538.The Bird of Paradise (2)
Li Du incarnated as a hardworking little farmer, searching hard in the pile of stones. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He knew that he had won the gamble, that there was no suspense in winning, and that he had won it neatly.
But he can't show the results directly, otherwise it is easy to arouse doubts.
In this way, he can only pretend to be searching for gems very hard, and quickly use a small pickaxe to pull apart the stones and search for traces of gems.
Pretending to be more than not being able to reveal makes him feel very aggrieved, and what is even more aggrieved is that there are still people chirping crookedly around him:
"Man, what are you doing here? You look like you're searching for gems?"
"You're farming, right? You want to cultivate a vegetable garden here? But the yellow people are very good at farming. ”
"What a rookie, you're like turning over the waves looking for fish, there's no way to get a harvest!"
“……”
Sophie came up to help Li Du and packed up the stones for him to see.
She also felt that this was not possible, and whispered, "Honey, are you sure this way is feasible?"
There were ore pickers around who were coldly sarcastic Li Du, and she was worried that her words would add fuel to the fire, so she hurriedly added: "I'm not questioning you, it's just, is this method good?"
Li Du gave her a smile and said: "It's useless to others, it's useful to me, you may not know it, I rely on observation to do warehousing auctions, and my observation is different from ordinary people." ”
Meow and Crispy Noodles also came to help, and Ah Mo used his claws to dig up a few stones, which were still small and tender, and soon became painful, so he switched to using his mouth to open the stones.
They didn't understand what Li Du and Sophie were doing, but they saw the two of them keep lifting the stones, so they learned to do it.
At this time, it can be seen that the claw structure of raccoons is different from that of other animals, they have a thumb and grasp food to wash.
Used in digging up stones, raccoons' palms are useful, and they can learn from humans to pinch rocks with their claws and grab them, faster and more efficiently.
Seeing this, the tourists were amazed, and many took out their cameras to take pictures.
Seeing the skillful lifting of the stone, Li Du's heart moved, maybe he could use the crispy noodles to pretend to be a comparison this time, just like when he used Meow to pretend to be forced.
The combat effectiveness of the crisp noodles is far inferior to that of Meow, but its concentration and endurance are far superior to those of the other party, and it has been working hard to lift the stones, as for what is under the lifted stones? It doesn't care about this, it doesn't actually know what it's doing.
Raccoons are very good at rock-lifting tricks, and they are naturally good at doing it.
In the wild, raccoons like to stay by the river, one is the abundant water, and the other is that there are small fish, shrimp and crabs in the water to make food.
Small fish, shrimp and crabs like to hide under rocks near the river, and raccoons need to lift the stones to catch them.
That's what Simply Noodles are doing now.
Working aimlessly, Li Du found a thing for himself, that is, to consider whether he would temporarily change jobs first.
It turns out that using the little flying insects can make it easier for him to find gems, and finding gems is much more lucrative than the business of warehousing and auctioning.
Now he is searching for opals, a piece of opal is worth tens of thousands, this is still ordinary quality, if it is the best fire opal, it is no problem to sell hundreds of thousands of millions.
But if you want to search hundreds of thousands or millions of things from warehouses, it's hard.
He had already walked around most of the entire state of Arizona, and he had seen the situation in the warehouse, and it would be difficult to make a big harvest in the future.
Just thinking about it, he simply faced the spot where he found the opal, waved his two little paws and threw the stone, and did it with great energy.
One visitor was attracted and said, "This proboscis raccoon is amazing, look at how flexible its claws are, how good its endurance is." ”
"Maybe we should tame raccoons looking for gems?" said one of the ore pickers jokingly.
A person next to him pouted and said, "Unless you stuff a person's soul into the body of this thing, ......"
Halfway through his words, Li Du suddenly walked quickly to the crisp noodle position next to him, he threw away the small pickaxe and replaced it with a small shovel, and after cleaning it up a few times, he reached out and took out a small stone.
The color of this stone is orange-yellow, the material is translucent, and there are some speckled things in it, which from a certain angle, it looks like a blooming flower!
Seeing the stone he took out, the joking ore pickers were dumbfounded, and the tourists exclaimed: "He found Fire Opal, he really found it!"
Fire opals come in a variety of colors, from orange, bright orange, orange-red to red and even red, and the material can also vary from translucent to transparent.
The brightness of the color of the stone directly determines its value, the closer to the color of the flame the more collectible, the red is precious, the redder the better, and the corresponding orange-red is more precious than yellow.
Top-of-the-line fire opals are as bright as a burning flame and have a high degree of transparency, which is a collector's favorite and can be worth millions of dollars in a piece!
Li Du's piece is not inferior to Cyril's piece in terms of quality, his color is more yellow, which is not as good as that piece, but under the sun, his piece is more transparent.
Previously, under the stone, when the little flying insect saw it, he didn't find the difference in transparency because of the light, so he thought that the stone was of little value, but in fact it was not.
Looking at the stone in his hand, the ore pickers around him who were waiting to watch the show were stunned, and a group of people looked at Li Du in shock, and someone lost his voice and said: "God, he really picked it up?!"
Sophie turned her head to see this scene and immediately cheered: "Honey, you have found it!"
Li Du smiled: "It's not me, I found it simply, but it belongs to me, of course, I found it." ”
As he spoke, he lifted his face and put it on his shoulder, and the raccoon crouched on it and hugged his head, grinning stupidly.
Sophie ran over with a shout of joy, and she held up the stone and exclaimed, "The Indians are right, this is a beautiful jewel like a bird of paradise!"
Fire opals have a long history, dating back to the Mayan and Aztec periods, when locals called this gemstone with its warm and attractive orange-red hue as Sophie called it "the beautiful gem of the bird of paradise".
Li Du cleaned the dust off his body, he handed the gem to the gem dealer Owen, and said, "Man, you come to identify it, is there a problem with it?"
Owen looked at him in surprise and said, "Brother, what do you have to do with God?"
He must have such a question, because the pickers were right before, the probability of picking up a piece of opal in an hour is too small, not to mention that Li Du is still a rookie!
Li Du said: "I am a good person, God bless a good person, and my girlfriend is still a devout believer, maybe this is the relationship." ”
Owen examined the gem and said, "He's won, guys, it's a real opal!"