Zhou Chen is not yet old enough to go to elementary school.
But Zhou Chen is smart and can already recognize many words.
Chen Yuan and his two daughters are also smart, which may have something to do with genes. Before they went to kindergarten, they could quickly remember the literacy lessons taught in kindergarten.
In the morning, eat steamed buns, steamed buns, and soy milk.
Zhou Sheng and the others had just arrived and were eating.
"Would you like to go diving today?" Chen Yuan asked.
"Go." Zhou Sheng said, "I heard that someone saw a pod of killer whales nearby yesterday."
"Speaking of killer whales, I don't know what happened to the group of killer whales I encountered in Fiji," Yan Xiaoxi said.
The six killer whales encountered in Fiji stayed in Navutu Atoll for a long time. However, after Chen Yuan and the others left, they did not know where they went.
"Orcas are not suitable for equatorial waters. Those killer whales probably went to other places." Chen Yuandao.
After dinner, they went to the pier.
The pier has a ferry terminal and a yacht terminal.
The marina is run by Zhou Jianguo. When we came here, Chen Yuan's father was here, carrying diving equipment on his back and holding a diving saw in his hand.
"grandfather."
"grandfather……"
"Grandpa."
Several little guys shouted.
"Alas." Father Chen smiled happily when he saw his granddaughter and grandson.
"Dad..." Chen Yuan and the others also shouted.
Father Chen is now very powerful and can hold his breath underwater for more than ten minutes. But only they themselves know what their family is capable of...
"Old Biao Jianguo." Zhou Jianguo and a group of divers came over.
There were more than a dozen people in the group, some with electric saws and others with ropes. They were about to harvest corals again.
Some of the spiritual energy that Chen Yuan has gathered in the past few years has been used on his family, and some of it has been used to cultivate the coral polyps here.
Today's coral polyps are more powerful than before.
The fastest-growing corals can grow more than one meter a year. However, those are branch-shaped corals that grow quickly, but their coral skeletons are only as thick as your middle finger.
There are typhoons every year in Hainan, and the waves roll up the sea floor. Those branch-shaped corals that grow very fast are very brittle, and their branches will be broken by the rolling sea currents. Even if they are facing the land, the branch-shaped corals will be difficult to
Grows to an extremely large size.
The corals here grow very fast.
It has been nine years since I returned to China. On Xiaoshan Island, whenever the tide goes out, you can already see a large area of coral reefs exposed out of the water.
The pier and ferry terminal have been extended by dozens of meters. Because there were corals under the former berths, when the tide goes out, you can also see the corals above the water at the former berths.
The average water depth at the marina is now about two meters. This is because the coral below is cleaned regularly, otherwise the marina would not be able to park boats.
The corals on Xiaoshan Island grow very fast. However, the coral polyps on Xiaoshan Island have expanded to the entire South Island and Xisha Islands.
Xisha has also succeeded in using corals. There are billions of coral polyps, and these coral polyps can produce coral skeletons very quickly. A lot of coral skeletons are produced every year, and then under the action of typhoons and waves, those coral skeletons are pushed to the small island.
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One year, two years, three or four years, the change is not very big.
But in recent years, the results have been particularly obvious.
There are many places in Hainan with fast-growing corals. For example, Xiaozhou Island, Wuzhizhou, and the small island over Sanya are not far away... You can also see patches of coral reefs when the tide goes out.
The coral reefs on Xiaoshan Island grew very quickly, but they did not cause trouble to Chen Yuan and the others.
In addition to feeding the coral polyps on Xiaoshan Island with spiritual energy, Chen Yuan would occasionally go elsewhere to feed the coral polyps with spiritual energy. The coral polyps that had been transformed with spiritual energy became much more tenacious.
Nowadays, there are coral reefs everywhere in Hainan. However, except for the coral reefs on Xiaoshan Island, the mining of coral reefs in other places is prohibited. If it is necessary to clean up the coral reefs, those coral reefs cannot be taken away from the sea.
You can dig live corals and sell them on Xiaoshan Island with a license.
Moreover, here on Xiaoshan Island, coral mining is only done in the yacht berthing area and the ship channel.
There are also piles of coral skeletons under the yacht pier. Now when the tide goes out, the water depth is only more than two meters. It needs to be cleaned here every month, otherwise there will be too much coral accumulation and the yacht pier will be abandoned.
Dad Chen went to the yacht dock, started to divide into groups, and then dived to the bottom of the sea.
On Xiaoshan Island, the most valuable thing is coral.
The coral polyps on Xiaoshan Island spawn every month, but no one comes to collect these coral eggs now. After the coral spawns, it will attract a lot of fish and become the fish's food.
The corals here at the pier are also harvested at different times, and only part of the area is harvested at a time.
Chen Yuan and the others looked at the pier for a while. The first coral they picked up was a valley half a meter in diameter and shaped like a spherical pillar.
It is half a meter in diameter and more than one meter high. The coral polyps attached to it are densely packed, yellow, and sea anemone-like coral polyps.
It looks big, but it's actually not very heavy. The coral skeleton of this kind of coral is not solid. There are many holes in it... I estimate it is several hundred kilograms larger. Several people worked hard below to get it to the shore.
The first of every month is the day to harvest coral.
Today's corals are easy to care for and are not easy to die. When the corals are harvested every month, aquarists will book a hotel in advance, wait for the corals to be harvested, and then bid for the corals.
There are many spherical pillar corals on small mountain islands, but there are very few of them with beautiful shapes.
The appearance of this coral was so perfect that someone gave it 150,000 yuan on the spot. This kind of big coral was put in a very large aquarium when it was taken back...
Families that can put in a large aquarium will not be short of money. This coral can only be placed in a particularly large aquarium, and the height of the aquarium is at least 2 meters. It depends on how big the aquarium is. If it is an aquarium with a front wall
, estimated to be hundreds of thousands.
The large pieces of coral excavated here were immediately bid for. Someone finally paid 180,000 yuan for the spherical pillar coral.
There is a crane on the island, and the crane is used to lift the coral onto a ship specially designed to transport coral, and then it is taken directly to the Cheung Chau Pier.
"Let's go, let's go diving." Zhou Sheng said.
"Let's go." Chen Yuan patted the heads of the two little girls.
Dabao's personality is more lively, while Xiaobao's personality is more quiet. But that's the opposite. The two little girls held hands, jumped up and down, and went to the diving club.
Downstairs in the diving club, Chen Yuan decorated several separate rooms here to change clothes and store diving equipment.
Yan Xiaoxi took her child to the women's locker room.
Zhou Sheng took his two sons, changed their clothes in the locker room, and said, "I want to go on a trip."
“Where to travel?”
"I have been soaking in the sea these years and want to go for a walk on land." Zhou Sheng said: "I want to buy a RV and go out with Chen Xin. Do you want to go out together?"