Chapter Sixty-Seven: Pan Shop
If the large room was wide and bright, there was nothing but three old black long tables, each of which was more than two meters long and an arm wide, and about the height of Hua Chiyue's chest, and on each table were stones of different sizes, colors, and shapes.
Thirty or forty men in different clothes either bowed their heads and looked carefully, or whispered in groups around the stones.
"What are they doing?" Hua Qianyue craned her neck and looked in.
At this time, an old man with a brown goatee held a three-inch square purple stone and hurriedly walked to the corner that Hua Qianyue hadn't noticed just now, and nodded to a man in Tsing Yi, who took the stone in the old man's hand and cut it 'squeak'.
"Gambling stones!" Qi Haotian's eyes were shining, "When the jadeite rough is mined, the outer layer is wrapped with a layer of weathered skin, and no one knows the quality of it, and its value can only be known after the calcite is solved." ”
"The gambling stone man relies on his own experience to guess and judge the ...... based on the clues on the leather shell."
Before the words fell, an exclamation sounded in the corner, and Hua Qianyue looked for prestige, and the old man in brown just now pinched the goat's mustache with a happy face, needless to say, he must have gambled.
"Go down and have a hand?" Qi Haotian was full of spring breeze.
Hua Qianyue glanced at his smile that poured out all beings, and turned his face away, can you stop laughing like this?
"No need," Hua Qianyue looked at the colorful stones, and had no idea at all.
"Let's go," Qi Haotian was in high spirits, reaching out to take Hua Qianyu's slender hand, and couldn't help but pull her into the ranks of the stone gamblers.
"The gambling stone must first determine whether it is a jade rough stone," Qi Haotian said in his mouth, his hands were not idle, and he kept rummaging through the stone piles on the table.
"Then we have to judge from the smoothness of the rough skin, generally speaking, the more delicate the skin, the greater the chance of winning the rough stone, the so-called thin skin and flesh are not rough," said he picked up a palm-sized black stone and glanced at Yimu, Yimu quickly stepped forward to take the stone and walked away quickly, and when he came back after a while, the black stone in his hand was gone, but there was a small glass jade.
Qi Haotian put the jade in Hua Qianyue's palm: "Oh, it's for you."
Hua Qianyue looked at the jade in the palm of her hand, which was a finger long, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, transparent and pure like water, and the fly in the ointment was that there was a small piece of green on the upper right.
It's a pity, Hua Qianyue shook her head and said, "You better keep it, I don't know how to carve or carve it, it's useless," said and returned the jade to Qi Haotian's hands.
"It's okay, I'll keep it for you," Qi Haotian put the jade into his arms absently.
Hua Qianyue was about to say anything more, but was interrupted by a long horn sound.
"Let's go, the main event begins."
"What's the highlight?" Hua Qianyue kept up with Qi Haotian's pace, and the other gambling stone people in the house also moved chaotically, and they all flocked to the second floor.
On the second floor, the entire room was empty, with nothing but a huge stone in the middle.
I saw a strong man in green clothes clasping his fists for a week to the people who had just come upstairs: "Everyone, this is this stone king, weighing 678 catties, from the famous jade mineral land Dian Township, interesting to participate in a gamble of luck can be seen closely."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw one or twenty people walking forward and touching or knocking on the boulder, and some took out magnifying glasses to study carefully.
Hua Qianyue saw two familiar figures, the shopkeeper of the Treasure Pavilion and the shopkeeper of Rui Yuxuan, the two of them were mixed in the crowd and studied as if no one was next to the boulder.
The two of them turned out to be good for this, Hua Qianyue was surprised.
It's normal to think about it, they deal with jewelry and jade all day long, and their eyesight is very comparable, and they are usually afraid that they are not less involved in such activities.
Seeing that everyone had seen it, the man in Tsing Yi said to the people in front of the boulder: "The price of this stone king is five million taels."
Five million taels?
This is a hooded stone, in addition to three points of eyesight, it also requires seven points of luck, in case of a wrong bet, it will be ......
There was a commotion around the boulder, and after a little hesitation, six people retreated towards the big man in Tsing Yi.
Time passed minute by minute, and people retreated one after another, and after about a pillar of incense, only the treasured pavilion, the shopkeeper of Rui Yuxuan, and two other men forty miles away were left in the field.
