Chapter 32
But the amount of 2 million is still a bit far away. In the end, I looked at five stores in a row, but none of them could reach one thousand. In the end, we gave up. If we wanted to make the remaining one million, we had to think of another way.
Standing on the road, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was about to set, and the three of us sat on the flower table again. There was an extra black box than when we came out, and the bonuses we received from the scratch prize today.
Suddenly I had an idea and learned from it. I thought of another way - gambling on stones.
When Luo Jiahao said this, he looked puzzled, although I also heard it from other old people. In the flea market in Dongcheng, there is an activity called "Gambling stones". It depends purely on the eyes of these enthusiasts. If you look at it, you will get rich and lose money when you see it.
This gambling stone is a term in the jewelry industry. It refers to the fact that after some jade is mined, it is wrapped in a layer of weathered skin. It is impossible to know the quality of the jade. This gambling stone has many tests. The first is the ability to challenge, the second is the spirit of adventure, and the third and most important is rich experience. In this industry, there is very little luck. Some people get rich overnight, and some people lose everything.
It is half an hour's drive from the city center to Dongcheng. We all looked through a large number of jade pictures and many jadeites sold at auctions provided by Luo Jiahao. We have done our homework.
On the taxi, the driver heard that we were going to Dongcheng to bet on stones, so he said a few more words. He was very poor at the time and picked up a stone on the river beach. It looked extremely inconspicuous. Later, when he opened a jewelry store, he drove it out and it turned out to be a piece of jade seed material. After buying it, he got hundreds of thousands of yuan. His family's life was a little easier. However, online car-hailing has become more popular in the past two years, and their taxi business has become much deserted.
We got out of the car, and several fiery red typings hung at the gate of "Hengyang Dongcheng Jewelry Market", and three of us walked in. Perhaps because Uncle Bi Shuo was there, a black cloak followed us, and the people next to us did not dare to provoke us. The stall owners of the stalls saw that we were a little less voice, and a group of eyes stared at us and the black boxes in the hands of Uncle Bi Shuo, with little thoughts in their hearts.
Luo Jiahao was beating in his heart. He had only participated in auctions before and had only heard of this gambling stone. We didn't know what would happen here. As soon as I opened my spiritual sense, most of the stones on the nearby stall were very ordinary stones, with one or two green in the middle, but they were not as big as my little finger.
I looked at the stalls on the street where I entered the door, but I didn’t find any good stones. Luo Jiahao looked at me and shook his head and was covered with dense beads of sweat. It was so nervous that the child came to the second street again. There were more people buying stones on this street than before, and there were talking and laughing.
There was a tall man who had a conflict with the stall owner at the stall. The voice was loud. We heard it as soon as we arrived at this street. While listening, we probably knew the reason for their quarrel. The man bought a stone here yesterday and bought a guaranteed price of 3,000 yuan, which means that if the stone cannot be opened, the stall owner will compensate the man for the three thousand yuan. As a result, the jade was opened, but the jade was only the size of a thumb and there were cracks on it. It would be lucky to be able to buy hundreds or thousands of yuan.
Uncle Bi Shuo and I ignored these two people, but Luo Jiahao was already sweating profusely, and after hearing this, I felt cold sweat on my back. I picked up the stones on the stall with my left hand and the thumb-sized flashlight in my right hand, pretending to watch them repeatedly. These techniques were learned on TV.
The second street was almost over. I hadn't noticed the size of a fist. Luo Jiahao was still standing next to me and gestured with a flashlight. Although he didn't say it, he was still anxious.
At this moment, a man walked towards us, not less than 1.7 meters tall, but he was definitely one hundred and seventy, with a fat head and big ears. He looked like he didn't look like a good person. He was carrying a string of green jade bracelets on his left hand and two big walnuts in his right hand, and traversing them back and forth hard. Looking at his age, he was probably in his forties.
The fat man's face kept a smile on his face, and said to us with a smile: "I think the few are not people who are short of money. The stones outside are all based on luck. I think you have been going all the way. I know that the ones you are not looking for are not these small seeds and materials. Why not go inside with me?"
I was worried that I could not find a good jade, but the fat man threw out an olive branch, so I agreed. With Uncle Bi Shuo, I was afraid of something. If he dared to have any bad ideas, Uncle Bi Shuo could bring him down in a few seconds. After comforting Luo Jiahao, we followed the fat man and came to an ancient building under an ancient style. This building has three floors and is decorated magnificently.
The fat man spoke: "The first floor of Jubao Pavilion is provided to stone gambling enthusiasts like the outside, but the difference from the outside is that the stones here are selected layer by layer to ensure that jade can be opened. If they cannot be opened, we will not charge you directly, and we will give you a stone for free. The second and third floors are the famous "Xuan Gu Auction", and there are so many items sold at a price of hundreds of millions of yuan every year."
After saying that, Fatty brought me to the lobby on the first floor and told us that there are four rooms on this floor, "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang". Each room can produce good jade in different degrees. The most amazing thing is that the stones in the room of Tianzi are all selected by experts, and the discipline of being able to produce top-quality jade is the greatest. After introducing these, Fatty said that an auction was being prepared above, let us watch it first, he will be lost for a while.
Instead of going to the Tianzi room directly, we chose the Dizi room a little bit later and walked in. As soon as I opened my spiritual sense, I took a fancy to the second stone placed on the bottom floor of the glass cabinet at first sight. The jade in this stone must be as big as my fist, and this stone is also extremely large, so I almost caught up with the football.
I asked the waitress to show me the stone, and they were also vague, wearing white gloves and giving me the stone. I held the flashlight for half a day. In order not to attract the attention of others next to me, I asked her to take a few smoother and smaller stones one after another, and also fiddled with them for a long time.
At this time, a man next to me asked about the price of the big stone I liked. How could I give it to him? Before the waiter could tell the price, I blurted out six words: "I want this stone."
The man was dissatisfied and said to me: "I said, "Mr., this stone is the price I asked first? Besides, this stone is so big that when the flashlight shines, the light cannot penetrate into it. It looks like it is not a good stone."
"Then don't snatch it with me. This stone is the first one I saw when I entered the door. I was too lazy to pick it up. I really want it. I want it." After that, I hugged the big stone in my arms.
Chapter completed!