There is a small city at the junction of Tiannan Province and Xiangao Kingdom, called Nanyu City, which is the distribution center of jade trading on the border of Tiannan Province. On this day, two young men came to the city, one with thick eyebrows, the other with a round face, and a five-colored bird on the shoulders of the young man. The two of them were dusty and interested, and they were the North Ming Xuan and Ximen Lifan who came to buy jade.

The most aggrieved in the past few days is Xiao Yan, more than three months ago, Bei Mingxuan and Lifan practiced ancient martial arts in the temple and had no time to accompany it, so they only had to play on their own in the mountains, and they went to the south corner of the city, and they were always collected in the shoulder bag by Bei Mingxuan. After getting out of the car, it refused to hide in its satchel, and Bei Mingxuan only let it stop on his shoulder like a showman in the rivers and lakes, and endured the strange eyes of people all the way.

Li Fan said: "Brother, take another monkey, and you can beat the gong to perform." ”

Bei Mingxuan said angrily: "Cheng, if you find a rope, I'll lead you." ”

When they came to the city, they all bought and sold jade, and after a little inquiry, they knew that the largest trading place in the city was Yuyuan Yuxing, and the two went straight to Yuxing. Walking into the jade store, this is indeed the world of jade, all kinds of raw stones, finished jade varieties are complete, and all kinds of neatly arranged in the commercial bank. There were more neatly cut jade in the courtyard of the trading house, and there were many rough stones that looked the same as ordinary stones, and he felt it carefully, but he did not find a jade with a cool aura like the sea spirit jade bracelet.

When I found the guy and asked, the guy showed an embarrassed look on his face that couldn't hold back a smile and said, "Boss, the best Nanyu, I have been in the jade store for more than ten years, and I have never seen it." I heard that it only comes out once in a hundred years, and such a large piece will cost millions, are you sure that what you are looking for is the best Nanyu?"

The guy pinched the tip of his index finger less than two millimeters with the thumb of his right hand to signal, and expressed great doubts in his words about whether Bei Mingxuan had ever seen the best Nanyu and what the concept of the best Nanyu was. Fortunately, Bei Mingxuan's consciousness is stable and his spiritual power is strong, so his complexion remains unchanged, otherwise he must have been blushing and ashamed. Because although he has seen the best Nanyu, he really has no idea about the value and preciousness of the best Nanyu. If according to the guy, the best Nanyu with such a big small half fingernail cover costs millions, then it will not cost Hai Ling a high-grade Nanyu that can carve a jade bracelet for hundreds of millions of dollars?

Bei Mingxuan thought for a while and asked, "Then this big brother, do you know where you can pick the best southern jade?"

The guy was stunned again, it was the first time he met someone in the jade shop who asked where to pick jade, just kidding, it is so easy to pick the best southern jade, so can this jade still be so valuable?

Seeing that he was a little impatient, Bei Mingxuan hurriedly took out two hundred-yuan bills from his arms, pinched them in his hands and stuffed them into his hands. Then whispered, "I'm sorry for you." ”

The guy coughed a few times and said, "Boss, we are a place to sell jade, and we don't know how to pick jade." However, there is another way to get good jade. ”

Bei Mingxuan was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Big brother, what can you do?"

The guy said: "There will be a rough auction in the backyard of the jade store this afternoon, no one knows what is in the rough stone, maybe the boss you are lucky, you can get a piece of the best southern jade by cutting the rough stone." ”

Bei Mingxuan said: "Gambling stones, are you talking about gambling stones?"

The guy said, "Yes, there are many people who gamble on stones and get rich overnight, and you can do it too, boss." ”

It seems that the guy doesn't think that Bei Mingxuan is here to find the best Nanyu, but regards him as countless speculators who have just entered the rivers and lakes. Bei Mingxuan nodded, it seems that gambling stones is a way, but he really didn't feel that there was good jade in the jade line in the front yard, of course, what a good jade was, he didn't know. When the man had received the benefits of the Northern Immortal, he warmly invited them to look around, and unreservedly introduced him to the varieties and values of jade. Bei Mingxuan hadn't studied it before, but he had learned a lot from his guy's words. When I came to the display case of the jade store, there were many finished jade of various qualities, and even many cut rough stones. The rough stone is encased in a thin or thick layer of stone skin, which hides a variety of different qualities of jade. The guy pointed to a rough stone the size of a basketball, and the rough stone had been cut open, and there was a touch of verdant greenery in the hole.

The guy said: "Boss, you see, this rough stone was sold for 50,000 yuan at the time, and as soon as it was cut, it was found to be emerald green, and the color was also very good. ”

Bei Mingxuan nodded again and again and asked, "Didn't you see the inside of the stone before you cut it?"

The man said, "Of course, if you can see the situation inside, you won't get rich? no one can see it, and you can't use instruments, otherwise no one will gamble on stones." ”

Bei Mingxuan asked again what the best jade looks like, as well as the price of the rough stone. The guy didn't have any reservations to explain to him in detail, the higher the fineness of the jade, the more delicate the jade, the better, and the color is very important. As for the price, there are from hundreds to millions, so not everyone gets rich in gambling stones, so it is not impossible to lose money, and even much more than those who get rich.

