Fairy Gourd Farm

Chapter 606 Planting Pearls

This made Zhao Lei a little dissatisfied. He frowned and said, "Mr. Adura, I bought so many scallops anyway. I just want to know how to grow pearls. I can't agree to this request?"

Adura quickly explained: "It's not that you are not allowed to learn, but this technology cannot be mastered in a short time. From the moment of prying open the scallop, every step must be very precise. Otherwise, not only will the pearls not be planted smoothly. nuclear, and it kills the scallops."

At this point, Adula spread his arms and said, "The scallops you bought from me were killed when you went back to plant pearls. No wonder my scallops have a low survival rate. I can't bear the responsibility."

Only then did Zhao Lei realize that Adura was afraid of taking the blame, so he assured him seriously: "Don't worry, I will be responsible for the scallops I bought back. Even if they all die, it has nothing to do with you."

Now Adura has nothing to worry about, and said to Zhao Lei with a smile, "Okay, come with me!"

As Zhong Jiahong said, Adula's scallop farm also grows pearls.In one house, a dozen local women are growing pearl cores for scallops.

These women fix the scallops on the table, slowly pry them open with a special device, then use tweezers to stuff the pearl cores from the nearby plate into the scallops, finally loosen the scallops and throw them into the bucket next to them.

Adula told Zhao Lei in a low voice: "These workers have several years of experience in growing pearls, but the mortality rate of scallops is more than [-]%. Even if the scallops survived, not every one can successfully grow pearls. Only about [-]% of pearls can be cultivated, and only [-]% of them can become jewelry-grade pearls.”

Zhao Lei nodded lightly and said, "According to what you said, it is not easy to cultivate pearls, no wonder they are so expensive."

Adura laughed and said: "It's not easy to do any job. Cultivating pearls is all about luck. If you are lucky, you can make a lot of money, but if you are not lucky, you will lose money."

Perhaps it is true for ordinary pearl farmers, but Zhao Lei is not worried about this at all.After all, he was raising scallops in the gourd space, and the pearls he cultivated in the end would definitely not be bad.

So then Zhao Lei inquired carefully about the method of growing pearls and how the pearl core was made.After getting his assurance, Adura answered every question without any reservations.

After telling Zhao Lei all the methods of growing pearls, Adula finally reminded him: "Growing pearls requires rich experience, and it is impossible to succeed without repeated attempts. You must be mentally prepared."

Zhao Lei nodded approvingly, then simply paid the money and took away [-] scallops from Adula's farm.

As soon as the car drove halfway, Zhao Lei put all the scallops into the gourd space.Let the abundant aura nourish these scallops as early as possible, which can improve the survival rate.

It was already night when Zhao Lei returned to the farm, and all the farm workers had already left work, which happened to be convenient for him to do the next thing.

Zhao Lei found some tools in the farm, and entered the gourd space with a thought.After the familiar dizziness passed, he moved all the scallops and tools to the side of the hut, and began to grow pearls.

A kind of pearl must first have a pearl core. This kind of thing needs to use the nacre in the inner layer of the scallop shell, which is crushed and then pressed.

Although the pearl core is very small, with a diameter of no more than two millimeters, it is the basis for the formation of pearls.Put the pearl nucleus into the mantle of the scallop, and the scallop will secrete nacre, which will wrap the foreign body layer by layer, and form pearls after a long time.

When Zhao Lei left Adura's scallop farm, he asked him for a lot of useless scallop shells.He carefully scraped off the nacre from the inner layers of these shells, and quickly saved half a bowl.

Adura uses a special machine to press the nacre into a pearl nucleus.Although Zhao Lei did not have a similar machine, this small problem did not bother him, and Zhao Lei had already thought of a solution.

Zhao Lei put some pearl quality powder in his palm, then clenched his palm tightly, urging his aura to exert pressure on it.After a while, when Zhao Lei spread out his palm again, the pearl quality powder in his palm had condensed into dozens of fine pearl nuclei.

Zhao Lei looked at these pearl cores carefully, and soon showed a satisfied smile.The pearl core condensed with aura has a smooth appearance and a perfect spherical shape, which looks much better than the pearl core pressed by Adura with a machine.

Adura once said that the quality of the pearl nucleus directly affects the quality of the pearl, and Zhao Lei has clearly won at the starting line.

Filled with joy, Zhao Lei continued to condense the pearl core with spiritual energy, and it didn't take long to make enough for [-] scallops. Next, he will officially start planting pearls.

Although this is Zhao Lei's first time planting beads, after practicing the Sanqing Xinfa for a long time, he can control his movements very precisely, and he is especially good at doing these delicate tasks.

Zhao Lei picked up a scallop, and using a little force with both hands, he slowly separated the tightly closed shell of the scallop.He then deftly inserted a wooden wedge to keep the shell from closing, and then picked up a pearl kernel with tweezers and carefully inserted it into the shell of the scallop.

After confirming that the pearl core was placed in the correct position, Zhao Lei took off the wooden wedge, let the scallop close the shell, and threw it into the empty bucket that had been prepared.

The whole process took only ten seconds and went very smoothly.If Adura saw this scene, he would definitely be shocked. Zhao Lei's bead planting movements were more proficient than his workers who had been planting beads for many years, and he didn't look like a novice at all!
"It's okay, it's not that difficult!" After winning the first battle, Zhao Lei was full of confidence, and immediately made persistent efforts to grow pearls for all the scallops.

After working for a long time, all the scallops are finally planted with pearl cores.Zhao Lei moved the vat of scallops to the beach and put them one by one into the sea.

Looking at the scallops on the bottom of the sea, Zhao Lei's pupils became square, and he muttered happily: "Grow it quickly, it's all money..."

The current Zhao Lei doesn't know yet, because of the way he made the pearl core, the pearl core also contains some aura.Due to the instinct of animals, scallops will not spit out the pearl cores that contain aura, which greatly increases the success rate of his pearl planting, which is almost [-]%, which is unexpected good news.

After planting pearl cores for all the scallops, Zhao Lei started his daily homework as usual—practicing the Sanqing method.When Zhao Lei returned to the outside world after finishing his training, he realized that it was already early morning, which meant that he had indeed spent a lot of time planting pearls.

At this moment, Zhong Jiahong walked quickly from outside and shouted loudly: "Mr. Zhao, something serious happened!"

(End of this chapter)