Qin Rou's pearl farm was set up in Xin Village, Linshui. The experimental station contacted the research institute, which gave her a lot of help and support, and provided two batches of mother-of-pearl oysters.

Qin Rou also contracted the fishing boat of the fishing company and caught a lot of wild pearl oysters.

The technical staff and Qin Rou made a unified plan. It didn't take long to climb the seawall. You can see neatly arranged ropes on the sea surface, with colorful balls hanging on them, and mother-of-pearl oysters underneath. The floating sea water brings nutrients from the deep sea to the mother-of-pearl oysters.

A small boat floats on the sea, and the personnel on the boat regularly check the growth of the pearl oysters.

It is called a pearl farm, but in fact it is just a small workshop of seven or eight people.

Qin Rou's pearl farm is called "Xun Rou". She is also a bad namer. Pearl farms all like to be called something like Run or something like Run. She didn't want to call it Hai Run or Rou Run, so she just randomly named it,

Xun Rou Pearl Farm.

Qin Rou put her hands on her hips and looked at the wooden sign hanging on the simple brick house. The surroundings were too simple. It cost a lot of money to build the house. It was used as a factory and a dormitory for employees.

"This farm is really simple."

It really looks like a black-hearted workshop. Haha, fortunately they don't sell food, they just raise pearls.

... In short, the pearl farm was still opened, and the first batch of pearls will be produced by the end of 1980.

After dealing with the pearl farm, Qin Rou took a boat from Qiongzhou Island to Guangzhou.

Over the years, she has taken the ferry from Qiongzhou Island to Guangzhou many times. In the past one or two years, the ferry has changed a lot. For example, it used to depart at seven or eight in the evening and arrive at the destination at this time the next day. Now there are ships departing at all times.

In the past, across the sea, watching the bright lights on another island attracted countless people to flee. Now the port has been opened. In July, Shenzhen and three other cities began to try out the export special zone. By 1980, it will officially become an economic special zone.

A brilliant arrival is coming soon. By then, the night will no longer be just a single island with bright lights, but lights shining everywhere.

Qin Rou returned to school. Before returning to school, she found an old silversmith with good craftsmanship in Guangzhou, took out the two pearls given to her by the experimental station, and asked the old silversmith to help her make a pair of pearl earrings.

Qin Rou roughly drew the shape of the earrings, hoping that the old silversmith could help her inlay the pearls on them.

"This...this is pearls? They are so beautiful!" The old silversmith, who was already old, looked at the pair of delicate seawater pearls in his hand. He saw that the pair of pearls were round and beautiful, with beautiful luster, reflecting the gemstone light in the sun.

"Yes, these are seawater pearls from the South Island. Teacher, help me make pearl earrings."

After finding the old silversmith, Qin Rou returned to school. The teachers in the school knew that she was going to open a factory, because students like her who wanted to open factories were not isolated cases. The college students

of the 1977th and 198th classes were quite special. There were students with a difference of more than ten years in age. Many of them had a lot of connections and savings in the past. At this time, they caught up with the craze of investing in factories. Some of the brave ones, where could they sit still at this time? The

brave ones died of support, and the timid ones died of hunger.

There were quite a few who joined together to open factories and hotels, and the teachers in the school were also happy to see this happen.

Didn't it say above that practice is the only criterion for testing truth? No matter how much knowledge students learn in school, it is better to apply it in practice.

For example, several students in their business management department have opened factories, but now it is more popular to open clothing factories and canned food processing factories. The pearl breeding factory that Qin Rou wants to open is a more bizarre factory.

"Pearl?"

"Why do you want to open a pearl farm? If you have money, why not open a clothing factory now?"

Clothing factories have low costs and quick results, and they can quickly recover their costs. People in Guangdong Province are not all opening clothing factories. There are too many clothing factories now, and they don't have to worry about sales. The whole country is short of clothes, and everyone wants to wear fresh and beautiful clothes. They want to wear colorful clothes. Clothes, bell-bottom pants...

People from other provinces come to Guangzhou to buy wholesale from clothing factories, but Qin Rou doesn't want to join the clothing factories for the time being. There are too many clothing factories here, and the competition will be fierce in the future. Clothes are sold by weight, and the price is very low. It's profitable to come here to wholesale clothes and sell them back, but it's meaningless to open a clothing wholesale factory here.

Clothes will accumulate if they can't be sold. Qin Rou is not sensitive to fashion trends, she doesn't like to wear bell-bottom pants, and she doesn't want to spend too much time on clothing factories.

Although she knows a lot of clothing styles, she can't draw clothing pattern design drawings. Instead of blindly stepping into a field she doesn't know, it's better to do what she likes.

"Because I like pearls."

"Aren't you worried that your pearl farm won't make money? If it loses money, it's just a waste of effort."

"You're not worried about running a clothing factory, so why are you worried about me?"

Qin Rou didn't know whether the clothing factory could make money at that time, but when everyone knew that this thing could make money, it was indeed a little late to enter the market. The competition was fierce, and if you want to break through the siege, you must spend a lot of effort.

