Jinming District is quite far away from the place where Shi Zhong lives, after more than 40 minutes of bus, finally arrived, fortunately when he was in college before, Shi Zhong did not make much effort to find the flower, fish, birds and insects market, although it is very early at this time, but there are many people, noisy, the elderly are the majority, and there are some young people like Shi Zhong.

The market of flowers, fish, birds and insects is very large, the stone clock walked around, the things sold in it are complex and diverse, there are fish sellers, there are cats and dogs, there are rats, snakes, birds and insects... In short, there are a lot, many things The stone clock can't be named at all, but in the end the stone bell sadly found that there seems to be no thing he likes.

Suddenly, the crowd twitched, and the flow of people began to flow forward.

"Well, friend, what's the matter?" Shi Zhong asked, grabbing a young man.

"You don't know? There is a bet on pearls in front, tsk, there is such a good cloud, two 1.5cm ones have been opened, and the boss is estimated to have a green face! The young man said, and quickly hurried over there.

"Bet on pearls?" Shi Zhong was puzzled, he had only heard of gambling stones, and he had really never heard of gambling on pearls.

In fact, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have always had the wind of gambling on pearls, but, generally speaking, only fat mussels can bloom big pearls, so pearls are not like gambling stones, a knife is born and a knife dies.

There were a lot of people, and relying on the tall figure of the stone bell, it was difficult to squeeze in.

The boss is not young, more than fifty years old, at this time his face is ugly, and there is a suit and leather shoes in his thirties squatting opposite him, with a proud face, and two full and shiny pearls in his hand, which are big enough.

"Tsk, two 1.5cm in size, how can you get **10,000 yuan, this old man Li is going to suffer, it looks like a clam that is not very fat can actually bloom such a big pearl, it is really unheard of!" A crowd of onlookers.

"If you want me to say that Old Man Li deserves it, over the years, he doesn't know how many laymen he has pitted, and he gambled with some leftover mussels, and today is a big bad luck!" Another humane.

"Let's let, let's let, I heard that there are 1.5cm pearls here?" A middle-aged man with a folder under his arm squeezed in, his hair combed back, and at first glance he knew that he was a successful person.

"Yes, yes, let me tell you, the mussels I have here are all carefully selected, and all of them have the possibility of pregnant with large pearls, otherwise it is impossible to open two 1.5cm pearls!" Old man Li's face changed quickly, and he had a sad face just now, but now he was full of smiles.

"Yo, two? Just such a small mussel? The middle-aged man was taken aback, obviously not believing Old Man Li's words.

Old man Li was anxious, and said with a thick neck: "I can't lie to you, it's the two in the hands of the gentleman next to you, both in color and shape, and they are of the highest quality, and..." Old man Li blew so loudly that it was a mess.

The middle-aged man was very moved by what he said, and waved his hand, like an upstart: "Give me ten firsts, by the way, how about your price here?" ”

"Four thousand one, a fixed price!" Old man Li gritted his teeth and said.

"Boom!" The crowd shook for a while, just like that, there were four thousand goods, obviously the eyes of the masses were bright, but everyone didn't say it, after all, people had opened two 1.5cm, in the industry, bad guy business is taboo.

The suit and leather shoes smiled: "This old man, to be honest, four thousand is not expensive, look at it, two 1.5cm ones, one hundred thousand!" ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand: "Open!" "A whole nouveau riche.

Old man Li smiled: "Okay! As he spoke, he squatted down, picked up a kitchen knife, pinched the mussel and cut the blade of the kitchen knife into the mussel with a "click" along the gap, twisted, and under everyone's fiery gaze, the mussel was split in two, revealing the mussel meat and pearls with a slight golden glow. Old man Li reached out and grabbed the mussel meat and turned it over, pulled out nine pearls that were big or small, round or crooked, and put them into a plastic basin that had been prepared a long time ago.

"That's too much!" Of the nine that were opened, except for the ones with pits and crookedness, only one was very round, but the size was too small, and it was estimated that it could only be regarded as waste beads and ground into pearl powder.

For example, the market price of 1.5cm is estimated to be 40,000, while the 1.0cm one is only three or four thousand, and there are even fewer than 0.5cm, and there are dozens or hundreds.

Next, Old Man Li opened nine in a row, the largest is only 0.8cm, the middle-aged face is green, I originally heard that there is a 1.5cm to come, but I didn't expect to open ten actually a 1.0cm or more, this time I lost 40,000, can you not be angry?

