The biggest advantage of traveling by motorcycle is that you can park at any time, Xiao Peng and Emilia are not in a hurry, almost stop when they get to a fun and beautiful place, or Xiao Peng wants to take pictures, or Emilia wants to paint, or the two of them want to take pictures and one to paint, anyway, this road is a joke, and the speed of travel is as slow as possible.

But there's one place that both of them are reluctant to leave once they're in: Yossel National Park.

In fact, to be honest, the scenery here is not as beautiful as Qianli Rock, but it makes Xiao Peng linger, not because of anything else, but because of the Fevre Beach here.

Fevre Beach is the only purple sand beach in the world. This is related to the fact that the rocks here contain manganese garnet, and the beach is originally a purple ore, which is broken into sand by the waves, and the purple color becomes more and more obvious as you go deeper along the beach, and at the end of the beach there is a large area of real purple sand, which is beautiful. Especially when the two of them came here, it was close to sunset, and the sunset shining on the beach was even more beautiful.

"It occurred to me that the tickets here were the best deals of all the toll booths on Highway 1! Xiao Peng kept taking pictures with his camera and said to Amilia.

Emilia smiled and said, "I think so too, look at this purple beach, how beautiful is it?"

Xiao Peng smiled: "This is a place rich in manganese garnet, if you look carefully, you can still find manganese garnet." ”

Garnet is one of the main rock-forming minerals in the upper mantle, because garnet crystals and pomegranate seeds are more similar, so it is named garnet, and garnet with good color and high clarity can become gemstones. Garnet is commonly found in red, but its color range is very broad, covering almost all colors of the entire spectrum.

In the Chinese Bronze Age, garnet was used as abrasives and gemstones, and the 'Ziyawu' recorded in ancient Chinese books refers to garnet.

Now in China, the market for garnet jewelry is too hot, especially for girls, many of them buy garnet at a high price to wear, and keep saying that their garnet is a few A products.

Xiao Peng couldn't laugh or cry about this.

Garnet is never divided into a few A and a few A, and you can find different merchants with a string of garnets to tell you different grade A numbers. These are all ways for traitors to cheat money, but some people still believe it.

Is garnet a gemstone? Yes, but it also has to be divided into what kind of garnet it is! Just like diamond, all diamonds are diamonds, but not all diamonds are diamonds! The higher grade is gemstones, and the rest can only be made of emery。。。。。。

The same goes for garnets. Because of the large garnet content, the origin is almost all over the world, and the types are not the same, and the price gap is also very large. Good garnets are expensive, such as 'Ural emeralds' from the Ural Mountains, which are more valuable than diamonds!

In addition to Ural emeralds, the price of garnet from Mozambique is also very high, while most of the domestic garnets are black in color, so the price is also low. The most important thing to evaluate garnet is the color, which must be bright and pure, and have good transparency. To put it simply, the lighter the color, the better, because garnet itself is a stone with a darker color, the light color is rare, the less impurities it contains, the best if there is no crack, and the more transparent and bright the better.

Emilia listened to Xiao Peng's words, and really went to look for garnet, and Xiao Peng was too lazy to find it, common garnet is divided into six types because of its chemical composition: rhodolite, almandine, spessartite, andradinet, grossular garnet, in addition to the green grade in the gross, other types can only be said to be of average value, and the value of ordinary small crystals is about the same. Let him go to great lengths to find a high-quality spessartite garnet? Xiao Peng might as well enjoy the sunset and sea breeze on the beach.

And the most important and infuriating thing is that garnet can also be artificially synthesized, no matter what gemstone, as long as it can be artificially synthesized, the price will plummet, the most famous is ruby!

Rubies are supposed to be one of the most expensive and rare gemstones on the planet, and as a result, the emergence of artificial rubies has brought the ruby market below the horizon! Only those who really know how to know the value of natural rubies.

Although the price of natural rubies is still sky-high, only the top luxury brands dare to use natural rubies as raw materials. Because people know that they will not use fakes to smash their own brands, they can buy with confidence.

However, many nouveau riche still disdain natural rubies, why? There are too many fakes! You bring a ruby worth tens of millions of dollars, and when you see someone on the road carrying an artificial ruby worth hundreds of dollars, it is even more infuriating that the layman can't tell the difference inside. Personally, I feel like I've eaten a fly.

As a very simple example, Xiao Peng took out a few dollars a Cohiba cigar, Sean and Martin were surprised, but Xiao Peng was wearing a ruby ring worth hundreds of millions on his hand, and they didn't react because they thought it was fake. It's like if you're driving a Ferrari and you're wearing a stall and people will think you're wearing the real thing, and if you're wearing a Boss suit and sitting at a breakfast stall eating churros and drinking bean juice, people will think you're wearing a fake, well, even if someone recognizes it's the real thing, they'll think you're pretending.

