There were only 13 pearl mussels in the cage that Li Yi was looking at, and the other two should be dead, because four mussel shells could still be seen scattered in a corner of the cage. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I don't know if it's because of the lack of pearl mussels or for some other reason, the quality of this cage pearl is very high, just more than three positive round beads of more than 14 mm, and the most important thing is that Li Yi also saw a larger one, even if the diameter is less than 18 mm, it is definitely more than 17 mm!

As a pearl necklace, it is not that the bigger the pearl, the better, generally speaking, 14 mm is the limit, no matter how big it is, it looks good when worn together, and it lacks so much meaning when worn.

But this is not to say that the kind of oversized pearls cannot be used as a necklace, but the number of oversized pearls in a necklace cannot be too many.

A pearl necklace with an average diameter of 14 mm is definitely not as valuable as other beads that are 14 mm, but with several symmetrical arrangements of 16 or 17 mm beads, if these 16 or 17 mm beads are worn in the middle of a pearl with a diameter close to or more than 20 mm, then this pearl necklace is more valuable.

What Li Yi was going to sell to that customer was this most valuable pearl necklace.

It's just that because the current freshwater pearls are basically farmed and have a certain number of years of pearl diving, it is very unlikely that they will come up with the kind of pearls with a diameter of more than 18 mm. As for the bigger one, it is basically impossible, even if there are one or two pills, they have already been bought, or even if they are not bought, with his current foundation, it is difficult for those merchants to sell to him.

So if he wants to make such a necklace, he can only rely on gambling.

He remembers very well that when he was at the Hong Kong Jewelry Fair, he once sold Chen Yingtong a 17.1 mm full round bead, and Chen Yingtong gave him 3 million at that time. Although freshwater pearls are much cheaper than seawater pearls, a pearl of the same size and perfect condition will cost more than 2 million.

In other words, once such a superb product appears on a rope, the rest don't need to look at it at all, just pay for it.

What a good deal to earn extra profit and save time!

After staring at this pearl with a diameter of more than 17 mm for a long time, and confirming that it was a pearl with no defects and good condition, Li Yi immediately turned his attention to another rope next to him......

Just after looking at the two cages, Zheng Shusen and the others came back.

Throwing the cages ashore one by one, this guy patted Li Yi with his wet hand and asked:

"Okay, it's all fished, what do you think? Do you split them one by one? ”

"Let's hack, and then we can bargain."

The corners of Li Yi's mouth provoked a smile, if the price was negotiated according to the average quality of these 10 cages, the boss was afraid that he would suffer a lot of losses. But even if you suffer a loss, it is impossible not to make money, it is just the difference between earning more and earning less, so there is no need to have the slightest psychological burden.

Li Yi squatted at the water's edge and continued to look at the mussels, while Zheng Shusen and the others poured the mussels out of the cage, and then squatted to the side, watching Liu Gen and his men pearl fishing.

Many master pearl diving will not harm the life of pearl mussels, because such mussels can also be reused. However, even if they don't buy the whole rope, Li Yi must buy these pearl mussels, so their pearl diving methods are relatively rude, and they are all the same as the pearl bettors encountered in the market, directly chopping with machetes.

"The color of this bead doesn't seem to be very good......

Looking at the pearls taken out, Zheng Shusen frowned.

"It's not just that the color is not good, but the gloss is not enough, right?"

The fat elephant pinched a 12 mm pearl, looked at it for a long time, and said hesitantly.

"The gloss should be nothing, you usually see the beads sold are polished, but they are ......"

Zheng Shusen dragged an open pearl mussel, in this mussel, there are as many as 15 large and small pearls, but most of them are small beads under 8 millimeters, and there is only one one in total that exceeds 10 centimeters.

Moreover, the pearl mussels that are opened now are basically like this, which has to make him doubt the quality of the pearls raised by this family.

The pricing mechanism of pearls is not much different from other gemstones, the price curve of pearls below 12 mm is a smooth upward curve, but once it exceeds 12 mm, this increase will become a geometric progression. If it exceeds 14 mm, the jump will be even more enormous.

A rope costs 1.2 million, but if it's all of this quality, let alone 1.2 million, I'm afraid that 600,000 will accompany the bottom!

"Isn't there a lot more! According to the experience of previous years, the minimum number of pearls produced on a rope of more than 14 mm is more than 10, and the number can even reach 20 or 30, so many times we are not willing to gamble on the pond ......."

"Oh? So why are you willing to gamble again? Because the quality of this batch is not good? ”

Liu Gen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, he didn't expect to leak his mouth so easily. However, if all 150 mussels are opened, even if he doesn't say anything, they will definitely find a problem with the color......

