"What's a Giant Squid?"
Neither brother understood. They looked at Ye Yaodong, waiting for him to explain.
"You could think of it as an enormous squid. Doesn't that tentacle constantly swinging and flailing around look a lot like a squid's?"
"Then could it be a cuttlefish too?"
"Giant Squid is also what people mean when they call it a giant cuttlefish. Despite that name, it isn't a cuttlefish, but a kind of squid. As for enormous squid, there's one called the Colossal Squid that lives in the Antarctic and nowhere else. That's different from the Giant Squid."
The two brothers were a little bewildered. Dongzi seemed to know a lot.
"Then something this big should be worth a lot, right?"
"Of course it's worth a lot. Who's ever seen a squid or octopus this big? Just like that Oarfish Dongzi caught before-who's ever seen a ribbonfish that big?"
The more the brothers discussed it, the more excited they grew. Remembering how Dongzi's Oarfish had sold for 800 yuan, their eyes shone as they gazed out to sea.
Ye Yaodong explained, "Oarfish and ribbonfish aren't the same either. They're two different species."
"They look about the same! One's just big and the other's small."
He couldn't be bothered to correct them. They were all fishermen, not sticklers for scientific accuracy. To them, it didn't matter what it was called as long as it fetched a good price.
"The tide's going out little by little, but the waves don't seem to be moving that big thing any closer. Aren't the waves pretty big today?"
"Could it be that the octopus, or squid, or cuttlefish is too big and heavy, and its tentacles are thrashing around, so the waves can't move it?"
"That's possible. Let's keep watching. Either way, we have to wait