After dinner, Zhou Tong took a taxi with Ling Yuan to Lao Cai.

The old street at night is not less crowded than during the day, the red lanterns hung during the New Year some time ago have not been removed, and at night, the antique narrow path is full of all kinds of red lanterns, and it is very joyful.

Zhou Tong didn't mention the way to break the bad situation along the way, and Ling Yuan didn't mention it tacitly, and the two casually chatted about their parents and walked to the deepest part of the old street. Along the way, although Zhou Tong occasionally entered a few shops to take a look, he didn't stay long, seemingly casual, but the purpose was very clear.

He walked to the deepest part of the old street and arrived at the green door opened by Duanmu Qiu.

There are also two red lanterns hanging at the door of the green gate, but the lanterns are much more delicate than the others, and the patterns outlined in green are reflected by the lights and look like a piece of jade.

Seeing this, Zhou Tong sighed with emotion and entered the house with Ling Yuan.

The incense was still smoked in the greenery, and the green smoke from the beast head incense burner came out, Duanmu Qiu sat behind the counter, holding the cigarette stick and swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, while holding his chin in a bored daze.

Zhou Tong couldn't help but laugh when he saw her boring look, and said with a smile: "What's wrong with Aunt Qiu? This looks like she has lovesickness, I don't know which man is so lucky to be favored by Aunt Qiu." ”

Seeing Zhou Tong enter the house, Duanmu Qiu's eyes lit up all of a sudden, she spat out a cigarette, put the cigarette stick on the jade pillow, and said with a sneer: "I haven't seen you for a few months, and your guts have fattened a lot, even your Aunt Qiu dares to laugh?"

"How dare you. Zhou Tong joked with a smile, "It's not that Aunt Qiu is unwilling." ”

Duanmu Qiu sighed and said, "It's not easy to do business these days. Her eyes lit up, and she remembered that Zhou Tong brought big business every time she came, and hurriedly asked, "As the saying goes, if you don't have anything to do, you won't go to the Three Treasures Palace, Xiaotong, do you have a big business to take care of me this time?"

"Yes. Zhou Tong was not polite, and said directly, "I want to ask Aunt Qiu if there are any jade stones here that are gold, water, and earth." ”

"People come to me to buy good-looking and auspicious ones, but you kid is a bad thing, you have to buy one with attributes, and it's embarrassing for you Aunt Qiu. Duanmu Qiu laughed again, complained lightly, and without waiting for Zhou Tong to respond, he said, "It's also your Aunt Qiu's complete goods here, wait, I'll get it for you." ”

As the saying goes, jade has five virtues, benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, propriety, and faith correspond to the five virtues of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and jade has five virtue attributes, either high or low.

Since ancient times, when the Heavenly Master encountered a bad situation, he either changed the situation, turned the evil situation into a normal state or turned the powerful into a good one, or completely filled in the evil situation, beheaded it, and cut off its roots.

What Zhou Tong has to do is to combine the two, break and then stand.

Among the five elements, Tukeshui first breaks the black water surrounded by wolves, Jin Kemu uses gold to cut off the black evil luck, and finally uses aquatic wood to nourish the wood spirit and preserve the aura of wood carving.

The problem at Mr. Cheng's family is still in the wood carving painting, not in the tools, as Zou Fei said.

Zou Fei was deliberately diverting his gaze, there must be something famous in that painting.

Before today, Zhou Tong didn't dare to start because of too many doubts, but trapped his hands and feet because of too many thoughts.

The situation is actually very simple, it is an ordinary situation in which the five elements are mutually reinforcing.

Wood carving is wood, but I don't know what's going on, in that trace of wood spirit wrapped around the aura of water attributes, is framed and trapped in the wood carving painting can not enter, aquatic wood, naturally the wood carving is fed, plus the old man Cheng gave the wood carving spirit, this wood carving has become not too self-conscious spirit, with it as the origin, in the black water blessed room, more and more wood carvings have been affected, and it has gradually formed a murderous situation of wood and water.

