Xing Yi's reaction was also very fast, and he immediately squatted down to untie the sack mouth for inspection.

The judges hurriedly asked, "How?" Did you run into it? ”

Xing Yi said: "It's okay. ”

The judges gasped: "It's okay." ”

The carver is not at ease and wants to take a look.

Xing Yi said: "It's really okay, don't look at it, let's look at your sketch." ”

The judge stretched out his hand to stop the engraver: "The master has seen it, you can rest assured." ”

Let's take a look at the sketch together.

After reading seven or eight photos, Xing Yi picked out one of them: "I think this one is pretty good." Hand it to Yang Linxiang to see.

Yang Linxiang looked at it and said, "I don't understand, you can decide if you like it." ”

The judges took it and said: "Yes, since the master has selected, then you will be able to construct according to this drawing, pay attention to the fine, many collectors can fancy the stone, to a large extent, the base is playing a role in boosting." ”

The engraver made a mark on the sketch and said, "Excuse me, you have to pay a certain amount." ”

The judge then said: "Yes, this is also the rule of the trade, and if you pay a fixed fee, the agreement will be valid." The amount can be floating, I think in order to go smoothly, I will take 666 yuan first, and also please the lottery. ”

Xing Yi smiled: "Don't hide it from the judges and masters, because it is the first time for us to go far away, it is inconvenient to bring cash, so we have to go to the bank to get it." It's better to wait at the restaurant first, and I'll get the money. ”

The judges said, "What? Do you want to be treated? ”

"Yes, everyone can meet here, is fate, but also an opportunity, I will continue to communicate in the future, I hope to give me this opportunity, allow me to prepare two glasses of thin wine, to the master, but also to the judges and teachers."

Seeing that he was sincere, the judges said, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey." ”

"You go to the dining room first, I'll send the stone back to the dormitory, and I'll go get the money."

The carver said, "We'll wait for you here, and we'll go to the restaurant together." ”

The carver insisted, Xing Yi had no choice but to follow him, bent down to hold the stone, and when he got up, he suddenly said, "Ouch! He screamed, and his bowed waist couldn't stand up for a while.

Yang Linxiang hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him: "What's wrong?" ”

Xing Yi shook his hand: "It's okay, it's okay." "Keep pushing harder, and shout again," the waist seems to be flashing. ”

Yang Linxiang took the stone: "Don't move, I'll go." ”

Yang Linxiang carried the stone on his back to take the elevator.

Seeing that his waist was still bowed like that, the judges asked, "Is there a problem?" ”

He crossed his hands on his hips, tried to twist his waist slowly, rotated forty-five degrees, ninety degrees, and frowned slightly: "It's okay, it's okay for a while." ”

touched his chest pocket, apologized, and said, "I'm sorry, the bank card is in another panty pocket, I still have to go upstairs to get it, you go to the private room first, and I'll pay the bill when the time comes." ”

The judge said, "Okay, you go." ”

Yang Linxiang put the stone away, and was exiting the door, when Xing Yi pushed him in, turned around and closed the door, and locked it.

"What's wrong with you?"

Seeing him hurriedly walking towards the stone, Yang Linxiang was surprised: "Is the waist pole fine?" ”

He didn't speak, turned on the light, dragged the stone to the light, untied the sack, and pointed it out to Yang Linxiang.

Under the light, a scar the size of a penny appeared on the top of the bloody stone.

Needless to say, this is the masterpiece of the carver's mace.

"Look closely, what do you see?"

"Nothing."

"Look at the colors."

Yang Linxiang saw that after being hit by a hammer on a colored surface, the color inside turned white.

Yang Linxiang looked suspicious.

Xing Yi said: "Give me the knife on your keychain." ”

Yang Linxiang took off the knife and gave it to him, he chose an inconspicuous place in the lower part of the stone, scraped a small piece, and looked at it again, the red color of chicken blood was scraped off. He was in a hurry for a while, and scraped a few places in a row, and the color of the chicken blood disappeared, and an ordinary brown stone appeared in its original form.

Yang Linxiang's eyes widened: "What's going on." ”

Xing Yi said: "Bloodstone will not be like this, the real bloodstone is red from the inside to the outside." ”

"And what kind of stone is this?"

"An ordinary stone with the color of chicken blood on the outside."

"So what's going on? That person deceived us with this fake stone? ”

"That person didn't talk about it beforehand, and now I need to think about how to deal with the two of them."

"Tell them the truth? Let them come and see the stone? ”

"Of course not, that would be tantamount to declaring ourselves big liars."

"Pretend nothing happened?"

"If we go to the restaurant casually and pretend to spend money to invite people to dinner, won't we become big fools?"

"So what to do?"

"Thirty-six plans are the best plans."

"How to get there?"

"Let's pack up the stones first."

"What else?"

"Take it back to the concave factory, find that person, and make him look good."

But this way through the antechamber with the stone, where the judges and engravers waited.

The two of them walked around the room, unable to think of a good way to set it up for a while.

A voice sounded outside the door, and Xing Yi watched from the keyhole that it was a male waiter tidying up the room across the aisle.

Suddenly I had an idea.

He opened the door and invited the waiter in, telling him: "We are filming a TV crew, and now there is a clip, we happen to have a hotel service scene, and we want to use your ready-made tools and costumes here as props, and now I will discuss with you, I will borrow your work clothes, hats, tool carts, mops, towels, change of bed sheets, etc., to help complete this performance task, and after ten minutes, please go to the parking lot to retrieve it." Fifty dollars will be given to you. ”

The cleaner took the money, took off his work clothes, hat, and gave them the cart, mop, bed sheets, and everything they needed for filming.

The judges and engravers were still sitting there, talking, and occasionally looking towards the elevator door.

Xing Yi and Yang Linxiang came out as cleaners, pushing the cart, resisting the mop, and walked in front of them generously.

The attention of the judges and engravers was still on the elevator doorway.

Leaving the restaurant, the two did not stay for a moment, and rushed back to Jinxiu overnight.

The next morning he went on the road again, to go to the concave factory and find the man to settle accounts.

As I walked, I talked about it again.

Yang Linxiang wanted to take responsibility, saying: "The first person responsible should be me, thinking that when he sent the stone, I saw that it was red, and I was immediately confused, and I was deceived by him to take 2,000 yuan, I was really blind." ”

Xing Yi said: "I can't blame you, you don't know about bloodstone, but I know something, the real bloodstone must be red inside and out, and the brighter the color, the better." ”

"You weren't there."

"That's why I can't figure it out, I'm not here, why didn't I remind you."

"You don't have to pay me back the two thousand yuan."

"Why?"

"Don't cheat it, what's more?"

"You can't say that, and you can't think like that."

After walking five kilometers out of the city, Xing Yi suddenly shouted to stop.

"What's wrong?" Yang Linxiang was puzzled.

Xing Yi got out of the car, removed the stones, and lifted them into the grass on the side of the road.

Yang Linxiang grabbed him: "What do you mean?" ”

Xing Yi closed his eyes, shook his head, and sat on the stone: "Don't waste any more effort." ”

"How do you call it in vain? Was the 2,000 yuan cheated by him like this? ”

"If we don't go to him, he will come to us when he runs out of the two thousand dollars, and then we will reason with him."

"Will he come back?"

"To be able to come up with such a shameful means shows that he is a man who forgets righteousness and profit, and will do anything for money, and he must still be thinking about the three thousand yuan we prepared for him."

Xing Yi picked up the stone into the car again.

"I want to."

"Yes, wait for the liar to come and meet him."