"Coming!" Zhou's father responded unhappily, but he couldn't help but take a look at the things in the bag and took a breath!
If he guessed correctly, these were...
Zhou's father signaled Zhou Chenglei to put it away first!
It’s okay if the eldest son saw it, but the eldest daughter-in-law is a mouthfull and she knew about it. It would be troublesome if she accidentally told others about it.
Zhou Chenglei gave the things to Jiang Xia, who took them and put them away in the kitchen.
Father Zhou went to open the door and said to the two people outside, "Why are you shouting so loudly in the middle of the night?"
Tian Caihua: “…”
Is it loud?
That's her normal voice!
"Come in!" Zhou's father stepped aside and quickly closed the gate after the two men entered the yard.
Tian Caihua: “…”
So what?
It's just a shark that was picked up. The whole village saw it.
Did you find another treasure?
As she thought of this, she saw the coconut snail and several conches on the ground!
Tian Caihua rushed over and whispered, "You picked up another coconut snail? Is it open? Why hasn't it opened yet?"
Zhou Chenglei was still processing the shark. "We haven't finished processing the fish yet. Let's start after we finish processing the fish meat."
"Let me help you open it!"
Tian Caihua picked up the snail.
Father Zhou snatched it back: "No need, Xiao Xia will open it later!"
If the eldest daughter-in-law were to open the shop, all the pearls might disappear, and even the good pearls might become bad.
Father Zhou could never forget the time when she opened the pearl oysters but didn't get any pearls out.
Father Zhou can’t afford the gamble!
Tian Caihua: “…”
"Where's Xiao Xia?"
"Here it is! You can eat it right away." Jiang Xia poured shrimps, crabs and other seafood into the porridge.
She also cut some lean meat into it, making the porridge sweeter and more delicious.
Tian Caihua felt that Jiang Xia was really generous!
I left the conch alone and still had the mood to cook porridge.
If she picked up a coconut snail, why would she cook porridge? If she found a pearl, she would be full even if she didn't eat it!
Tian Caihua walked into the kitchen and took the soup spoon from Jiang Xia's hand: "You go and open the conch, I'll do it."
Jiang Xia turned off the fire: "The porridge is ready, and the bowls are clean, you just need to put them away."
"OK."
Jiang Xia walked out and took out the meat of the coconut snail, otherwise Tian Caihua’s porridge would probably have no taste.
The snail meat was taken out, but no pearls were found.
Tian Caihua came out with a few bowls of porridge and was a little disappointed: "There are no pearls?"
Father Zhou couldn't help but mutter inwardly: "It's all your fault!" Xiaoxia and his wife had never found pearls in the coconut snails they collected!
Jiang Xia wasn't surprised. "Isn't this normal? People in the village often pick up these snails, but they don't find pearls when they open them. The chances of this kind of snail containing pearls are very small, otherwise its pearls wouldn't be so expensive."
Tian Caihua: "It's normal for others to not be able to open the pearls they found, but I think it's quite abnormal that you can't open them."
Jiang Xia: “…”
Father Zhou: Isn’t it because some people just lack self-awareness?
But Zhou's father was not too disappointed. After all, all the wealth was in that bag, and the things in that bag were definitely more valuable than a pearl!
He put the fish meat that Zhou Chenglei had prepared in the refrigerator, and then said to everyone, "Okay, let's eat the porridge first!"
After eating the porridge, there are still dozens of kilograms of conchs to be processed. If they are not processed, they will become smelly tomorrow.
So the family ate porridge first, and then cleaned the conchs they picked up, blanched them in boiling water, picked out the snail meat, and put it in the drying room converted from the old house to dry.
It was almost four o'clock when they finished all this, so Tian Caihua and Zhou Chengxin went home to sleep.
Father Zhou closed the gate and asked Jiang Xia quietly, "Where is the bag?"
Jiang Xia took it out from the kitchen.
Father Zhou took it and said, "Go inside and take a look."
Several people went into the house together.
Back in the hall, Father Zhou drew all the curtains and closed the door before saying, "Come out and see what's inside."
Zhou's mother was surprised and asked, "What are you talking about? Why are you being so secretive?"
Father Zhou: "Hush, you'll know in a moment."
Jiang Xia brought out a tray, and Zhou Chenglei carefully poured out the contents of the black cloth bag.
It's a pile of raw crystals.
There are red, yellow, blue, green, pink and white ones. White is the most numerous. There are two yellow and two pink ones, and only one blue, green and red one each. Each one is quite big, but Jiang Xia has no idea how big is left after cutting.
Jiang Xia only knew that these should be raw crystals of gems and diamonds.
White diamond rough crystals are the most numerous. Jiang Xia counted them and found there were thirty-nine.
They varied in size, with the largest one being a little larger than her thumb, while the colored gems were a little larger than that.
This bag of stuff must have been thrown into the sea by the smugglers when they were caught, and then swallowed by a shark.
Of course, this is just Jiang Xia's guess, and we don't know the truth.
Father Zhou also picked up the largest blue stone and examined it. "Could these be unprocessed sapphires, rubies, diamonds, or something like that?"
Although these stones were not shiny and he had never seen what they looked like, he could guess what they should be.
After all, even if you haven't eaten pork, you have seen pigs run.
Zhou Chenglei gave an affirmative answer: "Yes."
Mother Zhou gently touched the smallest diamond and asked, "This tiny diamond is very valuable, right?"
She had seen the ring worn by Mr. Mai's daughter-in-law in Hong Kong. It seemed to be a diamond ring. Tian Caihua asked her how much the ring cost, and she said more than 30,000 US dollars.
A random ring she wore was worth $30,000. When Zhou's mother saw her washing her hands under the faucet, she was worried that the ring would be washed away!
Zhou's mother thought that the diamond ring was already extremely expensive, she didn't know that this was the most low-key one the other party had chosen to wear.
Father Zhou: "Of course they are valuable. These things are packed like this, they must be smuggled goods. Who would risk smuggling them if they are not good goods?"
Zhou's mother nodded, the old man was right!
"Okay, put them away quickly. Anyway, we can't estimate how much they are worth, so hide them first and sell them one by one when you are short of money. Don't sell them all at once."
Father Zhou thought that after selling all these things, he could buy one or two 10,000-ton cargo ships!
The fourth brother wants to start a shipping company. When he was collecting ships two days ago, he ordered a few more ships from the shipyard, including three container ships, two bulk ships, and one fishing boat.
He was also worried that he would order too much at once and wouldn't have enough money to pay for it when the time came.
No worries now!
The fourth brother and his wife have so many treasures to protect them, what are they afraid of?
Even if we give them to Zhang Rong now, he won't be able to tell the value of these stones, because these stones require clarity, carat number, color and cutting, and they have to be taken to a professional organization for testing and appraisal.
But the value is just a number. If Jiang Xia was not short of money, he would not have sold it. He would have kept it to make samples for the future and gave one set to each of the triplets and Zhou Zhou to pass on.
However, I can now take out a few of them to make a custom wedding ring for Jiang Dong.
Zhou Chenglei picked up the tray, and the couple went back upstairs to take a shower and sleep.
Jiang Xia went to take a shower, while Zhou Chenglei washed the small stones, let them dry, and put them back in the safe the next morning.
When Jiang Xia came out of the shower, he saw the small stones and casually placed them on a towel to dry.
She remembered that Zhang Fuyan liked pink, so Jiang Xia took a pink one and put it aside.
The two pink ones were about the same size, and she didn't know which one was better, so she just picked one at random.
Then she took out two more white ones, one large and one small, and put them aside. (End of this chapter)
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