"Stone gambling? It's the kind of game in novels where you cut a stone to see if there is any jade in it?"
Bai Ling hadn't seen that one yet, she just thought that it would be very interesting to cut out beautiful jade from stones.
"That's right, that's the one. My uncle said that there will be three types of gambling stones on the spot that day. One is semi-gambling. The window has been cut to confirm that there is jade in it. I just don't know how big the jade is and what its quality is. This kind of price is high, it depends on the performance, and there is another kind that is calculated by weight, ranging from 10,000 to 200,000 kilograms, and there is the bad-looking leftovers from the mining, two hundred yuan For one dollar, it will be given to the female companions brought by the guests or the juniors at home to play with, we can’t afford expensive ones, and two hundred stones a piece can always be played.”
Zhang Zhi knew that Yan's family and Bai's family opened a stewed meat shop with good business, so the breakfast cart of Yan's family was closed long ago, and the supermarket of Bai's family was sold out early in the morning. Now the two families Concentrate on the lo-mei restaurant, earn a lot of money, and don't lack money at all.
In the past, she would never talk to Bai Ling about this kind of money-burning game, but now that Bai Ling and Yan Chu are in a bad situation, it doesn't hurt much to cut a two-hundred-dollar stone.
Besides, betting on stones is so exciting. It is also very interesting for them not to play but to watch others cut.
These days, studying is so tense every day, and I need to relax.
"Yan Chu—"
Hearing Bai Ling's protracted tone, Yan Chu knew that the other party's heart was moved. For those who had never been in contact with stone gambling, they would indeed be curious about this kind of activity. Yan Chu knew that Bai Ling's temperament was definitely not that kind. People who would be addicted to this kind of gambling game agreed without hesitation.
The originally planned itinerary for the New Year's Day off day was to go to the city library. As compensation for breaking the contract, Yan Chu put all the carrots in his bowl into Bai Ling's bowl.
In fact, he doesn't really like carrots either.
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"Is this the place to gamble on stones?"
Bai Ling took Zhang Zhi's hand and looked at this big empty room with only people and stones.
The place where the stones are placed is set up in a factory building. The semi-finished woolen materials are carefully placed on the shelves, and the other woolen materials are piled on the ground according to the price. It looks no different from ordinary stones.
Yan Chu had also come into contact with gambling stones before, but most of them were because of entertainment, and he was not familiar with gambling stones at all. After entering this factory, he had been standing behind Bailing on the left. The location, followed by the two of them did not express any opinions.
When they arrived at the scene, many people had already started picking out their favorite stones. It was not a bidding rule, just pick out if they liked it. According to the rules of betting on stones, other people could no longer pick that stone unless The person who originally picked him chose to give up automatically.
"You are Zhizhi's friends, that is my juniors. You can pick any stones worth 200 yuan and treat them as gifts from my uncle. If you like other stones, you will get a 20% discount. Don't be polite to my uncle."
Zhang Zhi's uncle is a chubby middle-aged man who looks like Maitreya Buddha, with curved eyebrows, big nose and thick lips, long and round earlobes hanging down, twirling a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, wearing a Tang suit, looking like The kind of look that makes people very close.
However, those who are engaged in the stone gambling business have some skills, and they will definitely not be as harmless as he shows.
"It's green!"
Just when Bai Ling was about to refuse, a burst of exclamation suddenly came from the place where the stone was cut.
"Looks like a jackpot, let's go and see my brother-in-law."
Not long after this started, someone had already cut out the green, which proved that the quality of this batch of stones was high, and I thought I would definitely make a lot of money today.
Uncle Zhang Zhi rubbed his beer belly, his eyes narrowed into slits with a smile.
The three children curiously followed Uncle Zhang Zhi into the crowd, and more than half of the stone had been cut out.
"Dig it all out."
The owner of this stone is also in a good mood. He spent 200,000 yuan to buy this stone. Judging from the current performance, although the quality of the jade is not the best, it is just that the bean species is more ice-like, but the color is good, and the jade The material is big, if you hire an experienced master, it is enough to take out a lot of pairs of tables and jade pendant noodles, and if you calculate it, you can always sell it for six to seven hundred thousand.
"I'll offer half a million, sell this piece of material to me."
"You're not guilty of saying that. I'll offer five hundred and fifty thousand. Sell this piece of material to me."
Before all the jade was dug out, the jewelers onlookers had already started bidding.
"I still want to see what this piece of jade will look like after it's all cut out. I'm sorry everyone." The owner of the jade gave everyone a hand. Anyway, so much jade has been cut out, and it is absolutely impossible to lose money. , he also wanted to take a gamble to see how big this piece of jade was.
"Yo, it's an ice species."
The whole piece of jade is completely cut out of the stone, and near the end, it becomes more transparent, the impurities inside are reduced, and there is a faint texture of glass.
Ice seeds are much more valuable than bean seeds. The size of that piece of ice seed jade is as big as a fist. Just such a big jade is enough to double the size of this piece of jade.
"I'll offer 800,000."
"one million."
"One hundred thousand."
The bidders immediately began to bid. Now that good jade is becoming more and more difficult to come by, many jewelers are bound to get such a large piece of ice jade.
In the end, this piece of jade was auctioned off by a jeweler in Lin Province for 1,000,000 yuan.
