Xiang Yang swam towards the surface of the water.
At this time, Chen Qingsheng and his friends had already come up. This time, everyone had caught a few green-lipped abalone, and they were all smiling happily.
"Brother Yang, you are here."
When Fang Youqun saw Xiang Yang coming up, he immediately came over to him. He said excitedly, "Brother Yang, guess how many green-lipped abalone I caught?"
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "You are an old sailor. If you are so excited, you must have caught at least ten of them. How big are they?"
Fang Youqun's face immediately fell when he heard this. "Brother Yang, these green-lipped abalone like to hide in the cracks of rocks. How can they be so easy to find? Even if we find them, how can we catch them? Who else on our boat can catch more than ten green-lipped abalone in half an hour except you and Brother Qing?"
"oh?"
When Xiang Yang heard this, he was surprised.
Xiang Yang certainly knew best how difficult it was to find and catch green-lipped abalone.
Xiang Yang said Fang Youqun caught ten of them, but that was just a joke for Fang Youqun.
If Xiang Yang had not swam extremely fast on the seabed and had not had excellent eyesight on the seabed, it would have been impossible for him to catch more than ten green-lipped abalone in less than half an hour, even if he was wearing the most advanced diving equipment.
Otherwise, the market price of green-lip abalone would not be so high.
Xiang Yang looked at Chen Qingsheng and asked in surprise, "Master Chen, you just went down there and caught more than ten green-lipped abalone?"
Chen Qingsheng grinned, "I was lucky. I saw a not-too-big rock at the bottom of the sea. After I pushed it over, I found a nest of green-lipped abalone underneath. I have been guarding that rock for half an hour. Unfortunately, the noise made when I pushed the rock was too loud, and the green-lipped abalone were tightly attached to the rock. There were many that I couldn't get off no matter how hard I tried."
Xiang Yang nodded, "You are really lucky then. By the way, how many did you pick off in total?"
The adhesive force of the green-lipped abalone is very strong. Once it is firmly attached to the stone, even if its shell is broken, it will be impossible to pull it off the stone.
Therefore, catching greenlip abalone is not only difficult to find, but also difficult to catch. You need to suddenly exert force and pull it down when it is not prepared. Otherwise, there is no way to get it off the rock wall.
"There are more than twenty of them, but none of them are very big. The biggest one is about half the size of my palm and weighs more than ten taels. It's a three-headed abalone. The rest are small abalones with thirty or forty heads. Captain, you and I will each take half of the big one. As for the remaining small ones, I'll treat you tonight. You can just cook them all in the soup and eat them." Chen Qingsheng grinned.
"So many?" Xiang Yang asked in surprise.
Even if they are only thirty or forty small abalones, considering the value of green-lipped abalone, this is not a small number.
"Luck." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
Xiang Yang nodded. Indeed, in the ocean, there are often lucky people who can receive gifts from the ocean.
"Brother Yang, don't just ask us, how many have you caught?" Fang Youqun's eyes kept glancing at the net bag on Xiang Yang's waist.
Xiang Yang smiled and handed the net bag over, "You'll know after you take a look."
Fang Youqun took the net bag and felt that it was very heavy.
"Why is it so heavy? It's impossible that this big bag is filled with green-lipped abalone?"
Fang Youqun muttered to himself as he untied the net bag.
"Oh my god, what kind of fish is this? Why is it so ugly?" Fang Youqun lowered his head to look into the net bag and almost threw the whole bag out.
Chen Qingsheng on the side quickly snatched the net bag from Fang Youqun.
"Hey, is this an Antarctic longevity fish?" Chen Qingsheng said in surprise.
"As expected of you, Master Chen. You recognized what this is at a glance." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"Captain, please stop teasing me. The Antarctic longevity fish is so famous. If I can't recognize it, I would have wasted my time at sea." Chen Qingsheng said with a wry smile.
"If I remember correctly, this Antarctic longevity fish should be a deep-water fish, right? Captain, how did you encounter it?" Chen Qingsheng asked.
Xiang Yang glanced at the net bag. At this moment, the Antarctic long-lived fish had been dead for a long time due to the sudden change in water pressure.
"I didn't encounter this Antarctic longevity fish. I encountered a larger squid underwater. This Antarctic longevity fish was the prey of that squid, and I snatched it away." Xiang Yang told a little lie and pushed the credit of the Antarctic longevity fish onto the fictitious squid.
"Captain, you are so lucky. Although the price of this fish is not very high, I heard that it tastes delicious and eating it can help prolong your life." Chen Qingsheng exclaimed.
"Who said that Antarctic longevity fish is not expensive?" Xu Fang on the side said: "Those you bought in China are actually not Antarctic longevity fish at all. Those are farmed New Zealand longevity fish. Real Antarctic longevity fish and wild New Zealand longevity fish are scarce and difficult to catch. New Zealand doesn't even have enough to eat them, so they don't export them at all." Xu Fang on the side suddenly spoke at this time.
Now, even Xiang Yang was puzzled, "Master Xu, are you sure this fish is valuable?"
"Sure." Xu Fang nodded confidently. "In my previous fleet, I once went to a hotel in New Zealand with our boss. There were two kinds of longevity fish in the hotel. One was the ugly wild longevity fish, which was dark yellow. The other was the golden New Zealand longevity fish, which we often see in China and looks a little better."
"The price of wild longevity fish is very high, about 600 to 700 yuan per pound."
Xiang Yang nodded, secretly thinking it was a pity.
Then, Xiang Yang smiled and said, "No matter how much this fish costs per pound, it's not easy to sell just one. Send it to the kitchen and make fish soup tonight."
Xu Fang nodded and said with a smile, "Captain, you are so generous. This fish weighs at least three or four pounds, so it's worth at least two thousand dollars."
Chen Qingsheng smiled and reached into the net bag, trying to scoop up the Antarctic longevity fish while jokingly saying, "Captain, I don't expect to have any fish meat tonight, you have to give me a bite of the soup."
Xiang Yang laughed and scolded: "You are really calculating. The fish soup made from Antarctic longevity fish has all the nutrients in the soup. How about I drink the fish soup and you eat the fish meat?"
Chen Qingsheng was about to say yes.
Suddenly, Chen Qingsheng was shocked, his eyes widened, and he looked into the net bag in disbelief.
"Brother Qing, what's wrong with you? You were fine just now, why did you suddenly stop talking?" Fang Youqun asked in confusion when he saw Chen Qingsheng suddenly standing there in a daze.