Chapter 722: Yorsel national park

The biggest advantage of riding a motorcycle is that you can park at any time. Xiao Peng and Emilia are not in a hurry to hurry. They almost have to stop at a fun and beautiful place, or Xiao Peng wants to take pictures, or else they are. Emilia wants to paint, or one of them wants to take pictures and the other wants to paint. Anyway, the road is full of fun, and the speed of travel will be as slow as possible.
However, there is one place where the two of them are reluctant to leave after entering: Yosell National Park.
In fact, to be honest, the scenery here is not as beautiful as Qianliyan, but it makes Xiao Peng linger, not because of other things, but because of the Favor beach here.
Favor Beach is the only purple beach in the world. This is because the rocks here contain manganese garnet. The beach is originally a purple ore, which is broken into sand by the waves. Walking deep along the beach, the purple becomes more and more obvious. At the end of the beach, there is a large area of ​​real purple sand that is so beautiful. . Especially when the two came here, it was close to sunset, and the sunset on the beach was even more beautiful.
"I suddenly felt that the tickets here are the most cost-effective among all the toll points on Highway One! It's worth five dollars." Xiao Peng took the camera and kept taking pictures and said to Emilia.
Emilia smiled and said, "I think so too. Look at this purple beach, how beautiful is it?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "This is a place rich in manganese garnet. If you look carefully, you can still find manganese garnet."
Garnet is one of the main rock-forming minerals in the upper mantle. Because garnet crystals are similar to pomegranate seeds, it is named garnet. Garnet with good color and high clarity can become a gem. The common garnet is red, but its color variety is very wide, covering almost all colors of the entire spectrum.
In the China Bronze Age, garnets were used as abrasives and gems. The "Ziyawu" recorded in ancient Chinese books refers to garnets.
Now in China, the garnet jewelry market is very hot, especially for girls, many of whom buy garnets at high prices and keep saying what their garnets are.
Xiao Peng couldn't laugh or cry about it.
The grades of garnets are never divided into several A and several A. You can find different merchants with a bunch of garnets to tell you the different grade A numbers. These are all tactics used by profiteers to defraud money, and some people still believe in this.
Is garnet a gem? Yes! But it must be divided into what kind of garnet it is! Just like diamonds, all diamonds are diamonds, but not all diamonds are diamonds! The high-grade ones are gems, while the rest can only be made of emery. . . . . .
The same is true for garnet. Because of the high content of garnet, the production area is almost all over the world, and the types are different, and the price gap is also very large. Good garnets are priceless, such as the Ural emeralds from the Ural Mountains. The top-grade garnets are invaluable, and the price is better than diamonds! The bad garnet can only be used as an abrasive, which is often used to replace the silica sand used in sandblasting.
In addition to the Ural emeralds, the price of garnets produced in Mozambique is also very high, and most of the domestic garnets are black in color, so the price is also low. The most important thing to evaluate garnet is the color, which must be bright and pure, with good transparency. To put it simply, the lighter the color, the better, because garnet itself is a stone with a darker accumulation. Light color is rare, and the less impurities it contains, the appointment is not the best. The more transparent and brighter the better.
After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Emilia really went to look for garnets, and Xiao Peng was too lazy to look for them. The common garnets are divided into six types because of their chemical composition: rhodolite, almandine Except for the green top grade in the garnet, other types of stone, spessartine, garnet, and garnet can only be said to be of average value, similar to the value of ordinary small crystals. Make him bother to find the top grade in spessartine? Xiao Peng might as well enjoy the sunset and sea breeze on the beach.
And the most important and most infuriating thing is that garnets can also be artificially synthesized. No matter what gems, as long as they can be artificially synthesized, the price will plummet. The most famous is ruby!
Rubies should be one of the most expensive and rarest gems on the planet. As a result, the emergence of artificial rubies has brought the ruby ​​market to life below the horizon! Only those who really know the industry know the value of natural rubies.
Although the price of natural rubies is still sky-high, only top luxury brands dare to use natural rubies as raw materials. Because people know that they will not use fakes to smash their own brands and can buy with confidence.
However, many upstarts still disdain natural rubies. Why? Too much fake! You bring a ruby ​​worth tens of millions of dollars. When you see someone on the road carrying a man-made ruby ​​worth hundreds of dollars, it is even more annoying that the layman can't tell the difference. Personally, it feels like eating a fly.
