Chapter 103: Turning Over (1) Carefree

  "Attending the party, does that mean you're a member of the Jade Stone Association?"

  The seller's voice was not small, and as soon as he mentioned that Li Yang was a member of the Jade Stone Association, he immediately attracted the attention of everyone around him. At this time, the members of the Jade Stone Association mentioned were absolutely from the Henan Province Jade Stone Association, and people from other provinces and cities rarely exposed their identities here.

  "Yes, I am the director of the Ming Yang Jade Association" Li Yang smiled wryly, fortunately he had already gotten used to being stared at, and speaking or doing anything was no longer as tense as it was in the beginning.

  "Ming Yang, yes, you are Ming Yang An's Jewelry person" The seller nodded slightly, his face suddenly changed, and he stared at Li Yang in surprise, saying slowly: "Li younger brother, the one who exposed the high imitation of Zi Gong Yu at yesterday's Jade Appreciation Conference?"

  The seller didn't continue speaking, but Li Yang already understood what he meant.

  "That's right, that's me" Li Yang smiled bitterly again, yesterday's matter spread really fast, now even this person selling jade knows about it.

  "It's really you, Li Lao Di, even experts can't see what you've seen, you're truly, truly, a hidden master"

  The seller's eyes widened immediately, and he exclaimed loudly. The people around him heard the seller's words and their expressions changed instantly. They were just curious earlier, but now they were shocked. Most people had heard that Li Yang recognized a high-quality imitation of Zi Gong Yu yesterday, and anyone who played with jade knew Master Zi Gong, so they were naturally familiar with Zi Gong Yu.

  "Lucky, lucky, just luck, old brother, how much is this gambling stone? I want it."

  Li Yang hastily asked about the price of the gambling stone, and when the seller called out, more people gathered around, all coming to watch Li Yang.

  "The seller slightly lowered his head, then slowly raised it: 'Li, if you want it, 1 million yuan'"

  One hundred thousand, the price is very reasonable. This is a piece of old field mouth black leather material that performs quite well. Such materials are not common nowadays.

  "Would you like to pay by cash, cheque or card?"

  Li Yang just thought for a moment and agreed, the seller was someone he knew, and they had quoted a very reasonable price, bargaining further would be impolite.

  "Hey, Li, if you have a check, it's best to use that."

  The seller smiled and said, "Last time Li Yang hesitated for half a day when buying a gambling stone for 10,000 yuan. Now he's buying a 100,000-yuan gambling stone without even blinking an eye. The change is really big."

  Good

  Li Yang immediately took out the checkbook and gave the seller a check for 100,000 yuan. The checkbook was something Li Yang had asked Zhang Ying to help him with, and it had only been issued after the New Year's holiday, so it was just in time now.

  "Alright, Li, this gambling stone is yours now. Are you going to settle it here or take it away?"

  The seller was satisfied with the receipt of the check. People who engage in this kind of business are familiar with such checks and have used them for transactions many times before.

  "Take it away, old brother you've always brought me good luck, I believe this gambling stone will be the same"

  Li Yang smiled softly and said, the seller handed over the jade to Li Yang with a careless attitude, this jade was not heavy, Li Yang could hold it in his arms.

  Found the 'lucky stone', Li Yang didn't plan to continue strolling, really too tired, whether there are good ones among the stones below is still hard to say, besides this afternoon there's still time, resting enough and coming again won't be late.

  Li Yang and the three others returned to the central area, where the five gambling stones from before had already been solved. Now they were solving the second batch, which were all roughly the same size. The Nanyang Guild Leader and Zhengzhou Guild Leader stood beside the stone-solving machine, intently solving their respective gambling stones.

  "What's wrong, Big Brother Sima?"

  Li Yang quietly approached Sima Lin, and asked in a low voice. Sima Lin turned his head to look at Li Yang, then looked at the gambling stone in Liu Gang's arms. The gambling stone that Li Yang had just bought was snatched away by Liu Gang. Liu Gang looked thin and small, but he seemed to have much more strength than Li Yang.

  "Just came out with a Fuyong Emperor Green, it's from the old Hou of Luoyang. Look at Old Hou's mouth, it's always open. This piece is not bad, just bought?"

  Sim Lin replied in a low voice, his eyes fixed on the gambling stone in Liu Gang's hand. From his experience, it was not difficult to see that this was a pretty good old field mouth gambling stone material, and the price would not be too low.

  "One hundred thousand, I bought it just over there, what do you think?"

  Li Yang's eyebrow jumped, this is his biggest gain today, Mingyang Jade Stone Association will rely on it to turn over in the opening red activity.

  "Not bad, it's not easy to buy a jade like this today." Sima Lin nodded.

  Li Yang was taken aback and hastily asked Sima Lin.

  From Sima Lin's mouth, Li Yang finally understood why the gambling stones he saw today were so poorly performing. It turned out that this situation had a great deal to do with the Jade Stone Association's opening red activity.

  On the day of the Red Opening activity, most of the jade stones brought by members of the Henan Jade Association were their own and were all very good quality. Outsiders who knew this would not dare to compete with them on this day. Therefore, those who bought jade stones on this day were mostly first-time participants or people who didn't know how to appreciate jade. They only wanted to buy cheap jade stones to try their luck, so it's a waste of effort to display expensive ones.

