Chapter 90: The quality of the beads looks pretty good
As he spoke, Mr. Tian took out the fortune-telling tools from the small bag he carried with him.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang."
After three times, the upper and lower hexagrams are obvious. The upper hexagram is Mingyi hexagram, and the lower hexagram is Dihuo Mingyi hexagram. It is obviously dark and turning to Yin.
"This divination is considered above average. We'll encounter some urgent matters along the way that need to be dealt with. Regardless, the outcome will be good. However, it's best for us to set out tomorrow morning after sunrise to choose an auspicious time."
Sure enough, it feels good to have someone to help you. Qi Xu didn't even need to say anything, as Mr. Tian had already calculated the time before the trip.
At lunchtime, Mr. Tian finally couldn't help but ask, "Girl Qi, is that seafarer you mentioned reliable? Can he provide us with a stable supply of seawater pearls?"
"Don't worry, they're definitely reliable. I just don't know if there are any sea pearls among the scallops and clams bought online from the sea, and how many there are. We agreed yesterday that we'll go to the store this afternoon to check."
Qi Xu comforted Mr. Tian, "Mr. Xie, do you want to go and take a look too? Later, let's go together to see the quality of the scallops and clams that were salvaged from the sea."
She saw that when Mr. Tian was talking, Mr. Xie's eyes were looking over here, and it was obvious that he couldn't help but want to go with them.
"That's what I thought."
Mr. Xie was very happy to receive Qi Xu's invitation. He smiled and nodded while eating.
After dinner, everyone sat together and chatted. Qi Xu picked some fresh, ripe tomatoes from his own garden, washed them, and brought them to the table for everyone to enjoy.
She even prepared some Chinese medicine and handed it to Qi Hong, supervising him to drink it. Before he could even open his mouth to complain about the bitterness, she stuffed a small piece of yellow rock sugar into his mouth.
Yellow rock sugar is a rare commodity on this island. Qi Hong never thought that Qi Xu could get it. He savored it carefully in his mouth and was interrupted by Qi Xu just as he was about to say something.
"Grandpa, I went to many stores to find this yellow rock sugar. You can't secretly not take the medicine after we go out tomorrow~"
"Otherwise, I would be letting my granddaughter down."
Qi Xu knew that Qi Hong was most susceptible to this, so she walked up to him and acted like a spoiled child in the past, shaking Qi Hong's arm, half-knelt beside him, and leaned her head on his shoulder, wanting him to agree immediately.
"Okay, okay, Miss Qi, even if there is double the amount of coptis in this medicine, I will take the medicine on time every day, and let Lao Xie and An An supervise me."
Qi Hong nodded in agreement immediately with red eyes, and did not forget to pat the back of her hand.
Jiang Hongyi looked at her coquettish figure from behind, and his whole body became hot involuntarily. In his mind, he couldn't help but imagine what Qi Xu would look like when she would act coquettishly towards him. That should be a scene with pink bubbles.
But in the next second, Jiang Hongyi shook off the scene that shouldn't have appeared in his mind, pretended to be busy, and started filling the aluminum kettle with water and putting it on the stove to boil water.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Qi, Xu and the other three started to go out to Zou Yaojie's shop.
"Hey, my saviors, you're finally here. I didn't lose any of the scallops, conchs, or clams in my fishing nets today. Come and have a look."
When Zou Yaojie saw them coming from afar, he couldn't wait to wave and shout.
When Qi Xu and his companions walked into the store, they were shocked to see that there was not just one big iron basin, but five big iron basins filled with scallops, conchs, and clams, all of which were quite large.
"It's obviously of good quality. It's so big, the beads inside must be big too."
"Wow, wow, not bad, not bad. These scallops are all colored, and there might be rare beads inside."
Both Mr. Tian and Mr. Xie were attracted by this batch of goods and touched them directly.
Qi Xu also rubbed his hands and stepped forward, "Do you have any tools? Let's open one and see if there is anything good."
Zou Yaojie was obviously very satisfied with his goods and had already prepared the tools. "Master, this tool works well. Try it."
"Ahem, you can call me sister-in-law or Qi Xu in public, but don't call me master yet, as it will easily reveal my identity."
Her reminder made Zou Yaojie fall silent immediately and said he understood immediately. After all, he had been in the underworld before and knew how serious it was to have his identity exposed.
He saw that besides Qi Xu and Jiang Hongyi, there were two other old men. Thinking that they were together, he took a few more sets of tools and asked them to help open clams and scallops.
Although Qi Xu is very strong, he is not very fast at opening clams.
Jiang Hongyi moved all the clams and scallops he had opened to Qi Xu's position.
Qi Xu obviously understood what he meant, and she stuffed the river clam in her hand directly to Jiang Hongyi, and she began to grope for the beads in the clam meat.
"It looks like a pretty big bead."
After saying that, Qi Xu took the knife and started cutting the meat. "Oh, it's a black pearl, a rare color."
The big black pearl in her hand flashed with colorful laser light under the sunlight outside the house.
"I have a purple pearl here, and it's quite big."
"This is mine too. These beads are pretty good, and some have some weird shapes."
Qi Xu stepped forward to take a look. The strange shape was exactly the most popular baroque pearl in the 21st century, whose characteristic was that it could be designed into any shape.
"This one looks nice, like a cloud."
She took the baroque pearls from Mr. Xie's hand and couldn't let go of them.
"Zou Yaojie, this stuff is good, very good! From now on, when we go out to sea, besides fish, I will also buy scallops, conchs, and clams."
"What price do you think is suitable?"
"Why are you still negotiating the price? Sister-in-law, you invested so much money in opening my shop before. I'm just giving you these river clams as a thank you for suggesting that I open a shop to expand my financial resources."
Zou Yaojie was somewhat unhappy when he heard that Qi Xu was still so distant with him. "Sister-in-law, you are really distant with me. Money or no money? We are not allowed to talk about this."
Qi Xu immediately realized that his question had hurt Zou Yaojie's feelings. This man was a very sincere person and would not beat around the bush. "Hey, what's wrong? Are you mad at me?"
"Oh my, if you don't want to pay, then don't charge. I'm so happy. Don't worry, I won't let you go out to sea in vain. I have someone who wants pearls. Just think of it as introducing you to a business. When the time comes, you can discuss the shipping price directly with me."
Qi Xu's hands never stopped moving, and the smile on his face grew bigger and bigger as he teased Zou Yaojie.
Because there are more and more big, fine and beautiful pearls in the white porcelain basin on the table, with more and more colors and even some uncommon types of beads.
Without further ado, as long as the beads are nice looking and of high quality, that’s all good news.
The few of them had peeled off almost enough beads to fill two porcelain basins before they stopped what they were doing.
"It seems that peeling beads is also a delicate and laborious job. Let's take these beads first. We will go to the crystal mine tomorrow to take a look. What is the name of the worker you know? We can contact him directly."
"Qiangzi, full name Wu Guoqiang, should be a small regional manager at the mine. We can talk to him directly about cooperation."
Zou Yaojie told all the information he knew, and he really told everything he knew.
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