Chapter 56: The Priceless Red Coral
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Leaving the ancient shipwreck, Cai Hongming asked the pink manta ray to carry him upstream.
When I arrived at the sea, I looked around and saw the vast sea everywhere, with waves rising and falling, and the sound of tides surging like music came into my ears.
I don’t know where he was, Cai Hongming took out his cell phone in the Cave Heaven and Blessings inside the Jade Ding and looked at it, and found that there was no signal. But the cell phone was positioned. After checking, he found that in just a moment, he had arrived near the Dongsha Islands.
This guy swam too fast, too!
Cai Hongming glanced at the extremely excited pink manta ray under his seat and sighed.
He originally wanted to call Cai Hongsheng, but he had to give up when he saw that his phone had no signal. At this time, he remembered that he had seized a satellite phone from the group of guys who wanted to kill them while in Western Xinjiang, and took it out. After the phone was seized, he originally wanted Qi Diao Ji Shao to help track the source of the signal, but later he forgot it.
After looking at it, I found that the satellite phone was still useful, so Cai Hongming picked it up and called it.
After thinking about it, he gave up again. He was afraid that someone would track all the information about him and his friends through the phone number he called. It seemed that he had to buy a satellite phone number, otherwise he would not be able to call him.
This satellite phone can be used not only here, but also in the desert.
Every year when sandstorms are scraped, the mobile phone signal will be interrupted. Sometimes there is no signal when you go to the desert, so you need to buy a few more copies at home to prevent accidents.
Since it was useless, Cai Hongming threw away the satellite phone, so as not to take up space in the blessed land of the cave. Then he asked the pink manta ray to take him back.
The pink manta ray was very fast, and swam far away with a swish. Cai Hongming held its flesh wings tightly while shining the flashlight around. His flashlight is a military super light flashlight that can be shined one kilometer away from land and is also waterproof and electricity-proof. It is said that it can also be bulletproof. He just wrapped it in a fresh bag just in case, who knows if it can be waterproof.
Although this flashlight can shine for one kilometer on land, it is amazing to shine for hundreds of meters in the sea due to seawater barriers.
Um!
Suddenly, a red light flashed in front of her eyes, and Cai Hongming quickly asked the pink manta ray to stop and swim to the place where the red light was emitted. It was a red coral tree, half a meter tall and thick branches, like a low wintersweet. It was very beautiful.
In ancient times, red coral was regarded as auspicious and happy thing, representing noble power, so it is also called "Ruibao", which is a symbol of happiness and eternity. In "The Tale of Qianlong" starring Zheng Shaoqiu, there is a story about the Mazu Temple in Meizhou dedicated red coral to the Empress Dowager? It can be seen that the preciousness of red coral is.
During the Qing Dynasty, only the hats and beads worn by second-rank officials in court were made of precious red corals; most Tibetan lamas and monks held rosary beads made of red corals.
In China, India, Indian and Indian nationalities, especially nomadic peoples such as Indian indigenous peoples and Chinese Tibetans, they even regard red corals as a sustenance for protection and praying for the blessing of "God (Emperor).
According to historical records, human use of red corals can be traced back to the ancient Roman era.
The ancient Romans believed that corals had the functions of preventing disasters, giving people wisdom, stopping bleeding and dispelling heat. Some sailors believed that wearing red corals could prevent lightning, hurricanes, calm the waves and safe journey! Therefore, the Romans called it "red gold", which casts the red corals with a layer of mysterious color. Modern Westerners listed corals, pearls and amber as the three organic gems, and were one of the "March Birthday Stones" in the West. They were listed as one of the seven treasures in the Eastern Buddhist scriptures.
But now, due to the reckless mining of humans, red coral resources are declining, and coral trees above two feet high are already very rare.
Cai Hongming didn't expect to find a plant here. This thing is simply a natural bonsai. After returning, just make a base in the hall. It is a tall existence.
So he took out a shovel from the blessed land of the cave in the jade tripod and dug it up.
After digging, he looked around and found that it was a trench with various strange coral reefs. After a while, he found another red coral tree in a coral reef that looked like a huge rock. This red coral tree is far taller than the one he just discovered, at least about 1.5 meters away. The main branch in the middle is particularly thick, while other side branches spread out from this main branch, like a big tree.
wrong.
After looking carefully, the more Cai Hongming felt that the coral tree looked like something, but he couldn't remember it for a while. After thinking for a long time, he didn't think about the result, so he ignored it and picked up a shovel and dug it up.
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and looked at the tall red coral tree in front of him, and his eyes suddenly became wide open.
This tree is clearly like a Thousand-Armed Guanyin.
Look at the main branch, it is round and full, like the body of a great man, and the side branches that stretch out are like those thousands of hands, as if they are still holding magic weapons.
This is not a coral tree, it is clearly a priceless treasure.
Although he knew there was no one here, Cai Hongming looked around for no reason, for fear that someone would be seen to kill someone for money and kill someone to silence him. At that moment, he quickly took the shovel and dug up the trees and the reefs under him. This should be a place where corals have reproduced for generations, otherwise there wouldn't be so many corals. Not only corals, but there are nine shrimps here.
Since he last eaten the super large nine-section shrimp, he has been obsessed with the taste of nine-section shrimp.
When he came back, he passed by the aquatic products market. He specifically asked about the current market of Jiujie shrimp, which is 300 per pound, which is amazing. After all, the nine-jie shrimp he caught that time was worth at least tens of thousands of yuan.
When he saw nine-section shrimps, he caught them. This time he brought the net, so he was not afraid of not being able to catch them. Not only nine-section shrimps, he also found oysters, clams, moray eels, big lobsters, abalone, sea bass, grouper, sea catfish, red sturgeons, squid, squid, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc. The species are so numerous that it is probably related to the trench here and the place where coral reefs reproduce, because this place means food is abundant.
There are not only many species here, but also surprisingly large, especially abalone.
Last time he saw the basin-sized abalone brought by the pink manta ray, he was so happy that he saw two abalone as big as that time. However, the abalone shells were covered with shellfish and seaweed, and it looked like moss growing, which was very disgusting.
Actually, the abalone tastes the same.
If you don't taste it carefully, you would think you eat gluten (the flour has the food that removes starch and impurities, and there is no nutrition at all.), and the meat of this big abalone is very old and full of thorns. It may not be as delicious as that of a small abalone when bitten, but it tastes good when used for making soup, especially the specialty of Fujian cuisine "Buddha Jumps the Wall". It is extremely delicious.
Cai Hongming is not afraid of many good things, especially now that there is a water space for the Platinum Dragon Seal. He is very good at it. Anyway, it is big and can be seen. He will put it into the water space to raise it. If it breeds in the future, he will not have to always go into the sea.
After catching it for a long time, he made a fortune. He caught three stone fish that were only one meter long. Such a big guy was simply unaware of it in the market.
He has also taken advantage of the things here. If he wants to see bigger things in the future, he will probably have to wait at least a few years.
Seeing that the fishing was almost the same, Cai Hongming sat on the pink manta ray and headed towards his uncle's island.
Chapter completed!