Jinming District is quite far from where Shi Zhong lives. After taking the bus for more than 40 minutes, we finally arrived. Fortunately, I had been here before when I was in college. Shi Zhong found the Flower, Fish, Bird and Insect Market without much effort. At this time
Although it was very early, there were quite a few people there, noisy and noisy. Most were old people, but there were also some young people like Shi Zhong.
The Flower, Fish, Bird and Insect Market is very big. Shi Zhong walked around and saw that the things sold there were complex and diverse. Some sold fish, some sold cats and dogs, and some sold rats, snakes, birds and insects... In short, there were many, many things Shi Zhong
He couldn't even name it, but in the end Shi Zhong sadly discovered that there seemed to be nothing he liked.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, and people began to flow forward.
"Hey, friend, what's going on?" Shi Zhong grabbed a young man and asked.
"You don't know? There are pearl bettors in front of me. Tsk tsk, the clouds are so good. I opened two 1.5cm balls. The boss must have turned green!" said the young man, and hurried over there.
"Betting on pearls?" Shi Zhong asked doubtfully. He had only heard of gambling on stones, but he had never heard of gambling on pearls. Out of curiosity, Shi Zhong also went over to watch the excitement.
In fact, gambling on pearls has always been popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. However, generally speaking, only fat clams can produce large pearls. Therefore, pearls are not like gambling on stones. One knife will make you alive and the other will kill you.
There were a lot of people, and Shi Zhong managed to squeeze in thanks to his tall body.
The boss is quite old, over fifty, and his face looks ugly at this time. Opposite him squats a man in his thirties in a suit and leather shoes, with a proud face, holding two plump and shiny pearls in his hands.
big enough.
"Tsk, tsk, two 1.5cm-sized pearls, they cost **Ten thousand anyway. Now Old Man Li will suffer a loss. It's really unheard of that a clam that doesn't look very fat can actually produce such a big pearl."
Ah!" said one of the onlookers.
"I would say that Old Man Li totally deserves it. Over the years, he has defrauded many amateurs and gambled with some leftover clams. Today is a bad day!" said another person.
"Come on, come on, I heard that 1.5cm pearls are sold here?" A middle-aged man with a folder under his arm squeezed in. His hair was combed back, and he could tell that he was a successful person.
"Yes, yes, let me tell you, the clams I have here are all carefully selected, and all of them are likely to be pregnant with large pearls. Otherwise, it would be impossible to produce two 1.5cm pearls!" Old Man Li changed his face very much.
Come on, just now I had a sad face, now I am full of smiles.
"Oh, two? Just such small clams?" The middle-aged man was surprised, obviously not believing what Old Man Li said.
Old Man Li was anxious, and said with a thick neck: "Can I still lie to you? Well, the two that the gentleman next to you has are of top quality in terms of color and shape, and..." Old Man Li boasted a lot.
, it’s simply overwhelming.
The middle-aged man was very moved by what he said, and waved his hands like a nouveau riche: "Give me... ten dollars first, by the way, what's the price here?"
"Four thousand each, one price!" Old Man Li gritted his teeth.
"Boom!" There was a commotion in the crowd. There were only four thousand of these items. Obviously the crowd's eyes were sharp, but no one said it. After all, they had opened two 1.5cm ones. In the industry, bad guys' business is big.
avoid.
The man in a suit smiled and said: "Brother, to be honest, four thousand each is not expensive. Look, two 1.5cm ones cost one hundred thousand!"
The middle-aged man waved his hand: "Open!" This shocked the nouveau riche.
Old Man Li smiled widely: "Okay!" After saying that, he squatted down, picked up a kitchen knife, held the clam and used force to cut the blade of the kitchen knife into the clam along the gap. With a twist, everyone was in the hot
Under his gaze, the clam was split into two, revealing the clam meat inside and the pearls with a slight golden light. Old Man Li reached out and dug into the clam meat, turning it over, and pulled out nine pearls, large or small, round or crooked.
, put it into a plastic basin that had been prepared nearby. Freshwater pearls are different from seawater pearls. The yield of each mussel is very large, not just one or two.
"This is too bad!" Out of the nine that were opened, apart from the ones with pits and crooked ones, only one was very round, but it was too small, so it was probably just a waste pearl and was ground into pearl powder.
You know, in addition to the color and shape, a one millimeter difference in the size of pearls will have a huge price difference. For example, the market price of a 1.5cm pearl is estimated to be 40,000, while a 1.0cm pearl is only 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, and those less than 0.5cm are even less.
There are hundreds of them.
