Chapter 519: Deep Sea White Coral in the South China Sea

Li Yi was not frightened by the man's movements, but was taken aback by Lu Ningshuang's scream, and was also taken aback, including the man who pulled off his windbreaker.

I saw him hide his trench coat as soon as he could, and then looked left and right vigilantly, revealing a confused expression.

"I thought he was the kind of ...... that shows"

As soon as Lu Ningshuang screamed, she had already discovered that something was wrong, and at this moment, she blushed even more shamefully, buried her head on Li Yi's shoulder and refused to raise it, she was a dead person!

"Hehe, it's okay, who made him move so suddenly? I was blown away! Okay, okay, you go, we don't want these things. ”

"Hey, buddy, just take a look, just take a look, the things I have here are different from theirs!"

Li Yi shook his head, why is this person so blind? Lu Ningshuang, who was not ashamed, couldn't lift his head, and was still entangled here.

Taking Lu Ningshuang to bypass the man, the two continued to walk a few steps, and the red tide on Lu Ningshuang's face slowly faded, remembering the scene just now, he couldn't help but laugh a little, and he didn't know what he was thinking at that time, he was so sensitive.

"There are more people in Panjiayuan, but they usually call customers to a hidden place on the side, because they don't pay management fees, and the market management will clean them up when they see it."

Lu Ningshuang nodded, her eyes revealing a hint of curiosity,

"Isn't it too heavy for them to hang things on their trench coats like that?"

Li Yi smiled, and suddenly pointed to a dark shadow not far away and said:

"There's another one there, why don't I take you there?"

"Hmm!"

The two of them slowly walked up to this man with a straight body, sharp eyes, and a hideous expression on his face like a god-killing man, Li Yi raised his hand and signaled,

"Hey, buddy, is there anything good?"

The man had noticed the two of them just now, and now he saw them coming over to see something, and he was overjoyed, and an even more terrifying smile immediately appeared on his already vicious face, and then he pulled off the trench coat he was wearing,

"Hey, buddy, you're looking for me! Say, who do you want, ******, Yui Hatano, ****** everything, and an antique version of Muto Ran...... Hey, buddy, buddy, don't go, I don't like little Japan, there are still European and American blockbusters, and Thai shemales...... Depend on! You ride a horse and tease Lao Tzu! ”

In the bright light, Lu Ningshuang almost didn't smile and bent over, although the big man just now was ugly, but he had a serious face, but he didn't expect that he was selling that kind of thing! She remembered Li Yi's face at that time, and suddenly couldn't help it,

"Hey buddy, you're looking for me...... Hahahaha! ”

Li Yi glanced at her in annoyance, then shook his head with a smile, damn, unlucky! The eighty-year-old lady was so nervous that she forgot that this was a tourist area, and it was possible to sell anything......

"Hey, I heard that you boys love to look at that, is it good-looking?"

Lu Ningshuang did not miss the opportunity and continued to pursue the victory.

"Go aside!"

Li Yi looked left and right, numb, I still don't believe it, in such a big market, I can't find a real smuggler!

"There's another one over there, it should be selling serious things, go over and have a look?"

Lu Ningshuang glanced at his fingers, and found that there were two or three people standing under a turned out street lamp on the right-hand wall in front of him, one of whom was looking at a string of Buddhist beads with a flashlight, so he nodded, look, she had never seen such a business before.

The two slowly walked to the three of them, and the man in the coat first stared at them nervously, then looked left and right, and then smiled,

"What do you want to see? You're looking for me, everyone in this market knows ......"

As soon as he heard that this buddy was actually like this, Li Yi's face suddenly darkened, because Lu Ningshuang beside him had a tendency to laugh again......

"Let's take a look, is there anything good?"

"There's a lot of good stuff! Let me tell you, the string that this buddy is looking at is the Buddha beads used by the Wutai Mountain monks during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and I also have a string of 108 golden silk Tridax Buddha beads, which is said to be something used by the Queen Mother of the West......"

As he spoke, the man pulled open his coat, took out a string of long beads from a small pocket at the top of it, and handed it to Li Yi.

"What's a clams?"

Lu Ningshuang leaned into Li Yi's ear and asked softly.

"The largest bivalve shellfish in the ocean, known as the king of shellfish, can grow to more than 300 kilograms and more than a meter long. It is one of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism, and the most essential part of its tail can be cut into Buddhist beads or gemstones. Buddhism believes that it purifies greed, hatred, and ignorance, eliminates karma, and increases wisdom and virtue, so although there are many sayings about the Seven Treasures of Buddhism in Buddhist scriptures, there is a clams in each of them. ”

Lu Ningshuang nodded.

"Along with coral, pearl and amber, Tridacnum is one of the four largest organic gemstones in the West, and its whiteness is regarded as the highest in the world. In addition, it is also recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that it is believed that Tridacnus has the effect of calming the heart, calming the nerves, cooling the blood and lowering blood pressure. ”

Lu Ningshuang nodded again and hesitated:

"The Empress Dowager West is the Empress Dowager Cixi?"

