Chapter 22: Pearls
Zhao Kang determined a direction, floated some distance, and swam towards the submarine valley. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info From the dense seaweed below, fish swim out from time to time.
Seagrass often hides creatures at the bottom of the food chain, and this is their natural refuge. But don't underestimate any kind of marine life, there must be means to survive in a complex marine environment.
Zhao Kang chose to swim through the seagrass from above, because he was afraid that there would be some poisonous or spiky shells in the seagrass.
"Pearls, still golden pearls." Zhao Kang exclaimed, almost blinded by the glittering golden light in front of him.
A relatively flat area of the submarine valley D is home to a large number of mother-of-pearl oysters. Some of the huge mother-of-pearls have opened their shells and leaked crystal clear, colorful beads.
This is the rhythm of getting rich, and you can't stop it when luck comes. Zhao Kang immediately swam towards the pearl oyster production area, and the golden beads were more precious than gold.
Gold pearls are also known as South Sea pearls because their main production areas are in South Asian countries, such as MD, **, Filipino maids and other countries. The South China Sea in China is also one of the rich producing areas of gold pearls.
Both golden and white pearls are produced from white-lipped or golden-lipped oysters, and the two are related. Golden pearls are actually white pearls that are produced by mutation.
The price of ordinary gold pearls is about two or three thousand per gram, and if the diameter of the gold pearl is greater than 15mm, then each one will be at least tens of thousands of yuan.
Zhao Kang immediately took down the bag, poured out all the contents inside, and began to pick up the exposed gold pearls and white pearls. Each of these pearls is the size of a steel bead and has a bright color and rounded shape.
Zhao Kang loaded all the pearls before slowly surfaced. The pearls that were about to overflow to the mouth of the bag also left the place where they had grown for thousands of years with Zhao Kang.
Zhao Kang surfaced, removed the breathing mask, and lay on his back on the surface of the sea to breathe in the fresh air. I couldn't stop trembling in my heart, I found a natural gold pearl production area, not to mention the value of this bag of gold pearls, just take this sea area is a gold mine and it is also a gold mine that will not be exhausted.
Raising his head, Zhao Kang could only see the vague appearance of the boat. After calculating in his heart, Zhao Kang should be a kilometer away from the boat. Then this submarine valley is about two kilometers away from Jinquanyu, which is already beyond Zhao Kang's one-nautical-mile fishing area.
Zhao Kang sealed the mouth of the bag containing the golden pearls and swam in the direction of the boat.
"Brother Qi, do you think that place is well-off?" Zhang Liang stood on the boat anxiously, looked at the direction of Zhao Kang's departure and asked.
Zhang Liang and Zhang Qi each stayed at the bottom of the sea for about twenty minutes before they surfaced. At a depth of 10 meters, Zhang Liang and Zhang Qi could only stay for more than 20 minutes, and various adverse reactions would occur. This is mainly related to physical fitness, the pressure in deep water is not the same as the pressure in the atmosphere, and the former will have some negative effects on various organs and blood vessels in the body. Long-term deep-sea diving will cause some damage to the body, so Zhang Qi, Liu Wei and Zhang Liang will choose to float after staying at the bottom of the sea for more than 20 minutes, and their bodies already feel unwell.
There seemed to be an object moving on the sea in the distance, and because the distance was a bit far, Zhang Qi and Liu Wei couldn't see what was there in the direction of Zhang Liang's finger.
"We paddled the boat that way, and Xiaokang spent twice as much time diving in the water. Maybe this time he swam a little far. Zhang Qi said suggestively.
For the sake of safety, Zhao Kang's prescribed diving time is half an hour per cycle. Zhang Liang and Zhang Qi came out of the seawater, and after waiting for Zhao Kang for thirty or forty minutes, Zhao Kang had not yet surfaced from the seawater to meet them, and Zhang Qi and they began to be a little anxious.
"It's really well-off. Liu Wei: Let's row together. Hurry up, Xiaokang must be very tired after swimming so far. Zhang Qi picked up another oar and began to row.
The boat rowed some distance, and Zhang Qi, who was standing at the bow of the boat, confirmed that the floating object in the distance was Zhao Kang and was swimming towards them.
Zhang Qi and Zhang Liang pulled Zhao Kang onto the boat and asked anxiously, "Xiaokang, are you okay?" How did you run so far. ”
Zhao Kang took a bottle of mineral water handed over by Liu Wei, drank a few sips and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to run so far, by the way, how is the situation over there?" ”
Zhao Kang sat on the boat and took the oxygen cylinder off his back with the help of Zhang Qi. Zhao Kang regained his strength while drinking water.
"The surrounding marine environment is similar to the situation on the fishing grounds, except that there are a little more reefs. It's not suitable for fishing boats, but lobsters are more abundant. Zhang Liang and I caught two or three of them. Zhang Qi said as he rowed the boat.
In their group, in addition to Feng Youjiang, Zhang Qi is their leader. So a lot of things are arranged by Zhang Qi, and the other two follow.
