Qin people are good at gambling, they can gamble on anything, but no one has studied the activity of gambling on mussels, maybe someone will be interested in buying a rare big mussel out of the water to try their luck, but it is not a common business method, and today Chen Xu's move attracted more than ten people to participate, and the emotions of the onlookers were instantly mobilized, and many men in ordinary clothes in the hustle and bustle also squeezed in, pinching the dirty money bag and being excited, obviously a variety that loves to gamble on weekdays.

"Since you are all so enthusiastic, let's start, one by one, from small to large, the first reserve price is twenty yuan, and now start to increase the price, no less than five yuan each time, three times no one will be regarded as a successful bidder, and the mussels will be opened on the spot......" Chen Xu turned a rattan frame over and used it as an auction table, and took a lake mussel that looked like a foot or so and put it on and said.

"Twenty-five!"

"Thirty!"

"Thirty-one times...... Twice...... Three times...... Sold ......"

Chen Xu struck the rattan frame with a dagger and threw it to a businessman who won the auction.

"Hurry up and open it~"

Such a novel lake mussel auction scene instantly increased the interest of the onlookers, and there were constantly people urging in the crowd, and the successful bidder took out 30 yuan with some excitement and threw it into the rattan frame containing the money next to him, and then took a bamboo knife from the crowd of onlookers, and cut it very skillfully with a poof, and the inside was empty.

"Alas~" There was a sigh in the crowd.

"The second auction ......" In the sigh, Chen Xu had already put the second clam shell on the auction table.

Although this kind of lake mussel of about one foot is large, it is relatively common, and no one wants a penny on weekdays, because the meat can not be eaten, and killing three or five hundred may not be able to open a pearl, and to fish out three or five hundred, not to mention that it is extremely difficult to find, a fisherman who is proficient in water has to take several days to catch enough, if you hire someone to hire a boat to fish, it is completely worth the loss, so the fishermen by the lake want to fish for fish, and catch mussels by the way, which belongs to Buddha nature pearl diving, if there is joy, if there is no, there is no, throw into the lake and continue to fish.

But as long as there are more people involved in anything, the probability of success is relatively large, so although the lake pearls are scarce, but the huge Taihu Lake is surrounded by six or seven adjacent counties, plus the county seat Wuzhong, the total population is more than one million, there are still a lot of people to get pearls every year, even if a small pearl of 100 dollars is a lot of income, plus there are bold and strong professional pearl divers, fishing in the depths of Taihu Lake all the year round, and they can always produce a few high-grade pearls every year.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, so the pearls of Taihu Lake are also a very important income for fishermen in the villages and towns near Taihu Lake

At present, these lake mussels are auctioned to the point of twenty or thirty yuan, which is completely sky-high for the nearby fishermen, and it is completely unacceptable psychologically, but only a group of businessmen who participated in it know that spending this money is just to get acquainted with Qinghe Hou, as for some other people who don't know, it is purely to have a fun gamble.

Just opened more than ten mussels and already produced tens of thousands of dollars worth of pearls, in case you spend tens of hundreds of dollars to meet it!

The gambler's mentality, about that.

And for the gambling stone this kind of activity, later generations also have a knife rich, a knife poor saying, the former jade king instantly became poor eggs abound, for this crazy is not a few, I heard that in the Sino-Burmese border of many jade trading markets, often can see the bare ass of the madman running around, if you talk to him about jade, these madmen will instantly become jade experts said the head is the Tao, ask the locals, will tell you that this guy turned out to be a billionaire, a gambling stone bankruptcy.

The same is true of the gambling mussels in front of you, in this unique gambling mussel activity, under the stimulation and comments of the onlookers, many of the pockets are not rich, and today after fishing for a long time, the lake mussels exchanged for dozens of hundreds of dollars of mud legs and couldn't hold back, and took out the mud-stained coins to participate.

But obviously everyone was unlucky, or Chen Xu had used up his luck, and a bunch of lake mussels of about one foot were quickly auctioned off, and there were about fifty of them, but not a single pearl appeared.

"The bidding below is a medium-sized lake mussel, with a reserve price of 50 ......," Chen Xu acted as an auctioneer, picking up a lake mussel about one foot five inches and placing it on the rattan frame.

"Fifty...... Fifty-five...... Sixty...... Sixty-five ...... Once...... Quadratic...... Three times, congratulations, deal! Chen Xu smiled and handed the lake mussel to a middle-aged man in a fancy costume, and then someone next to him helped open the mussel, and the bamboo knife went down to cut the mussel meat, broke the mussel shell, and then shook his head with a disappointed face.

"Alas~" The onlookers sighed collectively again.

The large pile of mussel shells auctioned by Chen Xu, the most is about one foot small, there are about fifty, and the remaining twenty or so are one foot five inches to more than two feet, and the price is almost doubled, but in fact, in everyone's opinion, the effect is no different.

It's normal if it can't be opened, but it's not normal when it's opened.

A lake mussel from the start of the auction to the opening, the time is generally not more than one minute, the speed is very fast, so the auction of fifty small lake mussels, it takes only half an hour, Chen Xu in the money basket has returned more than 2,000 yuan, in addition to the five elements of the five elements of the treasure, the ten dollars of the gossip treasure, most of them are fifty dollars of Tai Chi treasure, although the auction is fierce, but it can be seen that almost everyone is still more sensible, after all, spend more than 30 dollars to buy a lake mussel that almost knows that it is an empty shell, the price is still a bit big, A group of merchant gentry was gone, and some ordinary civilians who participated became more and more cautious after one or two defeats.

