Chapter 465 [Glad to Come]
Do you understand this time? There is not only stone gambling and conch gambling in the world, but also this kind of wonder can only be seen in Nassau, the Caribbean. The only drawback is that the queen phoenix snail is an endangered species elsewhere, but in the Caribbean there are many of them, but it is not easy to get conch pearls out of the phoenix snail.
Everyone knows that pearl oysters produce pearls, the size depends on the age of the pearl oyster, the same point is that the conch pearl is taken out of the conch, the size is also closely related to the age of the conch, the older the conch, the larger the conch pearl produced in his body.
But the conch is not a pearl oyster after all, and only a very small number of queen phoenix snails can produce conch pearls in the body, and the proportion of conch pearls can reach tens of thousands to one, and the size is very small.
Normally, it can reach five millimeters, which is considered a big one, and the size of soybeans is already rare, and some even reach the size of sesame seeds, or millet.
You say that the jewelry made of such a small size does not look pretty, even if it is beautiful, but this pearl conch is too small. Because of its small size, it limits its price, so although conch pearls are very rare, they are not expensive, and most of them are under 1 carat for thousands of dollars a piece.
So Anne saw the jewelry sold in the jewelry store, pink conch pearls, made of jewelry very much, but it was too small to be used as a small jewelry to play with.
But it was a bit unseemly enough to attend those bejeweled formal occasions, and Anne didn't buy the jewelry made of these conch pearls, so he was not impressed by the event. After Yang Nianzhong's explanation, Anne understood why Yang Nianzhong was so happy to leave for Nassau Harbor early tomorrow morning, and went to bet on conch.
To be honest, men like to gamble and like excitement, but women don't like it, that's not true, sometimes women are crazier than men, especially in the face of this pink natural organic gemstone, that is even more enthusiastic.
In addition, the Yang family is not short of this money, looking for excitement to play, if you are lucky, if you really kill a conch pearl with a length of more than one centimeter from the phoenix snail, then you will be rich.
Betting on conch is a way of gambling to see luck for others, but it is not the case for Yang Nianzhong, who has a special function, just like an X-ray machine sweeping over.
Which conch has pearls in it, and which conch does not have pearls in it Yang Nianzhong can see it clearly, with this anti-heaven cheat, it is equivalent to bending over and picking up a pile of dollars on the ground? Isn't that exciting enough?
So when Yang Nianzhong heard the good news, he was almost crazy with joy, and through Yang Nianzhong's explanation, Anne also had a strong interest in betting on conch.
So they didn't pack their luggage, they didn't leave with a shout, and after dinner that night, the husband and wife forced themselves to fall into bed and sleep. At two o'clock in the morning the next day, while yawning and taking two male servants, I walked out of the hotel lobby and got into a taxi, and went straight to the fishing port of Nassau.
In the taxi, Anne was still very sleepy, leaned on Yang Nianzhong's arms and fell asleep, and slept until the fishing port before she woke up, and came to the fishing port in Nassau to inquire. To bet on conch pearls, you have to go upstairs on trading hall 2 in the fishing port, which is where the real conch bet is placed, not on the fishing port and fishing boats.
So Yang Nianzhong took his wife to the upstairs of the No. 2 trading hall again, pushed the door and entered, and the good guys looked at all young men and women who were angry. There are also middle-aged people and older people, all of whom are foreign tourists, and Americans account for a large part of it, and the gambling on conch has not yet begun.
The trading floor on the second floor is dedicated to betting on conch food, and the annual turnover is quite a lot, bringing a huge amount of profit to the city of Nassau. So this is a trading hall allowed by the government, and participants who buy a conch to bet on conch will have a staff member hand out a brochure when they enter the door of the trading floor.
This brochure introduces some rules for reading conch, which is actually similar to an ordinary auction, because the production of conch pearls is too small, and only one out of tens of thousands of conch pearls can be taken out, so the price of these queen phoenix snails is extremely cheap, and it is divided into several standards.
The young queen phoenix snail, of course, is very cheap, most of them are a hundred dollars, if you fancy which phoenix snail, feel that there are pearls in it, you can buy this conch back.
Then come to the other side of the trading hall to slaughter on the spot, see if there are conch pearls in it, if there are no pearls then this conch meat is your trophy, you can eat as much as you want.
This age group is generally five years, for example, the price of a ten-year-old conch should reach 200 dollars, if it grows to thirty or forty years old. Or if the diameter of the conch is more than 15 centimeters, then its price is high, and many bidders have such a conch, then you have to bid the highest bidder.
Of course, the trading floor of the Nassau Harbor Gambling Conch has been in existence for some years, but no lucky person has ever been able to do so. How much does 20 carats weigh when a conch pearl is slaughtered on the spot and a conch pearl of more than 20 carats is taken out? When converted into grams, that's four grams.
Equivalent to a small red bean such a size, conch pearls have never appeared, the world's most famous conch pearls, such as the conch pearl worn by Elizabeth Taylor in 1990, is a rare boutique, and the total weight even reaches more than 40 carats is extremely rare.
Such conch pearls have been priced in the millions or tens of millions of dollars, and have not been seen for decades, so if you want to bet on conch pearls on this trading floor, it depends on your own luck. If you really take the conch gambling as a career, then you will also have to lose money, and you will not be able to fill this bottomless pit with no amount of money.
So why do these tourists get up so early and come here? Take a fluke and try your luck. It's even better to buy two conch pearls and get them out, if you don't have them, put them in a plastic bag and find a restaurant at random, and you can make a conch delicacy for you.
Coming to Nassau in the Bahamas, there is an experience of gambling on conchs, even if you don't come in vain, this is equivalent to tourists coming to the Yunnan-Myanmar border, spending hundreds of dollars to bet on a small stone to cut it, and see if there is any jade is a reason, just to play rather than to make a fortune.
So there are a lot of these people in the trading floor, but they all have a good mentality, except for having fun? So with the surrounding people, tourists slowly began to chat.
Where are you from? Where am I from? What are you doing? What am I doing? Let's talk casually. When the sky was slightly shining, it was already six o'clock, when the other side door of the trading hall was opened, and the staff pushed dozens of large boxes and walked in, and those boxes were filled with some pink queen phoenix snails bigger than a palm.