade abalone.
Both medal-grade abalone and beast-grade abalone are the best of the best abalone. It would take more than a dozen people to finish them at a banquet. As for sea monster-grade abalone, it is also a legend in California. Every one found cannot be eaten.
Xiang Yang pried open the shell of the abalone with his hands and lifted it up with force, but the abalone did not fall off immediately as Xiang Yang had imagined.
Xiang Yang immediately cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" This single-headed abalone must have been frightened by the sea lion, and was now clinging tightly to the reef? In addition, it was hiding in the crevice? Normally, it would be almost impossible to pry it off without hurting it.
And Xiang Yang didn't dare to use too much force to break it. Who knows if the shell of such a big abalone is old? What if he uses too much force and breaks the shell directly? Xiang Yang would be heartbroken.
Xiang Yang remembered this location and swam towards the sea without looking back.
When Xiang Yang returned to the deck, many people had already come up and were resting on the deck.
Is this a rule Xiang Yang set himself? During diving operations, he must come up to the surface to rest for a while at regular intervals regardless of whether his body has any abnormal reactions.
Seeing Xiang Yang coming up, the crew members gathered around him.
"Brother Yang? I caught a three-headed bag." Fang Youqun was the first to boast loudly.
Many people around were secretly thinking that Fang Youqun was lucky as he only caught one abalone? But that abalone happened to be a three-headed abalone. Some of them caught four or five abalones, but there was not a single three-headed abalone.
Of course, Fang Youqun was not the only one who caught the triple-headed abalone. Several other crew members also caught it. They all looked at Xiang Yang in a very good mood, waiting for Xiang Yang to give them red envelopes.
"You have the nerve to shout so loudly just because you caught an abalone?" Xiang Yang glared at Fang Youqun, untied the bulging net bag from his waist and handed it over, "Look at mine."
"Such a big bag? Brother Yang, you didn't leave the abalone behind to catch crabs, did you?" Fang Youqun joked. However, when he untied the net bag, he immediately knew he was wrong. He exclaimed, "Oh my God, you caught four three-headed abalones?"
The crew members were all moved upon hearing this.
They all knew that there were abundant abalone resources under this sea area, but they also understood how rare three-headed abalone were. This time, when they saw Xiang Yangguang catch four three-headed abalone in one trip, they were so shocked that they were speechless. Although some of them caught three-headed abalone, no one had caught two three-headed abalone at the same time.
The crew members who caught the three-headed abalone also put away the slight smugness on their faces and looked at Xiang Yang with admiration.
As expected, the captain is the captain. He is better than them at everything. No wonder he can lead the entire fishing boat to ride the wind and waves.
Xiang Yang took a big sip of the drinking water handed over by a crew member, then asked with a smile: "How is it, has anyone caught or found single-headed abalone or double-headed abalone?"
"It's impossible to find it." He Mingde shook his head and said, "This is not a net abalone. The two heads of this kind of abalone are almost the growth limit of the individual. Abalone that big is almost dead of old age. How could it be such a coincidence that we just happened to find a living two-headed abalone?"