Chapter 70: The Golden Pearl
Bang!
Li Baye pulled out the Jackdaw's bloody twin knives, opened his bow left and right, and began to dig pearls!
The quality of these two knives is really good, the half-inch thick mussel shell is the same as the paper paste, and it quickly reveals all its own under the cutting of the sharp blade.
Such a big sea mussel, Li Baye is also the first time to see it, thinking that such a big mussel has lived for decades, and it should not be difficult to conceive a pearl.
Thinking so, sure enough, a milky white pearl was found in the first mussel, Li Baye took it out of the flesh and faced the sun, and he could clearly see that there was a small black thing in the center of the round pearl.
This is the purest marine pearl, the bead is nucleated, that is, the sea mussel body into the foreign body, or sand or small insects, difficult to discharge when it secretes layers of nacre, wrap it, less than the year of the pearl are irregular shape, according to the core of the foreign body to form the shape, only the year is long enough, the pearl will slowly become round and smooth.
Of course, the ocean pearl in Li Baye's hand is round, although he doesn't know the specific year, but just by feeling, he also knows that this ocean pearl is worth a lot of money, at least better than the two that he dug up in his space before.
In contrast, freshwater pearls are seedless, and there will be some gaps in size and luster with marine pearls, and because freshwater pearls can be mass-produced by cultivating river mussels, while marine pearls can only be dug naturally, so in terms of rarity, marine pearls are also more expensive.
On the market, ordinary pearls are already comparable to gold, while ocean pearls are more precious than gold.
Now, every time he digs up an ocean pearl, it is equivalent to picking up a gold bar! Li Baye can't help but be excited.
The first mussel dug up the ocean pearl, which made Li Baye feel like a chicken blood, and in less than half an hour, he opened all eight sea mussels, seven of which had pearls in their bodies!
And one of the smaller mussels had five pearls in its body! Most of the others had at least two or three!
This high yield made Li Baye happy to blossom, and after a while, he got 19 ocean pearls!
Among them, 17 are marine pearls with a good color, and only 2 are relatively small, and the roundness is not very good, and the vintage may not be enough.
According to the information he had before, the combined value of these pearls was at least more than a thousand taels of silver!
"I'm rubbing! I'm really making a fortune now! Just catching it is equivalent to the revenue and profit of the Fishing Tyrant Alliance for a month!" Li Baye said with emotion, "No wonder the world says that the ocean is an endless treasure!"
As soon as he finished sighing, Xiaohong's side surfaced again, bringing eight giant sea mussels again!
Li Baye hurriedly threw the remains of the sea mussels on the boat into the sea to make room for the new sea mussels.
Double knives are like flying cutting, and another round of wealth feast is opened again!
After five rounds of harvesting in this way, Li Baye has harvested a total of 104 ocean pearls, with a total value of more than six thousand taels!
When Xiaohong surfaced for the sixth time, suddenly a huge black shadow smashed directly over, covering all the sky above Li Baye's head, causing him to jump into the sea to dodge.
Boom!
The hovercraft was almost sunk! The draft had exceeded its limit, and the inside of the cabin was starting to flood.
When Li Baye saw it, his eyes instantly widened, and he saw that the huge black shadow was a sea mussel giant!
The diameter is more than one zhang! The shell of the mussel is several inches thick, Li Baye's heart fluttered, the sea mussel as big as Nima is at least a few hundred years old, what a pearl must be bred!
Because of the huge size of the sea mussel, Xiaohong only caught this one when she floated up this time, it felt Li Baye's pleasure, and also let out a cheerful chirp, and soon turned to dive and continued to work diligently.
Li Baye quickly climbed onto the boat, stood directly on the shell of the giant sea mussel, took out the bloody double knife and began to cut, at first he actually felt a lot of resistance, obviously the shell of this giant mussel was very hard, until he used the internal force, he felt smooth again.
The shell of the giant mussel was cut and peeled off layer by layer, and the mussel meat inside was also dug up piece by piece, Li Baye in order to find the pearl, it can be said that he did not let go of any inch of corner, and after another large piece of hard meat was removed, suddenly a golden light came into view.
Li Baye looked at it fixedly, and saw that at the junction of mussel meat and mussel shell, a row of golden pearls the size of a pigeon's egg was neatly arranged!
"I'll go! These are golden pearls! And they brought me eight at once! Don't you want to be so surprised!" Li Baye exclaimed.
Before he had time to think about it, he immediately dug out the largest of them, and put it under the sun to examine it carefully, and the golden pearl was at least an inch in diameter! It was almost the size of a small egg!
In the sunlight, the gold beads shimmer with a charming light, perhaps because the nacre is too thick to discern the core inside, but it is even more pure and precious!
The value of this bead was already incalculable, he suppressed the turmoil in his heart a little, put the bead into the system space, and continued to dig.
It took a quarter of an hour for him to finally finish the giant clam and finally get 22 golden pearls!
Among the ocean pearls, white is the most common, and gold pearls are the treasures of ocean pearls, extremely rare, if ten sea mussels can dig two or three white pearls, then the probability of digging golden pearls is one in a thousand, or even one in ten thousand!
Because of this extremely rare rarity, the value of gold beads is at least ten times higher than that of white beads!
At this time, 22 gold beads came, and they were as big as pigeon eggs, according to Li Baye's most conservative estimate, their total value was more than 10,000 taels!
"Damn! What kind of business will you do in the future, forget it when you are a professional mussel digger!" Even the city government with Li Baye couldn't help but fall into a deep emotion at this moment, and had a subversive reflection on his previous positioning.
But now is not the time to think about these things, Xiaohong has been waiting for a long time, and eight sea mussels are thrown into the boat, so he can only wave his knife again and start working hard.
That's four hours!
Wave after wave of sea mussels were thrown onto the boat, and then Li Baye disemboweled, and the pearls were dug up, and in the end he couldn't remember how many mussels he had cut, how many pearls he had dug up, and he had seen a lot of golden pearls, so it was no wonder.
In addition to the golden pearls, even the rarer red, cyan and black pearls have been dug up!
Black pearls, in particular, are the best of the best, and can show five different brilliant colors from different angles in the sun, which is rare in the world and priceless!