Qian Xiaohao said: "Even some big families dare not cut all the raw stones open. They can't afford that price, so there is this stone gambling event. At that time, they just need to pay a little high price and buy the spiritual jade they need. The cuts will be distributed to others."

"It's really cunning." Yu Shandao.

Qian Xiaohao said: "It's all about getting what you need! If it were us, how could we get so many raw stones? So, as long as you have a little confidence, you can try your skills."

"Come on, come on, let's go there first. Have you seen it? I'm killing a live clam to get pearls. This is a bet on pearls. Let's see if your eyes can do it first." The car was driving, and Qian Xiaohao suddenly stopped.

"Is it reliable for a 5 yuan pill? It's not fake, right?" Pang Tong said.

"What kind of pearl is real? If you want to buy a pearl necklace, you are worried that you can buy a bad quality. You are afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the back, and even good things cannot fall into your hands." Qian Xiaohao said.

"This is a liar in the world, and it's really a pearl? Is it really our turn?" Yu Shan sneered.

Such a simple scam, would Qian Xiaohao not be able to see it?

Kill the live clam to get beads, string necklaces on site, and grind pearl powder. It seems that it is really real, but you don’t need to think about the “tricks” inside, you can guess it without looking at them.

Such scenes are often performed all over the country, and media have reported them many times. Yushan has seen such reports. Of course, he was pulled by Ning Zhen to watch them. Because he has made some money recently, he is a little arrogant and wants to buy some good things for his mother, so he was educated by Ning Zhen.

There are many such scams. Often, in some areas with high traffic or at exhibitions, several people put a pile of clam shells and boxes of pearls, and a sign says "Kill live clams to get the beads" and "If you fake one, you will lose ten thousand yuan".

You can buy clam shells and pearls separately, and can also be processed on site. It is usually sold for 5 yuan or 10 yuan. Generally, a necklace has 4,060 beads, about 200 yuan, and those with better quality are more expensive.

So are these pearls real or fake?

Before answering this question, let me introduce you to the production process of pearls and some common sense about pearl necklaces.

First of all, most of the pearls circulating on the market are artificially cultivated, and the pearl necklaces are basically freshwater lake pearls.

After the breeding pearls grow, the pearl farmers will first open the pearl mussels one by one, and then pick out the pearls. After rinsing and disinfecting, the picked pearls will be manually divided into several levels according to their size, shape and quality.

Those pearls with good luster, good shape, large and round will be sold as expensive jewelry, and those of medium quality will be punched into semi-finished necklaces. If the remaining ones are poor, they will be sold by kilograms according to their size.

After this process, pearls become semi-finished products and enter the market.

The pearls and clam shells here are semi-finished products from this period. Just look at the bosses who simply and roughly make pearl necklaces, and they also charge a processing fee of 100 to 200 yuan per piece, and you will know that they are cheating people.

So whether the pearls you take out from the shells you kill alive or the pearls you buy are all genuine products, but they are all valuable semi-finished products. No matter which way you get the pearl necklace, you will actually lose money.

If you buy pearls directly, it will cost five to ten yuan per pearl and process them into necklaces for free. Their processing process is to drill holes into strings, and real pearl necklaces are not so simple.

When making a pearl into a necklace, it needs to go through knotting and buckles, so to determine whether a pearl necklace is good or bad, it depends not only on the beads, but also on the quality of the knotting of the necklace and the material of the buttons.

If the necklace is not knotted, the beads and beads will rub against each other, shortening the life of the necklace.

Generally, good pearl necklaces will be made of gold or silver buttons, and poor ones will be replaced by copper or other materials. After a period of time, the buttons will easily change color.

"After saying so much, do you understand? These pearls taken directly from the river clams are indeed true, but their quality is generally poor. Most pearls have deep threads and defects, and the purchase price is only a few cents per piece.

A pearl that costs a few cents apiece is sold here at least five yuan, and the price has increased tenfold. So at this time, you can process a necklace for free, and others will make money. Will you come to bet on pearls? In fact, there is no need to bet on it. Every clam has pearls." Yu Shan laughed and laughed at Qian Xiaohao.

Seeing Qian Xiaohao's face changed, Yu Shan said again: "Besides, killing live clams to get beads. If it is a real precious pearl, the merchant will never do this. The jewelry-level pearls sold by regular merchants are all grown inside the muscle tissue of the pearl shell, and there is a protective film on the outer skin, which is not so easy to remove.

Pearls taken directly from the live clam belly cannot be used directly for jewelry processing. Jewelry-grade pearls must undergo multiple procedures such as cleaning, bleaching, polishing, etc. before they can become finished products. Moreover, these pearls that are killed and sold are usually artificially implanted into the clam in advance, and then the clams can generate pearls based on this, which can reach about 30.

