The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2644 (6)

Chapter 2418 (6)

The large gold bead I saw looked quite nice, but the surface was a bit dull, not very shiny, probably due to the processing. Shoppers have different preferences; some like shiny gold, others prefer a muted look. The store had several pieces of jewelry of the same weight, some displayed alone, others paired with beads of other materials.

I said I was just looking at it. It was a small pure gold ring that I had only worn for less than a year. Although it was small, it had the highest gold purity. It shone brightly in the light and looked quite nice.

That small gold ring was bought from a brand-name store. Later, at a professional recycling center, it was tested with a spectrometer and found to have a gold purity of 99.99%, equivalent to the extremely high purity of investment gold bars. In the mortal world, there's no higher gold purity available; rather, it's the quality of the item itself. Most rings are made of pure gold or 99.99 pure gold, but the craftsmanship is relatively complex. Some have simple and elegant designs, while others feature intricate openwork designs, revealing considerable processing and making them more elaborate than simpler patterns.

Back then, the large pure gold lucky charm beads I saw were probably a size bigger than the amber beads I bought before.

Once, while getting a haircut, I saw a hairdresser wearing jewelry on his wrist. He had a single, large gold lucky charm bead strung on a colorful cord. It looked quite nice and probably weighed about four or five grams, comparable to the weight of some small to medium-sized pendants.

During the summer and autumn of the Year of the Dragon, the author visited a gold shop in a large supermarket. The shop had many gold ornaments, some featuring gold Pixiu (a mythical creature believed to bring good fortune) with a plastic shell on the back containing spinning coins—a design similar to a manually cranked mechanical watch. That particular item was nice, but quite heavy and expensive. The supermarket also had gold lucky charm beads weighing about four grams, which looked beautiful and auspicious under the bright lights. At that time, the price of gold was seven or eight hundred yuan per gram, and some gold ornaments were already several thousand yuan; a gold bracelet cost over thirty thousand yuan, which seemed quite expensive then. However, considering the price of pure gold jewelry during the Lunar New Year of the Horse, the price would have doubled. A few months later, the price dropped by several hundred yuan per gram, but it still remained high at thirteen or fourteen hundred yuan per gram.

I didn't buy any pure gold jewelry at the gold shop in the big supermarket, but I did buy pure gold phone stickers for around thirty yuan each. They were on sale and contained only two milligrams of pure gold. I gave them to my family to stick on the back of their phones, but they said they didn't like them and felt it was a waste of money.