Rebirth 1990: The beginning is sweet and cool Bai Yueguang

Shang Zizhe couldn't wait to take the cut part, took a look at it and laughed: "I told you, this is just a piece of waste stone, it's too hard to use as a road paving stone!"

Then he said to Du Qianqian: "Qianqian, do you believe me now? This guy knows nothing about gambling on stones, he is just pretending."

Du Qianqian's face turned ugly.

Both of these stones were carefully selected by her. Although Zhou Qi did not offer any suggestions, she intuitively felt that Zhou Qi agreed that these stones were valuable.

However, reality gave her a loud slap in the face. After cutting it open, she found that there was nothing inside, which made her feel very lost.

She began to suspect that perhaps Shang Zizhe was right and Zhou Qi really didn't understand gambling on stones.

Thinking of the previous bet, Du Qianqian became even more anxious. It seemed that she could only follow the previous plan and spend more money at the public auction.

Zhou Qi seemed very calm.

He admitted that he was not an expert in gambling on gemstones, and that the game depended largely on luck. It was expected that he did not get any good results this time.

Since Du Qianqian likes this kind of exciting game, it wouldn't be a bad idea to experience it occasionally.

"Master, please cut the other piece as well." Zhou Qi said to the master.

The master responded and started the tool again.

After a while, the stone was successfully split. This time, they did find something - a small piece of material, but the quality was mediocre, just better than nothing.

"Hahaha..." Shang Zizhe laughed continuously.

"Congratulations, this piece of material is probably worth about a hundred dollars, right? Hahaha! If you think more before buying it, you might be able to sell it for ten or twenty dollars more."

“That’s amazing! That’s amazing!”

"Such a small piece of material is not enough to deal with."

"How about this, I'll give you a thousand dollars and you can sell it to me. I'll take it back and show everyone that this is the material Zhou Qi found."

"Hahahaha... I'm dying of laughter. This joke will take me a whole year to laugh at, hahahaha... I can't take it anymore..."

Zhou Qi smiled and said to Du Qianqian, "It's great that you can get some material the first time you cut the stone. Keep working hard, and you may get something bigger and better next time."

“I consider myself quite lucky.”

Du Qianqian smiled and picked up the stone. She carefully looked at the emerald green part exposed at the broken end and said, "This shape is quite special. It looks like a heart. I like it very much."

"Master, could you please cut these two stones into smaller pieces and smooth the edges?"

She thought it was of great commemorative value and wanted to keep it as a collection.

Shang Zizhe said, "If you want this worthless stone, I'll give it to you."

But Du Qianqian ignored him. The cutting master did as she asked.

Soon, the original palm-sized stone was cut into two small stones that were each thumb-wide and finger-long. Some emerald green appeared on the cross-section, and it became smoother after polishing, looking very cute.

"Does it look good?" Du Qianqian asked.

Zhou Qi smiled and replied, "As long as you like it."

After that, they paid the cutting master's labor fee, and then the two of them walked towards the auction together, completely ignoring Shang Zizhe's existence.

Looking at their intimate backs, Shang Zizhe's eyes no longer had the previous malice, but were replaced by amusement and greed.

In his opinion, Zhou Qi was a layman when it came to gambling on stones, which could be seen from the stone just now.

This time, he was confident that he had already won.

Looking at Du Qianqian's elegant figure, Shang Zizhe already had his own plans in mind. However, he seemed to have other ideas about Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi brought Du Qianqian to the public auction, only to see Du Qianqian with a helpless look on her face, obviously caught off guard by the situation.

“It’s really enjoyable…”

Shang Zizhe saw the look on Du Qianqian's face and was secretly pleased with himself: "This is much more interesting than pursuing her directly."

He thought to himself, "You can show off, you can be arrogant, but in the end you still have to fall into my hands. A dollar bet? I want to see how much of a surprise this small dollar can bring."

The public auction has opened, but the scene is not as lively as expected.

For Zhou Qi, it didn't matter whether he came early or late, because every stone had to be bid, and even if he liked it at first sight, he couldn't take it away immediately. Therefore, he seemed very calm.

When you enter the public auction tent, what catches your eye is an astonishing number of stones, far exceeding the total number of stones in the private auction outside, and the quality is even more incomparable.

Many of the stones have a small opening that shows off the colorful interior colors - green, yellow, purple, etc. These treatments, called "windowing", make the stone look more valuable.

However, these "windowed" stones are often very expensive, ranging from tens of thousands to millions or even tens of millions of yuan.

Although the "window" is carefully selected by professionals at the best location, it does not fully represent the overall quality of the stone inside.

Sometimes, even if you pay a high price for it, you may find that after cutting it open, you will find that except for the small bit of good material at the "window", the rest of the material is useless. Such cases are not uncommon.

Real experts usually don’t easily buy these “windowed” stones. They are more interested in raw stones that have not been processed in any way and require a great deal of risk.

Because of this uncertainty, even so-called experts are extremely careful when deciding whether to open a window on a particular stone.

Once the window opening fails to achieve the expected effect, the value of the stone will be greatly reduced. Therefore, buyers tend to be more cautious when facing stones with window openings.

Zhou Xing had a clear goal in mind, as he searched the crowd for the big stone in his memory.

At the same time, Du Qianqian's face became more and more ugly. She found that she knew far less about this place than she imagined.

She originally planned to follow the footsteps of the experts and participate in the bidding, but the rules here seemed to be very different from what she had imagined.

The crowd gathered around the stones, each assessing silently, no one willing to reveal their true intentions.

All of this made Du Qianqian feel unprecedentedly challenged.

She had no way of telling which stones were priceless treasures and which were just ordinary rocks.

There were large tents one after another, stretching endlessly, with countless raw stones inside. For a layman like her, finding the target was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

She couldn't just throw money into any stone she liked. Even if she was rich, she couldn't afford to squander it. Moreover, even if she had money, she couldn't guarantee that she would bet on the right stone every time.

Du Qianqian had no choice but to ask Zhou Qi: "Have you figured out what's going on?"

Zhou Qi looked at her slightly nervous expression and chuckled, "I rarely see you so nervous. Are you regretting the bet you made?"