Chapter 244: The Clue Provided by the Ammolite Stone

Yan Juan put his hands around Yan Yixin's neck, and under Ling Qing and Ling Ziwei's smiling eyes, his face was already hot and almost burning. Fortunately, the sky is not yet bright, and the face is not clear.

"How could it be... Ziwei is also here? Yan Juan leaned into the root of Yan Yixin's ear and asked curiously.

"Do you know where this is?" Yan Yixin's voice was also very soft, as if this was their whisper. However, with the ear power of the Ling father and son, it must not be able to hear completely, but it can also be heard roughly, right?

The mountain road is not easy to walk, but there are naturally people in front of them to open the way, and the people behind are not closely following, but it can be vaguely seen that there are more than a dozen people, presumably it is Ling Ziwei's manpower.

"Could it be that this is Zhejiang?" Yan Juan exclaimed in surprise, his eyes widened, and he looked at the unfamiliar mountains and forests.

"Of course, so if you want someone, it's naturally quick to find it." Yan Yixin smiled, "It's also fortunate that they didn't take you to the deep mountains and old forests like Xiangxi and Yunnan, and if you find someone there, it won't be able to succeed in ten days and half a month." ”

"But how do you know I've been taken to Zhejiang?"

"Didn't you send me a text message? I'm worried that Shen Siwei will be unfavorable to you, so I'll call you after the meeting, but your mobile phone hasn't been able to get through. ”

"Ah, I was probably kidnapped by them then!" Yan Wan muttered and said, "It's rude to start, and it's not dedicated at all, I didn't knock people out twice and I had to add that *** or something." ”

"Whew!" Ling Ziwei laughed behind him, "You just chant Buddha, fortunately people are not professionals, otherwise we would have found you so quickly?" ”

"Did you find that button I left on the ground?" Yan Juan ignored him and continued to ask Yan Yixin.

"Of course I did, otherwise, I wouldn't be so sure what happened to you. Shen Siwei said that when she broke up with you, everything was normal, but I don't dare to fully believe it, even if she didn't participate in the kidnapping, she must have known those people. ”

"She knows?" Yan Juan was very surprised.

"Otherwise, what do you think she is doing when she returned to City A early? What happened that day, she suffered a big loss. Although she hasn't posted it in person, there are some things that she probably didn't have to explode! ”

Yan Juan was naturally very disappointed: "I thought I was relieved of my previous suspicions with her, but it turned out that she also pushed me behind me!" ”

"You're so easy to trust people!" Ling Ziwei said angrily, "Do you really want you to believe in someone?" You don't believe it anymore! ”

Yan Yixin explained: "Yan Juan believes that Shen Siwei is not wrong, she doesn't really want to harm Yan Juan. At least, she has figured it out now, so she is also anxious about Yan Juan's disappearance, I don't think it's pretending. Moreover, there were some things that I had not even asked, and she told them all. Otherwise, I wouldn't have judged that they had taken you to Zhejiang in a moment, and then informed Ziwei to look for it with all my might. ”

"Is Shen Siwei familiar with them?" Yan Juan asked unexpectedly.

The other party approached her, but did not ask for anything else, and at that time she only told her what she knew. The last time I saw you, I was too embarrassed to tell you about this past. ”

"Oh." Yan Xuan's heart was finally a little more comfortable, "That's no wonder she, anyway, it's some fait accompli, it's not harmful for her to say it, and she won't mind causing me a little trouble." I think she must have felt very proud to see the changes on the forum, right? ”

"Of course, even if she is relieved, she is still very jealous of you." Yan Yixin's breathing was a little disordered.

"Let me go on my own, I'm relieved now." Yan Juan proposed.

"If Yan Yixin can't carry it, you can replace me. When I was a kid, I carried you, and that time we both fell down the steps, and you had a piece of your forehead scratched. ”

"No, I can." Of course, Yan Yixin refused to fake it, even though Ling Ziwei was her brother.

