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Chapter 27 Copper Coins

Of course, Xia Yu's current focus is on salvage of this Portuguese shipwreck. His working attitude is very proud, and there is no missing in every corner of the shipwreck. As for the waters near the shipwreck, it is the battlefield he cleaned at the earliest.

He dived to the 40-meter-deep seabed for two consecutive days to clean and salvage the mud and sand, but the harvest was very small. Xia Yu only found some traces of silk from the silt and sand. As for wooden boards, there was nothing to say.

But the excavation of the wreck has not been completed. He has only cleaned up the upper cabin. What kind of secrets are buried in the mud and sand below, and he will continue to work.

During this period, he was in a bad mood and did not want to deal with the mud and sand all the time. While relieving his worries, he wandered around perfectly, perfectly interpreting what "the fire in the city gate caused the fish to harm the pond". Before the nearby marine creatures could not help but enter a strange space, especially those delicious seafood. Especially these seafood did not know the fate they were about to face, and swam more and more happily in the new sea area.

On June 16, the weather was sunny and cloudless.

Chen Fuqiong got up early and prepared breakfast. The evening tide was flooding, but Xia Yu and his son were worried about her and refused to let her go out to catch the sea at night. It was dark and it was not as safe as the daytime rush.

The father and son had breakfast and then drove out to sea to fish. On the way, Xia Mingguang also told him if he would come back today and send some seafood to the restaurant.

"Brother Chen urges him whenever he has the opportunity. He wishes that seafood will be delivered every day." Xia Yu replied with a smile, "The seafood income a few days ago was pretty good. I sold more than 10,000 yuan. I'll transfer half of it to my dad."

"Save it yourself. You spend a lot of money. I used to spend a lot of money on seafood." Xia Mingguang said.

Xia Yu didn't force himself. Xia Mingguang had a good alcohol tolerance, but neither of them smoked, so there were really not many places to spend money.

When he was a child, Xia Yu and Chen Wenjie stole the cigarettes of his uncle Chen Fuqiang, but after smoking, his sister and cousin disliked their bad mouths. He himself didn't like the smell of tobacco. He didn't think about smoking when he grew up. However, Chen Wenjie took a completely different path. Now he is an old cigarette gun, and a pack a day is not enough for him to smoke.

Xia Mingguang has a low level of education and is not very interested in cultural relics and porcelain. The key is that he does not understand the threshold is quite high... But when talking about sea life, he is an expert in all kinds of seafood, and he knows it all.

Xia Yu and his father can also have many common languages, and there are more and more marine creatures in other artificial oceans.

After arriving in the waters near Shigui Island, it was still the same. Xia Mingguang stopped the boat and let Xia Yu do it himself, and only asked him to get on the boat and rest every hour, and then contact him immediately through the communicator if he had anything to do.

Xia Yu was already warmed up when he came, and continued to warm up after getting into the water. He first "wandered" around and grabbed some seafood into the space. As he expected, his space was only more than one acre of artificial sea area, and the seafood it could accommodate was limited. His fishing would not have any impact on this sea area.

Now, today he saw many good products, including snails, snails, sling crabs, safflower crabs, orchid crabs, and turtles swimming leisurely from the deep sea.

He also saw the grouper grouper. It was still very big, at least thirty pounds. The grouper could grow to several hundred pounds. It was a carnivore. It was better to let it for food outside. Don’t catch it and harm seafood in the space. Last time I sent it to the grouper at Mingji Seafood Restaurant, Zhou Chen complained that it was a bit difficult to raise and was about to sell it to customers for a while. The price of the grouper is not high, unless it is particularly large, and the type of grouper can be auctioned as a lottery ticket. The average grouper is more than seventy or eighty yuan per pound, and it is more than 80 yuan.

He didn't catch the turtle in the space and raised it. There is no place inside for the time being. He will only consider it when the space area is particularly large in the future.

Grouper and Jinxiu lobster are his regular customers to catch them in the space, and they can be afforded even if they keep them in for a long time.

Wild bluestone grouper is the most common and the price is not high. He sells it to a restaurant for 100 yuan per kilogram, so the price of breeding will be cheaper. Among the grouper Xia Mingguang caught, bluestone grouper is also the most.

What surprised Xia Yu the most was that there were really many golden lobsters here, just like they couldn't catch them all. And once they found one, they always found other lobsters nearby. The lobster hiding in the cracks of the rocks met him, who was cheating, and there was no room for hiding.

This is actually related to the habitual habits of Jinxiu lobster. Jinxiu lobster is timid in nature. Under natural conditions, it lies out at night and often lives in rock caves, piles of rocks, and coral bushes, and goes out to feed at night. Jinxiu lobster has group habits and the shrimp group is obvious in regional areas.

