Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1031 Snail Fossils (9000 words, monthly ticket +2)

Lin Xiuqing was there early this morning again, checking the drying of the fish. She was really afraid of rain.

As long as it was dry enough, she would quickly collect it, and also move the ones that had just been dried in the open space outside into the workshop.

At first, they were hung inside the workshop to dry in the sun. Later, when there was not enough space, they were hung at the door or outside the wall. There was no shelter at all, and it looked very insecure.

So from yesterday to today, she has been collecting non-stop, putting away the dry ones and moving the wet ones in, until the small room in the workshop was full, and Wang Guangliang ran over and said there was no room left.

After Ye Yaodong took a look around, he went to see them loading goods onto the tractor. After the New Year, their transportation of goods had become much more orderly. When the bags of goods were collected and bagged, they would be weighed with a wooden scale. Each bag was fixed at around 100 kilograms.

In this way, the number of bags of goods transported each time and their weight can be calculated directly, which is very convenient. A Qing can also count the weight of goods entering the warehouse every day and the weight of goods leaving the warehouse each time, and it seems that a rough outline has been taken.

The originally immature faces of Wang Guangliang and others have become a little more mature after working seriously for more than half a year. They no longer look as sloppy and ruffian as they did at the beginning, and look like young people.

As expected, people still have to stay on the right path, and a positive life can change a person's mental outlook.

"Work hard, guys. I'll give you a raise at the end of the month. How much was originally going to be given to you?"

Wang Guangliang's eyes lit up, and he immediately ran over like a servile person, "Brother Dong, originally sister-in-law charged us 40 yuan."

"Okay, new year, new atmosphere, a raise is also reasonable, I'll give you all a 5 yuan raise, and by the end of the month I'll give you 45 yuan."

"Thank you, Brother Dong. We are so lucky. Fortunately, we managed to get a big boss. Otherwise, we would still be wandering around every day. How could we be so comfortable now and get paid?"

"Work hard, I won't treat you unfairly. At the end of the year, I will give you a year-end bonus so that you can happily marry a wife soon."

"You're right, Dong Ge. I'm only 18, and during the Chinese New Year this year, someone came to my house to introduce me to a girl. He said that I earn several dozen yuan a month now, which is better than my parents, and I can get married."

"Me too, me too. During the Chinese New Year, all my relatives came to my house to ask how much I earn a month. They all praised me for my success and wanted to introduce their relatives' girls to me. Oh my god, they are too enthusiastic. I thought I was annoying in the first half of last year."

"That's right. Last year during the Chinese New Year, everyone pointed at me and lectured me. This year, everyone changed their attitude and praised me for my success. Girls came to me one after another, saying that they could get married first and get the marriage certificate later. I almost lost my virginity."

"Hahaha, I see you chatting with this girl and taking a walk with that girl every day after dinner. Your mouth is cracked all the way behind your ears. Tell me the truth, have you ever been hiding in a haystack..."

"Get out of the way. I'm a picky person."

Ye Yaodong also smiled and said, "You have to choose. You are now employed. There are not many people in the village who can earn more than you at this age. What village beauty? You can choose whatever you want, right?"

"Hey, that's it."

"Hurry up and get to work. Stop talking nonsense. Fill up the truck and send it to the city."

"Okay, okay, get to work."

Ye Yaodong also went home and brought back a bucket of hairfish. He put ice on the top and covered it with a rag so no one could tell what was inside. He put it in the corner behind the tractor, where he could continue to pile dried fish on top.

After the tractor was filled with protruding goods, he took the nylon bags that were used to cover the boxes in the yard and covered the dried fish with them. He tied them up to make them waterproof. After checking, he waved his hand and asked the two men to drive the tractor away.

The weather won't be good recently, just in case.

Then I went to the village committee and called A Guang to explain everything to him.

Huimei asked for leave before the New Year, saying that A Guang had some work to do in the store outside and she had to go and help out for a few months. Fortunately, there was not much to do in the village committee. She usually just sorted out some documents at most, so it wouldn't be a big problem without her.

