Chapter 246 A Mistake of a Billion
Jiang Jianni was still in shock when she escaped home. She immediately asked when she was going back, saying that she missed Lu Xiangyang and wanted to go back.
Lu's father chuckled, "Young people these days have no shame at all."
Do you think these are things a couple says in bed? Can you say them in public?
Lu's mother glared at him: "Go to the sandpit and see your grandson!"
Jiang Jianni told Lu's mother about the yard renovation plan, and Lu's mother told Lu Xiangnan and Tang Tian.
The couple immediately decided to plant jackfruit.
This thing is sturdy and durable, doesn't need much care, and produces a lot of fruit.
Not only Tang Tian likes to eat it, but Jiang Jiani does too.
Jiang Jianni suggested that if they couldn't finish eating them, they could dry them to make dried jackfruit, which they could then take back to their hometown. Tang Tian was immediately tempted.
As for the ground, we chose to pave it with stone slabs.
However, a 2x2 pit was specially left, which was filled with beach sand transported back from the beach.
The four kids' favorite thing to do now is to dig around in the sandpit.
Even the neighbor's one-year-old son likes this sandpit.
With this sandpit, the child watchers immediately stepped back to the side.
As long as you keep an eye on the child to prevent them from getting blinded, you don't need to do anything else.
Mr. Lu stormed out, huffing, "Hmph, woman, hmph, woman."
Old women and young women are both women.
They're all so annoying.
Lu's mother patted the chair next to her, gesturing for Jiang Jianni to sit down, and asked in a puzzled tone, "What's wrong? Isn't it fun? Wasn't it supposed to be a barbecue party?"
"You young people should really like this kind of thing, right?"
She liked it when she was young.
No, the whole country was poor back then.
A group of young people gathered together, and all they could eat were roasted soybeans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and persimmons; there was absolutely no meat.
However, the focus of such gatherings is not on eating and drinking, but on socializing with peers, so what you eat is not important.
Jiang Jiani and her friends have a lot of meat at their barbecue.
Not only does it have seafood that's rare and hard to find elsewhere, but it also has pork, beef, lamb, and everything else you could want.
Jiang Jianni didn't go empty-handed; she bought two cases of Coke and had them delivered to her.
If it weren't for the fact that everyone said they were young people, Lu's mother herself would have wanted to go too.
Jiang Jianni immediately shook her head: "Yes, I thought the young people people were talking about were all between eighteen and thirty years old, but it turns out they are all young people in their early twenties."
"I'm already married, it would be too embarrassing for me to hang out with a bunch of young people, so I came back early."
It's all nonsense.
The girls are all around twenty years old, or at most forty or fifty.
But there's another guy who's thirty-one.
The thing is, regardless of whether they're eighteen or thirty-one, they're all aiming for marriage.
And her?
She's the only one who's married.
Jiang Jiani was left feeling awkward, speechless, and amused all at the same time.
She deeply regretted that she had answered yes when people asked her if she was a member of the Lu family.
Ahhh.
That's really out of their mind.
She should have said her real name, Jiang Jiani, instead of assuming she was called Lu Jiani.
But it's hard to say.
If you say your name is Jiang Jiani, people might mistake you for a relative of the Lu family.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but slump back in her chair and sigh, "Ah, I want to go home."
The things that young people do now are, frankly speaking, things that young people did in the past.
After a moment's thought, Lu's mother understood what had happened to Jiang Jiani.
Speechless yet amused, I comforted them, "Didn't we plan to leave the day after tomorrow?"
"If you don't feel like going out for the next couple of days, how about you buy something to take back with you?"
The only downside to being on the island is that you have to wait for a boat to come if you want to leave.
This place is too far from the mainland, unlike the islands where it's close to the mainland and you can take a boat every day.
The boats here make a round trip every ten days.
It is unlikely to change unless there are special circumstances.
Whether you want to come or leave, it depends on other people's schedules.
The day after tomorrow is the date of my next trip back to the mainland.
Jiang Jianni perked up immediately upon hearing about local specialties: "There's a pearl farm here, I'll go buy some pearls."
She had watched a live broadcast of pearl dissection in modern times.
The pearls that were cut out of the clam were all perfectly round and colorful, and some even had specific shapes.
She didn't know much about jewelry, but looking at those colors and shapes, she didn't find them very beautiful, and besides, they were very expensive.
I hesitated again and again, but still couldn't bring myself to spend the money.
To my surprise, when I arrived here, I discovered that pearl farming had already been going on for some time.
When she visited the farm, she learned from the staff that they had been engaged in pearl farming since the late 1970s, when the reform and opening up had just begun.
Over the years, they have made a fortune.
Even the price of pearls has come down.
For example, right now, she dares to set her sights on pearls.
Do what you want to do.
The next day, Jiang Jianni went straight to the pearl farm and bought a liter of pearls of all sizes, spending two or three thousand yuan.
While picking pearls with others, Jiang Jianni noticed some oddly shaped pearls in a box nearby and couldn't help but ask, "How much are these?"
The person in charge glanced at it and said, "You want it? I'll give it to you. It's worthless."
Jiang Jianni couldn't help but scream, "Worthless? Baroque pearls are very expensive, how can they be worthless?"
The person in charge was baffled: "These pearls are so ugly, they're really worthless. They used to be sold to pharmacies or given away as gifts."
Jiang Jianni immediately clutched her chest, looking heartbroken: "Give it away for free? You, you really are..."
Pointing to a box of 1.8-centimeter pearls, she said, "If these pearls are big enough and have a unique color and shape, one of them can be worth a liter of this kind."
"Foreigners have even given this type of pearl a special name: Baroque pearl."
"It is because these pearls are unique that they can be made into unique jewelry."
She rattled off many stories about pearls.
She initially wanted to buy beads in the live stream, but ultimately didn't because there were too many fakes in the industry.
But she bought a pearl necklace.
As a result, I researched a lot of information about pearls.
For example, Baroque pearls were very popular for a period of time in the 17th and 18th centuries, East Sea pearls and South Sea pearls have always been highly sought after in China, and the most expensive Melo pearls, also known as conch pearls, etc.
For example, when Huang and Yang got married, they borrowed priceless, irregularly shaped pearl jewelry.
The person in charge was dumbfounded.
Looking at the large box of oddly shaped pearls in the corner, his vision blurred for a moment: "You, you mean, these pearls are also very valuable?"
Jiang Jianni sighed, "Not all pearls can be called Baroque pearls."
"A pearl must be well-formed and have a skilled craftsman who can bring out its unique characteristics and beauty to be called a Baroque pearl."
"This proportion is about 10% of baroque pearls. A small portion can be used to make regular videos, and the rest are the really bad ones, which can only be used for medicine or other purposes."
"However, if even one high-quality pearl can be found, its price can be many, many times higher than that of ordinary pearls."
Because beautiful, baroque pearls are much rarer than round pearls.
The person in charge's expression suddenly became strange, neither crying nor laughing.
Jiang Jianni sighed.
Let's be reasonable.
She truly understands that feeling of missing out on something immensely.
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