When they got home, Lin Xiuqing had just boiled the water and put the snails in. After all, it was quite laborious to light a clay stove with matches.
"Are you all back?"
Mrs. Ye glanced into the pot, her eyes flickered, and she smiled and said, "You've already put it in the pot, so I'll wait until you're cooked to see if there are any beads. I'll wait for the next pot."
To avoid confusion, what if the beads come out? Whose will they belong to? It will be hard to tell.
Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "Okay."
Sister Ye asked curiously, "How did you all pick up this snail? I just saw the secretary's wife pick up one, and A-Dan, who makes shrimp paste, also picked up one."
Mrs. Ye smiled and said, "I didn't even know this snail. I only knew it after hearing Yaodong tell me about it."
Then he looked at Ye Yaodong again, "What kind of emperor snail is this? What kind of pearl can it get? Is it valuable?"
"What kind of pearl is it? It's called the Imperial Crowned Snail Pearl, which is also a kind of conch pearl. This conch is just a little more precious, and there is a certain chance that it will produce a Crowned Snail Pearl. There is no such thing as a conch pearl that is not valuable. It all depends on whether you have the luck to get one."
"Don't worry about it. You can't get it out. Just do what you need to do. The tiles are still being put up over there. I'll drive the boat to a safe harbor." Father Ye didn't hold out any hope. The probability was too low. What's more, even if his daughters-in-law picked it up, it had nothing to do with him.
Mother Ye ignored their efforts and went to the backyard to pick and wash vegetables in preparation for lunch.
After Ye's father left, the eldest and second brothers were ready to go to the house to help, but Ye Yaodong stopped them, "Let's go together later. It's only a short while anyway, so we can spend some time together."
He had opened all the Melo beads before, so he still had hope.
So is Lin Xiuqing.
When they were almost cooked, she took out the two, and Ye Ersao couldn't wait to put her two in.
Ye Yaodong grabbed the snail with his hands wrapped in a rag, inserted a sharp stick into its head, and then carefully picked out the snail meat by rotating it.
He pinched its tail, but felt nothing. Unwillingly, he pried open the flesh on its head, but still felt nothing.
He shrugged and handed the tachyon to his wife, "I don't have this one. Maybe I'm unlucky. I have another one for you to try."
"good."
The result, without a doubt, is no!
Seeing her disappointed expression, Ye Yaodong comforted her, "It's okay. It's normal not to have conch pearls. No one has such good luck every day. Others may not be able to open even one even if they open thousands or tens of thousands of them."
“Is the probability really that low?”
After opening a Melo Pearl, she had the illusion that these conch pearls were easy to obtain.
"Of course! If it were too easy, how could it be rare? Conch pearls are different from pearls. Conch pearls are formed when the conch comes out of its shell while eating, bringing sand or other impurities from the outside into its body. Then, its flesh is stimulated, and it continuously secretes a special substance to wrap up the foreign matter. As the foreign matter continues to wrap up inside the conch, it becomes larger and larger, and then it slowly forms."
"It takes 5 to 20 years to grow, while it only takes 1 to 6 years for freshwater pearls. They are much more precious than pearls. I heard that there is only one conch pearl in 50,000 conches."
After saying that, he gave his wife a look, as if to say, now you know how lucky you are, right
Lin Xiuqing was comforted instantly.
The 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 pearls in conchs, but they didn't know the principle. After hearing what he said, they suddenly understood.
"I'm not here for nothing, am I?"
Having lived a few decades longer, he certainly knows more than them. Decades later, information circulates quickly, and with all kinds of short videos, even illiterate people can know a lot.
They immediately looked at him with new eyes. Ye Yaohua said with a smile, "In the future, if we don't know something, we don't need to ask others. We can just come to you."
"Don't think highly of me. I only know a little bit, and it's very limited. I can only show off occasionally."
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him with a smirk. He must find it troublesome!
After hearing what he said, Mrs. Ye no longer held out hope.
Only one conch pearl may be produced among 50,000 conchs. Isn't this just like hitting the jackpot
Even if this imperial crown conch can produce imperial crown conch pearls, the probability is too low. It would have been better to sell it directly. Now she regrets it so much.
At first, I was also confused when I heard him talk about the ten most precious and rare pearls.
Alas, I regret it so much!
When the snails in the pot were almost cooked, she no longer had any expectation and just scooped them out and asked Ye Yaohua to pick them out and slice them with a knife, so as to avoid being like Ye Yaodong, who messed them up and made it difficult to fry them.
"You just cut it? Don't you look carefully?"
Mrs. Ye suffered a heavy loss and was in a bad mood. She said unhappily, "Mom is ready to cook, what else can you do if you don't just cut it?"
"Well, there's also a piece of coconut snail meat there, let's cut it up and fry it too."
"Ah? You guys opened a coconut snail?"
"Yeah, there's nothing. If I had known, I would have sold it directly and could have gotten a few dollars."
