748. Pearl (2)
The weather is getting warmer in April, the atmosphere of spring begins to become stronger, and there are more tourists.
The mountain road has not been repaired, and tourists still come by the sea, but the number of people has increased a lot compared to the same period last year. It is conceivable what the number of tourists will explode once the mountain road is opened.
At this time, Ao Muyang mobilized the whole village early to ensure the traditional taste of the fishing village, and every household has the responsibility to protect the environment.
The garbage ship he bought now has to go to the city in a week, and the garbage disposal fee alone is more than 200,000 yuan each month. He has put a lot of effort into this!
The town also supports Longtou Village's tourism development because this can drive the surrounding economy. Most villagers in Longtou Village have fishing houses, but to maintain the environment and public security, the village needs employees, so these employees have to recruit people from nearby villages.
Lake Ambergris is another key attraction to maintain. In addition to the continuous drought, the lake water level has dropped, other environments and water quality are similar to those when he first came back.
Even because he strictly prohibited people from catching water birds, the number of water birds in Ambergris was greater. When he came to the lake, he saw a group of colorful birds flying up.
He has never seen such a bird, like a kingfisher.
There were many bamboo rafts by the lake. Ao Muyang boarded a bamboo raft and moved the lake with his bamboo pole. The general pushed the bamboo raft with his claws behind to help, like a small engine.
Another old bamboo raft was floating on the lake, and an old man with a naked upper body was smoking happily.
The old man's skin was dark and rough, his chest was thin without a trace of fat, only his muscles like firewood. This muscle was not beautiful, but it was made of thousands of hammers and hammers on the sea. With it, it was white strips 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 that garbage is not allowed to be thrown into the lake.
"Village Chief, you are here." Ao Zhishui asked with a smile.
While talking, he reached out to take out a river clam on the raft and threw it over. The river clam fell down and fell right in front of Ao Muyang.
The river clam is the size of a young man's slap. Ao Muyang picked it up and looked at it, saying, "Who, it grows fast enough."
Ao Zhishui said: "This is an old river clam in the lake. It has been growing for more than ten years. I think it is not growing fast at this size."
Ao Muyang was stunned and said, "I thought this was the batch of clam seedlings that were put into the lake last year. Master Shui, you are naughty enough. I'll go down to see how the clam seedlings look."
In order to prevent someone from secretly fishing and breeding river clams, Ao Muyang scattered them under the water chestnuts. He planted water chestnuts in order to use water chestnuts to hide river clams.
Therefore, it is easy to find river clams, just find the water chestnut paddy fields and jump down.
Ao Zhishui leaned over on the bamboo raft and handed him a river clam, which was much smaller than the one just now, and was only half the length.
Ao Muyang said: "Is this the river clam from last year? That grows fast enough."
"It's really fast enough, you can tell from inside that it's faster." The old man said with a smile.
Ao Muyang broke open the shells of the river clams, and there were four or five pearls of scale inside, which were pink and white in color and round in shape. When he opened the big clams, there were also pearls inside, but they looked crooked. In comparison, one was a pearl and the other was a crooked jujube.
After comparing, he sighed: "No wonder the hezhu is so cheap now. It turns out that with manual intervention, the pearls grow so fast."
Putting down the pearl shells, he took off his clothes and jumped into the lake, and he rushed to the bottom of the lake.
River clams are scattered at the bottom of the lake, and there are springs here, undercurrents underwater, clear water quality, and even mud and sand at the bottom of the lake, which is the best living environment for river clams.
They are of different sizes, and most of them are opening shells to hunt. Ao Muyang looked at them and saw that there were pearls inside each shell, which were also different in size, but they were already produced.
He glanced at the bottom of the lake for a while, and felt that the time was almost over, so he came out of the water and climbed onto the raft.
The old man was smoking again. When he saw the appearance, he laughed and stuffed the cigarette butt into the garbage bag again.
Ao Muyang said: "Master Shui, you can smoke as long as you want. I won't say anything, but you should smoke two less. Smoking is harmful to health. The country has written it in a cigarette box."
Ao Zhishui said: "Yes, I know smoking is harmful to health, but village chief, tell me, how many years can I have to live like this old man? I am seventy years old this year. Can I live to eighty? It's very difficult to live to eighty years old, right?"
Ao Muyang has to admit that it is not easy for an elderly person to live safely until he is 80 years old.
Nowadays, living standards and medical standards are higher, but the environment and dietary safety are worse, causing people to suffer more diseases and their life expectancy has not increased qualitatively compared to previous years.
The average life expectancy of fishermen is even lower. They are too tired when they are young and their bodies are damaged. When they get older, they immediately come to their door.
Seeing him nodding, Ao Zhishui said again: "If I were normal, I would live for another ten years, how many years would I live without smoking? One or two years? I lived for eighty years. What's the point of more than one or two years? And this is at the cost of depriving me of the last ten years of my life. What's the point?"
A tourist raft passed by next to him. After hearing his words, he clapped: "My brother said it well. My son advised me to smoke less in the future, so 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, please quit smoking in time."
This is the thing about cigarettes. I will stop you from smoking, but I won’t let you smoke.
Ao Muyang shook his head helplessly. He didn't say anything more, but instead thought about how to start the business of gambling pearls in the river clams.
Although this matter is related to the word "gambling", it is just a small gambling, small gambling and small gambling in the countryside.
There are many clams in Ambergris, and this thing is not delicious, so it is difficult to pack up, so no one has ever caught it, which has a faint sense of overflow.
There are no pearls in these river clams, so Ao Muyang mixed them with the breeding pearl shells, allowing tourists to choose and mine them themselves.
Just like gambling stones, the pearls found can be processed into bracelets, earrings, necklaces, etc. As long as you try to think about this, it will be very attractive to tourists.
After all, the pearls you bet on are the fruits of labor, and they are real pearls. In the eyes of tourists, their value is much higher than that of the market pearls.
Ao Muyang went to the village committee to hold a meeting and asked everyone for their opinions.
When they learned that pearls were starting to produce pearls, the group was surprised: "Damn, pearls grew so quickly? Didn't the pearls secrete pearls from clams, and they grew slowly after being polished with shell meat?"
"The coat tissue of mother-of-pearl secretes pearly substances," Ao Wenchang added.
Ao Muyang said: "It's different. It's a natural pearl. It's a core-inserted pearl. It grows fast, but it's actually not as strong as a natural pearl."
Chapter completed!