"Who the hell is that man?" Yan Juan questioned again, "I thought he was my father's enemy at first, but then he saved me in the fire." The situation was very urgent at that time, and it stands to reason that he should save Wu Peirong first! ”

"Wu Peirong is self-inflicted, and she can't live." Yan Yixin shook his head.

"At that time, a beam fell, and he could have escaped on his own despite me. At that time, if he flashed a little more wide, it would hit him on the head, and he would have to faint on the spot. ”

Yan Juan once again recounted the critical situation at that time.

Ling Ziwei and Ling Qing couldn't help but get closer, Yan Yixin frowned: "This is a weirdo, being able to save you regardless of his own safety should be a human reaction." ”

"Yes, Wu Peirong also said that he didn't want me to die. Then he arrested me, is it to blackmail? ”

"No, it's not." Yan Yixin shook his head, "So far, I haven't received any information from him about asking for ransom, and it shouldn't be money that he's doing it." ”

The four of them talked as they walked, but they still couldn't guess the man's identity.

"He's in his sixties?" Ling Qing suddenly asked.

"Yes, the beard is gray, and the hair on the temples is also gray."

"If you are ten years younger, maybe it is for love. It may be Wu Peirong's minister, but it seems unlikely that she is in her sixties, after all, she started a family very early at that time, and she can be a grandfather in her sixties. Ling Ziwei preemptively expressed his opinion, "However, it's not impossible to fall in love with the New Year!" ”

"Nonsense!" Ling Qing unceremoniously "shot" his opinion, "If he really loves Wu Peirong, will he still be able to take care of Wanwan in times of crisis?" Besides, listening to Wanwan's story, although the fire was very big at that time, he may not have a chance to save Wu Peirong. ”

"That's right..." Ling Ziwei hurriedly 'touched' his chin again, and said fiercely, "Unless he doesn't leave this mountain, he will always be caught by me!" When the time comes, the truth will naturally be revealed. ”

"It's useless to guess, let's go out first." Ling Qing interrupted his son's oath.

"Wait!" Yan Juan suddenly 'rubbed' his eyes on Yan Yixin's back.

"How?"

"Put me down." Yan Xuan's voice was full of nervousness, and the three men suddenly surrounded her.

"What happened?"

Yan Juan shook his head: "No, I saw a flash of light there just now, it looks like some kind of mine..."

Ling Ziwei couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "You were so shocked that you scared the three big men so much that their souls were almost gone, what is the source of the mine?" I think you are crazy, like Zhang Taiwei, one reaction is gem mine wherever you go. I think you're supposed to be a brother and sister! ”

Yan Yixin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Yan Juan say this, and his tense muscles and 'flesh' relaxed one by one.

"Now I'll take you to the hospital for a check-up..."

"No, I'm fine!" Yan Wan raised her hand as if she were vowing, and then a sneeze weakened the effect of her words.

"Got a cold, huh?" Yan Yixin was a little worried, and wrapped her collar tightly for her.

"No, let's go over and see, I have a feeling that something must be there." Yan Juan held his hand, "Of course you will feel cold if you have been on your back and have not exercised." Haven't you heard that parable? The old man hiding in the sedan chair wrapped several layers of cotton clothes and froze to death, while the sedan chair man who carried the sedan chair was sweating in torn clothes! ”

"Be careful!" Yan Yixin helplessly supported her, "Be careful on the ground, the mountain roads here are rarely walked, and the heights are uneven." ”

"Got it!" Yan Juan made a grimace and pulled him to walk deep and shallow into the bushes. A ray of sunlight in the morning shone on the earth, gilding the green trees and young grass with an orange-red border.

It turns out that green 'color' can also be such a brilliance.

Yan Juan didn't have time to sigh, so he looked for the place where the light flashed just now. The vegetation here is obviously much sparse, and in the gaps between the 'naked' and 'exposed' boulders, the plants only poke out a tender head. The waterfall is very thin, like a thin line, just a narrow one.

"Could it be because of the 'dew' that is reflected by the sun's rays?" Yan Yixin couldn't bear to hit her positive 'sex', but there was really no trace of mineral veins in this land.

