Chapter 674: Opening a river clam
Several people checked in a good manner, and then drank a pot of good tea at the invitation of the boss. They negotiated the price. Lin Mo went to the forum and gave a good estimate.
Depending on the situation, the boss was a little moved, but in the end he said that it was normal to think about it again. After all, it was not a person who bought and sold vegetables and potatoes, so he had to spend some time talking a few more times.
"Where is the exit? Why did I read it several times but I couldn't see it?" Zhang Jingmin asked when he was in a loss of people.
Without waiting for Lin Mo to answer, Liu Zhenshan took over the conversation and said, "I can guess that the exit should be from the vestibule to the stone wall of the main room, but I didn't see the specific location."
"On the left side of the vestibule, next to the stone staircase on the side, there is a small piece of stone that is different from other places. Although granite is used, there are still slightly different colors, particles, and patterns."
"Oh...wait? No..." Zhang Jingmin was about to act like this, but suddenly the subject changed and he thought about it carefully.
"I remember the stone wall was covered with moss. How did you see that the stone quality was different?" Liu Zhenshan also looked at him, and he had the same doubts.
"You have lost your feet. Although the platform between the vestibule and the main house is taller than that of ordinary people, the secret path is still shorter. In addition, a certain thickness must be left with the ground during excavation to ensure that the foundation of the house is stable, and it will only be shorter.
So in order to allow mules and carriages to enter and exit the secret path and the vestibule, I guess they might have built a vestibule between the vestibule and the secret path, and they filled it up in order to cover up their eyes and eyes. However, for the sake of convenience, they replaced them with thin and light stones they processed themselves, but missed the nuances of the two stones.
There are also some evidences, one is that the wear of the stone processing traces in that small piece of stone is significantly smaller than that of other stones in the vestibule, and the other is that the stone processing traces are the same as those in the warehouse. It is estimated that they are using stone masons from other places. The processing techniques of stone are different from those in the local area, and the traces left on the stone are also different."
"You can even observe these small traces. I said that your observation ability is stronger than us, and you don't recognize it. I have to talk to me about those minor ones. I just focused on what you said, but why can't I find what you said?"
I'll give you a quibble... no... explanation. Lin Mo has made a big splash with Balaba and finally blamed the problem on too little knowledge reserves and did not realize what problems would be with the stone and processing traces.
This improper argument made him even more powerful. Zhang Jingmin was not fooled this time, so he naturally sneered, although this was also reasonable...
The two of them quarreled while walking, one was digging a hole and trying to bury the person. The other was jumping repeatedly between falling and climbing the hole, and they were still a little happy. Before they knew it, they had already returned to the warehouse door. Then they were a little impressed and stopped talking.
The warehouse is the same as before, transporting mud, sifting mud, sifting mud, adding water... I looked at the fish box and found that it was much less than when I went there. Han Wu was driving a mule cart to transport fish.
Several people changed their clothes and cleaned and cut the fruits and vegetables they brought back. After taking some of them for everyone, they prepared to continue working.
The few people were preparing to continue transporting fish. They didn't expect that the fish that had good water had already left Han Wuyun, so they were ready to help load the soil and transport the soil, but they were told that the secret was too small and that the people were now crowded and couldn't use it.
After a while, the few people found that there was no work to do. As for the work of unloading soil and sifting mud, they didn't want to help these guys cheat, let alone these guys doing it very hard. For the sake of the pearls in the mud, Han Wu was arranged to transport fish by several people, and they didn't want to go over and get involved.
"You see that the box is almost full, why don't we open these river clams?"
Zhang Jingmin said, and everyone's eyes were taken to the pile of mud bags, where there were three boxes, two of which were already piled up.
River clams are divided into sizes. They are placed in one box with a big palm and a big sea bowl, and the ones with a big fist. The remaining small ones are placed in another box. Now the two large boxes are almost piled out of the top of the box, and the small boxes are also placed on the edge of the box.
This box is not much more or less. After all, it is a waterway that is two meters wide and nearly one kilometer long. There is only such a little, and it is not much. After all, the temperature of the water body below is always low, and there are many big fish prey on it. There are also many big fish that can have so many big ones.
The four of them said they would do it. One of them found a drawer-sized box, put a bunch of them in the large box, and then carried it to the drainage channel near the fish box, and asked the team members responsible for adding water to help rinse it.
