Ruan Tang looked at Jiang Xia in surprise: "Can we still pick up silver?"
This is a beach that is usually submerged in water. Jiang Xia bent down, picked up a white clam and threw it into the bucket: "I was lucky then."
Tian Caihua also saw a white clam and picked it up: "I am more than just lucky! I am extremely lucky! I pick up good things every few days."
Then Tian Caihua vividly described how many good things Jiang Xia had picked up in the sea!
"…They were lucky to be able to buy a big boat so quickly."
Ruan Tang also felt that Jiang Xia was very lucky and said with a smile: "I didn't expect there were so many treasures in the sea! I have to come to the island more often to catch seafood in the future."
Tian Caihua shook her head: "There are so many treasures in the sea! It's just that not everyone can pick them up! It's useless for you to come more often, it depends on luck! I have lived by the sea for more than 30 years, and I deal with the sea almost every day, but I haven't picked up as many things as Xiaoxia did in living by the sea for more than 30 months. Forget gold and silver, I haven't picked up a penny. How unlucky and miserable!"
Ruan Tang laughed.
Jiang Xia bent down and picked up a pearl oyster. The pearl oyster was not big, so he would put it in the sea. He joked, "So sister-in-law, let's hurry up and pick up things! You just kept talking and missed the good stuff! Look, the sea water is about to rise because of your saliva!"
Ruan Tang smiled secretly.
Tian Caihua also laughed, picked up a white sand snail and threw it into the bucket: "I wish I were that powerful! If I were that powerful, I would suck up all the sea water immediately, and we would go to the bottom of the sea to pick up treasures! But I don't have that ability, nor that luck, so I can only rely on your luck and pick up some small fish and shrimp to make a little money. Second sister-in-law, I'll tell you a secret, your luck will get better if you follow Xiaoxia, and you should do whatever Xiaoxia does in the future! I won't tell anyone else!"
Ruan Tang thought Tian Caihua was joking, so she smiled and agreed, "Really?"
Tian Caihua nodded: "Of course it's true! I have personally verified it many times! She is so lucky, we can also become lucky if we take advantage of her!"
Ruan Tang smiled and rubbed Jiang Xia's arm: "Give me some good fortune! Let me also pick up gold, silver, pearls, and jade."
Jiang Xia said with a smile: "Go ahead! You can make a fortune by rubbing your hands!"
As soon as Jiang Xia finished speaking, Ruan Tang stepped on something hard.
She looked down and saw something with a silver edge sticking out from the sand.
Ruan Tang thought he had stepped on an aluminum lunch box and joked, "It seems to be true. I found some silver."
Ruan Tang squatted down and started digging with a shovel.
Once the sand was dug up, a large piece of silver was revealed underneath.
Huh? It doesn't look like aluminum rice?
Tian Caihua and Jiang Xia glanced at each other.
Jiang Xia: “…”
It felt very similar to the silver plate she had picked up before.
Tian Caihua rushed over immediately!
"Really? Silver? You found some silver too?"
I shouldn’t have told Ruan Tang if I had known this!
Ruan Tang was still digging. Tian Caihua disliked her slowness and simply used both hands to push the sand away.
Soon, a solid silver object about the shape and size of a plate appeared.
Tian Caihua picked up the solid silver plate, her hands shaking: "Xiao Xia, is the silver plate you picked up before like this?"
Jiang Xia squatted down, took a look, and nodded: "Well, the shape is almost the same. The size is different."
Hers is thicker, Ruan Tang's is smaller.
Ruan Tang couldn't hide her surprise: "Is it really silver?"
Jiang Xia took it, weighed it, and took another look: "It's about right, it should be more than seven kilograms, almost eight kilograms."
Tian Caihua: “…”
no?
We are all daughters-in-law of the Zhou family!
Why were they able to pick up the silver plate but I couldn't?
Ruan Tang was a little confused: "But why is it in this shape?"
Shouldn't it be silver bars, silver dollars or something like that?
Jiang Xia explained: "This should be silver smelted from discarded electronic products and films. Then it was placed in a plate during purification, so it became this shape."
Ruan Tang knew that some electronic products and video films contained silver. She took it and said, "I wonder how much this can be sold for? I seem to have heard that the price of silver has been falling since last year?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Yes, it has been falling since last year, and it will continue to fall. It will fall even more next year, so if you want to sell, sell it as soon as possible. If you don't want to sell, just keep it for the time being and sell it when it goes up in the future."
Jiang Xia remembered that the book said that silver prices would fall below mining costs next year, and would rise a little the year after, but would start falling again the year after that.
Tian Caihua looked eagerly at the silver plate in Ruan Tang's hand: "Even if it drops further, it's still silver! It's worth a few thousand dollars, right?"
Jiang Xia nodded and said, "Of course. Gold and silver both maintain their value. If you are not short of money, you can sell them later! I estimate that the value will rise a little bit next year."
Jiang Xia sold it the year before last, when the price of silver was at its highest. But it started to fall not long after, and now it has dropped to 80 cents per gram. It will continue to fall next year, even to 60 cents per gram. Some people hoarded silver and made a profit of 300% by reselling it.
"Put it away quickly!" Jiang Xia reminded Ruan Tang.
Ruan Tang quickly stuffed it into the snakeskin bag: "I wonder if there are any more?"
After hearing this, Tian Caihua immediately reached out and rubbed Jiang Xia's arm like Ruan Tang did just now: "You all picked up the silver plate, so it's my turn now, right? Xiaoxia, hurry up and say something."
