Pick up bargains in Chinatown and make 10,000 times the profit at the beginning

Chapter 60 Melo Pearl

Huo Qingtong and the others became more and more excited as they discussed the matter.

When my uncle saw this, he thought to himself: If you guys keep discussing like this, when will I ever be able to eat snail meat?
He coughed lightly and said, "Who of you still wants to play? If not, let's go!"

"No more playing." Li Qiu Shui and others said in unison.

Small gambling is fun, and betting is purely based on luck. Just play one or two times to satisfy your appetite.

Besides, seeing how good Lin Yuan's luck was, and how he almost got nothing back for the pearl shells he selected, it would be better not to make a fool of himself.

Of course, they didn’t know that Lin Yuan did this on purpose.

Camping barbecue is an unexpected surprise. There is no preparation at all. Instead of just talking about it, it is better to take action early.

Step back from the gambling stall and give your place to someone else.

"Paul, come with me to the fishing port to get some more seafood." My uncle was dividing the work.

"Henry and Xiaofan, go find a place to rent a tent and barbecue tools..."

"Just go to the supermarket and buy the seasoning for the barbecue, some vegetables and meat, and finally some fruit."

Considering that there were vegetables and meat and a lot of things, the uncle asked Lin Yuan to go together with Li Qiu Shui and Huo Qingtong.

More than half an hour later, we arrived at the campsite for a camping barbecue.

Paul and Henry were setting up the tent, Qiao Yufan was arranging the table and chairs, but my uncle was nowhere to be seen.

Seeing Lin Yuan returning to the camp, Qiao Yufan put down his work and went to greet him.

He said in a tut-tut voice: "Brother Lin, you guys didn't clear out the supermarket, did you?"

All three of them had their hands full, especially Lin Yuan, who had bags hanging on his shoulders, as if he didn't need any money to buy things.

Whose supermarket is so small? Three people can empty a supermarket?
"Stop talking nonsense! Come and help me."

Traveling with the United States is supposed to be a wonderful job, but because we buy too many things, it turns into a chore.

After putting down his things, Lin Yuan rubbed his red palms and asked, "Where is my uncle?"

"My uncle is in the cleaning area, processing seafood." Qiao Yufan said, pointing not far away.

"How long have you been there?"

"We just arrived at the camp a while ago."

"Then I'll go over and help." After saying that, Lin Yuan jogged over.

I was afraid that if I was a step slower, my uncle, who was unaware of the situation, would break the precious pearl in the conch.

After all, my uncle bought the conch just to eat it, but he didn’t know there were precious pearls inside the conch!

Huo Qingtong and Li Qiushui stood in the camp for a while, then said, "We can't help here, so let's take the vegetables over and wash them first."

As he spoke, he packed the vegetables to be washed, such as leeks, cabbage, eggplants, etc., and then walked towards the washing area.

When he arrived at the cleaning area, Lin Yuan found that his uncle had already processed the squid, shrimp and other easy-to-clean seafood, and was preparing to process the two conchs.

My uncle held a hammer that came from nowhere in his hand, and held the conch steady with one hand, trying to smash it open.

Smashing the shell is a simple and rough way to extract conch meat.

"Wait, the conch shell looks pretty nice to me, so don't damage it." Lin Yuan called out to his uncle.

Is this thing good looking?
The uncle shook his head, a little confused about his nephew's aesthetic taste. He couldn't smash it, so he had to try another method to remove the snail meat, but it was a little more troublesome.

Chen Shiquan changed a tool and spent a minute finally taking out the meat of a conch.

Lin Yuan took a look and found that it was not the conch that contained the pearl.

Using the same method, the uncle took out half of the conch meat and suddenly exclaimed, "Xiao Yuan, come and have a look. This conch seems to have something hidden in it."

"There is something hidden, is it a pearl?" Li Qiu Shui, who was washing vegetables nearby, heard what her uncle said and asked hurriedly.

"It's not a shell, how can there be a pearl in it? What are you thinking?" Qiao Yufan heard the exclamation and came over, complaining.

Lin Yuan: "Who says that only shellfish can produce pearls? Theoretically, snails can also produce pearls, and the pearls they produce are more valuable, because the pearl production rate of snails is extremely low, which can be said to be one in ten thousand."

When everyone heard this, they suddenly fell silent.

Everyone came to the uncle and found that he had actually taken out a bead from the conch, which was slightly smaller than a coin.

The bead had a crystal-clear appearance like ceramic and a flame-patterned structure, and it looked very beautiful.

Lin Yuan: "This is Melo Pearl."

"Melo Pearl?"

It was the first time for Qiao Yufan and others to hear it, and only my uncle seemed a little familiar with it, but he couldn't remember it.

"Is it worth anything?" Henry asked.

Lin Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "It must be valuable!"

"Compared with my golden pearls?" Huo Qingtong asked.

"There is no comparison." Lin Yuan couldn't help but laugh.

Li Qiushui: "I guess so. How can it compare with Golden Pearl? Golden Pearl is so high-end."

Lin Yuan: “…”

After a silence of three to five seconds, Lin Yuan continued, "I mean, golden pearls cannot be compared with Melo pearls. Golden pearls are far inferior."

Everyone's eyes widened immediately: Jin Zhenzhu can't compare? How far behind?

Did you hear me wrong?

Lin Yuan told them that the rare and precious Melo Pearls are extremely difficult to produce. The chance of finding them in conch shells is one in a few thousand, and the chance of mining them intact and in large size with good quality is even lower.

Melo beads are very rare in the collector market.Most prized for its orange hue resembling ripe papaya, it has a cloudy, flame-like structure on the inside and a crystal-clear, porcelain-like luster on the outside.

"Do you know how much Melo Pearls cost?" Lin Yuan asked them.

Lao Liu has already checked it on his mobile phone.

I was shocked when I checked.

A Melo pearl weighing about 20 grams was sold at a sky-high price of more than two million US dollars.

This one in front of me is estimated to be just over 10 grams, but it is not small. How much is this kind of gem worth?

The uncle looked at the phone Qiao Yufan handed over and was instantly ecstatic. You know, he was the one who found this Melo Pearl, and this was enough for him to brag about for the rest of his life.

After the camping barbecue, everyone continued to stroll around.

(End of this chapter)