Ye Yaodong thought that since she had just given birth, she would not be able to go to work for the next two years. Considering A Guang's family background, she would not be short of this salary. He was thinking about when to go to the city to tell her about it and just quit her job in the village committee and keep the position for later.

As for whether it will count in the future, he thinks the village committee will give him this face.

When the girls in the family grow up and need a job, they can arrange a job for them.

After making the call, he rode his bike to town again. His father had asked him to buy some electrical wires, and he also had to buy some snacks for the children. One should keep his word.

Just when he finished buying things and was about to ride back, the originally cloudy sky suddenly darkened, and a drizzle of rain fell unexpectedly.

"Fuck me..."

Ah Qing, that jinx, had been saying it was going to rain since early morning, and she really came true again.

The originally bright sky suddenly became overcast and dim, and a flash of lightning flashed across the sky.

Boom boom boom
Two thunders also fell to the ground, making a loud bang.

Ye Yaodong immediately increased the speed of pedaling his bicycle, but the rain also became heavier. Raindrops as big as beans fell down, directly blurring his vision.

Damn, he cursed in his heart, then stopped the car and put the cakes, oil cakes, malt sugar and other things wrapped in newspaper from the basket in front of the car into his coat pocket.

These things are just wrapped in a layer of newspaper, unlike soda and instant noodles which are waterproof.

After filling his pockets, he rode quickly home.

Fortunately, Ah Qing had collected most of the dried fish in the past two days, and those that were originally drying on the open space were moved into the workshop. At least there were nylon bags on the top of the bags, which could block some of the rain.

When I go back later, I have to look at the gaps in the nylon belts on the top and move them if necessary.

Damn it, this is really a sneak attack without martial ethics. It rained in the sea yesterday morning, and I thought it would drift to the shore during the day, but I didn’t expect it to rain today, and it rained when he was out.

It was cloudy when I first came out, and there was no sign at all.

After the raindrops fell for a while, they became a little smaller and turned into a heavy drizzle.

The hat attached to his cotton-padded jacket was blown down by the wind soon after he put it on. He was too lazy to get rid of it with his hands and just let it get wet.

By the time he rode his bike home in the rain, he was soaked from head to toe.

The old lady rushed over with a towel in her hand, "Hurry up and wipe it off, don't catch a cold, it's raining so hard, why don't you find a place to take shelter from the rain on the way, and come back in the rain like this..."

"Who knows when the rain will stop? It's early in the morning and it looks like it's almost evening. I thought it wouldn't stop that easily, so I just rode back. Haha~"

After he pushed the bicycle to the corner of the room and put it away, he took out the things in the basket in front of him and put them on the table. Then he searched both pockets until he took out everything.

"Change your wet clothes first, don't catch a cold."

The old lady couldn't reach his face, so she could only use a towel to wipe the water off his cotton jacket. Ye Yaodong took the towel from her hand and wiped his face first and then his head.

"Where's my father?"

"In the workshop, after he told you to buy wires, he went to help. The old man had told you not to buy wires earlier or later, but now he asked you to buy them and you're soaked."

The old lady took a hand cloth from under the table and helped him wipe the rain off his body, complaining.

"It's okay, haha~ I'll go change my clothes first."

He sneezed continuously. This time he was really caught in the rain for half an hour and felt cold to the core.

"Take a hot bath."

"Row."

However, after taking a hot bath, he still sneezed continuously. The cold medicine he took when he got on the boat the day before yesterday was not used because he did not catch a cold after being caught in the rain on the boat yesterday. But this time it really came in handy. By the evening, he had a slight headache and low fever, and his cheeks were flushed.

At this time, he didn't even bother to rest, and immediately put on his rain boots, took his umbrella and went to the workshop.

He had to check the condition of the dried fish, whether it was affected by the rain, and also check how the fish had been slaughtered and how much was left to be dried.

The people in the workshop were still busy, some were killing fish, some were drying fish. It was no different from before he left, except for the crackling sound of the rain overhead.

Everyone was sitting there discussing quietly. The rain was coming at the wrong time. There were too many products drying in the workshop. They didn't know how long the rain would last. If the freshly slaughtered animals were left out for too many days without drying, they might get wet and go bad...

