Chapter 43 The pearl-inlaid hairpin from the gamble
The stall is not big, there are more than a dozen washbasins, and they are full of pitted pearl mussels, which are not big. The stall owner was a thin black woman with a large hat. There was a bowl next to him, and there were a few pearls in it, which were not big.
"Boss, how do you sell the pearls in this bowl?" I picked up a pearl mussel, looked at it, and asked the boss.
"It's open, a thousand dollars a piece." The boss said with a smile.
"Then if we open it, will you accept it?" The wife interjected.
"Ah, this one, hehe, I don't accept it." The proprietress was confused by my wife's unreasonable playing of cards.
I took out the pearl mussels one by one, and I didn't feel very good, and only found seven or eight of the ten or so pots with feelings, so I simply made up ten. Paid a thousand bucks.
The wife had a gloomy face: "You're almost there, it's not you if you have two bad money." ”
"I've got a secret, you see." I'm confident.
The proprietress took a knife and pried open a pearl mussel, but there was nothing in it, and his wife's face became more and more gloomy.
The second, which contains three white pearls six millimeters in size. I turned to my wife and said, "These pearl mussels are all artificially cultivated, and they are implanted with broken mussel shells or something, and it takes five or six years to grow into pearls. But these three are pretty much the same. ”
My wife's face turned a little pale.
The next few pearls were as large as a seven-millimeter black pearl, and the smallest was the size of a grain of rice. The wife smiled, and the proprietress had a bad face.
The last one I asked to open it myself, took the boss lady's knife, and pried it open.
There was an exclamation around them, and a golden pearl appeared in the shell of a mussel. I took a plastic caliper and measured it, ten millimeters. The wife smiled. Everyone began to grab pearl mussels, as if there were golden pearls in each pearl mussel, and the proprietress turned her worries into joy.
The proprietress asked if I could buy it, and I smiled and shook my head. I asked for a ziplock bag and put away a dozen or so pearls of different sizes. pulled his wife out of the lively pearl gambling stall.
"Why don't you buy a few more and keep driving?" My wife is reluctant to give up, and I guess I want to gamble the cost of this trip.
"What do you think?" I stuffed the bag of pearls into her hand: "They are all artificially cultivated small pearl mussels, it would be good to find these, these are only a few thousand yuan." You can simply grind these little ones into a powdery face. My wife hit me, and I continued: "The water inside the pearl is deep, alas, it's not just the pearl, it's all very deep." ”
The wife looked obsessively at the golden brilliance in the bag.
"This golden pearl is only four thousand to death, and it still relies on a kind of golden rich and bright, which is more colorful than ordinary golden pearls." I took out the golden chisel chain hairpin: "Don't look at this hairpin ugly, wait until I put it away and set this gold pearl." I guess you can't guess the value, hehe. ”
I'm now having a lot of power, cool!
Found my son and Xiao Xiao, we each had a bowl of refreshing and cool, which was enjoyable. Xiao Xiao looked at the pearls in the bag and had to go over to bet on two handfuls. The wife said with a smile: "It's too late to go now, I guess it's been robbed." Xiao Xiao just gave up.
Passing by a jade shop, I went in and spent three yuan to make a shallow eye on the gold pearl, but it didn't get through. I came out and bought a bottle of glue similar to 502 at a stall selling wood carving, which is used to specialize in sticking wood carving, which is sticky and does not have as much fluidity as three-second glue. I also bought ropes, paper clips, small wire brushes, bristle brushes and other gadgets.
Back in the car, everyone was very excited. Let's go! Eat, go to the Geopark.
Let the three of them go to the Volcano Geopark for a walk, and I will repair the golden chisel hairpin in the car myself.
First, I used a wire brush to remove the coral reef knots from the golden chisel hairpin, which was a painstaking process, but it was wet and crumbling for me. As the coral reef knots are peeled off, a rusty gold chisel chain hairpin gradually reveals its true face, a gold elongated hairpin, about centimeters long; The hairpin is carved into a ring, with a curved ring at the top and a groove at the other end. There is a gourd-shaped stamp on the back. Then, use a paper clip to remove the reef knots in the crevices, and the work is basically done.
The golden chisel hairpin itself has been broken, well, a little repair. After a while, a golden chisel hairpin with introverted and fine workmanship appeared on my right hand.
I took the paper clip back and forth and removed a small section of wire of five millimeters. Then cut the special glue for wood carving, cover a small section of steel wire with glue, and insert the gold pearl, only revealing about two millimeters of tip, so as to glue the pearl and the hairpin more tightly and firmly. When the glue is dry, compare it with the grooves of the hairpin. Then I dripped a little glue into the groove and inlaid the pearls, perfectly, without any glue spilling. Quickly use a lighter to seal the mouth of the glue bottle.
I looked at this golden chisel chain hairpin, it was so beautiful. The golden pearl reflects the gold hairpin, the color is restrained, vigorous, and the engraving craftsmanship is exquisite. Well, the perfect gift for my wife.
Then he took out his son's piece of jade, and used a wire brush to peel off the coral reef knots, and after a while, the approximate shape came out, a black beetle lying on a white cobblestone. This is the blue and white seed material, and then I brushed it wildly with a bristle brush, and the whole details were revealed. I know too well what this is, it's called the rich world. The black beetle is extremely black, and the white jade below is old and warm, with brown skin and pores, and there is a circular stamp on the skin, which is engraved with a small seal Liu character. It's not big, and such materials weren't worth much a few years ago, let alone the Qing Dynasty, and now it's estimated to be worth a thousand yuan. But it's an old thing, and it has its own charm.
Pack your things and get out of the car for a cigarette. In the end, Hainan is full of blue sky and white clouds, dense vegetation in the tropical rainforest on the mountain, and the cool breeze is blowing, which is really a good place to cool off.
