Chapter 23 Betting Stone

Early the next morning, Xu Jinghong left the mine and entered Yunzhou, a city he was already completely familiar with. Because he has gained a certain degree of freedom, Xu Jinghong likes to leave the mine and go shopping in Yunzhou City. Since he came to this world, he has been the most free recently. Naturally, he will not waste this rare opportunity to appreciate this ancient Chinese civilization under different histories.

However, because Yunzhou is located on the southwest border, it cannot be compared with Daliang in terms of architecture and population, which also affects the size of its city. Although Yunzhou is named after the city, it is just a larger town in Xu Jinghong's view. It is ten miles long from north to south and twelve miles long from east to west. It only takes a few hours to walk around the city.

But it also has its own attractive side, that is, a large number of exquisite jade and the jade carving industry derived from it. Xu Jinghong was able to judge from the geographical knowledge of later generations that Yunzhou, where he was located, should be near Yunnan, which is rich in jade.

And the Chinese nation is a nation full of strong interest in jade, paying attention to modest gentlemen, as warm as jade. Therefore, this small city also relies on the sale of jade. Many jade merchants from afar always like to buy their favorite jade or shaped jade in some jade shops in Yunzhou City, and then transport it to the Central Plains for greater profits. Unfortunately, the transportation in this era is inconvenient, and it is located on the southwest border. It is impossible to use jade as an introduction to form tourism like in later generations - consumption, otherwise the situation in Yunzhou would be better.

Xu Jinghong was a little interested in jade in his previous life, but his family's financial conditions were not allowed, and he was still studying, so he could only enjoy it on TV or magazines. Now that he is in the hometown of jade, he will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity. He often lingers in the jade shop in the city, which is also a pastime.

It's a pity that Xu Jinghong is still only a miner in the mine. Although he doesn't have to do anything, his income is extremely meager, so he can only focus on it. Few people buy a certain piece of jade, let alone those jade that have been carved. But today, Xu Jinghong plans to buy a decent jade, because tomorrow he will go to the Liu family to celebrate Liu Mo's birthday. He can't go with empty hands, and these are the only jade carvings that can be seen in Yunzhou City.

But after looking at several stores, Xu Jinghong found that he still underestimated the price of these jade carvings. Ordinary jade carvings need more than ten taels of silver, which is still not very high-grade and can't be seen by the Liu family. And those really top-quality jades often cost a hundred taels of silver. How can he afford only ten taels of silver?

"It seems that money is not everything, but it is impossible without money. This sentence is applicable in any era." Xu Jinghong sighed secretly and planned to buy some jade to express his feelings.

Just when Xu Jinghong wanted to call the boss, he was very thin and didn't look like a boss at all, but the store owner who looked like a clerk first said, "This young man wants to buy good jade, but he doesn't know what to do because he is short of money for a while?" He has also read countless people, and naturally he can see some clues in Xu Jinghong's expressions and movements.

Xu Jinghong's face turned slightly red and felt a little embarrassed, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, I'm going to a birthday banquet for the elderly. I wanted to buy an object that can see people, but the price of the goods on the shelf of the treasure is really..."

"The guest is also a sincere person, and the villain admires it! I don't know which one you like?"

Xu Jinghong did not shirk it. He pointed to the big Shoutao with a fist carved with green jade and said, "I like that."

"This thing is really good as a birthday gift, but it needs 130 taels of silver. Even if I am willing to give a discount to the guests, it will cost 120 taels." The boss took down the green jade peach and pointed to it and said, "This is made of a whole piece of green jade carved in March. Each pattern here is based on the characteristics of the jade itself. It is actually a top quality in a jade carving..."

Hearing him say this peach so well, Xu Jinghong didn't agree. Although he didn't really have a jade, he had also seen many treasures in his previous life. He knew that this green jade peach was just based on the characteristics of his own materials, which was not so precious at all. However, the price of Qingyu is not low, and it is not affordable.

Seeing Xu Jinghong's face, the boss stopped talking about the jade and began to take it to the point: "... It seems that this guest is not enough to pay for the money of this green jade peach, but the guest should not be frustrated. I have a way to solve your current problem here."

