Xiang Yang and Wu Shiwen looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.
This foreigner actually kept arguing about how beautiful the thick-shelled sea chrysanthemum clam was, and tried to get Xiang Yang and others to accept the aesthetic standards he conveyed, but he never mentioned that the thick-shelled sea chrysanthemum clam was the raw material for the Yuanbei.
Xiang Yang thought to himself that this foreigner probably didn't know the concept of China's Eight Delicacies of the Sea.
Logically speaking, this should be a good thing for Xiang Yang and Wu Shiwen, so why is Xiang Yang helpless
Because Xiang Yang also understood why Gao Chuang kept holding on to the King Oriole Sea Chrysanthemum Clam and refused to let go.
Obviously, Gao Chuang also took a fancy to this batch of thick-shelled sea clams and was using the King of Eagle Sea clams as a cover to bargain hard.
As expected, after negotiating with Gao Chuang for a while without any results, Ge Lan spread his hands helplessly and said, "Gao, my friend, this is the lowest price I can offer. If it is any lower, I won't even be able to recover my costs. But since you like nice-looking things, I have something here that you might be interested in."
"oh?"
Gao Chuang pretended to be very interested, "What is it?"
"Wait a minute, I'll go to the cabin and get it for you now." said Ge Lan.
After Ge Lan left, Gao Chuang took off his gloves, lit a cigarette, took a long puff, and then said arrogantly, "This foreigner is too young to fight me. You wait and see how I take down these thick-shelled sea chrysanthemum clams at a low price."
Xiang Yang asked in confusion: "Boss Gao, we are also specialized in seafood business, don't we know the value of sea chrysanthemum clams?"
"This involves the differences between Chinese and Western cultures," Gao Chuang said with a smile.
"In the West, sea chrysanthemum clams are called red snails. They are beautiful ornamental seafood worth more than gold and are loved by people from all walks of life in the West. There are even many snail lovers who resist killing red snails. Therefore, in foreign countries, sea chrysanthemum clams are generally not eaten, but for viewing."
"In the East, the sea clams are called Yuanbei, and are one of the eight delicacies of the sea."
Xiang Yang heard this and nodded with a smile, "Speaking of this, there is another very interesting thing."
"Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Qianlong, a foreign envoy presented a pair of sea clams to the emperor. However, the emperor did not recognize them and asked the imperial chef to prepare a dish for them. After eating the dish, the emperor thought it tasted very good, so he praised the sea clams to the foreign envoy."
"In fact, those red snails are not meant to be eaten."
Gao Chuang smiled and shook his head, "If it were me, I would eat it too. It's really a waste of natural resources to keep such top-quality scallops for viewing instead of eating them."
"Okay, stop talking. That foreigner is coming. Don't let him hear this. Let's see what he brings this time."
"Gao, my friend, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I have brought my treasure with me. I believe you will like it this time." Ge Lan came over with a smile on his face. Behind him, there were four tall white men carrying a large water tank.
"Oh, then I must take a good look at it." Gao Chuang walked towards the water tank with a smile.
Xiang Yang also looked into the water tank with curiosity.
As a result, Xiang Yang showed disappointment on his face. "What? Isn't this just a sponge?"
Ge Lan immediately became unhappy. He said seriously: "Xiang, take a closer look. This is not an ordinary sponge."
Xiang Yang stared at the water tank carefully for a long time, "Isn't this a very common Hexapod sponge?"
"You are wrong. This is the oldest animal on the planet and a real living fossil." Ge Lan said mysteriously.
"Forehead."
Xiang Yang was almost choked by Ge Lan's words. Especially when Ge Lan said this, there was a smug and mysterious look on her face, which Xiang Yang found funny no matter how he looked at it.
That's right.
Sponges are indeed some of the oldest organisms on Earth.
But at the same time, sponges are also the simplest organisms on earth.
In the past, humans have gone through a long and complex process of understanding the position of sponges in biological evolution.
But today, sponges are no longer a mystery to humans.
It is true that sponges are living fossils, but this is not worthy of commercial hype at all.
Because as a living fossil, sponges have no commercial added value other than providing some evidence for biological evolution research.
In Xiang Yang's view, sponge is just a primitive, lowest-level aquatic multicellular animal that can be found everywhere and has no commercial value at all.
Gao Chuang, however, showed great interest. "I have also seen these things near the equator. Can they survive in Antarctica?"
Ge Lan said quickly: "That's right. Although its structure is very simple, it is actually a very special biological group. It contains extremely rich biological active substances. Even if you crush it and turn it into a single cell, it can still survive. You can think of it as a flower. Every piece of it is a seed."
Xiang Yang smiled slightly and said nothing.
In the past, when sponges were called flower fruits, they were still very mysterious creatures.
Once upon a time, many people believed that sponges, which cannot move but can only drift with the current or attach themselves to rocks, shells, aquatic plants or other objects in the water, are plants.
However, in modern times, since the advent of the microscope, all the mysteries about sponges have been solved by humans.
Although sponges look like plants, they are actually animals.
"Brother Yang, is this sponge really a flower?" At this time, Wu Shiwen on the side asked in a low voice.
"Of course not."
Xiang Yang shook his head and said, "Although sponges don't have a mouth, a digestive cavity, or a nervous system, they are indeed an animal, a simple and low-level animal."
Most sponges living in seawater are grayish yellow, brown or black lumps.
The surface of many sponges has many protrusions, and next to the protrusions are many small holes of different sizes.
Sponges can use these small holes to lure prey into their traps.
Although the sizes of individual sponges vary greatly, with the smallest being only a few millimeters and the largest even reaching hundreds of meters, the internal structure of the sponge is very simple regardless of size.
The entire body of the sponge is composed of two layers of cells, inner and outer layers. There are no differentiated tissues in the body, but some cells differ in structure and function.
It is said that sponges have very strong filtering functions. A complete sponge has 400 billion small holes on its surface, which are the same as the body cavity, and is connected and supported by sandy fiber skeletons, just like a channel system that is densely covered with thousands of water networks.
A sponge with a diameter of only one centimeter can filter 20 kilograms of seawater a day. It is a very important part of the entire marine ecosystem and a very practical seafood in the marine aquarium.