Shi Zhong was surprised to find that the corners of his mouth in the suit and leather shoes actually hooked up a sneer of triumph, although it was only for a moment, Shi Zhong did see it.

"I didn't expect it to be To!" Shi Zhong guessed that it is estimated that none of the mussels full of large frames can be 1.0cm, and the so-called 1.5cm pearls are simply the double reeds of the old man Li and the suit and leather shoes.

The middle-aged man left disappointed, and the crowd of onlookers dispersed "sighingly", and Shi Zhong stayed where he was.

"I said, young man, do you want to bet on two too?" Old man Li couldn't help but smile when he saw a young man staring at his stall in a daze, and had just slaughtered a fat sheep.

"Huh? Oh, but I don't have any money! Shi Zhong replied to his senses, he had just been wondering if he had made money with this pearl, and he learned from the people next to him that there were at least 40,000 of the 1.5cm of this pearl, and even if it was 1.0cm, there were three or four thousand, and he could do it well.

"No money? What are you doing here without money? Don't interfere with my business! Old man Li's face instantly fell, "A poor bastard also came here, wanting to get rich overnight?" ”

Shi Zhong's face instantly became gloomy: "Old man, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, and besides, what you just did was illegal, it was blackmail, don't think that things are done seamlessly!" ”

Old man Li also thought about it, and the second half of Shi Zhong's words made him hurriedly shut up, looking flustered, but he still said with a fierce expression: "What did you say, what illegal blackmail?" Let me tell you, don't slander, my old man Li is not a soft persimmon in this territory! ”

Shi Zhong sneered, such a person just has to scare him well to be soft, typical of eating hard and not soft, how could Shi Zhong, who has been running business for a year, not know, said: "Okay, I'll call the police now, let the police investigate, see if the two of you have anything to do with each other, and let the colleagues here also see what kind of person you old man Li is!" ”

"Let's go!" The scoop in Old Man Li's hand fell to the ground, his face turned pale, and he immediately squeezed out a trace of an ugly smile: "Hey, young man, don't be so angry, come on, smoke a cigarette, extinguish the fire, I just joked with you!" ”

Shi Zhong saw that he was soft, and he didn't care, took his cigarette, sat on the stool opposite Old Man Li, and said, "Old Man Li, if you do business, you have to be harmonious, you say, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Old man Li said with a smile, full of laughter, "What's the matter, do you want to bet twice?" I'll give you a good price! ”

"Come on, you just put away your two tricks, I don't think there is a good mussel here, don't treat me as a big wrong!" Shi Zhong criticized mercilessly.

"Hey, hey!" Old man Li laughed a few times to hide his embarrassment.

"Actually, I didn't mean to embarrass you, you see that you took the initiative to get angry with me at the beginning, right?" Stone Bell Road.

Old man Li didn't know what medicine was sold in Shi Zhong's gourd, so he just nodded.

"So, I'm also here to do business, how much is your kind of beads, I need some!" Shi Zhong pointed to the waste beads.

"Huh?" Old man Li didn't expect Shi Zhong's conditions to be so simple, he originally thought that he would open his mouth and be overjoyed when he seized such an opportunity, and said busily, "Ouch, look at me, I actually rejected God, come, look, pick yourself, I will definitely give you a good price!" ”

"How many of these are there?" Shi Zhong pinched a small, but very good color, all round, and asked.

"Two...

"I said, Old Man Li, you are not kind, you really treat me as a wronged leader!" Shi Zhong said unhappily.

Old man Li said pitifully: "Young man, I really didn't lie to you, if it were someone else, it would be at least more than two hundred, the one you take, although it is small, but the color is bright, and the shape is also very good, of course the price is a little higher!" ”

"Okay, pick me fifteen of these!" Shi Zhong took out all the 2,000 in his bank card this morning.

"A total of one thousand five, I said young man, I have seen your awesomeness today, you give a thousand, I have made you a friend, this is my business card, there is business to contact me in the future!" Old man Li is quite righteous, in fact, his heart hurts a lot, there is no way, this young man is holding his handle.

"Pearl Harbor, okay, I've got it!" Shi Zhong also left his number and name, and left with fifteen pearls, so he didn't care whether Old Man Li's words were true or not, and the five hundred yuan saved was more true than anything else.

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