When they got home, Lin Xiuqing had just boiled the water and put the Tang Guanluo in. After all, it took a lot of time to start a fire with matches in the earthen stove, and there was a lot of ashes in the stove. She fiddled with it for a while before it caught fire.
"Everyone is back? How was the harvest?"
"It's okay, they're all clams."
Sister-in-law Ye glanced at the pot, her eyes flashed, and she said with a smile: "You have already put the snails in the pot, so let's wait until you cook them to see if there are any beads. I will wait for the next pot."
To avoid confusion, what happens if beads are found? Whose responsibility is it? I can’t tell.
Lin Xiuqing smiled nonchalantly, "Okay."
Sister-in-law Ye asked curiously: "Why did you all pick up this snail? Is there anything special about this building? I just saw that the secretary's wife also picked one up, and Adan, who makes shrimp paste, also picked up one."
Sister-in-law Ye Er smiled and said, "I don't even know this snail. I only found out about it when Yaodong told me about it."
Then he looked at Ye Yaodong, "What kind of beads can this imperial snail produce? Is it valuable?"
"What beads? It's called the Imperial Tang Guanluo Pearl, which is also a type of conch pearl. This snail is a bit more precious, and there is a certain probability of producing Tang Guanluo Pearl. There are no conch pearls that are worthless. It just depends on whether you are lucky enough to get them.
Already."
"Don't worry about it. If it can't be driven out, go ahead and do what you have to do. The tiles are still stuck over there. I'll drive the boat to a safe harbor." Father Ye has no hope. The probability is too low, let alone
The daughters-in-law picked it up and it has nothing to do with him.
Mother Ye ignored them and went to the backyard to pick and wash vegetables, preparing to make lunch.
After Ye's father left, the two brothers, the eldest and the second, were about to go to the house to help, but they were stopped by Ye Yaodong, "Let's go together later. It's only for a short time anyway, so it's not enough time."
He has been prescribed Melezhu before, but he still has hope.
So does Lin Xiuqing.
When it was almost cooked, she took out the two, and Sister-in-law Ye couldn't wait to put her own two in.
Ye Yaodong wrapped his hands in a rag and grabbed the conch, inserted a chopstick through its head, then rotated the conch meat and carefully picked it out.
He pinched its tail, but there was nothing. He reluctantly broke 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."
The result is, without a doubt, no!
Seeing her disappointed look, Ye Yaodong comforted her and said, "It's okay. It's normal not to have conch beads. How can you have such good luck every day? People may not be able to get one out even if they open tens of thousands."
"Is the probability really so low?"
After opening a Melo Bead, she seemed to have the illusion that these conch beads were easy to obtain.
"Of course! If it's too easy, how can it be rare? Conch beads are different from pearls. Conch beads come out of the shell when the conch eats, bringing sand or other impurities from the outside into the body, and then its flesh is irritated
, it continuously secretes unique substances to wrap the foreign objects, and as the foreign objects continue to wrap up larger and larger in the conch body, it slowly forms."
"This takes 5-20 years, while 1-6 years is enough for freshwater pearls. These are much more precious than pearls. I heard that only one conch pearl can appear in 50,000 conches."
After saying that, he glanced at his wife, as if to say, now you know how lucky you are, right?
Lin Xiuqing was instantly comforted.
The two couples, Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua, also looked at Ye Yaodong in surprise, "How do you know so much?"
They all knew that there was a very small chance of producing conch beads from conches, but they didn't know the principle. When they heard what he said, they suddenly became enlightened.
"I'm not a fool?"
If he lives for a few more decades, he will certainly know more than them. In a few decades, information will flow quickly, and various short videos will be available, and even illiterate people will know a lot of things.
They suddenly looked at each other with admiration, and Ye Yaohua said with a smile: "From now on, if we don't know something, we don't have to ask anyone else, we can just ask you."
"Don't think too highly of me. I only know a little bit. It's very limited. I can only show off occasionally."
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him with a snickering look, he must have found it troublesome!
After hearing what he said, Second Sister-in-law Ye gave up hope.
Only 1 conch bead can be produced out of 50,000 conches. Isn't this just like getting lucky?
Even if this Imperial Tang Guanluo could produce Imperial Tang Guanluo pearls, the probability was too low. If she had known it would have been better to sell it directly, she felt regretful now.
At first, I was blinded by what he said about the top ten precious and rare pearls.
Alas, I regret patting my thigh!
When the snails in the pot were almost cooked, she didn't look forward to it any more. She just fished it out and asked Ye Yaohua to pick it out with chopsticks and slice it into slices, so as not to end up like Ye Yaodong, who had to mess up the snails and fry them.
"You just cut it? Don't you look carefully?"
Second Sister-in-law Ye suffered heavy losses and was in a bad mood. She said angrily: "Mom is ready to cook. Why don't you just cut it?"
"Okay, there's also a coconut snail meat there, let's cut it up and fry it too."
"Ah? You even opened a coconut snail?"
"Yeah, there's nothing. If I had known I would have sold it directly, I could have made a few dollars."
