Chapter 29: The Gambling Stone (I)
Zhou Ming's words made Lin Muqing stunned: "The money in the bank, are you going to take out all the money in the stock market?"
Zhou Ming shook his head and said no, which made Lin Muqing and the second monk puzzled: "Then where did you get the money to help me buy clothes? Could it be that you can still change money out of thin air like Sun Wukong?"
Zhou Ming laughed and said, "Sister Mu Qing, of course I am not Sun Wukong, and I don't know the seventy-two changes of spells like him, but I have a way to multiply the thousands of yuan in our hands by at least ten times." ”
"Are you kidding?" Lin Muqing said in surprise, "How can you raise your money for no reason?"
"Sister Mu Qing, let me ask you what day is today?" Zhou Ming asked.
"Today is the eighth day of August, the fourteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, what's wrong?" Lin Muqing said strangely, Lin Muqing didn't understand that he was obviously asking him how he raised the money, why did he ask what day of the month was today? What does it matter? Could it be that he looked at the yellow calendar when he went out, and knew that if he went out today, he would be able to pick up a large amount of money?
Zhou Ming was about to say something, when the waitress came over: "Are you planning to buy clothes, are you going to buy clothes?
The waiter's tone was a little contemptuous and impatient when he spoke, but Zhou Ming didn't care: "Help me wrap up the two clothes just now, I went out to pick up the money, and I paid to buy it when I came back." ”
After speaking, Zhou Ming ignored the waiter's reaction, and pulled Lin Muqing out of the mall, Lin Muqing was very cooperative and said no, until he got out of the mall, he couldn't help but ask Zhou Ming: "Are you really going to pick up money?"
"Of course not, Sister Muqing, have you ever heard of gambling stones?" Zhou Ming asked, Lin Muqing's expression was stunned, obviously she didn't know, Zhou Ming then explained to her, "Gambling stones are actually the raw materials for buying jadeite, because the jadeite that has not been processed is wrapped in a layer of weathered skin, and the appearance looks the same as ordinary stones, there is no way to know whether there is jadeite inside, so you can only gamble, so it is called gambling stones." ”
Lin Muqing thought for a moment and said: "Is it that the price of jadeite rough is relatively low, once the bet is right, it will be very profitable, but if the bet is wrong, it will be lost?"
"Sister Mu Qing is so smart, this is a gambling stone. Zhou Ming said, "Tsim Sha Tsui is the largest jade market in the whole port city, and it is a free port with no tariffs, so I think there must be gambling stones here." ”
Lin Muqing didn't know what to say at this time, she didn't expect Zhou Ming's brain to be really hot, and she actually had this plan, she asked, "Then do you know how to gamble stones?"
"When I was a child, an old man in the countryside taught me a little bit about it, and I remember that maybe it could come in handy. ”
After Zhou Ming finished speaking, he couldn't help but pull Lin Muqing and walked to the jade shop on Guangdong Road next to him.
Of course, Zhou Ming wanted to gamble on stones, not because he felt that his luck was so good that he was bursting, but because he suddenly remembered something, that is, he was reading a biography of a jewelry tycoon in Hong Kong City in his previous life, and the jewelry tycoon said that his first pot of gold was obtained by gambling stones in the jade shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, and the time was on the eighth day of August in the solar calendar, that is, today, which is why Zhou Ming asked Lin Muqing what day of the month today.
According to the memory in his mind, Zhou Ming pulled Lin Muqing to find the jade shop in the biography, this is a big jade shop, it seems that it should be the property of a consortium in Hong Kong City, and its reputation is guaranteed. There is a sign hanging at the door of the store, which reads that the jade company has recently shipped a batch of jade wool from Myanmar and wants to hold a gambling stone conference in the store.
A qiē is exactly the same as the description in that biography, Zhou Ming took Lin Muqing to get a number plate at the door and followed the waiter to the scene of the gambling stone conference.
In fact, it is said to be a gambling stone conference, but the form is similar to the roadside stalls, the jade shop puts the jade raw materials on various booths, and all the people who participate in the gambling stone are like buying vegetables in the vegetable market to choose back and forth.
In Zhou Ming's memory, there were indeed a lot of good goods at this gambling stone conference, but even if those jade were wool, they would cost at least tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, and the money in his hand was not enough at all, so Zhou Ming's purpose was only one.
Zhou Ming pulled Lin Muqing directly to the eighteenth booth, which put a piece of jade wool the size of a winter melon, a staff member of the jade shop was introducing next to it: "This is an old pit from the Myanmar Baibi Factory, everyone knows that the Baibi Factory is the earliest mining pit in Myanmar, with a history of two or three hundred years, and the jade produced in it is also of the highest quality, this jade is definitely a good color, everyone sees that there are pine flowers outside this wool, and experienced people will know at a glance that this is the table with jade." ”
"Then you mean that there must be jade in this wool?" asked a middle-aged man.
