Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Road to Wealth

"Oh, I'll just say that although the people in the village didn't like me all these years, excluded me, and almost starved me to death when I was a child, they didn't really kick me out, and I will follow the young lady in the future and never come back......"

When Gui Mingyue heard this, she couldn't cry or laugh, Dai Mo, this girl spoke straighter than Jin Qi'er, and she didn't know how to turn.

Dai Mo continued: "Oh, by the way, please let the people in the village take care of that poor evil uncle in the future." Because of his negative father, Dai Mo actually has a little apology for this uncle in his heart.

Before, it was all the way to the golden coin chattering, but now the new generation is chattering non-stop...... Then the "well-informed" Jin Qi'er disliked her while explaining to her those things that made her fresh.

Dai Mo is talented and smart, when Gui Mingyue is in her spare time, she will teach her to read and count, and later found that she actually has the ability to never forget, whether it is reading books, or following Jin Qi'er and them to learn the etiquette of the Central Plains, as well as the living habits of the young lady, etc., she has learned several times faster than ordinary people, which surprised Gui Mingyue, if this girl was in her previous life, then it was a scholar bully.

"Miss, look at Sister Qi'er and Sister Shen'er, both of them have such rich names, can you also give me an equally rich name?"

One day Dai Mo expressed dissatisfaction with his name, anyway, there is such a shameless father, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't have his surname.

"So...... Your name is tortoiseshell, how? ”

"Tortoiseshell? I remember the book said, "It's a turtle shell!" Don't. Dai Mo frowned.

"Tortoiseshell is a precious ornament, its price is better than jade, and it is also a medicinal material." Gui Mingyue suddenly felt that the name tortoiseshell was very pleasant, so she persuaded the little girl with a smile.

"Oh, it's expensive, so let's be tortoiseshell!" When she heard that it was very expensive, the little girl accepted it with a smile.

"Uh-huh" Gui Mingyue is in a good mood.

Li Mobai happened to ride past their carriage, and happened to hear the conversation between the master and servant, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Along the way, I saw that Gui Mingyue's master and servants sold those jewelry, and the tricks were endless, for example, every time I went to a place, I only took out one piece of jewelry to buy, and the rich daughters and ladies of this place raised the price again and again in order to grab this unique and amazing jewelry. In the end, they even held an auction, and sold a crown of silver piercing clouds and chisels with red crystals for a sky-high price of 2,000 taels of silver......

Now Gui Mingyue asked the silver pendant to keep the silver taels, this girl counted the thick silver tickets in her hand, and kept the accounts carefully, and a smirk appeared on Su Rili's cold and silent face.

After finishing the account, the silver pendant was shown to the young lady, and when she saw the amount, Gui Mingyue had a smirk on her face that was the same as the silver pendant.

Li Mobai looked at the master and servant with a cold heart, took out a small bronze mirror and took a look at his peerless beauty, and couldn't help but shudder, because he occasionally heard the little girl in the tortoiseshell say that the widow of a huge rich man in a certain city wanted to spend a lot of money to buy a few beautiful men.

"Miss, have you noticed that Li Mobai has been avoiding us for the past few days?" Jin Qi'er couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

Yinzhu'er said "hey" and said: "It's just right, these days, the monthly case, if you don't come to his share, you will save it!" ”

The tortoiseshell shook her head and said, "This is called, and it will not wait for the expiration date." ”

"You ......"

Starting along Shudu, it passed through Luzhou, Gongzhou, Zizhou and other places, and finally traveled west from Maozhou and entered the Tubo country. There were three little maids playing around along the way, and everyone was not worried about being bored.

In autumn, Tibet is picturesque, the cattle and sheep are fat, and the people in the tribe are more friendly and kind than usual. For these foreign businessmen passing by, it is not strange. So the road was smooth, but the daytime sun here was too strong, Gui Mingyue and his party couldn't help but get sunburned, and Jin Qi'er couldn't stay in the carriage, and his face turned from fair to wheat-colored in a few days. Several men were even more tanned, and Li Mobai also temporarily got rid of the indecent title of little white face, and was no longer worried about being sold by Gui Mingyue's insatiable women because of his peerless beauty.

Only Gui Mingyue, whose skin is already fairer than ordinary people, is even whiter to shine under the eyes. Once, the sunlight was too scorching, and there was also sunburn and redness, so Dai Mo smeared a cool ointment, and soon returned to a crystal clear state.

"Miss, your skin is so white!" The wheat-colored Jin Qi'er smiled brightly, revealing her white teeth, and she had always been deeply proud of the young lady's extraordinary whiteness. No matter what kind of wind and frost and sun exposure along the way, I can't bury the young lady's fair skin and dark and bright eyes, and these days seem to have grown, more and more bright and moving, and the height is also pumped, when I get home, the lord and wife are afraid that they will not be recognized.

Stop and go in the country of Tibet, learn to ride horses and hunt with local herdsmen, and sell jewelry when you encounter a more prosperous city. I also bought some cordyceps sinensis and a whole cart of spices. When Gui Mingyue was about to return to the Central Plains, he taught Jin Qi'er how to cook, the ancient food was not as rich as the taste of the previous life, and this Tubo country happened to be a country rich in spices.

When he arrived at Moyu City at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains in Khotan, it happened to be the day of Gui Mingyue's twelfth birthday.

"Yue'er, rest for a while, let's go to the city to have a look, this Moyu City is so lively." Yu Hongbo said that he remembered that today was his little sister's birthday, so he thought about going to the city to buy a gift for her.

