The years when I was reborn as a giant in the antique world

It was almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived, Xu Ze parked the car in the underground parking lot two streets away, and several people came to the entrance of Yushi Street together.

There is a big stone tablet at the door, and the inscription 'XX Yushi Street' looks like it has been around for a while.

This street is similar to a pedestrian street, the road is very narrow and messy, and private cars cannot pass, only walking or cycling.

There are many shops on both sides of the road. It is roughly estimated that there are hundreds of shops. The houses are dusty and the decoration is very simple, which is very different from the prosperous scene they imagined.

The most important thing is that this is incompatible with First Young Master Xu's identity, it's hard to imagine that the other party would usually come to this kind of place.

"This is Yushi Street." Hong Hai stood at the entrance and looked around. "There are quite a lot of people, but the environment is not very good."

Xue Yifan has heard some rumors about Yushi Street: "Don't look at the old houses, in fact, every shopkeeper here is worth more than one million yuan, and even the houses selling snacks on the roadside have some good materials. We have more money.

It seems that last year, someone accidentally broke a jade bracelet in a small shop inside. After expert appraisal, he finally paid more than 50 yuan. "

"Hiss, it looks like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is here." Hong Hai regained his spirits, "Master, take us to have a look."

"Ah."

Xu Ze originally planned to come here to try his luck. He currently has more than 500 million in his account, which was given by his parents and grandfather, and he also made money from betting on stones.

He gambled on the treasure of the main store, and then voluntarily gave it up for the Xu family, but Mr. Xu did not treat him badly, and directly transferred 1000 million to his account, so the funds are sufficient at present.

Xu Ze took them to a larger shop in the middle.

As soon as they entered the door, the three of them were surprised by the huge number of jade bracelets placed on the long table.

These bracelets are not displayed in a transparent glass cabinet, but are strung together with hemp rope very casually, and placed in rows on the tabletop covered with velvet. It is roughly estimated that there are at least a few hundred pairs.

There are also pendants, earrings, bead strings, etc. on other tables, all of which are placed simply, just like Chinese cabbage in the market.

Several middle-aged men and women were picking and choosing among these bracelets. When they saw a suitable one, they untied the rope and took out the bracelet to try it on. After a while, they felt that it didn't fit and put it down again, and replaced it with another one.

Hong Hai thought that when he was handing down jewelry just now, the beautiful female shop assistants were wearing white gloves and carefully took out the emerald pendants from the high-end glass cabinets, and then put the jewelry in an exquisite velvet box for him to watch.

Thinking of that scene, and looking at the scattered jade bracelets in the store, he immediately felt the gap between heaven and reality.

A young man wearing slippers came over to entertain them slowly, and before he could speak, he yawned, as if he hadn't woken up, "Well, what do you want to buy? There are all kinds of jade jewelry stores, several You can choose from a hundred yuan to a few thousand yuan.

The bracelets here are all three hundred and five hundred pairs; the ones next to it are more expensive, one thousand and six ones, three thousand pairs, and five thousand pairs, all of which are genuine. "

Yun Zhou glanced around, and found that most of the bracelets displayed outside were low-end bracelets such as coarse bean seeds and dried green seeds, which looked more like wholesale jade jewelry.

"We don't buy finished products, we're here to gamble on stones." Hong Hai didn't see the shadow of rough jadeite in the store, "Where's the wool in your store?"

The middle-aged man who was choosing next to him raised his head and glanced at them when he heard it: "If you want me to say, you might as well pick a few bracelets. Betting on stones and betting nine times out of ten is not something you young people can play. Don't regret it if you break."

Hong Hai frowned. Why did this man speak so unkindly? When he was about to refute, he heard Xu Dashao's cold voice: "He's right, he's here to show you this time, just watch it from the sidelines .”

"Ah?" Hong Hai was dumbfounded for a moment, "I'll go, young master, you're not authentic, it's hard to come here once, can we just watch you bet on stones?"

"Hmm." Xu Ze glanced at him coldly, "Is there a problem? Gambling with rocks is really not suitable for you, try not to touch it."

What he said was the truth. Betting on stones is really a test of mentality, and it is a big challenge for those who have never been in contact with it.

Hong Hai: "..."

All right, what the young master says is what he says.

