As the weather warms up in April, the smell of spring begins to pick up and the number of tourists increases.

The mountain road has not been repaired, and tourists still come by sea, but the number of tourists has increased a lot compared to the same period last year, and it is conceivable that once the mountain road is opened, the number of tourists will explode.

At this time, Ao Muyang mobilized the whole village early, and it was necessary to ensure the traditional taste of the fishing village, and every household had the responsibility to protect the environment.

The garbage boat he bought now has to go to the city once a week, and the garbage disposal fee alone has to be more than 200,000 yuan every month, and he has put a lot of effort into this!

The town is also very supportive of the development of tourism in Longtou Village, because it can drive the surrounding economy, most of the villagers in Longtou Village are engaged in fishing and family entertainment, but the village needs employees to maintain the environment and law and order, and these employees have to be recruited from nearby villages.

Ambergris Lake is another important place to maintain, except for the drop in water levels due to successive droughts, and other aspects such as the environment and water quality are similar to when he first returned.

Even because he strictly forbade people to catch waterfowl, there were more waterfowl in the area of Ambergris Lake, and when he came to the lake, he saw a flock of colorful birds flying.

He had never seen such a bird, like a kingfisher.

There are many bamboo rafts by the lake, Ao Muyang got on a bamboo raft and moved on the lake with a penny, and the general pushed the bamboo raft with his paws to help, like a small engine.

There is another old bamboo raft floating on the lake, and a shirtless old man is smoking a cigarette.

The old man's skin is dark and rough, his chest is thin and thin, there is no trace of fat, only wood-like muscles, which are not beautiful, but they are made of thousands of hammers and waves on the sea, and with it it is a white stripe in the waves.

After seeing Ao Muyang, the old man snuffed out the cigarette and carefully put the cigarette butt into the garbage bag on the raft.

This is also Ao Muyang's rule, not to throw garbage into the lake.

"Village Chief, you're here. Ao Zhishui asked with a smile.

While talking, he reached out and took out a river mussel on the raft and threw it over, and the river mussel fell, just in front of Ao Muyang.

This river mussel is the size of a young man's palm, Ao Muyang picked it up and looked at it, and said, "Ho, it's growing fast enough." ”

Ao Zhishui said: "This is the old river mussel in the lake, it has been growing for more than ten years, I think it is not growing fast." ”

Ao Muyang was stunned and said, "I thought this was the batch of mussel seedlings that were put into the lake last year." Master Shui, you are naughty enough, I'll go down and see how the mussel seedlings look. ”

At the beginning, in order to prevent someone from secretly fishing for the cultivated river mussels, Ao Muyang scattered them under the water chestnut, and he planted the water chestnut in order to use the water chestnut to hide the river mussels.

Therefore, it is easy to find river mussels, just find the water chestnut paddy field and jump down.

Ao Zhishui leaned over with the bamboo raft and handed him a river mussel, which was much smaller than the one just now, and only half the length.

Ao Muyang said: "This is last year's river mussel? ”

"It's fast enough, you can see from the inside, it's faster. The old man said with a smile.

Ao Muyang broke open the shell of the river mussel, and there were four or five pearls in it that had become a scale, pink and white in color, and round in shape; and then opened the big mussel, there were also pearls in it, but they looked crooked and slanted, compared to a jewel, a crooked melon and a cracked jujube.

After the comparison, he sighed: "No wonder the river pearls are so cheap now, it turns out that under the artificial intervention, the pearls grow so fast." ”

Putting down the pearl oyster, he took off his clothes and jumped into the lake, and a fierce man plunged to the bottom of the lake.

There are river mussels scattered at the bottom of the lake, there are springs here, the underwater undercurrent is bubbling, the water quality is clear, and the sediment at the bottom of the lake is even, which is the best living environment for river mussels.

They are of different sizes, most of them are opening their shells to hunt, Ao Muyang looked at it and saw that there were pearls in each shell, and the size of the shells was also different, but they were already able to produce.

He glanced at the bottom of the lake for a while, and when he felt that the time was almost up, he emerged from the water and climbed onto the raft.

The old man was smoking again, and when he saw his appearance, he smiled again and stuffed the cigarette butt into the garbage bag.

Ao Muyang said: "Master Shui, you can smoke if you want, I won't say anything, but you should smoke two less, this smoking is harmful to health, and the country is written on the cigarette box." ”

Ao Zhishui said: "Yes, I know that smoking is harmful to health, but village chief, tell me, how many years do I have to live as an old man? I am seventy this year, can I live to eighty? It is difficult for people to reach eighty years, right?"

Ao Muyang had to admit that it was not easy for the old man to live to the age of eighty.

Now the standard of living is higher, the level of medical care is higher, but the environment and food safety are worse, resulting in more cases of people, and the life expectancy has not risen qualitatively compared with previous years.

The average life expectancy of the fishermen's family is even lower, and when they are young, they are too tired, and their bodies are tormented and damaged, and problems immediately come to the door when they get older.

Seeing him nod, Ao Zhishui said again: "If it is normal, I will live for another ten years, then I can live a few more years if I don't smoke? One year and two years? I live to be eighty years old, what does it mean to have an extra year or two? And this is at the cost of depriving me of the fun of the last ten years of my life, what does it mean?"

There was a tourist's raft passing by, and after listening to his words, he applauded: "My brother said so much, my son will persuade me to smoke less in the future, and I will use this set of words to deal with him." ”

The old man smiled and waved his hand: "Don't, brother, you are still young, quit smoking in time." ”

Cigarettes are like this, if you smoke them, I will persuade them, but if you don't let me smoke them, they won't work.

Ao Muyang shook his head helplessly, he didn't say more, but pondered how to start the business of gambling on pearls with river mussels.

Although there is a word 'gambling' in this matter, it is just a small gamble, a small gamble, and there are still a lot of small gambles in the countryside.

There are many mussels in Ambergris Lake, there is nothing delicious about this thing, and it is difficult to clean up, so no one has been fishing for a long time, and there is a faint meaning of flooding.

There are no pearls in these mussels, so Ao Muyang mixes them with cultured pearl oysters and lets tourists pick and mine them themselves.

Just like gambling stones, the pearls found can be processed into bracelets, earrings, necklaces and the like for free, and as long as you put your mind to it, it is still very attractive for tourists.

After all, the pearls you gamble on belong to the fruits of labor, and these are real pearls, and their value is much higher than that of pearls in the market in the eyes of tourists.

Ao Muyang went to the village committee to hold a meeting and asked everyone's opinions.

Knowing that the pearl oyster began to produce pearls, the group was very surprised: ", pearls have grown so quickly? Doesn't it say that pearls are mussels, and what secretes nacre and grows slowly after shell flesh polishing?"

"The mantle tissue of mother-of-pearl secretes nacre. Ao Wenchang added.

Ao Muyang said: "It's different, it's a natural pearl, this is a kernel pearl, it grows fast, but it's not as strong as a natural pearl." ”