Chapter 124: Whale Shark
Several people gathered and studied it, finally concluding that it was indeed a pearl.
However, it was definitely not as beautiful as Yun Jiao’s Flame Pearl from before.
But it was still a pearl.
There were pearls in the oysters!
This information greatly excited Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe, making them dig for oysters even more enthusiastically.
“Dig more and take them back, we’ll take them home to open the oysters.”
Oysters were very cheap at this time, only two or three mao per jin, but there were a lot of them.
Oysters of this size were not light; four or five would make a jin. If sold, they would definitely fetch a good price.
Moreover, there were pearls inside these oysters.
The group dug for oysters with strenuous effort, their sacks not holding much. Fortunately, they had net bags, specifically large ones designed for collecting oysters and oysters.
But they only had two. The oyster shells were too large, and some were quite long, so they couldn’t fit many.
“You two stay here and dig, don’t wander off. Your uncle and I will carry these two bags back to the boat and return.”
Yun Jiao nodded obediently, and Fu Mingyu nodded as well.
The two adults left, and Yun Jiao opened another oyster.
“Do you want to eat more?”
Yun Jiao shook her head: “I want to try fishing with this.”
Speaking of fishing, Fu Mingyu became extremely dejected.
The fish in the sea just didn’t like him.
Yun Jiao comforted him: “It’s okay, you can watch me fish and satisfy your eyes.”
Fu Mingyu: …Please don’t comfort me anymore.
But he was a child with a strong inner spirit and wasn’t saddened by not being popular.
Going a bit further brought them closer to the coast, but the coast here was very steep, consisting of reef shores.
If Yun Jiao wanted to fish, she would have to stand on the higher reefs.
Fu Mingyu, worried, followed her.
After opening the oyster, Yun Jiao first felt around in the oyster meat, then her eyes lit up.
“There’s a pearl.”
She took the pearl out of the oyster meat. It wasn’t very round and was only the size of a green bean.
Yun Jiao didn’t dislike it either and put it in her pocket.
Fu Mingyu: “Do all the oysters here have pearls?”
Seeing Yun Jiao open them gave him the mistaken impression that there were many oyster pearls.
He also opened one, then searched for a long time but found no pearls.
At this time, Yun Jiao had already cast her fishing rod into the sea.
While Fu Mingyu was struggling to open his second oyster, and had found nothing, the fishing rod twitched.
“A bite!”
Her eyes lit up, and Fu Mingyu also gave up opening oysters. His hands were small and dark.
After a battle of wits with the big fish in the sea, Yun Jiao successfully reeled in a sea bass weighing over twenty jin.
“Sea bass.”
Fu Mingyu: “It’s so big.”
He went over to compare himself with it, feeling like it was almost as tall as him.
He took a photo of Yun Jiao fishing just now; it was really beautiful.
Yun Jiao was also amazing.
“Here.”
He offered the oyster he had opened as bait.
“No pearls?”
Fu Mingyu pursed his lips and stared at her without speaking. His silent attitude said it all.
Yun Jiao: “It’s okay, you just had bad luck. You’re still a good person.”
Fu Mingyu: That’s enough, stop comforting him!
Yun Jiao never came back empty-handed when fishing. When Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe came over, they discovered that in just this short time, there were already several fish in the natural reef puddles where Jiao Jiao was.
There were two sea bass, a large moray eel, a sea bream, and even a coral trout less than a jin…
The father and uncle: …
They had only left for such a short time, and Jiao Jiao had already caught so many fish?
This made the two elders feel a bit ashamed; the entire family’s earnings couldn’t compare to Jiao Jiao’s.
However, as long as Jiao Jiao liked doing something, she could do it.
The Yun family members never forced or coaxed Yun Jiao to do anything just because she was good at sea transport, could breathe in water, or could dive to the seabed.
Even going out to sea depended on whether Yun Jiao wanted to, completely based on what she wanted to play.
“Jiao Jiao, be careful, don’t stand too close to the shore.”
Yun Jiao: “Got it.”
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe continued to dig for oysters with strenuous effort.
Soon, the net bags were full again.
“Wow!!!”
Suddenly, shouts of surprise came from Yun Jiao and Fu Mingyu. Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe, without thinking, dropped the oysters in their hands and ran over.
“What happened, what…”
Upon seeing the situation clearly, both adults were so shocked they lost their voices.
What… what was that?!
They watched as their fishing rod was bending and trembling, as if it would break at any second.
Yun Jiao urgently shouted: “Don’t move, stop pulling my fishing rod!”
In the deep blue ocean below, an unusually enormous fish with dark blue skin, white spots, and a very large mouth had taken Yun Jiao’s hook and surfaced.
The fish’s size was even larger than an orca.
‘Moo~~~’
The fish’s voice echoed in Yun Jiao’s mind, slow and drawn out, not speaking, just making some inarticulate sounds.
“Don’t move around.”
If this fishing rod broke, where would she buy another one?
Fu Mingyu was taking photos of the enormous fish below, like a heartless photo-taking machine.
Yun Jiao wanted to go into the sea to retrieve the hook from its mouth.
“Jiao Jiao, don’t go, it’s dangerous.”
Yun Jiao: “I’m not afraid, it doesn’t bite people.”
Even if it did bite, she wasn’t afraid; she’d beat it into submission!
The whale shark indeed stayed in place obediently and didn’t move. It looked quite beautiful.
“Dad, what kind of fish is that?”
Yun Linhai scratched his head: “I don’t know either.”
He had never seen it before.
There were too many kinds of fish in the sea; even fishermen who lived by the sea year-round couldn’t recognize all of them.
“I know this. I saw it once when I was out at sea with a boat. This fish is called a whale shark. Although it has ‘shark’ in its name, it eats small fish and isn’t fierce. As long as you don’t provoke it, it’s fine.”
The whale shark’s personality was indeed very gentle.
Yun Jiao found a spot and jumped into the sea.
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe, worried, followed.
Only Fu Mingyu, a landlubber who couldn’t swim because no one had taught him.
Fu Mingyu pursed his lips, secretly resolving to learn to swim!
The three approached the enormous whale shark. Even though the whale shark didn’t eat people, its sheer size was enough to make one hesitant and afraid to get close.
Yun Jiao, however, had no such reservations and swam directly towards it.
It had looked big enough from the shore, but as they got closer, Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe still gasped in fear.
“That big mouth, it could swallow Jiao Jiao in one gulp…”
Yun Linhai spat: “What nonsense are you talking about? Jiao Jiao will be fine.”
He was also panicking inside.
“Hurry up and follow.”
It was laughable; the two adults couldn’t swim as fast as the child Yun Jiao.
Yun Jiao was so agile in the sea.
The whale shark also moved in Yun Jiao’s direction.
Not long after, they met.
‘Hmm?’
‘Who are you?’
The whale shark’s voice was gentle and slow, and it sounded like a woman’s voice.
“I am Yun Jiao.”
She introduced herself simply and directly.
“You’re biting my hook, I’ll take it out for you.”