Lin Xiuqing really felt it was a pity. She had always been frugal, but she was too extravagant today. She actually wasted 3 top-quality snails. And she didn't feel heartbroken at all. She just felt a little bit sorry. She thought it was nice to have a taste of it. Maybe she was led astray by her man!
When Mrs. Ye heard that they had opened an extra coconut snail, she felt instantly relieved. They were at a greater loss!
When Ye's mother came in with the washed vegetables, she saw the snail meat being chopped and sliced by the stove, and asked casually, "There's nothing left, right?"
"Ah~ No... Ah! What is this?"
Mrs. Ye felt that she had cut into something foreign and quickly put down the knife, but she saw a milky white with a pale yellowish bead in the snail meat and was immediately overjoyed.
"pearl!?"
Upon hearing this, the others came over to see what was happening, and their eyes widened instantly.
"Fuck, there really is one!?"
"Ah, conch pearls!"
"Let me see… "
Ye Yaohua was so excited that he wanted to reach out his hand, but was slapped away by Ye Ersao. She said with pain: "There is a scratch, it was cut by a knife! I XXX..."
She couldn't help but curse in the local dialect, feeling heartbroken.
Who would have thought that she had no hope at all, but it was actually cut out for her? It was really fucked!
She kept touching the scratches with a look of heartache, wishing she could smooth it out. If she had known this earlier, she would have followed Ye Yaodong's example and scraped out the snail meat first. She had actually cut it so hard just now.
She was so mad!
Everyone also saw the scratch on it. Although it was not their thing, they were still heartbroken!
This is a conch pearl!
They can go out and play for several days.
Ye's mother also wiped her wet hands and came over immediately, her eyes wide open, "I... I really found a conch pearl for you? How could you be so careless and cut it with a knife? Why didn't you cut it to see first after it was cooked? Hey, the scratch is so big..."
Ye's mother was also distressed when she saw it. Her facial features were wrinkled together. It was a conch pearl! No one in their village had opened one in recent years.
"Mom, please stop talking. I'm already sad enough." Ye Ersao kept touching her face with a sad face, and then took the beads to the back door and looked at them in the sunlight. "The scratches really can't be removed."
Her heart is bleeding...
"Please let me take a look at it!" Brother Ye felt so distressed that he wanted to hold it in his hands and take a look at it.
"Here you go, here you go!"
Brother Ye held the bead in his hand, feeling distressed. He couldn't help but complain, "It's already been cooked, why don't you just scratch it? Look at this scratch... What can I do with it? It's already flawed..."
"You still remember to criticize me? Why didn't you remind me? You were just watching from the sidelines, and now you have the nerve to criticize me. If you were more resolute and reminded me to dig it out, I wouldn't be disappointed and just cut it with a knife..."
The more Mrs. Ye thought about it, the angrier she got. As she spoke, she started to slap him hard several times, "It's all your fault..."
Ye Erge shrugged his shoulders and didn't dodge, letting her slap him, "You...how can you be so unreasonable and blame others for your mistakes! It was you who cut it directly with the knife, and you blame me for not reminding you! Xiuqing reminded you and asked you to look carefully, but you didn't listen, and you blame me for not telling you..."
"She is she, you are you. If you remind me, I will definitely think of digging it up..."
Ye Yaohua was exhausted, "You still think you're right! Look at what you've done..."
"How would I know there were really beads inside?"
A good thing suddenly turned into a family farce. Everyone was dumbfounded. Brother Ye always listened to Sister Ye and it was rare for him to speak loudly.
However, he was still no match for Ye Ersao's unreasonable behavior.
After hearing the reason, Ye's mother couldn't help but say, "Okay, okay, I didn't look carefully, and now I've cut myself. Who can I blame? Let me see."
Second Brother Ye handed the conch pearl to Mother Ye again. Only then did everyone see the conch pearl clearly. 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 but complain to Ye Ersao, "Why didn't you take it out? It's already been cooked, why waste that little time? Just because Dongzi and the others didn't take it out doesn't mean you don't have it either. If you didn't hold out hope, you might as well have just sold the conch."
Facing Ye's mother, Ye Ersao didn't have the confidence to make trouble. She just said depressedly: "How should I know!"
Mrs. Ye smiled and tried to smooth things over. "It's already like this. There's no point talking about it. Since we can get a conch pearl, that's a good thing. It's better than nothing! You can't sell it for money if it has a flaw, but you can keep it for yourself. You can make a necklace pendant or a ring face out of it. The color is the same as the conch shell, and it's pretty nice."
"I can only wear it myself."
After taking a look at it, Ye's mother returned the beads to Ye's second wife.
Mrs. Ye felt a little better after being comforted, but she was still very depressed.
Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "There is another one. Second sister-in-law, why don't you dig it and see. Maybe you can dig out another one. Then you will really get rich."
"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.
Everyone was looking forward to it, and several pairs of eyes were staring at the conch in her hand eagerly.
When she was inserting the quick gun at the table, Ye Yaohua suddenly held her hand and said, "How about I do this?"
"Don't get in the way!" Mrs. Ye nudged him with her elbow in annoyance, then went in and picked out the snail meat.