Subsequently, Qin Di and Yan Xue went to Annan for a turn, purchased 500,000 tons of grain, and sent it to Kunming, Yunnan Province, to replenish the granary there.

They also went to Myanmar to inspect the local jade veins and whether there were any associated spiritual stone mines.

The result is gratifying, Qin Di found a medium-sized spirit vein in the deep mountains and old forests, several small spirit veins, and also found a rare spirit stone vein, although the scale is not large, but the quality is good, which is also mixed with a small amount of medium-grade spirit stones.

Qin Di was overjoyed, and immediately put everything aside and excavated in person.

Yan Xue was also digging with a flying sword next to her, and her skills had reached the eighth layer of qi refining, and she could already run the flying sword.

The two of them dug for half a month in one breath, and dug out 8,000 pieces of low-grade spirit stones, 300 pieces of medium-grade spirit stones, and thousands of large and small jadeite rough stones.

Yan Xue was very happy when she saw such a beautiful jadeite, and said with a smile: "With these things, it is not worth the trip! In my opinion, gold and silver are not as good as jadeite." ”

Qin Di held a piece of jade the size of a melon in his hand and said with a smile: "You're right, gold has a price, and jade is priceless. If you like it, dig a little bit back. Like this piece of glass imperial green jadeite, you can take out five round bracelets, and then three chaise bracelets, and wait until a few years later, it can be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars. ”

The two of them stayed in Myanmar for more than two months, dug up 8,000 pieces of high-quality jadeite rough, and then happily walked back.

When passing through Fujian, they went to Wuyi Mountain Cave Heaven, unloaded most of the jade, and picked some fresh spirit fruits before returning to the magic capital.

By this time, it was late June 1936.

Yan Xue took an excellent rough stone, found a famous jade carver in the magic capital, polished a few pairs of bracelets, and gave them to Zhu Wan, Qin Ling and Qin Yue, and even 9-year-old Zhang Yiran got a small concubine bracelet.

Qin Ling put the bracelet on her wrist, and while she was happy, she felt sorry: "Such a good material, she shouldn't have carved a bracelet for her! In another three or four years, she won't be able to wear it!"

Yan Xue smiled: "Sister, don't feel distressed, how much material you want!"

"Huh, where did you go, where did you buy the material?"

"Haha, I went to the barren mountains with Qin Di to dig for two months, found more than a dozen jade veins, only selected a small amount of essence, and hired a few mule carts to bring them back. ”

"I see where did you put the jade empty-handed?"

"I can't let it go at home, so I put it elsewhere. ”

When Qin Di saw Qin Yue again, he found that her face was not good and she didn't seem to be happy, so he asked, "Why do you have a bitter face? Did Wang Shu make you angry?"

Qin Yue shook her head slightly, sighed, and said, "The Left Alliance has been disbanded." ”

Qin Di was stunned: "Why was it disbanded?"

He was not a writer in his previous life, so he didn't know much about this period of history, and only knew a little bit of it.

Qin Yue said: "I'm also confused. I heard that Mr. Zhou was very unhappy. ”

Qin Di racked his brains and thought about it, and said: "Disband, disband, disband, as a writer, you should have your own thoughts, you can't wear too many hats, otherwise you will lose your creativity." ”

It is not good for him to say much about this, otherwise it will be too widely implicated.

In the twenties and thirties of the 19th century, there were many Chinese writers, and then they were silent for a long time, until the 80s.

Qin Di felt that the dissolution of the Left League was a good thing, at least in the next ten years, Qin Yue would not be easy to be arrested by the Qingbai Party.

The dissolution of the Left League, purportedly for the purpose of building an anti-Japanese national united front, actually continued the policy of Red Russia.

"You write your book, follow your heart. ”

"But I feel a little uncertain about the future. ”

"Hehe, crossing the river by feeling the stones, who can see too far?"

On June 28, 1936, opposite the bustling Paramount Ballroom, a large casino opened, called "Phoenix City" in Chinese, with a large English sign, "Phoenix City", and Paramount in Paramount.

Phoenix's architecture is magnificent, decorated with gold, and the halls are home to a variety of gambling facilities. There are not only spacious halls, clean and tidy tables, but also a lot of private VIP rooms. There are pai gow, mahjong, solitaire, sic bo, and a lottery called "phoenix wings".

In this era, there was already a commercial "old tiger machine", and there was a row in Phoenix, and a silver coin was thrown in, and if you were lucky, you could spit out a hundred. Of course, most of the time it was all lost.

Roulette is even more indispensable, with a huge roulette wheel in the lobby that spins at any time and welcomes gamblers to place bets.

Baccarat, this poker game is popular in Europe and the United States, and is very popular with foreigners.

There are no clocks and no windows in the casino, and the lighting is suitable, and the champagne beauty makes people indulge in it, and they don't know what day it is.

Needless to say, this big casino was built by Qin Di, under the name of Du Yuesheng, and Qin Yuankong and Qin Yuanlong were the behind-the-scenes management, and most of the personnel in it were disciples of the Qing Gang.

As soon as Phoenix opened, it attracted a large number of guests, who threw a lot of money into it and walked out in disgrace. Everyone who loses all of them will also be given 2 oceans by the casino, so that they can go home smoothly and not think about crashing to death at the door.

Phoenix City is making money every day, and Du Yuesheng is so happy that he can't keep his mouth shut, because he didn't pay the principal, he sent some people, and these people can still receive salaries. In addition, he took 30% of the profit, which is equivalent to earning this money for nothing.

For this reason, at the beginning, he was still a little uneasy in his heart, and specially invited Qin Di to a banquet, saying that as long as one achievement was enough.

Qin Di waved his hand: "Boss Du, do you think I'm a person who is short of money? I opened a casino to enliven the atmosphere of the magic capital, so that the common people can temporarily forget all their troubles when they bear the national disaster." ”

Du Yuesheng's eyes widened when he heard this, he looked at him with a suspicious gaze, and said, "Mr. Qin, your excuse is high-sounding and too interesting. ”

Qin Di smiled and said, "I opened this casino with another purpose, to help you find out who the invisible rich are, and then you can send someone to kidnap and ransom ......"

"This ...... Mr. Qin joked, my surname is Du is a serious person, and I don't do anything illegal......"

Qin Di thought to himself: "If you are honest, are you still the boss of the Green Gang?"

Of course, he will not tell Du Yuesheng the truth, the reason why he opened this casino is for three purposes: one is to launder money, the second is to train his two nephews to prepare for the future entry into the Macau gambling industry, and the third is to better collect information on all forces in the magic capital.

He had an office on the top floor of Phoenix, and if he sat in it, he could hear all the action in the casino and the Paramount ballroom, and he didn't have to be in the ballroom to gossip.

Even if he himself is not free to come, Yan Xue and Gu Rumei can come.

Yan Xue was the eighth level of Qi refining, and she could hear the movement within a range of three hundred meters around her, which was just enough to envelop the Paramount Gate.

Although Gu Rumei is only at the first level of Qi refining, she has cultivated the kung fu of the Xianyin Gate, and she can greatly develop her sense of hearing, and she can now hear the sound of the entire casino clearly.

Entering Phoenix, in addition to the main entrance, there is an underground passage that leads directly to a mansion not far away.

Therefore, Yan Xue and Gu Rumei came in and would not alarm anyone.