Chapter 209 Surprise! The King of Pearls

Lin Lang turned the car into the roadside of the seafood farmers market and replied with a smile: "Baby, we are here!"

Zhou Mengyao, who was full of expectations, said with a bit of a smile: "No way, dear? Who would come to the vegetable market for a birthday date?"

Lin Lang stopped the car, turned off the engine, unbuckled his seat belt, and folded up the Ferrari's convertible with one click. He replied with a smirk on his face, "Are you surprised or not?"

Zhou Mengyao replied with a melancholy look on her face: "It's not a surprise, it's a shock! What are we doing in the vegetable market?"

Lin Lang replied affectionately and gently: "Today is your birthday. I will cook you some loving dishes to celebrate your birthday!"

"We go shopping at the market like a newlywed couple. Don't you like it when I take you, a rich girl, to experience the life of ordinary people?"

Zhou Mengyao smiled sweetly after hearing this and said, "I am of course happy that we are shopping in the market like a newlywed couple! Hehe... But dear, can you still cook?"

Naturally Lin Lang could not answer. He signed in to the system and obtained the maximum level of [Top Cooking Skills of Eight Major Cuisines] skill. He already possessed the top skills of the national cuisine chef. He could fry, stir-fry, cook, deep-fry, boil, roast, steam, stew, braise, stew, roast, braising, pickle and mix. He was proficient in everything.

So, Lin Lang replied in a catchphrase: "I am not talented, I know a little bit about everything, and I know a little bit about cooking! Just a little bit!"

After getting off the car, Zhou Mengyao took Lin Lang's arm and said with a sweet smile: "My dear, I have begun to understand you. As long as you modestly say that you know a little bit, you are proficient in it. I am already looking forward to your cooking skills~"

Lin Lang asked lovingly, "What delicious food do you want to eat, baby? My cooking skills support ordering!"

Zhou Mengyao leaned against Lin Lang tenderly and replied happily, "I want to eat a seafood feast. As long as it's your specialty, I want to eat it! Hehe..."

Lin Lang replied proudly: "My specialty is the Manchu-Han Banquet. I have too many specialties, I'm afraid the table at Zhou's house won't be able to accommodate them all!"

"My dear, you brag without thinking. There are 108 dishes in the Manchu-Han Banquet! Can you cook them all?!"

Lin Lang replied slyly, "Steamed lamb, steamed bear paw, steamed deer tail, roast duck, roast chicken, roast goose, braised pork, braised duck, braised chicken, bacon, steamed pork belly, etc. These 108 dishes are really all my specialties!"

Zhou Mengyao smiled and said, "My dear, I don't know if you can cook a full banquet, but you are really good at naming dishes in crosstalk, hehe..."

Zhou Mengyao held Lin Lang's arm intimately and walked into the huge seafood farmers' market.

Zhou Mengyao blinked her big eyes. It was her first time visiting a vegetable market since she was a child. She looked at the bustling crowd around her with curiosity and the various seafood neatly arranged on the stalls. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "Wow! It's so lively here!"

Lin Lang walked and said, "The atmosphere of the vegetable market contains the taste code of a city. Life is like rising in the morning and setting in the evening, and the daily necessities of life are like firewood, rice, oil and salt. You, a rich lady, are about to become a wife, so it's time for you to get in touch with the real world."

"Hehe..." Zhou Mengyao stuck out her tongue and smiled playfully.

The two people in sweet love walked intimately from stall to stall. Zhou Mengyao was as excited as a child, touching and looking around, and felt that everything in the seafood farmers' market was very interesting.

Lin Lang smiled and said, "Look at these fish, shrimps, and crabs, they are all alive and kicking!"

"Yes! It's so fun to go to the vegetable market!" Zhou Mengyao nodded, with surprise glittering in her eyes.

Zhou Mengyao stopped in front of a shellfish stall, pointed at the colorful shells and asked, "What is this? It looks beautiful."

The stall owner enthusiastically introduced: "This is mussels, also known as green mouth, which can be used to make soup or stir-fry."

Zhou Mengyao picked up a mussel with great interest and asked, "I heard that you can get pearls from mussels. Is that true?"

The stall owner smiled and replied: "If you are lucky, it is quite common to find pearls in mussels."

After hearing this, Zhou Mengyao looked at her boyfriend Lin Lang and asked gently and sweetly: "Then dear, how about we buy some mussels as well? Wouldn't it be so lucky if we find pearls in them?"

Lin Lang replied lovingly: "Okay! Then let's pick some mussels, maybe we can really find pearls in them!"

"Hehe..." Zhou Mengyao smiled sweetly and began to pick mussels at the seafood stall with Lin Lang.

Following the system's prompts, Lin Lang selected a few mussels that contained pearls. He bought enough mussels to fry for a whole plate, weighed them, paid for them, and put them in a plastic bag in his hand.

Zhou Mengyao said expectantly, "Honey, I want to pry open a few mussels right now to see if there are any pearls!"

After hearing this, Lin Lang looked at the stall owner and said, "Madam, lend me a knife to pry the mussels and make my girlfriend happy!"

The stall owner handed Lin Lang a knife and said with a smile: "Handsome guy and beautiful girl, you bought less than three pounds of mussels. It's not easy to open the pearls if you buy too little!"

