Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 482 Pearl Clams

If Dugu Lan didn't say anything else, she continued to play her favorite game.

Many people on the other side of the beach were already waiting impatiently, waiting for Dugu Lanruo to come back and start again.

There is always a bucket of money, as many as twelve clams, as few as nine clams, and they are all weighed according to their weight, which is a very fair game.

But not all sea mussels have pearls in them.

The rule is that each person has an infinite amount of money, and they can only choose one bucket each time. Except for the noble concubine Wan Guifei who is the first to choose, the rest of the people will decide the order by drawing lots.After everyone has selected a bucket, lots are drawn again to start the next round.

The concubines in the palace have countless hours to play this game.And they are not in a hurry, they may be lucky if they don't choose first.

Kaiceng, most of the concubines are unwilling to entrust others to do this kind of rough work, and they have to do it themselves.

"Wow..." A dozen court ladies suddenly exclaimed, and then shouted happily together.

Concubine Wan Gui just glanced sideways, smiled faintly, and continued to ask her personal maid to open her bucket.

It's not that the bigger the clam, the more the pearl, or the more the clam, the higher the chance.

As for what kind of oyster has pearls in it, it seems impossible to tell from the outside.

Seriously?
If Dugu Lan took one at random, she would have a bead. Although the quantity was not large and the size was small, she would not be compensated if she had a bead, which must be higher than her usual expenditure.

"Sister, why did you choose the right one?" A ten-year-old daughter of the clan stepped forward to ask for advice.

Dugu Lanruo said: "My sister is lucky. Before you came, my sister had already thrown in hundreds of pennies."

If Dugulan didn't tell the truth, after Liumu had fooled them for a long time, Baoqin finally got a message from Hainu, that clams have pearls but have no pearls, they are also learned.

If Liu Mu didn't want to play this kind of game, they wouldn't sink to the bottom of the sea and pick up clams when they saw them.

In previous years, when they went into the water, they had also carefully selected and identified them underwater. Because their physical strength could not carry many pearl oysters, they had accumulated countless experiences over the years.Basically, ten clams and three pearls can be made.

But whether there is a big pearl or not, it all depends on luck.

After the clan princess got no useful information, she continued to open her own clams.

After Baoqin sat beside Dugu Lanruo, Dugu Lanruo said to Baoqin: "Baoqin, no matter what you say, Mr. Lang, he can let us make ten clams and one pearl. Are you missing fifty clams and one pearl?" point."

"A lot, a hundred clams and a pearl are not a lot. I think we were at first a bucket of [-] coins, but later it was reduced to a bucket of [-] coins. This is a consistent bucket. If there are too many pearls, it is not free money, no What fun is there in a little heartbeat." Baoqin chuckled, then pointed to the group of maids: "I'll go over and see what grade they offer."

Before Dugu Lanruo could react, Baoqin had already trotted over, and wowed upon seeing it.

It was a large pearl with a diameter of more than one centimeter, and it was still pink.

"Good thing." Baoqin squeezed over, and a maid handed the pearl to Baoqin's hand, Baoqin took it and looked at it carefully, and kept nodding: "Any bigger is the pearl level."

The pearls mentioned by Baoqin are seven pearls and eight treasures according to the ancient pearl.

This grading existed as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the Jin Dynasty, there were also eight grades of pearls, that is, eight grades of pearls.

Seven beads are pearls with a diameter of seven minutes, and seven minutes is equivalent to 21 to [-] centimeters. This standard is because a foot in the Han Dynasty was only [-] centimeters.

"This one is also rare. In Chang'an, it's worth at least fifty guan."

"Almost." Baoqin agrees with this statement. You must know that a string of three-point pearls is worth tens of pennies, and ordinary high-end pearl flower hairpins are two-point pearls, and even lower-level eight hundred and thousand pearls.

Qianzi is no longer a small pearl, but a pearl with a diameter of more than three millimeters.Eight hundred sons are almost three and a half millimeters.

Baoqin liked this pearl, and said in a low voice to several court ladies: "I bought fifty barrels, and you are lucky now, maybe if you change another fifty barrels, there will be a pearl."

These maids discussed together for a while, and immediately decided to exchange.

That pearl became fifty lottery rolls, that is, fifty barrels of pearls.

A low-ranking concubine also came to Baoqin when she saw Baoqin exchanged for the pearl. She already had a small jar of pearls, but none of them was more than four centimeters in diameter. Three points, a pearl that barely counts as four points.

After bargaining, Baoqin took away the pearls with ten pennies.

Back to Dugu Lanruo, although Dugu Lanruo was still looking straight ahead, she said to Baoqin in a low voice: "Mr. The biggest beneficiary in the end is you, and the little money given to Zhufang is counted, and your profit is really not low."

"Princess, if this pearl is made into a flying phoenix hairpin by a top-notch jeweler and matched with some small beads, it will not be expensive in Wutongfang Baiguan."

"The problem is, you only used fifty barrels of mussels."

"Maybe, they opened another pearl. It depends on luck. Who can say who will make a profit." Baoqin kept wiping the pearl with a silk handkerchief while smiling, and closed his mouth.

Dugu Lanruo said helplessly: "I really failed my studies."

Dugu Lanruo is doing it for fun, but holding the piano is purely for making money.

And many of the concubines are from big families with strong family backgrounds, and the high-quality pearls they personally opened are more exciting than those bought.Although the court ladies are not as good as the concubines, they can still raise some money. Once they open valuable pearls and exchange them for money, they may make a fortune.

And the rich concubines will reward their maids who are below a thousand sons.

Dugu Lanruo snatched the pearl from Baoqin, looked at it in her hand, and then said in a low voice: "Go and make arrangements, add a few good clams to the barrel next round."

Baoqin expressed his understanding, and quietly left and turned to a bay corner, where there was a long row of wooden houses, which were the residences of the servants. Behind this row of wooden houses, there was a long and narrow bay that extended.

Holding the piano to the beach, he walked barefoot from the sea to the depths.

There are several wooden houses here, and the two older women in the wooden house rushed up to greet them when they saw the qin. After the two women saluted, they held the qin and said: "Pick three of our high-quality pearl oysters and mix them into those wooden barrels." , two of them in one bucket."

"Yes." The two girls nodded, walked into the water and quickly picked out two from the iron cage in the water.

Let Baoqin look at it, and they arranged for people to mix in the next batch of wooden barrels.

Baoqin said to the two daughters: "You two discuss it among yourself, there will be a ship to Chang'an in half a month, and you will definitely go to Chang'an, but this time only one person can go, and one person must stay here to preside over Xinzhufang. Regarding the new ship going to sea, we must ensure that the clam will still be alive when it arrives in Chang'an."

(End of this chapter)