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Chapter 20 The old mussel produces pearls

The next day, Qian Xiaoxing and Jia Ling started growing mushrooms. He took out the wood chips that had been cooked for the night and cooled them down. He put them in two clay pots, and then sprinkled a layer of black skin on the mushrooms.

Jia Ling asked, "Is the seeds you put in?"

"Yes, this is the spore I mentioned to you. Because it is very small, our eyes cannot see it." Qian Xiaoxing sprinkled the spores and continued: "Because he is afraid that other miscellaneous robes will be in the wood, he must cook the wood and kill the other seeds as well. Moreover, there may be small insects in the wood, so he will also kill them together."

"Oh," Jia Ling finally understood and nodded.

"Next, wait until these spores germinate and get silky. When the jar of wood chips are all white, that's enough." Qian Xiaoxing carefully covered the jar.

"Then you just plant this jar?" Jia Ling seemed to be more interested in using his brain and began to ask questions.

"No, this is just a mother seed. When it's all white, you will make seeds piece by piece and sow into the eyes of the wood. At that time, the wood will grow mushrooms." Qian Xiaoxing explained.

After hearing this, Jia Ling still didn't believe it and said without comment: "It's so strange, mushrooms can be grown."

"What's so strange about you? You are so bad to me, and I treat you so well, so things in the world cannot be judged according to common sense." Qian Xiaoxing said with a smile.

Jia Ling glanced at Qian Xiaoxing and said, "Who wants you to treat me well? Besides, you are good to me, just want to take advantage of me."

"If I want to take advantage of you, I will get on the wound when I bandaged you last time. I'm really ungrateful." Qian Xiaoxing argued.

"You took off my clothes and didn't take advantage of me yet."

"No, because my eyes were very pure at that time, just bandaging the wound."

"I'm lazy to care about you!" Jia Ling had already known Qian Xiaoxing's shamelessness and could no longer communicate with him.

When Qian Xiaoxing saw Jia Ling running away quickly, he shook his head helplessly with the slim figure. When will he get what he wants?

Then Qian Xiaoxing went to the riverside and turned around. There were still crowds of people in the river beach, and there was a scene of rushing in the sky. When the people saw Qian Xiaoxing, they greeted him politely. Some people even joked: "Master Qian, why didn't your little wife come? If you don't want her anymore, the daughter of the fourth aunt is very smart, so you can marry her."

Qian Xiaoxing waved his hand anxiously and smiled, "You can't take it anymore, my bed is almost impossible to sleep."

There were also many children playing in the river beach. When Qian Xiaoxing saw a few children gathered in front of him, he walked over curiously. Seeing that Uncle Xu’s house’s Goudan was also inside, he asked, “Goudan, what are you playing?”

Goudan picked up a river clam and said, "Grandma said there are pearls in this one, we are looking for pearls."

Qian Xiaoxing looked at it, right? These children found a lot of river clams there, and were knocking them out with stones, searching them one by one, so they asked, "Have you found it?"

Goudan shook his head and said, "No, I didn't find a single one. Was grandma lying to me?"

Qian Xiaoxing touched Goudan's head and said, "Grandma didn't lie to you. The pearls were indeed born in the river clams, but under normal circumstances, there would not be any in the river clams."

"How could that happen?" Goudan asked with his innocent big eyes open.

"This..." Qian Xiaoxing suddenly thought, why not plant pearls? In modern times, he had seen others plant pearls, which was not difficult, so he said, "Can we grow pearls ourselves? Goudan, call your grandpa over."

After hearing this, Goudan ran away all the way, and after a while, he pulled Uncle Xu over.

When Uncle Xu saw Qian Xiaoxing, he asked in confusion: "Master Qian, I heard from Goudan that you want to plant pearls? Can pearls be planted?"

"It can be planted, and it's not difficult." Qian Xiaoxing said confidently.

Uncle Xu almost fainted after hearing this. He didn't dare to think about what Qian Xiaoxing had done these days. He could make a bully and force the bow. He also said that mushrooms can be planted, and that mushrooms can be planted. He also said that pearls can be planted. Did he joke with him and asked tremblingly: "Then how do you plant this pearl?"

Qian Xiaoxing replied: "I will tell you in the future. You can arrange it first and find some children. Go to the river to pick up river clams, the more the better."

Uncle Xu looked at Qian Xiaoxing in confusion, thinking that the princess said he was smart and a little bit arrogant, so she didn't dare to neglect it, so she notified all households and asked children at home to help pick up river clams.

After a while, there was a spread in the village that Qian Xiaoxing wanted to plant pearls. No one believed it very much and dared not believe it. After a while, many river clams were piled up in the small pools in the river.

At this time, Si Yingying didn't know where he heard the news, so she rushed over and asked when she saw Qian Xiaoxing: "What are you talking about? Can pearls be planted?"

