Chapter 25: Injustice
Yun Fei went out of the door and walked downstairs without saying a word, and Demon Night hurried two steps to catch up with him.
"We're ...... now," he asked, cautiously as he walked beside him.
"I can't win," Yun Fei's serious voice came from under the hat, and Demon Ye suddenly felt a little disappointed for some reason. "If this situation continues, you will definitely lose."
"Well, you also said that the first three games are just 'will be defeated, and you will be with it', what gold and silver treasures, compared to the later bets, it is simply not worth mentioning." Demon Ye enlightened him optimistically, but this was because he didn't know that in the third game, Yunfei had already begun to get serious.
"Demon," Yun Fei suddenly stopped in the stairwell, he stared at the man, even with a heavy hat, the demon night could also feel the burning gaze. "I'm not going to lose this game."
"Huh?" Demon Night tilted her head, puzzled.
"I've been tricked," Yunfei's tone was full of unwillingness. "It's not just Han Cub, those two masters are also of the same mind as Lin Debiao, I knew that there would be such a possibility, but I didn't expect the three of them to be so shameless as to join forces to change the market price of jade!"
"Market price?" Just a few words were enough for the demon night to understand what they were up to. "No matter what kind of jade you offer, they will take the lowest selling price it has ever produced, and no matter what Lin Debiao offers, will they use the highest selling price?"
"That's roughly what it means," Yun Fei nodded, "The price of my piece of jade should be between thirty-five and forty-five thousand taels of silver, and it will be calculated at thirty-five thousand, while Lin Debiao's is between thirty thousand and thirty-seven thousand, which is thirty-seven." β
Demon Night groaned for a moment, they expected this kind of injustice when they decided to bet on Lin Debiao's territory, but just like the butterfly effect, one injustice will lead to the overall deviation of the event!
"That'...... Is there a way to fix it? He asked hesitantly.
"Yes, there is, but ......" The seventh floor that the two of them came to, generally according to the rules of the jade archway, the higher the price of the jade above, the more precious it is. I have to open a peerless jade, the kind of jade that can throw Lin Debiao in any way. But......" He stopped, sighed, and shook his head slightly.
"Isn't that easier said than done? I handle half of the jade here, and he handles half of it, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is evenly matched, but it is absolutely superior...... It's hard for even a professionally trained jade master to do that! β
He reached out and touched a piece of jade, shook it twice, and put it back in place with some frustration.
"This fourth round is to gamble with your life, what do you think, what kind of jade can the three dogs open?" Demon Night followed behind him and picked up the jade he had touched in turn.
"Spirit vein, it must be spirit vein," Yun Fei didn't even hesitate, and said as soon as he opened his mouth. "If he takes out the spiritual veins that are 'among the five elements', I have to find the ones that are not among the five elements in order to win. But if he can touch the rough stone that is not in the Five Elements......"
Yun Fei's voice suddenly stopped, and Demon Night stopped.
"Although I don't play with jade, I still have this common sense, and I can surpass the original stone of the spirit vein...... There really is one. They turned into a dimly lit place, where the midday sun did not shine, and the crisp air was unreachable, except for a dim yellow oil lamp embedded in the wall, and the air was cloudy and oppressive.
"You don't mean it...... Let me prescribe 'that', right? Yun Fei's voice trembled a little.
"If you want to win this game, there are only two choices: one is to open a high-purity spiritual vein that is "not in the Five Elements", and the other is to ...... Draw 'amber'. β
The word "amber" made Yun Fei's heart tremble, the first time he opened "amber" in the rough stone made him unforgettable, at that time he was still Luo Qingjia, about thirteen or fourteen years old, one day quietly slipped out of the Luo family's high-rise compound, and made an appointment with the two friends of the Li family and the Wu family next door, and went to the jade archway on the main street to have a small addiction. For fear of being recognized, the jade archway they went to was a third-class shop, with few customers and not many rough stones, but in the deepest part of the second floor, they saw a special rough stone -
The original stone that was enshrined in the shrine.
Luo Qingjia was very curious, and reached out to take it down, but was stopped by the panicked old shopkeeper, he kept muttering something in Luo Qingjia's ear, and his little friend Li Chonghu pulled him away with displeasure, so that he could say something loudly.
The old man was silent.
Don't dare to raise your voice, for fear of frightening the people in heaven!
In the end, Luo Qingjia bought the rough stone at a high price, Li Chonghu laughed at her for being deceived, and the current merchants like to engage in this kind of miraculous business methods, but Miss Luo, who should have been witty and replied, was silent-
She sensed something unusual about the rough stone.
It should be as simple as "Miss Luo's unmet rough stone".
That night, Luo Qingjia hid in the boudoir, carefully peeling off the thick stone skin layer by layer, she saw a light yellow substance similar to jade, but not as crystal as jade, and in the irregular shape of the light yellow substance, wrapped in a little bright red.
She thought that the bright red was jade, and carefully removed the light yellow substance that was not hard but very tough, but who would have expected that after the silver knife pierced the last layer of protection, the bright red jade, like blood, flowed out viscously along the blade.
That's blood.
In the strange jade, there was blood wrapped in it......
"Hey, stupid?" The voice of the demon night woke him up from his memory, and Yun Fei's body spasmed.
