"Uncle Lin, I'm sorry, this involves my privacy and secrets, so I can't tell you the specific refining method, please forgive me."

Lin Qingyin seemed to expect that he would not answer this question, so he didn't continue to ask him this question, but changed his words: "Okay, since that's the case, I won't ask, I asked you to come here alone = talk, there is another matter, this matter, I believe you should not refuse." ”

"Anything, if you can do it, I will definitely not refuse."

"It's about spiritual grass and elixir, in the entire Huaguo, there is only one place where spiritual grass and elixir still exist, although the number is extremely rare, but after all, it can still survive, so I also asked the country and Your Excellency Tianji to vigorously protect this zuihou A place of spiritual energy, you can refine such a perfect rejuvenation pill, such as knowing how to increase the survival rate of spiritual grass and elixir, so my request is, find an opportunity for you to accompany me to that place to see how those spiritual grasses are growing, and there are still those improvements."

Ye Feng thought for a moment and said, "Haode, Uncle Lin, I can agree to this request, and after going to the capital to complete the relevant procedures, I will accompany you on a trip." ”

After that, the two of them exchanged ideas about the elixir of the spirit grass for a long time, knowing that Ye Feng received a call from Zhao Caiping, and this separate conversation was over.

When leaving, Su Qing told Ye Feng that if there was no accident, he would be ready to leave for the capital tomorrow afternoon, and Ye Feng would only need to wait at home at that time.

Leaving the hotel, Ye Feng rushed directly to Everest Street, where Zhao Caiping's house was located, on the phone just now. Zhao Caiping said that there was something urgent for him to help, so let him go very much.

After arriving, Ye Feng realized that what Zhao Caiping asked him to help with was actually not too urgent, but it was a little hasty and a little unexpected.

Zhao Caiping decided to close the jade shop, and saw that all the existing jade in the store was sold at the Pearl Jade Trading Market, so she wanted Ye Feng to accompany her there.

Ye Feng felt that it was understandable for Zhao Caiping to do this, and he alone probably wouldn't be able to take care of this jade shop. It's better to sell it early.

The two of them went to the jade trading market in Pearl City together. This jade trading market located on the outskirts of the city is also the largest underground gambling stone market in Mingzhu.

Ye Feng is still familiar with the underground gambling stone market in Mingzhu City, because he and his co-workers have participated in the later construction and decoration projects of this market, and it is said that it is underground, not that this market is illegal. Rather, because it is little known. After all, in Pearl City. The business of gambling stones is not well known to the general public, and few people participate in it, although the process of gambling stones also involves money. However, it is not a simple gambling behavior, it requires participants to have the corresponding jade knowledge, and to make rigorous and meticulous evaluation and judgment. Therefore, the main purpose of gambling stone is to promote jade culture. Ye Feng remembered that the name of this market was Jinshi Pavilion, and the owner of the office was a big jeweler, and many large jewelry stores in Mingzhu City were opened by this person. Of course, in addition to this concentrated market, most of the jade jewelry stores in Pearl City also have gambling stone projects.

In Mingzhu City and even the whole country, there are three main types of people who participate in gambling stones, one is collectors, one is players, and the other is ordinary consumers. As for the economic situation, the former is deep and simple, and it is difficult to see it in the market, while players and ordinary consumers only need a minimum of 3,000 yuan to participate in it.

Ye Feng had also fantasized about gambling with that small amount of money before his good co-workers, but in the end he didn't do that, his self-control ability was still relatively strong.

Gambling stone, has always been one of the traditional jade trading methods, the biggest temptation is that there is no instrument to see through the wool inside is an ordinary stone or "and the bi", can only rely on the color of the stone, the texture of the judgment to estimate the value of the wool, until the moment Zuihou cut, everything is just speculation. There is a saying in the industry that "the gods are hard to break the jade", and gambling stones need to rely on luck to a large extent in addition to experience. The gambling went up, he made ten times and a hundred times more, and he became a rich man overnight; The gamble collapsed, and everything was lost.

As far as Ye Feng is concerned, he doesn't know much about gambling stones, but he didn't come here today to gamble stones, just to help Zhao Caiping deal with and trade her jade. However, after coming to this place, Ye Feng had some interest, of course, this interest was not to make a fortune with this, but to verify the Tianyan Technique he had just learned.