"Oh? But what's the way?" Xu Jinghong asked vigilantly. His memory of the last life is still there, but he knows a lot of deceptive tricks. For example, there are actually many defective peaches in the store, and the boss will sell them to himself at a relatively low price. These tricks flashed in Xu Jinghong's mind.

But the boss did not take out the second "peach", but pulled Xu Jinghong to the other side of the jade shop, pointed to a pile of black stones on the ground and said, "That's it!"

"Gabling stone!" When Xu Jinghong saw this situation, he blurted out the behavior he was familiar with.

"Oh, does the guest still know how to play this?" The boss was slightly stunned: "I figured it out by myself a few days ago. Why has this method begun to prevail in other places?"

Xu Jinghong just smiled and didn't explain much. Xu Jinghong has learned a lot about the gameplay of gambling stones from TV and the Internet. Some people became rich overnight, but more people went bankrupt because of this gameplay. Since you have a gambling word, in fact, this is very risky. From dozens or hundreds of wool materials, you can use your own experience and skills to judge the situation of jade in it, which is almost the probability of winning the lottery.

And the first real gambling stone in history was the emergence of He Shibi. In order to bet that what was hidden in the stubborn stone was a peerless jade, Bian He gambled all his money and was cut off two legs. When the jade showed its true face, he won a chance to become famous for thousands of years.

And after countless years of development, the means of gambling stones have been enriched. Some open a small mouth on one side of the stone, revealing only a little jade to attract people, and some are completely raw stones that make people guess, which can be said to be various. And now Xu Jinghong is facing a lot of raw stones that do not even show any internal situation.

Seeing Xu Jinghong stunned there, the boss only thought he was moved and quickly boasted how good the texture of these raw stones was, as if he could cut out the beautiful jade handed down as long as he chose a piece casually. Seeing Xu Jinghong's silence, the boss said, "Because this game has not really become popular in Yunzhou City, I try my best to lower the price to let you choose stones. As long as five taels of silver, you can choose one of these stones at will. No matter what kind of good jade is cut, I will not add your silver. Don't miss such an opportunity." The average price of each piece of these stones is two or three, and the boss has reserved a lot of profit margin for himself.

In fact, the boss is also very helpless to come up with such a gambling method. Because he didn't have enough money when he bought the goods last time, he could only buy some stones that had not been cut from the stone by himself, so that the price of these goods could be much lower. But when he came back, he opened a few stones that he thought were good, but there was no good jade, which made the boss almost bankrupt. Forced to do so, the boss came up with such a way to transfer the risk to others.

However, the local people in Yunzhou are not rich, and the rich people are unwilling to take this risk, so there was no guest who was willing to spend money to gamble stones in the past few days, which made the boss worried to death. Today, seeing that Xu Jinghong is young and doesn't seem to have enough money to buy these exquisite jade, the boss will try to pull him to buy a stone.

Xu Jinghong pinched the silver in his sleeve with his hand, and couldn't help but feel a little moved. If he really opened a piece of superior jade, the previous problem would be solved. But he still wants to confirm: "Boss, if I pay for this stone, will your store be responsible for cutting it? And if it's a piece of good jade, how much will you spend to buy it?

"Of course. As long as the customer is willing to pay for these stones, the shop can be opened for you free of charge. But once the stone is opened, you can't go back on your word. As for the price of jade, as long as it is good jade, our store will definitely give you a satisfactory price. In order to let Xu Jinghong buy a raw stone, the boss can be said to be struggling.

Xu Jinghong knew that the ancient merchants were much more honest than those in later generations. Since he himself agreed, he would naturally not regret it, so he nodded and said, "In this case, I'll buy two stones to try my luck." With that, he took out ten taels of silver in the sleeve and handed it over. If you really can't bet on jade, it's not a big deal to go to the Liu family with brazen hands. Xu Jinghong thought so when he handed over the silver.

When the boss saw that Xu Jinghong was not only persuaded by himself, but also asked for two stones at once. He was overjoyed, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter: "In this case, please pick the stone!"

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This will become Xiao Xu's means to earn the first bucket of gold O(∩_∩)O~