  It won't be until tomorrow that these sellers will gradually bring out some good jade stones. Firstly, the people from the Jade Association also need to purchase jade stones outside, they are here to participate in the event, not specifically to solve the stone, and in the following days, only a few people with ideas will continue to solve the jade stones they brought, while most members will be purchasing outside.

  It's time for those gamblers who came with a comparative mentality to take action, these people naturally look down on ordinary gambling stones worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, what they value are high-value good gambling stones, at this time the sellers have to bring out their best goods for everyone to choose from.

  Of course, there are also members of the Jade Association who go out to buy jade on this day, so some sellers will still put out some good jade today, such as the one Li Yang knows, but both sellers and buyers are very few.

  Li Yang couldn't help but sigh upon understanding this. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have wasted so much time looking at those ordinary gambling rocks.

  The five jade stones on the cutting machine were quickly cut open, and the performance of these five was also good. One piece of lotus seed jade and three pieces of golden silk jade, but one piece of golden silk jade had many cracks inside, only revealing a small piece of jadeite, greatly reducing its value.

  It's been a year since the last time, and now there's already one block of Bingzhen, three blocks of Furong, and four blocks of Jinsi Feicui. This achievement would be shocking anywhere, but it's only normal today. After preparing for a year, the opening red is naturally much stronger than usual.

  This also made Li Yang understand why Zhang Wei and others attached so much importance to their own big rise, wanting to achieve results in the opening red, not to mention the big rise.

  "Will this puzzle stone be solved soon?"

  After explaining to Li Yang, Sima Lin asked another question. He was different from Zhang Ying, although this time Li Yang did an assistant when Zhang Wei was defeated, but it didn't affect Sima Lin's confidence in Li Yang at all. The stone gambling was bought by Zhang Ying himself, and not by Li Yang. At least he hadn't seen Li Yang buy a stone that was defeated.

  Li Yang nodded and said, "Let's take a look, if Liu boss can't make it, I'll try once"

  Simar Lin also nodded and stopped talking, continuing to watch Jie Shi.

  When they had solved half of the puzzle, Mr. Liu returned. He drove himself and was not familiar with the route, so he took a wrong turn and wasted some time, but it did not affect today's activities.

  Liu boss's gambling stone is bigger than usual, over 30 centimeters high and more than 20 kilograms heavy. After Liu boss carried it over, he was panting with exhaustion.

  Zhang Wei and Wang Haomin hurried forward to help Liu Boss move the gambling stone, and other members of the Jade Stone Association also gathered around. By the time Li Yang and Sima Lin arrived, several people were already discussing the gambling stone surrounding Li Boss.

  This piece of jade is quite large, but its appearance isn't particularly good. There's a fine and deep crack on the surface of the jade, fortunately it's not one of those extremely destructive small cracks.

  Zhang Wei's eyes showed a hint of disappointment. The value of this gambled stone was at most around 2 million, which was already quite impressive in normal times, but not today. As for Liu Boss's worth, it was placed elsewhere. It was impossible to expect him to bring out extremely valuable gambled stones, unlike Zhang Wei who dared to take out a 1.5 million gambled stone to play with.

  But since it's a gamble, there is always hope. Although the performance isn't particularly good, no one dares to say that there won't be any good jade inside. Gambling on stones is the most unpredictable thing, except for Li Yang.

  While everyone was discussing, Li Yang had already activated his special ability to observe the gambling stone. Inside, there was indeed jadeite, but the water quality was not ideal, the green color was not pure, and there were some impurities. Li Yang estimated that the jadeite inside was worth at most 3 million yuan.

  Liu's boss's gamble won't lose money, but it's absolutely not as good as he imagined, and it's basically impossible for such a gamble to achieve good results in these few days.

  These Li Yang would not say, Zhang Wei has helped Liu boss to bring the gambled stone to the stone solving machine, and after all other places have been solved, they will be the first to solve this piece.

  The third round of the auction ended quickly, and another ice lot came out, but unfortunately it was not as good as the one in the first round, and still couldn't compare to Luoyang's Fuyong Emperor Green.

  The rest of the gambling stone performances were even more general, and all the good performances had already been shown at the beginning.

  The three rounds were almost finished by lunchtime, so we had lunch at a nearby restaurant. It was too much trouble to go back and forth to the hotel, as there were many activities in the afternoon.

  After finishing the meal, they took a short rest of fifteen minutes. The fourth round of stone lifting began, but there was a change in the size of the stones to be lifted this time - one of them was smaller than the others. After some discussion among the association heads, it was decided that the small stone would wait for a while and be lifted after one of the other stones had been lifted first. So they started with the large stone belonging to Liu Lao Ban from Ming Yang.

  This time, standing in front of the deciphering machine were Liu Boss, Zhang Wei and Wang Haomin. None of them had invited Li Yang, nor did Li Yang take the initiative to go over. Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida shook their heads repeatedly, it seemed that the complete failure earlier had a great impact on Li Yang as well, at least these people no longer blindly believed in Li Yang like before.