Full-time comprehension

Chapter 120
Since Lan Caier didn't have an ID card, and Lu Ming didn't dare to use his own ID card, he had to buy two train tickets from scalpers at a high price.

Lu Ming saw that it was the train at nine o'clock in the evening. There was no way this was just a small county, and even so, the train was only a temporary stop.

"Why don't we go for a stroll in the county?" Lan Cai'er walked out of the mountain for the first time, feeling very strange about the outside world.

The two stopped along the way, and after a while, Lan Caier's hands were filled with all kinds of snacks.In this way, Lan Cai'er would be excited to eat some wherever she went, regardless of whether she couldn't eat enough.

After a while, the two came to a street on the east side of the county seat. All kinds of cars were parked on both sides of the street, including many luxury cars that Lu Ming saw yesterday.And from time to time there are some cars coming here.

After walking for a while, Lu Ming realized why there are so many cars here. He saw a huge banner on a wide gate: "Welcome people from all walks of life to participate in the No.30 Jade Competition." .

"Is this gentleman also here to participate in this jade competition?" Just as Lu Ming stood at the door, a staff member stepped forward to ask.

Before Lu Ming could speak, the staff member gave Lu Ming two number plates: "Sir, the Jade Competition is about to start, let's hurry in!"

Anyway, there was nothing wrong, so Lu Ming took Lan Caier and walked in.

As soon as he entered the door, Lu Ming discovered that there was another world inside, with clusters of rockery, surrounded by streams, dotted with trees and flowers everywhere, and there were even small bridges and flowing water, winding paths leading to secluded places.

This is clearly a typical Jiangnan garden, and Lan Caier was even more attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of her: "Brother Lu is so beautiful here!"

"It's beautiful!" Lu Ming also had to admit that the working people of Country Z are the most intelligent people. Every plant, every tree, every mountain and every stone can create such a beautiful environment.

The two were led away by a staff member wearing a cheongsam before they finished admiring it.After seven turns and eight turns, the three of them walked through the garden and came to a round arch.

"Mister, after you enter, you will be at the venue of the jade competition, and there will be staff to entertain you." After finishing speaking, the staff member went back the same way.

After Lu Ming and Lan Caier stepped into the archway, they came to a wide open space. At this time, quite a few people had already gathered here, and they were buzzing about something .

In the center of the open space were placed five huge iron tables, on which were placed five or six stones of different sizes, and from time to time, some staff brought some stones and placed them beside the iron tables.

Not long after, a loud noise was heard from ahead.

"Master Wen is here, and Boss Qian is here too."

"Mr. Guo and Mr. Liao are also here."

Several middle-aged people around Lu Ming said excitedly, their expressions were like star fans seeing their favorite stars.

"Brother Lu, don't you see that beautiful sister walking in front is the one who drove us to the county seat yesterday?" Lan Caier whispered beside Lu Ming.

Lu Ming had seen it a long time ago, but he didn't expect that such a young woman seemed to have a lot of prestige here.

There was a seat behind each iron table. Except for a fat man who was a little bald, the other three sat down at an iron table.

The fat man walked to the middle, cleared his throat and said: "Welcome everyone to participate in this year's jade competition, but before the competition starts, I would like to invite an old man first, please welcome everyone now!"

"Old man, who is it?"

"Even those three stood up, who on earth has such a big face?"

Everyone was discussing below, all guessing about the mysterious old man.

"Ah, isn't that old Mr. Wei Qinghua?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Who is Wei Qinghua?" Lan Caier asked.

"I guess he is a leading figure in the jade world." Lu Ming didn't know what Wei Qinghua was.

Fortunately, that fat man answered Lan Caier's question.

"That's right, this is Mr. Wei Qinghua, the former president of the Jade Stone Association. This time, Mr. Wei came here specially to participate in this jade competition." The fat man introduced, and Wei Qinghua nodded to everyone.

After the fat man asked the opinions of the other three people, he finally announced the start of the jade competition.

Lu Ming and Lan Caier came to one of the iron tables, and saw a small card with a price in front of five or six stones on it.

"No one made a move, so I'll throw bricks to attract jade!" A young man about 30 years old pointed to one of the stones and said, and raised the number plate in his hand.

"The rough stone No. 58 was photographed on the 3th." Sitting behind this table is the old Mr. Guo, who is also the vice president of the Jade Association.

