Chapter 8 Stone Gambling
"Auntie's illness should be cured temporarily. However, the causes of leukemia are diverse. I just restored her body to the state before the onset. I'm not sure whether she will get sick again. So, we may need to use more spirit stones."
Yang Xiao's words are simple and direct.
"Spirit Stone? Is it my piece of jade?" Xu Jianguo had already guessed something.
"Yes, what I need you to do is to take me to find more of this kind of spirit stones. Like my aunt, I also need a lot of this kind of spirit stones." Yang Xiao nodded and said.
"You are sick too?" Xu Jianguo asked.
Yang Xiao smiled and shook his head, "I'm not sick, but my current state is similar to being sick. I'm too weak now, and I need to become stronger."
"What the hell are you doing?"
Xu Jianguo became more and more curious about Yang Xiao. The boy in front of him seemed to have used a supernatural power to cure his wife.
"I am just a student, and there are many things in this world that I want to learn from." Yang Xiao said half-truely.
Seeing that the result was not found, Xu Jianguo stopped asking and instead answered Yang Xiao’s question: “That piece of jade was gambled back in Shixing five years ago. To be precise, it should be a piece of jade. As for its origin, it should be in the country of Myanmar.”
"I got back from gambling?" Yang Xiao didn't know what was going on with gambling stones.
"Gambling stones is a jargon in our business. It means that when jade is mined, it is wrapped with a layer of weathered skin called blanks. It is impossible to know whether it is good or bad. It needs to be cut before it can be known about its quality. Good stones and bad stones have a big difference in price, so some people get rich overnight because of this, while others lose all their money because of this."
Xu Jianguo explained that from his tone, Yang Xiao could tell that Xu Jianguo belonged to the type of bankruptcy.
"You need to cut the blank to know whether the jade is good or bad?" Yang Xiao was a little curious.
"Of course, how can you see it inside without cutting it open?" Xu Jianguo wanted to look at Yang Xiao like an idiot.
Yang Xiao also looked at Xu Jianguo like an idiot. After two sides were stunned for several seconds, Yang Xiao realized that there were almost no immortal cultivators in this world. They did not have the ability to sense spirit stones, so they could only cut the blanks to be identified.
Thinking of this, Yang Xiao suddenly became interested. He said to Xu Jianguo: "Uncle Xu, can you take me to your gambling business?"
"Do you want to bet on stones? Do you have money?" Xu Jianguo guessed Yang Xiao's thoughts.
“How much does it cost?”
"The prices of wool materials vary, and they have a certain relationship with the seeds and water. The better the water, the more expensive it is. Of course, the price of opening windows and not opening windows is also completely different."
Yang Xiao thought about it and found that the card his parents gave him before his death was still a little more than 60,000 yuan. So Yang Xiao said, "I want to try my luck, and I have to trouble Uncle Xu to lead a way."
Xu Jianguo thought for a while and said, "You cured my wife, I am very grateful to you. So I remind you that gambling stones is very risky, and I don't want you to go on a wrong path like me."
"Thank you, Uncle Xu, for reminding me, I'm sure." Yang Xiao replied with a smile.
Xu Jianguo nodded and returned to the room. He didn't know what he said to Xu Linlang and his daughter. Then, the Xu family of three came to Yang Xiao.
Xu's mother first spoke: "Xiao Yang, gambling on stones is not a good thing. Look at your uncle, he has nothing to do with serious things. He has been trying hard to get into this muddy water."
As Xu's mother said, her eyes turned a little red.
Xu Linlang also said, "If you go betting on stones, we will break up!"
Yang Xiao was also a little funny when he heard this. He also knew that Xu Linlang was joking with him. But he was very happy that the mother and daughter cared about him so much.
Yang Xiao smiled and said, "Auntie, don't worry, I just want to find something I want. I don't make a fortune on this. So don't worry, I'm sure."
"Okay, aunt believes in you. Xiao Yang, thank you for curing me. You often come to your house to play in the future." Xu's mother reminded.
Just now, Xu Linlang had already told her that Yang Xiao was not her boyfriend. But after hearing from her daughter how Yang Xiao cured her, Xu's mother looked at this mysterious child even more with admiration. She wanted to match Yang Xiao and her daughter in her heart.
"Auntie, you still need to go to the hospital for a review and see if it has really recovered. I will come to see you when I have time. Also, I will treat you. I hope you can keep it a secret for me. I am not a real doctor, so..."
Yang Xiao expressed his concerns.
"Child, don't worry. You are the aunt's savior. We will not let the fifth person know about this. Linlang and Lao Xu, you all take care of your mouth." Xu's mother said confidently.
Both Xu and his daughter nodded, and they also knew that this matter was too shocking and might cause a lot of trouble to Yang Xiao.
"Then let's go first. Linlang, you can accompany your mother to the hospital for a review."
Seeing that Yang Xiao and her father were about to leave, Xu Linlang quickly said, "Yang Xiao, can you give me your phone number?"
However, as soon as these words were said, her face turned red. She found that her heart was already attracted by this mysterious boy.
"Of course, I'll dial it for you," Yang Xiao replied with a smile.
After the two exchanged numbers, Yang Xiao followed Xu Jianguo to the gambling shop where he was gambling.
On the way, Xu Jianguo taught Yang Xiao some rules for gambling stones. Yang Xiao was also curious and became very interested in gambling stones.