It stands to reason that Aoki is tough, and the black water is mild compared to platinum and red fire, which is not easy to become a bad situation, but it is also impossible to say, the five elements are elusive, although the wood is "straight", but it is precisely because it can be curved and straight often shows domineering, although the water is "moist", but there is also a flood beast. The theory of the five elements seems simple, but it is the most difficult game to really arrange, a little bit of the five elements of the experience of one or two, you can open up your own door, food and clothing without worry, its profundity can be seen.

After waiting for a while, I saw Duanmu Qiu take out three brocade boxes from the inner room, open them one by one and put them in front of Zhou Tong.

Most of the heavenly masters like to use this kind of rough stone, which retains the unique essence of jade without human hands, and can be created according to the needs of the heavenly masters.

The three rough stones were very good, and after Zhou Tong saw it, he boasted: "I know that the jade on Aunt Qiu's side is the best, and the old street here is second to none." ”

The jade that Duanmu Qiu took out was no more than the size of an egg, moist and shiny, and it was a high-quality jade rough stone at a glance, Duanmu Qiu couldn't stand the praise, and happily picked up the cigarette stick and smoked it, the fragrance of tobacco was accompanied by the smell of incense in the store, and it smelled great.

Zhou Tong said: "I will buy this rough stone with two attributes of gold and earth, and Aunt Qiu will make a price." ”

Duanmu Qiu raised his slender and delicate willow eyebrows, looking shrewd as a businessman: "Are you using this rough stone yourself, or are you using it to solve the situation for others?"

"Helping others. ”

Duanmu Qiu's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Then I will unceremoniously make a bid, the two jade rough stones are a total of one million, what do you think?"

"Good. Zhou Tong agreed, Duanmu Qiu saw Zhou Tong's honest face, and joked with him: "Although someone pays you, you can pretend to bargain for a while, if it reaches the ears of the big boss, it won't be bad." ”

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "I paid for it myself." ”

Duanmu Qiu was stunned: "What?"

Zhou Tong roughly talked about the affairs of Cheng Jiu'an's family, Duanmu Qiu nodded after hearing this, and looked at Zhou Tong with a little more tenderness in her eyes, she said: "Recently, the blue road has been prevalent, I can't wait to cheat an extra penny from others, and it's just you, not only don't make money, but also put money into it, I see that the dead-eyed old artist doesn't have much money to paste these two pieces of jade for you." ”

Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "Aunt Qiu also knows that I am a businessman, and there is naturally a reason why I help him so much. The fire spirit that was sealed in the wood carving painting, if it could be taken down and raised in jade, whether it was used for magic tools or sold, it would be more than ten or even dozens of times higher than the price of these two rough stones, it was a real spiritual thing. ”

"You kid. Duanmuqiu rolled his eyes, very disapproving, having said that, but how to deal with the fire spirit is also a big problem, and it is obvious that there is another purpose in Zhou's call, he doesn't want to say it, Duanmuqiu didn't ask, and Zhou Tong's kindness she naturally didn't say anything.

After paying the money, Zhou Tong pushed back the piece of water-attribute jade that he hadn't bought, and asked, "Is there any way for Aunt Qiu to get a better water-attribute spirit stone?"

Duanmu Qiu glared, and said angrily: "What's the matter, don't you ask Aunt Qiu if she has any better goods on hand?"

Zhou Tong smiled well-behaved: "I know that what Aunt Qiu gave me must be the best goods." ”

"You kid can talk. Duanmu Qiu snorted out laughing and said, "If only Qi Qing's stupid kid had you to speak." ”

"Is Qi Qing okay lately?" asked Zhou Tong.

"How can you say it......" Sighing, Duanmu Qiu said with some distress, "Since Han Zhi's father and son got retribution, the Han family has been thriving, but it has also suffered Qi Qing, that stupid child is too real, his brain will not turn, and some things have to be done by himself, which has added a lot of burden to himself." ”

"Qi Qing has always been responsible. “

"That's stupid. ”

Duanmuqiu said that Han Qiqing was not, but she was happy in her heart, she had no children in her life, Han Qiqing was like her own child, Han Qiqing was bitter in her heart, and she was also happy when she saw Han Qiqing having a future.