At this time, the shop owner came over from the back yard and smiled as soon as he saw Xu Ze: "Young Master Xu, are you here to gamble again? Why didn't you say hello in advance this time?"

"It was decided temporarily." When Xu Ze faced others, his tone was always slightly alienated, "Take us there."

"no problem."

The boss took them to the backyard, but he didn't expect that there was another world here.

The area of ​​the courtyard is three or four times larger than the storefront in front. There are large and small woolen materials on the ground and wooden shelves, and many people are picking here.

At the end of the yard there is a stone dissolving machine. Although it is relatively far away, the sound of the grinding wheel turning can still be heard clearly, and the sound of metal cutting strongly stimulates the eardrums.

"Someone actually interpreted the stone?" Hong Hai patted Xue Yifan's shoulder excitedly, "Come on, let's take a look."

"Do you want Yun Zhou to come together?"

"Okay." It was also the first time for the young man to see someone explaining stones, with a curious look on his face, "Master, are you with us?"

"...No, you guys go first."

Xu Ze glanced at the woolen materials on the shelf. His main purpose of coming today is to unearth a piece of high-green ice jadeite, and try to alleviate the shortage of high-end jadeite raw materials in the N city branch.

Rough jadeite is generally divided into full-colored and half-colored rough.

Quanga wool refers to rough stones without openings.Because there is a thick layer of weathering crust on the surface of the rough stone, no current technical means can tell whether there is jadeite in it, and you need to identify it yourself, so it is called full bet.

The risk of all betting on wool is extremely high, and the probability of getting jadeite is relatively small. It is often said that nine out of ten bets lose, and most of them depend on luck.

The semi-gambling wool refers to cutting or wiping a hole on the surface of the rough jadeite, commonly known as "opening the skylight".

People can judge the seed water, color, texture, etc. of the internal jadeite through the "skylight" opened, which is equivalent to providing a clue, and the risk is much lower than that of the whole gambling wool.

Correspondingly, the price is also several times higher, and the better the emerald water exposed at the opening, the higher the price.

Some of the woolen materials on the shelf are semi-gatty woolen materials, and a few of the windows are not bad. The water planting water has reached the level of glutinous seeds and high green water seeds. Xu Ze thinks he can try his luck.

He put one of the woolen materials at hand, shone a white light flashlight along the window, and observed it carefully.

On the other side, the three of Yunzhou have come to understand Shiji.

There are many people around, all paying close attention to the process of dissolving the stone, and there are bursts of 'booing' from time to time.

"It's about to be cut for the second time. If it doesn't come out green, it will probably collapse."

"Not necessarily, this piece of wool is quite big, maybe there is still a chance."

"You didn't see it just now. Only the upper part of this piece of wool has pine flowers, and the possibility of green underside is very small. If you cut it again, it will be gone."

……

The middle-aged man who bought this piece of wool stood aside with a pale face. The first cut just now brought him a big blow, and his face seemed to be a little older.

He shrank his neck and put his palms together and kept praying, chanting words, and after 2 minutes, he gritted his teeth and said to Master Jieshi: "Master, let's make a second cut."

"Okay, where are you going to cut it from?"

"... Seven or eight centimeters further in."

"Okay." Master Jieshi quickly moved the half-cut rough stone to the left side of the stone cutter, fixed it, put it back into the machine, and pressed the button.

The huge metal gears began to rotate rapidly, and when they came into contact with the jade, they made a toothsome cutting sound, mixed with the "crackling" sound of the gravel hitting the glass cover, like a symphony before the judgment.

Although they couldn't see the scene inside the calculus machine, everyone was watching intently and eagerly waiting for the result. Of course, the most nervous person was the owner of the piece of wool.

His hands were tightly held together, and he paced back and forth anxiously, his eyes wished to stare a hole out of the stone interpreter.

"Okay." The voice of the stone-cleaning master sounded, and he manipulated the machine to wash away the gravel and powder on the cutting surface with clean water, then turned on the machine, and took out the cut wool.

Everyone held their breath at the same time at this moment, the middle-aged man was even trembling with his hands, with a longing and terrifying expression on his face, which looked very strange.

"...Collapsed." Master Jieshi looked at the cut surface, both sides were covered with white stones, with no sign of green, so he couldn't help but shook his head.

