Chapter 788: Falling into the Diamond Pit

Leisurely days can pass quickly, or they can pass very slowly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than two months and almost three months since Li Shenxing left South Korea, and they have also driven from New York to Boston, Albany, Syracuse, to Kingston, Ontario, Toronto, Niaraga Falls, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and finally Chicago, Illinois.

Seeing too much good scenery can also cause visual fatigue, so the family of four stayed in Chicago for two weeks to recuperate, and then set off again in the RV.

First the first location is Indianapolis, then Louisville, Kentucky, then Lexington, Cincinnati, Ohio, Columbus, Cleveland, then Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and finally back to New York.

This trip is just a cursory acquaintance with some of the beautiful scenery and cities in the eastern part of the United States, although there are still many places that have not been visited, but this is still reserved for them to enjoy the eastern scenery in the future, now they just want to rest first stop and have a good rest, and then go back to Los Angeles to spend the sunny winter, the eastern winter is full of snow is too cold.

Hehe, if it weren't for coming back to experience the annual Oyster Festival, Li Shenxing would definitely not be back in New York again.

Early in the morning, Li Shenxing drove a newly rented red Range Rover and his family to Long Island.

The North Shore of Long Island, known as the Gold Coast, is like a necklace full of pearls, hidden among the lush green pines and cypresses.

In the 100 years described in Nelson DeMiller's book "The Gold Coast", America's richest families, most prestigious families, most powerful families, and largest criminal families are arranged in a staggered manner on this coastline, so that each pearl on this necklace has a mystery in its brilliant brilliance.

It can be said that every pearl is a masterpiece, history, humanities, science and technology, finance, military, sports, media, art, etc., no matter how strong the curiosity of outsiders, as long as the descendants of the owner of the mansion are alive, this pearl will never be easy to appear.

But today they didn't come to enjoy the beauty of Long Island, in front of the oyster festival, the scenery, ancient castles, former residences of celebrities and everything had to be leaned aside.

It only takes 40 minutes to drive from Flushing to Oyster Bay Beach Resort, Li Shenxing thought they had come early, but when he drove the car to the parking lot, he found that the parking lot had been occupied by more than half of the cars, so he was so frightened that Li Shenxing quickly found a place to park the car, for fear that there would be no parking space a little later.

In addition to the parking lot, they saw small handicraft vendors on both sides of the street, but for the family of four who came hungry to eat, food was the object of their attention now, and it was a little cold today, so they decided to go for a bowl of rich and creamy oyster soup first.

The creamy raw soup is delicious and heavy, but for those who don't eat seafood often, it may feel a little greasy, but the family of four is satisfied with the food, and it tastes better when eaten with bread.

After eating a simple breakfast, the family of four had the heart to go shopping.

In addition to the small vendors of various handicrafts here, there are dozens or hundreds of food trucks on the scene, where you can eat fresh oysters, fried oysters, roasted oysters and other delicious food, as well as hot dog sausages, roasted corn, turkey legs and various snacks and other options, but in the food stalls here can be described as a sea of people, seeing so many people here, Xiaoli can't help but sigh that it can be squeezed like this in the United States~!

In addition to eating oysters all at once, there are performances, competitions, demonstrations and more, and of course, the children's favorite playground.

Seeing the little peas and buns in the playground, they couldn't walk, so Li Shenxing and Xiaoli took them to play all the entertainment facilities in the playground, and Li Shenxing, who was lucky, also won a few puppet dolls for the children.

There is also a special handicraft market at the event site, and the development of handmade products in Laomei is quite good, and many places have special handicraft shops or special markets.

Craftsmen create themselves as if they were artists, and no matter whether their products are truly sought after by the public, or even whether they are exquisitely made, they have the confidence and confidence to bring out their own production and creativity and put them on the table for everyone to buy.

For example, in the small stall in front of Li Shenxing, the stall owner dressed up the garlic in the store like a bunch of flowers, but in the eyes of Li Shenxing, a 'rough man', it felt strange.

