Chapter 108: Gambling on Tian Huang

  "Hey, everyone!" Zhou Gongzi spoke up again, with an exaggerated expression and a pretentious tone: "What kind of treasure have you figured out, bring it out for everyone to see..."

  A mortal body with eyes but no pearls, how can it possibly understand what Xuan Qi has figured out? If this large bluestone had appeared in the ancient Xuan boundary, it would have caused a bloody storm long ago! It's not even worth Xuan Qi's attention. With such a nearly brainless 'stick', Xuan Qi simply has nothing to say.

  Can't go and explain to an ordinary person what is meant by "heavenly signs and earthly treasures", what is meant by "heavenly material and earthly treasure", and what is meant by "peaceful soul jade"!

  Xuan Qi gazed at the other person, his eyes narrowing slightly. In this world, there was no love without reason, and no cruelty without cause. This guy had been deliberately targeting him, coldly mocking and ridiculing him. It definitely wasn't because Xuan Qi was more handsome than him, so he must have an ulterior motive. Xuan Qi cut straight to the point: "You're always causing me trouble, what do you want?"

  These words were stark and unvarnished, directly causing Zhou Gongzi's face to stiffen. This was too straightforward. Zhou Gongzi's face turned bright red as he saw that Xuan Qi had seen through him. He no longer tried to hide it: "The Burmese ruby in the Jade Stone Pavilion next door is yours, isn't it? I also like it. Add 100,000 more and you can transfer it to me."

  When Zhou Gongzi had nothing to do, he liked to stroll around Pan's Garden. He had also played with that piece of Burmese red jade a few times, without thinking of buying it. Recently, he met a woman, an extremely "Buddhist" woman. Everywhere he asked about her hobbies, planning to cater to her tastes and become a confidant. As a result, he heard that this woman liked red jade, so Zhou Gongzi remembered the piece in Yu Shi Xuan. He rushed over in a hurry, only to see that the shelf was empty. He grabbed the shop assistant and shook him violently, only to learn that the person who bought the red jade had gone to Ji Ge Xuan next door.

  Upon hearing Zhōu Gōngzǐ's request, Xuán Qí slowly shook his head. Not to mention that this piece of fire-attributed 'yù' stone was a rare 'jade', even if it were just an ordinary 'jade' stone or not even a 'jade' stone at all, Xuán Qí still wouldn't hand it over to Zhōu Gōngzǐ simply because he didn't like the look of him.

  "Two hundred thousand!" Seeing that Xuan Qi was still unmoved, Zhou Gongzi continued to raise the price: "Add it all up and I'll give you one million!" A faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Gongzi's mouth. He thought that by throwing money at him, he would be able to get what he wanted, and that Xuan Qi would definitely kneel down in front of him like a dog and hand over the Burmese red jade.

  The result was unexpected by Zhou Gongzi. Xuan Qi directly turned around, raised his foot and was about to leave Ji Gu Xuan, with a cold phrase left in his mouth: "Dream on!"

  "Friend!" Zhou Gongzi was also furious! Feeling humiliated without reason, he gritted his teeth and said: "Give me some face today, hand over the red 'jade' to me. More friends mean more roads, otherwise, hmm..."

  Xuan Qi's footsteps came to a halt, and he turned around to size up Zhou Gongzi: "Why should I give you face?"

  Zhou Gongzi's hand trembled! Today, he must not have checked the almanac before going out, and everything was unfavorable. Otherwise, how could he encounter such a stupid stick? Stick?! Zhou Gongzi muttered this word, his eyes concentrated, and suddenly thought of a good idea to deal with the stick. These new players who had just entered the antique market were all arrogant, blindly trusting their own vision, and stubbornly insisting on saving face. From the moment he saw the large green stone earlier, he could see through it.

  After some thought, Zhou Gongzi spoke up: "Friends, the mountain doesn't move but the water does. Since we're all connoisseurs of antiques, why don't we have a elegant competition today?" As soon as Zhou Gongzi said this, the onlookers who were eager for excitement immediately shouted out in approval. Those who enjoy watching the commotion aren't afraid of trouble, they just fear that it won't be exciting enough.

  Zhou Gongzi pulled out a bank card from his pocket and slapped it lightly on the stone: "I'll use one million to bet against your twenty thousand bought Burmese rubies!" At this moment, it was no longer a dispute over objects, but a contest of face and dignity.

  The onlookers cheered and shouted, one by one, already having a strong sense of immersion. This side faced Zhou Gongzi and praised: "One million bets twenty thousand, this thing is done brightly!"

  That side started to urge Xuan Qi: "Young man, don't be afraid of him. He's just got two cents, let's gamble with him!"

  Although the people around were talking enthusiastically, their eyes were burning with a fierce gossip fire. It was so exciting to watch this commotion, just like a TV series, one episode after another.

  Xuan Qi was stirred up by Zhou Gongzi's overflowing self-confidence and raised his eyes to ask: "How do you bet?"

  Zhou Gongzi pointed to the pile of Tian Huang stones and said, "Let's bet on Tian Huang stones. Each person will choose one stone, and then we'll open them up to compare the material. If one side has material and the other doesn't, the side with material wins. If both sides have material, the side with better material wins. If neither side has material, we'll open a second stone until there's a winner or loser!"

  Zhou Gongzi finished speaking and raised an eyebrow: "Do you dare to agree?"

  Xuan Qi's mouth corner 'exposed' a hint of smile, took out the Tian Huang stone that was punched earlier from his bag: "You really want to bet?"

  "Are you daring enough to make a bet?"

  Xuan Qi nodded his head and said in a low voice, "I'm not gambling, I'm winning again!" What Xuan Qi said was indeed the truth. With just this primitive piece in his hand, the medium to high-grade 'chicken' yellow inside, plus three individual pieces the size of square seals, he had already won without losing.

