"Do you think the price I offered is not enough?" Song Chaoshu raised his eyebrows. "If you are not satisfied with the price I offered, we still have room for further discussion."
"It's not a question of price." Xiang Yang told Song Chaoshu his thoughts.
Song Chaoshu was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "Since Boss Xiang wants to give it to my mother, it's really hard for me to steal it away. But I wonder if you can give up the remaining pearl oysters?"
"What's the price?"
"I'll pay a thousand dollars for a clam shell this size. I'll take as many as you have on your boat."
Xiang Yang smiled. The clams under the sea were indeed large and delicious, but clams were just clams after all. Generally speaking, they could not be sold for so much money each.
"I have only opened one clam shell. The pearl yield of these shells is still unclear. Why don't you open the clams and sell them?" Xiang Yang said with a smile.
The so-called opening and selling of clams means selling pearls only, not the clam shells. If the pearl yield of this batch of clam shells is not high or extremely low, Xiang Yang will definitely suffer a loss in the end. But if the pearl yield is high or a top-quality pearl is produced, Xiang Yang will make a lot of money.
"Okay, then let's open the clam." Song Chaoshu said.
A group of crew members immediately scattered, some took their weapons, some grabbed the clam shells.
In fact, Xiang Yang only fished up six clam shells in total. Apart from the clam shell that had already been opened and was as big as a monster, there were only five clam shells on the boat.
"Brother Yang, can you open mine first?" Fang Youqun, who had grabbed a clam shell, said as if he was presenting a treasure.
"Okay." Xiang Yang handed him a screwdriver, "Open it."
Fang Youqun immediately pried open the clam shell, revealing a lump of tender clam meat. Fang Youqun fumbled around in the clam meat for a while and said with an unpleasant expression, "There are no pearls."
Song Chaoshu raised his eyebrows, lit a cigarette for himself, then passed a box of cigarettes around and threw it directly on the deck.
"Open the next one and send the clam meat to the kitchen." Xiang Yang ordered.
"Your hands are smelly. Let me open the second one." Chen Qingsheng snatched the screwdriver from Fang Youqun's hand and opened a clam shell.
This clam shell did produce pearls, but Chen Qingsheng's face was not good at all, because although this clam shell produced pearls, there were dozens of pearls, but they were all the size of soybeans and mung beans, and the colors were all milky white and mixed colors.
"His luck isn't much better than Fang Youqun's." Xu Fang commented.
"It's okay. Although I didn't get any good stuff, it at least proves that the pearl yield of these clam shells is not low." Song Chaoshu said.
"Captain, are you still going to drive on?" Chen Qingsheng looked up at Xiang Yang and said.
"Keep going."
Soon, the third large clam shell was opened, and Chen Qingsheng pulled out six or seven milky white pearls the size of peanut kernels from it.
"Boss Song, would you like to accept these pearls?" Chen Qingsheng forced an ugly smile.
"Um, would you sell them for a dozen or twenty yuan each?" Song Chaoshu asked.
Chen Qingsheng shook his head decisively. What's the point of selling them for more than ten yuan each? Wouldn't it be better to take them home and wear them as gifts
Soon, the fourth clam shell was also opened, and there was nothing inside this clam shell, just like the first one.
Chen Qingsheng's face turned very ugly.
Xiang Yang was a little embarrassed. If these clam shells were not opened, they could be sold for five thousand yuan. Now that four of them had been opened, there was nothing in them.
"Captain, do you want to continue driving?" Chen Qingsheng asked.
"Open it." Xiang Yang said expressionlessly. All four shells had been opened, and he no longer cared about the last one. Moreover, four consecutive shells had not been sold. If he wanted to sell this last shell to Boss Song for a thousand yuan, he might not necessarily accept it.
It would be a lie to say that Xiang Yang was not upset at all at this time, after all, it was only several thousand dollars.
In fact, Xiang Yang had the mentality at the beginning that he might find a pearl worth more than five thousand yuan when he opened the clam shell.
Xiang Yang couldn't help but think of Wu Shiwen.
When Wu Shiwen was still on this ship, Xiang Yang once asked Wu Shiwen, "If someone found a golden pearl when you were selling pearl oysters, wouldn't you be very sorry?"
I can still remember Wu Shiwen’s answer at that time.
Xiang Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly. He thought he was not really suited to doing business. The way to do business should be like Wu Shiwen. I hope my customers can make a lot of money, and I won't lose money anyway.
But it's too late to say anything now. Whether this last clam shell makes a profit or a loss can only be left to fate.
Chen Qingsheng pressed the screwdriver against the edge of the clam shell.
"etc."
"Um?"
"I'll open this last clam myself."
Chen Qingsheng immediately handed the clam shell and screwdriver to Xiang Yang with a sense of relief.
Xiang Yang took the clam shell and screwdriver, and pried hard on the edge of the clam shell with the screwdriver.
“Bang!”
The clam shell opened with a sound, revealing a piece of crystal clear clam meat.
Xiang Yang's hand touched the clam meat inch by inch.
"How is it, Brother Yang?" Fang Youqun said nervously.
Others also pricked up their ears and watched eagerly, and even Song Chaoshu bent down slightly and squeezed into the crowd.
Xiang Yang did not answer Fang Youqun's question. In fact, his current mood could be described as terrible.
The moment Xiang Yang touched the clam meat, he confirmed that there was a pearl inside the clam shell, and there was not just one pearl, because there were hard lumps underneath the clam meat.
But the problem is that the pearls Xiang Yang touched were too small. They felt to Xiang Yang to be about the size of peanut meat.
Someone handed Xiang Yang a small knife for peeling fruit.
Xiang Yang cut open the clam meat expressionlessly, and two round pearls rolled out of the clam meat.
"This." Xiang Yang stared at the two beads, one black and one pink, on the deck with a dull look on his face.
The crowd suddenly became silent.
"Oh shit, ssr, Brother Yang, you are so lucky! You actually got the black pearl." After a strange silence, a ghost howling suddenly came from the deck. It was Fang Youqun shouting.
Others also reacted immediately: "Fuck, it's actually Black Pearl, Captain, you've really made it this time, you have to treat us."
Xiang Yang quickly picked up the black pearl. This black pearl was slightly larger than an ordinary peanut kernel, with a diameter of about ten millimeters and a weight of about six or seven carats.
Song Chaoshu squeezed into the crowd with great effort and came to Xiang Yang's side. "Boss Xiang, can you show me the pearl in your hand?"
The crew members who were crowded around Xiang Yang then remembered that there were guests on the boat, and they quickly stepped back to leave room for Boss Song and Xiang Yang to talk business.
Xiang Yang really wanted to laugh out loud at this time, but he held it back after seeing Song Chaoshu. He handed the pearl to Song Chaoshu and said, "Boss Song, you are an expert. Please help me see how much this pearl is worth."