Chapter 878: Xiangrui Out of the Water

Twenty minutes later, the fishing boat docked, and everyone helped Zhou Bo, who was still soft-handed, to the shore, while Gao Yao grinned and moved the giant clam the size of a millstone to the shore, and then threw it on the beach with a pop.

"Wow, that's a big mussel shell!"

A group of teenagers and people who were waiting on the shore rushed up and began to watch around the huge mussel shell, and the girl who fell into the water, although her face was also pale, still refused to leave, and the soaked light tulle skirt was all attached to her body, and she could almost see the looming ketone body.

Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief and raised his head, just in front of the girl crowded in front of him, under the soaked close-fitting tulle skirt, a pair of pink peaks and mounds were clearly presented in his eyes, and the two protrusions were still shaking slightly.

Well, Chen Xu only felt a heat in his nasal cavity, so he quickly reached out and pinched his nose to take off the hat and stuffed it into the girl's arms and said, "This little lady should hurry home and change her clothes, don't suffer from the cold." ”

The girl was stunned for a moment and looked down at her body, and suddenly couldn't help but exclaim, and then quickly squeezed out of a group of men with a hat covering her chest, blushing and burying her head and leaving, under the thin gauze skirt, the straight and slender thighs and snow-white ass and eggs could be seen clearly, but when he saw clearly, the girl had been wrapped in the middle of several maids and ran quickly.

Just now, everyone's attention on the boat was focused on Zhou Bo and this incomparably large mussel shell, and almost didn't pay attention to the girl.

This girl is in such a good shape!

Chen Xu withdrew his eyes with some unfinished thoughts, instructed the guards to give the boatman some coins, and then helped Zhou Bo to hold the big mussel shell and prepare to return to Wuhu Park.

At this time, although there were very few people on the lake beach, there were still some idlers who tried to pick up the missing pearls, watching Chen Xu and others get such a big mussel shell from the lake, they all followed the trot all the way excitedly.

"Such a big lake mussel, unheard of, unheard of!"

"It can grow so huge, I'm afraid it's tens of thousands of years......"

"Thousands of years, that's auspicious!"

"Yes, maybe you will live the same life as Zhenze......!"

"When auspicious comes out of the water, I will definitely be blessed by the god of water in the Jiangdong land......"

"Guys, is this big mussel shell for sale?"

A man in the crowd of onlookers and admirers excitedly squeezed up, it was still that Wu Tong.

"100,000 yuan, can you afford it?" Gao Yao squinted and rolled his eyes.

"Huh~" Wu Tong staggered under his feet, and a dog gnawed on the, pestle on the beach.

"Spread out!"

Under the scolding of a group of guards, the crowd of onlookers was pushed away, and Chen Xu and the others quickly turned over and ran straight back to Wuhu Park.

The news that someone had caught a super giant clam from the lake quickly spread with the crowd of onlookers, and after they returned to the Wuhu Park to settle down Zhou Bo, the people of Wuzhong who had heard the news were already surrounded inside and outside the Wuhu Park, all clamoring to watch this huge auspicious rui.

For the people of Wuzhong, the lake mussel is a common thing, which can be seen anywhere, but the large mussel shell of the grinding disc is not said to have never seen it, and it has never heard of it, and the nature has begun to change completely under word of mouth, and this giant mussel has become an auspicious gift from the water god to the people of Wuzhong.

"Master Hou, what should I do?" In the hotel room, Qu Hai looked at the big clam shell placed in a large wooden basin with a bitter smile and looked at Chen Xu with a bitter face.

"With such a big mussel shell, it stands to reason that there must be a giant pearl!"

"Yes, a big mussel more than two feet long can bloom a pair of rare pink beads in the world, and the pearls in this unparalleled giant mussel are at least the size of chicken eggs, or even larger......"

"Such a giant mussel, weighing fifty or sixty catties, the old man has never heard of it in most of his life in Wuzhong, Zhou Langjun was able to fish it out from the bottom of the lake more than ten zhang deep, it is really a first-class warrior in the world......"