  "Gambling on stones relies on one's eyesight, not just being loud-mouthed!" Zhou Gongzi's face showed impatience: "Do you have the guts or not? Are you going to gamble or not?"

  "I'll bet you with this newly bought fabric!" Xuan Qi was confident of winning, and there were foolish people willing to send money, so Xuan Qi naturally accepted.

  "I bet with you! Let's ask Mr. Lu to be a witness!" Zhou Gongzi was afraid that Xuan Qi would regret, so he immediately handed over the card to Mr. Lu, who was wearing a Zhongshan suit, and swiped 10 million yuan, then continued to stare at Xuan Qi with a provocative gaze.

  Xuan Qi took out the Burmese red 'jade' from his backpack and also handed it over to Lu Boss. For a moment, the atmosphere was intense. This time, it's exciting and thrilling! Betting on stones and betting on eyesight, now with an added twist, tomorrow morning the whole Panjiayuan will be buzzing with news about today's stone betting.

  After the gambling agreement was formally established, Zhou Gongzi slowed down and squatted in the seed pile to find a good Tian Huang. Xuan Qi held his own 'chicken' oil Huang and stood aside, having just used the Qianqi technique to examine it, and found that the materials below were not as good as the one in his hand, the best material was also 'chicken' oil Huang, but it was too small and too thin, and not enough for engraving seals.

  Zhou Gongzi picked up dozens of seeds from east to west, and this thing called "gambling on stones" was something that no one could clearly distinguish as good or bad, relying solely on eyesight and luck. Even the General of Constant Victory had opportunities to lose battles, let alone the originally illusory and elusive gambling on stones.

  Marquis Zhou seemed arrogant, but he was actually very calculating. He adopted the method of buying up all the good seed material and possible Tian Huang seed material, and then slowly opening them block by block. He didn't expect to get Tian Huang from the first block, as long as he opened it earlier than Xuan Qi, he would win. As for the seed material in Xuan Qi's hand, Marquis Zhou looked at it with disdain, thinking that it was just an ordinary goose egg stone, how could it possibly produce Tian Huang.

  Tens of thousands of yuan spent, each one unique and of varying sizes, totaling over two million, but Zhou Gongzi didn't feel a pinch, a smile spreading across his face with an air of confidence.

  The people around immediately flattered Zhou Gongzi like a tide: "Zhou Gongzi, this is a big move, you're too brilliant!"

  "That's right! That's right! And you don't even know what kind of person Zhou Gongzi is..."

  Xuan Qi helplessly shrugged his shoulders, he didn't have the time to wait for Zhou Gongzi to slowly explain, silently opening the cutting machine, holding the original stone in his hand and grinding it on the cutting machine.

  Zhou Gongzi's face showed disdain, and he muttered to himself: "He thinks that gambling on stones is so simple, picking up a piece of material at random, and then opening up Tian Huang, how naive and ridiculous!"

  People around also looked at Xuan Qi with pitiful eyes, stupid 'stick', that is, the 'stick' who is foolish and blindly confident, should also lose a few more times. If you lose a few times and still don't understand, you deserve to be a dead 'stick'!

  Insiders look at the excitement, outsiders look at the 'gate'. At first, Xuan Qi's hand was a bit awkward when he was cutting the stone, but later he gradually became more skilled. With the help of the technique of judging the air, a whole piece of white original stone, under the continuous grinding of the sand wheel, under Xuan Qi's gradually skilled hands, the white skin on the surface fell off bit by bit, finally revealing the pure yellow color inside, like chicken oil material.

  "Whoa!" "Wow!" "Ah!" "Ha!" "Waah!" The exclamations rose and fell as the grinder stopped, and Xuán Qí's palm held a piece of 'chicken' 'meat'-like Tian Huang stone, about half the size of a fist, with an unusual shape, resembling a bear's paw.

  At this time when everyone was amazed, the little worker crouched on the ground next to the grindstone and pinched the stone powder, then suddenly exclaimed: "It's all stone powder underneath, not a single grain of yellow!"

  The crowd, already amazed, was even more astonished! This means that under the high-speed rotating grinding wheel, with continuous and uninterrupted movements, in just a few short minutes, Xuan Qi completely extracted the Tian Huang stone from the raw material. The ancients often said that extracting the stone is difficult, as difficult as ascending to heaven. From this, we can see how hard it is to separate the stone from the Tian Huang stone. Teachers who have been extracting stones for decades dare not guarantee that they won't leave a single grain of yellow behind, and yet Xuan Qi succeeded!

  Let's not mention the value of the Tian Huang stone in Xuán Qí's hand, this move alone, which didn't fall into a trap, has already won against Zhōu Gōng Zǐ. Originally everyone was watching Xuán Qí with tragic eyes, now they all look at Zhōu Gōng Zǐ.

  Zhou Gongzi's breathing quickened, always thinking that Xuan Qi was a stupid stick, now it seems that he himself is the stupid one. Looking at the Tian Huang stone in Xuan Qi's hand, which looked like a bear's paw, Zhou Gongzi secretly took a deep breath and said loudly: "This hasn't been gambled yet! Maybe there's Tian Huang frozen stone in this pile of stones! As long as there's a gamble, I won't necessarily lose."

  Gambling is all about mentality, people with a gambler's mindset won't admit defeat. How can Zhou Gongzi concede when he hasn't even started? Looking at the pile of seeds in front of him, the pressure was overwhelming! The large 'chicken' oil yellow in Xuan Qi's hand added countless pressure to Zhou Gongzi. Tian Huang frozen stone, a legendary existence, how could it possibly be among these seeds? What if there's a slim chance?