Chapter 11: The Shadow of the Stone (Revised)
I'm here to sell something this time, and I only brought ten catties of gold to eat ghost rice noodles. As a last resort, I took out a stone and held it in my palm and said loudly: "I really don't have enough money on me, but this."
One stone is worth a hundred pounds of gold. ”
"I just picked up a broken stone and wanted to bet thirty catties of gold, but I couldn't afford to lose five catties, a bun of dirt buns." Yang Wei sneered and walked over.
Ouyang Pei also shook his head and said tauntingly: "Empty warehouses and granaries are really scoundrels." ”
I didn't talk to them either, I put the stone on the counter, picked up a strong flashlight from the old Song stall and pressed it against the stone, and the light penetrated in at once. It didn't work very well, so I added a strong flashlight to hit the light into the stone. The light passed through the stone, revealing a figure sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stone.
The crowd of onlookers suddenly boiled, and everyone gathered even higher.
"There's something in the stone."
"It's like a figure."
"That's right, there's a figure sitting cross-legged."
"What is this? Is there really a treasure inside? ”
"I think it's fake, right?"
There was everything around, and Lao Song also carefully examined the stone, "I don't think there is a fake, there is really something in the stone." ”
After Lao Song finished speaking, he looked up and saw Dongfang Bai and Ouyang Pei's faces, and immediately shut up.
"Get out of the way, let me see." A voice was heard, and the crowd suddenly made a way out.
It happened to be Lao Hu, the bookkeeper of Dibaolou, who pushed down the glasses on the bridge of his nose and bent down to examine the stone carefully, and then took the flashlight and shone the stone all over.
"Hu peeling, is this stone fake?" A man watching from the side asked.
Lao Hu carefully checked it many times, and looked up at me a few times, and finally said: "This stone is not fake, there is indeed something in it." ”
Wow, the crowd squeezed over.
"What's inside? Is there really someone in there? ”
"Lao Hu, looking at the human form, is it a 10,000-year-old ginseng?" This one was obviously much more polite.
Steward Hu shook his head, and continued to look at the stone over and over again, "It's really true, it's really ......?"
Finally, the butler straightened up, looked at me and asked, "This boss, where did you get this stone from?" ”
"Ancestral." I said.
"Would you like to sell this stone to our Treasure Tower?"
The question of the steward is clearly proof of the value of the stone.
"Hmph," Ouyang Pei snorted coldly and said, "Don't be just an empty shell. ”
Steward Hu said: "It is also possible that there will be an empty shell in the stone, but it looks like a human shape, but our Dibaolou is willing to gamble, but I don't know how much this boss is going to sell?" ”
The first time someone called me boss, I didn't know how much this stone could sell, after all, it had never been opened.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Steward Hu said again: "I just heard you say 100 catties of gold, I can be the master and take 50 catties directly, you see......"
"Lao Hu, he is willing to bet on this, he lost this stone, but it is mine." That Ouyang Pei said.
I was extremely disgusted in my heart, just now you said that I picked up the broken stone casually, and now I see that the stone may be a treasure and want me to take the stone and gamble with me, I originally wanted to put this stone at the auction or gamble on the treasure will be sold, and now I directly agreed to the Hu Guan: "Okay, fifty catties will be sold to you." ”
That Dongfang Bai began to look at the stone there again, and when he heard me say this, he immediately straightened up and said, "Even if this stone is worth fifty catties, we will bet fifty catties with you." ”
I didn't make a sound, I was making a trade-off in my heart, and Ouyang Pei provoked me: "Don't dare? Don't dare, go back early. ”
"Bet on it, whoever is afraid of whom." I said.
"And bet on panties." Wan Camel suddenly let out a scream.
The onlookers were just as strange as I was staring at him.
The fat man next to him hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't look at me, I don't know him." ”
"Alright, let's get started." Dongfang Bai said.
"Well, Mommy, poison, poison, and beauty." The fat man suddenly held his hands at Dongfang Bai's mouth and kept babbling.
"Fatty, what are you doing?" I asked.
"Curse them, mold them." After saying that, the fat man began to babble like a mosquito flying again.
It really takes a cheeky face to say it so blatantly, the fat man's face is much thicker than the flesh on his belly.
I shook my head lightly and began to inspect the counter here, occasionally watching with my eyes, occasionally using the method in the wordless heavenly book, and Dongfang Bai also began to inspect Lao Song's stall.
I saw a good stone, the size of a book, and it was quite heavy to hold, but it couldn't be illuminated with a strong light flashlight, and at most the light penetrated a centimeter and it couldn't be seen, and the stone was also extremely heavy, obviously there was something inside.
"Little brother, this stone is good, I was ready to drive it yesterday, and I didn't get any money yesterday." An uncle next to me was trying to encourage me to settle on this stone.
"Don't listen to his young man, his name is Mei Fang, not only is the person with a square brain but also very moldy, and the gamble has never won." An old man said next to him, and suddenly a bunch of people around him laughed.
Then I won't choose, this depends on luck, I didn't eat ghost rice noodles today, and I also have a little weakness.
Looking at it, I was attracted by a huge oval stone egg, I picked it up from the bottom of the booth counter, put my hand on it to release mana and sensed it, and opened my eyes to take a closer look, I was sure that it was a stone that resembled a dinosaur in ancient times.
This thing is a treasure of stone powder, modern growth in the body of the pig is called pig treasure, also called pig god sand, long in the body of the donkey called donkey treasure, as well as horse treasure, dog treasure, can be sold at a sky-high price, this thing in the belly of the dinosaur should be called dragon treasure, now it has become a fossil, if there is just a treasure in the world is priceless.
I was about to open my eyes to take a closer look, but the fat man came over from the side and whispered to me: "You lost just now because you deliberately dug a pit for them to jump, right?" ”
I whispered to the fat man with a pale face: "Pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, 5 catties win 50 catties." ”
But he didn't expect Dongfang Bai to suddenly walk over quickly and fold the fan and put it on this dragon treasure, "I want this thing." ”
"What are you doing?" I said angrily.
"I don't think you want it, I'll ask for it." Dongfang Bai said calmly.
"Who says I don't want to?" I questioned him.
"This is a gambling stone, everyone can see that the stone is placed here, and whoever decides it is first." Oriental White Road.
Ouyang Pei and Yang Wei next to him were also saying: "This is the rule, the hillbilly doesn't understand the rules and still bets with us, losing to you." ”
"Whew! Obviously, we took it out, and we picked it up from below. The fat man quibbled.
"Lao Hu, what are the rules here?" Ouyang Pei didn't speak, and asked the caretaker.
The old man pushed his glasses again and said, "Whoever decides first is whoever." ”
Someone in the crowd next to him also said: "Little brother, just admit it, the rules here are like this." ”
"But ......" I was about to refute but didn't say anything, although the stone was picked up by me, it was indeed Dongfang Bai's first determination, and I inadvertently saw Zifei in the distance behind me through the mirror on the counter, Zifei changed places again, and only looked at my back from a distance.
I looked lost, my mood plummeted, the fat man was still arguing, I patted the fat man on the shoulder and told him to stop talking.
"Keep looking, don't bother." Dongfang Bai said arrogantly, constantly stroking the piece of dragon treasure as if he had won, and the crowd of onlookers next to him obviously only wanted to see the excitement, and they didn't dare to offend the four young people, and they were also urging me to hurry up and choose a stone.
"There is still a stone in Old Song, which is bigger and rounder than this one." Ouyang Pei said with a smile.