The shareholders of the other three Wuhu Park have also arrived at this time, and they are very excited to sigh around the big clam shell.

And Xiao He, Liu Bang and others are naturally like a dream, they also grew up by the big lake, and the lake mussels have seen countless people, but the lake mussels in Weishan Lake do not produce pearls, let alone see such a big shell, because the water of Weishan Lake belongs to the lagoon, although the area is large, but the deepest place is only two or three zhang, and it is not a grade of existence compared with Taihu Lake.

"Master Hou, do you want to open the whole big clam now?" Zhou Bo squatted next to the wooden basin with a dagger, as if he had chicken claws, and his body couldn't help but swing slightly.

If a peerless pearl the size of an egg really blooms, I am afraid that it will not be able to be bought for 5,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan as falsely rumored, and it will inevitably be an unbearable sky-high price.

Although Chen Xu doesn't know much about pearls, but everything is rare and expensive, not to mention that pearls are natural luxury items before they are artificially cultivated, and the value is the same as gold and jade, and the larger the pearl color, the rarer the value, the more expensive it is, and some natural jewelry in later generations is often hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars, if there is a royal collection in history, the peerless jewelry is tens of millions of dollars and cannot be sought.

But this kind of thing is actually the same as the gambling stone in later generations, no one knows what the hell is inside before it is opened, because the material of the mussel shell is calcium carbonate inorganic salt, and the skin of jade is the same thing, and the instrument cannot detect it.

Therefore, in the face of such a large giant mussel in front of him, which is estimated to have grown at the bottom of the lake for hundreds or even thousands of years, Chen Xu was very entangled in his heart.

As the saying goes, with great expectations, great disappointments.

The big mussel that is more than two feet long can open two peerless pearls, but after this is opened, it may be a pile of mussel meat, and there is no way to eat it, because the meat of this old mussel has already accumulated countless toxins, like poison, maybe it will die in one bite.

"Master Hou, my uncle is here!" Outside the door, Jiang Chuxing hurriedly walked in.

On the way back, Jiang Chuxing couldn't wait to ride a horse and run to Jiang Heng's house to report the news, and Jiang Heng heard that such a foreign object appeared in Wuzhong, so he naturally rushed over to check it out, and behind Jiang Heng, there was a delicate and beautiful girl, who was Jiang Chuyue.

"Such a strange thing has never been heard of in the world, it is really auspicious!" As soon as Jiang Heng came, he squatted in front of the wooden shed and smeared the big clam shells, and was amazed, and even some of his eyes lit up.

When the Marquis of Qinghe came to Wuzhong, he suddenly appeared in such a shocking thing, and the emperor's parade to the meeting was close at hand, if this matter was reported, the emperor would be very happy, and if he could bloom a huge pearl that was peerless and rare, he would definitely get a huge reward for the emperor.

This kind of heavenly treasure can be found but not sought, and this giant clam is long-lived for hundreds of thousands of years, which is very in line with the emperor's preference to find the elixir of immortality.

"Master Hou, hurry up and open this giant clam to see if there are any pearls?" Jiang Heng stood up excitedly after thinking about it in his heart.

The room full of people also looked at Chen Xu expectantly.

And Chen Xu swept over everyone, hesitated for a moment and said, "What if...... What should I do if I can't open a pearl? ”

Belch~

A group of people all began to be in a daze.

"This thing is hidden in it with beautiful jade, the legend of the original and Shibi must be no stranger to you, the beautiful jade is inside, the gravel is outside, not cut and unknowable, although this giant clam is big, but there is not necessarily a pearl, if there is no empty like one!" Chen Xu pinched his chin and said in a tangled manner.

"What Master Hou is worried about is, but it's just a giant mussel, if you don't have it, you don't have it, and you don't need to worry about it!" Xiao He reminded.

"No, this giant clam has lived in the lake for thousands and hundreds of years, it is an auspicious thing, and it is against heaven and ...... to ask for jewels and hurt its life."

All:......

"Master Hou, today we have all injured hundreds of thousands of lives!" Gao Yao couldn't help but mutter.

