When the elderly have money, the children are happy and can often eat snacks and delicious food.

The elderly are frugal with themselves, but generous with their children, always ready to help and very accommodating.

Chen Hong found a pearl in the first shell. She took it out and saw that it was white and very round. It was quite dirty and she couldn't tell how shiny it was.

However, judging from the roundness and size of the bead, it should be a high-quality bead after being washed clean.

I carefully touched the entire shell's flesh again, but didn't feel any other hard objects. It seems the legend is somewhat reliable.

Unlike freshwater cultured shellfish, Pinctada martensii does not contain many pearls in a single shell.

Mas oysters typically contain only one or two pearls per shell, and nowadays, Japanese cultured saltwater pearls are even more limited to one pearl per shell.

This ensures the quality of the pearls and greatly increases the probability of producing high-quality pearls.

Akoya pearls require a lower temperature for cultivation and have very high requirements for the marine environment.

The growth cycle of this type of pearl generally takes three to five years. The longer the growth cycle, the more nacre is secreted and the thicker the nacre layer becomes.

The fishing grounds in Hokkaido, Japan, are located in the northeastern part of the country, and the scallops that Chen Hong caught grew in areas where the Kuril Current passes through.

These seashells are all bigger than the palm of your hand; it's impossible to know how many years they've been growing on the seabed.

The first pearl Chen Hong unearthed was 15 millimeters long, half again as large as the largest 10-millimeter pearl described online.

However, the 2 to 10 millimeters mentioned online are all from Japanese fishermen who artificially cultivate them in near-shore bays.

The giant clams that Chen Hong caught were harvested after a maximum growth period of five years, while the giant clams were at least eight to ten years old.

Judging by their appearance, those that have been growing for a longer period of time must be ten or twenty years old.

Natural pearls are larger than cultured pearls; this is a natural phenomenon.

Akoya pearls are made from the mother-of-pearl of Mater, a very important marine cultured mollusc.

Also known as the Hepu pearl oyster, its name is akoya, which is translated from Japanese into English. The size of the pearl itself is usually between 2 and 10 millimeters, with 4 to 9 millimeters being the most common.

Its characteristics are that it is small and bright, crystal clear, round and smooth, with a pearly luster, and has the beauty of exquisite jewelry.

Many people call them little light bulbs, which is how they got their name.

Because of the light, Akoya pearls are very sparkly, very bright, and very beautiful.

The nacre thickness of a pearl is usually between 0.15 and 0.5 millimeters, and pearls with a thickness greater than 0.4 millimeters are of the best quality.

The value of a pearl depends not only on its shape, roundness, luster, color, and size, but more importantly on the thickness of its nacre.

The thicker the nacre layer, the longer it has grown and formed, the higher its density, and the longer its shelf life.

Even after decades or centuries, they remain as new as ever, their brilliance shining through.

Japanese Akoya pearls, with their thinner nacre layer compared to other types of pearls, are relatively inexpensive.

However, Akoya pearls, with their delicate and girlish pink color, have won the hearts of many fashionable young women.

Their colors are not limited to white; they include off-white, silver-blue, yellow, mixed colors, gray, and a variety of other rich colors.

Generally speaking, white is the most common color, and white body color is usually accompanied by various secondary colors.

Pink is considered the best color, as it complements the skin tone of East Asian women and is very popular in the Chinese jewelry market.

After all, they are inexpensive and of good quality, making them very suitable for ordinary people to buy.

Chen Hong didn't emerge from the space until 3 o'clock. She went to the toilet first, and then went downstairs to check on the children.

"Yu Yang, Xiao Hao, I'm going to town to send a package. Do you have anything you need me to bring back?" Chen Hong asked, looking at the children who hadn't left the living room all afternoon.

Yu Yang thought for a moment and said, "Mom, my colored pencils are a little out of ink. Can you buy me a set of colored pencil ink?"

"Okay, Wang Xin, Xiao Hao, what about you guys?"

The two children looked at each other. "Aunt Hong, please buy us a box of colored pencils and ink too. We'll ask Mom to pay you back when we get home."

Chen Hong: The kid is quite principled; he knows he should pay back the money if he brings something back!

"Okay, Aunt Hong understands. She'll ask your mothers directly. Have fun and take good care of the house!"

Chen Hong carried two boxes of dried fish and shrimp from the storage room to the yard, put them in the pickup truck bed, and drove to town.

While no one was watching, they released three more buckets of honey weighing 100 jin each, and it was time to deliver the honey to the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Store.

Dr. Wu had already called her to expedite the delivery. When she answered the phone, she was still playing with her child at the Great Wall!

All I could promise was to ship the goods back to Rongcheng, although I could also use my spatial storage in Beijing to retrieve the honey and deliver it to Dr. Wu.

However, considering that the families in Beijing know each other well, if they accidentally let slip to each other, the origin of the honey would be highly questionable.

Although sending the package back to Rongcheng is a bit more troublesome, it avoids many subsequent loopholes, so this is the only way to proceed.

At the courier point, the honey was packaged into a wooden box, sealed, and a courier form was filled out.

I sent another box of things to my parents in Jinan, including dried fruit, dried shrimp, dried squid, tea, and honey, filling the cardboard box to the brim.

No matter how much her mother and brother disappointed her, Chen Hong couldn't be heartless and abandon them because her father was still alive.

After filling out the express delivery form and settling the delivery fee, she drove directly to the city.