Jiangzhe Province, Zhuji City.
The sky was half clear and half overcast, and the drizzle was falling sparsely. It looked like it was about to stop.
After getting off the Long-distance Bus from Suhang South Station to Zhuji Bus Station, Dong Xuebin walked quickly forward carrying a large cloth bag with Meilianmei Supermarket printed on it. As he walked, he uncomfortably grabbed the clothes attached to his body and became extremely twisted. The air in Zhuji is cold and humid, and Dong Xuebin, who is accustomed to the dry and cold temperatures in the north, will certainly not adapt. Looking left and right on the main road, he quickly found a small restaurant to take shelter from the rain, regardless of whether the shops around the bus terminal or the train station were robbing customers.
"Boss, menu." Dong Xuebin sat at an empty table.
"Here you go." A middle-aged aunt with a wide waist and a fat body came over holding a menu. The Power of Time and Wealth 117
Dong Xue Chapter 117 [Pearl opens clam! ] (Second update, please give me a monthly ticket!) After Bin ordered two familiar home-cooked dishes, he said, "If you have any local soup here, I can serve it as well. It will be warm."
Ten minutes later, several dishes were served.
It was a coincidence that what Boss Lady was served was actually clam soup. Clam is the local name of the people in Beijing. It is actually a clam, Pearl Clam. Apart from a clam as big as the palm of your hand, there was nothing else in this steaming soup. Dong Xuebin was suddenly curious, picked up the chopsticks and peeled open the clams. Oh my god, all the clams inside were White Pearl. When he tasted the clam meat again, Dong Xuebin let out a sigh and vomited. He was too old, how can he eat this thing?
Boss Lady behind the counter took a look and said with a smile, "Usually we don't eat mussel meat, we drink soup."
Dong Xuebin blushed, "Ahem, what does this pearl mean?"
"Are you here for tourism? You can pay someone to string the pearls for you and take them back as jewelry."
"Oh, so this soup of yours is actually a bet on pearls?"
"It can be said that if you are lucky, you can get good beads. How about I give you another pot?"
"Farewell, farewell, this is enough to drink." Dong Xuebin said in his heart, just go ahead and talk nonsense, he Chapter 117 [Pearls open clams!] (Second update, please give me a monthly ticket!) I have not been idle for more than ten hours on the train. I have carefully studied pearl openings and know that Pearl Clam of this quality and size are inferior goods. If you can dig out a pearl worth 20 yuan, you are a stooge. You're lucky, usually they are all crooked and defective pearls, which are not worth much at all. "...Boss Lady, let me ask you something, do you know where there is a pearl gambling place nearby? How much does it cost?"
Boss Lady looked at him, "You go two ways to the west. There should be a cart selling it over there. What's the price, two hundred and three hundred?"
Dong Xuebin said, "Are there any better products? For example, two thousand to three thousand clams per clam?"
"Hey, then you have to go to the breeding base to have a look. Their clams are good, but those people don't gamble on pearls. They usually open the clams they catch themselves, and then sort them according to their quality before selling them to others. Most of the clams we sell here are scattered stalls, and the grade is not very high."
After chatting with her for a while, Dong Xuebin had a preliminary understanding of the pearl industry in Zhuji.
The rain stopped outside, and after dinner, Dong Xuebin went out and took a taxi.
The driver asked, "Where to go?"
Dong Xuebin said, "Go to the pearl breeding base nearest here."
The driver stepped on the accelerator and said while driving, "Capital City is from here, right? Are you here for a trip?"
"Well, let's try our luck by buying some Pearl Clam."
"Oh, let's buy clams." The driver thought for a moment, "Then we should go west. The two nearest farms may not be in season yet, and it's not the month when they open clams. The farm to the west is a little further away, but I live nearby and I saw them fishing for clams these two days." The Power of Time and Wealth 117
Dong Xuebin said, "Okay, let's go to the west. Thank you."
About twenty minutes later, the car stopped. Dong Xuebin paid and got out of the car. He looked around, grabbed the bag in his hand and walked eastward. This bag looks very inconspicuous, even a little bit vulgar, and has the leadership style of killing Dong Xuebin, but he did it on purpose. The bag contained a lockbox, which contained Dong Xuebin's entire savings of 440,000 yuan. This time he took the risk and prepared to make a million by playing a big game, so he took all his belongings with him.
In the distance, several white Office Building buildings appeared in the field of vision, and getting closer, there were about five or six pearl breeding ponds.
Dong Xuebin walked on the muddy dirt road to the iron gate. Seeing that there was no one outside, he hesitantly walked in.
"What are you feeding me for?" A middle-aged man wearing leather gloves with his hands and feet covered in mud stood up from a breeding pond and shouted to Dong Xuebin, "Who asked you to come in?"
"Pearl buyer" Dong Xuebin frowned and looked at him, "Where is your boss?"
"Buy pearls?" The middle-aged man looked him up and down. "I am the boss here. What pearls do you want to buy? Pearl powder?"
Are you the boss? Dong Xuebin was startled. He knew that the annual income of this kind of pearl farm was more than one million yuan, which was huge for Capital City. Even if you don't wear a suit and tie, you must at least have a bit of boss temperament, right? But in Dong Xuebin's opinion, the man in front of him was very earthy. I'm afraid that any small restaurant owner Capital City could pick out would be more elegant than him.
