Golden Fishing Village

Yunwan City is nearly a thousand kilometers away from Hongyang, but there is a high-speed rail between them. It only takes more than four hours to take a train from Hongyang.

This is a city where mountains, seas, ports and cities are interdependent. It is located in the central and southern coastal areas of China and has a long history. Although its economic volume is not as large as Hongyang, it is also a fairly developed coastal city in China.

Ao Muyang is resolute in his work. Anyway, he can't go out to sea during the sea ban period, so he has nothing to do. So after contacting Lu Hu, he set off for Yunwan City the next day.

Lu Hu sent him a call. The farm he introduced is called Beibu Gulf Pearl Farm. It is located on the seashore outside the suburbs of the city. The boss is a relative of Lu Hu and is called Lu Mengzi.

Lu Hu and Lu Mengzi, these two names are quite wild. Although Lu Hu did not introduce the specific relationship between the two, he said that the relationship between them was extraordinary, so Ao Muyang could buy pearl oysters with confidence.

Ao Muyang contacted Lu Mengzi in advance. The other party's style of doing things is as generous and powerful as his name: "Brother Yang, right? OK, Brother Hu told me about you. Which kind of pearl shell are you going to choose?"

"I don't know much about this industry..."

"Then, if you are not busy, come to my place first and come to inspect it in detail. You are Brother Hu's brother, so you are my VIP. Come on."

Just like that, Ao Muyang took Zhong Cang all the way south to Yunwan City.

When they were on the train, someone contacted them. The other party claimed to be Lu Mengzi's assistant and came to pick them up as a guest.

Ao Muyang was picked up by a young man after getting off the train and got on the Toyota Prado driven by the young man.

The off-road vehicle sped all the way out of the city and finally entered the suburban wilderness.

The surrounding environment of the Beibu Gulf Pearl Farm is very beautiful. It is located on the seashore. There is a long Casuarina windbreak belt on the coast. In this way, even if the sea breeze is blowing, you will not be blown by the sea breeze when walking on the road beside the belt.

Although Yunwan City is close to the sea, it does not have a very good port, so it focuses on the development of marine aquaculture. The Beibu Gulf is full of farms.

Marine aquaculture is afraid of bad weather such as tsunamis and typhoons, so the government presided over the construction of a circle of embankments on the coast. The windbreaks meander along the embankments, embracing the golden beach.

The assistant who was driving pointed to several small buildings looming in the windbreaks and said, "That's the studio of our farm. The nursery room, nuclear insertion room, cage weaving room and processing room are all inside."

Lu Mengzi gave Ao Muyang face, or Lu Hu face, and waited in person at the gate of the farm.

In terms of appearance, he is quite similar to Lu Hu. He is not tall, has a big belly, and does not look fierce.

But as he showed on the phone, he has a very fierce temper. After Ao Muyang got off the car, he immediately went up to hold his hand and shook it vigorously: "Brother Xiaoyang, I have heard of you for a long time!"

Ao Muyang said: "Brother Meng is polite. Why did you come out in person? I heard from Brother Hu that you are very busy with business now, so it is enough for us to have Assistant Liu accompany us. You don't have to come out in person."

Lu Mengzi laughed and said: "If I do that, wouldn't it be a slap in Brother Hu's face? Brother Hu told me that I must take good care of you and make you satisfied with this trip, otherwise he will not let me go!"

Although the value of pearls has declined in modern times, it is still a luxury. People who can engage in pearl farming are naturally worth a lot of money.

The layout of Lu Mengzi's farm is reasonable and magnificent. From the outside, it looks inconspicuous because of the windbreak, but when you really enter it, you will find that there is a different world inside.

There is a small building in the farm that is particularly gorgeously decorated with marble floors, solid wood decorations, solid wood tables and chairs. It is hot outside and cool inside. The air conditioning has a good cooling effect.

Ao Muyang and Zhong Cang were arranged to live on the second floor. The first floor was the reception room, where they had their meals.

It was time for lunch when they arrived, and Lu Mengzi prepared a table of fresh seafood, including sea cucumbers, abalone, shellfish, shrimps and crabs.

"Brother Hu told me that you, Brother Xiaoyang, are the little tyrant in the sea, specializing in rare and expensive seafood, and you must have eaten everything in the sea. But he also said that you usually stay in Hongyang, so you may not have come into contact with the seafood in our Yunwan City. Try it today to see if there is any difference in taste." Lu Mengzi said as he took out two bottles of Moutai.

Ao Muyang didn't know how Lu Hu introduced him, but the other party's hospitality was really a bit fierce. This table of food plus drinks must be at least close to 10,000 yuan!

If he didn't trust Lu Hu, he wouldn't dare to eat this meal, because he didn't buy many pearl shells, and his profit margin was estimated to be less than 10,000 yuan.

But he also understood that Lu Mengzi was not entertaining him, but actually entertaining Lu Hu, and all he did was to give Lu Hu face.

Lu Hu's Lu Ji Hai Aquatic Products does make money, but after getting to know Ao Muyang, Ao Muyang helped him make more money. So far, all the high-quality seafood produced by Zhuantou Island Fishery has been supplied to Lu Hu.

This is very important for Lu Ji Hai Aquatic Products. Having a stable channel for rare seafood means that Lu Hu can have more say in the industry, which is something that money can't buy.

After lunch, Ao Muyang and the others went to rest first. In the afternoon, Lu Mengzi arranged for Assistant Liu to accompany the two to visit the farm.

From the nursery to the processing room, Ao Muyang observed one by one. The farm operates various pearl oysters, including freshwater pearls and sea pearls, with a full range of varieties. In addition, when he visited, he learned that the predecessor of this farm was the Hepu Pearl State Farm.

There is a saying in the pearl industry that the western pearl is not as good as the eastern pearl, and the eastern pearl is not as good as the southern pearl. Among them, the southern pearl is Hepu pearl, which is an expensive sea pearl.

Assistant Liu said: "If you are interested in humanities and history, I will take you to Bailong Town after the visit. Very close to here, there are the ruins of the ancient Pearl City."

As he spoke, he led Ao Muyang into the pearl fishing room, which was the last part of the farm visit and the most important place in the farm.

Pearls are picked here. There are some girls working inside. There are tables covered with sky blue plastic tablecloths in the spacious room. The pearl divers carefully open the shells with stainless steel tweezers and take out the shells one by one. Pearls with bright colors, dignified and round shapes.

The pearls fell into the plate and made a crisp sound. Ao Muyang laughed and said: "It's really noisy and jumbled, big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate."

The pearls produced in the pearl fishing room are not ordinary pearls, but black pearls and golden pearls, which are almost the two most valuable pearls among sea pearls.

Ordinary pearls are mined in separate pearling rooms, and mechanized production has been completed. The shells are opened by machines to collect pearls, and then classified according to quality.

Assistant Liu explained to Ao Muyang: "These pearls must be collected manually. Each pearl will have the name and photo of the collector, as well as the time of collection, to prove their identity and lineage."