Chapter 290: Making a Fortune
"What's wrong?" Ning Qingyuan asked with concern and handed over a glass of water.
Chen Yetu took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over.
"It feels like I've eaten a stone." Ning Xiyue took the paper, spit out the meat in her mouth, took out the hard object that was hurting her teeth from the corner of her mouth, and put it on the paper.
Just as he was about to throw the paper ball into the trash can, Chen Yetu grabbed his arm.
"Wait, don't throw it."
This immediately drew everyone's attention to the paper in Ning Xiyue's hand.
"Xiyue, this is not a stone. It looks like a pearl to me. Please take a closer look."
Ning Xiyue lowered her head, wiped the rice-grain-sized stone that was ripping her teeth with paper, and held it up to the candlelight, turning it.
The others leaned forward to look.
This rice-sized, misshapen stone is actually light pink in color.
Ning Qingyuan saw this light pink thing flashing a little halo when it turned under the candlelight, "Sister, this is a bit like the pearls described in the book."
"It's pearls." Yu Zhiyu adjusted his glasses on his nose and nodded in affirmation, and continued, "Pearls will shine brightly under the candlelight, and you can see the pearlescent light and halo when you turn them. You can even see different colored halos when you turn high-quality pearls under the light."
Yu Zhiyu pointed at the tiny thing in Ning Xiyue's hand and said, "Just now I saw pearl light from a certain angle. When you turned it, I also saw a little halo. From this, I can judge that this is a small pearl of decent quality."
Chen Yetu looked at Yu Zhiyu with appreciation and a bit of admiration.
Liu Yao looked at her cousin with complete admiration.
Yu Zhiyu felt the gaze and raised the corners of his mouth in a faint smile.
"Brother Zhiyu is amazing, what he said makes sense." Ning Qingyuan said with a smile, and then looked at Ning Xiyue: "Sister, I also saw the halo."
Ning Xiyue didn't pay attention to anything else. All her attention was on her hands. She nodded slowly, and she herself saw the halo under the candlelight.
This oval-shaped, rice-sized thing that looked like a pearl was eaten from a river clam. The surface was light pink in color, and she was 100% sure it was a pearl.
But she found it hard to believe that she had won with such a small probability. The probability was so small that it could be compared to winning the lottery.
The odds of winning with scratch tickets are greater than this.
Tsk, her luck is so good, if there were lottery tickets available, she would definitely buy one.
In her previous life, she had always been envious of those who had found pearls by eating scallops and clams. She never expected that in a different world and place, this would actually be possible for her.
I’m so happy, even happier than picking up money.
Tongzi lay beside Ning Xiyue's legs and said:
"Host, what's so precious about this rice-sized bead? It's so small that you can't even see it if it falls to the ground. If you want us to go to the beach and fish for it, the pearls in the sea are big and beautiful. Only those that are suitable for collection are more valuable."
Ning Xiyue rolled her eyes at it in her mind.
"What do you know? I ate this by luck. In my heart, it is a hundred times more precious than what I caught from the sea. Tongzi, you have to remember that the value of some items is not just measured by the item itself. What is valuable is often the story behind it and the care that the person who likes it has for it. If you think it is worth it, then it is worth it. These worldly possessions are only valuable after people give them meaning. If I think it is worth it, then it is worth it."
Tongzi stopped talking and digested the thought silently.
She wanted to keep this little pearl. Even though it was small and ugly, it was the embodiment of her good luck. It would be her lucky pearl from now on. She felt happy whenever she saw it.
Ning Xiyue put away the beads in a happy mood, "Hurry up and eat these river clams. It's such a big basin, maybe you can still eat some."
"Xiyue, we can't envy your luck, but you can still eat river clams. Maybe you can actually eat one."
Chen Yetu said jokingly and immediately put a river clam in his bowl.
"I'll have one too."
Liu Yao followed closely behind and picked one up, then invited others to eat.
Yu Zhiyu and Ning Qingyuan also joined in the fun and ate the river clams.
Ning Xiyue went to eat crayfish and duck meat instead. She couldn't let such delicious food go to waste.
"Ah, I ate it." Chen Yetu suddenly shouted.
Everyone's eyes shifted to Chen Yetu again, expecting her to eat a pearl.
Chen Yechu took it out and looked at it. He was embarrassed and said with a wry smile: "I ate a real stone and didn't spit it out completely."
"If you've already eaten the stones, then you're not far from the pearls. Come on, continue drinking and eating. There's such a big table of food, I won't be polite."
Ning Xiyue asked everyone to continue eating, and she continued to suck on the crayfish.
The other three also looked away and started eating their own food seriously.
We had a few rounds of drinks together.
Twenty minutes later, Chen Yechu's excited scream again attracted everyone's attention.
"I ate it. Look, thanks to Xiyue, I really ate it."
Chen Yetu excitedly took out a lavender teardrop-shaped pearl.
It's a little bit bigger than Ning Xiyue's. Ning Xiyue's rice is a long strip of indica rice, while Chen Yechu's is a plump pearl rice.
“It’s true.”
Everyone's eyes lit up as they looked at the plate of river clams in front of them.
This is truly a treasure.
Ning Xiyue was also a little surprised. She picked up these river clams just to use the shells to store medicine, but she didn't expect to find two beads inside.
You'll make a fortune eating these river clams!
She knew that river clams were small and had strong closing force, so the chance of forming beads was smaller than that of river clams. But she didn't expect that they would actually win with such a small chance. Such luck was unmatched.
Seeing her two friends eating the pearls one after another, Liu Yao felt itchy and said, "I want to try some, too."
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