Chapter 037 This is a diamond! It’s not worth it?

Xu Xingxia glanced at Gao Meng and said slowly: "He follows us, be safe. It's going to be dark, and it's not safe for him to walk alone."

Gao Meng stopped talking. Although he felt a little uncomfortable inside, Gao Meng dared not disobey Xu Xingxia's words. However, what he feared was not the discipline of the army, but Xu Xingxia's personal force. It has to be said that this was really the tragedy of the Ming army.

After walking for a while, he was about to leave the Gobi Desert and entered Zhenyuan Pass, Wang Qinian suddenly approached Xu Xingxia and took out a small box from his arms to give it to him. Along the way, he didn't say a lot, and he felt a little timid and afraid, but this did not mean that Wang Qinian didn't understand the rules. He intuitively found that this Ming army officer named Xu Xingxia was worthy of his relationship. It was very beneficial to have a good relationship with him. Unfortunately, he did not have a very valuable gift in his hand, so he could only use the things in the box to temporarily replace it. Gifts are light and affection is heavy!

Xu Xingxia took the small box casually, opened it and found that there was a piece of glass the size of soybeans inside, which was crystal clear and bright... After a closer look, she found that it was not glass, but something very precious in later generations. Unfortunately, the sky was almost dim at this time, and there was not enough light, and the things in the box were greatly reduced.

"Is this a diamond?"

Xu Xingxia said in surprise.

Wang Qinian shook his head and said it was not a diamond.

Xu Xingxia looked carefully. What is this not a diamond? Then he looked in front of him and looked carefully for a while. Xu Xingxia concluded that it was definitely a diamond. He said happily: "This is a diamond, I read it right. Wang Qinian, I didn't expect that there are so many diamonds on you! Okay, thank you! I accepted your gift!"

Wang Qinian's expression felt a little strange, and she didn't quite understand why Xu Xingxia was so happy. He suddenly opened the bag and showed it all in front of Xu Xingxia. Xu Xingxia glanced casually and was stunned. There were actually many diamonds in Wang Qinian's bag! The largest one was even the size of a small finger!

Xu Xingxia's whole body suddenly became hot. Damn, so many diamonds! Damn, it's developed! At the first time, Xu Xingxia took the initiative to think of making this Wang Qinian and snatching all his diamonds directly. Damn, so many diamonds are simply crazy!

"I'm rich!"

Xu Xingxia couldn't help but scream.

Suddenly I felt that the people around me looked strange...

Wang Qinian's expression was even more weird, as if he was watching a monster.

Xu Xingxia subconsciously felt something was wrong. Wang Qinian seemed to be not as stupid as he could show all the diamonds to himself. Money should not be revealed. Wang Qinian could not understand such a simple truth unless he took the initiative to seek death. Judging from his expression, it seemed that these diamonds did not look like valuable things.

Gao Meng's expression was even more strange. Gao Meng didn't seem to feel anything about these shiny diamonds. This was obviously abnormal. He couldn't even keep himself in front of the diamonds, let alone Gao Meng? However, Gao Meng didn't feel anything when he looked at these diamonds. Really, it was definitely not that Xu Xingxia was confused and misjudged.

For a moment, countless strange and absurd thoughts emerged in Xu Xingxia's mind. He was sure that something must have happened to a certain link that led to such a strange phenomenon. However, he didn't know which link was wrong. He tried hard to control his mind, and said with a trembling voice: "This is a diamond. Have you never seen it?"

Everyone around him shook his head with a strange look. Their reaction made Xu Xingxia feel even more strange. He felt that he had thought something was fundamentally wrong. The priceless things in later generations seemed to be in a mess in this dynasty. Xu Xingxia was completely confused when holding the diamond in his hand.

Wang Qinian suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked carefully: "Official, what do you mean by this thing? It's called diamond? Isn't it very valuable?"

Xu Xingxia's expression suddenly became strange, and she looked at him with a dazed look. Her eyes slowly turned, and she said slowly: "This... is indeed called Diamond...but it is not very valuable..."

Wang Qinian was immediately discouraged.

Looking at Xu Xingxia's expression just now, I thought diamonds were very valuable.

Xu Xingxia's expression became more and more strange. Looking at Wang Qinian and the others, it seemed that they did not realize the value of diamonds at all. There was such a strange thing in the world? His eyes rolled several times before slowly calming down his thoughts. After thinking about it, Xu Xingxia asked slowly: "Where did you get these diamonds...?"

