Retrograde

Chapter 25 Conflict Caused by Jade

The original stone was placed in the middle of the chopping board. The stone boss sat in front of him, pressing the stone in one hand and holding a stone cutter in the other, and attentively cutting the surface of the stone with a knife. With each knife he went down, the eyes of the people around him became nervous, because no one knew what kind of beautiful jade was contained under this ordinary stone layer.

Suddenly, Boss Shi's hand stopped, and everyone was refreshed. They knew that his knife had found the location of the jade, and the next step was to remove the stone skin on the outside of the jade. Boss Shi's hand movements were even more careful, but this did not affect the speed of the section. Soon, the stone layer was stripped out by him, revealing the true face of the jade inside.

It turned out that there were some noisy scenes when the jade appeared in its true shape. Whether you know whether the jade is good or bad or not, everyone can see the extraordinary of this jade. Although it is only half the size of a fist, the whole jade is very round and smooth, and the whole body is covered with milky white light, which is a rare good sheep fat jade.

After a long time, there was a praise in the crowd, and then everyone began to cheer. Many jade shop owners have entered and out tens of thousands of jade, but have never seen such a perfect jade. Everyone showed envy and only hates why they don't have such good luck.

On the contrary, it was Boss Shi. Because of the lesson from the previous car just now, he was able to stabilize his mind. After calming down, he handed over the jade to Xu Jinghong's hand: "Mr. You are really good at it. I'm convinced by Lao Shi."

Only then did everyone turn their eyes from the jade back to Xu Jinghong and were very interested in this teenager's ability to know jade. With that straightforwardness, he hurriedly asked, "This gentleman, how do you see that this jade is unusual in the stone?" There are also businessmen who came from other places to buy jade and asked loudly, "This gentleman, can you sell this jade? But what's the price?"

Xu Jinghong still has a calm smile on his face: "This jade is spiritual. Although it is hidden in the stubborn stone, as long as you experience it with your heart, you can always find its characteristics. I chose the stone based on this, but I really got it right. He did not intend to say the doorway of measuring stones with true qi. First, after all, it is too different for ordinary people to believe. Second, it is also to help Boss Shi. In this way, others have some confidence in themselves that they can recognize good stones.

Boss Shi also heard the meaning of Xu Jinghong's words and looked at him gratefully. Then he said, "This jade is really a rare precious jade. As the saying goes, gold is priceless and jade is priceless. The price of this jade is indeed a little difficult to determine. However, the shop is willing to pay 1,000 taels of silver to buy it. No matter how high it is, it can't pay.

In fact, it is 1,000 taels, and Boss Shi can't take it out for a while, but when he said so, he set a starting price for this jade, and others have to be higher than 1,000 taels later, which is also a kind of reward for Xu Jinghong.

Sure enough, as soon as Boss Shi finished his words, a businessman over there shouted, "I'll pay 1,100 taels!"

"One hundred taels!", "One thousand five hundred taels!", "Two thousand taels!" ... Many merchants from other places here are people who know the goods. They know that once they go to the Central Plains, the price of this jade is more than 10,000 taels. Coupled with the careful carving of craftsmen, they are afraid it will take tens of thousands or even 100,000 taels of silver to buy it, so there is almost no hesitation in the price increase.

In a short time, the price of this jade rose to 12,000 taels, which made Xu Jinghong a little surprised. Although he could see the extraordinary value of this jade, he did not expect to sell it at such a sky-high price. However, since it was a business, he naturally hoped that the higher the price would be, so he just laughed and waited for the final price to be determined.

After reaching 10,000 taels of silver, the speed of those bidding has obviously slowed down. After all, this is a large amount, and even big jade merchants like them feel a little difficult. In the end, this jade was bought by a large jade from the beam for commercial use of 13,700 taels of silver.

The merchant was also refreshed and immediately took out a jade card from his arms and said, "This is a cabinet. You can exchange 10,000 taels of silver when you see the card, which can be exchanged in this official cabinet in Yunzhou City." This counter is the later bank and silver number, which can be absolutely trusted in terms of reputation. Then he took out a few silver tickets: "This is the silver ticket of Chase, 3700 yuan, which is also taken at the sight of the ticket. Please accept it."

