Dragon's Blood (3)

  Pingfang has become a forbidden word... Qingfeng is illiterate... I won't say more, collect and recommend!

  During the day, the adults in the village either went out to sea to fish or were working in the fields. There were few people by the sea, except for a few children from the village playing on the beach, and basically no one else appeared.

  Li Yifan quietly dug out these pieces of dragon amber, each one was quite large, and he had dug out one more than in his previous life, a total of four.

  The children playing by the sea did not notice the scene on Li Yifan's side, each one was either focusing on playing with sand or catching small crabs and shrimp by the sea.

  Li Yifan quietly hid these few pieces of dragon's saliva in a nearby rocky beach, covering them with stones and marking the spot. This place would be flooded by high tide at night, and the underwater scenery was changing every day. If he didn't dig it out today, no one could guarantee that he could find the correct location of these few pieces of dragon's saliva tomorrow.

  He wrapped the smallest piece of dragon's saliva in his clothes and took it back home, this smallest piece was almost twenty kilograms. Afraid of drawing attention to himself, he didn't take the dragon's saliva back to his sister's house, but instead took it directly to the ancestral hall of the three families. In the ancestral hall, he anxiously waited for an afternoon, and after dinner at his sister's house that evening, Li Yifan said he would return home tomorrow. He planned to stay in the ancestral hall overnight, and his brother-in-law and sister didn't pay much attention, after all, Li Yifan was already a seventeen-year-old boy, not a child anymore, and in rural areas, some people of this age were already married.

  Returned to the ancestral house and waited patiently until after eleven o'clock, when the village was already quiet, Li Yifan quietly came out of the ancestral house, pushing a two-wheeled small cart that his family had used for exercise before, and arrived at the seaside. He loaded all three pieces of Longyan incense into it and transported them back to the ancestral house.

  All the way, he was a little frightened. If someone found out, the villagers would definitely recognize what this thing was. Although it was something he had discovered himself, it was inevitable that it would arouse malicious intentions in others.

  It's okay, all the way here, I haven't met anyone at all. The tired people have already rested early, so it only attracted a few barking sounds from some vigilant dogs. Fortunately, he has been familiar with the dogs in the village for these days, and when those dogs barked, he called out to them. When those dogs heard his voice, they stopped barking too.

  Under the dim light of the old house, Li Yifan witnessed with his own eyes these few treasures that would be highly valued by later generations. They were yellowish in color, extremely ugly in shape, and emitted a foul odor.

  There are four pieces in total, all of which are in good condition. The largest piece weighs over 50 kilograms, the other two weigh around 40 kilograms each, and the smallest one weighs over 20 kilograms. If it weren't for borrowing this family's small cart today, it would be really difficult for him to transport these things back with his current physical strength.

  He carefully scraped off a small piece from the smallest one, then ignited it with a lighter. Sure enough, after a while, his nostrils caught a whiff of an unfamiliar and indescribable fragrance that was none other than dragon's saliva incense.

  Li Yifan was so excited that he almost jumped up, but at this time, Longyan Xiang is still not available in the domestic market. After all, the collecting trend has just started, and people who like to collect are mainly focused on ancient porcelain or paintings. The attention to Longyan Xiang, a relatively niche product, is not high yet.

  However, the purchase price of dragon's blood resin is relatively stable internationally, basically monopolized by large perfume companies in France. Due to the annual contraction of international trade volume, the international price of dragon's blood resin has been rising year after year, although it still does not reach the standard of 20,000 euros per kilogram in later generations. It is estimated that a price of around 10,000 pounds per kilogram should be available.

  Come to think of it, the standard price he remembered was in 2006 when an Australian man picked up about 14 kilograms of ambergris on the beach and sold it for ￡300,000, which is roughly ￡20,000 per kilogram.

  It's now 1999, so I guess it can't be bought at that high price, but it should be roughly the same.

  This time, I dug out about 150 kilograms of dragon's saliva fragrance. With so many, even if calculated at a price of ￡10,000 per kilogram, and at the current exchange rate of one pound to thirteen yuan, it would be worth around 20 million yuan.

  In '99, this amount of money, if managed properly, was enough for a whole family to live a stable life.

  After more than an hour, Li Yifan's mood finally calmed down from its explosive state.

