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Chapter 118: Diving Harvest
Chapter 118: Diving Harvest
Zhou Guohua gazed at Wen Wan, whose face had turned ashen, and whispered, "Should we go and take a look?"
Indeed, they could only follow and take a look!
But he had paid a red packet to borrow this boat, spending twenty yuan, not including fuel costs.
Twenty yuan wasn't a small amount for him, but it wasn't insignificant either, as he could earn it back with just one net of fish.
Their family hadn't divided the household yet, and he wasn't married, so each time he went fishing, he was given two yuan for pocket money, and the rest was saved for his future marriage.
Although he didn't spend much money going out to sea every day, he had saved it all up. But now that he was dating, he knew expenses would increase, so he wanted to earn it back.
Wen Wan looked towards a distant island, "Let's go and check out that island."
Leaving so soon was impossible, she wanted to see what they could find by diving underwater.
Last night, she dreamed of Zhou Chenglei finding a cluster of red coral.
Red coral was the most valuable of all corals, known as the 'Underwater Ruby'.
In modern times, she had heard that one gram of coral was equivalent to one tael of gold.
In her previous life, Wen Wan had heard villagers say that Zhou Chenglei had a large red coral ornament in his house, worth millions.
Zhou Chenglei had obtained it when he was young and went diving.
In the dream, Zhou Chenglei found the red coral on the beach, so they decided to go and check out that island!
On the Zhou family's boat
Jiang Xia held Amy's hand, watching Zhou Chenglei wearing diving gear and leading Jill and John into the sea.
Jill and John had given them two sets of diving equipment, a five-piece set, neatly packed in a box, clearly not cheap.
One set for men and one for women.
The women's set was originally Jill's wife's, but she had to return to her country unexpectedly, and it was newly purchased.
The men's set was bought by John from a friend, also new.
This time, they had brought several people with them. Some were here to buy a boat, while others were scouting locations to open a factory in Huaguo.
Knowing there was an ocean here, they had prepared diving gear, but upon arrival, they couldn't find a yacht to go out to sea. It was then that John managed to buy the diving gear from a friend who suddenly had to return to his country.
Jiang Xia had never dived before, and she was eager to try it, but with Amy here, she couldn't leave her young guest and dive alone.
So, after they dove, Jiang Xia took Amy fishing, accompanied by Zhou Chengxin, who was eager to help, or rather, eager to fulfill Zhou Chenglei's request to accompany Jiang Xia fishing!
Zhou Chenglei, along with Jill and John, descended to the seabed, about a hundred meters deep. As soon as they entered the water, they spotted several large lobsters strolling on the ocean floor.
He swam over, skillfully capturing a lobster and placing it in the net bag.
Jill and John also saw this and immediately chased after the lobsters.
Not wanting to fall behind, Zhou Chenglei caught one, then went for the second, and then pulled out two more from the crevices of the reef!
In total, he caught three, all of them quite large, around two catties each.
Then he spotted several black, worm-like creatures crawling on the white sand.
They were sea cucumbers!
Eating these was good for the body, strengthening it.
Jiang Xia often had fevers, indicating a weak constitution, so she should eat more sea cucumbers.
He swam over and picked up each sea cucumber one by one.
It must be said that the marine life in this era was still quite abundant.
As he swam forward, he encountered sea cucumbers, sea stars, conch shells, crabs, clams, and abalones... not one was spared!
These were all catches they usually couldn't even dream of.
After about half an hour, the two net bags Zhou Chenglei brought were full. He gestured to John and Jill, indicating it was time to surface.
The two had a good haul, but not as exaggerated as Zhou Chenglei's. They signaled back and headed upstream.
Zhou Fu and Zhou Chengxin finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the two swimming up and quickly took their net bags.
Jiang Xia saw that all three of them had their bags full, and they were all good catches, causing her to smile with joy.
Amy excitedly called out to her father on the boat and told Jill that she and Jiang Xia had gone fishing and caught many fish, and also took lots of photos.
She danced with joy, describing how great her fishing skills were.
Seeing his daughter so happy, Jill was also delighted and thought he should thank Jiang Xia.
Zhou Chenglei looked at Jill and John and asked if they wanted to continue underwater or take a break on the boat.
John wasn't ready to stop, and he signaled that he wanted to go back underwater.
Jill was initially concerned about her daughter feeling lonely and wanted to go back to the boat, but now that Amy and Jiang Xia seemed to be having a good time, she gestured to Amy that she would go underwater once more.
Amy was also happy with her fishing, and she eagerly agreed.
So, the three of them went underwater again.
This time, Zhou Chenglei swam further and saw many black sea urchins on the reef, which he hooked one by one into his net bag.
Later, a lobate tuskfish swam out from between the rocks, and he followed it, swimming even further. Then he watched as the lobate tuskfish swam into a cave in the reef.
The dark cave entrance was covered in abalone.
Many of them were very large.
Zhou Chenglei was about to swim over when John and Jill swam over and saw the abalone, but they weren't very interested.
They loved lobster but didn't care for abalone.
They had been underwater for almost half an hour, and they signaled that they wanted to go up.
Zhou Chenglei took a look around, memorized the surroundings, and followed them up.
He would bring Jiang Xia here next time; he could imagine how happy she would be to see this Abalone Mountain.
Zhou Chenglei could already picture Jiang Xia's delighted expression.
He couldn't wait to swim up.
The three of them surfaced, and Zhou Fu and Zhou Chengxin pulled them onto the boat after taking their net bags.
Jiang Xia was pleasantly surprised to see that Zhou Chenglei had caught so many sea urchins this time.
On the contrary, John and Jill's net bags were almost empty, with only some sea cucumbers, as they were only interested in catching lobsters.
They picked up the sea cucumbers because they saw that Zhou Chenglei had picked up many earlier.
Jiang Xia glanced at her watch; it was already past eleven, so she asked, "Should we go to the island to cook something?"
Jill and John immediately replied, "Great!"
So, Zhou Fu steered the boat towards the distant deserted island.
As the boat docked, Wen Wan and Zhou Guohua had already explored the entire island but found nothing valuable.
Wen Wan searched the entire beach but couldn't find any red coral.
There were plenty of mussels and barnacles, and they picked up some mussels to take back.
There was only one place on the island suitable for mooring, so the two boats docked together.
As Wen Wan walked towards the fishing boat, she saw Zhou Chenglei jump off the boat and then reach out to Jiang Xia.
She pursed her lips, silently averted her gaze, and rolled her eyes at the sea: Melodramatic!
Suddenly, Wen Wan felt a sharp pain in her foot. She felt something stuck in her foot, moved it, and looked down. She discovered a bit of red showing through the sand's surface.
Wen Wan's heart was pounding!
(End of Chapter)
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