Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 415 - 412: Another Treasure Uncovered

Xiao Xianghua is going back to Qiantang, and Lin Wanwan has prepared a gift for her and arranged for her to be escorted by boat.

Having received two boats from her senior brother, Lin Wanwan converted one of them into a fishing vessel, used daily to load fish, catch fish, and dry fish and shrimp. Over six months, the boat acquired a persistent fishy smell that couldn’t be washed away, making it unsuitable for carrying nobles. Therefore, the other boat naturally couldn’t be used as a fishing boat.

This luxurious boat, purchased from the Lu Family in Hai City, usually rests quietly at the dock, unused, representing the extravagance of nobility. It can remain idle but must not be absent.

At times like this, the boat is perfectly suited to escort esteemed guests. It wouldn’t do to have Xiao Xianghua on a fishy-smelling boat or to rent someone else’s boat.

After sending Xiao Xianghua off, Lin Wanwan walked to the workshop’s edge to observe the surrounding disaster victims collecting millet and duck eggs, hearing a chorus of greetings, "Good morning, Village Lady of Le’an," and "Greetings to the Village Lady of Le’an."

This recent hurricane caused varying degrees of damage to the three villages in the same township: Lin Family Manor, Lu Family Manor, and Dafeng Village. Although there were no casualties, the loss of houses and money was enough to overwhelm anyone because the poor cannot withstand the ravages of storms.

Thus, Lin Wanwan seized the opportunity to show kindness to the surrounding people. To establish deep roots here, she needed to turn her surroundings into her supporters. Ordinary folks don’t grasp great principles but, when given rice and eggs, regard such benefactors as the best under heaven!

To have the surrounding people heed her, she chose to provide benefits and establish her authority.

Of course, since she was bestowing kindness, she certainly couldn’t overlook her own clan members.

The Lin Family Manor is Lin Wanwan’s foundation, her home base, willing to protect her at all costs, and naturally the focus of her beneficence.

If Lin Wanwan treated her clan members from Lin Family Manor the same as outsiders, even giving them the same amount, everyone would inevitably have thoughts, as closeness determines favors.

But simply handing out money is the most foolish way to show kindness, and Lin Wanwan would never do so.

After the last hurricane, the people of Lin Family Manor gathered quite a few treasures from the sea, which Lin Wanwan allowed them to exchange with her for tiles to cover roofs. Many families experienced roof leaks during this hurricane, and every household needed tiles for repairs.

Using green tiles to trade for her clan’s sea goods was more effective than copper coins. After all, quality tiles are not easily bought. The Great Tang is not like the modern era, where commerce is so developed that money can buy almost anything.

In the Great Tang, many things are unavailable for purchase, and even if they are, not everyone has the means to travel and buy them. As mentioned, this is an era where transportation depends mainly on walking, and countless villagers never leave their villages in a lifetime. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

More crucially, in the Great Tang, purchasing things requires entitlement, not just money.

When Lin Wanwan first came to the Great Tang last year, despite having modern pepper and wealth comparable to a nation, she could only rent a house and not buy one.

Why?

Simply because she wasn’t entitled to buy a house. Buying property in the Great Tang requires a guarantor and neighbor consent; it’s not just about having money. The same goes for green tiles; such good items aren’t accessible to ordinary farmers.

Trading sea goods for Lin Wanwan’s green tiles was undoubtedly a great deal for the clan members of Lin Family Manor. Everyone understood that this was Lin Wanwan supporting them!

And for Lin Wanwan, it was also a profitable venture. Among this batch of sea goods were several live dugongs, a functionally extinct species in China!

The last dugong was released to modern times by Lin Wanwan, and upon encountering them this time, she naturally transported them back to the modern era for release.

While this time releasing rare animals didn’t cause visible changes in the Space-Time Gate, Lin Wanwan was confident it was a process where quantitative change determined qualitative change.

Translocating rare animals to modern times must continue, as contributing to modern biodiversity is always correct.

In addition to the dugong, Lin Wanwan had another find. More precisely, it was Lin Mengjin’s discovery.

During the last hurricane, Lin Mengjin captured two East Star Spots and one West Star Spot, fish considered prized in any era.

But this wasn’t Lin Mengjin’s best find; the true treasure lay in the sea snail he gifted Lin Wanwan—a Sea Snail Pearl!

While Sea Snail Pearls aren’t as valuable as Dragon Balls, they are still a significant treasure. In modern times, Sea Snail Pearls, crafted into jewelry, are priced at tens of thousands of US Dollars per carat.

In the two buckets of sea snails Lin Mengjin sent to Lin Wanwan, one snail with beautiful patterns caught Qingyu’s attention, and she kept it for a few days.

Later, jokingly, Lin Wanwan suggested cooking it, saying there might be a Dragon Ball inside.

Sun Chuyao, laughing nearby, explained that Dragon Balls don’t grow in such snails, so there were no prospects.

However, Qingyu, determined to open it, forgot her earlier wish to keep it as a pet.

By sheer coincidence, when cooking the sea snail, Lin Wanwan helped Qingyu find two yellow pea-sized pink Sea Snail Pearls!

Sea Snail Pearls, like Mei Le Pearls, are only natural and cannot be artificially cultivated, with a very low chance of appearing—possibly one in five thousand snails.

Even if found, not all Sea Snail Pearls can be made into jewelry. Every year, only twenty to thirty percent of the two to three thousand Sea Snail Pearls discovered globally can be processed into accessories.

The rarity makes Sea Snail Pearls highly prized!

Qingyu was beside herself with excitement upon finding the Sea Snail Pearls; after all, what young girl could resist the allure of pink gemstones?

Lin Wanwan immediately promised Qingyu to make them into a pair of earrings for her to wear once she had pierced ears.

Reasonably, since the snail was given to Lin Wanwan, the pearls belonged to her.

But Qingyu, too thrilled to keep the secret, boasted to her classmates about finding Sea Snail Pearls in the snail.

So Lin Wanwan took advantage of the situation to offer free architectural waterproofing by Wang Dulei for Lin Mengjin’s home.

Additionally, she built three rooms for them, giving each of their three kids their own room, sparing them from sleeping with their parents.

Lin Mengjin never expected to find such valuable items in a snail he casually picked up. Overjoyed, he kept saying, "Qingyu is truly a blessing; she points, and treasures emerge!"

Qingyu, not one for taking all the credit, cheerfully replied, "It was Uncle Mengjin who caught it himself; he deserves the highest credit!"

The news about Lin Mengjin finding two Sea Snail Pearls quickly spread through Lin Family Manor, making people envious to the point of red eyes!

A single sea snail for three brick-and-tile rooms truly reaped a fortune! How enviable!