The cannon fodder of fast time travel has to struggle

Chapter 263 The Concubine Snake Is Hard To Do ([-])

If you want to say what makes money the fastest in this world, except gambling, it is gambling with stones.

When Xiang Wan and Rui came out from Mount Dai, he was almost penniless except for the snake skins.I asked the locals if there is a market nearby or a place to buy medicinal materials. I only found a very small wholesale market, and they did not buy medicinal materials. But there is a very hidden jade raw material wholesale market nearby. Anyone who goes there to try their luck, Generally, it will not be Dousheng Xiaomin.

So, the two stood in a rough stone yard with many onlookers, watching the stone gamblers ask the merchants to cut the purchased rough stones.

Xiang Wan took a look. The rough stones were different in size. From the outside, it was almost impossible to tell what was inside any one of them.

Every time a merchant cuts a piece, some people are happy and others are worried. If there is a good one, there will be people bidding on the spot, but if there is a bad one, the buyer can only consider himself unlucky.

The lowest price for rough stones is [-] yuan. Some people buy them directly and cut them on the spot, while others bet against the merchant. You can only admit that you are unlucky.

Xiang Wan observed here for a while, learned a little bit about the rules of stone gambling, then quietly withdrew, found a shop with very few onlookers, and discussed with the shop owner.

"My snake skin is big enough and thick enough. Judging by its size, it is sloughed off by a giant snake. If you put it in a pharmacy, there is no one that can't be bought for hundreds of thousands. I'm short of money now, so I use it to gamble. I If you are not greedy, just pick the smallest piece, and if there is a top-quality jadeite, you can buy it for [-] yuan, and I have nothing to say. If I lose the bet, the snake skin will be yours, and we will never default, how about it?"

This store owner is a middle-aged man, slightly fat, bald, and looks relatively simple and honest, but he can't hide the shrewdness in his eyes.He first looked at Xiang Wan and Rui's clothes, and saw that Xiang Wan had a determined face, while Rui didn't care, but both of them had a good temperament, not like ordinary people.Moreover, Xiang Wan himself was wrapped in snakeskin, and it seemed that he was really short of money.

He squatted down, pinched the snakeskin to look around, rubbed it with his fingers a few times, and then put it on the tip of his nose to smell it.Rui pinched his nose as expected, and took a step back with a look of disgust.

The shopkeeper looked at it for a long time before getting up and saying to Xiang Wan, "Your snake skin is indeed relatively rare, but I'm not a medicine merchant, so I can't tell if it's good or bad. Since you want to bet on stones, then add this piece on your body. You guys If I don't offer good materials, I won't treat you badly, I will buy a suit of clothes for you and you, and we will be cleared, how about it?"

"It's my first time betting on stones, and I don't know much about the rules, but we'd better make a written statement first, so as to avoid any unpleasant things."

The shopkeeper raised his eyes to look at Xiang Wan, and said with a sneer: "Who will reveal the true identity of the people who come here? It all depends on the character. If you believe me, we will do it. If you don't believe me, go find someone else, I'm too lazy Take care of this stuff."

Seeing that the shopkeeper's face shrugged, Xiang Wan knew that he had offended him, so he stopped talking.She looked around, the stone shops around her were either overcrowded, or there were many inquiries, but his place was deserted.Seeing that there were few people, I wanted to try my luck, but I didn't expect the store's attitude to change so quickly.

Rui approached Xiang Wan and whispered in her ear, "What are you doing with this?"

"Get money, we can't go anywhere without money."

"Just use this?" Rui pointed at the snake skin and said, "It's better to get a few bears, which can fill your stomach and sell for money. It seems that you humans like eating bear paws."

Xiang Wan pinched the soft flesh on Rui's waist, and said seriously: "From now on, you are also a human being, so don't say 'you human beings' again, and bears are protected animals by the state, hunting bears is against the law, you want to be imprisoned stand up?"

Rui let out a muffled snort, but didn't make a sound. He turned around and hugged Xiang Wan in his arms, grabbed her palm and said, "My lady has really strong hands."

Xiang Wan stepped on his toes, ducked aside, and warned him not to talk nonsense.Rui rubbed his nose, curled his lips and smiled.

The store owner was sitting on the recliner in front of the door, seemingly closing his eyes and dozing off, but the eyes that were slightly opened from time to time at that time completely betrayed his heart.

Xiang Wan put the snake skin in front of him and said, "Shopkeeper, I made a bet. However, I have to pick out the raw materials. If you get the best quality, I will sell it on the spot. In addition to the fifty thousand, I will give you the profit." [-]%, how about it?”