As soon as Guo Lao's voice fell, a staff member went through the transaction procedures with the young man.After paying the money, the young man pointed to the piece of wool and said, "Cut it on the spot!"

Immediately, a staff member came over with a cutting machine in his hand, and the staff member gestured for a long time before finding the place to put the knife, and it was a knife with a hiss.

"There is green, see green!" Someone couldn't help shouting at that time, and the young man was even more excited.The staff became more careful when they saw it was green, but the staff was obviously experienced, and it took a short time to completely decompose the piece of wool.

I saw a piece of slightly transparent light green jade appearing on the iron table. Mr. Guo walked over and glanced at it and said: "Transparent light green, with stars inside, it belongs to Venus emerald jade, and its value is about 170 million. Yes. Take it or give it to us?"

The young man grinned: "This is just the beginning, let's leave it to you."

Mr. Guo nodded and signaled the staff to take back the gold star emerald jade, and returned 170 million to the young man at the same time.

Good guy, this is a net profit of 130 million. Lu Ming saw with his own eyes that the price of the piece of wool was 42.

At the same time, Lu Ming also understood that this jade competition is actually a stone gambling competition.

Stimulated by the piece of gold star emerald jade that was just opened, the people around the iron table became extremely enthusiastic, and they picked out the wool they liked one after another.

It's just that the people who followed didn't have the luck of the young man at the beginning. All the woolen materials they produced had no water or green, and even if they produced a trace of green occasionally, it was only a small piece, basically they were not losing money or making money.

Lu Ming looked at it all morning, and the best one offered on this table was the gold star emerald jade at the beginning, and most of the others were scraps, but the prices of these woolen materials were all below 100 million, and none of them exceeded 50. A few yuan, so the money lost by everyone is not much.

Lunch was arranged here at noon, and Lu Ming ate it for nothing. At the same time, he also knew that the fat man before was called Qian Manyi, but people in the industry like to call him Qian Manyi. The largest jade dealer in country Z, this year's jade The organizer of the competition, and all the wool materials for this session are provided by him.

As for the beautiful woman yesterday, Lu Ming did not dare to inquire about it, but the audience called her Master Wen, who is said to be a jade carving master, whose status in the jade world is no less than that of Qian Manyi, and in some respects is even higher than that of Qian Manyi. Above money overflowing.

After eating, everyone came to the stone gambling venue non-stop.

But this time, instead of spreading to the other four tables, they all gathered around one table.

The wool on the table also looks significantly higher than those in the morning. At least in Lu Ming's opinion, it is much bigger. Of course, the price has increased several times, ranging from one yuan to three million yuan, and some even reached 300 million or so.

"It's hard for a god to break an inch of jade, everyone is optimistic about it before you make a move." Mr. Wei Qinghua persuaded everyone before the start.

But looking at the expressions of the crowd, it was obvious that this sentence was automatically filtered.

Immortals are hard to break an inch of jade. This sentence is not only tried on buyers, but also on sellers. Who can guarantee that the organizers will not miss the good jade.

If he wins the bet, he will make money ten times and a hundred times, and he will not have to worry about food and drink for the rest of his life, not to mention that this high-standard woolen material was only sold for ten yuan this afternoon.

Liu Dahai has been haggard a lot recently. In recent months, his company has been hit for no reason, and its market share has shrunk again and again. In particular, Runhua Company, which he relies on for survival, has suffered a devastating blow. The entire Haitian The group directly shrank nearly half of its assets, and the direct loss also reached nearly [-] million.

In order to regain market share, Liu Dahai had to ask for a loan from the bank. What made him angry was that the bank president, who had always been on good terms with him, rejected his loan application and instead stipulated a deadline for him to repay the previous bank loan.

The desperate Liu Dahai accidentally heard about this jade competition, so he decided to take a gamble, because he had no choice but to face the huge funding gap.

Liu Dahai brought in 1000 and 1000 million funds this time, which was the largest amount he could come up with, and what he was looking at was a piece of wool covered with green moss, which was a piece of wool worth [-] million.

"I'll choose this one!" Liu Dahai felt that he couldn't wait any longer, so he held up the number plate in his hand after speaking.

"Brother Liu?" Lu Ming stared at Liu Dahai opposite him with different eyes: "Why did Brother Liu also come to participate in this kind of stone betting meeting?" Lu Ming was full of doubts!
(End of this chapter)