At the mention of Han Qiqing, Duanmuqiu suddenly remembered something, took out a post with gilded small characters from the drawer, and said: "I almost forgot this, three days later, there will be a gambling stone conference in Zhangjiayuan, I heard that a lot of stones brought back from Pakang in Myanmar have not only original stones, but also a lot of jadeite that has been solved (jargon, the same as the sound), you can go with me to see? Maybe you can get the jade you want." ”

Jadeite is also a kind of jade, red jade is jade, green jade is jade, the earliest jade refers to a kind of bird, this kind of bird male bird is red, female bird is green, so it is called jade, and later it was used in the jade world.

Duanmuqiu mentioned this, Zhou Tong's eyes lit up when he heard this, this is a way, he was originally interested in gambling on stones, thinking that he had the opportunity to gamble, and asked Duanmuqiu about the specific time, there was no conflict, and Zhou Tong agreed.

After he went back, he was still looking for a suitable water-attribute jade, and he didn't put all the opportunities on the gambling stone.

Among the three pieces of jade used to break the evil situation, this piece of jade with water attributes is very important, and the front is all phase restraint, and this piece of jade is used for mutual growth, its aura is greater than the earth attribute, so as not to be restrained, and it must be pure and clean so as not to be affected by the original black water evil situation in the house, and the most important thing is that water overcomes fire, and the original fire spirit cannot be damaged, and ordinary jade is not good.

Three days later, Zhou Tong took Ling Yuan to the venue, Yun Xiu knew that he wanted to go with him, Ling Yuan had been in the bronze halberd for two thousand years, it was already full of Ling Yuan's breath, Yun Xiu was uncomfortable, and wanted to get a piece of jade to raise his spiritual body.

Jade this thing, in terms of the best effect of cultivation, folk often say, if the child born is not in good health, take a piece of jade suitable for life to raise, "Dream of Red Mansions" Jia Baoyu was born with jade was proclaimed to be a rich and noble appearance from heaven.

Zhangjiayuan is an old garden, according to legend, it was built by an idle prince who liked to collect jade in the late Qing Dynasty, specially adopted the jade carver he invited, and often held a jade tasting conference here in his spare time, and the historical customs were left behind, until now, this old garden continues to be used as a place for the jade tasting conference.

The theme of this session of the conference is Jade.

As long as you go to the organizer to register and pay, you can take your own jadeite rough to sell at the conference, in addition to selling the rough, there are also selling the jadeite or the finished product after carving, all kinds of things, everything, it is a jadeite event, even some perennial city does not go out all the year round and some of the old antiques who are proud of their age are also alarmed.

At the venue, people dressed differently shuttled through the bustling crowd, and the stalls were crowded with people gambling on stones.

The style of this home is not high, and there is no need for any tickets to enter and exit, but it will regularly post to famous people, and will also prepare a private room for these people to rest and exchange dinners.

The prices of the jade sold in the garden also vary, ranging from a few yuan and dozens of yuan a piece of rough stone for people to untie and practice blindly, and there are also tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of high-priced rough stones.

The gambling stone has a gambling word on the top, but it is counted as one of the three hundred and sixty lines.

Legend has it that in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a woodcutter named Bian He, he got a stone from the mountain, thought that there was jade in it, and successively dedicated it to King Chu Li and King Chu Wu, but they were all cut off their left and right feet for the crime of bullying the king, until King Wen of Chu, with a discerning eye, cut open and look at the stone, and found that it was full of greenery, which was the famous and later got a priceless allusion to He's Bi.

Therefore, the ancestor of the gambling stone recorded in the case is Bian He.

Gambling stone has always had the saying of "a knife is poor, a knife is rich, and a knife wears linen", which not only tests your eyesight and determination, but also tests luck. Those who dare to touch the gambling stones generally have to be a little timid, otherwise, they will go bankrupt with a casual play, and there is not enough queue on the rooftop.

Zhou Tong didn't know much about gambling stones, he was limited to the content of books, and he was not in a hurry to talk on paper, so he followed Duanmu Qiu to observe and observe first.

The stalls were full of rough stones, the money was pouring out, a few were happy and a few were sad, and some people fainted on the spot after solving it.

There happened to be a person next to him in the calcosis, sixty years old, dragon and tiger spirit, a pair of eyes are even darker and shining, he stared at the rough stone without turning his eyes, the black eyes reflected a little jade green, immediately smiled, the heart fell, very stable.

