Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 464 467. Legend of the Ancient Temple (15)

The beauty of black pearls and golden pearls are still valuable even in the modern jewelry market where various gemstones are frequently available. They are indeed beautiful. Ao Muyang was so excited when he saw them that he wanted to take them back and raise a batch himself.

But he kept his mission in mind. This time he came to buy river mussel seedlings.

The price of river mussel seedlings is low, and the value of freshwater pearls is of little value. This also leads to the lower value of freshwater pearl oysters.

He came to the right place. Because of the small profit margins, many pearl farms no longer have freshwater pearl oysters. The Beibu Gulf pearl farm is large in scale and still maintains a sufficient population.

Ao Muyang was very embarrassed when he learned about this. It was a bit unethical for someone to put so much effort into entertaining them, but in the end he couldn't make any money from them.

Only business cooperation and win-win results can last long.

However, Lu Mengzi didn't care about this. After they visited the breeding farm, he arranged for Assistant Liu to take them to Bailong Town to visit the ruins of Pearl City.

During the ancient feudal dynasty, pearls were mainly contributed to the imperial family.

The Yunwan area is rich in high-quality sea pearls, so dynasties in the past dynasties would arrange eunuchs in the palace to supervise pearl collectors here to collect pearls. Whenever high-quality pearls are produced, they must be sent to the palace as quickly as possible.

In this way, Pearl City gradually emerged. Of course, due to its scale, it is actually a small town and has become a scenic spot.

Pearl City is almost parallel to the breeding farm, more than ten kilometers away. It is also on the seaside, and it is also on the edge of a promontory that juts into the ocean.

Now Pearl City has become the Pearl City ruins. There are a large number of weathered residual shells on the periphery of the ruins, which are yellow and white in color and look awe-inspiring.

Assistant Liu introduced: "In its heyday, the walls of Pearl City were made of pearl oysters and were very strong because many pirates from the outer sea coveted the pearls here and they often carried out attacks."

Ao Muyang asked: "Who destroyed this Pearl City? It shouldn't be pirates, right?"

Assistant Liu shook his head: "That's not true. This place was destroyed by the Japs. The Japs came here when they invaded China because this was the place where pearls were cultivated in the past dynasties. They looted the equipment, experts and pearl oyster seedlings. , it is said that even the seabed mud was scraped away and transported back to Japan.”

As he said that, he looked to the northeast with a look of injustice on his face: "Hmph, it's a pity that we can't fight now, otherwise we will have to fight with Japan to get back everything they plundered! Add them to history Return all the disasters that have happened to us!”

Ao Muyang smiled, but he didn't expect that this young man was still an angry youth.

There is an ancient temple in the Pearl City Scenic Area called Liuzhu Temple. There is a large turtle in each of the four corners of the temple. They have suffered varying degrees of damage. The most complete turtle's head was also broken off. There are four poems written on the stone tablet on its back. :

The moonlight is solitary in the vast ocean, one boat after another is calling. How can a boat be found in the past? When the pearls are collected, the tears have dried up.

Ao Muyang didn't know which poet's masterpiece this was. After reading it, he sighed: "It seems that the abbot of the temple is kind-hearted and allowed such a poem that exposed the tragic life of the Zhu people to be written on the stele."

Assistant Liu nodded and said: "In ancient times, the people of Pearl were indeed miserable. As prosperous as Pearl City was, the people of Pearl had as much blood and tears as... huh huh."

For a moment, he couldn't find a suitable word to describe it, so he changed his words: "In the past, pearl people used to carry stones on their backs to collect pearls while sinking to the bottom of the water. No one could live to be thirty years old, because everyone had to dive. sick."

This topic was rather sad, so Assistant Liu took them to the temple hall again, pointed to a cave entrance and said, "There are the tombs of some ancient eunuchs who oversaw the work down there. Now they have become a scenic spot. Do you want to go and have a look?"

Ao Muyang shook his head: "What is there to see in the cemetery?"

Assistant Liu said: "There has always been a rumor in our local area that there are many layers of natural caves under the Liuzhu Temple. The tomb developed now is only the top layer of the cave, and there are some holes below, which contain pearls collected by the eunuchs. and other treasures.”

Ao Muyang has never been interested in such treasure hunting legends. There are also many sunken ship treasure legends over there, but now that he has the ability to fly freely in the ocean, he has never found a valuable sunken ship.

The only valuable ship is the Ming Dynasty Fuchuan warship, which is still maintained in the Maritime Museum.

There was a tourist nearby who was interested. After hearing what he said, he asked: "Hey, has anyone found any traces of the treasure?"

Assistant Liu shook his head: "It's just a legend. There are indeed many big holes underneath. The bottom of this land has been hollowed out by waves, and seawater has poured into these holes. Except for the eunuch's tomb on the upper level, the other holes are all filled with seawater. There is no way enter."

After Ao Muyang visited here, Assistant Liu took him away.

There were many pearl sellers at the entrance of the scenic spot. When they heard that he and Zhong Cang had foreign accents, these people started to attract them:

"Young man, I bought a pearl necklace and brought it back to my wife. It looks so beautiful."

"I have a pearl bag here. It is absolutely authentic. If you are interested, can I give you a real price?"

"Brother, I can tell you are a rich man just by looking at you. You must have played with jewelry a lot, right? Come and see if I have black pearls here..."

Assistant Liu, who had gone to the parking lot first, drove back. When he saw the vendors blocking Ao Muyang and the two of them, he shouted loudly: "What are you doing? This is our distinguished guest from Meng Meng in Beibu Bay. You really dare to fool anyone!"

Seeing him come forward, the vendors dispersed and laughed in their stalls.

After getting in the car, Ao Muyang asked, "Aren't the pearls here real?"

Assistant Liu explained, "You can say they are real, or fake. They are indeed pearls, but they are inferior pearls that are artificially cultivated. They are worthless and are used to cheat tourists. They are no different from those things on Taobao."

When they returned to the farm, they met Lu Mengzi. Lu Mengzi smiled and said, "Brother Xiaoyang, how is your digestion?"

Ao Muyang said, "I ate too much at noon and haven't digested it yet."

Lu Mengzi waved his hand and said, "Then go around and digest it well. There is another meal in the evening."

Ao Muyang: "..."

He returned to the farm and quickly selected river clam seedlings. This was not difficult. Lu Mengzi would not cheat him. The price he gave him was already very affordable. 22,000 seedlings for only 200,000.

After hastily selecting the seedlings, he was ready to withdraw. This business did not make money for him. If he stayed overnight, he would lose money because he would have to provide food, drink and accommodation.

As it turned out, the weather was not good. It rarely rained in Hongyang for half a year, but here it rained abundantly. They had just selected the seedlings and were ready to leave when dark clouds quickly covered them and a heavy rain poured down.

The rain fell on the ground with a splash, rolling up big bubbles. Lu Mengzi smiled and said, "It seems that God is helping me to keep the guests. Okay, no problem, let's have another meal tonight!"