When he left the Jade Yuan Jade Shop, Bei Mingxuan understood that it was unrealistic for him to bring tens of thousands of yuan to buy good jade, but if it was used to gamble on stones, there would be no upper limit, or it was okay to become a billionaire, provided that he could win every gamble. Isn't it impossible? Bei Mingxuan smiled secretly with some smugness, just because others can't do it doesn't mean that he can't do it. Just now he tried to touch the rough stone, through the Lao Gong acupoint in the palm of his hand, his consciousness can faintly see the color inside the stone through the surface of the rough stone, if he does more training, I believe that the quality of the jade can be judged by the fineness of the color. So now he wants to go to other small jade shops where he can gamble on stones at any time to give it a try, and if he can, then raise some funds and try the large-scale rough auction of Yuyuan Yuxing, after all, the source of rough stones in Yuyuan Jade is the best.

In a small jade shop with only one façade, except for a small counter more than three meters long, some jade of different quality are displayed, all of which are piled up with large and small rough stones. The advertisement at the entrance of Xiaoyu Store is: For 50 yuan, you may become a millionaire.

Bei Mingxuan and Lifan walked in with Xiaoyan, and there was a woman sitting inside who was concentrating on trimming her nails with nail scissors. The woman is not very old, and the colorful makeup on her face completely covers what should be her immature skin.

Seeing a customer entering the door, she raised her head impatiently and said expressionlessly, "Boss, are you gambling on stones?"

Bei Mingxuan nodded and asked, "How to bet?"

The girl saw that the other party was two handsome guys who didn't look annoying, and they were really willing to gamble on the stone, and suddenly became interested. She jumped up, pointed to a few stones on the counter and said, "These are all 1,000 yuan a piece." ”

Bei Mingxuan asked: "Is there any cheaper, doesn't the advertisement outside say that it is 50 yuan?"

It turned out to be a poor ghost, and the girl suddenly lost her energy, she pulled down her face and pointed to a pile of pebbles piled up at the door and said, "Where, you can pick it yourself, 50 yuan a piece, no counteroffer." ”

With that, she sat down and continued to fix her nails, and it seemed that she would not stop until she had worn them out. Bei Mingxuan squatted down in front of the pile of pebbles, looking through them piece by piece, and the girl didn't come to disturb him, which was exactly what Bei Mingxuan wanted. Li Fan was very patient, standing behind Bei Mingxuan with great interest and watching him select the original stone, but Xiao Yan was a little impatient and flapped his wings from Bei Mingxuan's shoulder and flew to Fan's shoulder.

The girl jumped up with a scream: "Ah, such a beautiful bird, so beautiful." ”

She rushed over to tease Xiao Yan, only to find out that the way Bei Mingxuan chose the original stone was completely different from others. He just grabbed each rough stone in his hand, closed his eyes and felt it, and then put it down, starting slower, but faster and faster. There were 3 rough stones that he put aside, and the other rough stones were put back in their original places, and Xiaoyan attracted her attention, so she didn't bother to care about this poor ghost handsome guy. For half an hour, Bei Mingxuan finished picking all the pebbles, and he only picked 5 of them.

After paying the girl 250 yuan, he asked, "Little sister, how should I cut these stones?"

The girl said, "Cut it, you should be a large piece of rough stone, such a small stone, with grinding." ”

For the sake of the beautiful birds, she pulled out a rough whetstone from the corner of the shop, took a rough stone from Bei Mingxuan's hand, and rubbed it on the stone demonstratively.

While grinding, he said: "Na, just grind like this, you see that the stone skin on the surface of the stone will fall off after grinding a few times, if there is green color, it is a good jade." You see, this is the jade, oops, out of the emerald, just kidding?"

The girl almost threw the rough stone in her hand, but after grinding it for more than a dozen times, before her explanation was finished, a soft emerald green light revealed from the cracks in the stone skin, which was the best jade.

Bei Mingxuan smiled and took the original stone from her hand and said, "Is it to grind off all the stone skins?"

The girl looked at Bei Mingxuan a little stunned, and subconsciously replied: "Well, yes, yes." Third uncle, third uncle, come on, out of the cui, out of the cui. ”

With the girl's high-pitched voice, a rush of footsteps sounded from the back of the store, and with a bang, a side door was pushed open, and a man wearing a pair of pajamas and dragging a pair of slippers came and had a hazy eyes.

He looked at the girl and Bei Mingxuan and asked, "Who, who is out of the emerald?"

The girl pointed to Bei Mingxuan and said, "He, he bought 5 pieces of the pile of 50 yuan stones, and only after grinding the first one came out of the green." ”

The man rushed forward and stretched out his hand to get the rough stone that Bei Mingxuan held in his hand.

