As they were talking, the carriage stopped at the clam field.
As soon as I got off the carriage, a gust of hot and humid air hit me in the face.
"Miss." The manager of the clam farm walked forward with a smile on his face. He looked behind her and found that the young master had not come. He asked in confusion: "Miss, where is the young master?"
Li Xia Xia frowned: "Why? If your young master doesn't come, can't I come? Can't I do business?"
Upon hearing this, the steward waved his hands hastily, "No, no, no, that's not what I meant. It's just that the young master gave instructions yesterday, saying that a distinguished guest is coming to take clams, and I have already prepared 10,000 Dongzhu clams."
"Lead the way." Li Xia Xia was too lazy to say more to him. The people in this village all belonged to Daddy and Li Quan. It seemed that if the Queen wanted to control this place, she would have to replace them all with her own.
Shang Ruoyi followed him to the clam farm, where she saw hundreds of clam ponds, each with tens of thousands of pearl clams.
No wonder the Li family's business is so big. I don't know how much silver this Dongzhu oyster would sell for.
"Miss, look, this small pond contains the pearl clams that are for our distinguished guests."
Shang Ruoyi looked in the direction of his finger and saw several workers screening pearl clams in the small pond.
The steward smiled flatteringly: "Do you think it's satisfactory?"
Li Xia Xia looked at it and blinked, somewhat unsure.
Although the Li family has been raising Eastern pearl clams for many years, she has no knowledge of these clams. Her father usually gives her some Eastern pearls to play with, and she has never seen Eastern pearl clams many times, and has only been to this clam farm twice.
When the steward saw her like this, he sneered in his heart, thinking that what the eldest young master said was indeed right, the eldest young lady really knew nothing.
Originally, they were indeed preparing to sell some better quality Eastern Pearl Mussels, but just now the eldest young master sent a message asking them to replace all the original Eastern Pearl Mussels with the worst quality ones. They had already screened out a batch of dying Eastern Pearl Mussels, so he asked them to replace the shells quickly.
Li Xia Xia coughed a few times and said to Shang Ruoyi, "Sister Shang, are you satisfied?"
Shang Ruoyi looked at Manager Lin and said with a smile, "Manager Lin, how many years have you worked in this mussel farm?"
"To be honest, I have been working here for eighteen years."
Shang Ruoyi nodded: "It seems that Manager Lin's eyesight and understanding are too poor."
When Manager Lin heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked. Could it be that she saw through his tricks?
How can this be?
How could she, a little girl, know so much?
"Why do you say that, my dear guest?"
"Your clam shells are really pitifully small, and many of them are dead, or half dead. Why should I buy such Dongzhu clams?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Are you selling me 30,000 taels of garbage from the clam farm? You Li family are really good at calculating, the abacus beads are jumping on my face."
When Manager Lin heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat. She, she actually knew it.
"Why, how can it be?" He smiled awkwardly and said, "I'll go and see if those servants installed it wrong." He didn't wait for Shang Ruoyi to speak and trotted away.
Li Xia Xia's face flushed when she saw this. She never expected that these lowly people would pretend to obey but actually disobey.
"How dare he fool me?" Li Xia Xia said to Shang Ruoyi, "Sister Shang, I really didn't know it would be like this."
"If you want to completely control the Li family, you must know everything about the Dongzhu Bang." Shang Ruoyi looked at her and said in a deep voice: "Otherwise, you will overthrow your half-brother and will not be able to protect the Li family's assets."
Hearing this, Li Xia Xia looked at Shang Ruoyi with even more admiration, and made up her mind: "Sister Shang, if you are willing to help me, I am willing to give you the third largest portion of the Li family's assets."
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "I don't want your Li family's property, I just want you to give me some Dongzhu clams."
As he was talking, Manager Lin came back and wiped the sweat off his head. "Dear guest, you are so kind. If you hadn't discovered it in time, I would have really gotten into big trouble. Those lowly people took the wrong Dongzhu oyster and put it in the wrong place."
Li Xia Xia's eyes were as sharp as a knife, and she said angrily: "Why don't you do it again? Ten thousand clams, I'm afraid it will take several hours. If you can't even do such a small thing, I think you should resign from your position as manager and go home to retire!"
Manager Lin was dissatisfied, but he did not dare to show it, and nodded and bowed in agreement.
Shang Ruoyi walked around the clam farm a few times, and suddenly, when she passed a clam pond, the space, which had never made any noise before, suddenly shook.
She stopped suddenly.
Was it just her illusion?
She looked at the pool intently, and suddenly, she found that she could see everything at the bottom of the pool clearly, and wherever her eyes went, she could see everything in the pearl oysters clearly.
She blinked, thinking she was hallucinating, and then she focused her attention and found that many of the pearl clams in the pond contained pearls, some of which were extremely large.
"Sister Shang, what are you looking at?" Li Xia Xia looked at the slightly turbid water: "I can't see clearly here!"
"Can't you see the bottom of the pool?"
Li Xia Xia shook her head: "The water in this pond is so turbid, the pearl clams in it are probably almost all dead!"
Shang Ruoyi raised her eyebrows slightly. Could this be some special power?
Manager Lin walked up to her and saw her looking at the pearl clams in the pond. He smiled and said, "My dear guest, the clams in this pond are not very good. I just picked out a lot of them from other ponds for you. They are all top-notch. You can definitely take some home to feed them."
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "If I want the one in the pool, is that okay?"
"Of course!" Manager Lin said quickly, "Then I'll tell our subordinates to pick one for you here, but please don't blame me if I can't support it when I go back."
He waved his hand, and saw several workers coming over with very long net bags.
Shang Ruoyi thought of the several huge oriental pearls she had just seen, and stepped forward quickly: "I just saw that salvaging is very interesting, I want to try it, I wonder if it is possible?"
"Of course you can, but salvaging requires a lot of arm strength, even for men it's very strenuous, so you'd better not try it."
"It's okay. I'll give it a try." She took the net bag and focused her attention on her eyes. The next moment, everything at the bottom of the pond appeared before her eyes. She accurately fished out the pearl oyster containing the huge pearl.
When Manager Lin saw that what she had fished out were all black clam shells, a look of disdain flashed across his eyes.
He thought he had met some great master, but it turned out that he was just a layman who knew nothing.
He had been raising pearl oysters for so many years, and had opened several relatively round pearls, all of which were in green shells. This kind of black shells usually contained nothing.
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