Sure enough, after the rough stone was solved, there was a large piece of emerald green jadeite, although there was only one piece, but it was estimated that the color and water degree were very profitable, and the old gentleman was satisfied with the solution of the jadeite, and smiled happily.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Zhou Tong watching from the side, and talked to Zhou Tong in a good mood: "Young man, look at your cautious appearance, it's the first time you've come to gamble on stones, right?"

Zhou Tong smiled modestly, nodded slightly shyly and replied, "Yes, it's a little dazzling." ”

"Hahaha. The old gentleman laughed a few times and said: "When I first gambled on the stone, it was also like this, and I was bold, I didn't understand anything and came with money, so many years have passed, and I have accumulated some experience, as an old-timer to give you a few words, this gambling stone can not only look at the surface, but also can not be greedy, the original stone is just that, if you encounter the kind of half-light and half-dark, you must remember' I'd rather buy a line than buy a large piece', the green drill into the depths may be hiding good things, but you should also be careful of being deceived, and it is not without black-hearted people who take the handle of a toothbrush and put it into the waste stone to fill it with jade!"

Zhou Tong nodded hurriedly, and the old gentleman was just about to say a few more words, when he saw that the bustling crowd in front of him was all rushing into one place, and it was very lively, Duanmu Qiu was also curious, and asked, "What's wrong over there?"

The old gentleman glanced at it, snorted disdainfully, and said: "The young man is arrogant, and he doesn't know the pain if he hasn't fallen on the gambling stone, and if he continues to make trouble like this, he will fall to pieces sooner or later." He saw that Zhou Tong and Duanmu Qiu were puzzled, so he explained, "That young man is a little famous in the gambling stone circle, called Li Tianhe, it is said that he has solved a lot of good jade since his debut, and every time he has to make a name for himself, most of the people who do this business are for personal gain, and Li Tianhe wants to gain fame and fortune." This time, I don't know what big moves I made again. My old man is old, and he has earned so much, so he will go back first, and you will see slowly. With that, he put the jade in his pocket and left.

As soon as he heard this name, Duanmu Qiu became interested and said: "I have heard of this person's name, and the few pieces of good jade that have come in recently are all from this person's hands, I thought it was an old guy, but it turned out to be a young man." Let's go and see? Just for you to learn and learn. ”

Zhou Tong responded, the flow of people was too large, Ling Yuan didn't know what to hold Zhou Tong's hand for a long time, for fear of being scattered, the two did not shy away from holding hands and walked to the most crowded stall.

This is a real sea of people, Duanmu Qiu is not petite, he is nearly one meter seven and can't see anything in the crowd, Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan are tall and can feel a corner in the back.

I saw a calcite machine in the crowd, and a young man sat calmly on the side, playing with his mobile phone unhurriedly.

The master of the calcite shook his hand, and said with a slight trembling: "Look at the color and water head, it should be the ice ......."

"Hold steady. The young man looked up from his phone, glanced at the untied line, and said, "There's still something in it, don't break it for me." ”

"Hey!" the master continued.

There is also an accident in the calcite stone, the master of the calcite is not responsible for the accident, generally speaking, he is not very good at finding a strange master to solve, this young man and the master of the calcite today is the first time to cooperate, and he handed over this piece of rough stone to the master, and he is not small.

In the end, everyone was envious, and after asking about the price of the rough stone, they were even more envious.

This piece of rough stone was bought back for 100,000 yuan, and the ice jadeite that was solved can be sold for millions after processing, which is really a big profit.

With the young man taking the lead in this battle, the others turned around and looked for targets one after another.

After reading it, Zhou Tong also had a general experience, and said to Duanmu Qiu: "Aunt Qiu, let's go and see the stones too." ”

"Okay. ”

Although Duanmu Qiu likes jade, he is not good at gambling stones, he played once or twice when he was young, and he secretly decided not to spend his mind on gambling stones, although he has seen some scenes than Zhou Tong, and he is older, but when it comes to gambling stones, his skills are not much different from Zhou Tong, who is just getting started.