After a while, the shopkeeper of Ruiyuxuan and a man also retreated one after another, leaving only the shopkeeper of the Treasure Pavilion and another man in the field, at this time the treasurer of the Treasure Pavilion had a dense layer of fine sweat on his head, and the inner heaven and man fought to bet or not, and the Treasure Pavilion would not be able to keep it if it was not gambled, and there might be a glimmer of life if the gamble was lost, but what if the gamble was lost?
Just as the treasurer was breathing rapidly and swaying from side to side, the man spoke, "I ......"
The shopkeeper of the Treasure Pavilion was shocked in his heart, and he suddenly became confused, and preemptively said: "Open the material!"
As soon as the words came out, a smile flashed on the man's face, and he nodded to the treasurer and everyone present and returned to the crowd.
Qi Haotian's eyes flashed slightly, and he glanced at Yimu, Yimu understood, and quietly moved behind the man.
Qi Haotian turned his eyebrows to look at the field, at this time, there were already two young men in Tsing Yi cutting stones with knives, and everyone present stared at the movements of the two little guys for a moment.
With a 'bang', the boulder was cut, and everyone inhaled the cool air, and the treasurer of the Treasure Pavilion was even more distracted, his eyes were like ashes.
Even Hua Qianyue, who is not too knowledgeable, can see that what is cut out is just worthless miscellaneous jade.
The man who was fighting with the treasurer of the Treasure Pavilion for the boulder took advantage of everyone's attention to the opening material, and quietly left, and followed out without a trace, who had been paying attention to him all the time.
At this time, he sneaked back quietly and whispered to Qi Haotian, Qi Haotian nodded, his blade-like eyes were cold.
Hua Qianyue didn't notice all this, and at this time, she was half-squatting in front of the treasures pavilion shopkeeper and looked at the lifeless clay shopkeeper, and said with concern: "Are you okay?"
The treasurer remained motionless, seemingly unaware of the outside of his body.
The situation of buying beads in the Treasure Pavilion is still vivid, and Hua Qianyue sighed in her heart, "You and I are destined, if there is anything to help, you just ask." ”
Hearing this, the figure of the treasurer of the treasure pavilion shook, and his sloppy eyes gradually cleared, and when he saw the person in front of him clearly, the young man's words echoed in his ears again, "He said that he believed in the shopkeeper's ......"
didn't have time to think about it, the shopkeeper grabbed Hua Qianyue's arm like a life-saving straw, and said, "Dude, you can go down to the Treasure Pavilion."
"Huh?" Hua Qianyue was stunned.
Treasure Cabinet? Hua Qianyue was a little moved, Qi Yunxuan's unintentional words that day had already made her have plans to open a jewelry store, but because she had not had time to think about it carefully because she had not had time to plant grapes, of course it was good to be able to plate the Treasure Pavilion, everything was ready-made, and it could be opened with a little adjustment, but it was just five million taels Where to find so much silver?
"How much silver? The king of Ming Japan ordered someone to send it over," Qi Haotian's cold voice sounded.
The treasurer of the Treasure Pavilion looked at Hua Qianyue and then at Qi Haotian, and similarly, Hua Qianyue also looked at Qi Haotian with inquiring eyes.
"Count me as the one I lent you," looked at Hua Qianyue as an explanation.
"Six million taels," the shopkeeper said without thinking.
Qi Haotian raised his eyebrows, but Hua Qianyue blurted out: "So many?"
The shopkeeper said to the two: "I'm ashamed, our Jiang family has been running the Treasure Pavilion since my great-grandfather, I didn't expect that there would be such a fork in my generation, three days ago when it was about to close, there was a guest who took an expensive hand ornament to the store to repair, it was not repaired for a while, and he came to pick it up the next day, and the store did not sell high-end goods, so he didn't think about it and accepted it, who would have thought that he had recruited a thief that night, and the valuables in the store were looted, including the guest's jewelry...... I sold my wealth but there was still a difference of one million taels, and the guest threatened to use the Treasure Pavilion to arrive tomorrow, hey! I also had no choice but to take the risk, but I didn't expect ......"
"Well," Qi Haotian nodded, "Six million will be delivered tomorrow (five o'clock in the morning)." ”
Hua Qianyue always felt that something was wrong there, and if she thought about it carefully, every link was very reasonable, so she didn't bother with that brain, the important thing was that she could go back to her old business and do what she liked.