"Well, when Emperor Xianfeng died, Tongzhi, who succeeded to the throne, was still a child, and Cixi was the emperor's biological mother, so she listened to the government with Xianfeng's empress dowager Dong as a concubine."

While answering Lu Ningshuang's question, Li Yi began to look at the string of long clams in his hand.

Tridacnus is mainly distributed in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, with a total of 9 species. Six of them are produced in China, most of which are distributed in Taiwan and various islands and reefs in the South China Sea.

Tridacnis are generally white, tooth-white or white-brownish-yellow, and there are relatively rare purple, pink, purple-red and even more rare blood clams.

The golden silk clams mentioned by this person are actually white, brown and yellow colors, but the yellow is brighter and thinner. This kind of clams belong to the relatively ordinary clams, and the kind of Tai Chi clams with white teeth and brown and yellow into a Tai Chi pattern are the top grade in this color.

Taking a rough look at the light of the flashlight next to him, Li Yi returned the Buddha beads to the boss, this string of beads, there is nothing too precious, as for the Queen Mother of the West, it is even more of a joke, if it is really owned by Cixi, the spirit card will definitely remind Li Yi at the first time.

"Didn't even like this string? Brother, I still have a string of bloody clams here, if you don't look down on it anymore, then I'm gone. ”

As the man spoke, he took out another string of long beads from the pocket of his coat and handed it to Li Yi.

Sure enough, as the man said, this string of long beads is delicate in texture, smooth to the touch, showing a dark blood red in the night, and when illuminated with a flashlight, the color suddenly changes to a bright red of nearly blood, and it also faintly exudes a lustrous treasure light.

Li Yi looked at it carefully, and suddenly smiled dumbly, this was actually a string of satin red coral Buddha beads of good quality, which he actually used to pass off as a rare blood clams, and this fake was enough to save the money.

"Really didn't like it? Well, then see for yourself, everything is here anyway......"

The man reluctantly opened his coat and let Li Yi pick it himself. The pockets on the coat are relatively shallow, except for some Buddhist beads and pendants with a relatively small number, most things can be exposed a little, and you can take out a closer look when you see what you are interested in.

Li Yi swept the man's body casually with a flashlight, and suddenly his eyes moved, and he took out a slender statue of a Bodhisattva holding a lotus leaf lotus canopy from a pocket around his waist.

This is a statue of a Bodhisattva made of white coral, about 15 centimeters high, with a slender and slender body, which looks similar to the skinny beauty on the modern street.

However, although this statue is made of white coral, the color is different from the common pure white and childlike pink white, and it looks slightly black, light chestnut, close to the color of the skin of the old tofu in the north, and has an obvious porcelain feeling.

In today's coral market, red coral is the most valuable, while white coral is not valuable. Because modern white coral is mostly made of deep-sea coral deep polishing of its white core, an ordinary string of Buddhist beads can sometimes be bought for dozens of yuan, and even some exquisite carving large pieces are often only worth hundreds of yuan.

But in fact, just like other gemstones, as one of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism, coral, which is one of the four major organic gems of the West along with Tridacnus, is not only precious in red coral, but also extremely rare in white coral.

One example is the gem-quality white coral, which is produced in the deep sea of the South China Sea, and if you want to compare, its value is not cheaper than the top-of-the-line Momo red coral, but it is now on the verge of extinction, so few people know about it.

At present, the more popular red coral on the market is Acre, sardine, Momo and so on, among them, the price of Momo red coral, which is mostly peach or orange-red, is between Acre and sardine, and can generally be sold for 200 to 500 yuan per gram, and the best of them can be sold for thousands of yuan per gram or more.

Now the Bodhisattva statue that Li Yi is holding in his hand is made of the best gem-quality white coral produced in the deep sea of the South China Sea, and the age of the carving is also shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Li Yi estimates that if you meet someone who knows the goods, the price should be comparable to the best Momo red coral, plus the carving of this statue, each gram should be able to sell for more than 3,000 yuan.

"How much does this statue cost?"

"Oh, this is carved from precious deep-sea white coral, which is also one of the seven treasures of Buddhism, and you see the carving of this statue......"

Li Yi waved his hand, interrupted the person's introduction, and directly said the price, if you really know the preciousness of this statue, how can you get it here and sell it?

"Well, look at the little brother, you are also a person who knows the goods, this one, I will charge you 2800 yuan!"

The man groaned for a moment, gritted his teeth, quoted a price that he thought was already a good customer, and then looked at Li Yi with a little apprehension.

Unexpectedly, Li Yi just smiled, so he counted out 2,000 yuan from his bag and slapped it on the man's hand.

"At this price, okay, I'll take the things, no, pay me back."

"Okay, okay, little brother is happy, I can't drop the chain, right?"

The man's laughing teeth came out, and while laughing, he waved to Li Yi and the others who were far away, come back next time!

PS: Can I say that the inspiration for that god-like man didn't come from the V group? (To be continued.) )