As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 822 Good Luck

Meanwhile, the people at the pearl farm had already opened the iron cages, and the unassuming mud clams were piled up into a small mountain.

Some fish and crabs unexpectedly entered the iron cage.

Li Wei shouted, "Be careful! The Mud Qi Pearl is priceless; we can't afford to lose a single clam!"

"Yes!"

The group first rinsed the mud clams clean with seawater.

Clam shells are also very precious. The fine white pearl inside the clams is ground into powder and then further processed to make the best face powder in Dasu and even Mingxiao City.

Originally, these mud clams were meant to be taken back and opened.

Because they are so precious, soldiers are required to supervise the opening of the clams.

But Jiang Ran said, "Let's open it now."

She was dressed in a neat and tidy outfit, with her sleeves rolled up to reveal a section of her arm. She tossed a dagger up and down in her hand, raised an eyebrow, and said to Qi Yu, "Young master of the Qi family, patriarch, have you ever done any manual labor?"

As she spoke, she handed the dagger to Qi Yu, saying, "Opening a clam also depends on luck. Let's see how lucky you are."

Qi Yu took the dagger, picked up a mud clam with his slender fingers, and said helplessly, "Let's give it a try."

He felt like he was being ridiculed.

If it were Feng Chi or someone else here, he would let them taste what it's like to be exposed to the cold light of a spear.

But this person in front of me...

Forget it.

Just a small thing.

Jiang Ran asked someone to open the clam, but she herself showed no intention of doing so, sitting on a clean black stone and watching him do it.

Although the head of the Qi family had never opened a clam before, his movements were still swift and decisive. The dagger in his hand flashed, leaving afterimages, and in an instant, all one hundred clams placed in front of him were slit open.

"Open it and take a look," Jiang Ran urged him.
Qi Yu nodded, reached out and opened a clam, rummaged through the clam meat, and took out a round thing from inside.

After washing it clean, I realized it was a white mud pearl.

Mud pearls come in all colors, but are generally white and blue.

Although white mud pearls are also quite beautiful, the bluer the mud pearl, the higher its value.

The white mud pearl that Qi Yu took out was not very big. He placed it on a white porcelain plate and then opened the second clam.

empty.

The third clam.

white.

The fourth, the fifth, and ten in a row were either empty or produced white pearls with quite a few flaws.

Qi Yu stopped moving, his expression calm and showing no sign of regret. He was simply worried that if he continued operating, the people at Haiqi Pearl Farm might have worked for nothing for the past three years.

Jiang Ran thought Qi Yu was truly amazing.

At first, she thought that the mud pearls hadn't grown properly, which was why Qi Yu only got white ones. But when she glanced at the distance, she saw that there were some blue mud pearls in a plate next to the workers at the Haiqi Pearl Farm.

"Uh……"

Jiang Ran touched her lips with her fingers.

"Keep driving," Jiang Ran said to Qi Yu.

As he spoke, he stood up and took something out of thin air.

Qi Yu obediently continued to extract pearls from the mud oyster, while at the same time feeling Jiang Ran walk behind him. Suddenly, a slightly cool object touched his neck.

He looked down and saw a heavy golden object hanging below his collarbone, with angry eyes and wide teeth, holding a round obsidian between its fangs—it was a Pixiu pendant that looked like it had been cast from pure gold.

The pendant is strung together with a black cord, which is made of sacred cotton with wind and thunder attributes, bound together by spiritual energy.

Qi Yu was slightly taken aback, but then he saw a sapphire blue pearl slip from his hand and land on the plate, making a particularly pleasant sound like a jade pendant. "Heavens, it's a sapphire blue pearl." Li Wei, the manager of Haiqi Pearl Farm, had sharp eyes and immediately noticed a round, blue mud pearl on the plate next to Qi Yu.

The pearl was quite large, slightly larger than half an inch in diameter, perfectly round, with a halo of deep blue veins floating on its surface, as if tides were flowing within it.

There are virtually no pits or bumps on it, and it feels exceptionally smooth when rubbed with your fingertips.

Li Wei's voice attracted the attention of the others at Haiqi Pearl Field, and sure enough, they saw a large, sapphire blue mud dragon pearl.

Because His Highness the Prince was present, no one dared to speak too loudly, but their suppressed whispers couldn't hide their envy: "They're so lucky."

That's pretty far-fetched.

The soft golden coral was beside Jiang Ran, but she didn't find the legendary good luck-bringing thing to be particularly magical.

But once it was hung around Qi Yu's neck, its effect seemed to become immediately apparent.

Qi Yu dried his hands, touched the Pixiu pendant, and a hint of doubt appeared in his handsome eyes. "What is this?"

"It's for you," Jiang Ran said. "I made it."

A gentle light appeared in Qi Yu's eyes. "I will cherish it."

"Ah."

Jiang Ran held the large, azure-blue clay dragon pearl that Qi Yu had obtained in her hands and twirled it.

He continued to extract pearls from the oysters, and soon, he had extracted pearls from more than a hundred oysters.

White is the most common, followed by light blue, with a few exceptional sky blue and lake blue pearls appearing occasionally.

All three thousand-plus mud unicorn pearls were extracted.

This is the first time that Dasu has cultivated mud pearls, so the technology is somewhat immature. Most of the mud pearls that were produced were white or light blue.

Jiang Ran probably also thinks it's because the breeding period wasn't long enough.

So, originally, the mud clam market was to be opened again next year, but after some discussion with the Haiqi Pearl Farm, it was decided that only half of the mud clam market would be opened at this time next year.

Half of the 10,000 mud clams were kept alive, with the larger, healthier ones being raised further.

After being washed, the pearls had no smell, and all the opened mud pearls were given to Jiang Ran.

After finishing their work, it was already noon, so they decided to have lunch on Shuiyuan Island before heading back.

At the same time, it will also fulfill the promise I made to Dandan, feeding her water turtle eggs and giving her an extra meal!

Of course, after a busy day, everyone needs to eat some turtle eggs to replenish their energy.

The unique flavor exploded on the tip of the tongue, giving a familiar feeling. Qi Yu said, "I've had this before."

"Yeah, it was during the Blood Ring Grand Canyon, that's when I took him there."

Blood Ring Grand Canyon.

Qi Yu was thinking of something.

Suddenly feeling a little uncomfortable, I put down my food and stopped eating; my ears turned slightly red.

He returned to the Jiang residence with more than three thousand mud unicorn pearls in his pocket.

Adding to the previously reserved top-quality mud pearls, Jiang Ran had two of the finest, perfectly round, sapphire-blue mud pearls made into a pair of earrings.

The pearl earrings resemble two solidified deep-sea tears, their surfaces smooth as silk, refracting a complex, ethereal blue light under the sunlight.

Jiang Ran sent the mud-shell pearl to the jewelers of the Imperial Household Department for processing.

The huge, sapphire blue mud pearl that Qi Yu found was made into a pendant, and some high-quality mud pearls were also selected to make a bracelet.

Unfortunately, the remaining pieces couldn't be made into a necklace.

The remaining pearls were of varying shades and sizes, including some rather nice, small, top-quality pearls, but Jiang Ran didn't find them appealing.

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