They were afraid of being heard, so they spoke in low voices, and when they saw him come in, they all shut up.

They were not afraid of hearing daily gossip and discussions, no matter how loud it was, but now they did not dare to say anything unlucky in front of him.

Ye Yaodong also walked past them and went inside. Lin Xiuqing and his parents were sorting the goods there.

"Have you collected all the things outside?"

"I took it in, where have you been?"

"Dad asked me to go to town to buy him some wires. I just came back soaked. Yesterday he said it would rain, and luckily it rained a day later. I'll tell my eldest and second sisters-in-law later that we shouldn't pick out the average-sized ones to dry in the sun, but take them all to ferment. If they are really big, we can take them out and slice them and pickle them into salted fish, and we don't need to dry them in the sun. There's enough open space here, and most of them are half-dried."

Lin Xiuqing nodded, "That's fine, just pickle it and make it into salted fish. It won't go bad if it's pickled and you don't have to wait for it to dry."

Fortunately, the fish they dry here are marinated for a while, and then the salt on the surface is washed off before drying. As long as there is ventilation, they will not dry out or go bad even if they are dried for a few days.

It rained all day long, and the old ladies in the workshop finished their work and went home in the evening. They had originally planned to work until tomorrow, but most of the groceries were fermented, which saved them a lot of trouble.

The larger ones were slaughtered and pickled and placed in a clean large vat.

In the evening, the tractor came back and said that it did not rain when they left, but it started raining when they arrived in the city. Fortunately, there was a layer of nylon bags covering the fish, so the dried fish were not wet.

They were also more careful when unloading the goods, so there was no loss.

The whole family felt relieved after hearing this during dinner.

"The rain starts falling as soon as it starts. Who knows when it will stop?"

"Who knows? Let's wait and see. It didn't rain, so it won't go bad in two days."

"Pay attention to the weather forecast at night. The weather forecast is not accurate in reporting other weather conditions, but when it rains, it is quite accurate in reporting whether it will be sunny or rainy."

Ye's mother suddenly gossiped, "The Wang Laoqi family in the village made a big scene at the door today. The wives and children in the family were all cursing at each other. It rained and they had no place to dry the fish. They pointed at the men in the family and cursed them miserably."

Ye Yaodong was puzzled for a moment before he suddenly realized who he was talking about. "Wang Laoqi and his two sons went to the city to sell dried fish after the New Year, but ended up losing all their money and getting beaten up?"

"Yes, Wang Laoqi, who just got out of bed a few days ago, asked the dock to collect a lot of fish and was ready to dry them again. Today, he is in trouble. His wife is crying and cursing at the door, saying that she will lose all her money. She also asked why she had to learn from you. Now she is in trouble."

He couldn't help but twitch his lips. "It's only raining for a day or two, so it should be okay. Most of the things that were dried a while ago should have been put away."

"Who knows how long the rain will last. Anyway, I heard that his wife was collecting dried fish in the rain while cursing. After collecting, she sat at the door and cried, saying that she had wasted money again. It was all because of the prodigal man who insisted on drying the fish. Now she has to lose money again without earning any money."

"You have long hair but little knowledge. You start crying before anything happens. Wait until the next week when it rains and the fish dry up and become smelly. Then it will be too late to cry... Ugh... Bad things don't work, good things work, good luck..."

Father Ye looked at the whole family staring at him and quickly spat twice, realizing that he had said the wrong thing.

"Where are you spitting at? Aren't you disgusting? You're spitting towards me?" Ye's mother stared at him with her eyes not eyes and her nose not nose.

Ye's father knew that he had said the wrong thing and was in the wrong, so he didn't dare to say anything more. He just glared back, as if that would help him avoid losing face.

Ye Yaodong felt that he had found the reason why Ye Chenghe couldn't speak and had low emotional intelligence.

I didn’t know his father was so good at talking before. Ye Chenghe was just better than his father.