Zhou Tong picked it on the side, she just watched it from the sidelines, and she didn't say anything, she was going to see the price and give Zhou Tong a piece of rough stone as a gift.

Swept a few stalls, there was nothing eye-catching, Ling Yuan didn't see impatience following Zhou Tong, he did fall in love with a few pieces, but Zhou Tong didn't like him and didn't say anything.

The jade has more or less aura, whether there is jade in the stone Zhou Tong can see it with a look at the yin and yang eyes, but Zhou Tong wants to see it by himself and find some fun, Ling Yuan let it go, and patiently accompanied him, a novice, to wander around the stone pile.

Finally, Zhou Tong stopped and took a look at a rough stone.

The one who sells the stone is an old man, dressed a little tattered, and there are not many rough stones on the stall, many of the people who come here are smuggled to Myanmar, buy the rough stones from there and then sell them here, and there are many like the old gentleman who said before to get a few stones to make the rough stones himself, the real and the false are mixed in a pile, and it is easy to be deceived without a sharp eye or a delicate heart.

Maybe it's because the old man's clothes don't look good with a few rough stones on the stall, there are not many people in front of this stall, and a few people take a look at it and leave, obviously very indifferent to these rough stones.

The old man is in a hurry and can't help it, there are so many stalls, he can't buy and sell by force, right?

As soon as Zhou Tong stood in front of the booth, the old man came up very attentively and enthusiastically to say hello, and then looked at Zhou Tong's appearance and age, like a college student who did not know the world, but the shrewdness revealed in his eyes made the old man dare not speak rashly, and after considering it, he took out the unchanged routine of Chinese doing business for thousands of years - treating each other with sincerity.

The old man laughed and said, "The young man has taken a fancy to this rough stone?"

Zhou Tong picked up the rough stone and looked left and right, observed it for a while, and then asked, "What is the price of this rough stone?"

The old man stretched out his hand and gestured: "Fifty thousand." ”

Zhou Tong pursed his lips and didn't speak, and the people on the side took a special look when they heard the price, and said: "Young man, don't be deceived, this must be a stone, and the 50,000 yuan will be lost." Before he finished speaking, he was pulled by the person next to him, and the man also knew that he had broken the rules by talking too much, so he shrugged his shoulders and muttered: "Aren't I used to seeing the little young being deceived, okay, okay, I won't say it, what kind of wind can I blow as a stranger......"

Although Duanmuqiu is inexperienced, he can see that the quality of this stone is really average, but since Zhou Tong has taken a fancy to her, she has nothing to say, and is about to pay, when she sees Zhou Tong asking, "Thirty thousand, do you want to sell it?"

That's a lot of bargaining...... The corners of Duanmu Qiu's mouth twitched, thinking that it was good that Zhou Tong didn't bargain with her.

The old man was busy selling his own rough stone, seeing that Zhou Tong insisted on 30,000 yuan, and there was a meaning that he would put down the rough stone if he couldn't hand it over, and said: "Cheng, 30,000 is 30,000, first say okay, I only accept cash." ”

"Okay. "The old man is refreshing, Zhou Tong is even more refreshing, Duanmu Qiu wanted to help pay, but he was blocked by Zhou Tong with the first gambling stone in his life, and he had no choice but to wait for the next opportunity.

Paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, Zhou Tong took the rough stone and was ready to find someone to solve it.

Ling Yuan saw the spring breeze between his eyebrows and eyes, and said, "I could have made a lot of money, and I still cut 20,000 people by force, and that old man knew that he was going to be angry with you." ”

Zhou Tong smiled even more cheerfully: "It's normal to do business and bargain. ”

Ling Yuan tightened Zhou Tong's hand and said, "I'll help you solve it." ”

"Will you solve it?"

"Hmm. Ling Yuan said, "I liked to play this when I was a child. ”

"That's good, if you want to put it in someone else's place, you won't have a place to talk about it. Zhou Tong happily agreed.

"What?" Ling Yuan raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Tong quite defiantly, "If I break it for you, you still want to take revenge on me?"

"Hmm......" Zhou Tong pretended to be thinking, Chong Ling Yuan smiled slyly, and whispered: "If you don't go to bed for three months, you can be punished." ”

Ling Yuan: "......" is ruthless......