Just like opening a milk tea shop in the future, there are countless people who are keen on opening milk tea shops. In fact, milk tea shops have the highest bankruptcy rate. Every year, all kinds of milk tea shops, big and small, go bankrupt, but there are still people who go to open milk tea shops, thinking that they can make money.

What's more, the styles and patterns of clothes are too easy to imitate, and they need to be designed. Every time the season changes, clothes need to be updated, and many of them are copied from the works of classic fashion designers.

Managing a clothing factory is too troublesome, why make yourself so tired.

Although she does not open a clothing factory, she can make money from clothes in other ways.

"I'm afraid you can't make money." Sun Hongping secretly gloated.

Seeing that other people can easily make money by opening a factory, Sun Hongping is jealous. She thinks that if she has the capital, she dares to open a factory to make money, but she is timid and dares not to take out a loan.

It is reliable for others to open a clothing factory or a canned food factory, but Qin Rou opened a pearl farm. She cultivated pearls? What can pearls be used for?

Can pearls really be cultivated? I have never heard of cultivating pearls.

"Have you heard of cultivating pearls? Or cultivating pearls in seawater?" Sun Hongping asked Zhao Shanshan.

"I haven't heard of it."

"Do you think Qin Rou was deceived by someone, or is she deliberately deceiving us?"

"I don't know."

By the weekend, Qin Rou's pair of pearl earrings were ready. She had pierced her ears a long time ago, put on the pearl earrings, let her beautiful curly hair down, and took Zhou Zhou and Xiao Dumpling to the military academy to find their father.

The two children were already seven years old and had entered a period of rapid growth. Every time Qin Rou saw them, she always felt that the two little guys were growing up.

Qin Rou paid attention to the nutrition of the two guys, fed them more protein-rich food, and ordered milk for them every day. Whenever she cooked at home on weekends, she would always cook a tofu dish for the two kids.

"Mom!" When seeing their mother, the two children always hugged her.

Qin Rou hugged the children one by one. She felt that the two children had grown taller, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. The contours of their eyebrows and eyes were very similar to their father Lu Yan. At a young age, they already had the prototype of handsome boys.

When the two brothers who looked similar appeared at the intersection together, many passers-by would always turn around to look.

Xiao Dumpling smiled and said, "Mom, you have become more beautiful again!"

"Our Dumpling has a very sweet mouth."

"You can't call me Dumpling outside! I'm Lu Weize."

Now Zhou Zhou and Dumpling finally know the beauty and ugliness of their names. Compared with their previous nicknames, they prefer their real names, Lu Weizhou and Lu Weize.

The elder brother Lu Weizhou was holding a basketball in his arms. The two brothers love playing basketball very much now. Every time they go to the military academy, they have to bring a basketball to play with their father and uncles.

"Okay, Comrade Lu Weize, it's Mom's fault."

Qin Rou and her two children got on the bus. Many passengers on the bus looked at the three of them. Qin Rou was used to being stared at. The three of them squeezed into a row of seats.

An old lady next to her asked her, "Are these your two younger brothers? They are so handsome."

"No, these are my two sons."

"Ah, girl, you look so young, and your sons are so big?" The old lady looked at her with wide eyes and asked hesitantly, "Are they your biological children?"

Qin Rou: "..."

Comrade Qin Rou thought to herself, do I look so much like my stepmother?

"I'm their biological mother!"

Lu Weizhou and Lu Weize shouted at her at the same time: "Mom!"

Qin Rou held one of the children's shoulders with one hand, and felt that the two boys were really their mother's good sons. She looked around and thought with a guilty conscience that in a few more years, the two children might be taller than her. When the time comes, she will feel safe when she leads two tall and strong sons out.

The road has also been repaired in the past few years. The car is not driving fast or slow, but it is faster than the speed in the city in the future, because there are not so many crossroads and traffic lights at that time, and there are few cars on the street, all of which are black bicycles.

Soon, they were about to arrive at the destination. Before getting off the car, Qin Rou had already seen the familiar white figure, the tall and handsome man with two short winter melons on his legs.

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling were like her, sticking to the window to watch their father and sisters.

As soon as she got off the car, she threw herself into the man's arms and said happily:

"Lu Yan!"

What is meant by "a short separation is better than a new marriage"? This is what it means to be a short separation is better than a new marriage. After eight years of marriage, I still miss each other so much. What is the seven-year itch? That is nothing.

Lu Yan happily held the woman in his arms, brushed her long hair around her ears, and whispered to her, "Wife."

Doudou and Rongrong also happily called him brother. Zhouzhou and Dumpling each held a sister. The sweet Dourong sisters loved beauty very much. As a good brother, the eldest brother Lu Weizhou immediately said, "Sisters, the braids you have on your heads today are really beautiful."

"Did dad braid it or grandpa braid it?"

"Dad braided it."

"Grandpa braided your sister's."

"Would you like to guess who is Dumpling brother?"

"You are?"

"No, I'm your brother Weizhou..."

Zhang Guodong squatted on the ground and looked at the scene in front of him, holding his chin with his hand, wondering how long it had been, why he still saw this familiar scene.

——Why are his family members late again?