"Okay." Indeed, I saw that many Khotanese people gathered together in the city, and from time to time there were tidal shouts.

Walking on the street in the small town of Moyu, Jin Qi'er couldn't help but ask curiously, "Miss, what are they doing?" A crowd of people shouted around a few black stones, all of them like cross-eyed. ”

"They're gambling on stones!" Gui Mingyue suddenly felt an indescribable sense of excitement from her heart. And this feeling seems to be uncontrollable, and the footsteps are uncontrollable to squeeze into the crowd and go to the front.

I saw a large stone disc in front of me, carved with patterns of various exotic beasts. On the disk, there are nearly 100 rough stones neatly arranged, and each rough stone is marked with a serial number.

About the gambling stone this kind of business, full of mystery and excitement, it can be described as "a knife of poverty, a knife of wealth", "a knife out of the rich, a knife out of the madman", that is, gambling stones can make people rich overnight, but also can make people bankrupt overnight.

"This piece, I want this piece!"

"Fifty taels."

"It's open, it's open!" Everyone's eyes widened, "Hey, there is too little color, it's all cotton and cracks." ”

"Hey!" The buyer sighed, hugged his head and cried, the fifty taels of silver were still saved for the treatment of his seriously ill mother, and he blamed himself for being greedy for a while, so he spent all the fifty taels of silver.

Without this silver, the old mother could only wait for death, and the more this person thought about it, the more guilty he became, and he couldn't be patient and panicked, and he lay on the ground and hammered his head fiercely. The people around him were not surprised, but they thought he was in the way, and lifted him up and moved him outside the gambling stone field.

It's only fifty taels, what is it, and there are people who commit suicide by jumping into the river after losing all their family property in one day.

"I want that one, the big one."

"The price starts at one hundred taels."

"One hundred and twenty taels"

"Two hundred taels"

……

The people inside continue to increase the price like crazy......

"Miss, let's get out of here, you see their eyes are red, and they follow the devil like ......" Yinshen'er couldn't help but say worriedly.

Li Mobai's face was solemn, and he followed closely behind Gui Mingyue, looking at these crazy people around him vigilantly, just afraid that these people would go crazy and hurt Miss once they lost the gambling stone.

"I want that." Gui Mingyue suddenly spoke, pointing to a rough stone the size of a goose egg on the north side of the disc and said.

"Five taels"

Hey, I bought the smallest piece in the whole game, even if I was lucky enough to open something, the largest is a little bigger than my thumb. But the little girl, it's okay to go shopping and have fun. No one paid much attention to her.

An inconspicuous little job in the store, but he ran over diligently, and asked in the unskilled Central Plains dialect: "Do you need to cut it?" A tael of silver is all it takes! ”

"Okay, then cut it", Gui Mingyue threw him a tael of silver.

No one noticed them, just staring at the rough stones in the round field, ready to make a move.

Gui Mingyue looked at the young man calmly, only to see that he first took the stone and looked around, then set up the cutter, and cut a thin piece along the concave place......

When I took it in my hand to observe, I saw a trace of green, and I looked at the water head very much! There was a flash of excitement in the young man's eyes. There were sharp-eyed people in the crowd, and when they saw it, they surrounded them one after another, and surrounded the young man and Gui Mingyue and others in the middle.

The young man skillfully and steadily cut another piece of ......

Wow! Bloomed jadeite, the high-grade jadeite of Zhengyang green! And the shell is extremely thin!

"Miss, do you still want to open it?" The young man asked.

Gui Mingyue nodded.

"Wait!" A high-nosed and long-faced Khotanese man stopped him loudly: "One thousand taels, sell it to me, how about it?" ”

Gui Mingyue was noncommittal, and signaled to continue to open.

This young man's temperament is also calm, pick up the original stone and turn it to the back, and use a sharpener to grind off the stone skin little by little, and soon there is a very full head of Zhengyang green.

The crowd immediately seemed to have fried the pot, which showed that the original stone only had a thin layer of stone skin, and it was full of average and full, water-drenched ice Zhengyang green jade!

Gui Mingyue nodded, took the piece of jade that made her feel comfortable and said, "Did you buy it?" ”

This little girl doesn't know the goods in the end, and she sells this piece of fine jadeite easily.

"I bought one thousand two hundred taels" An arrogant voice sounded, saying that he was about to take it back from Mingyue's hands.

Before he could touch the jade in Gui Mingyue's hand, a bright sword was quietly and lazily placed on his shoulder.

Everyone gasped, they thought that this person would be able to make a big bargain with this little girl, but they didn't expect to be pointed at with a sword the next moment.

"Put down your dirty hands," Li Mo said expressionlessly.

Gui Mingyue didn't seem to see all this, turned around, raised the jade in his hand, and continued to ask, "Is there anyone else bidding higher than one thousand two hundred taels?" ”

Everyone didn't react for a while, what did this little girl want? Gui Mingyue then said regretfully: "If everyone wants it, it's fine." ”

"I'll give you fifteen hundred taels," a young master shouted.

"Two thousand five hundred taels!" The person with a high nose and a long face said again, the size of this jade is just enough to make a unicorn seal, and it will be my father's 60th birthday in a few days, and I am worried that I can't find a suitable gift, and this jade comes at the right time.

It is also appropriate for this son of the lord of the city to spend 2,500 taels to buy this piece of jade, and he will not lose or earn...... Someone in the crowd gave a pertinent assessment.