Xu Jinghong took the jade card and saw that its jade quality was also good. His tentacles were warm, and there were some dark lines engraved on it, which must be a secret memory. It was indeed extraordinary. And those silver tickets were also fully stamped, and there could be no fake ones, so he nodded with a smile and said, "This gentleman is really a big hand. I admire it."

"Ha, if I hadn't been ordered by my master to find a piece of jade at this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be the master." After smiling, the merchant reached out to get the sheep fat jade, which is now his and so expensive that it naturally needs to be properly preserved. Unexpectedly, at this time, a proud voice came from behind the crowd: "Wait!"

Everyone looked at the sound and saw a boy in brocade coming up in a row. He is also very handsome, but he is a little less manly, but his arrogance makes people dare not look at him. He also holds a gold folding fan in his hand, which matches this brocade dress, giving people a sense of wealth.

When Xu Jinghong saw this man's posture, he was a little disgusted. Because at the time of Daliang, he was fed up with the bullying of the so-called young masters of the Xu family, so he did not like these self-righteous sons. However, because of politeness, he still asked with a smile, "Why, does this gentleman also like my jade?"

"Not bad, my prince has a fancy to this piece of jade. You can make an offer." A follower behind the prince also said in a superior tone, as if he could make his son look like this jade and others should be grateful.

Everyone's eyes fell on Xu Jinghong. They could see that the young man's origin was extraordinary and could not be offended casually, but they didn't know what price Xu Jinghong would give. The businessman from the beam was worried. He spent more than 13,000 taels to buy this jade at an acceptable maximum price, but he didn't want to kill Cheng Yaojin halfway.

Xu Jinghong ignored the arrogance of the other party, but looked like a businessman: "Since this gentleman wants it, I naturally have no reason not to sell it. However, this eldest brother has paid 13,700 taels, but I don't know how much you have paid?

The prince heard the disdain in Xu Jinghong's words, and his face suddenly became ugly and said hard, "I can't let you suffer too much. Well, fifty taels, you sell me this jade!"

"What..." Everyone was stunned, and they didn't know whether they were shocked or angry by this. More than 10,000 taels of jade was actually crushed to 50 taels by this man. Isn't this robbery?

But many knowledgeable businessmen dare not say anything, because they feel some unusual temperament from this young man, and there are several broad-legged men behind him as subordinates. I'm afraid he is indeed a big man. And these people are just ordinary businessmen. How dare they offend such a master?

Xu Jinghong was completely happy by the man's words: "Haha... Fifty taels, and he said that he wouldn't let me suffer too much. You are drunk to get drunk and go crazy." With that, he picked up the jade and handed it to the merchant just now and said, "It's a deal. You and I can't go back on it!"

"I'll see who dares!" The prince was so ridiculed by Xu Jinghong and immediately became angry: "Don't give you face, Liu Kui, this man dares to steal my son's precious jade and sell it to others. It's really unforgivable. Take him down!"

In the following attendants, one of the strongest strode up and grabbed the jade. At the same time, the other two blocked Xu Jinghong's front and back. Seeing that the other party actually did not agree, the people and businessmen immediately retreated to all sides. They didn't want to be the affected pond fish.

The merchant from the beam also showed anger on his face, but when he thought that he was only single now, the prince seemed to be a local snake, and there was no need to offend people for a piece of jade, so he also let go of the jade in his hand and let the big man take it away, and then he looked at Xu Jinghong. If it's over like this, he has to get his money back.

But Xu Jinghong told him that things would not end so easily. Seeing his progress, he took the initiative to approach the entourage waiting for him on the road, and didn't see how much he did. With a shout, the seven-foot-high man was lifted to the ground by him.

At this time, the man behind Xu Jinghong wanted to rush up to help. But before he rushed to him, Xu Jinghong suddenly twisted his body. With a twist, one leg had been kicked straight and kicked on the man's temple. The man didn't even scream and fell to the ground immediately. Xu Jinghong left his hand, otherwise the other party would have died there immediately.

With only two moves, he easily and neatly lay down the two big men. When everyone saw this, they knew that this jade-buying teenager's skills were so good. In everyone's surprised and expectant eyes, Xu Jinghong has strode to the jade-grabbing man named Liu Kui, and then stretched out his hand and spread his palm just waiting for the other party to hand over the things.