Lin Xiuqing smiled and tried to smooth things over. "Fortunately, we have earned back all the capital we should have earned. We have also made a lot of money from selling dried fish in the past two years. These groceries are also from our family. We didn't spend much money. Compared with others who spend money to buy them, we are not at a loss."

"Yes, yes, that's right. Anyway, we won't lose money. When we came back yesterday, we sold all the ones that could be sold. These are the ones that can't be sold. Today, most of them are poured in together to ferment into fish sauce. We won't lose money."

After a quick calculation, the haze in everyone's hearts immediately dissipated, and their expressions became relaxed. Everyone was no longer afraid of suffering a disaster and losing money.

After the calculation, we found that we would not lose money, and the atmosphere at the dinner table became relaxed.

People are afraid of comparison. There would be no harm without comparison. Anyway, someone is more unlucky. I am not the worst one, but that is not unacceptable.

The children felt that the atmosphere at the dinner table was relaxed and they dared to speak.

"Dad, are those snacks bought for us to eat?"

Ye Chenghu pointed to the cupboard next to the stove. Through the cupboard, they saw the instant noodles and snacks inside. In fact, he had been looking everywhere during lunch and had already seen them.

It’s just that the adults were in a bad mood and didn’t say a word at the dinner table. They also kept their heads down and didn’t dare to say anything, let alone ask for the snacks that Ye Yaodong had promised them in the morning.

Ye Yaodong responded softly, "You can share it after dinner."

"Ok."

"Let's share it later. Can you still eat after just finishing your meal?"

"of course can."

Ye Yaodong also said: "Is there anything they can't eat? They have one stomach for eating and another for snacks, how is it possible that they can't eat?"

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang nodded quickly like chicks pecking at rice.

"Dad is right."

Ye Yaodong turned around and asked his father, "How was Ah Hai's study at the shipyard today?"

"What can he learn in just one day? He just helps with odd jobs, moving things, and does whatever the masters tell him to do."

"Then just do odd jobs slowly. Anyway, you have to do odd jobs when you first get here. Fortunately, you only have to do odd jobs on weekends. After doing it for a year or two, you will be almost done with the odd jobs."

"Well, it's not a big deal to think that way. Anyway, as long as I go there to do odd jobs on weekends, it will help me gain experience. After a year or two, I can start to learn something."

"If you really don't like doing it, you can do something else when the time comes. It won't delay anything at all."

"Nonsense, what else can you do? How can it be better than this iron rice bowl job? You can learn something else, but there is no iron rice bowl job. You have to depend on the master's mood. It is uncertain when he will teach you. You also have to endure beatings and scoldings. This kind of big factory is short of manpower, so they will definitely teach you, and you can't beat or scold randomly."

"Well, at least he likes it. Forget it, we'll talk about it later. I'll send him there today. Once he knows the way, I can let him go by himself next week. He can ride a bicycle anyway."

"Yes, let him go by himself next time. Someone who has time can take him home and just walk him. A grown man's feet are not that precious."

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips and said nothing more. His father was also hypocritical. He knew that it was more convenient to ride a bicycle when he was traveling, but he was reluctant to let his child ride one.

It rained all night long. Although the family's mood was not so bad, it was not good either. The weather forecast in the evening still said that it would rain tomorrow.

This time it really is accurate.

And it didn't just rain for one day, but for two days in a row. During this period, the couple went to the workshop from time to time and used bamboo to pour the water on the nylon canopy to prevent it from being overloaded and collapsing directly, which would have been disastrous.

Fortunately, after two days of rain, a sunny day immediately appeared on the third day. The huge sun immediately drove away everyone's irritability, and also disappointed some people who were jealous and looking forward to seeing if they would suffer any losses on this trip.

They are not RMB, so it is impossible that all the villagers are not jealous of them and like them. Everyone has a dark side in their psychology.

When Ye Yaodong woke up in the morning, he was so stimulated by the dazzling sunlight coming in through the window that he immediately got up, dressed and went out.

It rained for two days, which made them depressed. Fortunately, the sky cleared up after two days of rain. When the big sun came out, more people walked around the door.