A very simple example, Xiao Peng took out a Cohiba cigar worth a few dollars. Sean and Martin were surprised, but Xiao Peng was wearing a ruby ​​ring worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but they didn’t respond because they thought This is fake. It feels like you are driving a Ferrari, you wear a stall and people will think you are wearing a genuine one. If you are wearing a Boss suit sitting at the breakfast stall, eating fritters and drinking soy juice, people will think you are wearing Fake, um, even if someone recognizes it as the real one, they will think you are pretending.
In any case, the emergence of artificial garnets once again hit the gem-grade garnet market, and the market price plummeted again. Uh. In addition to China.
In this magical country of China, even the arborvitae in the green belt can be transformed into a thuja ‘Taihang Mountain’s wind and rain for thousands of years’. Is there anything impossible?
Seeing Emilia having fun on the beach, Xiao Peng took the opportunity to set up his tent: "Emilia, do you need me to help you set up the tent?"
"No, I want to come by myself." Emilia was very spine and ran back to set up the tent by herself. Xiao Peng watched her take it seriously, took out a bottle of can coke from the motorcycle storage box and drank it, then took out the Swiss army knife she carried and carved on the can.
Emilia set up the tent and watched Xiao Peng take a knife against the can, and leaned over: "Xiao, what are you doing?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Am I preparing dinner?"
Emilia doesn't know why: "What does dinner have to do with cans?"
"Let's put it this way, I grew up by the sea. For me, looking for food at the sea is as easy as a vacation. Let you feel it today."
Xiao Peng cut off the upper end of the can, leaving about 2/3 of the position, and went to find a piece of waste newspaper, rolled it up and stuffed it tightly into the can, and then Xiao Peng found a candle for night lighting. After igniting, drip hot wax on the newspaper in the can.
Emilia looked more and more confused: "What is this?"
Xiao Peng smiled and replied: "Make a small stove. Don't underestimate this little thing. After the wax has penetrated into the newspaper, this small stove can burn continuously for at least forty minutes. There are a few in the field. Convenient."
Emilia also became interested after hearing this, and also made a small canner. Xiao Peng took out a small stainless steel bowl and handed it to Emilia: "There are oysters on the reef, you go to pry some. It is better to find a larger one." Emilia went happily, and Xiao Peng took out The fishing rod hit Luya, and it didn't take long for Xiao Peng to catch two sea bass. To be precise, there are three. One of them is too small and put back into the sea. God knows where the fisherman is hiding and staring at him, Xiao Peng dare not go into the water to fish for California red abalone! The fishing of red abalone is prohibited in this area.
Usually you can’t find these fishermen with a lantern, but when you break the rules, these fishermen will appear in front of you instantly, even more magical than the Japanese ninja.
Xiao Peng went to the sea again, picking some kelp, seaweed and the like. Back on the shore, Emilia also dug a bowl of oysters and came back: "Xiao Peng, do you think these are enough?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Enough is enough." After finishing talking, he dug a hole on the beach, put the ready-made can stove on the bottom of the hole, took out a flue, went around to find some firewood, and then put the kelp. Spread the seaweed on the top, prepare the two fish and place them on the kelp, and grill them directly on the fire.
Another canister is used to cook oysters. It is directly cooked with clean sea water and some seaweed is added. It's that simple.
Emilia puzzled: "Xiao, why don't you just grill the fish in the tin stove?"
Xiao Peng said: "This canister can be ignited to cook things, but it cannot be used directly for baking. After all, there are candles in it. If it is baked directly, it will be harmful to the human body. It doesn't matter if there is only me, but you can't let you eat candle-flavored things No? This layer of sea vegetables underneath, on the one hand, is to grill the flavor into the fish, on the other hand, it is to cut off the damage to the human body by the wax. Today, the two of us will simply eat something, and tomorrow I will buy good seasonings and the like. You can make more delicious things."
Emilia sniffed hard: "Xiao, I think it will be delicious this way, I can smell the aroma of grilled fish."
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Don't worry, you can eat it later. I have bread in my bag. You can bake it now and eat it together later!"
Emilia shook her head and sat motionless: "I don't want to leave here, this fish is too fragrant, I can't smell it enough."
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And in a car in the distance: "Ivan, I have had enough! This job is not done by humans! I don't want to eat hard bread! I don't want to eat sausage! I want to go down to eat grilled fish."
"Mozkov, calm down, wait until we destroy their car at night, their speed is slow, we can eat whatever we want! Think about our lives in Africa, now our lives are very happy, right? ?"
"Ivan, there is a saying in China, "It is easy to change from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to change from luxury to frugality." This statement is too correct."
"Okay, stop complaining, stare at them, and solve this problem when they fall asleep. Damn, this mosquito!"