As for Zhao Kang's harvest, few of them didn't ask. For the company's things should be known, they will naturally know, and if they shouldn't know, don't ask, as an employee Zhang Qi, they are still very professional.
"Xiaokang, these lobsters must be dealt with as soon as possible, it is estimated that some lobsters will not survive tonight." Liu Wei pointed to the big lobster in the two small buckets on the boat and said.
Lobsters have an aggressive personality, as long as two lobsters meet, they will be entangled by their nature, and in order to distinguish the winner from the loser, they will desperately attack each other with two big claws.
Lobsters that have been injured will soon die because they have left the familiar living environment. So a lot of big lobsters are stored separately and rarely get them together.
Zhao Kang pulled the two buckets to him, and was very happy to see the lobsters in the buckets. A relatively small lobster has a large claw that has been broken, but it is still using another large claw to clamp the opponent's forelimbs.
Zhao Kang really admires their fighting spirit, they are born from the same root, why is they too anxious to fry each other.
Zhao Kang stirred the plastic bottle in the water a few times, did not separate them, and said to Liu Wei: "Go back, pick out the severed limbs, and use them as lunch." Take a look at how many lobsters you caught two days ago, separate them, and raise them for a while. Catch a few more to deal with. ”
When they got to the shore, they took off their diving suits and handed them over to Zhang Qi to tidy up. Zhao Kang carried the bag containing the pearls and walked towards his wooden house.
Of the four wooden houses, Zhao Kang kept one for himself. Wooden House No. 1 is not allowed to be rented out, and Zhao Kang has converted it into a private personalized house and installed a small safe.
Zhao Kang poured the pearls on the table and counted them. There are twenty-one golden pearls, of which there are about eight pure golden pearls and the diameter is the largest in this batch of pearls, and the rest are golden yellow, and the color is not very pure. There are also thirty-four white pearls.
According to the size of the diameter, the pearls are divided into three grades. The larger the diameter of the pearl in the market, the higher the price. Wrap them in paper and put them in the safe.
He took out several plastic bottles filled with liquid from the safe and placed them on the bedside shelf. These plastic bottles are not filled with ordinary water, but diluted with jadeite beads.
Zhao Kang is going to sprinkle some diluted jade beads on the coconut trees that have not yet been planted on the beach for a while, so that their life will be a little more vigorous.
Zhao Kang and Zhang Qi dug a few tree pits on the beach in the No. 2 swimming area, but after half a meter, there was still pure sand, and there was no freshwater layer to be seen. If you plant now, you need to keep watering the coconut tree until the roots of the coconut tree have found a source of water deep into the ground. Moreover, the water consumption of each coconut tree is not small. Now the water on the island is all bottled water, and Zhao Kang is unable to supply water.
This plan will be implemented after the construction of the fresh water wells on the island or the renovation of the Xianghe.
"Xiaokang, come down and eat?" Feng Youjiang shouted outside.
The restaurant in Jinquanyu is a newly installed 8m*4m steel greenhouse, two-thirds of the area is a dining area, and one-third of the area is a kitchen area.
Another greenhouse of the same size is the bathing center, which is divided into two compartments for men and women, providing bathing services for tourists. However, only cold water can be supplied at the moment, and the amount of water is limited.
There are still limited funds, and the water tower and water heater prepared by Zhao Kang have not been realized. It seems that I will find a time to go back to SS City, dispose of the golden pearls, and raise some funds to improve the infrastructure of the island.
In addition, it is time to go to the mobile or Unicom business hall to ask about the communication signal around the small island of Jinquanyu. Zhao Kang took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and said in his heart: I don't know what the situation is on the company's side, the farthest distance in the world is the distance without network signal.
Just when Zhao Kang was worried about the communication signal, Jiang Ming, the company's marketing minister, was also anxious that Zhao Kang could not be contacted.
"Mr. Zeng, I'm sorry. Our general manager should have stayed on the island of Jinquanyu all the time, and there was no mobile phone signal all the time. Jiang Ming apologized to a young man sitting on the sofa next to him.
Today, a tourist came to the company to consult, and the other party also made it clear when he wanted to go to Jinquanyu, but Jiang Ming couldn't contact Zhao Kang. And it's not a wave yet, so Jiang Ming doesn't know how to arrange it.
Mr. Zeng smiled and said, "Isn't your company's island already open?" I've seen some selfies of tourists on Jinquanyu in the tourism forum. The view there is indeed beautiful and attractive. ”
"Thank you Mr. Zeng for your support, I did have a tourist to Jinquanyu before. Now the main reason is that there was already a group of tourists queuing up to get to the island before Mr. Zeng. And Mr. Zeng's tourist population is large and in a hurry. So instructions from the general manager are required. In this way, you can go to the front desk to register the information in detail in a while, and I will inform Mr. Zeng of the time of going to the island tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Jiang Ming pondered for a moment and said.