The accompanying women and children laughed and laughed and picked up the big fish from the ground into the basket. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The fish here have never been fished, and it is autumn when it is fattening, and the biggest fish Heiya sees is almost a meter long.

A mischievous half-sized boy pounced and wanted to pick it up, but he didn't hold it and was whipped in the face by the tail of the big fish, which attracted a good-natured laugh.

Song Changqing poked his head out of the water, "Heiya, this is for you to play." "Something was thrown from afar, and it landed right at the feet of the black girl.

"It's not a mussel." The black girl kicked it with her foot, "It's quite big." ”

The probability of wild mussels producing pearls is very low, an average of 100 can produce one bead is considered good, and the pearls in the mussels are many alien shapes, unlike the pearl oysters in the sea, which are all perfectly round.

So Heiya didn't care too much, and just shouted for Song Changqing to touch more river mussels and throw them up.

Everyone's clothes were wet, but because of the full harvest, the faces of adults and children were still full of smiles.

When the baskets were full, the fishing stopped, and every two people carried the baskets, and in the other hand they carried a few fish threaded with straw ropes.

Even children take as much as they can, only the black girl called Song Changqing to carry a basket of river mussels with her.

"Although this can be eaten, but there is too little meat, just take one or two to play, what do you want so much." Song Changqing asked puzzled.

The river he lives in is turbulent, and there are very few opportunities to see river mussels, so he caught it for the black girl to play with just now.

"I'll tell you when I get back." The black girl looked unfathomable.

In fact, she just wanted to see if one or two pearls could bloom from so many mussels. Although she doesn't know the technology of pearl farming, she understands the principle, if this kind of mussel can produce pearls, she will raise more than a dozen people to help her do research every day.

At this time, pearls can only rely on the wild, which is particularly precious, and if the cultivation technology can be studied, she can make money lying down.

The group swayed back to the valley, and the old people and women who stayed behind couldn't stop smiling when they saw the full harvest.

It was really the wisest choice to follow Master Liu here, although the place was a little off, but he could eat enough every day, and in the forest outside the valley, Father Liu arranged for people to dig a lot of traps, and from time to time he would harvest some game, which was basically distributed.

Father Liu divided the fish according to the population of each family, and the women of the family squatted by the ditch to peel the scales and slaughter them, cleaned them up, salted them and hung them up to dry, and boiled soup and vegetables in winter was a delicacy.

The tenant farmers said that this must have been the most abundant year of their lives, and that they had never saved up so much meat at home.

For a while, the valley was full of fishy smell, and the black girl couldn't care so much, so she took Daddy Liu back to the house.

"Dad, help me pry these mussels open." The black girl gave her father a knife, her father had good arm strength, and it was not a problem to peel a mussel.

The girl had something to ask for, and Daddy Liu naturally would not refuse, and helped her peel the mussels one by one, revealing the pink mussel meat inside.

Heiya carefully touched each of them, perhaps due to luck, and a soybean-sized pearl appeared in the thirtieth or more.

"Dad, look what this is." The black girl proudly held up the small beads and showed her father.

Dad Liu took it and looked at it carefully, "I only heard about pearls in Nanhai Sea, but I didn't expect that this place would also produce pearls." “

After speaking, I was interested in finding it with the black girl.

The father and daughter held the basin and searched for a long time, and finally found a peanut-sized pearl in the last few mussels, compared to the previous one, this one is not only large, but the whole bead is also much rounder, and there are almost no flaws.

In addition to this, there is a small bead the size of a mung bean in the same mussel.

Under normal circumstances, it is good to have one in a wild mussel, two are rare, and of course there are up to three mussels, which is extremely rare.

"Dad, you can help me smash this little bead." Heiya said excitedly.

Although Dad Liu didn't know what his daughter wanted to do, there must be a reason for her, and he didn't ask much when he heard it, and broke the pearl with a small hammer.

Heiya picked up a small grain of sand from the debris, "Daddy, you see, there is such a small sand in the middle of each pearl, and when the sand enters the body, the river mussel is uncomfortable, so it secretes a liquid to wrap it up, so it forms a pearl." ”

"You mean that if other mussels have little sand in their bodies, they will also grow pearls?" Father Liu thought for a while and asked.

"Dad, you're so smart." The black girl grinned, "If we find a way to raise these mussels and put sand in their bodies, there is a good chance that they will all bloom pearls." ”

Daddy Liu rubbed Heiya's head, "I really don't know where you got so many strange things in your brain, but what you said makes sense, and it makes me a little tempted." ”

"Then you can try, even if you can't raise it, we still have mussel meat to eat." Heiya was coquettish to Daddy Liu, and now she is enjoying the feeling of being spoiled by her relatives more and more.

"Well, but we have to buy someone to do this ourselves, Dad will take care of it, don't worry."

got her own satisfactory answer, the black girl's mouth was crooked, Daddy Liu has always been very reliable in speaking, and the matter of raising pearls can basically be decided, but what she doesn't know is that now all pearl diving and pearl trading are in the hands of the imperial court, and the people are not allowed to collect them privately.

Although Dad Liu knew, he didn't care, just secretly get it himself, do you still have to tell the world with great fanfare, the imperial court is not allowed to buy and sell private salt, isn't it the same as someone else.

Heiya made a big pot of braised mussel meat and sent it to Liu Qingshan, after all, it was a mussel caught by someone, and the matter of pearls could not be said, so it could only be compensated from other places.

The days of staying here are enough, and Heiya can't rest assured that her relatives and friends in the county town will go back.

"If you want to go back, I'll drive you tomorrow, and I just want to recruit a few craftsmen who can burn charcoal, if you can buy someone directly, it's the best." Uncle said.

The most resources in the mountains are trees, they can't sit and eat the mountains, they have to find a way to open source, at present all they can think of is to cut down some trees and branches that are too dense and burn them into charcoal, which is about to be winter, hoping to earn more silver before this.

Grain and cotton clothes have been prepared, coarse cloth and cotton bought directly, and women are organized to make it together, so as to ensure that everyone can wear warm and warm in winter.

The people in the valley are busy every day, adults and children have their own jobs, and the shrubs and weeds that were sorted out when the land was cleared were collected together and burned as firewood in the winter, as for charcoal? They are not willing to use it, they are all to be kept and sold for money.

(To be continued.) )