Lin Lang replied confidently: "If you are lucky, you can get pearls from just one mussel. If you are unlucky, you may not get a single pearl from a hundred kilograms of mussels, right?"

"Handsome guy, what you said makes sense. It all depends on your luck~" The stall owner was waiting patiently.

Zhou Mengyao stood aside and watched Lin Lang pry open a mussel with a knife and take out a rare purple pearl, which was round and shiny. Although it was only the size of a soybean, it looked extremely beautiful!

"Oh..."

Zhou Mengyao jumped up and down with joy, unable to hide her happiness, and said: "Dear, we are so lucky! We actually found a pearl in the mussel~"

The stall owner exclaimed: "And it's a rare purple pearl! You two only spent a few dozen yuan and got a purple pearl worth thousands of yuan. You really made a profit!"

"whee……"

Zhou Mengyao smiled sweetly when the stall owner described them as a young couple.

Lin Lang placed the purple pearl in Zhou Mengyao's palm and said lovingly: "Although the value of this purple pearl is only 1,800 yuan, it is very meaningful to keep it as a souvenir."

Zhou Mengyao looked at the purple pearl in her palm, which was very bright and dazzling in the sun. She smiled happily and said, "I like this pearl so much! I didn't expect that I would have an adventure while shopping in the vegetable market. It's really interesting!"

Lin Lang said sweetly: "Because today you are the little birthday star, God gave you a birthday present! You are really lucky!"

Zhou Mengyao replied happily: "My dear, good things always happen when I'm with you. It seems like you have the koi physique~"

"You are my lucky goddess. I am just borrowing your good luck!"

Zhou Mengyao said playfully: "I will treasure this purple pearl, it is the testimony of our love!"

Lin Lang smiled after hearing this, then returned the knife to the stall owner and said "Thank you!"

Then, Zhou Mengyao and Lin Lang held hands intimately and continued to visit the seafood farmers' market. The couple chatted sweetly like newlyweds and bought some fresh sea cucumbers and seafood such as fish, shrimps and crabs.

Zhou Mengyao joked: "Honey, we bought so many kinds of seafood, do you know how to cook them?"

Lin Lang was holding all the freshly purchased seafood in his hands and replied modestly: "Even if there are seafoods that I can't cook, there are chefs in your Zhou residence who can cook them!"

When they came to a place selling lobsters, Zhou Mengyao was attracted by the huge lobsters.

She couldn't help but reach out to touch their claws, which scared the lobsters so much that they waved their big claws, making Zhou Mengyao giggle.

Lin Lang selected a few plump lobsters on the side. When he weighed them and paid the bill, the virtual system screen in front of Lin Lang suddenly began to flash with golden light.

Lin Lang was very confused. He was just taking Zhou Mengyao to the vegetable market, so why did he receive a system notification about finding a bargain?

Ding! [Glittering golden treasure appraisal tips] Tips from the King of Pearls: A 9.78-gram orange conch Melo pearl was found hidden in a coconut snail. The current market collection value is conservatively estimated to be more than 200 million Chinese yuan.

After receiving the system prompt, a barely noticeable smile of pride flashed across Lin Lang's face.

So, Lin Lang followed the system's instructions and spent another 168 Chinese yuan at a lobster stall to buy the coconut snail containing the conch pearl.

After weighing it and paying the money, Lin Lang took the huge coconut snail in his hands and looked at it from left to right as if it were a treasure, with a gleam in his eyes of greed for money.

Zhou Mengyao joked: "Honey, have you never seen coconut snails before?"

Lin Lang couldn't hide his excitement and replied: "Of course I have seen it!"

Zhou Mengyao teased, "Since you have seen coconut snails, why do you look at this ordinary coconut snail as if it were a treasure? Is this coconut snail prettier than me?"

Lin Lang pretended to be mysterious and replied: "Everyone has seen coconut snails, but you have never seen a coconut snail worth 200 million?"

Zhou Mengyao replied in disbelief: "My dear, you are so funny. There is no coconut snail worth 200 million in the world. Of course, I have never seen one!"

"Hey~you see it now!" Lin Lang proudly showed the coconut snail in his hand.

Zhou Mengyao said in confusion: "You just spent 168 yuan to buy coconut snails at the seafood stall, and they appreciated to 200 million as soon as they arrived in your hands. Isn't this an international joke?!"

The stall owner nearby smiled and said, "I've been selling seafood for half my life, and I've never heard of coconut snails worth 200 million!"

Since he had already made the purchase, Lin Lang looked at the stall owner and said, "Please lend me a knife. I'll open your eyes for you!"

After hearing this, the stall owner wiped his sweat and said weakly, "Don't scare me, handsome guy. I have double eyelids. I don't need you to open my eyes with a knife!"

Lin Lang smiled and said, "Boss, you misunderstood. I am lending you a knife to open the coconut snails so that you can witness a miracle. I am not using the knife to hurt you!"

"Oh oh oh~ I see!" The stall owner handed Lin Lang a small knife.

Zhou Mengyao couldn't help but laugh and said, "My dear, you made the seafood stall owner sweat! Hehe..."

“Uh…hehe…” The stall owner laughed awkwardly and scratched his head.