Xiang Yang's mouth twitched.
Even in the ornamental fish market, those sponges that are cultivated into small pieces and look very beautiful generally cost from a few dozen to thousands of yuan.
Ge Lan asked for two thousand dollars at the very beginning, and the unit was US dollars, which showed that he had no intention of making a deal at all.
"Too expensive." Wu Shiwen shook his head. He was obviously not a fool. Although Xiang Yang did not say it explicitly, he knew what Xiang Yang wanted to say from his expression.
"This price is really not expensive. This is not an ordinary sponge. This is a sponge from the deep sea of Antarctica." Ge Lan shook his head.
"That's such a pity. The most I can offer you for these sponges is $500 per square meter." Wu Shiwen said a price that he thought was very low. As the saying goes, if you ask for a high price, you should pay low. Since the price offered by the other party was ridiculously high, he would just mention a ridiculously low price.
Xiang Yang and Gao Chuang on the side rolled their eyes.
Ge Lan's frown slowly relaxed, "Wu, the price you gave is really too low."
"But who makes you my friend?"
As he spoke, Ge Lan changed his tone and smiled. "Let's take the price you mentioned, five hundred dollars per cubic meter. How much do you want? I'll have someone deliver it to your ship for you."
"Ah?" Wu Shiwen didn't react for a long time.
When he reacted, his face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Okay." Xiang Yang said with a smile: "This price is actually more in line with the market value. If the sponge you pick out is of high quality, you might be able to make a little more money when you go back."
Wu Shiwen's expression became a little better. He nodded and said, "Okay, take me to the cabin to pick out the goods."
"Gao, Xiang, do you also want to go with this friend to see my sponge?" Ge Lan said with a smile.
"I won't go to see it. I'm not interested in this thing." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Gao Chuang waved his hand directly and said, "Ge Lan, this time you are not as enthusiastic as last time. You don't show me anything good. If you don't show me something that interests me, I will leave."
Ge Lan immediately complained, "Gao, you are wronging me. My Antarctic deep-sea sponge and the huge hamburger sea clam are rare treasures. Many people are vying for them."
Gao Chuang waved his hand and said, "Let's go." Then he made a gesture to walk towards the side of the ship.
Ge Lan immediately became anxious and quickly ran over to stop Gao Chuang, saying with a smile on her face: "Gao, my friend, how can you leave so soon?"
Gao Chuang didn't appreciate it, "Why did you bring these things to fool me?"
"Don't you have an old saying that goes, 'You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry'? Of course, the better ones will come later." Ge Lan said with a smile.
Gao Chuang shook his head, "I want to see the best."
"OK."
Ge Lan clapped his hands and said, "Take out the batch of limulus I received half a month ago."
"What?"
Xiang Yang and Gao Chuang looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
This foreigner actually has such a good thing in his hands, Xiang Yang thought to himself.
Limulus is a very precious seafood.
Its Chinese name is horseshoe crab. It is a western softshell turtle native to the Atlantic coast of America and is a close relative of the extinct trilobite.
Although horseshoe crabs are called crabs, they are actually not related to crabs at all. Instead, they are related to scorpions and spiders.
As time goes by, animals that lived contemporaneously with horseshoe crabs have either evolved or become extinct, but the horseshoe crab still retains its most primitive and ancient appearance.
"Gao, look, this is the batch of limulus I received. Don't underestimate them because they are arthropods, but the largest one I have is 55 centimeters long. It is a very rare marine animal." Ge Lan introduced enthusiastically.
Xiang Yang narrowed his eyes.
Horseshoe crabs actually exist in our country, but they don’t grow this big, and they are protected animals.
As far as Xiang Yang knows, no horseshoe crab is allowed to be caught in our country, and almost all of the demand is imported from foreign countries.
When Xiang Yang saw this batch of horseshoe crabs, he was immediately attracted.
Xiang Yang pretended to be nonchalant and fished out a horseshoe crab that was more than 40 centimeters long from the water tank. He then said, "This horseshoe crab is distributed from America to Asia. How can it be said to be rare? Moreover, this horseshoe crab is very easy to catch. It usually lives in the mud and sand on the seabed and mainly feeds on worms, annelids, brachiopods and mollusks."
Horseshoe crabs mainly feed on small invertebrates and shellfish. Their body can be divided into three parts: head and thorax, abdomen and sword tail.
Each horseshoe crab has six pairs of crab-like legs on its cephalothorax, five of which are located around its mouth. When it eats, these five pairs of legs act like teeth, helping the horseshoe crab chew food.
These American horseshoe crabs have very hard plastrons and gastropods on their abdomens, which allow them not only to crawl on the seabed, but also to swim freely in the water, and with the help of their long sword tails, they can drill into the ground.
When Ge Lan saw Xiang Yang catching a horseshoe crab from the water tank, he immediately warned him, "Xiang, you'd better be careful. This guy is very fierce. Its long sword tail can easily pierce human skin and even kill people."
Xiang Yang nodded to show that he understood.
The tail of the horseshoe crab is really like a sharp dagger, which can easily pierce into the body of other creatures. It is the horseshoe crab's strongest means of hunting, resisting enemies and defending.
When Ge Lan saw that Xiang Yang didn't care, she immediately knew that Xiang Yang knew about the horseshoe crab.
Immediately, Ge Lan stopped hiding it and said directly: "Xiang, these are the best horseshoe crabs. Do you want to take some back?"
Xiang Yang smiled and put the horseshoe crab in his hand back into the water tank, then said: "Brother Ge Lan, you may not know that in our country, horseshoe crabs are protected animals and are not allowed to be bought or sold. You recommended these horseshoe crabs to us, but you really recommended them to the wrong person."
Unexpectedly, Ge Lan's face turned serious and he said, "Xiang, you are dishonest."
"This is not an Asian horseshoe crab. As far as I know, your country is in great need of this American horseshoe crab, and you also allow the free trade of American horseshoe crabs. As long as you bring them back, you can sell them for a good price immediately."
Xiang Yang was a little stunned. This foreigner actually knew such details
After seeing the previous hamburgers and sea clams, Xiang Yang thought that this foreigner knew nothing about domestic culture and things.