Chapter 180 Tracking
This time, Jiangxia opened a golden pearl, which was big, round, and bright! Without any flaws!
The pearl lay in Jiang Xia's palm, emitting sparkling golden light as Jiang Xia fiddled with it.
Mother Zhou leaned over to look at it with a smile, and couldn't help feeling happy: "Is this the Pearl King?"
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It should be considered."
Anyway, it is definitely the best among gold beads! A collectible jewelry!
Not all pearls can be called jewellery.
Not all jewellery is worth collecting.
Jiang Xia thought that this one should be worth over a thousand and could be auctioned, so she happily put it in her pocket.
Tian Caihua: “…”
She also wanted to ask Jiang Xia to bring it to her for a look.
Tian Caihua was stimulated again and couldn't help but pick up another pearl shell and open it herself.
This time I finally got it!
Her heart was pounding as she picked it out carefully.
The result was a deformed pearl with no luster and more flaws than the spots on her face! But it was huge! Tian Caihua: “…”
Zhou Chengxin couldn't help yelling at her: "Can you please stop touching my pearl shells!"
Tian Caihua didn't dare touch it again.
She stepped back and watched them open the pearls quietly.
Without Tian Caihua holding him back, Zhou Chengxin opened several pearls in succession, some good, some average, and one that was over 8mm in size and close to perfect.
Zhou Chengxin breathed a sigh of relief! Finally there was a big one!
Tian Caihua also breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Chengxin opened the whole bag of pearls. There were three pearls larger than 8mm, several that were 5mm or 6mm, and the rest were smaller than 4mm.
Tian Caihua couldn't help but look at Jiang Xia.
In fact, not every pearl oyster in Jiang Xia’s collection can produce pearls. She has also opened two or three oysters in a row but found none of them had pearls. However, most of the pearls she opened were large pearls of 7mm or 8mm or larger, with few flaws and good luster.
The most important thing is that Jiang Xia opened more than one pearl king. She stuffed at least three pearls into her pocket and didn't let her see them! Among more than fifty pearl oysters, Jiang Xia only opened five or six small pearls with flaws and six without pearls.
Such luck, people who don't know would think that the pearl oysters were raised by her! The pearl yield and quality of Zhou's father and mother are similar to those of Jiangxia, but generally not as big as those of Jiangxia.
With three bowls of pearls placed there, it was clear who had better luck! Tian Caihua was jealous again!
Her bowl is so small! So shabby!
She deeply doubted life and wondered if the pearl oysters in her house were the ones they had left over!
Father Zhou looked at everyone's pearls with a smile and said, "Not bad, they should be able to sell for a few hundred yuan at Axin's place. Xiaoxia, are you going out to sea tomorrow? If not, do you want to take the pearls to the city to sell them?"
Zhou's mother nodded: "Yes, it's better to sell it as soon as possible, otherwise it will be unsafe at home. Now the family is building a house, and there will be many people coming in and out."
Jiang Xia: "I won't go out to sea tomorrow. I'll go to the city to sell them in the afternoon and send a batch of small fish to the train station."
Zhou Chengxin: "Xiao Xia, help me sell the pearls too!"
When Tian Caihua heard this, she immediately said, "Xiao Xia and I will go together! This way it will be safer."
Jiang Xia: "Okay."
It just so happened that she didn't want to help them sell, lest it be a thankless task.
And if she goes with Tian Caihua, she can ask Tian Caihua to help her pick the small fish because she is very strong.
We can't just let her take advantage of us!
After opening the pearls, Tian Caihua took them home. Zhou Chengxin and his father transported the pearl oysters back to the live hold of the ship to raise them, and would put them into the cages in the sea tomorrow.
Jiang Xia also taught Zhou's mother how to weave a net specifically for breeding pearls, and then hang it in the sea to breed them.
That kind of net is actually very simple. It is just a net woven in a rectangular frame, and then pockets are woven on the net one by one.
At that time, the pearl oysters with successfully inserted nuclei will be stuffed into the pockets of the grid and hung in the sea water for cultivation.
However, pearl farming is a very long, complicated and troublesome process, involving many steps.
Pearl oysters are able to produce pearls because foreign objects such as sand enter their bodies. The pearl oysters are stimulated by the foreign objects and produce a self-defense reaction by secreting a smooth crystalline substance to wrap the foreign objects.
Moreover, the pearl oyster will continue to cover the foreign object with secretions, layer by layer, until thousands of layers form a pearl.
