Chapter 67: Can You Eat It If It's Beautiful?

Zhu Weiguang and Fang Yuan were both having fun.

Zhang Yaohua saw that they didn't run far, so he didn't care about them. From the beginning, I didn't expect much help from them, knowing that they were coming to play.

The two of them brought another piece of clams onto the boat.

"Look what I've picked up." Shui Wang immediately showed off.

I saw him pull out a white pearl, estimated to be 15 millimeters in diameter.

Zhang Yaohua looked at what he picked up, not far from the clams.

As we all know, pearls are also one of the organic gemstones, similar to clams.

However, there are now a lot of cultured pearls, resulting in the price of pearls is generally low, especially white pearls, wholesale is based on the pound, which is slightly more expensive than plastic.

Zhang Yaohua said: "This is a natural pearl, and with this size, I'm afraid it's not cheap." ”

As far as he knows, pearls below 6 mm are generally not included in the category of jewelry-grade pearls, 7-9 mm are generally loved by consumers, 10 mm pearls are already rare, and more than 12 mm are relatively rare and expensive.

Hearing Brother Hua say this, Shui Wang was even more proud.

"How much is it worth?" Zhang Yaowei was curious.

Everyone looked at Zhang Yaohua.

Zhang Yaohua shook his head: "I don't understand, when I go back, ask the people in the antique shop." ”

Subsequently, Zhang Yaowei and Ah Hui also tried to go down for a walk, and the two caught a few large pike crabs, a few fist-sized conchs, and a large lobster on the bottom of the sea.

Zhu Weiguang and Fang Yuan also played about the same.

Fang Yuan picked up two sea cucumbers, and a sea anemone came up.

Zhang Yaowei said depressedly: "Why did you pick up the anemone? ”

He can't keep up with this brother's brain circuit.

Sea cucumbers can understand, after all, sea cucumbers are not cheap, the national football team has to eat a few catties every day, and if you don't eat sea cucumbers, you are not eligible to join the national football team.

But what is the use of sea anemones?

This thing looks beautiful like a flower on the ocean floor, but it is actually a predator, and its dozens of tentacles have a special stinging cell that releases toxins.

They have no skeleton and are anchored against fixed objects on the seafloor, such as rocks and corals, or attached to the shell of hermit crabs.

"Don't you think it's pretty?"

Zhang Yaowei: "What's the use of looking good? Can you eat it? ”

Sea anemones secrete toxins and are generally not edible. Of course, for some people, after some processing, it is still possible to eat.

You know, puffer fish is also poisonous, and no one eats it? It's still rushing.

Many mushrooms are also poisonous, Yunnan people are still happy every year, just out of the hospital and go to eat, people from other provinces can not understand the happiness of others.

Zhu Weiguang and Fang Yuan smiled and didn't explain much.

They are all people who achieve financial freedom, and making money is not their purpose, the main thing is to enjoy life. Then, it doesn't matter to them whether they can eat it or not, whether it is worth it or not.

"What about the pearl? Show us. Zhu Weiguang said to Shui Wang.

The pearl was in Ah Hui's hand, Ah Hui took it out and handed it to Zhu Weiguang.

Zhu Weiguang took the appreciation, although he is not a treasure connoisseur, but he can see the quality of the jewelry. The color, shape, and size of this is basically the bottom of his mind.

"Hmmm! It's pretty good, do you want to change hands? He asked.

Shui Wang was stunned: "How much money do you pay?" ”

As long as the money is in place, there is no such thing as not selling. For him, there is no such thing as a non-sale.

"You also know that white pearls are the most common and have the lowest value, even if they are natural, thousands of dollars are basically the top. This one of yours is in good condition, good in color, and relatively large in size, and I will pay 7,000 yuan. ”

In fact, this price is even slightly higher. If Shui Wang takes it to a jewelry store and sells it, it won't be able to sell it at this price.

Nowadays, the pearl market is generally not good, and only the best black pearls and gold pearls can do it if a single grain exceeds 10,000 yuan. After the design of the jewelry company, the value of the jewelry will increase several times, and it can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan.

If it is the two years when the hype is the hottest, this kind of color and size of pearls may be more than 10,000 yuan.

Shui Wang looked at Zhang Yaohua, hoping that Brother Hua would give him a suggestion.

Although Zhang Yaohua is not a professional, he has at least checked the information. At present, the price of pearls is indeed average, even if it is produced in the South Seas, it is at most a few thousand yuan.

This pearl, he actually found it, and deliberately didn't pick it up, so that others could drink the soup.

If it is a melo bead, Zhang Yaohua will not hesitate to pick it up.

Mellot beads, also known as "dragon balls" or "flame beads", are relatively round in size, come from the body of conch, and cannot be artificially cultivated, so they are more precious.

Its composition is similar to that of most shellfish, including calcite and aragonite microcrystalline aggregates, the color is orange-red, orange-yellow, yellow, yellow-brown to nearly white, with the crystalline appearance of ceramics, flame pattern structure, shapes range from irregular, oval to egg-shaped, round people are usually more valuable.

It is said that the rare and precious Mellot beads are extremely difficult to produce, and the chance of finding them from conch is 1 in 1,000, and the chance of being able to mine them in their entirety is even lower than that of larger size and better quality.

Therefore, a merlot bead of more than 5 grams is worth more than 100,000 yuan.

A 100.4-gram Merlot Pearl was auctioned on Hong Kong Island for $2.7 million.

Can this be spared?

Zhang Yaohua nodded slightly towards Shui Wang.

Seeing Brother Hua nodding, Shui Wang agreed: "Okay, thank you Brother Guang." ”

Zhu Weiguang waved his hand, not at ease, just a few thousand yuan of things.

As for Zhang Yaohua's two pieces of clams, the two of them just watched and didn't think about it.

On the one hand, it is because the clams need to be carved, and it is troublesome to buy them back; On the other hand, they don't understand the market of clams, so it doesn't matter if it's a little high, but they're afraid that if it's low, everyone will be embarrassed.

The fishing boat continued on its way, casting three nets in the process, but only catching a little marine debris.

"It's not good luck!" Fang Yuan half-jokingly.

After running for so long, it's somewhat boring.

Zhang Yaohua shrugged his shoulders: "I want to get a harvest every time I call to cast the net, is that still a human being?" ”

Fang Yuan thought for a moment and nodded: "That's right." ”

"Let's try again in the first three or five kilometers!"

Zhang Yaowei is very calm and steady like an old dog.

The fishing boat had advanced almost five kilometres, and the nets were again lowered into the sea.

This time, before it was time to close the net, everyone knew that there must be a harvest. Standing on the boat, they could all faintly see the fish below, but they couldn't see what kind of fish it was.

When the nets were put away, they finally saw the true colors of the fish.

"It's a black sea bream, oh no! There are also red sea bream. Fang Yuan was surprised.

This is the gaji fish, also known as the red sea bream, which is divided into black sea bream and red sea bream according to the color of the scales. This kind of fish is no stranger to sea fishers, but it is a bit rare to catch so many fish.

Red sea bream is a lot more expensive than red sea bream.

In general, adult red sea bream rarely congregate in groups.

On the other boat, Shui Wang and they were also speeding up the collection of fish, and the first three nets made them quite depressed.