Some farms produce pure wool products, and also pull alpacas to advertise, but Li Shenxing feels that everyone pays more attention to those calm alpacas than wool products, saying that this is the first time Li Shenxing has seen the famous ****, but seriously, this alpaca's hairstyle is really sharp enough.

The children like these little alpacas very much, and the appearance of the young alpacas is really cute, many women take out their mobile phones to take pictures of them, even Xiaoli is no exception, let Li Shenxing take a photo of her and the children and alpacas, and finally Xiaoli also 'forced' Li Shenxing to also come to a group photo, and then looked at Li Shenxing's aggrieved appearance in the photo, which really made Xiaoli laugh for a long time.

Today they not only ate a lot of delicacies, but also watched the exciting oyster peeling competition, you must know that peeling oysters is not an easy thing, everyone who has peeled oysters knows it, so when the first place peeled 22 oysters in one minute, Li Shenxing applauded him from the bottom of his heart to celebrate, which is really amazing.

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The two-day oyster festival passed like this, and Li Shenxing's family started their self-driving trip again.

After going around Philadelphia, Washington, Charlotte, Miami, and New Orleans, they came to the 'Diamond Pit' state park in Arkansas.

Originally, this place was not on their itinerary, but after Xiaoli saw on the news two days ago that a couple had dug up a diamond weighing 6.35 carats, their itinerary took a big turn.

According to Xiaoli on the Internet, all the diamonds in this park are casually let tourists dig, the masonry dug belongs to tourists, and there is no additional fee, only the entrance fee to the park is charged, the park ticket is $6 per adult, children between the ages of 6 and 12 are $3 per person, children under 6 years old are free of charge, if visitors do not bring tools, the park also provides rental and sale of tools services.

According to the park's official website, more than 25,714 diamonds have been found here since it opened, which equates to an average of one to two diamonds being found every day, and of these diamonds, more than 700 diamonds exceed 1 carat.

Diamonds~!A luxury that women can't resist, and digging treasures or something, it's really interesting, and it's worth experiencing.

In addition to the principle of 'the discoverer is the owner', Diamond Cit Park also has the selling point that any stone can be identified and certified free of charge.

The first diamond in the "Diamond Pit" was discovered by local farmer John in August 1906, when he was said to have bought the land for only $100 and a mule.

Later, while working, he was suddenly attracted by a shiny stone in the soil, so he took the stone to the grinding wheel to polish, but the grinding wheel was a big gap, so he quickly reflected, this is pie in the sky, and finally the two stones were transferred to a jewelry store in New York, one is a 2.95-carat diamond, the other is a 1.5-carat diamond.

It's a pity that the farmer John's family did not make a fortune because of this, only made a small fortune, because he wanted to settle the bag for a quick cash, not long after the news spread, he decisively sold the land to others at a price of 36,000 US dollars, and then the seller subcontracted layer by layer, triggering a 'diamond digging fever', unknown Americans rushed to the local mining, which had many bad consequences for the local environment.

Finally, in 1972, the Arkansas government could not bear it anymore and had no choice but to buy it, and then the government called in a professional organization to evaluate it, and the result of the assessment was that it was not suitable for commercial mining.

Because this 15-hectare park was originally a 95-million-year-old volcanic passage, when the volcano erupted, the diamonds produced were thrown into the upper part of the lava, so a large number of small diamonds were buried under the shallow surface, but due to the small market demand for small carat diamonds, and mining companies could not increase production after digging deeper, this chicken diamond crater has the opportunity to be transformed into a state park.

However, in order to prevent greedy tourists from digging destructively in the park, the park prohibits the carrying of any tools with mechanical parts such as engines and wheels, and in order to maintain the order of excavation, the park staff also starts the machine every month to plow the land that visitors "dig three feet into the ground" again, otherwise the park will be no different from the destroyed mine.

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