"Impossible, can't I tell the light of the dew? How come I have never been mistaken along the way? ”

"Anyway, there is always a misidentification!" Ling Ziwei also walked over, and seeing that their search was fruitless, he couldn't help but say angrily, "Okay, let's go down the mountain quickly, although you don't necessarily need to go to the hospital, take a hot shower to make up for sleep, that's still needed." ”

"Even if there is a vein, let's wait until we go down the mountain to find it." Ling Qing said in a compromise.

Yan Yixin also nodded, and was about to speak, but Yan Juan suddenly squatted down: "That's what I saw here just now..." Ah, found it! ”

Her happy voice infected the birds in the woods, and they flew into the sky in a daze, and the air currents 'stirred' by her wings were so faint that they couldn't be seen.

"This stone is so beautiful, a bit like an opal?" In Yan Juan's hand, he held a stone with a diameter of no more than five centimeters, although it had not been polished, but under the impact of the waterfall, it was shaped like a goose egg, and the colorful 'color' could still be seen.

"It's not an opal." Yan Yixin stretched out his hand to take it, looked at it over and over again, and finally said affirmatively, "This... It should be ammolite. ”

Ammolite is one of the most important new gemstones discovered worldwide in the last 50 years.

Yan Juan immediately objected: "But, isn't the ammolite in the Americas?" The Rocky Mountains in southern Canada and Montana in the United States should be relatively excellent production areas. ”

"The main production area is in the Americas, not necessarily anywhere else!" Yan Yixin said with a smile.

"Hey, this stone is also beautiful, let's go home and keep a souvenir." Ling Ziwei also leaned over his head and suddenly shouted, "I remember where I saw a similar stone, it was also in this state, but it was a little bigger than this one..."

"This kind of ammolite is also sold in the market." Yan Yixin explained disappreciatively, "Strictly speaking, this kind of stone should be called a fossil. ”

"Fossils?"

"Yes, 7,000 to 75 million years ago, the surface of the earth was not what it is now, and the mountains here should have been a sea area, perhaps a relatively warm shallow sea, which is the environment in which ammolite lived. At that time, there should have been volcanoes with frequent eruptions, capable of dropping ash up to several meters thick into the sea. The creatures in the shallow sea died quickly and in large numbers and were buried. The volcano continues to erupt, and the ash accumulates thicker. Later, the earth's crust gradually turned the shallow sea into mountains and hills, and the creatures buried in the volcanic ash formed today's beautiful fossils because of the sealing effect and some trace elements. ”

"How does it sound like a biology class..." Ling Ziwei muttered, "However, it is indeed very beautiful, even more beautiful than the rain 'flower' stone, and it is worth collecting and playing." The color on this stone is really rich. ”

Yan Yixin smiled and turned the ammolite in his hand, and Yan Juan exclaimed in surprise: "Ah, this kind of color change is really beautiful." You see, from red to green, and from green to blue. Ah, turn back, turn again... It's really beautiful! ”

"Although the quality of this ammolite is not as good as that of the Rocky Mountains, it is still a good product. You see, it's very colorful, and it's very bright. Yan Yixin put the spotted stone on Yan Juan's hand, whose eyes were shining, "It's just that this piece is a little dim." ”

"If you polish it again, it might be even more beautiful!" Yan Juan played eagerly and couldn't put it down.

"Ammolite is different from ordinary gemstones in that it does not show its beauty through a reflex and refraction light source. It produces iridescence by diffracting rays of light, much like opal. Moreover, this stone has been here for I don't know how many years, and it is washed by the water flow every day, which is the natural grinder. ”

Yan Juan nodded, and was not disappointed: "This is beautiful enough, maybe there will be similar stones nearby." ”

"No matter how beautiful it is, it's just a stone, I think you've been doing this business for too long, and even people are going crazy!" Ling Ziwei glared angrily at the two people who still wanted to find another piece.

"There won't be just such a piece, there should be a large one..." Yan Wan didn't raise his head, bent over and hunched his back to search carefully.