Look, he collected two more golden lobsters into the space today. One was very large, with tentacles weighing nearly one meter, at least four kilograms. The other one looked less than two kilograms, and he put them inside to raise them.

Xia Yu has no intention of selling such a huge lobster. When it grows a little bigger, the price will be even more beautiful. It is not that it is only four or five hundred yuan per catty, or at least ten times the price. Anyway, in terms of pounds, the bigger the price, the more valuable it is.

After he first grabbed the lobsters in the space, he laid a lot of eggs and hatched a lot of "crawfish". Now there are actually Jinxiu lobsters that are breeding or running on the market, but generally they are not too big if they are sold. The breeding technology of Jinxiu lobster is still quite difficult.

Of course, this is actually because he didn't just catch a single person and fleece. Relying on his own like a "mermaid", he left his traces in a large area of ​​sea near Shigui Island.

The number of other conchs attached to the reef is quite large, and sometimes it even makes patients with intensive phobia despair. Fortunately, Xia Yu has seen a lot since he was a child and does not take it seriously at all. Now there is limited space in artificial oceans, and he has raised a lot of small conch abalones, so he only chose the kind that can be eaten after raising them.

With the ability to collect space, Xia Yu doesn't have to work hard to pick up abalone and abalone. Wild abalone and various conch creatures are very tight when adsorbed on the reef. If you don't have some strength, you can't get it off. You usually use tools.

Among conchs, gooseneck barnacles are also called Buddha's hand snails, and the price of dog claw snails is quite high.

The previous seafood that Xia Yu delivered was sold by the Buddha hand snails, but he didn't do much, and only sent three kilograms. But he couldn't help but the Buddha hand snails he selected were very large. Zhou Chen, the profiteer, gave him 400 yuan per kilogram, which was even more expensive to sell to customers. Customers are willing to buy it. In addition to being nutritious and delicious, the big ones seem to be well-known, and it is difficult to eat so fresh in other places.

For this reason, Zhou Chen also specifically instructed him to pick more such delicious food from "hell" and deliver it to him. Xia Yu still replied as usual and said, "Look at the sky and go with the flow!"

For Xia Yu, seafood fishing is just a matter of convenience, but catching so much seafood into space can make up for his empty heart when he salvaged the wreck two days ago.

He became much more beautiful and soon started a new day's shipwreck salvage journey.

He still deals with silt and sand. Without a sand extraction machine and a special salvage construction ship, Xia Yu could only use space to collect all the silt and sand. Even so, when the next day, the silt and sand were still washed by the tides and undercurrents.

Thanks to his ability has evolved significantly, he can see clearly on this seabed where there is no particularly dim light.

Through the unremitting efforts of the previous two days, Xia Yu at least ruled out the cabin without good cargo. Anyway, the entire ship must be cleaned up.

After another two hours of gain, Xia Yu did not give up. He got on the boat and rested for a while, drank some water, got some oysters and shrimps to eat raw, replenish the water and energy, and continued diving.

I don’t know what if it’s hard work that pays off. Anyway, Xia Yu felt very happy because he found traces of copper coins when he was cleaning the bottom cabin.

Copper coins themselves are actually not worth much unless they are particularly cherished. But this is a good omen, indicating that the cabin below is most likely a place to store coins.

So, Xia Yu became more and more energetic, and even turned on active perception to detect the situation under the mud and sand. If there was a metal detector at this time, it could be used, because there was already confirmed that there was copper coins. But Xia Yu did not buy it. Seeing many other so-called "treasure hunters" walking around and detecting the metal detectors, he felt a little stupid, and it was a bit unreliable than finding a needle in a haystack. Unless he was particularly lucky, it would be so easy to find a real treasure!

Through active perception, he found that there were a lot of copper coins in the mud in this cabin. Then he closed it! He couldn't afford to burn it.

After confirming that there are no delicate items like porcelain, Xia Yu's working methods can be a little rougher. While digging them with a small shovel to see the situation, the speed of collecting mud and copper coins into the space can also be accelerated.

There are quite a lot of copper coins here, but he didn't count them in detail, and paid more attention to the seals on the copper coins. Many copper coins have been corroded and rusted due to long-term silt and sand and seawater. After a little cleaning, they can be roughly judged that most of them are printed with "Kangxi Tongbao" and "Yongzheng Tongbao" but not many.

What surprised Xia Yu the most was that there were several Spanish "double pillar" silver dollars mixed in it.

Xia Yu, who is familiar with history, knew that this was the earliest made by Spain in South American colonies. It was circulated early and almost spread all over the world. It flowed into China as early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. According to records from the British East India Company, from 1681 to 1833, the silver flowed into China reached more than 68 million taels, totaling 100 million silver dollars, most of which were double-column silver dollars.
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