Just such an extremely expensive set of wooden tables and chairs shows that the Duan family attaches great importance to visitors, not to mention the waiters who continue to serve fruits and snacks one after another. Two young and beautiful maids stand by to pour tea.

Shui never left for a moment, and was obviously responsible for the affairs of this table. You must know that no one, including the owner, is equipped with a dedicated waiter service, nor is there a table, only a table about 30 centimeters next to the chair.

The coffee table is just for placing teacups. Comparing the two, the treatment is superior. Look at the location of this table. It is between the judges' seat and the contestant area. It is a proper C position! Who has such a big influence?

Can the Duan family forcefully arrange positions at the risk of offending others? The big guys in the VIP area and the judges' table couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

Not long after, Dai Mingdao and his girlfriends slowly entered the room and each chose a seat at the round table. Uncle Wang, his wife, and Gang did not show up. For them, such a high-profile position was unbearable.

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Some people who knew De Mingdao couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw his face: "Why is it him?"

"Who is he?" People who didn't know him immediately started asking.

"A strange man. It is said that he can sense whether there is jade in the wool as long as he is close to it. Moreover, he is very lucky. The wool he chooses will turn green. Even the young lady of the Duan family is betting with him.

He lost. If he had bet on stones, nothing would happen to us players!" Someone who watched yesterday's bet broke the news.

"Really or not!? Then doesn't he become a being who can do whatever he wants with us?" Everyone was envious after hearing this.

"Absolutely. No wonder even the Duan family wants to fawn over him."

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"Brother Duan, you are really good at it!" Ma Laoer and Feng Laosan both congratulated Mr. Duan. Dai Mingdao's deeds had long been heard in their ears. Unfortunately, they did not have the opportunity to meet him. Now this

The appearance of this strange man here was really beyond their expectation.

"Haha, it's called no acquaintance without fighting. Young people have a common language and it's easy to play together." Mr. Duan responded modestly, but his face was filled with a proud smile.

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At seven o'clock in the evening, deafening firecrackers sounded all around Duan's house, and countless colorful fireworks of different shapes bloomed in the night sky, marking the official start of the Jade Association President Selection Competition.

The first person to stand up was Mr. Duan, the president. He took two steps forward and stood in front of the microphone to give a pre-match speech. The old man summarized the work of the Jade Association in the past five years and wished the selection a complete success. Then came several

Speech by local leaders. De Mingdao was very disgusted with the process of these games. Demingdao took out a piece of wool and started cutting it; the girls even whispered; Meng Yuanyun even started to take a nap.

After the speech, Ma Mingsu, as the organizer of the event, came to the microphone and read out the rules of the competition:

Participants can bring their own wool or use the wool provided by the association for the competition. Once selected, it cannot be changed. For the sake of fairness, all contestants' wool is non-window wool and must be brought to the stage by themselves.

The contestants will cut, design and produce the selected wool. Our judges will select the three most valuable works among all the works as the top three, and their designers will become the chief and deputy directors of the next Jade Association.

President.

The judges' scoring reference standards are those of previous selection competitions. The value of the jadeite itself is 100 points; the design score is 70 points; and the loss score is 30 points. The higher the quality and larger the jadeite, the greater the value score.

High; the more exquisite the designed style, the higher the design score; the less the loss during the engraving process, the higher the loss score. After all the judges give their scores, the highest score and the lowest score will be removed, and the scores given by the remaining judges will be the same.

The total score obtained after adding is the final score.

Considering that most contestants are not good at cutting and making, the organizer specially invited professional stone cutters and carving masters to provide services for them. If the contestants' design drawings are too complex and the production cannot be completed within the specified time, then

The design drawing shall prevail; if it is found that the design drawing does not match the jadeite in hand, the design points and loss points will be zero.

After Ma Lingsu announced the rules of the competition, he immediately announced that the competition had officially begun.

