Xu Suizhu watched Baozi's father lead people to pull the net, and said to her sister-in-law:
"Mother oyster meat is rich in nutrients. Sister-in-law, did you know that pearls can be ground into pearl powder to beautify the skin and enhance human immunity? In fact, it is because of the layer of nacre on the surface. Nacre is the secretion of mother oysters, and it is also contained in mother oyster meat.
, and it is more conducive to human body absorption, and the effect is not worse than taking pearl powder..."
"Really?" When Wu Meili heard what she said, she became excited. Do you want to beautify your skin? Enhance your immunity? Oh my god! "Then I have to scrape the meat clean. Scrape off every corner."
We can feed Fuqi several meals. We can eat the whole piece ourselves. If we don’t finish it and make it into sauce, we can save a lot of time..."
While he was talking, a large clam was finally pulled ashore.
The workers and bodyguards who participated in pulling the net were dragged under the eaves of the living area while shouting and singing, and each one of them pried off the shell.
"I dug it! I dug a pearl!"
The first person to dig out the pearl was Xiao Li.
The usually calm young man would hold up a milky white round pearl and shout in surprise: "Oh my God! I still have such luck in my lifetime! A pearl just out of the mother's womb, this is the first time I see it! Teacher Xu, I can
Touch it?"
"Yes!" Xu Suizhu replied with a smile.
"Xiao Li, come on, bring it over for us to take a look at." The old men held the tea jars and stopped drinking tea. They stood on the steps and shouted impatiently.
"coming!"
Comrade Xiao Li carefully held the pearl and stepped forward.
OMG! I can’t afford the pearl jewelry sold in big stores, but these authentic ocean pearls are worth touching a few more times!
"Just take a few glances, don't be stupid! Hurry up and get to work!" At this moment, Mr. Lu was stripping his upper body, prying the mother shell away while urging his men to work.
"Got the order!"
Xiao Li admired the midwife's happy eyes several times, handed the pearls to several old men, and returned to his post.
"Wait a minute..." Xu Suizhu remembered the special marked mother-of-pearl and asked, "Which of you has a number written on which mother-of-pearl shell?"
"Number? Is it this?" Lu Chixiao glanced at the mother-of-pearl he was holding and handed it to the child's mother to see.
"Yes, yes! Just this one, dig out this one carefully." Xu Suizhu approached him and whispered to him, "I suspect it is a mutated pearl."
Lu Chixiao understood this and sped up the movements of his hands, prying the mother shell open in twos and twos.
As soon as the shell was opened, he and the child's mother looked at each other.
What's going on? Did he puncture the internal organs of the mother oyster? Why is it so bloody?
Then I thought about it, that’s not right! Isn’t the blood of shellfish cyan? Then this is...
"Shh!" Xu Suizhu winked at him, "I have discovered this situation before, so I suspect that it has given birth to a mutant pearl."
Lu Chixiao half-believingly took out a blood-colored pearl the size of a penny coin from the flesh of the mother oyster. It sparkled when exposed to the sun and felt a little hot to the touch.
The young couple looked at each other, and under the cover of Boss Lu, Xu Suizhu put the mutated pearl and the mother oyster that raised it into the system package compartment.
The production of saltwater pearls is smaller than that of freshwater pearls. They are basically single pearls, which are large and round. Double pearls are very rare, and triple pearls are even rarer.
Unlike freshwater pearls, one mussel can produce four or five pearls, and some can produce up to a dozen pearls. They are small and vary in shape. The smallest one is probably a little bigger than a grain of rice.
Therefore, more than one hundred mother oysters were harvested, and a total of nearly two hundred pearls were harvested. The aunt and nephew were quite satisfied.
What I am even more satisfied with is the quality of the pearls.
"Although I have seen pearl necklaces at the jewelry counters of department stores, compared with these, the pearl necklaces sold at the counter are simply inferior. Look at these pearl necklaces, which are round and glow when facing the sun. How come they are so beautiful!"
Hearing Wu Meili's sigh, Xu Suizhu said with a smile: "The freshwater pearls sold at the department store counter are of relatively poor quality. Of course, they cannot be compared with these. Good freshwater pearls are still good."
"That's definitely not as good as the ones we raise ourselves." Wu Meili feels proud of her own children - no matter how bad her children are, they are still the best in the eyes of their parents. What's more, the quality of this batch of pearls is so high.
"Half a year of hard work has paid off." Wu Meili smiled and put away the buckets.
Remove the shells from the shellfish and collect them together, and inspect them again.
The nutrition of oyster meat is so good that if you don't scrape off the remaining meat residue, it feels like you have lost a lot of money.
"The scraped scraps can be mixed into a pot of bait. I am happy today and give Fu Luck a few extra meals. But for Diandian and Xiaohu, it can only be regarded as a teething ceremony."
"Xiaohu? Who is it?" Xu Suizhu was checking the pearls one by one. Hearing this, he asked subconsciously.
"Orca! Don't you know? It's the name my mother gave me. It's said that other little guys have it, so it can't live without it. It's so unfamiliar to call you a killer whale. It's like someone calling you 'hey'. There are so many in the sea.
Killer whale, who knows which one is calling..."
"Haha!" Xu Suizhu couldn't help but laugh: "At first I called Fuxing 'little drama queen', and my aunt scolded me, saying that if a turtle doesn't scream, how can it be called a drama queen? Who knows what I'm calling it?"
"Haha, Mom thinks more clearly now than before." Wu Meili laughed heartily, "Oh, I won't tell you anymore. I'll scrape these clean first, and then mix them with bait. I'll leave the pearls to you two.
"
"Ok, no problem."
As a result, when Wu Meili was scraping off the scraps of shellfish, she counted them and found that one mother oyster was missing.
"Strange, I remember there are a total of one hundred and nine oysters, why is there one missing?"
Xu Suizhu secretly stuck out his tongue and said, "Sister-in-law, isn't it one hundred and eight? I remember it was this number."
"Really?" Wu Meili thought carefully, "Did I count wrongly?"
"Maybe it leaked to the bottom of the sea." Lu Chixiao was pinched by the child's mother, and she understood and smoothed things over, "How about I go into the water to look for it?"
"You can't do it! In such a cold weather, it's hard to go into the water. Even if it leaks, it won't be able to escape at the bottom of the sea. It will just follow the next batch of pearls. I hope I keep it for another year, and the pearls inside can be bigger!
One hundred and eight sounds auspicious. One hundred and eight, I want you to send it! Follow me, next year there will be a bumper harvest."
Xu Suizhu snickered, exchanged glances with Mr. Lu, nodded and said, "That's right!"
Wu Meili's attention has been focused on scraping the shell meat, scraping off a pile of meat residue, washing the shells and putting them away. They might have other uses later.
It's really useless, so you can get some money by selling it to a scrap collector. There are people in the city who collect it and sell it to factories to make handicrafts.
"Sui Sui, there are so many pearls and the price is so high, won't we be able to find buyers?"
"Don't worry, sister-in-law! It will definitely be sold within half a year. By then, we will be able to split the money!"