It feels like the water channel here is indeed a bit deep. The deeper you dive, the water temperature becomes lower and cooler, while the water pressure becomes higher and higher. The eardrums of both ears are compressed to the point of pain.

At this time, Chen Tianhua suddenly opened his eyes and wanted to see clearly how deep the lake bottom was and what was the structure of the lake bed?

Huh... But as soon as I opened my eyes, my right hand that I stretched out touched the lake bed.

The lake water here is clear, the lake bed is densely covered with water plants, and there is a long narrow slope with soft soil and many large and small rocks standing on it.

Searching further, he touched something like a stone with his right hand. He touched it with his hand and looked at it. He felt that it was dark but had a smooth surface, and did not look like a big stone.

Judging from experience, this is most likely an extra-large river mussel.

Chen Tianhua was overjoyed. He pinched both sides of the mussel tightly with both hands, pulled hard and shook it, but it didn't move at all.

Damn it, even this river clam can't get through with you and won't surrender easily.

He had no choice but to come out of the water to take a breath, then took the small iron rake that came with the boat and dived down again...

He always brought this small iron rake with him when he went to the lake to dig for river mussels. For large river mussels buried deep in the soil, digging by just shaking his fingers was often ineffective, and his fingers were easily scratched and injured by the clam's mouth or stones.

After two consecutive dives, I finally dug out this giant clam with a small iron rake and took it away from the bottom of the lake.

After putting it into the cabin and taking a look, Chen Tianhua couldn't help but marvel:

Oops...it turned out to be a giant cockscomb clam. This dark thing is extremely big, with a body length of about forty centimeters.

Chen Tianhua studied biology and botany in his previous life and was very familiar with underwater animals and plants. This kind of cockscomb clam is actually a folk name. Because the outer wings of the shell look like the comb on a rooster, it is named cockscomb clam.

In fact, its biological name should be Triangle clam. It is a very special kind of river mussel. It is also called pearl clam because it is rich in natural pearls.

In later generations, pearl mussels were generally cultivated artificially, often using certain hormones to make them rich in pearls.

However, wild cockscomb clams are rare in later generations.

This wild large crested clam has an oval shape and often appears in male and female pairs in the waters, with the female being the most abundant in pearls.

Chen Tianhua observed carefully and determined that the newly caught cockscomb clam was a male cockscomb clam, which meant that the larger female cockscomb clam must be near the water area.

He decided to capture the male and female cockscomb clams.

After eating a meat bun, he poured a few big mouthfuls of laoshaoguo into his mouth. After resting for a few minutes, he felt that he was in good condition and dived again to search the original lake bed area.

I searched several times in vain, and only found a few small and medium-sized river mussels. To my surprise, they were all cockscomb mussels.

This shows that this water area is a gathering area for wild cockscomb clams.

Chen Tianhua rested for a while. At the winter solstice, the water in the lake was really biting. After soaking in the water for a long time, the caloric consumption was very large.

He took a few more sips of Laoshao Guo, then descended to the lake bed in a hurry, and then expanded the search area...

Good guy, I finally found it behind a huge rock. At first glance, I thought it was a big black stone.

After Chen Tianhua discovered it, he dived twice in a row, dug deeply with an iron rake, and pulled it with his hands. Finally, he took the giant female cockscomb mussel away from the lake bed and captured it on a boat.

Oh my god, this giant thing is about fifty centimeters long and forty meters wide. Its comb is raised high, like a periscope on a submarine.

It was so heavy that it weighed more than 20 kilograms. When Chen Tianhua took it out of the water, it lost its buoyancy and almost let go.

He stepped hard on the water with both feet, holding his breath and lifting it from the water into the cabin with great difficulty.

Chen Tianhua was extremely excited and looking forward to catching the giant male and female cockscomb clam. He didn't care about catching other river clams. He put on his clothes and paddled a boat and returned happily.

Chen Tianhua happily rowed the boat to the dock at the door of his home and shouted loudly to the direction of his door, "Youjuan, come out and help!"

The door of the main room was open, and the whole family was busy on the sidewalk outside, mainly chopping the buttocks of snails, which was very time-consuming.

Youjuan's ears were bright, and when she heard her brother's shouts, she immediately understood that he was calling to move aquatic products again.

"Here he comes."

She responded and hurriedly brought her eldest sister Tingjuan out to help.

When the two sisters saw this boatload of treasures, they were so happy that they couldn't open their mouths from ear to ear.

The three of them worked together to move the things on the boat home, panting from exhaustion.

Chen Tianhua was leaning on the bamboo chair and wanted to rest for a while. His eldest sister Tingjuan shouted "Oh..." to him and pointed at his eyes.

It probably means there is something abnormal in his eyes?

Chen Tianhua was startled and hurriedly ran into the west wing and looked closely at the old dressing table used by his mother. There was a mirror that was broken in half but could still be looked at.

I saw that my two eyes were red and bloodshot, which was quite scary, but there was no foreign object.

He suddenly understood that this was because he drank a lot of Lao Shaoguo high-strength wine and worked with his eyes open underwater for a long time. The water pressure made his eyes congested and the capillaries dilated.

This doesn't matter, the condition will disappear after a few hours of rest and the condition will return to normal.

His mother followed him nervously, frowned at his appearance and said, "Gen'er, how can he be so scary? Come and see the doctor!"

"It's okay, mama. I'll take a nap later and I'll make sure everything is fine when I get up tomorrow morning. Don't worry, I'm a doctor myself and I know what I'm doing." Chen Tianhua patiently comforted him.

"Okay then, you can rest on mother's bed for a while, and I'll wake you up later when it's time to eat."

"Yeah...that's fine." Chen Tianhua nodded and agreed to his mother's request.

He did feel physically tired. In addition to physical exertion, he also drank too much soju.

His mother helped him take off his cloth shoes, and he got on the footboard directly, getting ready to go to bed.

My mother's big bed was one of her dowries. It was a standard wooden furniture commonly found in wealthy or landlord families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Qing Dynasty.

Painted in vermilion, the surroundings of the bed and the eaves are made of mahogany. There are carvings of sunflowers, plum blossoms and flying birds on the partitions around the bed, which is very particular.

There is a rectangular hard board in front of the bed, with four legs dangling half a foot high. The board is painted jet black.

The hard board laid in front of the bed is called a footboard and is an integral part of the bed structure. You must take off your shoes when getting on the footboard.

The bedside table is placed on one end of the footboard, and the high-waisted toilet is on the other end.

This kind of toilet is particularly exquisite. The barrel is cylindrical, with a large top and a small bottom. It has copper barrel turns around the waist and a lid.

On the outside of the high-waisted toilet, there is a square wooden box with carved birds. It is also made of mahogany and is usually covered with a lid.

This double-safety sealing method prevents the odor of feces and urine from leaking out of the toilet.
Chapter completed!