An hour later, the two arrived at the market at the urban-rural fringe. This place is very similar to Baoshan Lane, and many stores operate collections. However, according to Xu Jianguo, more than 80% of the things here are fakes. And this is also an open secret, this is a fake wholesale market.
One of the few gambling shops in Donghai City is open in this market semi-publicly.
Yang Xiao followed Xu Jianguo to a warehouse of 70 to 80 square meters, which was where the gambling shop was located. Donghai City is not a jade production area, so this gambling shop is only for locals in Donghai to play. The place where gambling stones are truly prosperous is in Yunnan Province, close to Myanmar.
The owner of this gambling bank is a jewelry tycoon in Yunnan Province. In recent years, he has developed in the East China Sea and has also run a gambling bank in the East China Sea.
This gambling store has few goods, and jade wool materials are randomly placed in the center of the warehouse. The sellers involved in gambling stones gather together in groups of three or three to select the wool materials they like.
Unlike Yang Xiao’s imagination, some wool materials are not completely wrapped in weathered layers, and some areas are exposed with one or several colored areas. Of course, some of these exposed areas are natural, and some are artificially ground.
These areas are called windows, and buyers can use this as a reference to determine whether this piece of wool is gambleable.
But it is this so-called window that is the biggest trap in gambling stones. Because it only shows a part of the jade, no one is sure whether the "meat" of the entire piece of jade is consistent with the display of this window. Some people even make fake windows to deceive buyers through artificial means.
Along the way, Xu Jianguo told Yang Xiao a lot of tricks about gambling stones, such as looking at the scene, water types, jumping colors, etc. Yang Xiao found it interesting to hear it, but didn't take it to heart.
Yang Xiao came to find spirit stones, not to bet on stones. Yang Xiao guessed that some jades in this world, because their origin is close to the underground spiritual veins, gradually evolved into spirit stones under the nourishment of spiritual veins. Of course, because of the nourishment of spiritual veins, the quality of the jade itself has also become excellent.
In other words, good-quality jade is not necessarily a spirit stone, but spirit stone must be an excellent jade.
After coming to this gambling business, Yang Xiao had already sensed several extremely weak spiritual power fluctuations, which further confirmed his guess.
In the gambling shop, after walking around, Yang Xiao was basically sure that there should be four spirit stones, eight to nine quasi-spirit stones.
Such a large number also made Yang Xiao overjoyed. It seems that there is no shortage of spirit stones in this world. It’s just that no one in this world uses it to practice cultivation.
Yang Xiao thought about it in his mind, and then led Xu Jianguo to stop in front of a volleyball-sized quasi-spirit stone. The so-called quasi-spirit stone is actually called by the Qianyuan Immortal Realm. It is a spirit stone with extremely low spiritual power content. It usually only appears on the edge of the spiritual vein and is not fully nourished by spiritual power.
In the Qianyuan Immortal Realm, quasi-spirited stones are generally not used for cultivation, but are used as building materials to build elixirs, practice rooms, etc. However, in this world, quasi-spirited stones are still rare treasures.
"How much does this piece of wool cost?" Yang Xiao pointed to the quasi-spirit stone and asked the staff of the gambling store next to him.
The staff member looked at Yang Xiao and Xu Jianguo, and then quickly replied: "This is 70,000!"
Xu Jianguo whispered in Yang Xiao's ear: "This piece of wool is a piece of 'black sand'! Black piece of wool is the most produced, most gambling wool and most variable among Burmese jade. It is called 'nine out of ten bets'. Moreover, this piece of material has no windows, and it is very risky. Have you considered it?"
Looking at Xu Jianguo's worried look, Yang Xiao was still a little grateful. He patted Xu Jianguo on the shoulder, signaled the other party to rest assured, and then said to the staff member: "Can you be cheaper?"
Xu Jianguo also said, "We are old friends, and this material has not been opened. You can just give it a selling price!"
The staff member also knew Xu Jianguo. He thought for a while and said, "The price is 60,000 yuan per price! Otherwise, the boss will fire me."
"Fifty-five thousand, how about it?" Yang Xiao said with a smile.
"This little brother is kind-hearted, let's just make friends, the lowest is 55,000!"
"Transaction!" Yang Xiao took out the bank card to the staff member.
The staff member also carried the poss machine with him, and after swiping the card, he handed the piece of wool to Yang Xiao.
"Cut it open now, or take it back?" Xu Jianguo asked Yang Xiao.
"Of course, it's time to cut it now!" Yang Xiao replied with certainty.
Seeing Yang Xiao's confident look, Xu Jianguo wanted to know what kind of goods this mysterious boy had picked. He didn't say much, so he led Yang Xiao to a place where he cut the material.
Soon, the two of them found the master who cut the material. At this time, there were not many people, and the master who cut the material was just free to smoke. Xu Jianguo also knew him, so he took a cigarette and handed it over to the master, saying to the master, "Master Ma, I brought a junior to play with it. He just picked a piece of material and you can get started."
"Old Xu, I haven't seen you for a long time. Show me... Hey, black sand! The little baby is so brave! I'll give you internal news, I haven't seen any good products for this batch of black sand by the boss."
After the man called Master Ma took the wool, he took a brief look and said something that made Xu Jianguo frightened.
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