Hua Qianying took people back, and Hua Qianyue also began to pack up her things and prepare to start, but the eldest lady invited her to dinner for the first time, but fortunately, the eldest lady really thanked her for Hua Qianying's affairs, so this meal was also eaten and smooth.

After the meal, the fourth wife personally sent Hua Qianyue back to the old mansion in Dongfu.

"Yue'er, you must be very busy opening both a winery and a silver building in the capital, right?"

The fourth lady wrenched her hands in Jinpa, and looked flattering.

"It was really busy before, but now everything is straightened out and it's very idle."

Hua Qianyue didn't know what she was thinking in her heart, her face was kind, but she was careful in her heart.

The fourth wife's heart was slightly cold.

Before Hua Qianyue came back, she was very satisfied with the current situation, her two daughters were making wine in the winery, Hua Jiaqi gave them both a salary, and they also went to listen to the master's teaching, and now her two daughters not only can make wine, but also can read and write, and play a good calculation.

Originally, she also wanted to pick a shrewd and capable young backwife like the second wife to marry her daughter.

But when she saw Qi Haotian and Qi Yunxian like pearls and jade-like characters, and saw that they talked well in brocade clothes, although she had not seen anything in the world, she could feel the incomparable luxury of the two of them.

It was Qi Haotian's gaze on Hua Qianyue, intentionally or unintentionally, which made her blood boil, if she sent her two daughters to the capital, would she be able to find her two noble sons-in-law with Hua Qianyue as a backer?

I heard that there are many nobles in the capital, and it is a lot of them to grab them on the street.

The fourth lady wrung her handkerchief.

No, in order for her two daughters to live a good life in the future, she gave up this old face and let it go!

"Yue'er, can the fourth aunt ask you to do something?"

Hua Qianyue felt helpless.

"If you don't want anything, you can talk about it first."

Hua Qianyue quietly threw the question back, and listened to what she said before making a decision.

The fourth lady was overjoyed and smiled.

"It's not a big deal, I want your fifth sister and sixth sister to enter Beijing with you to see the world."

She finished speaking quickly, staring at Hua Qianyue with her eyes expectantly.

Hua Qianyue secretly said that it was okay, it was not an unreasonable request.

"Well, as long as they want."

The fourth wife who got the letter was too happy.

"If you are willing to be willing, others can't ask for it, how can you be unwilling."

Hua Qianyue muttered secretly: "If you want to see others, you are willing!" ”

The next day, Hua Qianmin really came happily with her baggage, she secretly told Hua Qianyue that the fifth sister and a guy in the winery met each other, and she didn't want to come to pretend to have a stomachache at home.

"Can your mother agree?"

Hua Qianyue was a little surprised when she heard this, but she didn't expect Hua Qianshu to be a bold girl.

"Didn't my mother know?" Hua Qianmin didn't care, "The third sister and I know about this." ”

Said with a grin.

"Now you know the fourth sister, this is a secret between our sisters, fourth sister, you are not allowed to tell my mother."

This is something that is not told, not to mention whether the fourth wife agrees or not, these two people are together every day, young and ignorant, what if something happens?

"Oh, fourth sister, don't worry!"

As if seeing through her thoughts, Hua Qianmin said: "Brother Cen is the son of Cen Da's shopkeeper, and nothing can happen."

The implication is that the shopkeeper Cen is happy to see it.

Even so, Hua Qianyue felt that she didn't have to worry about eating radishes salty.

Ten days later.

In the No. 1 room on the third floor of the Tingtao Inn near the sea, there is a long table of pear blossom wood carvings with marble stone carved every year, and all kinds of snacks and dried fruits are placed on the table, and Hua Qianyue and other four women are lined up and face the sea.

"Look, that's our boat, look at it here, it's so small!"

Hua Qianmin, who had never been far away, shouted excitedly, and everything in her eyes was full of freshness.

"If you want me to say, it's a big loss that the fifth sister didn't come, if you want to change it, I'll come out to play first, and then find a reason to go back after having fun."

Suddenly, I found that I was so excited that I almost missed my mouth, so I hurriedly picked up a piece of snack and plugged my mouth.

"Who are those? It's weird!"

Qi Yunxuan asked, pointing to a group of strangely dressed women on the beach not far away.

Following the direction of her finger, everyone saw strange women in their twenties and thirties, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a dark complexion, dressed in short clothes, and their hair tied back at the back of their heads.

"That's a pearl diver."

Hua Qianyue raised her eyes and swept her eyes, helping this group of eldest ladies to eliminate illiteracy by the way.

"They go out to sea in a boat like fishermen, and when they get to the sea, they first tie their waists with long ropes, carry bamboo baskets to the bottom of the sea, put the pearls and mussels they have picked up into the bamboo baskets, and then shake the ropes tied to their waists, and tell the people on the sea to pull the ropes, and the people on the sea quickly drag the pearl divers with the bamboo baskets to the water."

"It's fun."

Qi Yunxuan, who didn't know the height of the sky, yearned for it, and wished that she could become one of them.

"Fun? You go play and try it. Hua Qianyue said, "I can't breathe underwater, the people on the boat pull the rope slowly, and the people under the water will suffocate or freeze to death, and there are many man-eating fish in the sea, and unfortunately they will be eaten if they don't have time to escape." ”

"The sea waves sink into the sea without bottomless pearls, and the pearl divers are sentenced to death. Ten thousand people are sentenced to death and get a pearl, how can you buy a maidservant? …… 100,000 strong men are half alive and dead, and the dead are often buried in the belly of the fish. The crocodile grinding teeth were facing each other, and the accumulated water turned into seawater pills. ”

"This is the life of a pearl diver, do you want to go?"

"I don't want to go, don't go."

Qi Yunxuan's frightened face turned pale, and she shook her head again and again.

"Think about it, how much silver does a pearl of this size sell for?" Hua Qianyue picked up a lotus seed rice and said, "There are as many pearl mussels in this sea as there are cow's hair, if you can pick them so easily, what is it worth?"

Suddenly, Hua Qianyue had a flash of inspiration in her mind, she would be able to cultivate pearls, it would be better to ...... It's just that my own technology is to raise freshwater beads, is this seawater beads the same?

This matter has to be carefully thought out before making sense.

In the following days, when Hua Qianyue went out to buy beads, she would always inquire about the beads and mussels intentionally or unintentionally, such as which kind of mussel picked up more beads inside, which kind of mussel had big beads in it, and so on.

After a few days of investigation, Hua Qianyue found that the cultivation of seawater pearls in ancient times was very unreliable, whether it was technology or conditions could not meet the requirements of cultivation, the next to it did not care about it, the pearl cultivation should have a pearl nucleus, and the production of this pearl nucleus was difficult to do in ancient times, followed by the mortality rate of sea mussels was very high.

The freshwater mussel is the same, compared with the seawater mussel, it all shows its advantages, first of all, it does not need to be in the pearl nucleus, and secondly, the investment will not be too large, just find a pond to breed.

Freshwater beads have always been less expensive than seawater beads, that is because freshwater beads are small in size and irregular in shape, and if the beads are in good condition, the price will not be lower than that of sea beads.

After a round of investigation and comparison, Hua Qianyue decided to go back to the capital to cultivate her own freshwater pearls.