Therefore, the yield of artificially cultured pearls is high because the pearls are implanted with nuclei.
The core also needs to be prepared. Jiang Xia plans to use shells to grind out some small round cores, which is also a troublesome process.
It’s too late today. When the time comes, I’ll check which pearls are not alive and use their shells to grind the pearls.
Zhou Zhou had been watching them open the pearls. She had just finished taking a shower and returned to her room. When Jiang Xia had some free time, she went to look for her.
Zhou Zhou was about to go to sleep when he saw Jiang Xia come in and sat up: "Auntie."
Jiang Xia smiled and asked, "Is Zhou Zhou used to it at school?"
Zhou Zhou nodded: "I'm used to it."
"Are the teachers at school strict? Do they ever scold anyone?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "No."
"Are the classmates in school friendly? Has Zhou Zhou ever met any bad classmates?"
Zhou Zhou glanced at Jiang Xia and shook his head: "No."
Jiang Xia understood and patted her head: "Go to bed early!"
***The next day, Jiang Xia got up at six o'clock and planned to go to school secretly with Zhou Zhou.
During breakfast, Zhou Zhou ate very slowly. Her mother urged her twice: "Eat faster, Zhou Zhou. It's seven o'clock! Today is Friday. Do you have labor class? What do you want to bring?"
"dustpan."
"Then remember to take it."
"Okay." Zhou Zhou finished the last mouthful of porridge before going back to his room to get his schoolbag.
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It took me ten minutes to get my schoolbag, and at 7:10 I finally picked up a dustpan from the yard and went out.
In the first two days of school, Zhou Zhou was afraid of being late, so he went out before seven o'clock every day.
The Guangzongyaozu brothers got up even earlier. They didn't want to eat breakfast at home, so Tian Caihua gave them money and asked them to go back to school to buy something to eat.
The school does not start morning reading classes until 7:45, but most students arrive at school before 7:30.
Jiang Xia waited for Zhou Zhou to walk out for two or three minutes, then told Zhou's mother that he was going to check on Zhou Zhou's school before following him out.
There were many students carrying backpacks on the way to school. Jiang Xia quickly saw Zhou Zhou because she walked very slowly.
Jiang Xia followed from a distance.
The school was in the next village, so we walked on the village road. There were many houses on both sides. People from several nearby villages were from the same production team and knew each other. It was actually quite safe on the way to school.
When there was no student left on the road, Jiang Xia looked at the time on his watch: 7:43.
Jiang Xia then saw Zhou Zhou hurriedly running towards the school.
She started running too.
Zhou Zhou ran into the school as the bell rang.
Jiang Xia ran to the school gate and watched Zhou Zhou run into the classroom, breathlessly.
Jiang Xia ran about 800 meters, it really cost her her life!
Jiang Xia followed him into the school breathlessly. In those days, the management of schools was not that strict, especially the schools in the village, where you could enter and leave as you pleased.
The school's classrooms are all made of mud bricks, with grass growing in the corners.
The playground is made of dirt and there is a lot of grass growing around it.
That’s why there are labor classes every week, and students have to bring brooms, hoes, dustpans and other tools from home to school to clean the grass regularly.
Jiang Xia didn't find anything and decided to stay in school this morning.
She went to the guard room and spoke to the guard, then stayed there, talking to the guard while keeping an eye on the situation in the classroom.
The school is not big, with only one row of L-shaped teaching buildings. There is only one class in each grade, with a total of eight classrooms, one of which is an office and one is the principal's office.
Jiang Xia waited until the last labor class and did not notice anything unusual, but Zhou Zhou had been sitting in the classroom and did not even go to the toilet.
During the labor class, all students went out to weed.
Each class is responsible for one area.
Zhou Zhou brought a winnowing basket, and the classmates put the grass they removed into her winnowing basket and asked her to dump it out.
Zhou Zhou held a basket of grass and walked towards the garbage dump in the corner behind the teaching building.
Jiang Xia was sitting in the guard room in that corner and couldn't be seen, so he walked out of the guard room.
Zhou Zhou saw those male classmates as soon as he turned a corner from the teaching building.
She stepped back unconsciously.
"Where's the money you were asked to bring?"
"I have no money, really no money!"
"Isn't your family rich? Your uncle has a big boat! You can ask him for it, or take it secretly, and no one will know."
Zhou Zhou shook his head.
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