Chapter 180 Tracking
Jiang Xia opened a golden pearl this time, big, round and bright! No flaws whatsoever!
The pearl lay in Jiang Xia's palm, exuding sparkling golden light as Jiang Xia fiddled with it.
Mother Zhou looked over with a smile and couldn't help but feel happy: "Is this the King of Pearls?"
Jiang Xia smiled: "It should count."
Anyway, it is definitely the best among gold beads!
Collectible jewelry!
Not all pearls can be called jewelry.
Not all jewelry is worth collecting.
Jiang Xia felt that this one should be over a thousand and could be auctioned, so she happily stuffed it into her pocket.
Tian Caihua: "..."
She also wanted to ask Jiang Xia to take a look.
Tian Caihua was stimulated again and couldn't help but pick up another pearl oyster and open it by herself.
This time I finally have it!
Her heart was beating wildly and she carefully picked it out.
The result was a misshapen, dull pearl with more flaws than the spots on her face! But it’s huge!
Tian Caihua: "..."
Zhou Chengxin couldn't help shouting at her: "Can you please stop touching my pearl oysters!"
Tian Caihua didn't dare either Touch it again.
She stepped back from a distance and quietly watched them open the pearls.
Without Tian Caihua's hindrance, Zhou Chengxin opened several pearls one after another, some good, some average, and one over 8mm in size, which was close to perfect.
Zhou Chengxin breathed a sigh of relief!
Finally a big one!
Tian Caihua also breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Chengxin opened the whole bag of pearls. There were three pearls above 8mm, several 5mm or 6mm, and the others were below 4mm.
Tian Caihua couldn't help but look at Jiang Xia.
In fact, not every pearl oyster in Jiang Xia can produce pearls. She has also tried to produce two or three oysters without pearls, but most of the pearls she produced are large beads of 7mm or 8mm, and Few blemishes and good gloss.
The most important thing is that Jiang Xia opened more than one Pearl King, and she stuffed at least three in her pocket to prevent her from seeing it!
Out of more than fifty pearl oysters, Jiangxia only produced five or six defective, small pearls, and six without pearls.
Such luck as this, people who didn’t know it thought she had raised this pearl oyster!
The pearl yield rate and quality of Zhou's father and Zhou's mother's pearls are similar to those in Jiangxia, but generally not as big as those in Jiangxia.
Place the three bowls of pearls there, and it will be clear at a glance who has better luck!
Tian Caihua is sour again!
There are so few bowls in her house! So shabby!
She deeply doubted life and wondered if the pearl oysters in her family were leftovers from them!
Father Zhou smiled after looking at everyone's pearls: "Yes, A Xin should be able to sell them for a few hundred yuan. Xiaoxia, are you going to go to sea tomorrow? If you don't go to sea, do you want to take the pearls to the market and sell them? ?”
Mother Zhou nodded: “Yes, it’s better to sell it as soon as possible, so as not to leave it unsafe at home.”
Jiang Xia: “I am building a house now.” I won’t go to sea tomorrow. I’ll go to the market to sell them in the afternoon and deliver a batch of small fish to the train station.”
Zhou Chengxin: “Xiao Xia, please help me sell the pearls too!”
Upon hearing this, Tian Caihua immediately said: "Xiaoxia and I will go together! It's safer this way."
Jiang Xia: "Okay."
It just so happens that she doesn't want to help them sell it, so as not to be thankless.
And if you go with Tian Caihua, you can ask Tian Caihua to help her pick out the fish larvae. She is very strong.
We can’t let her just take advantage of it!
After the pearls bloomed, Tian Caihua took the pearls home. Zhou Chengxin and Zhou’s father transported the pearl oysters back to the living cabin of the ship to raise them, and then put them into cages in the sea to raise them tomorrow.
Jiang Xia also taught Zhou Mu to weave a kind of net specially designed for raising pearls, and then hang them in the sea to raise them.
That kind of net is actually very simple. It is to weave a net in a rectangular frame, and then weave pockets one after another on the net.
When the time comes, stuff the successfully inserted pearl oyster into the pocket of the grid and hang it in the sea water to raise.
However, pearl cultivation is very long, complicated and troublesome, and there are many processes.
