"Out of every hundred mussels, only one can produce pearls."

The mussel seller wore a dirty turban, and a rough, cheap kimono was draped over him like a rag.

He yelled on the dirt street where the townspeople often walked, and brought out boxes of fresh mussels from the eel-bed-like town house, and stacked them on the side of the dirt street, wiped his wet hands on the paper undergarments, and shook his feet Shake the water-soaked sandals dry.

"But the mussels in my family are different. There is one in every ten."

The peddler solicited from passers-by, "I got the mussel seeds and the secret method of raising mussels from the Qing Dynasty. The pearl oysters raised by this secret method can produce ten times more pearls than other mussels."

These words successfully caused pedestrians to stop and surrounded the mussels.The already narrow dirt street was even more congested.

"Today is the day I opened Clam Cooked, so I would like to celebrate it."

The peddler patted the mussels piled higher than one person, "There are five stacks of mussels here, and the number is a hundred. According to this calculation, ten of the mussels here are mother-of-pearls. So here I am. Set a little game..."

He made a special pause, "You designate the clam, and I will open the clam on the spot. Pay attention, each person only has one chance to designate."

"If there are pearls in the shell, then not only will the pearls belong to you, but you will also get a chance to continue specifying for free. As the seller, I will give you ten catties of river mussels; but if there are no pearls, you have to give me one hundred coins open clam fee."

The onlookers were in an uproar.

In the Edo period, pearls were extremely valuable and were rare tributes. Only the princes and samurai were eligible to wear pearls.The price of a single pearl is 20 small pennies, which can buy enough rice to feed a grown man for [-] years.

One hundred pennies is indeed expensive, but if there is only one pearl, the buyer will get rich overnight.

What a good way to do a lottery promotion.

"Wait a moment."

Lin Qingquan walked out from the crowd, stepped on the wet mud with light wooden clogs, fanned the paper fan in his hand, and asked the peddler, "If I open two mother-of-pearl shells in a row, can I open a third one for free? "

"It's really not easy for you to open the female shell. There is still a slight possibility of two. But three, it is impossible." The peddler said, "However, if you are really lucky to open multiple female shells, I will naturally fulfill the contract, and there will be a lot of mussels that should be given as gifts."

Lin Qingquan smiled, "That's good. I'll come first."

All the mussels were dumped on the ground and lined up neatly like balloon targets for designated opening.

The mussel is as big as a fist, and there are circles of lines on the pitch-black shell.Some lively mussels stick out their slippery tongues a little.

The appearance of mother-of-pearl oysters and ordinary river mussels is the same, and it is impossible to distinguish them from the appearance alone. Buyers choose blindly by chance.

Lin Qingquan quickly designated a mussel.

This river mussel is confined with double shells, and its appearance is unremarkable.The peddler glanced at it and became a little complacent. He touched some clam shells with his dirty black fingernails, "I heard that mussels that are good at spitting are more likely to have pearls. I'm afraid you will give me a hundred coins."

Lin Qingquan said with a smile: "It doesn't matter whether you have pearls or not, the important thing is to help you have fun."

The peddler skillfully pried it open with a knife, his face changed.

The tender yellow flesh is still moving, and three pearls are impressively wrapped under the shell membrane.

"...Luck is really good. The first one is mother-of-pearl. Please continue to specify."

Lin Qingquan squatted in front of the clam pile, poked a few dull mussels with his fan bone, and picked out the second one.

After the peddler pried it open, he couldn't hold back the stiff smile on his face, "The second one... there are also five of them!"

Lin Qingquan shook the paper fan with a smile, "Since you said that you have fulfilled the contract, let's continue to open it."

As a result, ten river mussels opened their doors wide open, and dozens of pearls shone like rainbows through the thin shell membranes under the scorching hot noon sun like an inverted desert.

He opened ten of them, and all of them had pearls.

The crowd of onlookers exclaimed, after watching the bustle, they dispersed and returned to the crowded and lively town people's street.Such tricks of merchants are no longer new in Townman Street.