When they got back to the car, I hurriedly handed them mineral water. The wife wiped the sweat on her face with a tissue: "I'll tell you, it's a pity that you didn't go, it's so beautiful." ”
"Dad, Dad, it's so nice here, Mom said she can't buy a house here." The son took a sip of water and took a pack of tiramisu from Xiao Xiao's hand.
"Brother Yang, do you have any plans to buy a house here?" Xiao Xiao turned his head and asked me.
"Not yet, but you can consider it" I wiped my son's sweat: "Stinky Bao, where is this, you haven't arrived at SY yet, the scenery there is better, and the beach is more charming." It won't be long before you're aesthetically fatigued. Wife, this is my gift to you," he said, handing the golden chisel chain hairpin to his wife.
"Ah~" A scream, Xiao Xiao and his son covered their ears, and his wife took the hairpin and asked excitedly: "This is the hairpin?" Impossible, how can it be so beautiful? ”
"I'll see" Xiao Xiao didn't know what could make the usually calm sister-in-law Yang so excited.
After taking the hairpin, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but admire: "I really didn't expect that Brother Yang would always turn decay into magic." This thing should be in the Palace Museum, sister-in-law, you are blessed. ”
The wife pulled her hair up high, inserted it with a gold chisel chain hairpin, looked forward to the life, and the tourmaline necklace around her neck reflected each other, it was really beautiful. It seems that my wife will not take it off this way.
My son was looking at his rich armor at this moment, and I tied two diamond knots with a rope and tied them around his neck.
Xiao Xiao said to Stinky Bao: "Come, bring it to your uncle." ”
Stinky Treasure happily took it off and handed it over.
"Brother Yang, this jade is not bad, when I have the opportunity to help pick a good seed material for me."
"Okay, let's go back to JC, in fact, as long as the economy is rich, it will be good at any time." I opened the mineral water and took a sip, "Let's go, I have to find a place to have dinner when I get to BA." ”
Xiao Xiao drove an hour and a half to BA Town, the car parked in BA Aozhuang Seafood, first let my wife and son drink a whole golden coconut, Xiao Xiao and I drove to BA Asia Forum Hotel to book a room, I can't let my wife go, otherwise she will not be able to stand the price of the house.
Booked two superior rooms and put things away. We slipped to Aozhuang Seafood and saw that my wife and son were already sitting at the round table by the beach, reading the menu.
We went over and sat down and called the waiter. I looked at the menu and said, "Let's have a Hele crab, this Boao fish, and then a steamed small flower snail, well, a case of boiled shrimp, and this garlic mango snail, iron plate eggplant, mango cake, coconut rice." What else do you want to order? ”
Xiao Xiao said that it was enough, his wife was too much, and his son still wanted to eat Wenchang chicken: "Okay, let's have this coconut-flavored Wenchang chicken again." By the way, four bottles of Tiger beer. ”
Soon the dishes came up, everyone was very hungry, and the food was very fragrant and enjoyable. Xiao Xiao and I frequently raised glasses, on this picturesque seaside, looking at the coconut grove on the beach, eating delicious seafood, this is leisure.
Sure enough, a middle-aged man in a blue island suit and a string of beeswax bracelets and a beautiful woman in a coconut island dress came to us, and the man politely said to us, "Sorry to interrupt." ”
"Oh, it's okay" I smiled and asked when I saw that the person was polite, "Is there something wrong?" ”
"That's right, this is your lover, right?" The gentleman asked with a smile, and I nodded, and he continued: "My daughter and I ate at the next table, and when your wife and children came, I noticed that your wife's hairpin and tourmaline necklace were beautiful. ”
As soon as I heard it, I understood, this person who likes to play with literature is the most unproductive, and when he sees a good thing, he has to come to talk to him and talk to him.
"Listening to the accent, you're not from the mainland, are you? Come sit and talk. "The round table was huge, and it was hard to stand and talk, and I finished eating anyway, so I beckoned.
"Yes, yes, we are here from Taipei." The beautiful woman pulled her dad to sit down.
"My daughter likes your wife's hairpin very much, I'm really embarrassed, I know this request is very presumptuous, I don't know if this lady is willing to give me this hairpin, the price is easy to say." The man first told me, then turned to my wife for advice.
"This ...... my wife is not very good at rejecting people, and she is very embarrassed.
"This is really not good," Xiao Xiao took over: "Not to mention how much money you can give to buy it, the problem is that my brother Yang doesn't lack your money." ”
I laughed, gave Xiao Xiao and the middle-aged man a cigarette, lit it myself, and took a puff: "What is your surname for this gentleman?" ”
"Excuse me, Chen." The middle-aged man has a lovely smile.
"Mr. Chen, this hairpin really can't be sold." I took a sip of beer and flicked the cigarette ash off: "This is something from the Qing Dynasty, you can see that it has been kept for more than 200 years, and it is still like a new product." This is a gift from my lover, and I will not give it away. ”
"Impossible, if it were more than two hundred years, this pearl would have lost its color and been damaged." Mr. Chen didn't believe it: "People old pearl yellow means that pearls can't be stored for too long, and if they are too long, they will deteriorate and become calcite." ”
"Mr. Chen is very knowledgeable, yes, the original inlaid pearl of this golden chisel chain hairpin has long been lost" I smiled and asked my wife to hand over the gold chisel chain hairpin: "The current pearl is a gold pearl that I only set in the afternoon." ”
Mr. Chen took the golden chisel and looked at it carefully over and over again: "Okay, good." ”
"Daddy, I've seen the mark of this hairpin." The beautiful woman looked at the hairpin and suddenly shouted.