At this time, three men dressed as workers walked quickly from the northwest side of the lake, "Boss, we are all ready, do you want to open the clams now?"
Only then did Dong Xuebin believe it, and said to the boss, "Do you want to sell Pearl Clam? At what price?"
The boss shook the mud off his leather gloves and said, "I won't sell the clams. If you want pearls, come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This batch hasn't been opened yet."
What you want is what you didn't open. Dong Xuebin followed up and asked, "How do you like this batch of clams? What color are they?"
The boss said impatiently, "Didn't you say you won't sell it? Go back quickly."
"If the quality of this batch is good, money is not a problem." Dong Xuebin is a little disgusted with his bad attitude, and also knows that the other party must think that he is too young to be a rich man, so that's why he behaves like this. If a middle-aged man with a big belly comes over, I don't believe he will have the same attitude. Dong Xuebin looked at him, then opened the bag to reveal the lockbox inside and raised it to him, "Even if you don't want to sell it, there's nothing to lose if I take a look, right? As for the price... let's talk about it later?"
The boss was stunned, frowned and thought for a moment, then turned and walked towards the lake, "... come on."
Dong Xuebin stepped up to avoid the puddles in the turf and followed.
The lake is sparkling blue, and from the shore to the distance there are rows of buoy-like objects, which are densely packed and neatly spread over the entire area. There are two small wooden boats parked on the muddy shore, the paddle type, with a few clams wrapped in a small net bag as wide as each arm on the boat, plus the piles accumulated on the shore. There are hundreds of these net bags, and the number of clams is estimated to be close to a thousand, and each clam is fat and big. It is much better than the clam Dong Xuebin had at the restaurant before. It looks like high-grade freshwater Pearl Clam.
As he approached, the boss said to a worker on the left, "Open one first and take a look."
As soon as the worker agreed, he opened the net bag and took out a slightly thinner clam. He squatted down, picked up a kitchen knife from the mud, held the clam and cut the blade of the kitchen knife along the gap with a click into the clam. With a twist, under Dong Xuebin's fiery gaze, the clam was split into two, revealing the mussel meat and pearls with a slight golden light inside. The worker reached into the clam meat, turned it over, pulled out nine pearls, large or small, round or crooked, and put them into a plastic basin that had been prepared nearby. Freshwater pearls are different from seawater pearls. Each clam has a large yield, not just one or two.
This is a pearl clam. Dong Xuebin thinks it is very exciting and fun.
The boss lowered his head and touched it, then picked up the largest one and measured it with an instrument. "Yes, it's not bad, 1.2cm." The instrument is specially used to measure the diameter of pearls. There is a watch at the bottom and a hand-held thing on top. The pearls can be clamped, "A small half can be used as jewelry, and the remaining beads are a bit poor, crooked or have bumps. Grind them into pearl powder, Xiao Erzi. Let's open the clams and let Xiao Liu sort them."
Full, round, shiny and large - these are the criteria for identifying a good pearl. Although the gold-quality Golden Pearl is considered top-grade among pearls, the Golden Pearl that are several millimeters large and crooked are not worth much. Most of the nine Golden Pearls from this clam cannot be used as jewelry. The Power of Time and Wealth 117
"That's right." The boss looked at Dong Xuebin and said, "How many clams do you want?"
Dong Xuebin smiled and said, "Let's take a look. You can drive first." Although the 1.2cm pearl was very valuable, it was not enough to make Dong Xuebin's heart beat. Calculating the backs I have now, when I went back to Zhou Guoan's house to check for evidence, I didn't use up the ten backs, but kept two more. With the accumulation of these days, Dong Xuebin now has ten more backs.
The boss and the workers started to cut the clams with kitchen knives.
Click, a clam bigger than a palm was opened - there were eleven White Pearl inside, the largest one was 0.8cm. The specific value of a clam does not depend on the number of pearls, but on the diameter of the largest pearl, whether it is smooth or not, whether it is bright or not, this is the Da Tou child, so this clam does not bloom well.
Click, another one...
One more...
The fifth...
The eighth...
Ten minutes passed. There were so many clams that not even a 1.4cm pearl came out.
It's not that this batch of clams is bad, it's just that pearls above 1.4cm are too rare, just like hair crystals in crystals, like ice seeds in jade, Glassy Jadeite, they are not so easy to come out.
The ninth clam... the largest one is 1.3cm, which is pretty good.
The tenth clam... are all 0.7cm beads.
When it comes to the eleventh clam...
"Hey, boss, this is so big," the black-faced worker yelled.
Dong Xuebin and the boss's attention were all swept away, and they saw the worker plucked a huge golden bead from the clam meat, "This one must be 1.5 centimeters, and the quality is also very good." I took the instrument to measure it, and it showed that it was exactly 1.5cm, flawless, full and round in color, it was the top grade Golden Pearl
The boss smiled and said, "Well, not bad."
Coming
The size above 1.4cm is finally out
Dong Xuebin saw the opportunity and immediately shouted back
[Second update, asking for monthly tickets]
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