Super-rich: Spending money is just a job!

After leaving the tea shop, Xiaomeng strolled over to the health supplement shop to watch the excitement.

The majority of people shopping here are middle-aged and elderly, both men and women.

Everyone is carefully selecting ingredients for making soup.

Xiaomeng heard this from a woman who looked like a proprietress; she was wearing a jade bracelet and a string of beads on her wrist, and a gold ring on her finger.

When Xiaomeng came in, she was teaching her daughter or daughter-in-law the tricks of choosing fish maw.

"Look carefully, the fish maw should be dry like this. The good ones should make a crisp sound when you tap two pieces together. If the sound isn't crisp, it means it's moist and will spoil easily, so it's not good."

Also, don't buy this kind of basa gum, okay? It tastes terrible. Don't be fooled by its cheap price; it'll turn out fishy and crumbly when cooked.

If you're going to buy it, get the red-mouthed variety; white fish maw is fine too, but it's a bit more expensive.

Xiaomeng really didn't understand what she was talking about, so she could only use an appraisal skill on the "red-mouthed" thing the landlady mentioned.

Xiaomeng saw a simple entry next to the brown dried goods in front of her.

[Red Chicken Red Beak: A type of mid-range fish maw. The maw has two natural, eye-like bubbles, a small head, a large body, many wrinkles, and a hooked or hollow tail. The meat is relatively thick, and the collagen is delicate. Prices vary depending on size, ranging from several thousand to twenty thousand yuan per kilogram.]

The one the host requested to be identified is of medium size, and its estimated price is around 8,000 yuan per kilogram.

Wow, I never expected fish maw to be so expensive. This is truly an eye-opener.

Xiaomeng's gaze shifted to the display case behind the counter, where there was a wooden box with a glass lid, inside which a piece of fish maw was held in a yellow silk basket.

There really was only one; there was only one in the box. And it was huge, almost as big as a person's face.

Isn't fish maw just the swim bladder of fish? What kind of fish's swim bladder is this? And it's still so big even after being dried.

Xiaomeng saw a tag on the bottom of the box: "Golden Beef Tripe, Price: 30".

Wow, that's amazing! A fish bladder worth 30 yuan, that's truly eye-opening.

Xiaomeng quickly examined it: [Golden Threadfin Fish Maw (Large Whiskers): Swim bladder of the totoaba from the Gulf of California, with knotted, segmented pieces resembling pig intestines. It has a unique, delicate "golden coin texture". The front pattern resembles "water ripples", and the back pattern resembles "mountain patterns", commonly known as "mountain and water pattern".]

Like the small-whiskered croaker, the large-whiskered croaker has a naturally formed "coin hole" on the upper part of its gelatinous body.

Estimated price: 100,000 yuan.

Hmm? Could this be the wrong item?

The shop owner's price tag says it's worth 30 yuan? But the system's appraisal only gives a price of 10 yuan?

Xiao Meng noticed that in the system's identification results, there was a parenthesis containing the words "Da Xu".

Does this variety have different sizes of whiskers?

I only found out after checking on my phone that golden threadfin bream really does come in different sizes.

The small-whiskered croaker, also known as the yellow-lipped croaker, is a critically endangered species under international Class II protection and a key protected wild animal in China.

The large-whiskered croaker, also known as the "California dog-type yellow croaker" or "Gulf of California stonefish," is an economically important fish species. It is far more abundant than the small-whiskered croaker.

However, due to overfishing, the price of bighead carp maw has skyrocketed.

Xiaomeng understood then that the shop owner was testing the buyer's discernment.

At this moment, the shop owner noticed that Xiaomeng had been staring at the giant fish maw for a long time, so he came over to greet her.

Xiaomeng knew that the item wasn't worth such a high price, so naturally she wouldn't buy it.

I only bought a pound of top-quality red chicken with red beaks, which cost 13,000 yuan.

Seeing that Xiaomeng was quite young, the owner was worried that she would waste such good ingredients. So he insisted on giving her a brochure explaining how to soak fish maw and how to make nourishing soup.

After leaving the soup shop, Xiaomeng didn't go into the dried tangerine peel shop. The dried tangerine peel shop next door was busy unloading goods, so it wasn't a good place to shop.

Xiaomeng was carrying quite a few things, so she decided to go back to find her car.

By the way, my sister and DouDou have returned to Beijing. There are two adults at home, and they consume quite a bit of food every day.

The food I stocked up on last time should be almost used up by now.

Xiaomeng logged onto an organic food sales website in Beijing and started clicking around.