"Hehe, if the quality is not good, it should be cheaper. Alright, let's open all the mussels first. ”

Zheng Shusen took out all the pearls in the pearl sac, put them in different basins according to their size, and then picked up a cut mussel and looked at it.

Several people worked together, and it was a relatively rough way of pearl diving, so in less than half an hour, all the pearls were taken out.

After counting the number, not only Zheng Shusen was not satisfied, but even Liu Gen blushed for the price just now.

However, he was more puzzled than embarrassed. These pearl mussels were all together, why were the ones he had salvaged earlier bigger than these?

Don't? Is the number of samples collected too small? However, 150 pearl mussels, also taken from different ropes and different waters, can't be so unlucky?

"Mr. Li, please come and take a look, if it doesn't work, let's change the bet, right?"

Zheng Shusen counted the number of pearls over 14 mm that had been mined, and greeted Li Yi.

Although Li Yi has already seen it with perspective, he has seen it roughly, and after all, perspective is different from seeing directly with his eyes, so he walked over and looked at it, and said with a smile:

"It's okay, no matter how inappropriate the color is, there will be people you like, no matter how small you are, you should be able to sell it, Boss Liu will give us a cheaper price!"

"Cheap? That's 1.1 million. ”

Liu Gen smiled bitterly, but his offer of 1.2 million was reported according to the white pearls produced in previous years, and now this color is already much cheaper, now that the customer can see it, it is impossible not to reduce the price.

"Huh, 1.1 million? Boss Liu, you should know that selling pearls is actually selling those big ones. More than 80% of the profits in your pond of pearls should be created by pearls over 14 mm, but you look at the amount of this production......"

He glanced at Li Yi and stretched out two fingers,

"600,000, 600,000 words, we'll buy five!"

The suggestion given by Li Yi just now was to try to keep the price below 900,000, but I didn't expect this kid to be even more ruthless, and he actually opened his mouth and cut the offer in half.

"How is this possible! Two bosses, if you really want to gamble, just give a sincere price, not to mention the cost, even the feed money is not enough! ”

"Hehe, if you really feed so much feed with one rope, I'm afraid that the 14 mm beads will be a few times more than Boss Liu, you will still lose money! So be it, 620,000! ”

Seeing that the two of them began to see-saw, Li Yi shook his head, if he made a bid, it would be impossible to pay it back to 600,000 at the beginning, and if the price was raised, he would also increase it by 55,000......

It seems that this bargaining is really not what he is good at.

The two talked for a while, and finally even the village chief came to help, and finally reached an agreement, 880,000, but the number cannot be 5, at least more than 8.

Seeing Zheng Shusen's inquiring gaze, Li Yi nodded, according to the average quality of this pearl, if it is 880,000 pieces, they should be able to save about half of the money compared to purchasing from the market, of course, if he is allowed to choose, it should be less than half......

"Let's pick these two first, and I'll take a look at the rest."

Li Yi pointed to the two ropes he had just seen and asked Liu Gen to fish them up first. When they're done, he'll be able to look at two more ......

Then everyone began to get busy, because there were too many of them, so in the end, Fat Elephant and Hongchen began to help break the clam and dive pearls, but in this way, their speed was far less than Li Yi's speed.

"Hehe, you pick yours, I'll pick some and take them back to my friends, and let them know what pearl gambling is."

Seeing that the pearl mussels on the two ropes were almost thrown to the shore, Li Yi walked over with a smile, picked up a dozen or so from them casually and threw them aside, and then gave the fat elephant a look.

The fat elephant nodded understandingly, got up, found a large woven bag, and threw all the pearl mussels into it.

"Boss, the quality of this batch of pearls is really not good, fortunately, someone is gambling on the pond, otherwise if we open it ourselves, we are afraid that we will lose more......"

A guy looked at the number of pearls over 14 mm that had been opened, and quietly leaned into Liu Gen's ear and said a few words.

Liu Gen glared at him, and then shook his head helplessly, this year is simply evil, not only the color has changed, but the pearls picked up are also so small, is it time to change the variety of pearl mussels?

After Li Yi picked out the mussels, he returned to the water's edge and continued to stare at the surface of the water. By the time he had almost cut the mussels from the two ropes he had just salvaged, he had already picked out four more ropes.

Picking out more than a dozen of the newly salvaged pearl mussels and throwing them to the fat elephant, Li Yi walked slowly along the shore. There were two ropes left, and he wasn't prepared to make a decision too quickly, he was going to read everything first. (To be continued.) )