"make a deal!"

The shopkeeper stood up, with bright eyes and a smile on his face, beckoning Xiang Wan to go to the shop to pick out stones, while he himself carried the snakeskin to the table next to him.

In the store's eyes, Xiang Wan and Rui were the fools who delivered them to their door.As for those who gamble on stones, there will not be a top-quality one out of a hundred, and slightly better materials are also very rare.Xiang Wan didn't come here to give snake skins for nothing, so what was it?Taking a step back, if Xiang Wan really sells the best products, he will get money and build up the store's reputation. There will be no harm at all, so why not do it?

The shopkeeper has the shopkeeper's plan, and Xiang Wan has Xiang Wan's plans.While observing other people's making materials, she used her vitality to sense them a little bit, and all the materials that are good have relatively pure cold air inside.When she entered this store, she felt a lot of cold air, so she wanted to block it, she was sure, she would not lose!

Walking through the stones, Xiang Wan used her fingertips to feel the breath of each stone. The intensity of the cold air varied. When passing a rough stone, she found that she could not feel the breath inside at all.

Xiang Wan looked around the surrounding stones again in doubt. All the stones were more or less cold, but this one had nothing.This is strange, what is going on?

When she was undecided, Rui stretched out her hand, took it directly and went to the store, saying that she wanted to open this piece.

He moved so fast that Xiang Wan didn't even react.When she saw the shopkeeper holding the stone and thinking about how to cut it, Xiang Wan quickly ran over to tell the shopkeeper to wait, while she pulled Rui aside and asked him what he wanted to do.

"It's just a stone. I think you seem to be very rare. You just cut it off. The things inside can just make some jewelry for you. You are too plain, how can ordinary things be worthy of it?"

So Rui knew there was something good in it?

Xiang Wan asked with her eyes, Rui nodded, and pulled her over to let the shopkeeper start cutting.

Xiang Wan didn't know much about Rui's abilities, but in the eyes of the shopkeeper, the two of them were a team, and they couldn't be dismantled.Forget it, cut it, if there is no good thing coming out, Rui's snake skin will lose, so at most I can find a way to make money.

Xiang Wan stared intently at the stone, looking very nervous.Rui ordered the shopkeeper to cut it this way, that way, and then back and forth.

The first knife went down, but I didn't see the green color I imagined, and I didn't even see the edge of the jade.Xiang Wan was a little disappointed, but Rui still asked the store to cut it according to his ideas.

After the whole cutting, no jade was seen, the shopkeeper's mouth was grinning to the ears, and he was about to go to put the snake skin into the storage room.Rui shouted: "Wait a minute, what do you think this is?"

Rui picked up the spatula and scraped away a piece of stone as big as a palm in his hand. A crystal clear green light projected from the stone, which looked like the best imperial green emerald.

Xiang Wan was dumbfounded, and so was the shopkeeper, and hurried over, trying to take the stone from Rui's hand.Rui raised his hand and said loudly: "This is ours, we have to see it, and ask for a price!"

The storekeeper stared intently at the things in his hand, and was so excited that he couldn't speak: "Okay, okay, great. You, you wait, I'll call and find some big customers for you, and I promise to take pictures." Offer sky-high prices."

"Wait a minute, I'll cut a piece and save it, and I'll bid on the rest."

The shopkeeper watched Rui do it by himself, and cut out a small piece from a whole piece of top-quality jadeite, and said in pain, "This is a complete piece, if it is cut, it will not be perfect, and if it is cut, it will not be sold at a good price. How much less will it cost to sell this small piece? It’s better to keep the whole piece just now, and it’s not too late to buy another piece when you have money.”

"You're wrong," Rui put the small piece on the table and put the big one in his pocket, "The big one is for my wife to make jewelry, and the small ones are for sale."

The shopkeeper's face was cracked, with an expression of being struck by lightning, Xiang Wan didn't know what to say, what was Rui thinking, what she wanted was money, money!It's not jewelry or anything like that.

System: Shouldn't the focus be on that 'lady'?

The eager shopkeeper quickly called a few people, who seemed to be in a very imposing manner.One of them looked familiar to Xiang Wan, as if he had business dealings with the Ye family.

The man was taken aback when he saw Xiang Wan.Without waiting for him to speak, Xiang Wan went up to meet him, and said playfully, "Uncle Qian, I am Ye Zhiqiu from the Ye family. I saw Uncle Qian's demeanor with Daddy and Mommy at the last business banquet, and I still remember it fresh."

(End of this chapter)