My Deep-sea Fishery

"Forget it." Young master Zhuo smiled, "We just went down to try our luck, and we didn't expect to catch pearls. It's probably more difficult to fish for pearls in such a large ocean than to fish for a needle under the sea. Not much less."

"Who said, I have never seen a needle in this seabed, but I don't know how many pearls are caught." Xiang Yang laughed.

Zhuo Shao was stunned, "What? Have you ever caught pearls in the sea?"

Xiang Yang nodded affirmatively, "In fact, pearls are not as rare as you imagined, and they are not as valuable as you imagined. Most pearls are actually worthless, and only a few of them are of perfect quality and larger. some money."

"Like those pearls with dull luster and substandard size, they are usually only worth a few dollars each." Chen Qingsheng also explained.

In the eyes of those who have not been in contact with pearls often, pearls are synonymous with treasures, and they must be very valuable.

actually not.

Like Wu Shiwen, he used to be in the pearl oyster gambling business.

Among the pearl oysters that Xiang Yang provided him, on average, one of every three to five oysters must have pearls in their bodies.

As long as pearl oysters produce pearls, the number is at least counted by several or even dozens.

In this way, Wu Shiwen only sold a pearl oyster for one or two hundred yuan, and he felt that he had made a profit.

The reason is that most pearls are really worthless.

Of course, it is true that pearl oysters are very profitable. After all, Wu Shiwen has now bought a big boat relying on the pearl oyster business.

"If you are interested, you can go down and look for those empty clam shells later. After some sea clams die, the meat inside rots, but the pearls remain. Finding dead clam shells is more efficient than yours. Fishing out the living sea mussels is much higher." Xiang Yang said with a smile.

Master Zhuo nodded quickly, "I'll go down and have a look now."

Xiang Yang quickly grabbed Zhuo Shao, "Wait, drink some fresh water first, and then rest on the deck for a while, and then go down after recovering your strength."

After a period of rest, everyone on board finally recovered their strength.

Not only Zhuo Shao and the others, but even the crew on the ship couldn't wait to go down to the bottom of the sea.

In the eyes of everyone, this sea area is really a treasure land of geomantic omen, turbot fish can be seen everywhere, and occasionally some more valuable seafood can be found.

This time, Zhuo Shao listened to Xiang Yang's advice, and no longer specifically caught those living pearl oysters, he specifically picked those dead pearl oysters to start with.

Xiang Yang noticed the actions of Zhuo Shao and the others, but he didn't express anything.

For things like pearls, the uncertainty of whether they are valuable or not is really too great.

If Xiang Yang has time to look for pearls, he might as well use this time to speed up swimming around the bottom of the sea to find a few rare sea fish.

But Master Zhuo and Boss Lin were all very happy.

They were on the bottom of the sea, carefully looking for empty clam shells, breaking them open, looking for pearls inside.

There are still a lot of pearl mussels in this sea area. After all, this is a kind of marine life that reproduces very fast. In this sea area where there are only turbots, which are not too strong marine predators, pearls Mussels have plenty of living space.

Soon, Zhuo Shao and the others really found a place that produced pearls but not clam shells.

It was a pearl oyster that was slightly bigger than the palm of an adult man and had been dead for a long time, but the shell was still intact.

Master Zhuo forcefully pushed aside the sea sand around the clam shell, and broke open the clam shell. Then, a bunch of pearls exuding jewel-like aura fell out of the clam shell.

Young Master Zhuo was taken aback for a moment, then became ecstatic, quickly and carefully picked up all those pearls.

On the boat, Young Master Zhuo hurriedly found Xiang Yang, excitedly said: "Boss Xiang, we found the pearl."

"Oh, is that so? How many have you found? How's the quality?" Xiang Yang asked.

"Look." Major Zhuo handed a tea box to Xiang Yang.

Xiang Yang opened the box and looked at it, and immediately smiled, "Yes, they are indeed pearls. Although they are all worthless, they have a good color, which proves that they are still relatively moist. You can take them back and grind them into pearl powder. This is the top beauty and skin care product."

Zhuo Shao was in a hurry, he said anxiously: "Why is it worthless, these are all pearls, and look at their color, they are so beautiful, and their shapes are so diverse."

"They are beautiful because they are all natural pearls. Natural pearls are more beautiful than cultured pearls, but these pearls are ordinary white pearls. The most important thing is that they are not big. The largest one is only three or four. It looks like a millimeter, such pearls are worthless at all." Xiang Yang said.

Xu Fang also interjected: "More importantly, the shapes of these pearls are irregular and strange. Pearls are beautiful when they are round and plump. Look at your pearls, which one is round."

If it is cultured pearls, each one is about the same size, and each one is extremely round, then the price of pearls is judged by which one is more lustrous, and those with beautiful luster will naturally have a higher price.

But if it is a natural pearl oyster, the judging criteria are different.

Each natural pearl is full of luster, and the evaluation criteria become color, size, and roundness.

Such as gold pearls and black pearls, they are naturally the best among natural pearls.

Those irregularly shaped white pearls naturally become the raw material of pearl powder.

"Anyway, these pearls are all caught by myself in the sea, and their value is different. Boss Xiang, please give me an estimate. I will pay you half of the price. I want to keep these pearls for myself. I will keep them at home later. Go." Zhuo Shaobao said tightly.

Xiang Yang shook his head with a smile and said: "If you like these pearls, then keep them, and you won't have to pay for them. These pearls are really worthless, except for this one, which is about three millimeters in size and relatively round in shape. It’s worth more than a dozen yuan, and the rest can’t add up to twenty yuan.”

"Ah? Is it so cheap?" Zhuo Shao suddenly became suspicious, "I know these pearls are not gardens, but I have dozens of pearls here. If you say that they are not worth twenty yuan, that would be a bit too much." Bar."

Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head, "Young Master Zhuo, these pearls of yours should all be found in the same clam shell, right?"

Master Zhuo nodded, "Well, that's right, I found these in an empty clam shell."

"Then it's over, there are dozens of pearls produced in a clam shell, how valuable do you expect these pearls to be?" Xiang Yang asked rhetorically.