Chapter 25 Discovering Corals
Ye Mingzhu quickly bought up all the pearl clams, sea cucumbers, etc. in this sea area. While checking whether there were any that had slipped through the net, she was also calculating how much she should take out.
Suddenly a black shadow came into her sight. She swam over, her hands shaking. Is this coral?
She had only seen coral on TV, but the branches sticking out in front of her were made of hard material, so they must be coral!
For a moment, Ye Mingzhu felt like she was possessed by a koi fish. Not only did she collect so many seafood, but she also encountered corals.
In the original owner's memory, coral was very difficult to find and the price had always been high. This large coral tree she found could not be sold at a sky-high price, but at least it would be enough to feed her and her brother for a few years.
Ye Mingzhu reached out and touched the coral, put it into the space, and then was knocked to the side by a huge monster.
She turned around quickly and saw a two or three meter long sea beast with its mouth wide open, shaking its tail vigorously. She was stunned for a moment and immediately entered the space.
She put her hand on her chest, her heart beating violently. Just now, the man's head was only one meter away from her, and his mouth was wide open, as if he wanted to eat someone.
She had just swam in the sea. It was quite quiet around here, and she didn't know when the sea beast appeared.
Ye Mingzhu didn't dare to go out, so she simply opened the pearl oysters in the pond one by one and took a look. She picked out a dozen pearl oysters with pearls inside and put them in the pearl collecting basket.
On the boat, Uncle Ye looked at the sea anxiously, thinking that Ye Mingzhu had been in the sea for a long time this time. He wanted to pull the rope, but was afraid that it would affect Ye Mingzhu's pearl hunting. Finally, he decided to wait a while, and if Ye Mingzhu didn't move, he would pull her up by force.
In the sea, a confused sea beast circled around the place where Ye Mingzhu suddenly disappeared. It didn't understand why the corals and people disappeared?
After Ye Mingzhu selected the pearl oysters, she thought of her Uncle Ye who was waiting on the sea, so she had to go back into the sea.
The dark seabed was quiet. It seemed that the sea beast had left. She immediately began to swim towards the surface.
After swimming for just two meters, he was tripped by something. He looked down and saw that the sea monster was holding a huge coral in its mouth.
The sea monster stuffed the coral into Ye Mingzhu's hands and opened its mouth wide again.
Ye Mingzhu, who was forced to hold the coral, had a lot of question marks on her forehead. Did this sea monster mean to give the coral to her?
She tried to ask the sea beast, but it just kept spinning in circles and didn't understand what she meant at all. She sighed, put the coral back into the space, and collected the branches that had just fallen.
When the sea monster saw that the coral was gone, it shook its big head back and forth, and then swam away. Ye Mingzhu didn't know what it meant. The rope in her hand had begun to shake. It seemed that her uncle was a little anxious, so she had to swim upstream.
When it was still a few meters away from the sea surface, a sea monster appeared with a coral tree in its mouth that was larger than the previous one.
Ye Mingzhu was stunned. Fearing that Uncle Ye San on the sea would find out, she decisively put the coral tree and the sea beast into the space.
Ye Mingzhu casually collected the scattered coral fragments into the pearl basket and floated to the surface of the sea.
Uncle Ye was almost going crazy with anxiety: "What took you so long? I just saw a dark shadow in the sea. Is it a sea monster?"
Ye Mingzhu wrapped herself in a blanket and shook her head: "No, there's no danger. I found something good in the sea, so I was delayed."
"No good thing is more important than life." Uncle Ye asked Ye Mingzhu to drink some hot water to warm her body, and handed her a piece of steamed bread to fill her stomach.
Ye Mingzhu, who was fine to begin with, quickly recovered. She pulled over her pearl basket and said, "Uncle San, look what I found."
Uncle Ye glanced at it casually, and his eyes widened instantly: "Is this, coral?"
The red and pink corals are very visible in the pearl oysters.
"Last year, someone found a small branch of coral in the sea and sold it for a hundred taels. Mingzhu, you are going to be rich."
Uncle Ye's voice trembled. There was joy but no jealousy. He was really doing this for Ye Mingzhu's own good.
"Uncle San," Ye Mingzhu made a decision instantly: "There are still many coral branches below, you can go down and pick them."
Uncle Ye stood up and said, "Okay, Uncle San will pick some and we'll split it equally."
After saying that, he immediately jumped into the water.
Ye Mingzhu didn't expect that the coral was so attractive. Uncle Ye jumped down without taking anything.
She regretted telling the story about Shanhu. If something happened to Uncle Ye, the third room would be in ruins.
She stared at the sea surface intently and decided that if Uncle Ye San didn't come up within half a cup of tea, she would jump in.
When she finally couldn't bear it any longer and was about to go into the sea, Uncle Ye's head emerged from the sea. He climbed onto the boat swiftly and without even wrapping himself in a blanket, he placed all the corals in his arms into the pearl basket: "Mingzhu, look, there are so many corals."
Ye Mingzhu quickly covered him with a blanket and said, "Uncle San, please warm up quickly. No matter how expensive these corals are, they are not as important as your health."
Uncle Ye kept nagging, "With so much coral, we can sell it for a few hundred taels at least. Let's buy some land and send Yun Ping and Yun Li to a private school to learn a few words. Then they won't have to go fishing for pearls anymore."
Ye Mingzhu listened patiently to Uncle Ye's chatter, and occasionally made a "hmm" sound.
People who make a living in the sea have a love-hate relationship with the sea.
While pearl diving offers high returns, it also carries a high risk factor. Countless members of the Ye family's family have lost their lives at sea. Their lives are filled with hardship and danger, and every trip to the sea could be their last.
However, they had no other choice, because apart from pearl fishing, they had no other skills. Generation after generation of the Ye family could only continue to make a living in the sea, and their fate seemed to have been predetermined.
Now that he has Coral, Uncle Ye’s first reaction is that his descendants will be able to live a good life in the future.
It took a cup of tea for Uncle Ye to recover completely. He divided the corals in the pearl basket into two parts and handed one to Ye Mingzhu: "Mingzhu, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to collect so many corals. These are for you."
Ye Mingzhu refused to accept it. She already had three coral trees in her space, so how could she accept Uncle Ye's coral?
"Uncle San, the money from selling these corals in my basket will be enough for Yun An and I to live on."
Finally, at Ye Mingzhu's insistence, Uncle Ye had to take Coral back, but he was determined to take better care of Ye Mingzhu and her siblings in the future.
Their ancestors collected pearls in the sea and rarely encountered corals. This time they were able to collect corals, entirely thanks to Ye Mingzhu's luck.
Both of them had a good harvest and didn't want to collect pearls anymore, so they decided to go home first.
Uncle Ye hid the coral under the pearl oyster. The two of them hurriedly parked the boat and returned to Uncle Ye's house first.
Fang was seeing Aunt Jiang off with a smile on her face: "It's settled then. We'll wait for you at home tomorrow."
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