novelTreasure From The Sea
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"What? Did I find it when I was a kid?" Chen Fan's eyes stared big and wide."Where did I pick this up? Take me there quickly, and I'll pick up a few more."
"Who knows where you found it, " his mother replied without turning back while arranging the clothes."You were in elementary school at that time. You went to the beach and played around, and somehow brought it back. Your dad wanted to throw it away because he couldn't stand its smell, but you simply would not allow it and then you preserved it."
In elementary school on the beach... Chen Fan held the crystal and laid on his bed. After his mother pointed it out to him, he was able to recall some of it.
He saw this crystal, which was 20 centimeters in diameter when he was playing on the beach as a young boy. He was very inquisitive at that time, so he picked it up and cherished it. But he forgot about this thing after some time and never expected that it could be so valuable.
He put it in front of his nose and sniffed, but the strange thing was that even though the electric eel's desire to devour it came up in his mind, it was not as strong as when it actually encountered the white crystal.
It could be thought of this way: if the beige crystals were an afternoon dessert for the electric eel, it wouldn't matter if it eats it or not, because the white crystal was the main course and would be the first meal after starving for a month.
Collected it up from the sea... After analyzing the situation, Chen Fan believed that the two crystals were from the same area of the sea. After all, the sea is the most mysterious place in the world, according to reliable sources, and human understanding of the sea is only five percent. It was normal for the sea to produce weird stuff.
"Damn it, I'll go back and post it on the Internet. I don't believe that there is no one who can recognize it!"
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Chen Fan's parents were busy selling crabs in the afternoon and later on, his father contacted the fish trader. Then the three of them rode in the BMW car and carried a full trunk of goods and drove to Zhongyun city.
"Son, when did you get your driver's license?" In the back seat, Chen Fan's mother was worried."Your driving skills make me feel panic!"
"Just completed the exam... won't obtain a license until next week!" Chen Fan said, "it's not dangerous if I drive slowly."
He followed his parents and went back to his old neighborhood. Chen Fan was ready to go into the bedroom after he had brought the things in.
"Son, come here, let's talk about whether to make a boat trip to Hong Kong or to fly to Hong Kong!" Chen Fan's mother sat on the sofa, laughing.
"By plane!" said Chen Fan as he popped his head out. Then... bang. He shut the door.
After he had locked the door, he rubbed his hands together, then took out the brown crystal from the plastic bag and took some pictures with his cell phone and uploaded it to the computer. After uploading the photo, Chen Fan copied the photo onto the U-disk, and then he went to a nearby Internet cafe to operate a computer. He uploaded the photos to the House of Seas Forum, then carefully described the shape and smell of the crystal.
Back from the Internet Cafe, Chen Fan kept refreshing the page.
After lingering for a few hours, Chen Fan had enough of all the useless posts that he read through, and finally, he came to a post that was useful.
To the (owner) of the post; you have made a fortune. You must have been very lucky to pick up such a valuable thing! This is Ambergris.
This is an extraordinary thing used in the ancient imperial palace. It was made from the belly of the sperm whale, but it is a hundred times more valuable than the bovine dog.
Obtaining it in the newly killed sperm whale is worthless, but if it was soaked in the water for decades, the more the impurities removed, the more fragrant it would become and the more valuable it would be.
Looking at the Ambergris in your photo. It should be something that has been soaked in seawater for more than 20 years. It is not exaggerating to say that it could be sold at the price of one to two million.
But when soaked in seawater over one hundred years, all the impurities inside were cleaned up, it would turn into as white as jade and a very fragrant Ambergris, many perfume companies would fight to get it.
"Pure white, fragrant, and floats on the water..."
Sitting in front of the computer, no matter how Chen Fan thought about it, he could only relate it to the crystal that the white-robed man gave him according to the characteristics described in the post.
He tried to control his trembling hands as he searched baidu. com's encyclopedia for information on the Ambergris. Chen Fan was deathly excited when he found the information in the data because he found that his crystal's description was very close to it.
"God, I embrace you!" Chen Fan grabbed the edge of the display and kissed it and then rolled on the floor in excitement."Ambergris is expensive. It's equivalent to gold when it's been in the sea for decades, " Chen Fan said to himself.
"No worries, I have the electric eel's avatar. I could make money from it to support buying this, it would be no problem to consume a few per day!"
An aggressive knock on the door interrupted Chen Fan's daydreams!
"Come out for dinner, son!" Chen Fan's mother's voice came from outside of the door.
"Coming..." Chen Fan got up from the ground.
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"Son, why don't you go to school and ask for a leave of absence, and then we can travel and take a long family vacation?" At the dinner table, Chen Fan's father took a satisfactory sip of the Maotai that he had bought for 200 RMB.
Before, he was only able to buy wine worth a maximum of 20 RMB, even to entertain guests. Since their assets now suddenly soared to more than ten to twenty million, he could buy a bottle of Maotai easily.
"I don't think I would go, I am about to graduate this semester and when I get the graduation certificate, I'll have all the time to have fun!" Chen Fan's expression was like a good boy who has gotten many awards for more than ten years.
"There is no meaning in studying at that sh*t university?" His father refilled his glass of wine."When your mother and I came out of that school, we worked for more than ten years, and lastly, we ended selling crabs instead. We are rich now, and we should put our vision further. Graduation certificate is just a piece of rubbish!"
"Son, don't listen to your father, wait until you graduate then we would decide what we could do!"
Chen Fan's mother stared at his father and said, "Our son wants to go to the school! Then let him go... why do you have to worry so much?"
"By the way, my son, your father and I are going to register for traveling in the travel agency tomorrow. We would bring back some good food and clothes for you!"
"Okay! Okay!" Chen Fan nodded his head like a rattle.
After the meal, Chen Fan went to the Internet Cafe again to log into the personal center and delete the post he had just sent. He would have Yiteng Yun and the others pretend to be a bunch of commenters who would post to the Internet; the news of purchasing of high-quality'Ambergris'
In just a few minutes, several people left a message and had asserted that this was Ambergris. Some people even personal messaged him, that they would pay any price to buy this Ambergris.
As he was preparing to delete the post, the news in the forum began to notify again.
"Hello... do you have that thing with you? If you want to sell it, please don't sell it to others. I will pay more than twice the market price! My phone number is 13..."Chen Fan stared at the screen and read the information slowly.
"More than double the market price?"
Chen Fan's first reaction was to believe that this thing was fishy. He surfed the internet and knew that although the ambergris was worth something, it was not considered a rare treasure in the world, and the one that he had now been not the rare, pure white Ambergris. There was no reason why he should come out with double the price to purchase it.
Taking out his phone to enter the number, Chen Fan changed into a new SIM card that had not been registered and prepared to make a call to test the guy's intention.
"Hey, I'm the guy who posted the photo of ambergris on the Internet. Are you really going to pay twice the price?"
"Right... Right..." At the end of the phone was an urgent hurried voice."I need that thing urgently!"
"Urgent need? There is no need to come out with such a price even if you need it urgently, I just checked the information, and found out that there are a few big drugstores selling this!"
Chen Fan did not have any intention of selling it at all and didn't care whether the guy on the line knew it or not.
The other end of the phone was silent for a few dozen seconds when Chen Fan thought the line was cut off, the person on the phone finally replied!
"The thing you have with you is not Ambergris!"
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