Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 841 847. Various clams (15)

After watching the tide flow into the pond, Ao Muyang turned around and left.

Look at this stuff, it's a waste of time.

In addition, tourists are not very interested. Many tourists come and take a few photos of the tide pouring into the pond and then turn around and leave without mercy. This makes the people of Wangjia Village feel a little worried.

Yang Shuyong attaches great importance to this traditional salt-drying project and has done a lot of publicity work. Wangjia Village has been beating gongs and drums since the morning, and even set off firecrackers at one time. Many tourists thought that there was a wedding or funeral event in their village, but they came to visit. I saw a group of people working in a pond surrounded by mud...

This is hugely disappointing.

Someone in the village asked uneasily: "Captain Yang, no, village chief, do you think we can dry salt here? Damn it, it won't attract tourists, but it will bring in the country's violent machine. When the time comes, Charge me with being a private salt dealer..."

After hearing this, several people around him trembled.

Yang Shuyong waved his hand confidently and said: "Don't worry about this. If the sky falls, there will be someone tall to hold it up. If something goes wrong, there will be cadres to hold up the tank!"

These words were very popular, and the villagers applauded enthusiastically. What are village cadres? This is a village cadre who is trying his best to bring the village to prosperity, but will take care of the mess himself.

Ao Muyang also applauded. This Yang Shuyong is a man. If he had been the village director or village party secretary earlier, the two villages would not be in the trouble they are today.

Yang Shuyong continued: "Look, the village director of Longtou Village, Ao Muyang, is standing up for us. He has a very strong relationship with the higher-ups. If anything happens, he can settle it."

Damn it, Ao Muyang stopped applauding. Is this human talk?

The villagers in Wangjia Village applauded even more enthusiastically, and some people bowed to Ao Muyang: "Village Chief Ao is a good man, he is a good cadre in the new era!"

Ao Muyang patted his butt and left. He only regretted that he left too late.

However, he knew that Yang Shuyong was just joking. This kind of thing was not illegal, because the sea salt produced in Wangjiacun was not intended to flow into the market, but to restore this traditional skill.

On the contrary, the country now encourages the people to do more such things. Now the top management has realized that the loss of traditional culture is the loss of national consciousness.

After the sea is closed, you can't fish, but you can go fishing. The Fisheries Bureau turns a blind eye to this, so there are boats in the village going out to sea every day, and the villagers also go fishing. After catching the fish, they take it back to the tourists on the same day, not to make money. , just to gain a good impression.

Ao Muyang is quite busy like this. He has to organize a law enforcement team to patrol the sea to check these fishing boats and prevent fishing boats from pretending to be fish and fish.

The Ambergris Lake he booked some time ago has been of great use during the fishing ban period. Fish are produced in the lake every day, and the freshwater fish is delicious when cooked. Since fresh sea fish are rare, such as sweet and sour carp, crucian carp soup, and smoked grass carp. Wait until freshwater fish dishes begin to occupy the main seat on the Yujiale dining table.

However, the most produced product in Ambergris Lake is pearl clams. Tourists' love for the pearl gambling project was beyond Ao Muyang's expectation.

Sure enough, gambling is human nature, and when it comes to issues of nature, women are often more terrifying.

The main customers of pearl gambling are women and children. Ao Muyang controlled the risk and priced the mussels at a low price, so that this activity could be used as a cover for "selling mussels", otherwise he would be cracked down by the police station.

The price of pearls is not high, and freshwater pearls are especially cheap. Nowadays, the market is a bit flooded, and many freshwater pearls are directly ground into pearl powder to make health care products.

But the pearls they gambled out are still very popular among tourists. After all, they are the fruits of their own labor, and the process of opening a river clam and finding pearls is indeed a bit thrilling.

The enthusiasm of tourists was unexpectedly high. The river mussels in Ambergris Lake were not enough. Ao Muyang quickly contacted Lu Mengzi to continue purchasing these pearl mussels, and in large quantities.

After receiving his call, Lu Mengzi laughed: "Brother Hu said that sooner or later, Brother Xiaoyang, you will become my big customer, so you asked me to entertain you well. Brother Hu is awesome, and what he said is absolutely right. Brother Xiaoyang’s demand is huge now.”

Ao Muyang also smiled and said, "Brother Meng, come over to play when you have time. My place is pretty good."

Lu Mengzi said happily: "Okay, let me finish the work at hand, and then invite Brother Hu to go to your village for a vacation. I heard about your village and it is now very famous on the Internet. Brother Xiaoyang You are a smart person, and you are doing a great job in pearl gambling."

Ao Muyang said: "Brother Meng, thank you very much. By the way, there should be quite a lot of types of river mussels that produce pearls now, right? Brother Meng, do you have any recommendations?"

River mussels are molluscs. Their family is very large and their ancestry is very broad. From the perspective of the biological world, there are a huge number of molluscs. Their diversity is second only to insects, making them the second largest group in the biological world.

However, their presence is very low both in the general public and in the natural world at home and abroad. Domestic people’s concept of molluscs almost always comes from the wet market, such as various snails, sea cucumbers, jellyfish and the like.

There are many types of river mussels alone, especially in China. The diversity of river mussels in China is second only to the United States in the world. There are about 100 species and most of them are endemic to China.

The pearl mussel Ao Muyang chose now is called the dome pearl mussel, which is a smaller type of clam. Their nacreous layer is very thick and is the easiest to grow pearls. Of course, the pearls naturally grown from the dome pearl mussel are all crooked and cracked. There is no economic value at all.

The scientific name of the river clams produced in Longxiang Lake is the toothless clams. This kind of river clams is native to the vast areas of East Asia. They are most common in rural rivers and lakes. They are extremely tenacious and can be seen in basically all unpolluted waters connected to rivers.

The toothless clams can grow to one or two kilograms in weight. In addition to producing a small amount of pearls, their meat is also delicious. The fishermen's house in the village now have a pot of fresh clam meat and tofu, stir-fried clam meat, and steamed bamboo shoots with clam meat.

After listening to Ao Muyang's words, Lu Mengzi said happily: "This is easy. How about I get you some wrinkled crown clams? You know this clam, right? It's big and can produce meat."

The wrinkled crown clams are indeed big clams. They can easily grow to more than 25 cm and weigh up to five or six kilograms. They are unique to China and the largest river clams in the world. They can grow to about 40 cm over time.

Ao Muyang had studied this thing before. He nodded and asked for a batch of wrinkled crown clams, which can be eaten for meat, and then selected two beautiful river clams for sightseeing.

He chose the Chinese sharp-ridged clams and the ray-split clams. The Chinese sharp-ridged clams are a small clam, the largest of which is about the size of a USB flash drive. They have two obvious ridges and green radial patterns on their shells, which are small and beautiful.

The ray-split clams are large, with obvious wavy ridges on the shell surface, and the shell is very thick and heavy, and the appearance is also good.