Chapter Twenty-Four: Three Consecutive Defeats
Bet 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 taels of gold, a piece of jade spirit veins weighing two catties, respectively approved the requirements of the fourth and fifth rounds, Demon Night and Lin Debiao were released to find the original stone, the rules are: divide the jade archway vertically into two, draw lots to decide where the two go, and choose the first round of rough stones needed in the area, and the second round of exchange venues. Each time to carry the original stone shall not exceed 3 pieces, more will be regarded as a violation, the two brought the jade archway dedicated to the "3 capacity weight eye", as long as the body carries more than 3 pieces of rough stones, the weight eye will send out an alarm, prompt.
"Give him one too, 0 capacity, and he'll go with me." Demon Night pointed at Yun Fei and said.
Several people acquiesced, and there was no rule that they could not bring attendants in the process of selecting jade. Lu Fuhua installed Yunfei with a "0 capacity weighting eye": "The first time to find jade is half an hour, and if it is not considered a violation of the time, it will be directly judged to lose; Wearing a 0-capacity weight eye, if you hold the jade for more than one minute, the weight eye will sound an alarm, and more than three times will be considered a violation. ”
Yun Fei nodded, he knew this rule.
The two sides set off and rushed to the prescribed jade field. This jade archway has a total of nine floors, each layer is huge, and it is impossible to visit all of them in half an hour, so in the first three rounds, the most important decisive factor is - luck.
"Look good, I'll rest for a while." Demon Night found a place to rest, sat down, and then comfortably crossed Erlang's legs.
"Get up." Yun Fei said to him while picking up the jade rough stones on the left and right and weighing them.
"Don't be so inhuman!" The demon grumbled and leaned back.
Behind him was a not-so-sturdy mahogany shelf, and when he was leaned on like this, he immediately couldn't hold it anymore and fell down with a "bang".
"Be careful!" Yunfei screamed and reached out to help.
But Demon Night was faster than him, and with a stretch of his long arm, he steadily caught the two fallen rough stones, and with the other hand, he grabbed the backward shelf.
"What, you're afraid of hitting me?" Demon Night said jokingly.
"Don't be shameless, how could the shelf fall backwards and hit you? I'm just worried about hurting the rough stone. ”
"Ahh "Then you're wrong, usually if you want to pay attention to people, you will say 'be careful', and when you pay attention to things, you will say 'be careful', so you are still subconsciously worried that I will be smashed."
"Heh, don't bite the words with me here," although he couldn't see the expression through the hat, Yun Fei knew that the pride on that handsome face and those phoenix eyes must be full of cheapness, "Lift your butt up, don't sit on that piece of jade rough stone." ”
Demon Night lowered his head, only to realize that he was not sitting on a stool, but a thick, stone bench-sized jade rough stone, and he knocked its surface like a watermelon.
"You jade players, what do you think of this thing?"
Yun Fei pushed him aside, lit the oil lamp in his hand, carefully followed the lines of the original stone, examined it from top to bottom, he touched it with his hand again, turned to the demon night and said.
"Touch your own ass."
was stopped by this inexplicable sentence, and after a while, the demon night muttered.
"Why ......"
But he still obediently reached out and touched it.
"Dry, wet?" Yun Fei stared at his hand and then asked.
"Wet ......?" Reaching out and touching it, even Demon Night himself was surprised, "Is there water on it?" I remember touching it before I sat down, what did you do? ”
Yun Fei gently stroked the stone. "Ponding Stone."
Demon Night has heard the rumor of the "water stone", it is called the "jade bed of the dragon king", and the folk claim that this stone has a dragon to live, so it often seems to be dry on the surface, and it can seep clear water after being suffocated for a long time. However, this is actually a fallacy, and the sequesterous stone is a large stone produced in the humid swamps of the south, and due to the perennial immersion in the water, a "water jade" is formed in the center of the stone, so it leads to the strange phenomenon of "stone water production". This jade is very mild in nature and is often used as a medicinal guide, so even a small piece can be expensive.
Yun Fei tried his best to lift the big stone, which was about a hundred catties, and according to the normal proportion, there should be two or three catties of water jade inside.
"Even if it's three catties, the price is about seven or eight thousand taels of silver, can this win Lin Debiao?" Demon Night calculated.
Yun Fei laughed out loud, he had a good idea. "Come, demon, I'll give you a mission, you go and walk around, find all the rocks in this layer, or bigger than this, and we'll lose as much as possible in this game."
Half an hour later, the two of them joined forces to move in a large stone with a full one hundred and fifty catties, and Demon Night claimed that there was jade in it, and it was a piece of jade! Lin Debiao was already sitting in the room, he turned his head and sneered.
"Such a large piece of rough stone can produce at least 100 catties of jade!" Han Cub teased.
Generally speaking, even the top jade master will not touch this kind of large outrageous rough stone, first, it is difficult to estimate, and secondly, generally speaking, the larger the stone, the less jade it contains, like this volume of rough stone, even if there is jade in it, it is only a pound and a half of third-class goods.
