"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 poking her teeth from the side 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, I'm afraid this isn't a stone. It looks like a pearl to me. Take a closer look."
Ning Xiyue lowered her head and wiped the rice-sized stone that was ripping her teeth with paper, then held it up to the candlelight and turned it around.
The others leaned forward to look.
This rice-sized, misshapen stone is surprisingly light pink.
Ning Qingyuan saw the pale pink object flashing a little halo as it turned in the candlelight, "Sister, this is a bit like the pearls described in the book."
"It's a pearl." Yu Zhiyu adjusted his glasses on his nose and nodded in confirmation. He continued, "Pearls will sparkle under candlelight. When you turn them, you can see the pearlescent light and a halo. High-quality pearls can even have different colored halos when you turn them under the light."
Yu Zhiyu pointed at the tiny object in Ning Xiyue's hand and said, "Just now, I saw a pearly glow from a certain angle. When you turned it, I also saw a little halo. From this, I can tell that this is a small pearl of decent quality."
Chen Yetu looked at Yu Zhiyu with admiration and a bit of worship.
Liu Yao looked at her cousin with complete admiration.
Yu Zhiyu felt the gaze, and the corners of his mouth rose in a faint smile.
"Brother Zhiyu is amazing. What he said makes sense and has solid evidence." Ning Qingyuan said with a smile, then looked at Ning Xiyue: "Sister, I saw the halo too."
Ning Xiyue didn't pay attention to anything else. All her attention was on her hands. She nodded slowly. She also saw the halo under the candlelight.
This oval, pearl-like object, the size of a grain of rice, was found when eaten from a river clam. The surface was light pink, 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 on scratch-off tickets are greater than this.
Tsk, her luck is amazing. If there were lottery tickets available, she would definitely buy one.
In her previous life, she had been envious of news reports about people finding pearls by eating scallops and clams. She never expected that in a different world and place, this would actually happen 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. They're more suitable for collection and are more valuable."
Ning Xiyue rolled her eyes at it in her mind.
"What do you know? I just found this by luck. To me, it's a hundred times more precious than anything I caught from the sea. Tongzi, you have to remember that the value of some items isn't just measured by the item itself. What's often valuable is the story behind it and the care the person who values it has for it. If I think it's worth it, then it's worth it. These worldly possessions are only valuable when people give them meaning. If I think it's worth it, then it's worth it."
Tongzi stopped talking and digested the thought silently.
She wanted to keep this little pearl. Although it was small and not good-looking, it was the embodiment of her good luck. It would be her lucky pearl from now on. She felt good whenever she saw it.
Ning Xiyue put the beads away 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 have some by eating river clams. Maybe you can actually find one."
Chen Yetu said jokingly and immediately picked up a river clam and put it in his bowl.
"I'll have one too."
Liu Yao followed closely behind, picked up one, and 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 so many delicious foods go to waste.
"Ah, I ate it." Chen Yetu suddenly shouted.
Everyone's eyes shifted to Chen Yetu again, expecting her to find a pearl in her mouth.
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."
"If you've already eaten the stones, then you're not far from the pearls. Come on, continue, drink and eat. 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 ate their own food seriously.
We had a few rounds of drinks together.
Twenty minutes later, Chen Yechu's excited scream attracted everyone's attention again.
"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 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 mussels. However, she didn't expect that they would actually win with such a small chance. Such luck was unparalleled.
Seeing her two friends eat the pearls one after another, Liu Yao felt itchy and said, "I want to try some too."
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