The gambling stone market of Jinshi Pavilion is very standardized, unlike the Yunnan-Myanmar junction retail miscellaneous collection, the boss of Jinshi Pavilion is obviously very good at management, many wool rough stone bosses here, most of them are here for more than ten or twenty years of old households, in the entire northern gambling stone industry, in addition to the capital at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the Golden Stone Pavilion of Pearl City is the largest one.

When Ye Feng and Zhao Caiping came to the Golden Stone Pavilion, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was the most concentrated and lively time of the day.

A small bet to keep the crystal stable, a big bet to choose jade, this is a law of the gambling stone industry.

The gambling stone of the Golden Stone Pavilion is divided into two areas, one is an ordinary area dedicated to players and ordinary jade lovers or consumers, in this area the gambling stone is organized by the Golden Stone Pavilion store, the risk is small, the participants must first fill in the jade subscription book, leave their true information, and then they can participate in the bidding activities of the "gambling stone" under the arrangement of the store. After all the bidding is over, the store will cut the winning rough stone on the same day, and the winning bidder can handle it by itself, or negotiate the price with the store and transfer it; If the bet is lost, the winning bidder can pay a handling fee of 10% of the subscription amount to the store, and the store will recover the original stone and return 90% of the balance at the same time.

The other area is the free trading area, for collectors or some large buyers to carry out gambling stone transactions, buyers and sellers on the spot trading, buyers can be selected to take it away, can also be cut on the spot, this area of gambling stones, generally involved in a relatively large amount, to some extent, the gambling stones in this area are actually the real gambling stones.

Ye Feng first took a turn in the ordinary area and found that most of the gambling stones here were within 100,000 yuan, and the amount of each transaction was small. But the advantage is that there are many people involved.

Down to the second basement floor of the Golden Stone Pavilion, this is the free trading area, the sellers in the free zone are more than half less than the ordinary area, but each seller's store is very large, and all are independent partitions, so that if the sellers gamble on the stone here, they will not have any impact on each other.

Zhao Caiping's jade can be traded in the free trading area, and after having a reserve price, it is bargained. More than an hour later. Zhao Caiping successfully sold her jade, and this time it was relatively smooth, and it was a one-time success.

After the transaction, Zhao Caiping proposed to invite Ye Feng to dinner. But Ye Feng refused. He asked Zhao Caiping to go back first. Now that he's here, he wants to look around.

After Zhao Caiping left, Ye Feng casually walked into a gambling stone stall. But he saw a scene that surprised him.

I saw an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl kneeling on the floor in the center of the stall, this girl's figure looked a little thin, her appearance was not beautiful, but her temperament was delicate, especially the girl's skin, white as jade, deceiving frost and snow, which was unforgettable.

The girl knelt straight there, tears running down her cheeks, and the ground in front of her was wet, obviously the girl had been kneeling and crying here for some time.

Although Ye Feng felt strange, he didn't want to ask anything, in addition to this girl, there were three men in this gambling stone stall, two young people in their twenties, and a bald middle-aged man in his forties.

Ye Feng glanced at it briefly, and wanted to turn around and leave, but was stopped by the bald man.

"This gentleman, I just came back from Myanmar a batch of goods, and has not been looked at, since you are here, pick it up and take a look, maybe you can pick out a treasure, my surname is Wang, may I ask your surname, sir?"

"The surname is Ye." Ye Feng replied, and subconsciously glanced at the girl who had been kneeling there crying.

The bald boss looked back at the girl, raised his hand and greeted the two young men: "Tell this girl to get up quickly, haven't you seen our guests?" If you want to cry, let him cry on the side, don't affect our business. He turned around and smiled at Ye Feng: "Mr. Ye, don't mind, don't think too much, look at yours, take care of that girl." ”

The two young guys wanted to put the girl up on the left and right, but the girl struggled to live and refused to get up, and with great strength, she actually threw the two young guys away, and then turned around and knelt down towards Boss Wang, bowed his head and kowtowed, and made a noise, his hands kept gessing, and he whimpered in his mouth, and he saw blood marks on his forehead, and he cried more and more.