I don't know how big the waves are at the beach. It's low tide and there are half-grown children jumping and playing on the beach.
When he went out, Lin Xiuqing happened to come towards him with a green cassock in her hand.

She smiled and said, "It's sunny now. I just went outside the pier to check the tide. I saw some sea gulls on the rocks, so I grabbed a handful and brought them back to make soup for lunch. I'll go to the beach to dig some clams later. It's a pity there are no oysters, otherwise it would be more fragrant."

"You want oysters? I'll take the boat out to the surrounding islands and dig some for them later?"

"Forget it. It just rained. The rocks are slippery and unsafe. You've just recovered from your cold. You should just stay at home. The sea breeze is stronger on the island."

Since there was regular work in his workshop, his elder and second sisters-in-law and the surrounding neighbors were too lazy to go out to sea to dig these shelled fish anymore.

Not only do they need to have a boat at home, but the key is that the things are heavy and the women can't carry them. They have to rely on the men in the family to carry them back every day. Once a couple is out, they will be out for almost a day and a night. When they come back, they have to dig and dry the things with great effort. There is also the risk of slipping off the rocks.

There is no doubt that the family is poor, and they will do whatever it takes to earn money. But now they already have other odd jobs to do, and this is more strenuous and troublesome, so naturally they don't want to do it.

What’s more, we dug intermittently for half a year last year, and the surrounding islands were basically dug out. I don’t know if some of them have grown back after more than half a year?
"Then beat two eggs and make some omelettes. I have nothing to do later, so I'll go dig some clams and make some fried clams for you."

"The chicken eggs should be kept for hatching chicks, and the duck eggs as well. I'd rather use them to make a cold dish with some dried shrimp and cilantro."

"That's fine. Are the hens at home sitting on eggs?"

"It's almost time, we have to get ready."

"Then kill a chicken tonight, and you'll have new chicks in the evening."

"Okay, we haven't even finished eating the fish from the past two days, and you're thinking about eating chicken again."

"No conflict, supplementing at the same time, more exciting."

Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look and went into the house first.

Ye Yaodong also took a stroll around the workshop. Everything looked good after the sunny day. It had rained for two days, but it seemed that it did not have much impact on the fish. At most, the half-dried fish had become damp again and needed to be dried in the sun for a few more days.

After the tour, he went to take a look at the small hill next to the Mazu Temple. The small cherry seedlings that were moved there last year have grown taller and are now as tall as his waist. However, he didn't know when two more of them died.

Originally, they were planted quite densely, but now, a year has passed, and seven or eight of them have died one after another. It doesn't look that dense anymore, with only a few still close together, but it's not a big problem.

After two days of rain, the cherry leaves have become greener. Spring rain is as precious as oil, and it can be considered a natural nutrient that directly nourishes.

You probably won’t be able to eat cherries this year, but maybe you will have a chance next year.

As the rain increases in the future, you won’t need to water the plants yourself. Just wait until summer and ask the children at home to remember to water the plants.

After walking around, he went outside the dock and looked at the waves with a little bit of waves in the distance. He thought that even if the weather cleared up in the future, the waves in the open sea might not calm down so quickly, so he had to rest at home for two days.

He went back home slowly.

After walking back and forth, his rain boots were all covered in mud. On the way back, he walked through puddles so that he could scrape off the mud from the bottom of his rain boots.

The two little girls at home had been cooped up at home for two days and watched TV for two days. Finally, the sunny day came and they couldn't stay there any longer. As soon as he got up and went out, they also got up and ran out. Lin Xiuqing had no choice but to lead them to the beach to dig clams.

Ye Yaodong returned home and didn't see anyone. The old lady told him that everyone went to the beach, so he turned around and picked up a bucket and followed her to the beach.

The dog at home couldn't stay there either, and ran to the beach after the weather cleared up in the morning.

When he went to the beach, he saw a pile of sand clams and small fish here and a pile of conchs and clams there. When a child approached and wanted to take some, he was scared away by his dog's barking. It was obvious at a glance that these were the reapeds of his dog's fishing.

"That's pretty impressive, guys."

He touched the head of the big yellow dog in front of him, and the dogs in the distance immediately ran over, some of them holding a lively fish in their mouths.