In any case, the emergence of artificial garnet has once again hit the market for gem-quality garnets, and the market price has plummeted. Belch. Except for Huaxia.

In the magical country of China, even the oriental cypress in the green belt can be transformed into a cliff cypress that has been beaten by wind and rain on Taihang Mountain for thousands of years, what else is impossible?

Seeing Emilia having fun on the beach, Xiao Peng took the opportunity to set up his tent: "Amilia, do you need me to help you set up a tent?"

"No, I'm going to do it myself. Emilia had a lot of backbone and ran back to set up her own tent. Xiao Peng saw that she was serious, took out a can of Coke from the motorcycle storage compartment and drank it all, and then took out the Swiss Army knife he carried with him and carved it on the can.

Emilia set up the tent, watched Xiao Peng take a knife to the can, and leaned over: "Xiao, what are you doing?"

Xiao Peng smiled: "I'm preparing dinner?"

Emilia wondered, "What does dinner have to do with cans?"

"Let's put it this way, I grew up by the sea, and for me, finding food by the sea is as easy as a vacation, and I will let you feel it today. ”

Xiao Peng cut off the top end of the can, leaving about 2/3 of the place, and went to find a waste newspaper to roll up, and tightly stuffed it into the can, and then Xiao Peng found a candle for lighting at night, lit it, and dripped the hot wax on the newspaper in the can.

The more Emilia looked, the more confused she became: "What is this doing?"

Xiao Peng replied with a smile: "Make a small stove, don't underestimate this little thing, after these waxes have penetrated into the newspaper, this small stove can burn continuously for at least forty minutes, and it is very convenient to have a few in the field." ”

Emilia was also interested in hearing this, and also made a small can stove. Xiao Peng took out a small stainless steel bowl and handed it to Amilia: "There are oysters on the reef, you go and pry some." It's better to look for a bigger one. Emilia went happily, while Xiao Peng took out his fishing rod and started Lua, and it didn't take long for Xiao Peng to catch two sea bass. To be exact, there are three, one of which is too small, and it is put back into the sea, God knows where the fishing policeman is hiding and staring at him, Xiao Peng does not dare to go into the water to catch California red abalone! This sea area is forbidden to fish for red abalone.

In normal times, you can't find these fishermen with lanterns, but when you violate the rules, these fishermen will appear in front of you in an instant, which is more magical than the Japanese ninjas.

Xiao Peng went to the sea again, picked some kelp seaweed and the like, and returned to the shore, Emilia also dug a bowl of small oysters and came back: "Xiao Peng, do you see that these are enough?"

Xiao Peng smiled: "Enough is enough." After saying that, he dug a pit directly on the beach, put the finished canning stove at the bottom of the pit, took out a flue, went around to find some firewood, and then spread kelp and seaweed on it, processed the two fish and put them on the kelp, and roasted them directly on the fire.

Another can oven is used to cook oysters, which are boiled directly in clean seawater, with some seaweed in them, and it's as simple as that.

Emilia was puzzled: "Xiao, why don't you just grill the fish directly in the can oven?"

Xiao Peng said: "This can stove can be used to cook things on fire, but it can't be used to bake directly, after all, there are candles in it, and it will be harmful to the human body if you bake it directly." It doesn't matter if it's just me, but you can't eat candle-flavored things, right? This layer of sea vegetables is laid down to roast the flavor into the fish on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is to isolate the damage of wax to the human body. Let's just eat some of them today, and tomorrow I'll buy spices and stuff like that, so we can make more delicious food. ”

Emilia sniffed hard: "Xiao, I think it will be delicious this way, I can already smell the aroma of grilled fish." ”

Xiao Peng smiled: "Don't worry, you can eat it in a while." I have bread in my bag, you bake it now and eat it together later!"

Emilia shook her head and sat there motionless: "I don't want to leave here, this fish is too fragrant, I can't smell enough." ”

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And in the distance in a car: "Ivan, I've had enough! This is not a human work! I don't want to nibble on hard bread! I don't want sausages! I'm going down to eat grilled fish." ”

"Mozkov, be calm, wait until we wreck their car at night, their speed is slow, we can eat whatever we want! Think about when we were in Africa, now we are very happy, aren't we?"

"Ivan, there is a saying in Huaxia, 'It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift', which is so correct. ”

"Okay, don't complain, keep an eye on it, and when they fall asleep, solve this trouble. Damn, these damn mosquitoes!"