Ye Feng didn't want to be nosy, but he didn't know Weishenme, seeing the girl's sad and helpless eyes, his heart softened, and he couldn't help but ask: "Boss, what's going on?" ”

Boss Wang's eyes were cold, and he didn't answer Ye Feng's words, but glanced at the two guys.

With a bitter look on their faces, the two young men lifted the girl up again, dragged her to the door of the stall, and pushed the girl out.

Boss Wang looked at Ye Feng and said with a smile: "Mr. Ye, don't care about her, a crazy girl, she has been coming to me to make trouble these days, affecting me to be unable to do business, I can't bear to treat her like this, it's not for her pity, I have already asked the security guard of Jinshi Pavilion to send her to the Public Security Bureau." ”

At this time, the girl who was pushed out by the two young guys suddenly rushed in like crazy, this time she did not kneel in front of Boss Wang and kowtow, but knelt in front of Ye Feng, and hugged Ye Feng's legs.

Ye Feng squatted down and wanted to help the girl up, but the girl was like being nailed to the ground, and for a while, Ye Feng couldn't pull her up.

The boss Wang was obviously angry, and suddenly raised his foot and kicked on the girl's chest, but the girl still held Ye Feng's legs, and under the force, her body fell backwards, and she even dragged Ye Feng to stumble.

The girl's hair was scattered, her face was extremely pale, but her hands still refused to let go, she looked up at Ye Feng, and her mouth whimpered, but she couldn't say a word.

That Boss Wang wanted to raise his foot and kick again, but was stopped by Ye Feng: "Boss, you weishenme beat her." What the hell is going on? ”

"Mr. Ye, it's none of your business, I'll let her let you go, you go, I'm not doing business today, I'm really fucking unlucky, I'm so fucking unlucky to be on this dumb family."

Only then did Ye Feng come to his senses. The girl turned out to be a mute.

A man who can fight a mute girl, no matter what the reason, Ye Feng can't accept it.

"Mr. Ye, if you don't understand the situation, don't meddle with things, this dumb father has always been a frequent customer of mine, gambling on stones is a high-risk business, if you win, you will lose, and you will bear all the consequences. I think you should understand this, Mr. Ye. This girl's father came to me some time ago to gamble on stones, and fell in love with a piece of jade wool, which I bought back from Myanmar at a high price, and the whole shell. Uncut. There was no door to open the door. Although it's not big, it's so lustful that I think it's a good material. Therefore, the price is very high, and the gambler is willing to gamble and lose, and there is no deception in trading, if it is really a good product, I admit compensation, if not, the other party must also abide by the rules. This girl's father is also a knowledgeable person, and he hesitated around my stone for three days, but Zuihou gritted his teeth and sold it. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng already roughly understood in his heart, the father of this dumb girl should be a gambling stone idiot, and it seems that he has lost by gambling with this boss Wang.

Boss Wang continued: "The price of my piece of wool is 600,000 yuan, this girl's father used to be a frequent visitor to our place, there are no big bets, small bets are constant, there are losses and wins, and the losses are quite high, but this time I don't know what he has done, he has taken a fancy to my stone, I don't know where to get 600,000 yuan, and bought my jade wool." He just bought it, and I had another customer here, and he also fell in love with this stone, but this girl's father got it first, and the customer also understood the rules of this business, so he could only look at the stone and sigh. Later, the customer offered to let the girl's father cut the stone and inspect the goods on the spot, and the girl's father seemed to want to show off his vision, so he agreed. Cutting the first knife, sure enough, the condition is good, he was very interested, and let the second knife be cut, only to find a slurry stone hole, so that his wool rough stone is sold at a loss. He was a little devastated, and he didn't dare to cut it down with the third knife, but at that time, another customer offered to take out 200,000 yuan to buy the stone that seemed to be a loss, and he hesitated for a while, and finally sold the seemingly worthless stone to the customer at a price of 200,000. After the transaction, the customer asked for a third cut on the spot, and guess what, the most central part of my wool stone is simply beyond everyone's expectations, the color is dark green, evenly distributed, bright and bright, the texture is extremely delicate, the transparency is excellent, the jadeite is thick, yang, positive, and the color is complete, it is a piece of old pit glass (the best in the jadeite). ”

Speaking of this, Boss Wang's face turned red, and it seemed that he was regretting that he would buy the most valuable treasure in this jadeite.