"Crash again? Damn, there isn't a single bet going up today."

"Looking at the cut surface, it should be useless. There is less than one-third of the whole piece of wool left, and there is nothing on the leather shell. The possibility of greening is very slim."

"Let's go, it's impossible. Generally, if the first knife does not come out green, the probability of the bet going up is very low."

And when the middle-aged man saw the cut face of the white flowers, he was stunned for a long time as if he didn't realize it, and then he yelled, his eyes darkened and he was about to fall to the ground, and he was quickly supported by the person standing beside him.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"Brother, wake up!"

"Should I be taken to the hospital—"

The middle-aged man was fine, he stood up quickly, but his face was as gray as fallen leaves in winter, a man in his 40s and [-]s finally sat on the ground and cried bitterly.

Seeing this scene, Yunzhou and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what expression to make, and their mood was a bit heavy for no reason.

It turns out that betting on stones is really not an easy task. Once the bet fails, you will have to pay a huge price. In short, you must do what you can.

Yun Zhou stood in the crowd and vaguely heard the discussions around him.

"I don't blame him. The 30 yuan was just in vain, and I didn't even hear a sound. It's hard for anyone to accept."

"Hey, he doesn't look like a rich man. How can he buy such expensive wool? It's too reckless! He's not a professional stone gambling expert."

"Haven't you heard that a few days ago, he gambled on a piece of emerald green jadeite, and the 1000 yuan of wool directly turned into [-] yuan. This is not a money obsession."

"Hey, things like luck are illusory. Once good luck burns incense, how can there be a second time."

"That's right—"

It turns out that everything is caused by greed.

If this person hadn't fantasized about getting rich by betting on stones, he could have made a small fortune, but it was a pity that he lost all his previous earnings, and even his savings for many years were lost.

Hong Hai always likes to be lively, and when he squeezed in from the outside, he was very close to the middle-aged man.

He took the waste that was cut to the size of a tissue box and looked at it curiously for a while. The surface was dusty, and it looked like a stone. Can you really extract the emerald from it?

The collapsed mood of the middle-aged man only lasted for a while, and when the next person who interpreted the stone came over, he stood up dejectedly, and wiped his face heavily with his hands.

Days would go on, and even if he cried to death, the money would never come back.

The middle-aged man saw Hong Hai holding the scraps in his hands, and found that the other party was young and well-dressed. A thought came to his mind, "Do you want it? I'll sell it to you for 3000 yuan."

"Ah?" Hong Hai was taken aback, he didn't want to buy this piece of wool.

Even if he had never been in contact with gambling stones, he knew from other people's discussions that this was the scrap left over after cutting it down. Otherwise, why didn't this person continue to cut it?

Sure enough, someone beside him reminded Hong Hai in a low voice, "Hey, don't listen to him, such a big piece of wool has been cut to such a small extent that there is absolutely no green. He just wants to recover some losses."

"Yes, but you can't cheat people if you lose your bet."

"Little brother, don't buy it. If you have 3000 yuan, you might as well pick up some leftovers. It's much cheaper than this."

Hong Hai hadn't planned to buy it at all, and he wasn't taken advantage of, he was just a little curious.

However, the middle-aged man seemed to be grabbing the last piece of life-saving straw, and shouted at Hong Hai with bloodshot eyes: "1500 yuan, if you want it, it's yours! Even a piece of leftovers costs hundreds of dollars. It’s really good, otherwise I wouldn’t spend 30 to buy it.”

Hong Hai scratched his head, looked at the maniacal eyes of the other party, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

He didn't plan to buy it at first, but 1500 yuan, it seems...not very expensive?He didn't want to be able to solve the emerald, but just wanted to try how it feels to bet on the stone, after all, this opportunity is rare.

"Don't be stupid. If you don't buy this piece of waste, throw it on the ground and pick it up for nothing. You have to pay 200 yuan for cutting a stone."

The people around him were all trying to persuade him, Hong Hai hesitated for a moment, he turned his attention to Yun Zhou and Xue Yifan, hoping that the two friends could help him with an idea.

Xue Yifan shook his head at him, and said in a low voice, "You'd better not spend this unjustly money. What's wrong with having 1500 yuan. Even if you do charity, you can't give it to this kind of person. Besides, you don't want us to gamble with stones."