People in bathrobes coming home from the baths walked with the vendors doing the dirty work.Edo people like leisure but not hard work.There is only a paper door between the covered sushi shop and the fish slaughtering site; the natto man carries a burden and sells a box of salmon; the kamayaki eel made by the shirtless vendor on the stone oven costs only [-] yuan.The wind blows through the narrow and deep streets with the smell of hot rice with various flavors.

The hawker stood in the wind full of rice fragrance, and everyone was dumbfounded.

All the mother shells were picked away, and the remaining [-] common river mussels lost the qualifications for the high-priced lottery.

This meant that he lost all his money, and even had to pay a hundred catties of mussels, and even lost his family fortune.

"You...how did you tell?" The peddler grabbed Lin Qingquan who was picking out pearls and putting them into cloth bags, his eyes were red.

"I can tell."

"It's a lie... the mussels are all similar in appearance, how can you tell from the outside?!"

"It's true." Lin Qingquan put away the cloth bag, bent down and picked out a still ordinary mussel from the clam pile, weighed it twice, and stuffed it into the vendor's hand.

"Actually, your pearl production rate is higher than you think. Among the one hundred mussels, there are eleven mother-of-pearl oysters. I will take ten of them, and I will leave the most valuable one to you. It There are nine pearls inside, three of which are purple, which are quite precious, and the money you sell is enough for you to donate to the daimyo in exchange for the right to use the surname. Oh yes..."

Lin Qingquan continued: "You have to be mentally prepared when you open it, there are several parasites inside."

The peddler opened the clam with trembling hands, and the situation inside the clam was exactly what Lin Qingquan said.

He was frightened, "You, how do you know?"

"It's still the same sentence, I can see it."

"Impossible..." The vendor looked into his eyes.

Those eyes were black and white, and the pupils could not be seen clearly. The pupils were bigger and darker than ordinary people, and the faint images had no bottom. No matter from any angle, they did not have the brilliance that people should have, just like sculptures of white resin and obsidian.

The peddler subconsciously uttered a word, "Monster...monster!"

One hundred catties of mussels loaded a whole bullock cart.

The ox cart was pulled by the driver, and Lin Qingquan sat on the back of the ox, holding a paper package of tempura shrimp.

When the fried shrimp in the paper bag was exhausted, the bullock cart also came to the door of the house.

"The fourth generation has become a monster!"

"Nonsense! The fourth generation's eyes are just a little strange, so how can they become monsters!"

"This morning, he asked me if I had a crooked tooth on my lower right jaw, and said it was called an impacted tooth. You said, he seemed to have opened his eyes and could see the teeth through his face. Who else but monsters can do it?"

"Hey, the eyes of the fourth generation are really strange. How sharp and scary."

Across a bluestone wall, the chatter of servants came in verbatim.

They were preparing to cook, and while they were talking, they beat the rice into rice cakes with a stone mortar.The aroma of fried tofu and fried black rice wafted from the small window of the kitchen. The aroma passed through the green maple leaves and over the bluestone wall to farther places.

"Tell me, when did the fourth generation's eyes become like this?"

"Perhaps... it was a surprise attack. Half a month ago, the fourth generation was assassinated. When he was discovered, his face was covered in blood holes, especially his eyes were gouged out, and even the eyelids were gone. That terrifying look Whoever sees who is afraid..."

"You really know how to exaggerate. The fourth generation has perfect facial features. How can a person whose eyes have been gouged out grow back a pair of perfect new eyes?!"

"That's the truth. Let me tell you, not only did the fourth generation regenerate their eyes, but the wounds on their faces healed very well, leaving no scars, and even the shattered bones have grown back as before, and their appearance has not changed at all. But since growing With new eyes, his vision becomes unhuman."

"This is really a bizarre and strange story..."

Lin Qingquan jumped off the bullock cart, gave the money, and heard the servants chatting through the low bluestone wall.

