Chapter 109 Conch Pearl
When they arrived home, Lin Xiuqing had just boiled the water and put Tang Guanluo in it. After all, it took a lot of work to start a fire with matches in the earthen stove, and there was a lot of ash in the stove, so she had to fiddle with it for a while before starting the fire.
"They're all back? How's the harvest?"
"It's okay, it's all clams."
Second Aunt Ye glanced at the pot, her eyes flickered, and she said with a smile, "You've already put the snails in the pot, so wait until you cook them to see if there are any beads. I'll wait for the next pot."
In order not to be confused, what if beads are opened? Whose is it? It's hard to tell.
Lin Xiuqing smiled not minding, "Okay."
Mrs. Ye asked curiously: "Why did you all pick up this snail? Is there anything special about this building? I just saw that the wife of the secretary also picked up one, and Adan, who makes shrimp paste, also picked up one."
Second Sister-in-law Ye smiled and said, "I don't even know this snail, I only know it from Yaodong."
Said and looked at Ye Yaodong, "What kind of beads can this emperor snail produce? Is it worth it?"
"What kind of pearl? It's called Emperor Tangguanluo Pearl, which is also a kind of conch pearl. It's just that this conch is a little more precious, and there is a certain probability that Tangguanluo pearl will be produced. How can conch pearls be worthless? It depends on whether you have the luck to open it. gone."
"Don't worry about it. If you can't drive it, why should you go? The tiles are still attached over there. I'll go and drive the boat to a safe haven." Father Ye is hopeless, the probability is too low, let alone It was the daughters-in-law who picked it up, and it has nothing to do with him.
Mother Ye didn't care about their fuss, and went to the backyard to pick and wash vegetables on her own, ready to make lunch.
After Ye's father left, the eldest brother and the second brother were also going to help the house, but Ye Yaodong stopped him, "Let's go together later, anyway, it's only a short while, and it's not too late."
Melezhu has been prescribed by him before, and he still has expectations.
So is Lin Xiuqing.
When the cooking was almost done, she took out the two, and the second sister-in-law Ye couldn't wait to put her own two in.
Ye Yaodong held the snail with a rag wrapped in his hands, inserted a chopstick into its head, and carefully picked out the snail meat while spinning.
Pinched its tail, but there was nothing. Unwillingly, he also tore off the meat on its head, but there was nothing.
He shrugged and handed the chopsticks to his wife, "I don't have this one, maybe I'm unlucky, I have another one for you to try."
"good."
Results, no doubt, nor!
Seeing her disappointed expression, Ye Yaodong comforted her and said, "It's okay, it's normal to have no conch pearls, how can you be so lucky every day, even if you open tens of thousands of them, you may not be able to open one."
"Is the probability really so low?"
Opening a Meile Pearl gave her the illusion that these conch beads were easy to get.
"Of course! If it is too easy, how can it be rare? Conch pearls are different from pearls. Conch pearls come out of the shell when eating, and bring sand or other impurities from the outside into the body, and then its flesh is stimulated. , it constantly secretes special substances to wrap the foreign matter, and it is slowly formed as the foreign matter is continuously wrapped in the conch body bigger and bigger."
"It takes 5-20 years for this time, and 1-6 years for freshwater pearls is enough. This is much more precious than pearls. I heard that only one conch pearl can appear in 50,000 conch shells."
After finishing speaking, he cast a look at his wife, as if to say, now you know how lucky you are?
Lin Xiuqing was instantly comforted.
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also looked at Ye Yaodong in surprise, "How do you know so much?"
They all knew that conch beads had a very small chance of being produced, but they didn't know the reason. Hearing what he said, they suddenly understood.
"Am I not a fool?"
Lived decades longer, of course he knows more than them. After decades, the flow of information will be fast, all kinds of short videos will be watched, and illiterates can know a lot of things.
They immediately looked at each other with admiration, Ye Yaohua said with a smile: "In the future, if we don't know anything, we don't need to ask others, we can just find you."
"Don't look up to me, I know a little bit, it's very limited, I can only show off occasionally."
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him with a smirk, he must be troublesome!
Second Sister-in-law Ye did not hold out any hope after hearing what he said.
Only 1 conch pearl can be produced out of 50,000 conch shells. Isn’t this just like hitting the big luck?
Even if this imperial Tang crown snail can produce imperial Tang crown snail pearls, the probability is too low. If she knew it would be better to sell it directly, she would regret it now.
At the beginning, I heard him say about the top ten precious and rare pearls, so I was blindfolded.
Alas, I regret it when I slapped my thigh!
When the snails in the pot were almost boiled, she didn't look forward to it any more. She picked them up and asked Ye Yaohua to pick them out with chopsticks and slice them, so as not to be like Ye Yaodong, making them messy and fried.
"You cut it directly? Don't you look carefully?"
The second sister-in-law Ye suffered a heavy loss, she was in a bad mood, and said angrily: "Mother is ready to cook, why don't you just cut it up?"
"Okay, there is also a coconut snail meat, let's cut it up and fry it too."
"Yeah, I don't have anything. If I knew I would sell it directly, I could sell it for a few dollars."