"If the villagers don't believe me, I'll forget it. I didn't expect you to believe me either?" Qian Xiaoxing asked back.

Jia Ling stood up behind Si Yingying and said, "Even if the princess believes in you, I don't believe it. Then tell me how to plant pearls?"

Qian Xiaoxing saw that Jia Ling usually ignored him, and now he asked, so he replied, "I won't tell you, Yingying, I'll tell you quietly."

Then Qian Xiaoxing pulled Si Yingying and started to speak softly. Seeing that Qian Xiaoxing didn't talk to him, Jia Ling was so angry that his mouth was raised, and he stomped his feet and cursed: "Big gangster, big bad guy, don't talk if you don't say it, who cares!"

Qian Xiaoxing explained to Si Yingying gently: "Pearls are born from river clams, is this okay?"

"I know this." Si Yingying nodded.

"Do you know why some river clams are there, and some are not?" Qian Xiaoxing asked.

Si Yingying shook her head and said, "I don't know this anymore."

"There are pearls in the river clams because of accidental sand falling into it. Of course, it is not falling inside, but just falling into the middle of the clam shell and the wall of the clam wall, such as here." Qian Xiaoxing picked up a broken river clam and pointed to the inner wall of the clam shell and said.

Si Yingying nodded without comment and continued to ask: "Then why will pearls grow when the sand falls into it?"

Qian Xiaoxing pointed to the inner wall of the clam shell and said, "Look at this clam shell, is the color of the inner wall the same as that of a pearl? When the sand falls here, the clam shell is very sensitive to this place, just like some parts of a woman."

Seeing Qian Xiaoxing's eyes staring at her chest again, Si Yingying cursed: "Don't talk about anything else, keep talking."

Qian Xiaoxing looked at Si Yingying's chest with a perspective vision and continued, "Because of sensitivity, the river clams are like sand falling into their eyes, which is very uncomfortable. What should I do? It will secrete something and wrap the sand. When it gets bigger and bigger, it will become a pearl."

"It turns out that this is how the pearls were born." Si Yingying understood after hearing the explanation, but she couldn't figure out why Qian Xiaoxing knew about this, and then looked at Qian Xiaoxing in confusion.

Qian Xiaoxing saw Si Yingying's strange eyes, touched his face and asked, "Does there be flowers on my face? Isn't you seen a handsome guy before?"

Si Yingying spat and asked again: "How do you plant this pearl?"

"It's easier to plant it." Qian Xiaoxing picked up an unbreakable river clam again, gently pried open the river clam, opened it about one centimeter, put it in front of Si Yingying and said, "As long as we make something, go to the inner wall of the river clam, and slowly raise it, the pearl will be available."

"It's that simple?" Si Yingying said suspiciously.

"You answered correctly, it's that simple." Of course, Qian Xiaoxing also understood that it is not easy to raise well. Water quality, nutrients, and river muss varieties all affect the yield of pearls. I vaguely remember that the river musses raised in modern times are triangular varieties. Look at the river musses on your hand, which are also triangular. Will they be the same variety? It is said that this variety produces pearls quickly. Even if they are not the same variety, they can only raise them for more time.

"How long will it take to raise?" Si Yingying saw Qian Xiaoxing talking very well, and couldn't help but believe it. If pearls could be really grown, the country's income would have increased significantly. The current market price of pearls is very high, and they are all in short supply.

"Well, this is fast enough to be half a year, and it takes two or three years to be slow." Qian Xiaoxing replied.

Si Yingying was obviously a little anxious and said disappointedly: "So long?"

"It depends on how old you are. If such a precious thing can be planted casually, then what is the price."

Si Yingying nodded and urged: "Then teach everyone how to plant it."

Qian Xiaoxing looked at Si Yingying's anxious look and was still so anxious. He smiled and said, "It's not bad for the past few days. We will do our preliminary work first. First, we need to collect a large number of riversides. Second, we need to dig a pond to raise river clams, and this river clam cannot be thrown in the pond. We need to make a hole in the river clam, string it up with ropes, and hang it in the pond. You will have to arrange these tasks. Look at me, I've been busy these days and have lost weight."

"You are busy watching the big girl and little wife in the village. If anyone likes you, I'll give you a match." Si Yingying smiled.

Qian Xiaoxing immediately replied: "Yes, this is what you see, please match it up for me."

When Si Yingying heard this, her face turned red. She used to be teased by Qian Xiaoxing, and she would go up and beat him up, but why is she still feeling a little sweet now? But thinking that she had already gotten engaged to Lin Guo, she had to say, "I'm sorry, Minghua has a master, you're late."

"It doesn't matter, what I'm best at is poaching. As long as you dance well in the hoe, you won't be afraid that you can't dig it down." Qian Xiaoxing said firmly.
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