1460. tinkering (2)
Sitting on the small wooden boat, Jiang Caoqi asked, "Old Ao, it's not a big tide now. Can we find volcanic mud?"
Ao Muyang said, "Don't be stupid, it's still early before the tide is receding. Besides, in the surrounding villages, they used to dig volcanic mud when building houses. Do you think they didn't come until the tide is receding?"
"How do you do it?" Jiang Caoqi asked humbly.
Ao Muyang said: "The mud volcanoes here have been sprayed for hundreds of years. The mud deposited on the seabed is volcanic mud. Just dive and dig."
The Moon Sea is also called turbid water. It is easy to find. A large area of sea water is very turbid from top to bottom. The water is mixed with a lot of mud and sand, and the visibility is very poor.
After entering the turbid water area, Ao Muyang was even more careful when he rowed the wooden boat. There were many reefs here and he couldn't see clearly the situation under the water, so he might have to bump into it.
The seabed terrain is complex, and the water is full of mud and sand, and there is no fish, shrimp and crabs to survive. From time to time, mud and natural gas are sprayed out, which leads to high dangers in the sea area. Many reasons combined together make this sea area a forbidden area.
The boat floated in the turbid water for a while and finally hit a reef.
Seeing this, Ao Muyang reached down with his oar and started to test.
Jiang Caoqi asked, "What are you trying?"
Ao Mudong, who came to help, smiled and said, "Try to touch a big girl."
Jiang Caoqi cooperated and laughed twice, then looked at him with a fool's god.
Ao Mudong was disappointed by him, so he stopped making low-level jokes and said honestly: "Try the dragon head to see if there is a spout, don't jump down accidentally and step into the spout of the mud volcano, it will be lively."
Ao Muyang circled around the small wooden boat. After trying, he said, "Okay, there is no problem at the bottom of the sea. I'll go down and take a look. You pack up your tools and prepare to do it."
He only wore a pair of swimming trunks and jumped into the water. His underwater vision failed to show some wonder this time. It was very turbid from underwater and on the surface, but relatively speaking, the visibility underwater is better.
The wooden boat is located in a reef, with a depth of only half a meter. His feet feel very soft when they step on the seabed, and it is obvious that a lot of mud has been deposited on the seabed.
After countless years of erosion of the bottom of the mud volcano, there are many crisscrossing hills and valleys on the bottom of the sea, with reefs exposed, with clear edges and angularities, like continuous hills.
The most volcanic mud was deposited between the reefs. Ao Muyang first dived into the water to find out the terrain of the nearby seabed, and then stood up to tell the few people who came to help where they could go and where they could not go.
There were no living things in the water around him, so after checking the terrain, he no longer had the interest in diving again. He grabbed a bamboo basket and started to catch volcanic mud.
He shoveled the volcanic mud and seawater into the bamboo basket together. When the bamboo basket was full, he raised the bamboo basket and poured it into the wooden boat.
There are many gaps in the bamboo basket. When you lift it up to the water surface, sea water and mud will flow out along the gaps, and finally the volcanic mud will be poured into the wooden boat.
Five people worked quickly in the shallow sea water, and soon a lot of volcanic mud was piled up in the wooden boat.
Ao Muyang picked up another bamboo basket of volcanic mud. He lifted it out of the water and drained it. At this time, he found that Jiang Caoqi was standing in the water without moving, his eyes were blank and his face was full of melancholy.
Seeing this, he asked, "Lao Jiang, what's wrong with you?"
Hearing his voice, Jiang Caoqi's body shook for a moment. Ao Muyang asked him again before he realized it. He turned around and waved his hand and said, "Oh, nothing, nothing, I just had some...well, some of that."
"Which?" Ao Muyang asked with concern, "I see you are a little confused."
Jiang Caoqi nodded and said, "Yes, I'm in a trance. Look at the vast ocean around us. We stand here. Do you understand what I mean? I think of the vastness of the world, and I burst into tears."
Speaking of this, he continued to look into the distance, and a shocked expression gradually appeared on his face.
Ao Muyang understood what he meant and how he felt.
It is completely different to be on the sea and standing on the sea. Standing in the sea and looking around is full of vast and flat oceans, just like standing in the universe. At this time, a person can clearly feel his insignificance.
Jiang Caoqi was a little fascinated by this feeling. He slowly walked on the reef, his eyes dazed and blankly scanning the surroundings. Suddenly, he staggered and fell into the water.
Ao Daguo next to him hurried over and helped him up, and smiled and said, "What's wrong with me, are you drunk?"
Jiang Caoqi smiled bitterly and said, "I was dizzy just now."
Ao Muyang said: "You might as well go back to the boat first. This is called Wuyin dizziness. Don't keep looking at the sea. The cerebellar nerves will fall into numbness, causing you to experience abnormal balance in an instant."
They dug a boat full of volcanic mud and then drove back home in sea fishing boats.
The old house has four walls in total, and the house is built in the yard. Because the yard is large and the four walls are very long, it is difficult to repair them all, and there is a huge demand for volcanic mud.
Ao Muyang found more than a dozen people to help repair the walls of the old house. Every morning, the speedboat would drag the wooden boat to dig volcanic mud. After coming back, he would mix sand, gravel, salt and clay to strengthen the walls.
After a full week, the four walls were almost muddy.
Jiang Caoqi gave him an idea, asking him to plant grass on the soil wall and use grass roots to fix the soil, which can protect the wind and rain.
This is a good idea. Ao Muyang planted some small weeds that were not big on it before the soil was dry. These grasses were cold-resistant to drought and very energetic.
Almost finished repairing the wall, Lu Wuyi suddenly came back.
Jiang Caoqi and him had a similar smell. After they met, they were so happy that they directly hugged each other.
After being happy with Jiang Caoqi, Lu Wuyi asked Ao Muyang again: "Brother-in-law, are you happy to see me coming back?"
Ao Muyang forced a smile and said, "Happy, I'll be happy if your sister is happy. But it's a coincidence that you came back. We just finished the work."
Lu Wuyi was dissatisfied and said, "Brother-in-law, are you suspicious of me? I told you, I didn't come back at the right time. I'm going back this time. Brother Hu arranged a customer to bring it here, otherwise I won't come back."
Ao Muyang asked, "Where is the customer?"
“It’s being served at home.”
He did not lie. After Ao Muyang returned home, there was indeed a rich man waiting for him.
Lu Wuyi introduced them to them, and the customer is Qin Wei, a Hong Kong seafood merchant.
"Mr. Qin has a good meal in Hong Kong. Not only are the seafood purchasing channels in big hotels in his hands, but even many celebrities need seafood at homes, they contact him directly." Lu Wuyi said a good thing to Qin Wei.
Qin Wei smiled: "Lu Sheng exaggerates, it's all friends who give face to you, but I do know some celebrity friends. Ao Sheng, do you have any Hong Kong stars you like? Brother Fa, Stephen Chow, Gu Zai, Andy Lau, Eason, are all friends."
Chapter completed!