Many contestants in the field stood up one after another, rushing to hold the woolen materials in their hands and ran to the contestant display stands on the east and west sides, as if they had suffered a loss if they came on stage late. All contestants chose to bring their own woolen materials and provide official information to the contestants.

The woolen material is disdainful.

"He acts recklessly, behaves rudely, has no sense of the overall situation, and is just a mediocre person." The three presidents shook their heads as they looked at these young people rushing to come to the stage, took a sip of tea from their teacups, and then began to inquire about each other's successors.

People.

"Brother Duan, where is your girl Yuhan? Why didn't I see her show up?" Ma Linsu asked.

"That girl started accompanying Mr. Lin Chong to Myanmar yesterday and hasn't returned yet. I asked Mr. Lin Chong just now and he said that girl Yuhan went to help him with important things and will be there soon.

Come back without delaying things." Mr. Duan chuckled.

Ma and Feng glanced at each other, said "Oh" and did not continue to ask.

"Second brother, what is your apprentice Bai Su busy with? Why haven't I seen him arrive all day?" Mr. Duan took another sip of tea and asked seemingly casually.

"Isn't he busy with this trial? I'm seventy-five years old, how can I withstand such back and forth? The preparations for today's event were all arranged by that kid Bai Su. What a formidable young man!" Ma

A happy smile appeared on Lingsu's face.

"Your apprentice is great, and my apprentice is not bad either! In just half a day, he informed all the matters about the temporary selection competition. Otherwise, how could there be so many people participating tonight, and how could there be so many people watching? Brother Duan's

The birthday can be so colorful, and my warm apprentice is indispensable!" Feng Zijie said unconvinced.

"You apprentices can do it all. Compared with your two families, only Yu Ting and Yu Han of my huge Duan family can stand on the stage. The others are either playboys or already married. If I leave again one day, it will be really embarrassing.

We know what will happen to our Duan family..." Mr. Duan suddenly sighed and said with a sad face.

"Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Brother Duan, why do you care so much?! What's more, both of our apprentices like your girl Yuhan. No one in the entire Tengchong realm doesn't know about it. This is a sure-profit business.

Why are you sighing?" Ma and Feng rolled their eyes at Mr. Duan, and murmured resentfully: "Those two things always run to your Duan house when they have nothing to do. We, the masters, have never seen them so attentive.

I feel really unfair in my heart!"

"This is where the problem lies." Mr. Duan sighed again and said: "After all, we all grew up wearing the same pair of pants. Although we often didn't deal with them and had many fights since we were young, after decades of

There is still some affection. Now that your two apprentices have fallen in love with our girl Yuhan at the same time, what do you think I should do with the relationship between the three of them? Let's promise girl Yuhan to one of them, and the other one.

One of them will definitely not be convinced, this is really a dilemma!”

"Hey!" After hearing this, the two of them sighed and became silent.

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As pieces of wool turned into powder or emeralds in the hands of the stone-cutting masters, the crowd watching at the gate sometimes shook their heads and sighed, sometimes screamed and cheered, and seemed more excited than the players on the field.

Meng Yuanyun woke up when the contestants came on the stage. At this time, she opened her eyes wide and scanned the two display stands. She hugged Dai Mingdao's arm and asked excitedly: "Brother Mingdao, what do you mean?

Who will win this trial?"

"It's still unclear. However, as the three giants of the Tengchong Jade Association, the Duan family, the Ma family and the Feng family are definitely stronger than the average person. If nothing else happens, the top three in this selection should be among them.

It's produced inside." De Mingdao touched his chin and analyzed.

"What's so interesting about a game like this that has no suspense?" An held her chin in one hand and stuffed a piece of watermelon into her mouth with the other, looking uninterested. The other girls felt the same way and nodded in agreement with An's point of view.

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"Hey, you guys!" Dai Mingdao looked like he hated iron, and reminded him earnestly: "Don't underestimate those who participate in the competition just because I can detect whether there is jade in the wool. You need to know this.

