"Is red tree the same as mahogany? I heard that mahogany furniture is very valuable." Fang Youqun licked his lips and said with shining eyes.
The crew members pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
The price of furniture made of rosewood has been rising steadily in recent years. A table made of high-quality rosewood has even been sold at a sky-high price of millions. If all these red trees are made of rosewood, wouldn't it be a big deal
Xiang Yang smiled and explained, "There is no connection between mangroves and redwood. Redwood is red sandalwood, a high-grade wood for furniture, and mangroves are small shrubs on the seashore that are not afraid of seawater. If there is any connection between the two, they are both trees, and both have trunks that can produce wood. Otherwise, there is no connection."
"Which one of them is more valuable?" Fang Youqun asked.
It seems that Fang Youqun is setting his sights on making money from Hongmu. Xiang Yang and He Mingde looked at each other and laughed.
Fang Youqun was immediately puzzled, "What are you laughing at?"
"They are all valuable, but mangroves cannot be cut down casually. In the past decade or so, due to factors such as land reclamation, logging and environmental pollution, the number of mangroves has become very scarce, and they have now been listed as protected trees."
Fang Youqun's eyes widened. "I've heard of protecting animals, but is this tree protected?"
Xiang Yang nodded and said seriously, "Even if mangroves are not protected trees, they cannot be cut down at will. Mangroves are the guardians of the coastline. Without mangroves, most coasts will be eroded and washed away by sea water. In serious cases, the waves may even submerge the villages along the coast. We, the residents of coastal areas, have the obligation and responsibility to protect every mangrove."
"Especially for us fishermen, the well-developed root system of mangroves allows them to grow underwater, providing habitats for countless fish, and also playing a certain role in breaking wind and waves at critical moments, thus protecting the beach."
After hearing what Xiang Yang said, the crew nodded seriously, and the way they looked at Hongshu was different from before.
"Hey, Brother Yang, why is there a small tree hanging on that mangrove? Is it possible that a sapling was blown out of the ground by the wind and waves?" Fang Youqun looked left and right and suddenly pointed at a mangrove and asked loudly.
Xiang Yang also looked in that direction and saw a small sapling hanging on a big red tree like a branch.
"Don't worry about it, it's a mangrove seedling." He Mingde said.
"seedling?"
"The reproduction method of mangroves is very peculiar. Although they are plants, they are viviparous. The seeds of mangroves will first develop and mature on the mother tree and then leave the mother tree and fall into the soil to take root. This is a very rare 'viviparous' phenomenon among plants." Xiang Yang explained.
"Plants can actually give birth to live young?" Everyone marveled at this again.
"Master Xu, let's stop the boat here. Leave two people on duty on the deck and the rest of you can follow me off the boat." Xiang Yang shouted into the intercom.
After taking back the walkie-talkie, Xiang Yang looked at the crew members on the deck with a smile and said, "We are in for a treat. We didn't expect there would be mangroves on the edge of this island." Mangroves can protect the coast very well and provide an excellent living environment for creatures such as large conchs and swimming crabs living on the coast. Generally, coasts with mangroves will have very rich fishery resources.
Led by Xiang Yang, a group of people jumped into the sea from the exploration board.
When we got off the fishing boat, the sea water didn't seem very deep. A few meters ahead, some mangroves even had their crowns exposed above the sea. But in fact, after everyone went into the sea, they found that this was not the case at all.
Several crew members who were trying to step into the sea with their trouser legs rolled up missed their steps and fell into the sea. They immediately realized that the sea water here must be more than several meters deep.
Uncle Xiang waited until all the people who were supposed to get off the boat had done so before he smiled and put an inflatable boat on the water. He then moved things like the pressure cooker and the barbecue grill onto the boat.
Xiang Yang waited until the rubber boat was full and then swam towards the island first, while a group of crew members behind him carefully escorted the small rubber boat.
When we got to the island, everyone was a little dazed.
Not to mention the unique scenery of this island, the densely packed sand crabs everywhere on the beach almost made everyone's eyes pop out.
Almost everyone on the boat grew up by the sea, so they were not surprised by the densely packed shells on the beach and even took them for granted.
But no one has ever seen a beach covered with densely packed crabs.
Especially those small crabs about the size of two thumbs. These small crabs are not afraid of anything. The brave ones crawl horizontally and vertically on the beach, and some even crawl into the crew's trouser legs.
“Well!”
"Well—"
A group of sea lions that swam to this sea area chasing fishing boats climbed onto the beach excitedly and shouted loudly.
A little sea lion was lying on the beach with its four flippers pressed against the beach, wriggling its body on the sand with its mouth open, waiting for the crab to crawl into its mouth.
The crew looked on in amazement, "Sea lions can eat crabs?"
"Sea lions eat everything, including squid, cuttlefish, various marine fish, crabs, lobsters and even sea urchins." Xu Fang took off his wet coat and folded it into a package, then picked up a palm-sized swimming crab from the beach and stuffed it into his clothes.
As soon as Xu Fang touched the shell of the swimming crab, his face froze, "Unlucky, it's a bathing crab."
Bathing crab is a soft crab also called water crab. The shell of this kind of crab is the same as that of ordinary crab, but the shell is soft and there is not much meat inside the shell.
Xu Fang looked at the bathing crab in his hand and threw it at a sea lion weighing more than 500 kilograms.
The sea lion immediately raised its head and caught it in one gulp, swallowing it without chewing. Then it turned over, exposing its belly, and made various flattering gestures towards more crew members.
Xiang Yang was a little surprised. Like most animals, the belly is the most vulnerable part of the sea lion's body. Exposing the most vulnerable part without any scruples means that the sea lion is completely defenseless against them.
Xiang Yang walked over and tentatively touched the sea lion's head.
As expected, it was successful. When the sea lion saw Xiang Yang reaching out his hand, it did not hide. Instead, it took the initiative to put its head close to Xiang Yang and touch him affectionately.
This scene immediately made some people jealous.
"Brother Yang, can I touch this sea lion too?" Fang Youqun asked loudly.
"You'll know if you try it," Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Fang Youqun was so touched by the sea lion's flattering behavior that he immediately found a little sea lion and ran over.
As a result, before Fang Youqun could get close to the little sea lion, he was stopped by a female sea lion. The female sea lion bared its teeth at Fang Youqun, and the little sea lion also crawled backwards in panic.
Fang Youqun was immediately depressed. "Doesn't he look like a good person to me?"
Fang Youqun's words immediately caused a burst of laughter from everyone. After the laughter, they all looked at Xiang Yang with envy, unable to understand why these sea lions were so close to Xiang Yang.