sjar Chapter 70 So this is what jade gambling is like
Chapter 70 So this is what jade gambling is like
On an open space near the outskirts of Anning Prefecture, many sheds resembling Mongolian tents were erected, arranged in a grid pattern, with a central passageway for people to walk through.
Like the end of summer, many people covered their heads and faces, and the appearance of the end of summer did not attract much attention.
As summer ended, Xia Mo stood beside the first tent and sent her divine sense into it. She saw that there were many tables arranged by category inside, and on the tables were many raw stones. Whether there was jade among the raw stones was another matter.
As Xia Mo scanned the area with her divine sense, she saw the situation inside the stones of the first tent and fell silent.
Among the stones in the first tent, there were a few pieces with jade, but the jade was pitifully small, just a tiny bit inside the stone, as thin as a piece of paper. If you cut it open, it would be waste material, nothing at all!
Withdrawing her divine sense, Xia Mo walked to the second tent, once again scanning the stones inside. Then, she fell silent once more.
The stones inside the second tent were the same as those in the first tent.
The third tent...
The fourth tent...
The fifth tent...
The sixth tent...
Xia Mo stood motionless in the seventh tent, falling into a long silence.
There wasn't a single stone in six tents that could yield jade. Should she continue using her divine sense and consuming her physical energy?
Xia Mo simply spread her divine sense like an umbrella, enveloping the entire casino venue.
She overheard many interesting and private conversations.
"Make sure you know who these people are. When you're cutting the stones, replace the ones with the ones that have jade on them."
"..."
"How can this be considered fake? As long as I cooperate with the jade merchants, I can get one or two taels of silver for each piece of jade. I make money."
"..."
So this is what gambling on jade is like.
"Remember to mix these stones with jade inside into the jade material according to the time I gave you. They need to be able to extract some jade so that the business can last."
"..."
Upon hearing that there were stones containing genuine jade, Xia Mo decisively turned his divine sense over to investigate.
Those jade stones did indeed have jade inside, but did they even have any quality? They were all just floating patterns, and the earth's energy they contained was practically nonexistent.
By the end of summer, I was feeling discouraged and wanted to give up.
That is, at this moment...
Her divine senses detected useful chat information again.
"What should I do? What should I do... I accidentally mixed the jade rough I was going to send to the jewelry store with some ordinary stones... If Dad finds out, he'll kill me..."
Summer's end brought a sudden burst of light.
This is the tent!
Xia Mo quickened his pace, walked to the last tent, and went inside.
Perhaps because it was the last tent, there were hardly any guests inside, and the arrival at the end of summer went unnoticed.
Xia Mo's divine sense quickly swept through the jade raw materials, locking onto four pieces of jade that were just right for her.
Xia Mo walked over, picked up twelve yuan, and went to the shop owner's son to pay the bill.
The boss's son was flustered and looked anxiously at the twelve pieces of jade raw material that Xia Mo wanted to buy. He swallowed hard and worriedly thought, what if there is real jade raw material among them?
"How many?"
The boss's son, listening to his own nervously pounding heartbeat, said, "These are all five taels a piece, twelve pieces, sixty taels in total."
Xia Mo exclaimed in surprise: "Jade raw materials are so cheap?! If I buy more and cut more, will I be able to find some?"
The boss's son forced a smile.
At the end of summer, he took out sixty taels of silver and took away twelve pieces of jade raw materials, each twice the size of a fist.
"Boss, where can I get raw stones?" Xia Mo asked, tugging at the burlap sack.
“Go outside, and you’ll find a jade expert in the eighth tent,” the owner’s son said.
"Thank you," Xia Mo said as she left with the sack.
The boss's son was too nervous to notice that Xia Mo, despite being so small, could lift things weighing over a hundred pounds.
At the end of summer, Xia took the raw stones out of the tent, and his divine sense directly penetrated into the burlap sack, storing the four raw stones with jade inside into his soul space, replacing them with four ordinary stones.
At the end of summer, the twelve pieces without jade were taken to a master craftsman who specializes in polishing jade.
"A piece of jade of this size costs two hundred coins," said the jade polisher.
“Alright,” Xia Mo said, handing over two taels of silver and four hundred coins.
The master craftsman who specializes in mining raw jade materials had just received those twelve stones and immediately recognized that four of them were not jade at all, but just ordinary stones!
The jade expert's eyes flickered, and he muttered in a low voice, "These days, jade dealers are really outrageous; they actually know how to cheat ordinary people out of their money."
Xia Mo had amazing hearing; even amidst the cacophony, she could clearly hear the jade master's words. Clearly, the jade master was used to this kind of thing.
As Xia Mo thought about the four jade stones she had stored in her soul space, a smile crept onto her lips.
These merchants who run jade gambling sites specialize in swindling people who want to get rich quick through jade gambling.
The jade cutters began their work.
He first broke open (smashed) the stones that weren't jade raw materials, and then there were eight other stones that were indeed jade raw materials, but again, there was no jade inside.
As the jade craftsman was cutting the second-to-last piece of jade, the son of the stone vendor who sold stones at the end of summer also came over.
The shop owner's son asked the onlookers nervously, "Did that person find any jade?"
"No, that's the eleventh one. No, that's the last one."
The people who had gathered to watch the opening of the jade raw material returned.
Upon hearing that the four pieces of raw material containing jade had not been extracted, the boss's son hurriedly went back.
Xia Mo followed the boss's son with his divine sense and entered the last tent.
The boss's son shook his head at his father and said, "The only customer who bought the raw jade didn't find any jade inside."
Upon hearing that his jade was still among the pile of stones, the boss breathed a long sigh of relief, then scolded his son a few times before going to invite a jade expert over.
The boss did bring someone over, and the jade expert was very professional, but the result...
"Boss Bai, none of these jade raw materials contain any jade," the gentleman who was called in to examine the jade whispered.
Obviously, anyone who specializes in the jade business knows that in a large-scale jade gambling event, there are very few genuine jade stones mixed in.
“How could that be? My son really did mix those four pieces of glutinous jade into these raw stones,” Boss Bai said, looking at his son.
The boss's son nodded vigorously.
"I can guarantee with my reputation that there is indeed no glutinous jade raw material here," the jade expert said solemnly, turning and leaving with an air of arrogance that his abilities had been underestimated.
Xia Mo observed all of this with amusement using her divine sense.
What do they call this?
She didn't find a single piece of jade and left the tent empty-handed.
She is still missing a piece of jade.
But it doesn't matter. She came here to collect five jade stones, and she's only one short. She currently has nine hundred and forty taels, which is enough.
Having finished most of her business in late summer, Xia Mo walked out with a relaxed expression, watching with interest the people coming and going in the jade gambling market.
After Xia Mo saw something clearly, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.