After rushing to him, he simply stuck the dog's head into the bucket, and the fish fell into his bucket with a splash.

Other dogs that still had food in their mouths also lined up and spit into the bucket.

There was only a Dalmatian squatting there in a daze. Ye Yaodong didn't care about it. He just squatted down and put the harvest they had picked up on the ground into the bucket, and then prepared to collect the next pile in front.

Who would have thought that the Dalmatian, who was dazed just now, would run directly in front of him, blocking his way, then open its mouth and spit something at his feet.

He saw that it was just a stone and didn't care, he just walked away.

But the Dalmatian jumped on his feet and barked again.

"What are you doing? Are you rebelling? I'll break your legs. Go away."

The little black dog ran back, put the stone in his mouth again, brought it to him, and spit it into his water bucket.

A plop sound also caught his attention.

"You brought back everything dirty and smelly. What are you doing with the stones? There are plenty of pebbles on the beach."

As he spoke, he took the stone out of the bucket and threw it away without even looking at it. Unexpectedly, Xiaohua and Xiaohei ran over to pick it up and continued to spit it into the bucket.

"Are you guys never going to stop? You want seafood, but rocks are useless and can't be eaten, understand? Stupid dog! Hurry up and work, or you won't have lunch at noon."

Ye Yaodong kicked the dogs twice to tell them to work faster, but he did not immediately take out and throw away the stones they had thrown into the bucket again. Since they liked them, he picked them up and threw them into their doghouse later.

I've only heard that dragons like golden, silver and jewels, and their dens are filled with them, but I've never heard that dogs like pebbles?
After complaining in his mind for a while, he continued to move forward to look for his wife and children.

Four or five dogs at their feet immediately followed, and two more dogs surrounded Aqing and the others, being directed by Ye Xiaoxi to dig holes.

"Bigger, bigger~"

Pei Yu also repeated Ye Xiaoxi's words, "Big~"

She has now become a qualified follower and repeater.

No matter what Ye Xiaoxi did, she would follow behind and imitate her, and repeat whatever she said.

"How much have you dug?"

"We've just been here for a while, and these two haven't moved for a long time since they saw the sand. They're so slow."

Ye Yaodong looked at the few scattered pills in her bucket and said with disdain, "This job still depends on me."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dog dug out a clam nearby, but it didn't put it directly into the bucket. Instead, it spit it in front of Ye Xiaoxi, which surprised her.

"Haha~ there's haha~ mother, there's haha~"

Sand clams are called "Ga Ga" by children.

"Put it in the bucket."

She put it in the bucket that Ye Yaodong brought over. Seeing that there were other messy things in it, she curiously reached in and touched it.

"Stone?"

Ye Yaodong turned around and suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Rocks? In a bucket?"

Ye Xiaoxi looked at him with surprise and snatched the stone from her, not knowing what was going on.

Lin Xiuqing turned her head and glanced at it, but didn't take it seriously and continued digging until she heard him mutter, "Snail fossil?"

She turned her head again and asked, "What Luo fossil?"

"This looks like a snail fossil! A snail from a conch, a snail fossil."

He looked at the patterns on it uncertainly, and then held it up to the sunlight to look at it.

“What is a snail fossil?”

“This should be a snail fossil.”

Ye Yaodong glanced at her and explained, "This snail fossil is somewhat similar to gambling stones. This is a conch fossil. Uncut conch fossils are cheaper. After cutting, you can negotiate the price based on the quality of the inside. Some can be sold dozens of times more expensively after cutting, which is very similar to gambling stones."

"This conch fossil is relatively rare. Most people would not take it seriously if they saw it. They might just think it is pretty. Only people who know it would know it."

"So what is this for?" Lin Xiuqing didn't understand what he meant. She didn't understand what he meant by gambling on stones at all.

"Can this stone be cut?"

"Yes, with the help of tools."

Snail fossils refer to snails or shellfish that have gradually formed hard shells after a long period of evolution.