"What? So you were talking about things that can only be said when the master is not at home." Lin Qingquan was talking to himself in the corner.

He is the fourth generation.

To be more precise, it was the fourth generation whose eyes had been gouged out.

It has been almost four months since he traveled to this island country in the Edo period.

In this world, his identity is a doctor.

Coincidentally, this doctor's name is Xiaolin Qingquan, only one more letter than Lin Qingquan.

Kobayashi Qingquan was born in a family of doctors who have run a medium-sized medical center for generations.Because he is the fourth generation of the family, the servants respectfully call him "Fourth Generation".

Who am I?

In the half month since the soul transmigration, Lin Qingquan asked himself many times.

However, no matter how he thought about it, apart from knowing that his name was Lin Qingquan, other problems were unsolvable.

"Don't you really think that the fourth generation is a monster? He can see through people's bodies..."

"Hush, keep your voice down, you can't talk nonsense."

"By the way, have you seen the eyes of the fourth generation?"

"No. I'm a foreign servant, so I don't have the opportunity to get close to the fourth generation."

"Then listen to me: the fourth generation's eyes turned black..."

"You can tell a joke. Aren't everyone's eyes black?"

"It's not the normal black. It's that... the breathtaking black, like two deep pools of stagnant water. No matter what angle the light shines on, his eyes will not shine. Once you look at him, You can't help but freeze, your mind goes blank, and your soul seems to be sucked away by his eyes. Usually you wake up after a while, and then break out in a cold sweat, as if you have walked through the gate of hell."

"Is it so evil? No wonder the servants are talking about..."

"say what?"

"Say the fourth generation can eat people!"

"This……"

"Think about it, after the attack, the fourth generation's temperament changed drastically. From then on, people in the city began to disappear for no reason, including a servant of our family. Sigh... let's not talk about it, just talk about it behind my back The master who eats and drinks will probably be punished, my stomach hurts..."

Lin Qingquan suddenly appeared like a ghost, "In your stomach, half-digested orange slices and unchewed minced meat are mixed together, can it not hurt?"

The servant turned pale with fright, knelt down with a plop, clasped his hands on his knees, bent his back to the lowest level, and made a standard apology.

"Sorry! Fourth generation!"

"Are you so nervous?" Lin Qingquan said, "Your diaphragm hiccupped five times in a row."

The servant became even more nervous when he heard this, "I was wrong! We shouldn't talk about the master. I'm really sorry!""

In the field of vision, a bloody body is lying low.A total of 206 bones in the human body are connected to each other, and the movements of kowtow and muscles cooperate with each other.The blood flowed non-stop, the heart and countless arteries were pulsating, and the viscera and organs were crowded and piled up in the abdominal cavity.He can even see the stapes, the smallest bone in the human body, less than 4 millimeters long in the human ear.

Yes.Lin Qingquan can look inside.

As long as you fix your eyes for a while, you can see through the clothes and skin, go straight to the flesh, bones and internal organs, and see the inside of the living body.

Heartbeat, gastrointestinal motility, kidney urination... the delicate and complex physiological phenomena of the human body are all clear at a glance.

Just like doing a color ultrasound, all living things shed their skins, and they are displayed in his eyes like the living body structure diagrams posted in medical schools.

This was originally the ability of the magic tire.

But from now on it will belong to Lin Qingquan.

——Outsiders only say that the eyes of the fourth generation are strange stories, which were cut out by a knife and then re-grow a pair.

Only Lin Qingquan knew that a few days after his soul piercing, a ray of magic tire penetrated into his head, wiped away the bacteria and carrion left by the knife wound, and at that moment formed normal-looking eyes, which settled in the eye sockets. The self-healing power allowed his facial injuries to recover perfectly in a very short period of time.

And the magic fetus will live together with the host as a foreign parasite in the future.

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The author has something to say:

Thank you for your eyes!This book is set in the Edo period, but it will not be a heavy historical theme, I hope it can be written more flexibly~

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