The Qin people like to bet and can use anything to bet, but no one has studied the activity of gambling clams. Perhaps someone is interested in buying it and trying his luck when he sees a rare big clam coming out of the water, but it is not a common commercial method. Today, Chen Xu's move attracted more than ten people to participate, and the onlookers' emotions were instantly mobilized. In the bustling bustle, many ordinary men also squeezed in, pinching their dirty wallets and being excited. It is obviously a variety that they love to bet very much on weekdays.

"Since you are so enthusiastic, then start, come one by one, from childhood to adulthood, the first price is twenty yuan, and now you start to increase the price, no less than five yuan each time, and no one adds it three times, and it will be considered a success in the auction. The clams are opened on the spot..." Chen Xu turned a vine frame over and looked up as an auction table, and casually took a lake clam that looked about one foot and put it on.

“Twenty-five!”

"thirty!"

"Thirty-one...two...three...sold..."

Chen Xu knocked the vine frame with a dagger and threw it to a businessman who succeeded in the bidding.

"Open it quickly~"

Such a novel lake clam auction site instantly increased the interest of onlookers. There were constant urging people in the crowd. The merchant who successfully bid for the auction took out thirty coins and threw them into the vine frame next to him. Then he took a bamboo knife from the crowd, pulled it open very skillfully, and it was empty inside.

"Oh~" a sigh in the crowd.

"The second one starts shooting..." Amid the sigh, Chen Xu had already put the second clam shell on the auction table.

Although this kind of lake clams about one foot is large, it is quite common. No one wants a coin per coin on weekdays because meat cannot be eaten, and killing three or five hundred may not produce a pearl. Not to mention that it is extremely difficult to find three or five hundred. A fisherman who is proficient in water will take several days to catch it. If he hires a boat to catch it, it will be completely unworthy of the loss. Therefore, the main business of fishermen by the lake is to catch fish, and to catch clams. It is a Buddha-natured pearl picking. If there is one, it is happy, and if there is no one, it is not. He throws it into the lake to continue fishing.

But as long as there are more people participating in anything, the chance of success is relatively high. Therefore, although lake beads are rare, the huge Taihu Lake is surrounded by six or seven county towns, plus the county town Wuzhong, with a total population of over one million. Every year, many people still get pearls. Even a small bead worth about a hundred dollars is a considerable income. In addition, there are also bold and powerful professional pearl pickers who fish in the depths of Taihu Lake all year round, and they can still produce several large beads of high-grade water every year.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains and water to eat. Therefore, Taihu pearls are also an important income for fishermen in rural and urban areas near Taihu Lake.

At present, these lake clams were auctioned at 20 or 30 yuan, which was a sky-high price for nearby fishermen, and they were completely unacceptable psychologically. However, only the group of merchants involved knew that they were spending this money was just to get familiar with Qinghe Hou. As for some other uninformed people, they were just joining in the fun and betting on happiness.

I just opened more than ten clams and had already produced beautiful beads worth tens of thousands of yuan. What if I had a bad time, I would encounter them after spending dozens of hundred and eight cents!

The mentality of a gambler is probably like this.

For the gambling activities like gambling, there was also a saying in later generations that one sword was rich and one sword was poor. There were many jade kings who instantly turned into paupers, and there were many crazy people because of this. I heard that in many jade trading markets on the junction of China and Myanmar, you can often see madmen running around. If you talk about jade with him, these madmen will instantly become jade experts. When asked about locals, they will tell you that this guy turned out to be a rich man with a net worth of tens of millions. Once gambling on stones is broken, it will be like this.

The same is true for the gambling clams in front of you. In this unique gambling clams, under the stimulation and comments of the onlookers, many of them were not rich. After fishing for a long time today, I couldn't hold back my legs, so I took out coins covered with mud and participated.

However, it was obvious that everyone was not lucky, or Chen Xu had used up all his luck, and a pile of lake clams about one foot was auctioned off quickly, with about fifty numbers, but no pearl appeared.

"The bidding for the medium-sized lake clams below is a medium-sized lake clam, with a minimum price of 50..." Chen Xu acted as an auctioneer and picked up a lake clam of about one foot and five inches to put it on the vine frame.

"Fifty...fifty...sixty...sixty...sixty...one...second...three times, congratulations, the deal!" Chen Xu smiled and handed the lake clam to a middle-aged man in a gorgeous clothes. Then someone next to him helped him open the clam, cut the clam meat down, broke the clam shell, and shook his head in disappointment.

"Ah~" the onlookers sighed collectively again.

The most common pile of clam shells that Chen Xu auctioned was about one foot, with about fifty trumpets, and the remaining twenty were about one foot, five inches to two feet, and the price was almost doubled, but in fact, the effect was no different in everyone's opinion.

It is normal not to open it, but it is not normal if it is opened.

The time for a lake clam is usually not more than one minute from the opening to the opening, and the speed is very fast. Therefore, it took only half an hour to auction fifty small lake clams. Chen Xu had already paid more than 2,000 yuan in the money basket. In addition to the five-cent Five Elements Tongbao and ten-cent Bagua Tongbao, most of them are Tai Chi Tongbao. Although the auction is fierce, it can be seen that almost everyone is still rational. After all, spending more than 30 yuan to buy a lake clam that is almost empty-shelled. The price is still a bit high. It is just a group of merchants and gentry. Other ordinary civilians who participated have become more cautious after failing once or twice.