The skills of identifying stones are the valuable experience accumulated by their ancestors for generations, and they have certain scientific principles."

"When I encounter a cheat like you, no matter how strong my experience is, it will be of no use. All that's left is just to increase my sadness." Li Lifei joked as she took a sip of tea.

"There is a world outside the sky, and there are people outside the world. Don't underestimate other people, otherwise you will suffer a lot sooner or later!"

"Okay, we get it!" Mu Xiaodie hurriedly stopped Dai Mingdao's tirade and complained: "Since you have reached the qi training stage, you have always been talking about these principles, and our ears can hear it.

The calluses are here.”

"Okay, okay, I won't talk about it, let's watch the show." Dai Mingdao changed the subject and said: "The group that went up just now were all minions, and not many of the materials they brought were green, so it's not as good as the official

The materials provided are reliable. I think they are relying on luck. You see, the two handsome guys in the audience are the ones with real talent and knowledge. I just felt that they

The two pieces on hand are rare and top-quality goods, even I can’t help but be tempted..."

"Are you going to disrupt this selection? That's not a wise choice!" Li Lifei's heart began to beat wildly when she heard Dai Mingdao's words, and she quickly spoke to stop him.

"How can I be so mercenary? After all, Mr. Duan sent his granddaughter to take us around Myanmar, and we gained so many good things. He also arranged for us to watch the selection nearby. It would be too ungrateful for us to burn bridges like this.

Come on! Who do you think I am?" Dai Mingdao glanced sideways at Li Lifei and covered his chest with one hand as if in pain.

"You won't be tempted by the best treasure so close at hand? I don't believe it!" Li Lifei had already seen through everything, shaking her head in disbelief.

Dai Mingdao did not speak, but quietly gave Li Lifei a thumbs up.

"Look, look! It's green over there! And the color seems to be very good!" Suddenly, someone at the gate exclaimed.

People who eat melons take a closer look, right? A stone-cutting master is concentrating on cutting a piece of wool. A window has been opened in one corner of the wool, revealing an almost transparent structure. From a distance, this transparent part appears almost glass-like.

The color reflects a dazzling luster under the spotlight in the front yard.

"Glass type! At least he's ice type! Who is this young man? He's crazy now!" Many people struggled to move their eyes away from the rough stone and focused on a short figure next to the stone calculator master.

superior.

The figure looked to be about 1.6 meters tall, wearing a black duckbill hat, a black mask on his face, a set of black casual clothes, and a pair of black sneakers. The whole body except

It's all black except for a few logos, which makes it look full of mystery.

"Look, the back of the rough stone is green and transparent. The north and south are transparent! Wow, such a large piece is almost entirely jade. How much is it worth!"

"It's a sky-high price, it's definitely a sky-high price for jadeite! This is currently the most expensive piece of jadeite. I hope other parts will turn green!"

"Quickly sharpen the edge, quicken the sharpening!" The onlookers cheered and shouted, and the rhythm gradually changed from scattered to neat.

The stone master did not live up to expectations and began to sharpen the edges in circles.

"Green...green...green..." The mood of the onlookers became even higher. Many people even stood on tiptoes and pressed their whole bodies on the people in front. They looked obsessed and kept shouting.

Amid the exclamations and shouts of the onlookers, this piece of jade gradually revealed its full appearance - a glass type, rice dumpling-shaped, fist-sized piece of jade. Except for a few white spots in one corner, the rest of the jade was completely crystal clear.

Transparent, it is a rare piece of quality!

The master of stone analysis carefully placed the piece of glass jade on the plate beside him, and then left his workbench. The man wrapped in black clothes thanked the master of stone analysis, carefully picked up the plate and put the treasure on it.

Move it to the table in the middle of the display stand, then carefully observe the shape of the jadeite, and start preparing for design and carving.
Chapter completed!