The demon night was full of interest and let the jade archway cut it quickly.
Lin Debiao didn't even bother to raise his eyes, he took out a thin silver knife with diamonds embedded in the edge of his sleeve, and cut the fist-sized rough stone in his hand in three strokes. The last knife went down, and a dazzling red light burst out of it, and it seemed that a viscous liquid flowed out.
But if you look closely, it is actually a kind of jade that can be shaped with things - fire spirit jade, the center of this jade is likely to give birth to high-quality fire spirit veins, which everyone knows, so many people are willing to pay a high price to buy a large number of fire spirit jade, and personally cultivate a huge and difficult to find fire spirit vein.
"About a catty, medium to high quality, the price is about 10,000 to 15,000 taels of silver." Yun Fei only glanced at it, and he had an approximate number in his heart.
The waiter brought the "gold scale", which is a special instrument for measuring the weight of jade, because it is a special forging, it is extremely accurate, and it is afraid that someone will do something on the weight, all the gold scales, after leaving the factory, can not be adjusted!
The paste-like fire spirit jade that did not stick to the hands was on the scale, and the pointer showed that it was three taels and eight coins per catty, and according to today's market price, it could be sold for about 1,200 taels of silver.
Betting on jade, betting is on the price, which side of the rough stone is more valuable, which side is the winner. Yun Fei patted the large piece of rough stone beside him that was as high as his chest, revealing a pleasant smile.
Sure enough, they lived up to expectations and lost.
Lin Debiao pulled 10,000 taels of silver into his pocket, and Han Xiaozi stuck out his tongue and wagged his tail to celebrate him. Yang Tiansa's expression did not change, but Lu Fuhua obviously showed disappointment - she had a lot of hopes for the demon night, but it seemed that she was not as good as she could know people when she was young.
"Let's go," in the second round, the two sides exchanged jade search venues, and Yun Fei patted Demon Night on the back, urging him to hurry.
"You're going to ...... this time," the man leaned in and whispered to him.
"This time we switched strategies and went to find the smallest rough in a layer – the smaller the better!" He could hear Yun Fei chuckling under the hat, and for some reason, this demon prince of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths suddenly felt that although the person in front of him was negligible in cultivation, he exuded an aura that was worth believing.
"If you want to be defeated, you will be helped; If you want to take it, you will take it. Your 'grinding' technique is not something that you have practiced overnight. Demon Night walked with him to the fifth floor, as if talking to himself, as if talking to him.
"I'll tell you a secret about becoming an immortal, how about you tell me your identity and origin?" He suddenly leaned into his ear and whispered. The voice was too close, and the accent that was not obvious was very low, like a rumbling carriage under his feet, and Yun Fei felt that all his internal organs trembled.
"Really? Or is it just kidding? Yun Fei turned his head, and since both of them were wearing hats, even if they whispered, the distance was not very close.
"Of course it's true." Demon Night swore and said.
"Then ...... Give me the work! Yun Fei stretched out his hand and pushed him, and the demon night staggered two steps and entered the fifth layer of the jade archway.
If this is undefeated, it is simply intolerable. After seeing the rough stone the size of the big mother's finger cover brought back by the demon night, Yun Fei thought happily, it was wrapped in a jade called "glazed jade", the real glazed jade is crystal clear, can shine on its own, only a small piece is extremely bright, and can grow bright, so it is often bought at a high price, as an everlasting lamp in front of the owner's coffin in the tomb. Even if it is the size of a big mother's finger, it will cost at least 20,000 taels of silver.
Unfortunately, this piece of "glazed jade" is man-made, that is, the scraps of different types of jade are ground into powder, compressed, and then poured into the hollowed-out stones. Because many people like to judge the type of jade in the rough stone by the weight of the feel, the external color, etc., but people's memories and feelings are not accurate, so many fraudsters with evil intentions take advantage of the loopholes from here to obtain a lot of wealth.
Seeing that after the rough stone brought back by the demon night was cut, there was a lot of powder sprinkled inside, Lin Debiao immediately understood, he was overjoyed, grinned exaggeratedly, and laughed loudly:
"Thank you for the golden taels! Hahaha! ”
The laughter carries with it the boldness and rampant nature of his character, which are originally complementary to each other, but in the eyes of different people, they are completely different. For example, what Ye Yan saw was boldness, but in Yunfei's eyes, this was the rampant bullying.
"Laugh, Lin Debiao, let's make you laugh again...... " Yun Fei took the demon night down to the sixth floor.
This time he took action personally, absolutely, absolutely to make that horseman's jaw drop!
"Lin Sanye's side is about 37,000 taels of silver, and the boy's side is about 35,000 taels of silver, and Lin Sanye still wins the third game!"
Han Xiaozi's voice was noisy like an old trumpet, a cicada that was still chirping hard at the end of summer, and after a long time, looking at the golden scale where the pointer had stabilized, Yun Fei realized something incredible:
In the third game full of confidence, he actually ...... Still defeated!