Wang Qinian said depressedly: "It was a group of merchants from the west. They seemed to be from the Ottoman Empire, which was very far away from us. When they passed by the grassland, they were looted by horse thieves. All valuable things were taken away, and only these things were scattered on the grassland. Some were picked up for fun by others, and I picked up some, and bought some from others."

Xu Xingxia couldn't help but ask, "How much did I buy it?"

Wang Qinian raised three fingers.

Xu Xingxia subconsciously said: "Three thousand taels..."

Wang Qinian's eyes, which were originally squinting, suddenly opened as if they were bull's eyes, and instantly expanded by more than ten times.

Xu Xingxia changed her words and said, "Thirty thousand taels..."

Wang Qinian's face and eyes looked even more like a monster.

Xu Xingxia couldn't help frowning and said bluntly: "How much does it cost? It won't be 300,000 taels, right? You don't look like you have 300,000 taels of silver!"

Wang Qinian looked at Xu Xingxia all over the place as if he was looking at a monster. From his eyes, Xu Xingxia clearly felt that this guy really regarded himself as a monster. After a while, Wang Qinian stuttered: "Diamond... the largest one... thirty cents... the others are all three-word and five-word... I spent about three hundred cents in total for such a bag of diamonds..."

"What?"

"Three hundred cents?"

Xu Xingxia almost fell off the horse's back.

Damn! So many diamonds, three hundred cents? Did I hear this wrong?

Oh my God, this is not a joke? If these diamonds are sold in later generations, they will be at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times. Was Wang Qinian crazy? He can actually say such numbers? If so many diamonds are shipped back to the future, they will be worth at least several hundred million! It is enough to buy tens of thousands of lives!

Unexpectedly, at this time, the diamonds worth hundreds of millions of yuan in later generations were worth less than half a tael of silver. It was really... Xu Xingxia really couldn't find any words to describe them. He just felt that this world was abnormal. Finally, Xu Xingxia pressed down all the random thoughts in his heart and started a careful discussion with Wang Qinian. The topic of the conversation was of course about these diamonds. He didn't believe that these diamonds would be so cheap.

As a result, after some talks, Xu Xingxia sadly discovered that diamonds were really cheap in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, no one knew the value of diamonds. People in the Ming Dynasty generally like jade, pearls, corals, etc., and no one regarded diamonds as accessories at all. To explain that the most popular jewelry in the country recently was probably jade.

Jade was introduced from Myanmar after the founding of the Ming Dynasty. It took more than two hundred years to gradually become a mainstream jewelry. In front of jade, diamonds have no status at all, and no one even knows the name diamond. Only a very few people know that this kind of stone is called diamond, which is very hard and hard. Apart from that, there is nothing else.

The purpose of diamond jade is also an alchemist, that is, those so-called Taoist priests occasionally use it, but ordinary people have no chance to touch it. Since they don’t understand, don’t know, and don’t have the chance to touch it, diamonds are naturally cheap and useless in everyone’s minds. Compared with jade, they are completely in the sky and underground.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a strange thing..."

Xu Xingxia looked at the diamond in her hand and quietly muttered to herself.

What can this thing do? Since the Ming people have not realized its value and want to sell it for money, it is basically impossible. In fact, to put it bluntly, things like luxury goods require long-term marketing promotion. If others do not recognize it, the value cannot be reflected at all. Unfortunately, Xu Xingxia does not have such time. Putting aside the perspective of luxury goods, the only value of diamonds may be its hardness.

As the hardest substance in nature, diamonds are harder than steel and glass. Cutting glass? Cutting steel? Xu Xingxia suddenly had an idea in his mind and thought of an excellent use. By the way, using diamonds to process such things is really a good choice. I guess there is nothing else to do except diamonds.

"Wang Qinian, sell all your diamonds to me, I will buy them at three times the price." Xu Xingxia made up her mind and immediately said calmly to Wang Qinian.

"Okay, okay, okay." Wang Qinian couldn't ask for it.

"In the future, you will continue to buy diamonds for me. It doesn't matter how much you buy them as much as you want. It doesn't matter if the price is higher. I want these diamonds, which are of a small purpose." Xu Xingxia said lightly again. In fact, he needs these diamonds, which are of great use. However, this point must not be shown. Otherwise, it would be unhappy if someone competes with him. The thing he was thinking about required a lot of diamonds.
Chapter completed!