These shellfish were buried during the movement of the earth's crust and were subjected to high temperature and high pressure, eventually forming this beautiful snail fossil. The snail fossils have rich and diverse textures and different shapes. Each one is unique, and there may also be crystals inside.

Even if there is no crystal, a conch fossil can be very valuable if it is carved casually, because it can be carved into conch dzi beads.

This piece of spiral jade is about the size of a baby's fist. The texture on it looks very unique, as if various shells are growing on it, but it feels extremely smooth.

Conch fossils first form fossils, and then may be jadeified, eventually forming a rare gem.

He looked at the piece in his hand and found that it was just a snail fossil, not snail jade. If it were snail jade, it would be rare.

However, he could not conclude that there were no crystals inside the snail fossil, but he did not have the tools to open it.

Lin Xiuqing watched him touching it, but still didn't understand what this stone could be used for. Wasn't it just that the pattern on it was different from that of ordinary pebbles?

Ordinary pebbles have smooth surfaces, and at most the colors of the stones are different. The stone in his hand has various conch-shaped patterns. It is quite strange, but I don’t think it is very beautiful. After all, it is also gray.

"So what do you want to do with this stone?"

“Take it home and keep it.”

"What the hell are you collecting? I have a bunch of broken corals at home that you insisted on leaving behind, and now you want to pick up this stone."

"It's useful, but it's hard to tell right now. Anyway, I'll take it back first. It's not like I have nowhere else to put it."

"The drawers are full, where is the space for the things?"

"I'm telling you, even if there's no crystal inside this stone, you can still carve a Triton Dzi Bead out of it. This piece of stone can be used to carve many Triton Dzi Beads."

Lin Xiuqing was completely confused and had no idea what the conch beads he was talking about were.

Ye Yaodong also felt that he was talking to a cow.

"Forget it. You wouldn't know even if I told you. Just put it away first and put it together with those small corals."

"Is that pearl you mentioned valuable? Can you carve it directly from this stone? Can stone be carved?"

"Yes, yes. I told you that you don't know, and you still ask? This is not an ordinary stone. This is a snail fossil. It is a fossil that evolved from a shell. It took many, many, many years to form."

Snail fossils can be carved into conch beads, which are Buddhist jewelry and are most popular among Buddhists, especially Tibetan people.

In Buddhism, the conch is regarded as a symbol of good luck and is believed to bring good luck and blessings. Therefore, the conch Dzi has become a treasure in the hearts of believers.

Now, the people of the whole country have just escaped from the poverty and have not yet pursued higher spiritual needs. Of course, this thing can only be kept as a collection for the time being.

So he wasn't very excited when he saw it at first. After all, he couldn't sell it at a high enough price and he couldn't open the stone.

However, the texture on this stone is extremely dense. Generally, each texture on this kind of stone is different in shape and unique. It is impossible to find two that are exactly the same. They are scarce and cannot be replicated. The denser the snails, the more precious they are.

The one I have on hand doesn’t look like a cheap item.

He had been mistaken in his judgment earlier. Under the sunlight, the inside of the bucket looked rather dark. He saw that it was a stone, so he took it out and threw it away without even looking at it. Fortunately, the two dogs were smart enough to bring it back.

"So how much can this stone sell for?"

"I don't know. I can't sell it for money now."

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes. "You said it was so rare, I thought it was worth hundreds or thousands of dollars."

"There will definitely be one in the future."

"I don't believe you, it's just a stone."

Ye Yaodong ignored her and waved to the two dogs, "Xiaohua and Xiaohei, come here, both of you."

The two dogs that were digging in the hole immediately came running over. One dog touched his chin, and the other dog touched his head.

"I'll give you some extra food tonight."

"Woof woof woof~" The two dogs barked together, sticking out their tongues after barking.

"How did you find this stone? Where can I find it?"

The Dalmatian immediately lowered its head, grabbed the corner of his clothes and started to pull him away. He stood up and prepared to follow the dog to see where it was looking for it, wanting to see if there was any more.

Lin Xiuqing watched him come and leave again after a while, and hurriedly called out, "Where are you going?"

"Go find some stones."

"Enough support."

　It's too late. I'll make up one later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)