Lin Xiuqing really felt it was a pity. She was always frugal, but today was really too extravagant. She actually wasted 3 top-quality snails, and she didn't feel any heartache, only a little pity. Her man is spoiled!
Second sister-in-law Ye felt instantly balanced when she heard that they had opened an extra coconut snail, and they were even more at a loss!
After Ye Mu came in with the washed vegetables, she saw the rotten snail meat by the stove and some being sliced, so she asked casually, "Is there nothing?"
"Oh~ no...ah! What is this?"
The second sister-in-law Ye felt that she had cut a foreign object, so she quickly put down the kitchen knife, but saw that there was a milky white to light yellow bead in the snail meat, and she was ecstatic.
"pearl!?"
Other people heard the words and hurried to look at it, their eyes widened instantly.
"Fuck, there really are!?"
"Ah, conch pearl!"
"Let me see…"
Ye Yaohua was so excited that he wanted to reach out his hand, but was slapped away by the second sister-in-law Ye. She said heartbrokenly: "There is a scratch, which was cut by a knife! I am XXX..."
She couldn't help but swear in the local dialect, feeling distressed.
Who would have thought that she had given up all hope, and it would have been cut out for her? It's really a hot dog!
She kept stroking the scratches on it with distress, wishing to smooth it out, if she knew she would have followed Ye Yaodong's example in digging out the snail meat, who would have thought that she would be so lucky just now to cut it off so hard came.
She is so mad!
Everyone also saw a scratch on it clearly. Although it is not their own, they are also very heartbroken!
This is a conch pearl!
could keep them out blowing for days.
Mother Ye also wiped her wet hands immediately and hurried over, her eyes widened, "And... did I really give you a conch pearl? Why are you so careless, and cut it with a knife, why don't you cook it? Buckle it up and take a look first? Oops~ This scratch is still so big..."
Mother Ye felt distressed when she saw it, her facial features were wrinkled together, conch pearls! Few people in their village have driven out in recent years.
"Don't talk about it, mother, I'm already sad enough." The second sister-in-law Ye kept touching her face in mourning, and then walked to the back door with the beads, and took a photo under the sun, "The scratches really can't be removed."
Her heart is bleeding...
"You should give me a look!" Second brother Ye was also very distressed, and really wanted to hold it in his hand to take a look.
"Here you are, here you are!"
Second Brother Ye held the beads in his hand, and his heart ached. He couldn't help complaining: "It's already cooked, why don't you know how to pick it? Look at this scratch... how can it be fixed? There are flaws..."
"You still know to talk about me? Why didn't you remind me? I was watching from the sidelines, and now I have the nerve to open my mouth to scold me. If you are firmer, remind me to pick it, and I won't be disappointed. Just cut it with a knife... "
The second sister-in-law Ye became more and more angry as she thought about it, and she started to slap him several times, "It's all you..."
Brother Ye shrugged his shoulders and didn't dodge, letting her slap him, "You... why are you so unreasonable, beat me up! It's obvious that you cut it yourself with a knife, so why didn't I remind you! Xiuqing even reminded you, let you Look carefully, you didn't listen to it yourself, and you blame me for not saying it..."
"She is her, you are you, if you remind me, I will definitely think about digging..."
Ye Yaohua was exhausted, "You are still reasonable! Look at what you have become..."
"How do I know there are really beads in it?"
It was a good thing, and it developed into a family farce in an instant. Everyone was a little dumbfounded. Ye Erge always listened to Ye Ersao, so it was rare for him to speak loudly.
However, she is still invincible against Second Aunt Ye's messing around.
After hearing the reason, Mother Ye couldn't help but say, "Okay, okay, I didn't look for it carefully, and now I made a knife, who can be blamed? Show me."
Second Brother Ye handed the conch pearl to Mother Ye again. Only then did everyone see the shape of the conch pearl. It was about the size of a soybean, in an irregular oval shape, with a very obvious scratch in the middle.
Now even Ye's mother couldn't help complaining about Ye Ersao, "Tell me why you didn't take it out? It's all cooked, so it takes so much time? Dongzi and the others didn't take it out, it doesn't mean you didn't either, you If you don’t have hope, you might as well just sell the conch.”
Facing mother Ye, the second sister-in-law Ye didn't have the confidence to mess around, she just said depressedly: "I don't know!"
Mrs. Ye smiled and smoothed things over and said: "It's already like this, and it's useless to say it. Since the conch pearls can be produced, that's a good thing. It's better than nothing! If there are defects, you can't sell them for money, but you can keep them for yourself. Use it to make a necklace pendant, or a ring face, it’s the same color as a conch shell, and it’s pretty pretty.”
"I can only wear it by myself."
Mother Ye returned the beads to Mrs. Ye after taking a look.
Sister-in-law Ye was comforted a bit. Although she felt better, she was still very depressed.
Lin Xiuqing said with a smile: "There is one more, second sister-in-law might as well dig it out, maybe you can dig out another one, and then you will really get rich."
"Yes, yes, yes, there is another one." She almost forgot, who was surprised and depressed by this conch, forgot that there was another conch that hadn't been dug out yet.
Now everyone is looking forward to it, and several pairs of eyes are fixed on the Tang Guanluo in her hand.
(end of this chapter)