"I didn't say that," the staff member said, "this boss, since gambling stones is called gambling, that means that no one can guarantee whether the jade can be produced in the stone, but there is no guarantee, this profit is high, do you say?"
The middle-aged man stopped talking, as a veteran of gambling stones, of course he understood that even if this gambling stone was the most experienced jade expert, he couldn't be sure if it could produce jade inside, this was gambling fate.
"The skin of your wool is yellow and gray, and this layer of color looks like it should be the old pit of the Baibi Factory, but the overall surface is too bad, and you can see that there are many cracks on it. Another balding uncle said.
After he reminded him like this, everyone suddenly realized that there were many cracks on the wool, and even the one on the back went deep into the stone, which made many people desperately tiptoe up to see if there was jade in it through the crack, but unfortunately, the crack was not big, and they couldn't see it at all.
Looking at the tables of these people, Zhou Ming smiled in his heart, because even if he showed them the situation inside the crack, it was useless, because the crack was in the middle of the stone, and according to the description in the biography, the location of the jade should be on the right side without pine flowers.
"Big brother, your stone is a little too difficult, there are so many cracks, but you can't see green in each crack, this risk is too great. Another younger gambler shouted.
The staff was still unhurried: "It's because you can't see it, so you need to bet, if you can see the jade through the crack, then what else is there to bet on? Just mark the price directly, do you say yes?"
"And how much do you cost for this wool?" someone asked.
The staff turned the sign that had been placed in front of the wool, 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, this price immediately caused an uproar, it seems that the jade shop also understands that the color of the wool is not very good, and there are so many cracks on it, but there is no trace of jade in these cracks, so in order to buy it, the price is set a little lower.
Seeing this price, Lin Muqing gasped, and she asked Zhou Ming in disbelief: "Is such a broken stone sold for 20,000 Hong Kong dollars?"
"Sister Mu Qing, this is not a broken stone, this is a jade ore mined from a jade mine, but it has not been cut and I don't know if there is jade in it, how big a piece of jade is, so this price is set, otherwise if it is such a big jade, it will be more than 20,000, at least 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. Zhou Ming explained to Lin Muqing.
"What if it's really just a broken stone?" Lin Muqing asked again.
"That's equivalent to 20,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy a broken stone, if each piece of raw material can be opened to the best jade, then it is not called gambling stone, it is because you don't know what is in this stone, this unknown makes people crazy, a knife and a knife, this up and down the ups and downs can be more exciting than stocks. Zhou Ming said, "Otherwise, look at the eyes of these people next to you." ”
Hearing Zhou Ming say this, Lin Muqing appeared, and the eyes of the gamblers around him were staring at the broken stone, as if it was not a stone, but a piece of gold.
At this time, the staff spoke again: "Bosses, according to the rules of our jade shop, 20,000 Hong Kong dollars is just the reserve price, bosses, you can quote at will, and whoever quotes the highest price in the end will belong to whoever pays the wool." ”
Zhou Ming smiled secretly in his heart, it seems that this jade shop can really make money, and even this wool has come up with a bidding procedure, put a reserve price here, and let the gamblers shout up, so that the jade shop will not lose money, and it can make a lot of money if it is not good.
When Zhou Ming was thinking, there were already people shouting prices at the scene, after all, everyone is here to gamble on stones, and this piece of wool is also from the wool of the best Baibi factory in Myanmar's eight old factories, it is worth gambling, maybe you can earn tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars if you are lucky, and everyone is also an experienced gambler.
With this in mind, the price of this piece of wool was soon shouted to 50,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Looking at the fanatical expressions of the gamblers around her, Lin Muqing said to Zhou Ming: "Are these people crazy? ”
They all hope to buy this stone, hoping that a large piece of jade can come out of this stone, and even if he doesn't produce a whole piece of jade, he can earn tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars if half of the jade is produced. Zhou Ming explained, "But looking at so many cracks on this stone, and there is no jade in these cracks, even gamblers will not pay too high a price, and 50,000 Hong Kong dollars should be the top." ”
Sure enough, Zhou Ming's words were finished, and the surroundings that were noisy just now suddenly quieted down, and in the face of the high price of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, they didn't want to pay more, because they didn't think that this stone was worth more money, so no matter what the staff said, no one shouted anymore.
At this time, Lin Muqing turned her head and asked Zhou Ming, "Then are you going to bid?"
Zhou Ming shook his head and smiled: "Sister Mu Qing, we only have 10,000 Hong Kong dollars on us, and I don't have a chance to bid even if I want to!"
Lin Muqing breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately Zhou Ming didn't become like those gamblers, otherwise she really didn't know what to do.
It's just that Lin Muqing looked at Zhou Ming's confident smile and still felt a little bottomless in her heart, she didn't know at this time that she was about to witness a miracle in the gambling stone world.
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