"Mr. Ye, you should also know the price of Laokeng glass jadeite, even if it is not processed, the market value of the wool rough alone is about three million, and my piece of material stone weighs more than ten catties, so the market value will be at least tens of millions. The girl's father saw that the treasure he got was given to someone else because of his misjudgment, and he completely collapsed at that time, no one thought that he actually snatched the stone into his own hands like a madman, rushed to my processing table, and smashed this extremely valuable stone with a hammer, you think, more than 10 million things are gone, can the customer spare him? If you want him to pay him, he will definitely not be able to afford it, he originally opened a small jade shop, the business is not prosperous, barely able to support the family, his wife died early, and there are no other relatives at home, with such a dumb daughter to live, but he is addicted to gambling stones, and his mentality is not right, and he not only lost all his money, but also lost himself. Later, I learned that the later customer was also a big boss who was difficult to mess with, a famous big boss and big man in Mingzhu City, and was smashed by this girl's father for more than 10 million, where can I be willing to find someone to drag him out and beat him up, not to mention, by the way, even the jade shop where he raised his family was smashed, and the relationship between people is hard enough, and the anger is not enough, Leng is to get him into the bureau, we have surveillance video here, and there are witnesses, he is also poor and can't afford to hire a lawyer, this prison is fixed. ”

When Boss Wang said this, he relieved his breath, looked at the dumb girl who was still kneeling on the ground and holding Ye Feng's legs, and said: "Mr. Ye, you may think I was a little ruthless just now, how can I beat this girl, in fact, to be honest, I sympathized with her at first, after her father was imprisoned, she came to me, but that incident really has nothing to do with me, my deal with her father has been completed, and what happened later is completely between her father and the big family." This girl can't speak, I didn't understand what to do at first, and then one of her people who seemed to be a neighbor followed, and after an explanation, I realized that almost half of the 600,000 yuan that this girl's father came to me to gamble on stones were borrowed, and the remaining half was mortgaged to his own jade shop. ”

"This girl came to me to ask me to tell her the address of the big family who sent her father to prison, and she went to the public security bureau to inquire, but the people in the bureau just refused to tell her, saying that her father's evidence was conclusive and that the court was about to announce the verdict, and that it was good that the big family did not pursue their civil compensation again. So she came to ask me, but where do I know, even if I knew, I wouldn't dare to tell her, what kind of person is someone, I'm a stone trader, if I want to provoke such a person, I will want to mix in Mingzhu City, not to mention that I really don't know. But this girl is as crazy as her father, she just refuses to leave, she comes to me every day and kneels, and I can't do business, and then I really can't stand it, so I simply took out 300,000 yuan from the money his father gambled with me and gave her, so that she could go back to live a good life, but she refused to want it, she had to spend it with me, Mr. Ye, you said that this matter should be replaced by you, can you stand it? I'm a businessman, if she comes to me every day to kneel, I will have to close the door in a short time, so I just saw her like that, I really can't stand it and beat her, like her, even if I call the police to arrest her, it's normal, but I don't want to do that, I'd rather beat her so that she doesn't dare to come, and I don't want to make too much trouble and ruin her life. ”

This boss Wang talked for a long time, and finally let Ye Feng understand the cause and effect of the matter, at this time, looking at this mute girl, Ye Feng was not only sympathetic, he suddenly felt that she was very pitiful, a gambler's father ruined himself and his daughter's life after a crazy gambling stone that lost his mind.

Ye Feng looked at this poor girl curled up at his feet, and felt depressed in his heart, what kind of faith and will did this girl can make this girl kneel here so badly and abandon her dignity, just to beg for a message that may never be obtained, when the public authority ruthlessly rejected her request for information about the big man who caused her father to go to prison, the only choice she had was really to beg for something from Boss Wang.

Ye Feng squatted down, gently brushed away the girl's scattered hair, looked at this delicate and haggard face, and felt the stubbornness and persistence contained in her eyes, he knew that at this moment, it would be difficult for him to let go.

"Get up, I'll help you." Ye Feng said softly to the girl. (To be continued......)