I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With - Chapter 1032

Chapter 1032: Opening the Clams Chapter 1032: Opening the Clams Editor: Atlas Studios When Mu Yangling’s stomach grew bigger, Imperial Physician Wang and a few famous doctors in Guangzhou confirmed that she was again pregnant with twins this time.

Qi Haoran was unprecedentedly nervous.

On the one hand, he was worried that Mu Yangling would have another difficult labor.

On the other hand, he was worried that it would be two more boys.

Every day, they would be busy praying to various gods and buddhas.

Not only did they want Mu Yangling to be safe, but they also wanted daughters this time.

They were extremely busy.

Qi Haoran said firmly to Mu Yangling, “It’s definitely a son and a daughter this time.

After all, you’ve been sleeping with a girl’s clothes under your pillow.” “If this actually works, doesn’t that mean that everyone can choose the gender of their baby as they wish?” Ever since the Empress sent Princess Mingzhu’s clothes over, Qi Haoran had found Tiger Head and Little Lion’s clothes and folded them.

Every night, he would place three sets of clothes under her pillow.

According to his logic, it was fine as long as he had one daughter to dote on.

With more sons, his daughter would be more well-protected.

Since Ah Ling had given birth to one child the first time, twins in her second birth, perhaps this time she would give birth to triplets.

Qi Haoran had even decided upon the genderaEUR”one daughter and two sons, with the little clothes nicely folded and placed under the pillow accordingly.

Once Imperial Physician Wang confirmed that Mu Yangling was pregnant with twins, he immediately said solemnly that this time, it would definitely be a son and a daughter.

Little Bear and the rest believed their father’s words very much.

Every morning, they would greet the younger siblings in their mother’s stomach during breakfast.

The children even bought toys and planned to give them to their younger siblings as soon as they were born.

It was easy to find boys’ toys since their younger brother would like what they themselves like.

But what would their younger sister like?

Little Bear and the others could only ask Little Treasure, who had a younger sister.

Little Treasure explained that Mingzhu liked pearls; she often wore pearl flowers on her head or clothes with pearls sewed on.

The children were delighted to hear that.

“We may not have much else, but we do have plenty of pearls.” Little An counted with his fingers.

“There are still five days before the auspicious date we’ve chosen.

By then, we’ll have a lot of pearls.” The lifespan of sea clams was limited, and autumn had always been the season to fish for pearls.

This time, the children chose a good dayaEUR”the third day of August.

According to the almanac, it was a good day to travel, marry, and open for business.

Therefore, they chose this day to open up the net.

Because it was the day to test the success of the pearl cultivation method, not only the children, but everyone who was concerned about this matter secretly paid attention.

Mu Yangling was also extremely concerned.

With a big belly, she went to the beach and watched as they fished up the clams they had raised.

The five children each chose a clam and dragged it up.

When Little Fu saw this, he ran over eagerly.

He pointed at the clam in the net and shouted “Ahhh!”, implying that he also wanted to choose one.

So, Little Madam Xia asked him to pick one and drag it up.

Hence, starting from Little Bear, everyone took sharp sticks to pry the clams open.

When the rows of small pearls in the clam appeared in everyone’s sight, everyone couldn’t help but cheer.

Little Bear picked one up and looked at it under the sunlight.

It was smooth and round, not inferior to the ones caught from the sea.

The pearls in this clam were all very small, only slightly bigger than green beans.

However, there was numerousaEUR”about 17 to 18 pearls in total on both sides.

After looking around, Tiger Head couldn’t help but pry open the pearl he had chosen.

Little Madam Xia couldn’t help but exclaim when she saw the pearl in the clam.

This was a black pearl, and the key was that it was very big, the size of a little finger.

Although there was only one, its value far exceeded that of the pearls in the clam that Little Bear had opened.

Mu Yangling couldn’t help but look forward to the clams of the other children.

Little An simply called for everyone to open the clams together.

In the end, the luckiest ones were Tiger Head and Little Fu; the pearls in their clams were big, round, and had few flaws.

Next were Little Lion and Little An.

Wensu and Little Bear’s luck was the worst, but still, because there were many pearls inside, the two of them were also very happy.

Mu Yangling soaked the pearls they had opened in water as these pearls had to be polished before they could be sold in the market.

But since these were the first clams the children had opened, Mu Yangling planned to keep these pearls as a memento.

Little Madam Xia looked at the entire aqua farm and couldn’t help but feel excited when she thought of the number of clams.

“How many pearls can we get from this?” Smiling, Mu Yangling replied, “As long as the success rate reaches 20%, they won’t suffer a loss, and they’ll receive a return on the costs and efforts invested in the past few years.” As she looked at the children cheering on the beach, Little Madam Xia sighed.

“I didn’t expect them to be richer than us.” At such a tender age, these children already knew how to earn money.

Although Little Madam Xia was gratified by the other small businesses run by them in the past, she had never been this astounded.

Now, it was an aqua farm full of pearl clams.

In recent years, with the lifting of the maritime ban, pearl jewelry had become increasingly popular and expensive.

One couldn’t help but wonder how much money the pearls in this aqua farm would fetch.

In addition, knowledge of this technique would ensure that the children had a permanent income.

Even if the price of pearls decreased in the future, they wouldn’t lose money.

Seeing that a few merchants had surrounded the children, Little Madam Xia wanted to go forward as she was worried that they would be deceived.

Mu Yangling hurriedly stopped her.

“Let them handle this themselves since this is their business.

Besides, in Guangzhou City, who would dare to cheat our children?” Little Madam Xia thought that it made sense and let them be.

The children were indeed not easy to scam as they were smart.

There was the shrewd Little An, the petty Little Bear, the smart and cautious Little Lion, Tiger Head, and Qi Wensu.

After spending a lot of effort, the merchants who surrounded them only managed to bargain down the price a little.

Seeing that they were going to open the clams to get the pearls, Mu Yangling did not stay and cause trouble for them.

She left Xiao Ting behind and went home while holding her belly.

As she was almost six months pregnant now, standing for a long time made her feel tired.

Because they were planting one seed at a time and it had been long enough, the success rate of pearl formation reached 60%.

The children made a killing.

After selling some on the spot, they soaked the rest in water, planning to bring them back to their family’s shop to polish before selling them.

That way, they could fetch a higher price.

The news of what happened at the aqua farm quickly spread to the city.

Everyone knew that the young masters of the Prince’s estate successfully farmed pearls.

“It’s really strange that pearls can be farmed.

Why didn’t those pearl divers think of farming pearls after fishing for pearls for more than a hundred years?” “It’s not that nobody has thought of it.

I heard that there were people who attempted to farm pearls in the Hepu area of Guangxi, but they didn’t succeed and even went bankrupt.” “This is the first time these young masters are farming them, right?

How did they succeed right away?” “Otherwise, why would people say that they’re the descendants of the elite?

With a roar from the imperial sons and grandsons, would those beasts in the sea dare to disobey orders?” They drifted more and more off-topic.

Everyone felt that only those kids succeeded because they’re the descendants of the elite, but there were also smart people who thought more deeply about it.

They wondered if they could get their hands on this pearl-farming technique.

Failing which, they wanted to cooperate with the Prince’s estate, hoping to get the distribution rights.

In just half a day, this matter had already caused an uproar in Guangzhou Prefecture.

Even Fan Zijin had heard about it in the government office.

He immediately asked Yanmo to go to the beach.

“Tell them to soak the pearls first and not sell them yet.”