Ten minutes passed, and soon more than a dozen medium-sized lake mussels were auctioned, and all the participants still found nothing.

"The last five big mussels, the reserve price is 100 ......"

Chen Xuyun lightly picked up a two-foot-long mussel and put it on the bottom of the basket, cleaned up the sediment on it with his hands, and said with a smile, "No wonder I didn't remind you, gambling on mussels is gambling on luck, do everything you can, and those who are shy in their pockets had better hold their money bags tightly, so as not to lose their money!" ”

A group of businessmen didn't matter, most of the civilians in ordinary clothes had actually retreated from interest, leaving only two who were still hesitant to insist.

"One hundred dollars, one hundred and ten...... One hundred and twenty ...... One hundred and fifty ...... Once...... Twice...... Three times...... Deal! ”

"Alas~"

The first auction of Da Beng ended quickly, and one hundred and fifty yuan was obtained by an old man, and he still found nothing when he opened it.

Soon after, the second and third were all sold consecutively, and the prices were all above 150 yuan, but there were still no pearls.

Looking at the last two, the onlookers at the scene were all nervous and sweaty palms.

Qu Hai and the others have not participated for a long time, they are all some businessmen who roughly guessed Chen Xu's identity and some ordinary people who are in the dark are bidding, but at this last moment, although the price is getting higher and higher, the expectation is naturally greater, nearly two hundred yuan to sell a lake mussel that is known to be an empty shell, even for many rich people, it feels a little painful, just one round of bidding, some of the businessmen who participated in the least have already spent two or three hundred yuan, and some people have even taken out the redemption ticket.

"This is a ...... for three hundred dollars"

Just when Chen Xu put the fourth big mussel on the auction table, a slightly chubby middle-aged man held up a redemption ticket with a face value of 500 yuan, which is the smallest amount of redemption issued by Huaxia Qianzhuang, but the pressure on ordinary people is still very great, and the biggest coin that ordinary people see is generally Taiji Tongbao, and the person who carries the redemption ticket is either rich or expensive.

"Wait, since it is the one who has the highest price, it will cost three hundred and fifty ......yuan," a thin black man in very ordinary clothes hesitated.

All eyes fell on the thin black man.

"Old owl, you're crazy, spend so much money to buy a mussel, be careful to go back and your dad will beat you to death!" There were acquaintances in the crowd who shouted dissuasion.

"Hehe, wealth and danger are seeking, I think this mussel will come out of a big pearl!" The thin black man's body trembled slightly, and he said with a dry smile.

"Haha, I'm afraid that if I buy it, I will be pinched by the lady when I go home in a while......"

"It's extreme, it's extreme, the beads haven't been obtained, and the eggs are gone......"

There was a burst of laughter in the crowd.

"Okay, I won't earn with you, but don't blame me for the lack of eggs tomorrow......" The chubby merchant shook his head with a smile and put away the redemption ticket, and the rest of the merchants also smiled and waved their hands and decided not to participate in the auction of this big mussel.

"Collect the money, open the mussels!" Chen Xu, this kind of gambler, has seen a lot, so he didn't have half a wave in his heart, and ordered the servants to throw the big mussel over after collecting the money.

The black thin man held this big lake mussel excitedly hit several swings in succession, and finally took a few deep breaths under the continuous urging of hundreds of people, and after his mood calmed down, he pulled out a half-foot-long steel dagger from his waist, pried the mussel shell open with a few stabs, and then touched the mussel meat back and forth with his hand a few times and then excitedly used the dagger to cut the snow-white mussel meat, and suddenly a silver brilliance rippled like ripples in the strong sunlight.

"Wow, it's a big pearl again...... onlookers instantly exclaimed.

The so-called jewelry, the pearls that have seen the new light will have this brilliant brilliance.

"Haha, hahahaha, ...... I've made a fortune......"

The black thin man trembled with excitement, and with trembling hands, he lifted up a large silver pearl with a diameter of seven or eight points, the whole body was silver round and smooth, and there was a faint silver halo in the sun, reflecting hundreds of faces that were surprised or remorseful or hideous or stunned.

"The last lake mussel bought a ...... for 500 dollars"

Looking at this huge pearl worth at least tens of thousands of dollars, after a burst of exclamation and commotion in the crowd, almost everyone's eyes quickly focused on the last and largest lake mussel today.

"A certain ...... for six hundred dollars"

"Eight hundred dollars!"

"A thousand dollars!"

"One Thousand Twelve ......"

After a short silence, around the last big lake mussel, the seven or eight merchants who had just given up the bid in an instant launched a fierce competition, Chen Xu had not yet reacted, and the bidding had already exceeded 1,500 yuan.

Countless onlookers were trembling with their legs.

Nima, is this just a mussel shell, okay?

Don't want to be so murderous and rich.

Even the thin black man holding the big pearl felt a little frightened, but at the same time, he instantly felt extremely happy.

He succeeded in the hard work, otherwise it would be impossible to fight for it now, because his entire net worth is only three hundred and fifty yuan, and he just bought a few catties of raw silk in the county town to pay the autumn grain tax.

Although Da Qin couldn't help but gamble.

But if they can't pay their taxes, they will be arrested and sent to prison, or even punished with hard labor.

"Thanks, very lucky!" The man hurriedly put away the pearl without making a sound, and without greeting the people around him, he picked up a straw hat from the ground and squeezed into the crowd and disappeared.