Pearl oysters can produce pearls because foreign objects such as sand and other hard objects enter their bodies. Pearl oysters are stimulated by foreign objects and produce a self-defense reaction by secreting a smooth crystal substance to wrap the foreign objects.
Moreover, pearl oysters will continue to cover foreign objects with secretions, layer after layer, until thousands of layers can form a pearl.
The reason why artificially cultured pearls have a high yield is because they have cores inserted into them.
This core also needs to be prepared. Jiang Xia plans to use shells to grind some small round cores out. This is also a troublesome process.
Today is too late. Then we will see which pearls are not alive and use their shells to grind their cores.
Zhou Zhou had been watching them open the pearls. Just after taking a shower and returning to the room, Jiang Xia went to find her when he had time.
Zhou Zhou was about to sleep when he saw Jiang Xia coming in and sat up: "Little aunt."
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Is Zhou Zhou used to it in school?"
Zhou Zhou nodded: "Get used to it." "Are the teachers in the school strict? Do they curse?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "No."
"Are the classmates in the school friendly? Have Zhou Zhou met any bad classmates?"
Zhou Zhou glanced at Jiang Xia and shook his head: "No."
Jiang Xia understood and touched He touched her head and said: "Go to bed early!"
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Jiang Xia got up at six o'clock the next day and planned to go to school secretly with Zhou Zhou.
During breakfast, Zhou Zhou ate very slowly, and Zhou's mother urged her twice: "Zhou Zhou, eat quickly, it's seven o'clock! Today is Friday, do you have a labor class? What should you bring? Go?"
"Dustpan."
"Then remember to take it."
"Okay." Zhou Zhou finished the last bite of porridge before going back to the room to get his schoolbag. .
It took me ten minutes to get my schoolbag, and I just picked up a dustpan in the yard and went out at 7:10.
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 Guangzong Yaozu brothers were even earlier. They refused to eat breakfast at home, so Tian Caihua gave them money 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.
After Jiang Xia waited for Zhou Zhou to walk out for two or three minutes, he told Zhou's mother to go to Zhou Zhou's school and then followed him out.
There were many students carrying schoolbags to school on the road. Jiang Xia quickly saw Zhou Zhou because she walked very slowly.
Jiang Xia followed from a distance.
The school is in the village next door, so we walk on a village road with many houses on both sides. People from several nearby villages are from the same production team and all know each other. In fact, the way to school is quite safe.
Until there was no more students on the road, Jiang Xia glanced at the time on her watch, which was seven forty-three.
Jiang Xia saw Zhou Zhou running towards the school in a hurry.
She also started running.
Zhou Zhou ran into the school to the sound of the bell.
Jiang Xia ran to the school gate and watched Zhou Zhou running into the classroom while panting.
Jiang Xia ran for an estimated eight hundred meters, which really cost her her life!
Jiang Xia panted and followed him into the school. The management of schools in this era was not so strict, especially schools in villages. You could come and go as you pleased.
The classrooms in the school are all made of mud bricks, with grass growing in the corners.
The playground is dirt and there is a lot of grass growing around it.
That’s why there are labor classes every week. Students have to bring brooms, hoes, dustpans and other tools from home to school to clean up the school’s grass regularly.
Jiang Xia didn't find anything and decided to stay in school this morning.
She came to the guard room and spoke to the guard, and stayed in the guard room, talking to the guard while paying attention to the situation in the classroom.
The school is not big, with only a row of L-shaped teaching buildings. There is only one class for each grade and 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 found no other abnormalities, but Zhou Zhou sat in the classroom the whole time and didn't even go to the toilet.
In labor class, all students went out to weed.
Each shift is responsible for one area.
Zhou Zhou brought a dustpan, and the grass removed by her classmates was put into her dustpan and asked to be poured out.
Zhou Zhou held a dustpan of grass and walked towards the garbage dump in a corner behind the teaching building.
In that corner, Jiang Xia was sitting in the guard room and couldn't see it, so she walked out of the guard room.
Zhou Zhou just turned a corner from the teaching building and saw the male classmates.
She retreated unconsciously.
“Where is the money I asked you to bring?”
“I have no money, I really don’t have any!”
"Isn't your family very rich? Your brother-in-law drives a big ship! If you ask him to take it, or take it secretly, no one will know."
Zhou Zhou shook his head.
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