"This is different, this giant mussel is rare in the world, it has spread now, within a few days it will be known that the land of Jiangdong is out of Wuzhong, the land of Jiangdong is not better than the northwest, the people here worship the god of water, and the lake mussel will inevitably be falsely rumored to be a god under word of mouth, it is indeed inappropriate to kill it rashly, and if it is killed but there is no treasure bead, it is even more difficult to believe, this matter Hou Ye is worried is very reasonable, it seems that we have to think of a way before the emperor parades to Wuzhong, otherwise the emperor will ask at that time, we can't justify it......" Jiang Heng finally understood Chen Xu's worries at this time.

It's good that this big mussel didn't get ashore, it was killed directly on the ship, whether there are pearls or not, it will never come out, even if it comes out, there can be other excuses to explain, there are pearls, it is really auspicious, no pearls, then it can be said that it is all false, and there is no such a big auspicious thing at all.

But because Zhou Bo was almost **** at that time, Chen Xu didn't think about it so much, but after he went ashore, he was watched by onlookers and found that things were a little out of his control.

Since ancient times, the auspicious theory has been deeply favored by the emperor, especially in the Qin and Han dynasties, when all kinds of magicians were rampant, and in the noisy atmosphere of various gods, once something is related to the gods and auspiciousness, then the nature has definitely changed.

And as far as Chen Xu knows, the first emperor especially likes to collect these strange auspicious things, he once drank and chatted with Meng Yi, knocked on the side to inquire about the Lishan mausoleum, and learned that the emperor used to send a large number of Fang Dao warlocks to search the world, collecting what "Yanqiu Green Tree", "Yungang Suzhu", "Green Mountain Jinbai", "Cold River Xingzhe", "Dizhang Xia Sang", "Kunwu Lotus", "Chenghai Meteorite" and countless other unheard of rare things, and all these collected were collected by the emperor in the construction of the mausoleum underground palace, Outsiders never knew about it, and the scattered rumors that came out had no way of knowing what it was.

And these things Chen Xu also once thought, the biggest possibility is that those Fang Dao warlocks who were raised before deliberately used some so-called heavenly treasures plus a fairy-sounding name to deceive the emperor, which is also just to his liking.

In later generations, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when he was old, pursued immortality, and still liked to see all kinds of so-called auspicious and rare genius treasures, and also sent Fang Shi to the sea several times to find the so-called three sacred mountains and immortal elixirs, because he could not get it, he even built a large pool in the palace, and carved the three stone mountains of Penglai, Yingzhou and the abbot with stones in it to say that he had obtained the fairy island......

Therefore, in the current Great Qin, although the emperor no longer believes too much in Fang Dao Warlocks under Chen Xu's continuous indoctrination, he has not completely given up the hope of pursuing immortality, otherwise he would not have had a three-year appointment with Hou Gong Lu Sheng and other immortals, and after waiting for the Eastern Dao to be built, he couldn't wait to go straight to the East China Sea.

Moreover, Chen Xu also somewhat believed that the reason why the emperor spared no effort to support him in building the Eastern Road was not particularly simple to develop the economy of Great Qin, but to make it more convenient to go to the East China Sea.

And this is also a very important factor that Chen Xu secretly figured out the emperor's thoughts, and proposed to build the Dongfang Road and bet with Li Si.

Sometimes, whether many things can be done or not depends on the psychology of the leader.

If Chen Xu had wanted to build a cement road from Xianyang to Handan or Jiangling, it is estimated that the emperor would not have supported him so readily to make a bet with Li Si.

At present, the emperor is almost in Wuzhong, and it is estimated that it will be ten days at most.

And the rumors of this giant clam will inevitably fall into his ears.

At that time, it is inevitable to ask if the emperor wants to open this giant clam to take the pearl on a whim, and the consequences will be somewhat unpredictable......

"Master Hou, there are a lot of people in Wuzhong outside, and they all say that they want to watch this giant mussel!" The leader of the guards came in and whispered.

"Master Hou, what should I do, if I move out to show the public, the rumors will be all over the sky......" Jiang Heng looked at Chen Xu very worriedly.