He didn't like this person at all. People in their 40s and [-]s should already have a family. It's so irresponsible that people can't feel sympathy.

But Yunzhou noticed that the little jade dragon on his wrist stood up high, looking at the piece of waste in Hong Hai's hand eagerly, with two small dragon horns sticking out, and acted like a baby at him in a milky voice, as if he was determined what is inside.

Could it be... is there aura in emerald?

"If you want to try it, I think you can try it too." Yunzhou thought for a while and suggested, "After all, this time you can't satisfy your curiosity, you will also pick other woolen materials."

This is Hong Hai's character. He has an unspeakable curiosity and impulsiveness towards new things. If you don't let him do it, it's like scratching your heart. It's terribly uncomfortable, and you have to try it once before giving up.

"Haha, Xiao Zhouzhou still understands me!"

Hong Hai patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and nodded at the middle-aged man, "Okay, I bought it for 1500, even if it's a bet——I'll admit it!"

Several veteran stone gamblers next to them shook their heads loudly. As expected of a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, he really did not give up until he hit the south wall.

When the middle-aged man received the transfer, there was no joy on his face.

Compared with 1500 yuan, 30 yuan is just a drop in the bucket, but at least this month's living expenses are covered.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help closing his eyes and regretting, why did he come to gamble on stones——

It's really fascinating. I earned 5 yuan a few days ago and it wasn't enough, so I dared to spend 30 yuan to buy a stone.Now that he came back to his senses, he felt that he was crazy!

That's 30 yuan. The savings he had accumulated for more than ten years were wasted like this. What did he think at that time? !

Thinking of waiting for his wife and daughter after returning home, he wished he could kill himself who was impulsive at the time, but it was useless to think about it now.

The middle-aged man closed his eyes and covered his face and wept bitterly until the tears stopped flowing. After renting, he walked away from this sad place with heavy steps like a walking dead.

At this time, Hong Hai was holding the piece of 'waste' nervously waiting for the last one to finish diagnosing the stone.

"Huh, I feel like my heart is beating so fast, really, huh-huh—I'm going to be out of breath." Hong Hai tugged at the sweater on his body, it was obviously not a high collar, why did he feel so tight.

"It hasn't started yet." Xue Yifan gave him a helpless look, is that an exaggeration?

I'm nervous now that I haven't solved the stone, what should I do later.

Hong Hai took a deep breath. He knew that he might be overreacting a bit, but the stimulation really made his heart beat faster, and he felt the blood in his whole body rushing straight to his brain, which brought him an extremely excited feeling, even more exciting than drinking alcohol. , he couldn't wait.

"It's cut."

The stone-removing master turned on the stone-removing machine, took out the wool from the previous buyer, and wiped it with a cloth towel.After the wool has been cut twice, only a piece the size of a fist remains.

Judging from the exposed cross-section, the emerald has obvious graininess. If you look closely, it looks like grains of mung beans are arranged in it. The texture is rough, and the color is dark green like spinach, which looks a bit dull.

"It's okay, I should be able to make a few pendants." Master Xie Shi handed the unlocked jadeite to the other party.

The man standing next to him shook his head with a gray face. He spent [-] yuan on this piece of wool, and the bean seed spinach green he unwrapped belongs to the middle and low-grade jadeite. A pendant is worth a few hundred yuan at most. eight thousand.

"Oh, it really broke down again."

"It's better this time, at least it's green, which is much better than the ones just now."

"What's the use? Betting on stones is not for losing money. You can't even get a bracelet out of this jadeite material. It's really a big loss."

Hong Hai obviously heard the discussions around him, but none of them dampened the excitement in his heart. When the man took the wool away, he immediately handed over the 'waste' in his hands, and said with a grin: " Master, it's my time!"

Master Jie Shi took a look at him and sighed in his heart. This young man is really a standard person who is stupid and impulsive with a lot of money. He probably will be disappointed in the result.

"Are you sure you want to solve it? If you change the buyer, you will be charged again, 200 each time."

"I know, master, please explain, whether it is life or death, give it a good time."

"Okay, then I'll just cut a knife in the middle. If the knife doesn't turn green, then there's no chance at all."

"Listen to the master, you start cutting."

Hong Hai looked relaxed on the surface, but actually watched nervously as the wool was put into the stone breaker, his heart beating so fast that it almost jumped out of his chest.

