Chapter 33: The Pearl Flood
Xiao Tian's arrival attracted the attention of the children.
"Uncle, you're back!" shouted Xiaohu.
"Well, I'm back, you guys can keep playing. Xiao Tian responded, he hugged Xiao Qi and stroked the soft fur on Xiao Qi's back. Seeing that Huang Shi also came over, he also praised him: "Xiao Huang, you are very satisfied, you are very satisfied." ’
Xiao Tian's compliment, in exchange for Huang Shi giving him a pair of white eyes.
"Oh, okay, why don't we play with beads together?" Xiaohu replied to Xiao Tian and then suggested to the other children.
"Okay, then let's play with beads. The little pile also chimed in.
Then, a group of friends, under Xiao Tian's gaze, took out some round white beads from their pockets. The beads are about the same size as glass marbles, but they are not transparent, like the white ceramic marbles that elementary school students play with.
Seeing them playing with marbles, Xiao Tian remembered that he had also played with glass beads when he was a child, and he had played for a long time. Glass marbles used to be all the rage among elementary school students, and many male students didn't want to go home until dark.
Nowadays, it is rare to see children playing with glass marbles, and I don't know if it is outdated, or if I don't pay attention to this aspect of things.
It's just, these little children, where do the round beads come from?
Xiao Tian thought about it, but couldn't think of the source, so he asked them, "Xiaohu, where did the beads you play with come from?"
"This is what our uncles gave us to play when they came back from fishing. Xiaohu replied.
When Xiao Tian heard this, he was a little surprised, and the white beads in the sea that he brought back from fishing sounded like pearls! But how could adults give pearls to children as toys? Don't you think it's strange?
"Xiaohu, did you say that what you are playing with is a pearl?"
"That's right, it's pearls, and the uncles said it was useless, so they played with us. ”
Xiaohu's answer made Xiao Tian sure, this is a pearl, a genuine pearl.
These villagers are also generous enough to give pearls to children as toys, don't they know that pearls can be sold for money?
Pearls on earth are a strange commodity, and almost everyone on the earth knows that pearls are very valuable. With good pearls, of course, you sell them for money, not give them to children as toys.
Could it be that there are so many pearls on Shark Island that there is no place to sell them? This made Xiao Tian a little entangled. Today he went to the city and went to the pawnshop to inquire about his two egg-sized pearls, and the price offered by the boss was only one tael of silver, and the price was pitifully low.
Of course, Xiao Tian naturally would not sell it like this, but took back the pearl and kept it for other use.
The owner of the pawnshop didn't say much, there are more pearls on Shark Island, but they are the size of eggs. Therefore, if you open a tael of silver, you can buy it, and you can't count it as a ball.
In the Shark Kingdom, pearls are played by only a small number of wealthy people. And you want to play with pearls with larger particles, better color, and round and smooth. No one wants the small ones, ordinary people rarely buy them, and the production is far greater than the demand, so the pearls cannot be sold for much price.
"You go ahead and play with yours, I'll go first. Xiao Tian said to them. With that, he took the two lions and left.
Not long after, he met a villager who was busy working, and chatting didn't seem to have any effect on him, so Xiao Tian stepped forward to ask.
"Hello uncle, can I ask you something?"
"Oh, you're the foreign merchant, just ask me anything. The villager replied kindly.
"That's the case, the village often goes out to fish, what to do with the pearls you catch?" Xiao Tian didn't say much, and directly asked what he wanted to know.
"Oh, pearls, there's a lot of that stuff in the sea! There's a lot of it, and there's no place to sell it, so I'll give it to the kids to play with." The uncle replied with a smile while he was busy.
"Is it so much?" Xiao Tian sighed.
"Yes, every time you fish, you can catch dozens or hundreds, this thing is not valuable, it is difficult to sell ten pieces of copper plate. ”
"Thank you uncle for your answer, you're busy with yours!"
"No thanks, everyone knows these things. ”
Xiao Tian said goodbye to this villager uncle, and turned a 360-degree bend in his head, is it profitable?
The pearls here are large, full, round and shiny, and the abundance is abundant, and the price is as low as no money. If you collect them yourself and bring them back, you don't know how much they can be sold.
It's just that now there is not a single copper coin in his pocket, and the plan is temporarily shelved. Wait until you have the start-up capital, and then do these things, this back and forth, you must be able to make a lot of money.
In fact, pearls have many effects, not only can be used as decorations, but also as medicine. But there are so many pearls here that no matter how many uses they are, the demand is only so great that they can't be used up.
Xiao Tian walked all the way, thinking all the way, how to make money in the cultivation realm quickly. Although some people have asked him to cooperate with sanitary napkins, the price of this thing is too low, and he can't bring much at a time, so it is not very cost-effective.
Thinking about it, what do women consume the most, and what are the things that are valuable? Lipstick seems to be very good, and perfume is also very popular. Thinking of this, Xiao Tian had a bottom in his heart. These things take up a small amount of space, you can take a lot of them at a time, and they are also very valuable.
When he had an idea, he was very happy. It's been many days since I came to the cultivation realm, and I can't call my family from here, so I don't know if my mother is in a hurry. It's time to go back, Xiao Tian thought to himself.
If you want to go back, it is very inconvenient for the two lions to carry it, so let's keep them here. They don't have any requirements for eating, and as long as there is an aura, they won't starve to death.
At dinner, Xiao Tian told Widow Zhan that he was going to find a way to do business tomorrow, and it was inconvenient to take the lions with him, so he left them here. It doesn't matter what they eat and drink, as long as they have a place to live. Then he told Huang Shi and Xiao Qi that he would be back soon, and let them wait in Xiaosha Village with peace of mind.
After dinner, Xiao Tian threw out a lot of food in his spatial ring. Some of them were given to Widow Zhan's house, and some of Xiao Qi's favorite sweets were left in the room where he lived. Xiao Qi wants to eat, just move his paws by himself, he is really too lazy to move, and there is a big lion next to him.
Early the next morning, Xiao Tian left the village and teleported in a place where no one was around. A flash of blue light flashed, and he returned to his original world: Earth.
Returning to the world after a few days of absence, it feels like a dream. I dreamed that I went to the cultivation realm for a trip, and after waking up from the dream, I returned to the earth, but everything was so real.
The place where I came back was the same as the last time I left the cultivation realm, and now it's morning. When I took out my mobile phone, I saw that there were many missed calls, and many text messages bombarded me at once. Among them, my mother has made a few phone calls, my buddies have made a few calls, and a few text messages. After Xiao Tian finished reading it, he gave a text message back, and then walked on the way home.