CHAPTER 616: CHAPTER 616: AT THE PEARL BANQUET

Chapter 616: Pearl Banquet

August 10th, the college admission letters finally arrived at the school.

Among the six people, including Mengyu, Shen Qi was admitted to the military school, Shuiyu was admitted to Military Medical University. Xiao Hua was admitted to Beijing University, Jiang Mengyu and Wang Huilan were admitted to Kyoto University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The day they received their admission letters, Gu Dongxing and Cheng Jiuhe brought good food to Dragon Head Ridge to celebrate with everyone.

Mengyu was thrilled to see her fiancé and her brother coming together.

"To celebrate our admission to university, today, I’ll treat you to something rare."

"What rare thing?"

"A type of meat you’ve never eaten before."

"What meat?"

"You’ll know once you eat it."

Mengyu brought out a giant clam over one meter in diameter from Heavenly Lake: "I got this from the deepest part of a mountain lake, it must be several hundred years old."

"Wow, such a big clamshell," Shuiyu exclaimed.

"It’s so big, has it turned into a demon?" Xiao Hua asked.

Huilan, touching her chin: "Could there be pearls inside?"

Even Gu Dongxing and Cheng Jiuhe were amazed, unable to believe there were so many clams, and these weren’t sea clams.

"Whether there are pearls or not, we’ll see when we open it."

When the clamshell was opened, everyone was dumbfounded by the dense pearls on both halves of the shell.

"Come on, everyone gets some!" Mengyu immediately took some pearls and distributed them to everyone.

The largest pearl was over sixty millimeters in diameter, bigger than a ping pong ball, pinkish and iridescent, very beautiful.

Although the others were not as big, they also measured forty to fifty millimeters.

Moreover, perhaps due to their age, each pearl was very round, not irregular like ordinary freshwater pearls.

"My God, such large pearls, what wonders!" Shuiyu marveled, just like Xiao Hua, they couldn’t take their eyes off them.

Even Xiao Tao, a demon, was fixated on the pearls.

Mengyu teased her in her heart: "So demons like worldly things too?"

Xiao Tao gasped with a wry smile: "Master, these are no ordinary items; these pearls contain Spiritual Energy. If worn for a long time, they can improve a person’s health. If I could eat these pearls, I might even grow a year older."

The higher Xiao Tao’s cultivation, the older she appeared.

She had absorbed a lot of Sun and Moon Essence provided by Mengyu, only to mature to the age of twelve.

But now, she claimed, eating these pearls could make her grow a year older.

However—

Mengyu felt a bit awkward. "Xiao Tao, I already said I’d distribute these pearls to everyone; I can’t give them all to you. But you can eat your share."

She realized. These clams close to the palace, usually absorbing the Spiritual Energy leaking from the palace, which that strange fish fed on, were probably the reason so many pearls containing Spiritual Energy were produced.

After all the pearls were collected, everyone counted, a total of one hundred and eight pearls!

"There are ten of us here (including Xiao Tao), let’s each take ten pearls. I personally will take eight extra."

Others might not know, but Cheng Jiuhe clearly understood the value of these pearls.

He sighed and said: "Tonight, we’re having a Pearl Banquet. Everyone must keep these pearls safe. In my estimation, such large, round, pinkish pearls, each should be worth over ten thousand."

My God, are these pearls so valuable?

A value of over ten thousand for one, wouldn’t ten pearls be worth one hundred thousand?