He kept pacing in place, looking at it every two seconds, wishing that the time could be fast-forwarded three times so that he could see the result immediately.

He finally felt the mood of the people who explained the stones before. The mood was no different from the nervousness when checking the results when the results of the college entrance examination came out, or when the blind box was 99% ready and started the last set immediately.

Money is one aspect, but more is the stimulation brought by the unknown, because no one knows what is inside the stone.

Huh, huh... Hong Hai kept panting beside him, his hands trembling a little.

Obviously, he has comforted himself that 1500 yuan is nothing at all, and it doesn’t matter if he loses his bet. It would be much more expensive for him to open a bottle of wine at the bar, but even so, his palms still oozed dense beads of sweat, and there was nothing he could do about it. Restrain the excitement in your head.

Yun Zhou's expression also showed a touch of nervousness. He squeezed Xiao Yulong's icy and cool body, and felt the excitement and charm of gambling stones for the first time, which could not be brought by any kind of activity.

The sound of metal cutting gradually became quieter. Master Jieshi stopped the machine and took out the wool, "It's done."

At that moment, Hong Hai held his breath, stared at him with stiff eyes, and his scalp felt a little numb.

Master Jieshi wiped the cut surface with a cloth, revealing the translucent ground, which is fine in texture, as clear and moist as water, and as elegant and elegant as hibiscus flowers.There is a touch of green coming out of it, delicate and pleasing, just like the seedlings that have just grown in the field, with a slight yellow in the light green, pure and gentle.

"Congratulations, it's emerald from hibiscus, seedling green!"

Master Jieshi looked surprised, "Young man, you are really lucky." Who would have thought that such a fine jadeite could be extracted from a piece of waste.

"What, it's the land where hibiscus seedlings are planted!"

"My God, hibiscus jadeite was extracted from a piece of scrap—"

"It's gone up, it's gone up!"

"Quick, let me see!"

"Grass, don't squeeze."

After hearing the news, the crowd began to frantically rush to this side. Everyone wanted to see the emerald extracted from this piece of waste, and most of them wanted to be happy.

Even the store manager rushed over after hearing the news, which is related to the business of his store.

Generally, after the big rise, the store will set off firecrackers at the door to announce that there is a big rise in wool in the store. At that time, countless customers will come from other places, which can be said to be a lot of money.

This piece of green jadeite from hibiscus seedlings is considered excellent in terms of water, and its transparency is second only to that of ice. Degree.

But even so, such a pair of bracelets can sell for 10,000+, and some people like this elegant green color.

Xu Ze glanced at the surging crowd, paused in his footsteps, but finally did not pass.

If it was hibiscus seedling green or full green, he might bid for it, but the color of seedling green is too light, and it is not a particularly good material for high-end jewelry stores like 'Handed down Jewelry'.

As the saying goes, "the color difference is first-class, and the price difference is ten times".

Although it is a bit exaggerated, for jadeite with good water, the color difference will indeed bring about several times the price difference.

At this time, Hong Hai was completely dumbfounded holding the wool cut in half in his hand. It took a full minute to recover, and hugged Xue Yifan next to him, shouting and jumping happily: "Hahaha, The bet is up, my bet is up!

Yifan, Yunzhou, I actually solved the hibiscus jadeite, oh my god, I'm so happy—”

Hong Hai's heart is extremely excited at this moment, he can't wait to tell the whole world that he has bet on jadeite!

It turns out that betting up is such a happy thing.

At this moment, Yunzhou was also very excited, thinking that there is aura in the emerald, so can he bet on the stone according to the amount of aura contained in the wool?

The little jade dragon on the wrist straightened up high, desperately trying to rub against the piece of jade, but his body was only as small as the palm of his hand, no matter how stretched he couldn't feel it QAQ

It could only yell at Yun Zhou aggrievedly, rubbing its smooth scales against his wrist, twisting its body and acting like a baby.

"Hey, let's gamble on stones by ourselves later, shall we?"

Taking advantage of other people's focus on the emerald, Yun Zhou smiled and kissed Xiao Yulong's head, his eyes bent into crescent moons.

Xiao Yulong stiffened suddenly, shyly twisted himself into a beautiful jade bracelet, and obediently did not move.