Bai Ling felt that she was already a big deal when she sold a jade hairpin for 180,000 yuan, but after cutting a stone, she sold it directly for 1,000,000 yuan, which is nothing short of trivial.
Originally, she didn't plan to buy stones for cutting for fun today, but suddenly she had an urge to follow Zhang Zhi to the pile of stones worth two hundred yuan.
"The two of us bought a piece together, and it won't be so distressing if we lose it."
Bai Ling is still a budget-conscious girl at heart. Although her family's financial level has skyrocketed and her pocket money has risen from two hundred yuan a month to one thousand yuan a month, she still maintains her previous spending habits.
Buying a stone for two hundred yuan, Bai Ling used to dare not even dream about it, but the atmosphere at the scene was too contagious, coupled with the temptation of the example of earning more than one million yuan just now, she couldn't help being moved .
She knew that it was more likely that these stones were only stones. If both of them bought a stone, they would lose four hundred yuan. Why not buy them together? Even if they lost money, each of them would lose money. One hundred yuan seems to be acceptable.
Bai Ling dragged Yan Chu to discuss this question, and from the beginning to the end, she had no intention of taking what Uncle Zhang Zhi said just now to cut two hundred stones at will.
"After all, this is gambling. You can't be addicted, you know. Regardless of whether the jade is cut out or not, we will play this time."
Bai Ling said this to Yan Chu, and also to herself.
"Bai Ling, hurry up and choose."
Zhang Zhi just came to join in the fun, so he didn't run to the expensive stones, but also rummaged through piles of two hundred yuan that looked ordinary.
They can't understand anything like leather locks, and they can see stones only by the feel of their hands and the edge of their eyes.
The experience of buying a stone for 200 yuan was still very magical to Bai Ling, looking at the pile of stones, he was a little confused.
"What do you think of that piece, round like a watermelon?"
Bai Ling pointed to a stone and asked Yan Chu.
"It's not good, it's so cold now, it's not the time to eat watermelon, it's wrong." She said to herself again and rejected her proposal.
"The one in the shape of a gourd seems to be good too."
"And that one, it looks like a banana."
It's good to look at this, and it's wonderful to look at that, Bai Ling hesitated for a while.
"How about we buy a few more dollars?"
Apart from buying textbooks, Yan Chu didn't have any other expenses for the pocket money given by his parents, and he was saving them all, so seeing that Bailing couldn't choose which one to buy, Yan Chu suggested it.
"How is this possible?"
Bai Ling gave Yan Chu a serious look: "It's wrong to be addicted to gambling, let's just buy one, and just this time, you are not allowed to play these secretly in the future, you know? Otherwise, I will confiscate your small treasury .”
Gambling is a terrible thing. Bai Ling felt that Yan Chu's willpower was a bit weak, so he must take good care of his small treasury in the future.
Yan Chu, who was once again despised by his little girlfriend, touched his nose. It was better for him to keep silent.
"Or just that one."
After entanglement and entanglement, Bai Ling still pointed to the watermelon-shaped stone that she had her eyes on first, because that stone was the largest in the pile of 200 yuan, and it seemed worthwhile to buy it for 200 yuan.
After getting Yan Chu's consent, Bai Ling walked over through the gap between the stones, intending to pick up the stone, but this time her hand inexplicably turned again, and placed a slightly square stone on the side of the watermelon stone superior.
Bai Ling always felt that this kind of thing had happened before, even when she bought that jade hairpin, she didn't go for that jade hairpin in the first place.
By coincidence, Bai Ling picked up the stone, thinking that maybe it was her fate with the stone.
"I want this stone."
With a somewhat unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar voice, Bai Ling raised her head and saw a man in a suit and leather shoes talking while pointing at the stone in her hand.
Zhang Zifan didn't recognize Yan Chu and his party. To him, this was just a passer-by in his life, and he didn't need to keep it in mind.
Today is the day when his nominal fiancée, Bai Fumei Jiang Qiao, one of the former male protagonists in the harem, finally agrees to his invitation to participate in this stone betting meeting with him. Zhang Zifan has already decided to show his strength today.
In the past six months, and with that ability, he has picked up a lot of leaks, but he is not like the hero. Every time he picks up things, they are all national treasures. Most of the antiques he picks up are more than a dozen. Tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands are not considered a lot of wealth to the Zhang family.
However, he has indeed gained a good reputation in the antique circle. This time, he was recommended by an old man in the antique circle to gamble on stones.
Zhang Zifan’s number of treasure appraisals per day has increased from six or seven times at the beginning to twelve times now. It is not a skill to extract jade from high-quality stones. He firmly believes that the real protagonist is to find treasures from those worthless materials. of.
Therefore, before coming here, Zhang Zifan decided that he would use eight of the twelve treasure opportunities to appraise the pile of jade materials worth 200 yuan. Hey, he must be able to make the other party fall in love with him.
What Bai Ling picked up was the one that Zhang Zifan had just appraised, but who would have thought that before he got the piece of jade, Bai Ling would grab it first.
Not only the voice is familiar, but the appearance is also very familiar.
Bai Ling thought carefully, isn't this the stupid second generation who insisted on buying their hosta last time? For some reason, seeing the other party appear, Bai Ling felt that the stone in her arms was a treasure.