Sea-hunting: With the system in hand, my eyes are the ruler

Chapter 1221

On the way back, they saw a rocky beach with many shells, so they went down to pick them up.

Meng Guo's brows knitted slightly. Jiang Han looked at her, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Xiaoguo is still on her menstrual period, and Jiang Han is afraid that Xiaoguo will start to feel pain again.

Meng Guo shook her head. She walked to the edge of a large reef and picked up a large and beautiful shell.

This shell is very pink, but it is empty.

And there are five such shells.

Jiang Han's expression was also rather solemn. This kind of snail is also called the Queen Phoenix Conch.

The pearls produced by this snail are called conch pearls.

Its color is pink, and the pinker the color, the higher the value.

According to some information, top-quality conch pearls have been sold for as much as $270 million each.

The value of conch pearls and the delicious taste of the Queen Phoenix Conch's meat have put this snail in an endangered state, and many countries have banned its fishing.

This type of snail is not usually found in the East China Sea. The fact that there are five Queen Phoenix conch shells piled together is even rarer.

The only possibility is that someone secretly brought the Queen Phoenix Conch back from abroad, and then two ships traded near this island.

After taking the snail meat or pearls, they threw the shells into the sea to avoid inspection after arriving at the port.

But for some unknown reason, the shell was pushed to this rocky beach by the sea water.

"If there are five of them here, then they threw more than five into the sea."

Meng Guo put the snail shell down. Although she didn't kill the snail and the shell was very beautiful, Meng Guo still didn't dare to do anything with it.

Once something like this is discovered, it's hard to explain.

Just then, a ship stopped at the edge of the island.

Two middle-aged men climbed down from the boat.

"Look, there are a lot of seaweed on the reef."

"Bring some back and eat it in the evening."

As the two men talked, they climbed up onto the reef to get some seaweed.

They saw Jiang Han and Meng Guo, as well as their parked fishing boat.

The fatter middle-aged man greeted Jiang Han enthusiastically, "Are you local fishermen?"

Jiang Han nodded. "Yeah, judging from your accent, you don't seem to be locals?"

"Yes, we're from the north. We brought a batch of farmed abalone to your Zhejiang Province seafood wholesale market."

"Did you farm these abalone?" Jiang Han asked curiously. Because of farmed abalone, the price of abalone in the market has been driven down.

"No. We are the middlemen, and we make a profit from the price difference and travel expenses."

Meng Guo was also curious, "What kind of abalone are you getting?"

"It's the wrinkled abalone."

Meng Guo's eyes sparkled as she whispered in Jiang Han's ear, "I heard that abalone pearls can be produced from farmed wrinkled abalone. It's just that the probability is too small."

The shapes of abalone beads are quite special, usually in the shape of a shark, teardrop, heart, etc.

The more regular the shape, the higher the price.

The price of an abalone pearl ranges from several thousand yuan to hundreds of thousands of yuan, making it one of the more valuable pearls.

An idea suddenly occurred to Jiang Han. He walked towards the two middle-aged men and said, "Brothers, my girlfriend is a handicraftsman. She comes to the beach to pick up various snails and shellfish."

The two middle-aged men took a look at the bucket in Meng Guo's hand, and there were indeed all kinds of beautiful shells and snails of all sizes in it.

Many shells and snails are empty.

Empty snails and shellfish cannot be eaten, so they are probably used for handicrafts.

"My dear brothers, my girlfriend said that abalone shells can be very beautiful after being processed. She said it can be made into mother-of-pearl."

The thinner middle-aged man remembered, "Yes, it's the snail-shaped ornament. I heard about it from an old craftsman, and he even showed me a picture. It's really beautiful when it's finished."

Jiang Han handed his bucket to the fat middle-aged man. The fat middle-aged man took a look and saw that there were squids, sea urchins, and a big blue crab in the bucket.