  In his past life, after he joined a special organization to risk his life for the country, to be honest, he had seen a lot of cash, but unfortunately, none of that money belonged to him. Every day, when he went abroad on missions, he would receive an allowance of about $100, plus a monthly salary of around 10,000 yuan. In fact, the price he paid for risking his life was not high at all.

  Although he has lived a carefree and happy life, it seems that being a wealthy elite is still not his fate, looks like this dream will have to be put off until the next life.

  The next morning, his brother-in-law specially found a car to send him back to the city. He told his brother-in-law that he wanted to bring some things from his hometown this time, and there was a lot of luggage, so it was inconvenient to take the bus. His brother-in-law didn't say much and called one of his friends to send him back. If his brother-in-law hadn't had other unfinished projects elsewhere in the past few days, he would have personally sent Li Yifan home.

  After helping Li Yifan load the dragon's saliva fragrance into several large canvas bags onto the car, my brother-in-law didn't ask much, and Li Yifan took this time to bring back the spoils of war from Longtou Village.

  The car belonged to Sister's husband's friend, Old Du. Li Yifan didn't ask Old Du to send him back to the restaurant, but instead asked him to take him back to his new house that he had just bought on the other side of Dujiazhuang in the city.

  "Wow, Yihuan, how come your family bought a house here? Why didn't you buy an apartment instead?"

  Lao Du is also a fellow villager of Longtou Village and his sister's husband is a childhood friend. He is also very familiar with Li Yifan's family.

  "Hey! At the end of the year, didn't my brother come back from his military service? Our family doesn't have much money, so buying an apartment isn't enough for us to live in, we can only afford to buy a flat first."

  "Uh-huh, right, by the way, when your brother comes back at the end of the year, have him give me a call, I'll take him out for drinks."

  "Don't worry, Du Ge, hehe, when the time comes, my brother will definitely go back to the village to take a look first."

  Lao Du and Li Yifan's older brother were also good friends. While chatting with Li Yifan, Lao Du helped move all the Longyan incense in bags into the courtyard before bidding farewell and leaving.

  As soon as Du Ge left, Li Yifan immediately locked the courtyard gate from the inside and then moved all these dragon brain incense into the house by herself.

  Tonight, Li Lisheng and Zhang Shu returned to the restaurant ahead of schedule after finishing their last day's work. The construction team has already checked in at the restaurant tonight, and the restaurant will be closed starting from tonight.

  Moreover, due to the construction team's renovation of the house being quite noisy, they didn't stay in the tile-roofed house behind the restaurant, but instead returned to their newly purchased courtyard. Although the transportation here is inconvenient and the surrounding area is all flat houses, the air quality here is better than in the city, the scenery is good, and living here is comfortable.

  "Son is back, haha, your dad specially prepared the spicy crab you like today, and had it stir-fried in a restaurant and brought it back."

  Zhang Shu opened the door and saw her son in the living room, she was very happy. Her son had been gone for over ten days, and it was said that he had been fooling around in the sea every day. But now, his skin was darkened by the sun.

  "Hey, Dad and Mom, have you eaten yet? Let's eat together."

  Li Yifan, who had been busy for a whole day, was a bit hungry and called out to his parents to come over and eat together.

  "Yeah, I chatted with the landlord for an entire afternoon, and it just so happened that we hadn't eaten yet, so we ate together."

  Li Liqiang discussed the renovation plan with the landlord in the afternoon, and Zhang Shu didn't eat dinner either. It was just right for the whole family to have dinner together. Zhang Shu went to the kitchen of the west room to heat up the meal, but when Li Liqiang walked into the living room, he found several green canvas bags on the floor, which made him feel a little strange.

  These canvas bags were something he had seen when he was doing farm work in the village years ago, some ships were about to throw away their old and tattered sails, feeling a bit wasteful, so he brought them back and asked Zhang Shu to sew them up one stitch at a time.

  But after coming to the city, I haven't seen it again. How can it appear here now, and it seems that there are many things inside.

  "Son, what's inside?"

  "Heh heh, Dad, this is filled with good stuff, don't believe me? Take a look..."

  "Ah... This is..."

  "That's right, this is Longjing tea!"

  "Slap."

  Just as Zhang Shu walked into the house with a bowl, the empty bowl in her hand fell to the ground. As children who grew up in a fishing village, how could they not know what Longyan Xiang was?