However, except for Lin Mo, the rest of the people did not bring any knives. Lin Mo could only take out all kinds of knives hidden on his body and distributed them to several people. Fortunately, when he changed his clothes just now, the few people had seen the things he hid on his body, and there was no surprise.
Lin Mo left himself a claw-shaped dagger and took out a large river clam from the box. The clams were naturally picked up by the people. Except for each of them, each of them had some medium-sized clear boxes, the rest were all the size of sea bowls, and even the size of a head.
"Since you have grown up so big, are you growing a pearl?"
The person who spoke was Zhang Jingmin. This guy had just turned over the largest clam among the few people. It was nearly 40 centimeters long and weighed eight or nine kilograms. After coming here, he immediately pried it open with great enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the clam meat was so broken that he could not see the shadow of the pearl.
"This thing mainly depends on luck. Whether it is a clam, there will be pearls. To put it bluntly, the pearls are foreign objects in the clam's body. Clams with pearls may not necessarily grow too big."
"Is that right? That's not right? Why are you picking up big ones too?"
"Hehe..." Lin Mo smiled awkwardly and said, "Big clams are coming out with big goods! Although the chance may be a little smaller, I still have to have any thoughts. What if I encounter them?"
While speaking, Lin Mo also took out a large river clam, stabbed the gap between the two clam shells with his tip, and then slapped the back of the knife with a forceful palm. Most of the body of the northern claw knife was slapped into the clam, and then pulled the clam three times along the crack to open it.
After a while, Lin Mo drove three big ones, and he couldn't even see the pearl hair. Zhang Jingmin, who had been staring at him, couldn't help laughing. Unfortunately, he opened the big ones and there was nothing...
"Supervisor, do you want these clam meat?" Han Wu, who brought the fish, came over to see the clams, and looked at the river clams that were thrown aside, and couldn't help but speak.
"What? Do you want it?" Lin Mo took over and said, "Forget it. I don't know what I have stored before, and I rushed in from outside. There may be problems with eating. If you want to eat, you should go to the market to buy some, anyway, the price is not expensive."
"Oh..." Han Wu responded, feeling a little regretful when he looked at the things. It should be fine to eat according to the situation, but after all, there is always a little difference between the sewer, let alone let others eat it. It is inappropriate to do this.
Furthermore, this thing is indeed not expensive in this era, and it can even be said to be cheap. After all, the water bodies in the Jiangnan region were basically not polluted and damaged during this period, so how could there be fewer waters in the Jiangnan water town? So there are still a lot of these things.
"It's out..." The team member exclaimed, and he was the first to gain something. Several people hurried over.
This is a river clam the size of a sea bowl. This team member had never opened a clam before. The clam was opened a little slowly. This was his third-last large clam. I saw a clam divided into two halves. A bag bulged on the coat membrane of half of the coat. The bag was very large, but it was irregular in shape and long.
The team members touched the bag, excited and at a loss. They gestured the knife in their hands for a long time and did not dare to start. Seeing the few people anxious, Lin Mo simply cut him and cut a hole on the side.
"You squeeze him from the other side and press it out." It was correct for the team members not to cut it randomly. The pearl is not hard, and the Mohs' hardness is only about 2, so it is easy to get scars from hard objects, so Lin Mo only dares to cut it up and down.
I don’t know if Lin Mo was too cautious in the knife or the team members’ methods were wrong, so I took great effort to squeeze out the pearls.
The pearls are irregular in shape, slightly shorter and thinner than the thumb of the hand. The length should be more than three centimeters and the diameter may be less than two centimeters. The color is pure white but a little yellow, and the gloss is also average.
"How is it? Is this big one very valuable?" Zhang Jingmin took the pearl, looked at it for a while before asking.
"The shape is irregular, the color is yellow, the gloss is not good, and it cannot be made of jewelry, and it is not worth much money now, but such a large freshwater pearl is extremely rare.
You can collect it, maintain it well, and wait for decades to add fuel to today's events and make up a story. It is best to add some legendary elements. With gimmicks and selling points, and with its own scarcity, you may not be able to sell it at a good price."
The few people watched for a while before they dispersed and continued. Lin Mo pried open the remaining few clams, nothing was there, and Liu Zhenshan was the same.
"Hehe...I'm driving..." Zhang Jingmin smiled at Lin Mo with a proud look on his face. He looked at the proud face, obviously not just showing off, and was just waiting to show off!
I leaned over and took a look. It was from a medium-sized clam, but it looked quite small. The clam's coat mold had a thumb-sized bag, and the bulging bag was relatively round.