Next, Old Man Li opened nine shots in a row. The largest one was only 0.8cm. The middle-aged man's face turned green. He originally heard that there were 1.5cm shots, but he didn't expect that when he opened ten, one was 1.0cm.
None of the above, I lost 40,000 yuan in one fell swoop, how can I not be irritated?
Shi Zhong was surprised to find that the corners of the suit's mouth actually evoked a successful sneer. Although it was only for a moment, Shi Zhong did see it.
"I didn't expect it to be a trick!" Shi Zhong guessed that none of the large-framed clams could reach 1.0cm. The so-called 1.5cm pearls were basically the double act of old man Li and two people in suits and leather shoes.
The middle-aged man left in disappointment, and the crowd of onlookers dispersed "sighing". Shi Zhong stayed where he was.
"Young man, do you also want to bet?" Old Man Li couldn't help laughing when he saw a young man staring at his stall in a daze. He had just slaughtered a fat sheep and was in a good mood.
"Ah? Oh, but I have no money!" Shi Zhong came back to his senses. He had just been wondering whether he could make a profit from this pearl. He learned from the people next to him that the price of this 1.5cm pearl was at least 40,000, even if it was 1.0cm
There are three or four thousand of them, so I can definitely operate them well.
"No money? If you don't have money, why are you standing here? Don't affect my business!" Old Man Li immediately relaxed, "A pauper comes here and wants to get rich overnight?"
Shi Zhong's face instantly darkened: "Old man, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense. Also, what you just did was illegal and blackmail. Don't think that everything was done perfectly!"
Old Man Li still wanted to talk, but the second half of Shi Zhong's words made him close his mouth quickly, with a panicked expression, but he still said with a stern face: "You... what did you say, some illegal blackmail? I tell you, you
Don't slander me, Old Man Li is not a soft persimmon in this territory!"
Shi Zhong sneered. Such a person would have to be frightened before he would give in. It is typical for Shi Zhong to accept the hard and not the soft. How could Shi Zhong, who has been running the business for a year, not know this? "Well, I will call the police now and let the police
Investigate to see if you two are related, and let your colleagues here also see what kind of person you, Old Man Li, are!"
"Bah!" The ladle in Old Man Li's hand fell to the ground, his face turned pale, and he immediately squeezed out an ugly smile: "Hey, young man, don't be so angry, come here, have a cigarette to calm down the fire.
I was just joking with you!"
Seeing that he had given in, Shi Zhong didn't care, took his cigarette, sat on the stool opposite Old Man Li, and said: "Old Man Li, when doing business, you have to be kind, don't you think?"
"Yes, yes!" Old Man Li said with a smile, all smiles, "What, do you want to bet twice? I'll give you a good price!"
"Come on, just put away those two tricks of yours. I don't think any of the mussels here are good, so don't take me for granted!" Shi Zhong criticized mercilessly.
"Hehe!" Old Man Li laughed dryly to cover up his embarrassment.
"Actually, I didn't mean to embarrass you. You see, it was you who took the initiative to get angry with me at the beginning, right?" Shi Zhong said.
Old Man Li didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Shi Zhong's gourd, but he just kept nodding.
"Well, I'm here to do business too. How much do beads like yours cost? I need some!" Shi Zhong pointed at the waste beads.
"Ah?" Old Man Li didn't expect that the conditions proposed by Shi Zhong were so simple. He originally thought that he would seize such an opportunity and he was overjoyed and said hurriedly, "Oh, look at me, I actually rejected God. Come on, look.
Look, choose it yourself, and I will definitely give you a good price!"
"How many of these are there?" Shi Zhong asked, holding a small one, but with good color and round shape.
"Two...one hundred!"
"I said, Old Man Li, you are not very kind. You really treat me as an enemy!" Shi Zhong said unhappy.
Old Man Li said pitifully: "Young man, I really didn't lie to you. If it were anyone else, it would cost at least two hundred. Although the one you got is small, it has a bright color and a good shape. Of course, the price is a little higher!"
"
"Okay, pick me fifteen like this!" Shi Zhong withdrew all the 2,000 yuan from his bank card this morning.
"A total of one thousand and fifty. I said, young man, I have seen how powerful you are today. If you give me one thousand, I will make you a friend. This is my business card. If you have business in the future, please contact me!" Old Man Li said with great loyalty.
, In fact, my heart hurts so much, there is nothing I can do, this young man is holding on to himself.
"Li's Pearl Harbor, okay, I've written it down!" Shi Zhong also left his number and name, and left with fifteen pearls. He didn't care whether Old Man Li's words were true or false. He saved five hundred yuan more than anything else.
