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Chapter 109 Conch Pearl

When they got home, Lin Xiuqing had just boiled the water and put Tang Guanluo in it. After all, it took a lot of work to start the earthen stove with matches, and there was a lot of ash in the stove, so she had to fiddle with it for a while before it started the fire.

"They're all back? How's the harvest?"

"It's okay, it's all clams."

The second sister-in-law Ye glanced at the pot, her eyes flickered, and she said with a smile: "You have already put the snails in the pot, then wait until you cook them to see if there are any beads. I will 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 nonchalantly, "Okay."

Aunt 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 Aunt Ye smiled and said, "I don't even know this snail, I only know from Yaodong's words."

Then he looked at Ye Yaodong, "What kind of beads can this emperor snail produce? Is it worth money?"

"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 tossing, she went to the backyard to pick and wash vegetables, 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, "Wait and go together, anyway, it's only a short while, it's not too late."

He has already opened Meile beads before, so he still has expectations.

So did Lin Xiuqing.

When it was almost cooked, she took out the two, and Second Aunt Ye couldn't wait to put her own two in.

Ye Yaodong held the snail with a rag wrapped in his hand, took a chopstick and inserted it through its head, and then carefully picked out the snail meat while spinning.

He squeezed its tail, but there was nothing, he also broke off the meat on the head unwillingly, 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."

"it is good."

As a result, no doubt, neither!
Seeing her disappointed expression, Ye Yaodong comforted her and said, "It's okay, it's normal to not have 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 that 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 continuously 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."

"This time takes 5-20 years, and 1-6 years is enough for freshwater pearls, which are much more precious than pearls. I heard that only one conch pearl can appear in 5 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 pearls had a very small chance of being produced in conch shells, but they didn't know the reason. Hearing what he said, they suddenly understood.

"Am I not a fool?"

He has lived for decades, of course he knows more than them. After decades, the flow of information will be fast, and all kinds of short videos will be swiped, and illiterates can know a lot of things.

They immediately looked at each other with admiration, Ye Yaohua said with a smile: "From now on, 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 too troublesome!
After hearing what he said, Second Aunt Ye didn't hold out any hope.

Only one conch pearl can be produced out of 5 conch shells. Isn't this just like hitting the big luck?

Even if this Emperor Tang Guanluo can produce Emperor Tang Guanluo 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 was blindfolded when I heard him talk about the top ten precious and rare pearls.

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 anymore, 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, how to fry them.

"You cut it directly? Don't you take a closer look?"

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."

"Huh? You also opened a coconut snail?"

"Yeah, nothing. 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! !
When Second Sister Ye heard that they had opened an extra coconut snail, she felt instantly balanced, and they were even more at a loss!
After Mother Ye came in with the washed vegetables, she saw the rotten snail meat by the stove and some slicing ones, 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, and 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!?"

When the others heard the words, they hurriedly came over to look at it, and 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, it was cut by a knife! I am XXX..."

She couldn't help but swear in the local dialect, feeling very 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.

pissed her off!

Everyone also saw a scratch on it clearly. Although it was not their own, they were also very heartbroken!
This is a conch pearl! !

Can let them go out and blow for several 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.

"Mother, don't talk about it, I'm 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!" Ye Erge was also very distressed, and really wanted to hold it in his hand and take a look.

"For you, for you!"

Second Brother Ye held the beads in his hand, and his heart ached. He couldn't help complaining, "It's already boiled, why don't you know how to pick it? Look at this scratch... how can it be done? It's all flawed..."

"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 up, and I won't be disappointed. Just take the knife and cut it... ..."

The second sister-in-law Ye became angrier 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 that turned into a family farce in an instant. Everyone was a little dumbfounded. Second Brother Ye always listened to Second Sister Ye, so it was rare for him to speak loudly.

However, he was still invincible against Mrs. Ye's nonsense.

After hearing the reason, Mother Ye couldn't help but say, "Okay, okay, I didn't look for it carefully, but now I got a knife, who can blame me? Show me."

The second elder brother Ye handed the conch pearl to Mother Ye. Only then did everyone see what the conch pearl looked like. 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, Second Aunt 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.”

"You can only wear it by yourself."

Mother Ye took a second look, then returned the beads to Mrs. Ye.

Second Aunt Ye was comforted, 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, then you will really get rich."

"Yes, yes, there is one more." 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 was looking forward to it, and several pairs of eyes were fixed on the Tang Guanluo in her hand.

(End of this chapter)