Jiang Xia said with a smile: "Sister-in-law will definitely make a fortune!"
Tian Caihua was satisfied, and began to look carefully for the gold plate and the silver plate!
Jiang Xia asked her, "Sister-in-law, let's go to the reef area. Do you want to go?"
Tian Caihua waved her hand: "I won't go, I'll see if I can pick up the silver plate."
Oh, God, please open your eyes!
It's her turn to make a fortune, right?
So Jiang Xia and Ruan Tang continued to walk towards the reef.
As soon as the two arrived at the reef, Jiang Xia saw a black fish hiding in the crevice of a puddle.
"There's a fish! Second sister-in-law, help me drive it out. I'll wait here with the net bag."
"good!"
So the two of them divided the work, one picked up the pliers to drive the fish out of the cracks in the rocks, and the other used a net bag to scoop them out.
The fish is also very smart. It tries hard to drill into the cracks in the rocks and refuses to swim out.
Ruan Tang used pliers to clamp it, and it ran out.
Jiang Xia quickly picked it up.
Ruan Tang looked at the black fish and asked, "What kind of fish is this? Is it a yellowfin?"
"Yes, yellowfin fin, this one weighs three pounds, this fish is delicious."
The yellow-winged bird is the yellow-legged bird. It is the first time that Jiangxia has seen such a big yellow-legged bird.
Jiang Xia filled the bucket with some water and put the fish in it.
The puddle was quite large, so Jiang Xia used pliers to poke at the cracks in the rocks to see if there were any fish, shrimps or crabs running out.
As a result, I saw a crab claw sticking out.
"There's another crab, and its claws are very big!" Ruan Tang also saw it and said excitedly.
"It's just a little difficult to pick it out." Jiang Xia changed direction, bent over, and used pliers to clamp it in. He broke the crab claws before he could pick it out.
Ruan Tang laughed and said, "This blue crab is so big. I have never seen such a big blue crab. This crab must be very old, right? There are many barnacles on its body."
Jiang Xia was also a little surprised. "This crab weighs more than three kilograms, almost four kilograms. It must have taken many years to grow to this size."
Jiang Xia heard Zhou Chenglei say that blue crabs can live for twenty years.
This blue crab is probably at least ten years old, if not twenty years old. Judging from its body shape, it looks like the ancestor of blue crabs!
She dropped the crab into the bucket.
The two continued walking forward.
Then Jiang Xia found a pile of scallops and two fish swimming in the ditch among the rocks.
Ruan Tang said excitedly: "So many scallops!"
These scallops opened their mouths in the sea water.
The two men quickly put down their tools, squatted down, and used a net bag and pliers to fish it out.
Jiangxia has a complete range of tools for fishing in the sea, including large and small net bags.
They were all made specially for her by Zhou Chenglei so that she could use them when going to the beach.
The big net bag is used to catch big fish, and the small net bag can be used to catch scallops in the cracks of the rocks like we are doing now.
These scallops do not have byssus, so they can be picked up quickly using pliers and net bags.
Jiang Xia was much more skilled than Ruan Tang. He quickly emptied the net bag into the snakeskin bag.
The two of them were having a great time catching scallops here.
After catching all the larger scallops in the ditch, they filled half a snakeskin bag.
Jiang Xia picked it up, weighed it, and said with a smile, "It's about thirty or forty kilograms."
Ruan Tang was very satisfied to have picked up so many things at once during her first time at the beach. "It's a great harvest today. Let's keep going."
Jiang Xia: "Just leave the snakeskin bag here! It's too heavy to carry."
There were only a few of them on the entire island, so there was no need to worry about being robbed.
So the two of them continued forward carrying only the empty buckets and fishing tools.
Jiang Xia reminded Ruan Tang: "Be careful, don't fall."
The reefs are hidden under the water all year round, a bit slippery, and some of the cracks in the reefs are covered with barnacles.
After walking for a while, the two came across a small puddle. This puddle was relatively shallow, but there were many snails and barnacles on the stone walls beside the puddle.
Densely covered with snails and barnacles
The two of them picked up all the large spicy snails.
There are more than ten kilograms of spicy snails.
Ruan Tang: "Going to the sea on the islands will yield more than going to the beach at home."
Jiang Xia: "This place is far from the shore, so not many people come here. There are still many oysters on the reef wall over there. The oysters we eat at home are usually pried here. But now the weather is hot, the oysters are not plump anymore."
In their waters, oysters are at their plumpest in winter and spring.
After picking up the spicy snails, the two continued walking forward and saw two stone crabs in a small ditch.
Stone crabs don’t taste good and Jiang Xia doesn’t like them either, so the two of them let it go.
The two continued to move forward, and Jiang Xia discovered a piece of Buddha's hand snail, also known as gooseneck barnacles.
Jiang Xia squatted down and pried one out to confirm whether it was a Buddha's hand snail. It was indeed.
"I heard this barnacle is delicious."
Ruan Tang took a look and felt that the snail meat looked like claws: "Is it edible? I don't dare to eat it when I see it like this."
“Yes, it’s very expensive abroad.”
"Should we pry some of it back?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "Forget it, I don't dare to eat it either."
Then they both laughed.
Continuing forward, we found that the stone wall was covered with black snails.
Ruan Tang: "What kind of snail is this? Why does it look a bit like the stone snails in the river?" (End of this chapter)
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