Lin Xiuqing really felt that it was a pity. She had always been thrifty, but today she was really extravagant. She actually wasted three top-quality snails. Moreover, she didn't feel heartache, only a little bit of pity. She also thought it would be good to try it, maybe she would be cheated.
Her man is ruined!!
When Second Sister-in-law Ye heard that they had opened an extra coconut snail, her heart immediately became balanced. They were even more at a loss!
After Ye Mu came in with the washed vegetables, she saw the smashed snail meat on the stove and the snails being sliced. She asked casually, "Is there nothing?"
"Oh~ no...ah! What is this?"
Sister-in-law Ye Er felt that she had cut a foreign object and quickly put down the kitchen knife. When she saw a milky white to light yellow bead in the snail meat, she was immediately ecstatic.
"pearl!?"
After hearing this, everyone else hurriedly came over to take a look, and their eyes widened in an instant.
"Damn it, is there really one!?"
"Ah, conch beads!"
"Let me see……"
Ye Yaohua was so excited that he wanted to reach out his hand, but Sister-in-law Ye slapped it away. She said in pain: "There is a scratch, cut by a knife! I am XXX..."
She couldn't help but cursed in the local dialect, feeling very distressed.
Who would have thought that even though she had given up all hope, it would actually be cut out? What a disaster!
She kept stroking the scratches on it distressedly, wishing to smooth it out. If she had known she would have imitated Ye Yaodong and dug out the snail meat first. She cut it with such force just now. Who would have thought that she was so lucky?
has arrived.
She was so angry!
Everyone also saw clearly a scratch on it. Although it was not theirs, they were also very heartbroken!
This is a conch bead!!
I can let them go out and play for several days.
Ye Mu also immediately wiped her wet hands and hurried over, her eyes widened, "And... did I really prescribe conch beads for you? Why are you so careless, and you cut them with a knife? Why didn't you cook them after they were cooked?
Why don't you check it first? Oops, the scratch is so big..."
Mother Ye felt very distressed when she saw it, her facial features were wrinkled together, conch beads! No one in their village had ever opened one in recent years.
"Mom, please stop talking. I'm already sad enough." Sister-in-law Ye kept touching her face while crying. Then she walked to the back door with the beads and looked at them under the sun. "The scratches really can't be removed."
Her heart is bleeding...
"You should take a look at it!" Brother Ye was also very distressed and wanted to take it in his hand and take a look at it.
"Here you go, here you go!"
Brother Ye held the beads in his hands and felt very distressed. He couldn't help complaining: "It's already cooked, why don't you know how to pick it? Look at this scratch... How can you fix it?"
They are all flawed..."
"You still know how to talk about me? Why didn't you remind me? You were watching from the side, and now you have the nerve to open your mouth to scold me. If you are more determined and remind me to pick it, I won't be disappointed and just cut it with a knife...
…”
The more Sister-in-law Ye thought about it, the angrier she became. As she spoke, she took action and slapped him hard several times, "It's all you..."
Brother Ye shrugged his shoulders and did not dodge, and let her slap him, "You...why are you so unreasonable? Hit me! It was obviously you who cut it with the knife yourself. Why don't you blame me for not reminding you! Xiuqing reminded you and asked you to
Look carefully, you didn’t listen, and you blame me for not saying anything..."
"She is her, and 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 did I know there were really beads inside?"
A good deed turned into a family farce in an instant. Everyone was a little dumbfounded. Brother Ye had always listened to Sister-in-law Ye, and it was rare for him to speak loudly.
However, she was still invincible against Sister-in-law Ye's nonsense.
After Ye Mu heard the reason, she couldn't help but say, "Okay, okay, I didn't even look carefully, and now it's been scratched, who can I blame? Show me."
Brother Ye handed the conch bead to Mother Ye again, and then everyone saw clearly what the conch bead 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 to Sister-in-law Ye, "Tell me, why didn't you take out the money? You've already cooked it, why do you still need so much time? Dongzi and the others didn't take it out, it doesn't mean you don't have it either.
If you don't have any hope, you might as well just sell the conch."
Facing Mother Ye, Second Sister-in-law Ye didn’t have the confidence to mess around, so she just said depressedly: “How could I know!”
Sister-in-law Ye smiled and tried to smooth things over and said, "It's already like this. It's useless to talk about it. Since we can get conch beads, it's a good thing. It's better than nothing! If it's defective, you can't sell it for money, but you can keep it for yourself.
You can use it to make a necklace pendant or a ring. The color is the same as the conch shell, which is quite beautiful."
"I can only wear it myself."
After Ye's mother looked at it twice, she returned the beads to Ye Ersao.
Sister-in-law Ye was comforted, and although she felt a little better, she was still very depressed.
Lin Xiuqing said with a smile: "There is another one. Second sister-in-law, why don't you dig it up and take a look? Maybe you can dig out another one, and you will really make a fortune."
"Yes, yes, there is one more." She almost forgot. She was so surprised and depressed by this conch that she forgot that there was another conch that had not been dug out yet.
Everyone was looking forward to it now, and several pairs of eyes were looking passionately at the Tang Guanluo in her hand.
Chapter completed!