"It's not going to be that easy to find, most of it is underground." Yan Yixin picked up Yan Xuan, "Let's go, everyone is tired all night, if you don't feel like giving up, we have rested enough, come over and have a look." ”

Although Yan Juan was full of eagerness, it was difficult to persist when the search was fruitless. But she refused to leave the waterfall: "Isn't it okay to go down the hill here?" The scenery here is even better. ”

Ling Ziwei smiled bitterly: "But don't you think there is no road here at all?" ”

"The road is made by people!" Yan Wanyi taught strictly, "Don't you hear Mr. Lu Xun say that there is no road in the world, and there are many people who walk, so it has become a road?" ”

"I'm illiterate!" Ling Ziwei raised his hand in surrender, "I only know one thing, if you really want to go down here, I don't think you will be able to walk out of the mountain until dark." ”

Yan Juan knew that in the mountains, neither he nor Yan Yixin had the right to speak, so he could only reluctantly nod his head and agree to leave. Suddenly, as soon as she bent down, Ling Ziwei, who was walking behind him, almost tripped over a big heel.

"Please, don't suddenly squat like this when you're walking, okay? Even if your brother and I are athletic, we don't have the 'strength' to play obstacle courses with you now. ”

"I've found another piece!" Yan Juan excitedly took out the stone in his hand.

"Wanwan, even if I am not an expert in gemstones, I know that all gems are bigger and better. Your small piece can be ignored, if it is a high-quality emerald, ruby sapphire, or it is worth doing inlay jewelry. This kind of..."

"It's purple!" Yan Wan interrupted his rambling.

"What about the purple 'color'?" Ling Ziwei was probably a little strong, and his words didn't have a good voice.

Yan Yixin smiled and explained for Yan Juan: "Generally speaking, the most common color 'colors' of ammolite are red and green, and blue 'color' and purple 'color' are relatively rare. Violet 'color' like this one, like crimson and gold, is very rare and scarce. ”

"Scarcity is expensive." Ling Ziwei understood, "However, this stone is a little too small. ”

"However, if you can pick up two on the surface, doesn't that mean that there are more abundant mineral sources underground?" Yan Juan pointed to the ground excitedly, "If it is mined..."

"Yes, then you and Yan Yixin have made a windfall!" Ling Ziwei said angrily, "Merchants, what a typical pair of businessmen!" ”

Yan Wan was stunned: "I didn't expect to get rich, and the Yan family's financial crisis has survived safely... ”

Ling Ziwei rolled his eyes angrily: "Don't you want to get rich after the crisis is over?" What kind of concept do you have! The so-called businessman is chasing profits, where there is profit, there are businessmen! Money, this kind of thing will never be enough. ”

"Really?" Yan Juan shrugged his shoulders, "No matter how much money you can make, it has nothing to do with me anyway, I'm just responsible for designing them and wearing them on the beautiful skin of the 'women'." ”

"A weirdo!"

Yan Juan grimaced at him: "Anyway, the people who play the economy are around, and I don't need to think about these problems." I'm sure there's going to be an abundance of ammolite down there! ”

Yan Yixin's brain had already calculated the cost of mining and the relevant procedures that needed to be handled, so he just nodded absentmindedly at this time: "Yes, I can earn the money for you." ”

"I can't stand you 'meat' like you..." Ling Ziwei glanced at them, "Let's go, since you 'handed over' the matter to Yan Yixin, why are you still stupid?" Do you want to do a carpet search? ”

Yan Wan smiled: "Let's go." ”

"Is there a lot of this kind of stone on the market?" Ling Qing suddenly spoke.

Yan Yixin shook his head: "If it's like this kind of pure natural ammolite, it's rare and rare." By presenting irregular chunks, the price certainly remains high. If the texture is fragile, it needs to be protected with crystal film to avoid damage, and the small particles of ammolite with a relatively regular shape are all treated with a coating. In terms of price, it is not the same as natural ammolite. ”

"I remember!" Ling Ziwei suddenly patted his head, "There are such stones, I saw them in Aunt Wan's dressing box when I was a child!" ”