Chapter 67: Treasures from Toes
The three of them walked about ten meters away and heard a noise behind them.
A big dog suddenly appeared out of nowhere and ran towards the three of them, shaking its khaki fur as it went.
rhubarb?
Liang Ziqiang thought about it and it was true. Since Chen Xiangbei dared to come to his house alone, it must be because Dahuang accompanied her all the way.
I didn’t know where Dahuang was playing just now, but now that it saw its owner walking towards the beach, it seemed to be afraid of losing him, so it chased after him in a hurry.
"Da Huang, are you going to the sea too? Can you dig in the sand? Can you catch fish?"
When Liang Lizhi saw Da Huang following her, she turned around and started chatting with him, and she was quite engaged in the conversation...
It was okay. At least today she didn't ask a life-threatening question like last time, "Who do you choose between my second sister-in-law and the mermaid?"
Dahuang is quite adaptable to Liang Lizhi's communication style. He sometimes shakes his head and wags his tail, and sometimes nods. He looks very calm and has no obstacles in cross-border communication.
After walking for a while, the three people and the dog arrived at the beach.
Facing the sea breeze, Liang Lizhi pulled Chen Xiangbei and ran along the open beach.
Needless to say, Liang Lizhi was extremely cheerful. Chen Xiangbei also seemed to have just been released from a cage. She completely changed her usual calm appearance and ran along happily.
How could Da Huang be missing in such an exciting moment? He barked a few times and followed the two girls, twisting his waist and looking a little more graceful.
Well, the four of them came out together, and now it seems that Liang Ziqiang was left alone...
When he caught up, Chen Xiangbei had already stopped there, squatting on the ground, studying something.
"What's wrong?"
"I was just running when something hit my foot. I stopped to take a look, but I didn't know what it was. It was pretty good-looking, so you should know what it was, right?"
Chen Xiangbei continued to pick with her fingers, and the shell in the sand gradually emerged in its entirety.
"It's probably flowers..."
Liang Ziqiang didn't think much about it, thinking that what appeared on the beach was most likely clams.
But before he could finish his words, Chen Xiangbei dug out the entire shell and put it in her palm. It was almost as big as her palm.
Liang Ziqiang's throat was choked by saliva as he was speaking.
First of all, this is definitely not clams.
The whole clam is slightly long and narrow, shaped like a wing, and the color flashing on the surface of the shell is actually quite dazzling.
At first glance it looks like silver, but upon closer inspection you can see that the silver has a rose gold color.
Chen Xiangbei obviously noticed its beauty, so she held it up and looked at it again and again in the not-too-strong sunlight in the sky.
The luster suddenly became more obvious. Even though the sun was not shining today, the wing-like clam still shone an even more brilliant rose gold color in the sunlight.
For a moment, the place was full of brilliance, and one could even say it was full of jewels and precious stones! "Could it be that Second Sister-in-law has found a treasure?"
Seeing that the clam was so beautiful, Liang Lizhi couldn't help but ask.
Liang Ziqiang felt that this might be the most reliable sentence the silly girl had ever said since she was born.
It's certainly not a treasure, but it's definitely a treasure! Liang Ziqiang took the clam from his wife, changed the angle, and shone it against the sun, which made him more certain.
"Ji clam, this is it!" Liang Ziqiang looked at his wife in disbelief, "You just ran a few steps and you can dig out a Ji clam with the sole of your foot?"
At this moment, Liang Ziqiang really felt that his luck was not as good as hers?
"You clearly dug it out with your hands. Your hands are your feet!" Chen Xiangbei saw from his expression that the thing he accidentally got seemed to be quite valuable. She scolded him and urged him:
"What is Jiha? Is it precious?"
Liang Lizhi also said anxiously:
"Yeah, it doesn't look like a chicken, so why is it called a chicken clam? Come on, second brother, tell me about it!"
Liang Ziqiang ignored Lizhi's nonsense and replied to Chen Xiangbei: "Usually, clams and the like only sell for a little over one yuan for more than ten pounds. This thing, just this one, costs more than fifty yuan!"
Chen Xiangbei gasped.
She knew exactly how big a portion of 50 yuan was. Usually, watermelons at home only cost a few cents per pound.
Just this one clam in her hand is equivalent to selling hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of watermelons at her home!
Lizhi doesn't have a clear concept of money, but she has her own unique standard to measure value!
She tilted her head and thought for a while, then asked:
"The clam meat here must be delicious, a thousand times more delicious than clams?"
In fact, thousands of clams combined may not be as valuable as this one. But it has nothing to do with the meat.
Liang Ziqiang glanced at her and said:
"You can eat the meat if you want, but just leave the shell to me. The value of the clam lies in its shell!"
Then he told Chen Xiangbei: "Two years ago, someone in the village also picked up a giant clam, but what he picked up was not a live one, but two empty shells. He was not sure how much he could sell it for, so he took it to a store in the city that specializes in buying shells while he was in town to do some business.
People told him that if the shell of the clam was intact, it could be sold for fifty or sixty yuan. The problem was that he was careless on the way into the city and crushed the shell. He came back in tears, crying like a baby in the last month of pregnancy!
"It was selling for fifty or sixty two years ago. Would it be higher now?" Chen Xiangbei began to daydream after hearing this.
"That should be the case. That's why I said at least fifty or more!"
"It's so valuable. What other uses does this shell have besides being beautiful? Even if it looks beautiful, no one would wear such a big thing on their body, right?" Chen Xiangbei still felt a little unbelievable.
"You're right. Since ancient times, oyster shells have been used to make jewelry. Being big is not a bad thing. It means that you can make a lot of jewelry..."
After Liang Ziqiang said this, Chen Xiangbei suddenly understood something.
In fact, it is precisely because of the precious color of the giant clam and its ability to flash unique reflected light in the sun that it has been used to make jewelry since ancient times.
This is different from pearl oysters. Those oysters may have one or two pearls in their shells, but the flesh of the oyster clams does not contain pearls, but its entire shell itself is a jewel!
Liang Ziqiang estimated that it must have been during high tide that this rare clam was washed onto the beach and was half buried in the sand.
When Chen Xiangbei just ran over, the exposed small corner of it hit her foot directly. When she lowered her head, she found a windfall.
Hearing that the ji hake was so valuable, Chen Xiangbei became cautious. Seeing that he kept walking around to look at it, she pulled him aside to stop him from walking: "Hey, you! Be careful! Didn't someone say that someone accidentally broke it? Stop walking around."
After saying that, she was still worried, so she simply reached out, grabbed his arm, and took it from him.
Then, as if holding an ancestor, he slowly put it into the bucket.
In fact, how can the giant clam be so easily broken? The man in the village put a heavy object together with it, which caused it to be crushed. It was not unjustified at all.
After confirming that it was put away, Chen Xiangbei stood up, patted the sand on his hands, and said to Liang Ziqiang:
"Okay, let's go, let's go fishing!"
Liang Ziqiang: “???”
So, if you dig up such a valuable item from the beach, it is not called "official sea-hunting"? Chen Xiangbei, have you still not figured out what "sea-hunting" means? See the Easter egg chapter on the next page for the picture of the clam!
(Only unretouched photos were found online, and they looked very sloppily taken. In fact, the clam must be much more beautiful after being cleaned.) Thank you to all the book friends for your recommendation votes, monthly votes, and wonderful praise! Stable updates, welcome to read the latest chapters.
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