Bei Mingxuan blocked his hand and said, "Boss, what's the matter?"

The boss was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Just kidding, how is this possible, you go to Nanyu City to inquire, I, Du Chun, is a well-known Tong Suo who is not bullied, I just want to see it." ”

Bei Mingxuan raised his hand and sent the rough stone that the girl had sharpened more than a dozen times to Du Chun. Du Chun is a veteran, and he can see at a glance that there is a good jadeite in this egg-sized rough stone, and the color is very good, and the ones he sees are worth at least tens of thousands of yuan.

He said: "Brother, good luck, so, 5,000 yuan, I will buy back this stone." ”

Bei Mingxuan shook his head: "It doesn't matter how much it is, I want to grind it all out, I haven't grinded it all and I need you to teach me the boss." ”

It's a chick, Du Chun was overjoyed, he nodded again and again and said: "Cheng, I want to learn this, my Du Chunkaiyu is not the first and top ten in the south corner, it must be no problem to learn from me, but this piece of jade?"

Bei Mingxuan said: "You grind it out, no matter what's in it, it will be sold to you for 5,000 yuan." ”

An hour later, Bei Mingxuan came out of Du Chun's small jade shop, and there were 2 more basketball-sized rough stones in his backpack, which were exchanged for the 5,000 pieces of jade that Du Chun had purchased. Through Du Chun's explanation and on-site demonstration, Bei Mingxuan already has a spectrum in his heart about how to open the stone. He decided to buy a grinder, a polisher, and try to open all the rough stones he had selected to perfect his ability to analyze the rough stones. Du Chun was in the office on the second floor holding the piece of high-grade jade that was all ground out and smirked, although in the end there was only a thin piece of grinding, but it was at least worth hundreds of thousands, he used 5,000 yuan to buy it back, this outsider is stupid enough.

There was still some time before the auction of Yuyuan Yuxing, and he and Lifan opened a suite in a nearby hotel called Qingfeng Hotel. Unexpectedly, there is a room in the suite of this hotel that is specially equipped with a grinder and polisher, as well as a small cutter and a hand-grinding stone, which is specially used to open stones. Think about it, it's not a merchant who buys jade, or a gambler who wants to get rich overnight, no matter what kind of person it is, opening a stone is something they need to do, and it is normal to open a stone in a hotel room. With the cooperation of spiritual consciousness, he quickly mastered the skills of opening stones, and gradually perfected his ability to identify the quality of the rough stones through opening stones.

The six rough stones have all produced good quality jade, but he doesn't know how much it is worth, and he believes that it will not be less than one million. But what to do with the jade? If his ability to identify the quality of the rough was known to the merchants here, he didn't know what would happen. After thinking about it, he was more steady, he just took a piece of medium-sized raw jade that was not of the best quality to a medium-sized jade store and sold it for 200,000 yuan, and the other jade stones were all put away.

If he can't get the best southern jade, Bei Mingxuan thinks that he might as well try to find the origin of the jade himself. According to Du Chun's introduction, the high-quality jade basically comes from the Shanbei jade mine in the Yanbang Autonomous Region of the Gaoguo Autonomous Region, which is known as Laokeng jade. However, because of the mining for many years, the yield and quality have also decreased a lot. As for the best southern jade, he knew that the legend had only produced it no more than ten times, and each time it came out of the Shanbei jade mine.

It's almost time, he and Lifan came to Yuyuan Jade Shop, this auction is semi-public, Jade Store didn't deliberately publicize it, but it won't refuse guests who come to participate in the auction. The guy who received them in the morning saw that Bei Mingxuan really came, and he still came up to greet them very warmly and took them to the backyard. There are more than 30 people standing in the entire backyard, all talking to each other, it seems that they are some old customers of the jade store, and there are more than 20 rough stones neatly placed in the middle of the yard.

Bei Mingxuan found that Du Chun was also inside, and when he saw Bei Mingxuan and the two of them coming in, Du Chun greeted him and greeted him: "Hey, isn't this the Beiming brothers, are you also coming to participate in the auction?"

Bei Mingxuan nodded at him and smiled. Du Chun was very enthusiastic and introduced to Bei Mingxuan that the stones that were placed in the middle of the courtyard were the rough stones that were auctioned this afternoon. Du Chun took him to appreciate them one by one, and told his own views to Bei Mingxuan, it should be to make a little compensation for earning more than 100,000 yuan from Bei Mingxuan. Bei Ming Xuan saw that each piece of rough stone was numbered, and knew that it was for the convenience of the auction, so he followed Du Chun and touched the stones one by one, and he touched the large pieces up and down. Du Chun has seen countless stone gamblers, who see with their eyes, listen with their ears, top their foreheads, and kiss with their mouths. It's really normal to touch like Bei Mingxuan, not only Du Chun, but even the other people in the courtyard all turn a blind eye. Like them, there are many people who carefully appreciate the rough stones, and it can be said that most of them are doing the final investigation because of the auction that is about to start.