"Temporarily close the Five Lakes Garden, disperse the crowd, and trouble Lord Jiang to go out and explain, just say that if you want to watch this auspicious rui, you must wait until you go to the water god to worship, the time is ...... Tomorrow's time! Chen Xu thought for a moment and said to Jiang Heng.

"Yes, Master Hou!" Jiang Heng and the four merchants of Wuhu Park took the order to leave, and soon heard a noisy sound outside, and after more than ten minutes, the noise slowly subsided, and soon Jiang Heng and the others returned to say that the people had been dispersed.

Although the Five Lakes Garden was quiet, a room full of people could still only look at this huge mussel shell and have a headache.

Fishing for mussels in the lake is just Zhou Bo's way to express his gratitude to Chen Xu.

And Chen Xu just had a playful mentality, he didn't expect Zhou Bo to be so powerful and fish out such a big mussel shell from the bottom of the lake, and this mussel shell is no longer a surprise at the moment, but a trouble.

According to the conventional method of opening the mussel, this mussel shell that is about to grow old will definitely die.

And if Xiangrui dies, not only the people of Wuzhong will not be satisfied, I am afraid that the emperor who heard the news will not be satisfied, and it will inevitably let the imperial history and the forbidden army investigate in detail, it is estimated that there are many people who are implicated, at least these businessmen in Wuhuyuan will definitely not be able to escape, and then they will inevitably have to track down their own identities, so that the matter of bidding farewell to the emperor and running to Wuzhong in front of the emperor will definitely be leaked, and then cause all kinds of suspicions of the emperor.

The emperor's possessiveness was very strong, and he had to find out if there were any pearls in the mussel shell before the emperor went to Wuzhong.

If anything, it is really a huge auspicious rui, and the emperor must be happy!

"Master Hou, why don't we throw the giant clam back into the lake in the middle of the night, and say that Xiangrui ran away early tomorrow morning!" Liu Bang came up with an idea, although he has a humble status, after all, he has lived for forty years, and his knowledge is still very high, and he knows the huge trouble brought by this big clam shell at the moment.

"Brother Liu, this is a good idea!"

"We can break it first to see if there are any pearls and then lose them, anyway, if we run away, we will die without proof!"

"Not bad!"

A group of people in the room all agreed with Liu Bang's method.

Chen Xu struggled for a long time and nodded: "It seems that it can only be like this, but we still have to find a way to see if the giant clam can open on its own, so maybe there is still a chance to figure out whether there are pearls in it, after all, it is not easy to grow so big, and if you kill it, I am afraid it will really cause a catastrophe!" ”

"What Master Hou said is true!" Several businessmen nodded in unison.

In this era of believing in ghosts and gods, scholars may not believe in it, but the common people believe more, especially Quhai, who has lived in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River since childhood, has worshiped the water god and lake god since childhood, and the people of Chudi believe in gods more than people from other six countries.

"Go get water and fill the tub and see if the giant mussel can open!"

"Yes, Master Hou!" The leader of the guards took the order, and soon brought several large buckets of water with a few guards and poured them into the wooden basin, while a room of people gathered around the wooden basin and watched without blinking.

Half an hour passed in a flash, and just when everyone's eyes were sour, I saw that the two large shells of the giant mussel, which had barely moved since it was fished ashore, actually opened a gap slightly.

"Haha, it's open, the giant clam is open!" In Gao Yao's excited exclamation, a group of people became excited.

"Just open it, wait until the gap is big enough to stuff it in and prevent it from closing, naturally you can reach in and find out, you can find some wood and stones to prepare......" Chen Xu instructed a few guards to find stones and wood, and then said with a smile, "I have dug the lake mussels for nearly two hours, and I am a little hungry, let's go, go and eat some food to satisfy my hunger, and when I finish eating, maybe the mussel shell will be completely opened." ”

"What Master Hou said is that he is indeed hungry, and Gong Qu hurried to arrange a banquet!"

As soon as Chen Xu said this, a group of people instantly felt hungry with their chests against their backs, and shouted together to hug Chen Xu to eat at the restaurant.

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