Lao Zhang was so happy that he let the few people look around, and then carefully made a big hole on the side like Lin Mo before, and then squeezed hard.
"Puff..." Lin Mo laughed directly, and Liu Zhenshan and the team members couldn't help laughing. Only the injured Lao Zhang stood there in a daze. The guy squeezed hard, and a small thing appeared in the big hole, which was simply.
"Old Zhang, you can't do it either. A typical person with strong external strength and weak internal strength. Such a big bag, but it turns out that it's so small inside. It's too weak!"
"I'm listening to what you say!" Old Zhang came to his senses, fought with Lin Mo for a few words before asking about the value.
Lin Mo took it and looked carefully before speaking: "The bead shape is standard and round, dark purple, light black in color, bright in color, restrained and low-key, and noble in appearance. Judging from these alone, the quality is excellent, but unfortunately it is too small, only about six or seven millimeters.
It's not worth much money, but the quality is good, so you can leave it for your own use. Find someone to inlay it into hairpins, hair ropes, hairpins, hairpins, brooches, rings, etc., or see if there are any similar colors, sizes, shapes, and glosses. If you put together a pair of earrings, it's probably very good to look."
"Is that?" Zhang Jingmin's eyes lit up. He didn't know what he thought of, so he happily put the beads carefully, and did not forget to laugh at Lin Mo for a few words, and he was too frustrated and nothing was available.
Several people went back and moved another box, but unfortunately, no one was opened this time, so they moved it again. This time, Liu Zhenshan won the prize and gave a pure white pearl about ten millimeters. Its gloss is also good, so he is considered a good product.
Now the pressure is given to Lin Mo, and now he is left empty-handed, and moves it again. This time the team members drove one slightly larger than Zhang Jingmin's one. After another, no one gave it. Another time, Zhang Jingmin won the prize, light golden, irregular in shape, not big, slightly smaller than the finger of the little finger.
Although the two of them were not very good, it was better than Lin Mo's empty hands, so he couldn't sit still. He had been more than halfway through the big clams, so he immediately went to pick them.
"What are you doing?" Xu Guyu walked over and saw a few people opening clams. He was still searching for them. There were still a bunch of open ones next to him. He didn't understand what the few people were doing.
"Shopkeeper~" Lin Mo was still squatting and shouted first. There were outsiders! It was not good to call him out. Sure enough, Zhang Jingmin, who stood up, patted his chest, breathed a sigh of relief, and then called him the shopkeeper. He almost called him wrongly just now.
"Shopkeeper, we are opening pearls! The environment below is a bit special, and the probability of having pearls in the river clam is relatively high."
"Yes! Did you open the pearl?" After Xu Gu Yu finished speaking, the three of them took out the pearls and showed them to Xu Gu Yu.
"Shopkeeper, has the bottom been cleaned up? Do we need to go down to change shifts?" Liu Zhenshan asked.
Xu Guyu waved his hand and said, "It's almost done, I guess there are only a few cars left, just let them clean it up."
As he said that, Xu Guyu looked at Lin Mo and joked: "Where is yours? I can't bear to show it to me when I'm driving well?"
"How can I do it? I haven't gotten it. The shopkeeper, you can't get me here to play and borrow your luck and luck."
"Okay~" Xu Guyu did not refuse, and came to Lin Mo's seat with great enthusiasm, took a clam, and opened the clam like the way a few people were.
"There is there~" Zhang Jingmin's eyes were the most confusing, and he was the first to discover the pearl hidden under the clam meat. When the pearl was taken out, the few people couldn't help but say surprise.
The pearl is not very good. It is white, slightly irregular, about nine millimeters, and the luster is also ordinary. What surprised several people was that Lin Mo didn’t drive it for a long time, and Xu Guyu won the prize as soon as he arrived, but it was also from Lin Mo’s clam. The quality is not bad among the clams that were opened.
Lin Mo couldn't sit still now. Xu Gu Yu got up and looked at him. He immediately squatted back to open the clam. Unfortunately, he didn't even drive two out. Xu Gu Yu wanted to give him the pearls he had produced, but Lin Mo didn't pick them up. He didn't want the pearls, but he mainly didn't drive them for a long time and had a fight with the clams.
Finally, Lin Mo successfully shipped the goods after prying open the last big clam. The bulge was bigger than the false goods that Zhang Jingmin had opened before, and Lin Mo quietly touched it, not false.
Chapter completed!