32. Ambergris (2)
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In my previous life, when I was building this wharf in Longwang Village, I happened to be there. That day, I went back to my ancestral house that had not been demolished to pick up some things. At that time, the people in the village had not moved away. Moreover, because this place became a construction site, many villagers became workers in this construction team.
The local villagers who discovered ambergris at the beginning. In order to build the yacht pier, the construction party first played with mud and sand from a shallow sand not far from the coast, intending to lower the seabed. In this simple excavation work, people discovered ambergris buried in shallow sand.
Unfortunately, because the excavator used at that time was too big, several ambergris were found to have been dug up after digging.
At that time, the workers on the construction party did not know what it was, but how could the fishermen who lived by the sea for generations not knowing that it was a treasure?
I don’t know if the person who spoke quickly told me that this was a baby and ambergris. The construction team was in a turmoil now.
In a few days, the construction unit, the villagers of Longtou Village, and the contractors of this land made a fuss around the excavated ambergris.
Everyone knows that this is a good thing, so we have been fighting for the ownership of this thing. At that time, the largest piece of ambergris was dug up and turned into countless small pieces that cannot be salvaged, so there are only three ambergris left.
The weight of these three ambergris is not low, with a total weight of about 100 kilograms. Such three ambergris, which had a heavyweight transaction volume of less than 100 kilograms, caused a sensation in the international ambergris market, which had a trading volume of less than 100 kilograms throughout the year.
At that time, a large perfume company in France came to inspect the quality of the product in person, and even immediately made a decision to offer a sky-high price of 20,000 euros per kilogram. You should know that the exchange rate of the euro against the RMB remained at a high of 1 to 13 at that time.
Wouldn't this hundred kilogram of ambergris be able to buy 2 million euros or more than 20 million yuan? It was only around 2007, and more than 20 million yuan was not a small amount of money.
If it were changed to this day, the price would be even more sky-high. Because the Internet has not been promoted domestically on a large scale, Li Yifan had no way to know what the international quotes for these ambergris are now, but he knew that even if those ambergris were buried underground, they would sooner or later be poached by others. It would be better to start first.
He didn't feel sorry for anyone who poached these ambergris, because compared with the final result of these ambergris in his previous life, in his opinion, these treasures buried underground would be better in his hands.
In the previous life, the developer, the construction party, and the villagers of Longtou Village fought for the three ambergris of 100 kilograms, but the final result was shocking.
After that, several municipal government personnel appeared and read out two laws step by step. Anything found in the country's territorial waters belongs to the state. Then, as soon as the police set out, the three ambergris were expensive and the state owned.
At that time, the villagers in Longtou Village were almost wet. This was clearly something found on the land under their feet, so why did it become the country at once?
Later, the government came forward to appease everyone and said that this is a national treasure. Please rest assured that these treasures will be kept properly by the state and will be collected in the History Museum in Bincheng.
After several reassurances, there was no riot, but a few years later, another news broke out again. It turned out that after being transported away by those people, the ambergris was embezzled by a district chief in charge of Longtou Village at that time, and later sold it internationally. As for the money obtained, of course, it fell into his own pocket.
A few years later, the district mayor was exposed. On the eve of the arrest, he fled abroad after getting news. He used the hundreds of millions he had earned from China to live a life of a wealthy man abroad.
So at this time, in Li Yiqiang's opinion, these treasures are better than falling into the hands of corrupt officials. At least if they succeed, they will be rotten in the pot.
After a few days of exploration, Li Yifan touched all the places where the dock was renovated, but he still couldn't find the ambergris buried in the shallow layer.
This also made him feel a little anxious. In two days, his restaurant would be closed and his parents would be idle. At that time, it was probably the time when his second aunt and the others attacked.
My mother, who was not prepared at all, would definitely not be able to withstand such betrayal from her relatives for a while. If she didn't do anything to distract her, she might not be able to get sick by her second aunt's family.
In my previous life, my mother was the root of the disease because of this incident. Whenever I think of this, Li Yifan was anxious, but the more anxious he was, the less he could not find it.
After all, when the ambergris were dug out in his previous life, he was not a worker who personally participated in the excavation work. He just saw the excavation location after the ambergris was dug out, so he was not very clear about where the specific location was at that time.
But later I heard from the person involved in the excavation that the excavator dug down the first time, and it was dug less than 30 cm before it dug. Unfortunately, because I couldn't see the bottom of the water and didn't know what it was, the operator of the excavator did not stop. As a result, the largest piece of ambergris on the top was dug up and the three pieces below were retained.
In the past two days, Li Yifan brought simple diving tools. He had already explored the place in his original memory for about a hundred times, but he still got nothing. So he was a little anxious. Could it be that he remembered it wrong?
Did those ambergris be found elsewhere? When Li Yifan thought of this, he couldn't help but feel even more disappointed and anxious.
No matter what, there is still about 30 square meters of seashore left without exploring, so I will make a last try tomorrow. If I don’t find it, I can only give up and think of other ways.
The next morning, Li Yifan got up early and went straight to the beach after breakfast. In the past few days, his elder sister and brother-in-law were so obsessed with him swimming and diving on the beach, so he just told him to be careful and didn't say anything more.
Fortunately, the weather has been clear these days, there is no wind on the sea, and the excavated places are shoals, and the deepest places are only more than two meters deep. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult for Li Yifan to complete this work with his bare hands in such a short time.
Today is the last day, so Li Yifan was a little nervous. If you can’t get anything today, tomorrow will be the day when the hotel will close.
When he got into the water and walked to the markings left yesterday, Li Yifan began to dive into the water, and then used a small iron pipe that had been prepared long ago to test under the beach at the bottom of the sea. After testing about two square meters, he suddenly felt that the iron pipe inserted this time was shocked, and it seemed that he had encountered something hard.
Li Yifan suddenly felt ecstatic, there was something underneath...
After a while of rushing work, Li Yifan was happy and finally found the small piece of yellow that was moved ashore like a stone.
Chapter completed!