Golden Fishing Village

He started the thruster downwards, and as the water gushed, he rushed to the bottom of the sea at a rapid speed.

Such a speed is unimaginable for ordinary people. The pressure of the sea water is huge. Diving and ascending too quickly will cause decompression sickness.

When he reached the bottom of the sea, Ao Muyang reached out and touched the mud.

The touch was warm, just like yesterday. The temperature of the sea mud here is much higher than the water temperature. He guessed that there are hot springs or geothermal cracks on the seabed.

After landing on the seabed, he took the rake on his back and danced with it for a few times, then smiled bitterly: "It's brewed, I've become the second brother!"

Using the rake, he began to turn the sea mud. As the sea water became turbid, he pulled out a palm-sized shell soon after.

The two shells of this shell are not the same size, some are big and some are small. The shell has stone scales on it, which is rough to the touch and looks unremarkable.

But as the saying goes, the rotten cotton is rotten outside, and the gold and jade are inside. This seemingly unremarkable shellfish produces one of the most beautiful jewels in the world, white pearls!

Yes, this is the pearl oyster. There are many varieties of pearl oysters, and Ao Muyang is not sure which variety this is.

In addition, as far as he knows, pearl oysters like to live on muddy and sandy bottoms in shallow seas with clear water, slow currents, and gravel.

The water depth required for their normal life is generally no more than 15 meters, but what about now? The seawater depth where they are located is more than 150 meters!

However, Ao Muyang guessed that the reason why they can survive here is not that the pearl oysters have mutated and changed their living habits, but that they hide in the sea mud here to survive.

The reason why pearl oysters live in shallow waters is that they belong to warm-temperature species, and they cannot move if the temperature of the living environment is lower than 13 degrees.

The temperature of the seabed mud is about 20 degrees, which is exactly the temperature they like to survive.

Ao Muyang used a rake to search in the sea mud for a while, but the harvest was not great. There are not many pearl oysters here.

It is also true that even if the temperature here is suitable, it is not the best living environment for pearl oysters after all. In addition, there are predators such as swallowing eels, and their population cannot expand.

Ao Muyang put the pearl oysters he found back into the sea mud and buried them. He wanted to know how many shells there were in this sea area, so he thought about it and released a little gold drop.

The gold droplets entered the water and then turned into thousands of super small water droplets. They slowly spread along the seabed currents and covered a large area of ​​the seabed.

Slowly, the quiet sea mud moved, some shells emerged from it, and then floated up gently. The shells opened and they caught gold drops in the water.

Everything was as Ao Muyang expected. Pearl oysters, like fish and shrimps, would be tempted by the gold drops.

In addition to pearl oysters, some escaped fish, swallowing eels, were also lured out by the gold drops.

The swallowing eels were very happy. They had gold drops and shells. They could have a full meal today!

Soon they were not happy anymore. Ao Muyang took the net to fish and caught the fish that escaped yesterday...

If the swallowing eels had emotions, they would definitely say: knock inside! I knock inside! Are you fishing for law enforcement? !

Unlike what Ao Muyang had guessed, there were quite a few pearl oysters here. There were thousands or tens of thousands of them, but they were widely distributed on the seabed, so they could not be collected on a large scale by rakes.

The pearl oysters floated out one after another, and this scene amazed him greatly, as if a space battleship appeared in the starry sky, some large and some small, rotating and floating...

What surprised him most was that the largest pearl oyster that appeared was as big as a washbasin, which was beyond his cognition. The maximum size of the pearl oysters he knew was only the size of the cross-section of a football!

They floated in the sea for a while, and then returned to the sea mud one after another.

Ao Muyang swallowed his saliva, swam and grabbed a pearl oyster that was slightly larger than his palm. He wanted to verify his guess and see if the pearls were produced by them.

After surfacing, he got on the sea fishing boat, first put the swallowing eel into the ice cabin for storage, and then he began to open the pearl oyster.

He used his hands to pick at the shells for a while, but the two shells didn't move at all, which made him laugh: "The little thing is clamped quite tightly, I don't believe I can't open it for you!"

Unable to open it with his hands, he used pliers and awls, and finally opened the pearl oyster by chiseling and pulling.

Wild seawater pearl oysters are strong, and the shells are very thick. When you knock with pliers, it feels like knocking granite!

The opened shells contain milky white shell meat, and some pearls are distributed inside, some are round, some are flat, and some are slightly angular. This shell is densely packed with pearls!

It's also true that pearls are essentially impurities that enter the shells. Shellfish secrete nacre to wrap it up and then form pearls.

The pearl oysters here live in sea mud, and the probability of sand and gravel impurities entering their bodies is higher and the number is greater.

Sitting at the bow, Ao Muyang's eyes lit up: he found an excellent habitat for pearl oysters, and the value it contains is probably in the tens of millions of yuan.

The yellow croakers, red reef crabs, turbots, and pearl oysters in the trench. He looked at the vast ocean and saw not a desolate sea, but a vibrant marine ranch!

He returned home in high spirits. As soon as he got ashore, he received a text message from Lu Hu, who helped him find a jeweler to sell pearls.

Ao Muyang called the jeweler, whose name was Zhu Zinai, which sounded a bit interesting, that is, "Zhu Zinai". When he saw this name, he smiled maliciously for a long time.

He could laugh in private, but he had to be serious on the phone: "Hello, Mr. Zhu, my name is Ao Muyang, Mr. Lu Hu introduced you as a jeweler, right?"

Zhu Zinai smiled and said, "Xiao Ao, hello, hello, Brother Hu told me about you, when are you free to come to Hongyang, I will take a look at your pearls and then give you a price."

Ao Muyang went to Hongyang the next day and bought some daily necessities.

He had a total of 265 pearls in his hand. Originally, there were only about 220, but the pearl shells caught yesterday contributed another batch.

More than half of these pearls were of good quality, a full 150, and the rest were irregular in shape, but the colors were also good.

Zhu Zinai runs a jewelry store. He found two pearl masters to study it, and then graded it according to the appearance specifications, which are generally ABCD.

Pearl grading is very strict. It must be identified one by one from the diameter, shape, gloss, smoothness, and thickness of the pearl layer, and then a comprehensive score is given.

Among them, A1 is the most valuable pearl. Ao Muyang only has two that meet this classification standard, and one can be sold for 20,000 yuan.

Then there are A2, B1, B2 and other grades, and the value decreases in turn.

In the end, the 150 pearls with excellent appearance are worth 250,000, and the average pearl is more than 1,000 yuan.

The remaining pearls with poor appearance were sold for 10,000 yuan in total. These pearls are either used as special pearls or ground into powder for cosmetics, and their value is very low.