Chapter 41: The Cursed Gem

"Hello, my name is Ling Xiao." Ling Xiao nodded lightly at the blonde girl, and said with a smile, "It's a beautician." ”

Holly Robinson, who was wearing a dark blue lady's suit and had a sharp and angular face, asked a little incomprehensibly, "What do you mean by counting?" ”

"Hmm!" Ling Xiao pondered for a moment, and then explained in a low voice: "I am different from ordinary beauticians, but if you want to become more young and beautiful, it is absolutely right to look for me, and the previous Michaela Baines was my client." ”

"Oh!" Hearing Ling Xiao say this, Holly Robinson's eyes showed a special look, if today's diamond exhibition was taken away by Julia, then among the several female models, Michaela Baines is the most beautiful.

"Can you tell us more about that?" Holly Robinson followed up with a question.

"This ......" Ling Xiao glanced at the crowd around him, and said helplessly: "I just use some means similar to massage and acupuncture plus medicine to help women maintain their youthful beauty, this is my job, as for more specific, after the exhibition is over, we can contact privately." ”

As he spoke, Ling Xiao took out a business card from his body and handed it to Holly Robinson. After Holly took it, she looked at it twice, and then looked at Ling Xiao with interest and said, "It turns out that you are a Chinese medicine practitioner, it seems that I have to find a time to try the medical methods from the mysterious ancient country of the East." ”

"yes, if you're really interested, we can have a good chat privately." Ling Xiao looked at Holly Robinson carefully, raised her eyebrows slightly, and said, "Girl, I think you shouldn't be 23 years old this year, you shouldn't be in such a hurry about these things." ”

"Anyway, you should give it a try." Holly Robinson showed more than the average person should have, maybe women are like this when they mention this, but the vitality of this Holly Robinson body is beyond the interest that ordinary people should have.

"Hey, Ling, did you see it, that person is Scott? West! Suddenly, Holly Robinson pointed to a middle-aged man who was talking to someone not far away and said, Ling Xiao followed her gaze, and a sturdy, glasses-wearing, Sven man came into Ling Xiao's sight.

"Huh?" Ling Xiao frowned suddenly, although Scott West had been standing there with his back to the two of them, Ling Xiao could still clearly see that when he and Holly's eyes were on each other, the other party's shoulders couldn't help but shake slightly, obviously sensing the gaze of the two.

It's really interesting, how do you always meet these people with special abilities tonight, it seems that this jewelry exhibition has a special mystery!

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Although Ling Xiao's movements were slight, Holly Robinson, who was close at hand and had been talking to him, still noticed a slight abnormality, and looked at Ling Xiao with some playfulness.

"Nothing." Ling Xiao smiled lightly, looked at Holly Robinson and said, "Can you tell me a good story about that Scott West's specific deeds?" ”

"I don't know the specifics very well," Holly Robinson glanced at Scott West and whispered to Ling Xiao: "West was born into a family of "diamond hunters", his grandfather and father were both diamond merchants, and he was a 40-year diamond trader in New York. The owner of the West Diamond Company, this time a private diamond dealer was invited, setting a precedent for dealers to be invited to display their collections in a museum. So this time, he really came up with two good things! ”

Speaking of good things, Holly Robinson's face showed special interest. Seeing this scene, Ling Xiao's heart moved slightly, he vaguely guessed something, but he couldn't be too sure, after all, women's interest in jewelry is always unusual.

Diamond hunters, as the name suggests, hunt diamonds through various means, compared to formal diamond companies, those diamond hunters in the process of hunting diamonds, there are some unscrupulous means, many means can not be on the table.

In the strict sense of the word, each of those diamond hunters was guilty and had blood on their hands.

Thinking of this, Ling Xiao suddenly felt a smell of mountain rain coming and the wind was full of buildings, and two of them appeared at once, no, three, or even more. Ling Xiao looked around, he didn't know how many people in the scene had a particularly unusual interest in those jewels, and were willing to do anything to seize them.

"By the way, Ling, do you know what the last mysterious jewel is?" Holly Robinson suddenly asked Ling Xiao.

"I don't know about this, but I think it can be used as the last exhibition item, and this gem should be worth more than the four pieces just now." Ling Xiao groaned slightly, and continued: "This level of gems should be limited in the entire world, I don't know if that one was borrowed for exhibition. ”

"All the jewelry on display at this exhibition should be on sale, but I don't know if the last one is the same." Holly Robinson said with some excitement: "If that's really the case, then this jewelry fair is really interesting!" ”

Ling Xiao smiled lightly, looking at Holly Robinson with glowing eyes, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly, woman!

At this moment, the heavy curtains on the four windows were suddenly pulled up, and the entire exhibition hall suddenly became dark. Everyone present was a person who had experienced several jewelry displays, so it was natural that everyone understood what this scene meant, and everyone looked forward to it with great interest.

At this time, in the center of the booth, a glass counter suddenly rose slowly, and as it slowly rose out of the ground, a translucent blue light spread out from the glass cabinet in all directions, and the eyes of everyone present were attracted.

Immediately afterward, a large purple sapphire appeared in front of everyone, set in a silver ring with words and astrological symbols painted on the surface.

As more details appeared in front of everyone's eyes, most of the people present couldn't help but exclaim, because this purple sapphire was so famous.

"How could this thing be here, how could the British possibly lend it out." Holly Robinson leaned in front of Ling Xiao and said with surprise, her eyes fixed on the sapphire as she said this.

Before Ling Xiao could speak, he saw a staff member in the center of the exhibition hall walking to the glass counter and introducing to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, as you know, this gem is the famous Delhi purple sapphire, its rarity, her beauty, and its legend make it occupy an extremely important position in the history of world jewelry!" This gem was specially borrowed by Mr. Scott West from the British Natural History Museum for this exhibition, although if you are interested, you can also try to contact the British Natural History Museum. ”

As soon as the staff's words fell, everyone present couldn't help but chuckle, who would dare to have such a gem.

Yes, who would dare to have such a famous cursed gem, Ling Xiao couldn't help but sigh slightly.

The Delhi Purple Sapphire is a rare Indian gem in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, but for 60 years the gem has been locked in a cabinet in the museum, because it is said to carry a "curse", and its owners have suffered disasters and even sudden disasters.

The Delhi Purple Sapphire was captured by soldiers during the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and brought to England by a cavalry colonel.

However, when the new owner of the gem, Phyris, arrived in England, he suffered a series of bad luck, not only did he lose all his money, but he also suffered from a lot of illness. When Philis's son inherited the jewel, the same bad luck befell him. A family friend of Phyllis borrowed the gem for a few days, only to commit suicide shortly after.

The priceless Delhi Purple Sapphire became a symbol of disaster, with rumors that it had been "cursed" and that anyone who owned it would be in bad hands.