It is hard to say how many pearls are naturally produced in river clams. Sometimes there is even only one pearl, which is really round and big. A pearl necklace made in this way is worth up to 30 or 40 yuan, while a pearl necklace of good quality is generally worth more than 1,000 yuan.”

"This is true." Pang Tong nodded. Recently, he also had some money in his hands, so he naturally knew the value of the pearl necklace because he also wanted to buy one for his mother.

Jewelry pearls are divided into different levels from factors such as color, size, shape, finish, etc., and the price varies greatly, which is far from comparable to pearls on street stalls.

Each of the pearl shells brought by these merchants has thirty or forty pearls, so they dare to shout, buy pearls for free processing, buy live clams, and charge according to the number of pearls.

A pearl mussel costs ten or eight yuan, but processing a pearl necklace still costs one to two hundred yuan. In this way, each necklace still costs two hundred yuan.

It can be said that as long as you are interested, it is equivalent to being deceived. No matter how you choose, you will suffer a loss.

"I've been much smarter recently? I even know this?" After parking the car, three people passed by the stall. Sure enough, everyone who bought pearl mussels would get a lot of pearls, so Qian Xiaohao looked at the mountain with some admiration.

"Hidding in the valley every day, you can't just use it all to be dazed, right? You still need to learn something, so you have become smarter than you two." Yu Shan said with a chuckle.

"Just blow!" Pang Tong rolled his eyes.

"Why are you bragging? If I don't say it, you two will definitely be deceived." Yu Shan said proudly.

"Okay, go quickly, you're here to get to the place." Pang Tong looked ahead and said with a smile at Yu Shan.

"Huh? Or here? How many pieces of raw stones can be installed in that little place?" Yu Shan saw that it was still the original small square, and behind the rockery of the square was the jade trading market.

Yu Shan didn't pay much attention just now. It turned out that the group of pearl sellers were on the edge of the small square. They occupied a large area and blocked the small square.

Now Yu Shan and others have passed the small square and are close to the rockery behind the square.

Yu Shan glanced around the small square and found that there were more people setting up stalls here, but the old men who were originally telling fortunes here disappeared.

"The fortune teller should be the Kinmen among the ten scams." Pang Tong suddenly spoke.

Yu Shan nodded and said, "So, these genres of the world are really widely circulated."

"They don't have much cohesion. They are a very scattered genre. They don't even know each other and don't contact each other." Qian Xiaohao said.

Yu Shan nodded, fortunately this is the case, otherwise the influence of the Ten Sects of Scam would be too wide.

"Why did you choose here again? Didn't you say there were a lot of gambling stones this time?" Yu Shan asked strangely.

Qian Xiaohao smiled and said, "The trading market here has expanded. Besides, the margin will be 10 million when entering the market this time, so there are too many stones and few people, so there are no fear of not being able to hold it."

While avoiding the stalls in the small square, the three of them walked towards the small rockery.

There are also many stalls gathered on the side of the small road below the rockery. Now it is June, and the sun is still quite strong. These stalls are all hiding under the shade of pine trees under the rockery.

"Be careful, huh? Wait, I saw an acquaintance." Yu Shan stopped just after avoiding a stall.

Before Yu Shan came to a stall, he took a lot of attention this time. He opened his eyes and carefully observed the things on the stall.

The most common ones on the stall are wood products, the largest ones are root carvings, the smaller ones are wood carvings, and the smaller ones are various beads. Yu Shan was a little disappointed when he saw these things.

"No jade ornaments?" Yu Shan asked involuntarily.

"Hmm? No, there are only beads." said the boss.

"Don't there still a few flesh and bones?" Qian Xiaohao said with a smile.

The stall owner was also quite interesting. He smiled and said, "Those flesh and bones are not mine, Gobi Lao Wang's."

At this time, Yu Shan's attention was also attracted to the bones. The moment he saw the bones, Yu Shan frowned.

"What kind of bone is that? Why is it so small?" Yu Shan looked at the little white bone, and no matter how he looked, it looked like a real bone.

"Dog bones, crafts, and evil-proofing things, how about it? Each of the young men gave me one?" The boss next to him said with a smile.

Yu Shan squatted down, which made Qian Xiaohao and Pang Tong, who were watching the fun just now, were stunned. They naturally knew that the jade ornaments that Yu Shan raised in Tianyuan Valley, and also knew that the quality of those jade ornaments was very good.

That was obtained by Yushan’s accidental Taobao. Recently, where did Yushan brag about it? So this time Yushan asked the boss if he had any jade ornaments, and Qian Xiaohao would laugh at Yushan for his lack of greed and think it was so easy to pick up bargains on Taobao? To be continued^
Chapter completed!