"Well, no, you're stupid." Yun Fei raised his leg and kicked him, but the latter quickly dodged him. "This kind of place...... You can really find high-quality spiritual veins, and even ...... Amber? β
Since that time, Luo Qingjia has been learning about this strange "jade" everywhere, and she knows that this thing is called "amber". Amber was originally formed by the pine oil dripping and wrapping the leaves or insects and solidifying, but because the two characters are next to the word "jade", people have the whimsical idea to melt the treasure jade into "jade elixir", imitating pine oil. The ancients often wrapped the treasured things in "jade elixir" and buried them in the ground, so that they could be forever new. Over time, the soil will form a protective film on the outside of this 'artificial amber', which in turn will form the jade rough.
Therefore, the value of "amber" is not in the tough layer of "artificial jade" outside, but in the treasure that the ancients longed to leave behind.
Yun Fei touched a heavy rough stone in a pile of waste rocks under the windowsill, not like jade, it should be a spiritual vein. There was a burning sting sensation when he used the jade lingzhi to probe it slightly, and he guessed that it should not be a fire spirit vein, but something more destructive than a flame - thunder.
However, since the nature of the spiritual vein is different from that of jade, it is impossible to tell by the feeling that it is a small, surprisingly dense piece, or a regular spiritual vein similar in size to the outer rough stone.
"Take it," he tossed the thunder vein to Demon Night, and continued to do a carpet search on the seventh layer. Winning or losing in the fourth round is very important, not to mention that he doesn't know what kind of rough stone Lin Debiao will come up with, they are on his territory, if there are any precious jade rough stones, he must be the first to know.
"If you can really find 'Amber'......" Demon Night's voice rolled in his throat and finally came out, "What's inside...... Can you estimate what it is? β
"Shh Yun Fei stopped him, stood up straight, and listened quietly.
Demon Night closed her mouth, her ears moving dexterously. His cultivation was higher than Yun Fei's, so it was more than enough to hear some small sounds. "Footsteps?"
"Footsteps from upstairs." Yunfei took a big stride and walked towards the staircase.
If there is a gambling game of jade in a jade archway, it is generally necessary to "clear people" first, which means that at least above the fourth floor, there will be no guest activities.
"The sound of footsteps came from our heads, and according to the rules, the entire jade archway was divided into two vertically, how could anyone go to my 'jade search land'?" Yun Fei walked upstairs quickly and quietly, and said to the demon night in a low voice.
"It's Lin Debiao."
"What is Lin Debiao doing in my jade search? Judging from the current situation, he is not afraid of me, and he doesn't need to run to the eighth layer to find jade in the fourth game. The two sneaked up quietly, maybe the demon night used some means, Yunfei couldn't hear the footsteps of the two at all.
"Every game has to swap venues, and here...... It's his next venue! Demon Night suddenly understood something. Yunfei accidentally stepped on a loose plank, but did not hear a piercing "squeak".
The two of them walked lightly through the staircase, hiding in the shadows and groping forward, and in a few moments they saw a lamp that glowed with a dazzling white lightβor rather, it was not a "lamp" but a round piece of glazed jade placed in the lampshade!
"Glazed jade can not only grow bright, but also has strong light penetration, and some experienced jade masters can see the shape and texture of the jade under the stone skin." Yun Fei thought to himself.
"What is he looking at?" Demon Night suddenly asked.
"Shh
I don't know who I heard the voice of the two, Lin Debiao turned his head vigilantly, lifted the jade lamp and searched around, the white light was dazzling, illuminating a large area of darkness, and the shadow of the wooden frame next to the wall was stretched, protecting Yunfei and Demon Night safely in the darkness.
Suddenly, there was a rat-like squirming sound behind the two of them, Yun Fei was startled, and subconsciously wanted to escape, but was caught by the demon night.
"Don't move!"
The blue shimmer flashed, and Yun Fei felt that his whole body instantly warmed up, as if he was in the slanting sun and breeze of spring.
Wet clothes want to wet apricot blossom rain, blowing the face is not cold willow wind!
The man who came almost passed by them, Yun Fei didn't even dare to raise his head, and simply closed his eyes until he heard a shrill and obscene voice:
"What is the third master doing here?"
Even if he didn't have the memory of his five senses, he could still distinguish the owner of this voice, Han Cubzi.
"It's okay, come around here." When Lin Debiao suppressed his voice, the bass was quite heavy, and Yunfei even felt the floor tremble.
"Isn't there a 'treasure of the town' over there there of the third master?"
"Shut up!" Lin Debiao shouted, and hid the rough stone in his hand behind the shelf. "To deal with this third-rate goods, do you need to use that?"
"Yes, that's what the third master said." Han Xiaozi nodded and agreed.
There was a long silence.
"You go over there and see if you can still find that rough stone, if the thing that the regiment commander sacrificed his life to bring back from the Sunset Forest was cut open by a foreigner...... Hmph, what a fucking joke! β
Demon Night and Yunfei glanced at each other and smiled with satisfaction. They are really stupid, they have to be stubborn mussels and aggressive sandpipers, but they didn't expect to have the opportunity to be a "fisherman" who doesn't work hard!