Time flies ten minutes, and soon more than a dozen medium-sized lake clams were auctioned off, but all participants still find nothing.

"The last five big clams, the lowest price is 100..."

Chen Xuyun calmly picked up a two-foot-long clam and placed it on the bottom of the basket. He cleaned the mud and sand on it with his hands and said with a smile, "Don't blame me for not reminding you that gambling clams is a gambling luck. Do everything within your ability. Those who are short of money should hold their money tightly to avoid losing all their money!"

It doesn't matter to a group of businessmen. Most of the ordinary civilians have actually disappeared and retreated, leaving only two people who are still hesitating to persist.

"One hundred coins, one hundred and ten...one hundred and twenty...one hundred and fifty...one...two...three times...the deal!"

"Oh~"

The first big clam was auctioned soon after, and one hundred and fifty dollars was obtained by an old man, but he still got nothing when he opened it.

Soon after, the second and third ones were sold continuously, with prices above 150 yuan, but no pearls appeared.

Looking at the last two, all the onlookers were nervous and sweating.

Qu Hai and others had not participated long ago. They were all the merchants who roughly guessed Chen Xu's identity and some ordinary people who were in the dark bidding for auction. But at this last moment, although the price was getting higher and higher, the expectations were naturally greater. Nearly two hundred yuan was sold for a lake clam that knew it was an empty shell. Even for many rich people, it felt a bit painful. In just one round of bidding, some of the merchants participating in the bidding had spent at least two or three hundred yuan, and some had even taken out the redemption tickets.

"This one pays three hundred dollars..."

Just as Chen Xu put the fourth big clam on the auction table, a slightly fat middle-aged man raised a redemption ticket worth 500 yuan. This was the smallest amount of redemption ticket issued by the Huaxia Money Bank, but the redemption ticket still put a lot of pressure on ordinary people. The biggest coin that ordinary people see is generally Tai Chi Tongbao. People with redemption tickets on them are either rich or noble.

"Let's go, since the price is higher, I will pay 350 yuan..." A thin black man in ordinary clothes spoke in hesitation.

Everyone looked at the thin black man.

"Old Cuckold, you're crazy. Spend so much money to buy a clam. Be careful when you go back, your father beat you to death!" Some familiar people in the crowd shouted to dissuade him.

"Hehe, wealth and honor are in danger. I think this clam must have a big bead!" The thin black man shivered slightly and said with a dry smile.

"Haha, I'm afraid that if you buy the eggs and get home later, you will be crushed by your wife..."

"It's extreme, it's extreme, I don't get the beads, and the eggs are gone..."

There was a burst of laughter in the crowd.

"Well, I won't make money with you, but don't blame me if I lose my egg tomorrow..." The slightly fat businessman smiled and shook his head to put away the exchange. The remaining businessmen also waved their hands with a smile and decided not to participate in the bidding for this big clam.

"Calend the money and open the clam!" Chen Xu, a gambler, saw a lot of this kind, so he didn't feel any trouble in his heart. He ordered his servants to throw the clam over after collecting the money.

The thin black man held the big lake clam and thrust several times in excitement. He took a few deep breaths under the continuous urging of hundreds of people. After his mood calmed down, he pulled out a half-foot-long steel dagger from his waist, pried open the clam shell with a few stings, and then touched the clam meat with a few touches and excitedly cut the white clam meat with the dagger. Suddenly, a silver light rippled like ripples in the strong sunlight.

"Wow, the big beads are coming out again..." The onlookers exclaimed in an instant.

The so-called pearls and the newly-seeming pearls will have this brilliant brilliance.

"Hahahahahahahaha, my grandma... I'm rich..."

The thin black man was trembling with excitement, and his hands trembled, lifted up a large silver pearl with a diameter of 700% or 80% silver. The whole body was round and smooth, and it emitted a faint silver halo in the sun, reflecting hundreds of surprised, regretful, hideous or stunned faces.

"The last lake clam bought it for five hundred dollars..."

Looking at this huge pearl worth at least tens of thousands of yuan, after a burst of exclamation and commotion among the crowd, almost everyone's eyes quickly focused on the last and largest lake clam today.

"Someone paid six hundred dollars..."

"Eight hundred coins!"

"One thousand dollars!"

"One thousand two..."

After a brief silence, seven or eight merchants who had just given up the bidding for the last big lake clam had fought fiercely. Before Chen Xu could react, the bidding had exceeded 1,500 yuan.

Countless onlookers were fighting with their legs.

Damn, is this just a clam shell OK?

Should I fight for wealth so cruelly?

Even the thin black man holding the big pearl felt a little frightened, but at the same time he felt extremely lucky.

Fortunately, he succeeded just now, otherwise it would be impossible to fight for it now, because his entire net worth is only 350 yuan. He just bought a few kilograms of raw silk in the county town to pay the autumn grain tax. If he lost all his money, not only the whole family and the young will have to drink the northwest wind for the next half year, but it is not uncommon to be broken by his father.

Although Daqin couldn't help gambling.

But if you can't pay the tax, you will be arrested and sent to jail or even punished for hard labor.
Chapter completed!