Chapter 214 A Small Step to Success

The boat soon arrived near Zhou Bingqiang's fishing boat. Zhou Chengxin did not stop the boat, but just slowed down a little so that his father could show off.

Father Zhou greeted Zhou Bingqiang loudly: "Bingqiang, what a coincidence? Is your fish cage okay?"

Zhou Bingqiang's face darkened when he saw Zhou Yongfu's fishing boat! But his son had just dived to the bottom of the sea to see the net cages, so he couldn't drive the boat away.

Zhou Bingqiang said unhappily: "I don't know, what about yours?"

Father Zhou: "I haven't checked mine yet. I was going to check it out early in the morning, but I ran into a school of fish, so I had to drag in the net first."

Zhou Bingqiang also saw a boat full of yellow-legged fish.

Based on his experience, this boat can definitely be sold for five or six hundred.

They also pulled in two nets this morning, and they caught only worthless miscellaneous fish, which the two nets combined could only fetch a dozen yuan.

Much worse luck than usual!

This was after the typhoon, when there were more fish.

Zhou Bingqiang had never tried to go fishing at sea after a typhoon, and the catch was so small.

In the past, he would earn two to three hundred, or four to five hundred yuan by going out to sea after a typhoon.

Zhou Bingqiang really began to doubt whether his luck was affected because he had complained about Jiang Xia's father and done something bad.

There was no way, he was so superstitious. Jiang Xia's words were like a thorn that pierced his heart.

Father Zhou achieved his purpose of showing off, and said with a smile: "I'm leaving first! I also want to go check out my fish cage!"

After hearing this, Zhou Chengxin sped up the boat and drove it away. He had a lot of things to do today.

As soon as the Zhou family's boat left, Zhou Guohua emerged from the water and cried, "Dad! All our fish cages were blown away! There's not even a trace of them!"

Zhou Bingqiang couldn't help but close his eyes!

No more! All the money invested is gone!

Indeed, one should not do anything against one's conscience.

***A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Chengxin also drove the boat to the location where they placed the net cages.

Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin put on their diving gear and went into the water.

It was noon now, and Jiang Xia also went into the water. She hadn't dived for a long time.

As soon as the three of them dived into the water, they saw the net cages lying there quietly, without a single one missing.

Today, when we went out to sea, the wind and waves on the sea were still quite strong.

But the waves in this area are much calmer, and at the bottom of the water, you can't even feel the flow of water.

The three of them swam over.

Jiang Xia discovered that the net cage had been placed on the seabed for some time, and some things were hanging on the fishing net.

But it doesn’t matter, as something attached to it can also be used as fish food.

The fish in the net cages are swimming leisurely.

Jiang Xia felt relieved when he found no dead fish.

Jiang Xia took a closer look and found that many of the fish were much larger.

Zhou Chengxin threw the small fish and shrimp he brought down into the net cage.

The fish swam over quickly to grab the food.

Although the holes in the net cage are relatively large, enough for small fish, shrimps and some plankton to swim through, the number of fish and shrimps that swim through every day is limited. Therefore, in order to make the fish grow faster, it is necessary to feed them every day or every one or two days.

After looking at the fish cages, Jiang Xia went to look at the pearl farming nets, which were also hung in the sea in rows.

Jiang Xia took a look at the pearl oyster larvae attachment device.

This pearl oyster larvae attachment device was made according to the one she had seen in her previous life.

The eggs laid by pearl oysters are larvae that need a point of attachment to survive.

Generally, pearl oysters lay eggs in the sea. The larvae that are ejected will attach to the gills of fish or other places and grow naturally. They will fall off when they reach a certain size.

Jiang Xia specifically asked his mother to make some larvae attachment nets to collect pearl oyster larvae.

Now she saw that there were one or two tiny black pearl oysters on the nets. They were very small, only the size of rice grains.

There were one or two on each mesh, and some had three or four.

Although not much, this also proves that collecting pearl oyster larvae in this way still has a small effect.

Jiang Xia waved to Zhou Chengxin and Zhou Chenglei.

The two swam over quickly.

Jiang Xia pointed at the small pearl shells on it.

Zhou Chengxin widened his eyes and looked again and again!

Then he looked at the attachment devices one by one and found that each attachment device had one or two, two or three mesh pieces, and three or four.

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They come in different sizes, but all are very small; the largest one is not even as big as a peanut.

Seeing that Zhou Chengxin was watching seriously, Jiang Xia pointed at the sea surface and signaled Zhou Chenglei to swim up.

Zhou Chenglei swam up with Jiang Xia, and then helped her climb onto the boat.

Then he got on board himself.

Jiang Xia took off his diving gear, and Zhou's father couldn't wait to ask, "How is it? The net cage is still there, is the fish okay?"

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "The cages and the fish are fine. The fish have even grown a bit."

Father Zhou smiled and said, "I knew it would be alright!"

Zhou Chengxin quickly climbed onto the boat. He couldn't wait to take off his diving gear and asked, "Xiao Xia, were those the young of pearl oysters?"

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Yes!"

Father Zhou was excited when he heard this: "Did you really collect pearl oyster larvae?"

Zhou Chengxin smiled and said, "I have collected them. They have grown into the size of rice grains. There are one or two pearl oysters on each mesh. I counted them and there are 26 in total! If Xiaoxia hadn't discovered them carefully, I wouldn't have known about them."

"Haha! Great! Although there are only 26, there will be more and more in the future. Didn't Xiao Xia say that May and June are the peak seasons for pearl oysters to spawn?"

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Take them down in a couple of days and put them in the grid to keep them, so they don't fall off and get lost."

Twenty-six are indeed few, but pearl oysters lay their eggs directly in the sea, and the sea water may wash their eggs to any place. Being able to catch twenty-six is ​​already a lot.

Now they have no experience, they don't know anything, Jiang Xia doesn't know anything either, he just saw a little bit, the rest depends on everyone's imagination, they all think it's feasible to do it, they just have a try mentality, they can collect 26, it can be regarded as a small success! Zhou's mother was also very happy, "Then I will make more of these attachment devices, let's put more in the sea."

Zhou Chenglei looked at this sea area and thought that if he wanted to cultivate pearls on a large scale in the future, he would have to hire someone to guard it.

Otherwise, if it is stolen, you will suffer a great loss.

But there is no rush now, as they have just started and no one knows that they are raising pearls.

Even if the villagers knew that they were raising fish, those with boats would not waste their time coming to steal the fish. Wouldn't they catch more by hauling a net than by stealing?

People without boats can’t even go out to sea.

So it is still safe, especially before their fish grow big and start selling them.

After checking that the fish cages here were fine, Zhou's father drove the boat to the coral island to take a look, and Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei went to set the nets and drag a net along the way.

After the boat sailed for more than an hour, it almost reached the coral island, and the father and his two sons began to raise the net.

Although this net did not take as long as the one in the morning, it was heavier.

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