Masterful appearance

The next day's competition was arranged in the afternoon, Yue Qianling had been listless since morning, and Chu Tianci stayed away from her knowingly.

Compared with yesterday's competition, today looks orderly, but what is different from yesterday is that there are more piles of stones of different sizes in the courtyard.

There is no banquet in the courtyard, which makes it very spacious. Tea is placed in front of everyone's seats, and those who participate in the competition sit at the front.

"I don't know what to compare today. How did you get so many stones?" Xiao Lianshan asked curiously while staring at the pile of stones.

"That's jade, also called rough emerald!" Qiu Nuo answered, with a smile on his face, but his voice was still glamorous.

Qiu Nuo is engaged in cultural relic appraisal and has a deep understanding of jadeite, so he can tell it at a glance.

After all, Yue Lei Ting is a well-informed person. Hearing what Qiu Nuo said, he frowned at the pile of stones.

"Yesterday was a divination to predict the name of the dish. Could it be that Uncle Gu wanted them to gamble with stones today?"

"Stone gambling?!" Xiao Lianshan was stunned for a moment and asked curiously. "Brother Ting, what's there to bet on with stones?"

Qiu Nuo smiled and explained to Xiao Lianshan calmly.

"The so-called betting on stones is to gamble with uncut jade. You must know that it takes a lot of jade knowledge to see the quality of the jade through the outer skin of the jade. In today's advanced technology, there is no instrument that can detect it." When it comes to it, the jade raw material is excavated, and there is a layer of rock shell outside, and no one can tell what is inside the shell, so the process of judging jade is called "gambling stones."

Lan Qing thought for a while, shook her head and said with certainty.

"Shouldn't be betting on stones. The so-called gods can't break an inch of jade. No matter how high the metaphysics is, it's impossible to see what's inside the stone. What's more, there are five items in the competition. Yesterday's competition was divination, today's won't Still the same."

Yue Qianling no longer cares about what the competition is going to be like today, she is full of thoughts about how she would be so stupid to buy Chutianci to win, and how ridiculous it is to pin her hopes on a man who will vomit when he smells mapo tofu tragedy.

While the others were still discussing, Gu Xiaotian sat down with Kong Guan and Wei Yu, and the courtyard became quiet.

"It is said that there is no problem with fortune-telling and fortune-telling for ten or eight years. They are talking about things that will happen a few years or even ten years later. " Gu Xiaotian said with a deep smile. "So I thought of a way to see if the seven people present are the charlatans, or just straight up."

Kong Guan stood up, walked to the pile of stones and said expressionlessly.

"This is jadeite. It was randomly pulled from the Burmese mine without selection. It depends on everyone's ability to determine which one contains jade and which one is waste stone."

"The rules of the competition are very simple. You have seven people now, but only five people will enter the next round, which means that two people will be eliminated. How to distinguish between the winner and the loser is that whoever chooses the most valuable stone wins and ranks last The two are out!" Gu Xiaotian said calmly.

Qiu Nuo hesitated to speak, thought for a while and said in surprise.

"This batch of jade shells are variegated, mainly gray-green and gray-black, with varying transparency, uneven distribution of good and bad water bottom, and large differences in individual sizes. It should be a mixture of wool from various places in Myanmar."

"What's this talk?" Xiao Lianshan asked.

"Why don't you know anything? To bet on stones, you must first know the gate. The Burmese word is called grinding. Different gates produce different things. For example, thorn cards and spicy two gates will produce more bean greens. , the old Pagan is more emerald green, and the blue emeralds at the back of the card are often a little yellow, and different jades are different, so if you know the gambling stones, you will be more sure." Yue Qianling looked around Qiu Nuo asked, interjecting dissatisfiedly. After all, he is also engaged in archaeology, and he has a little knowledge of this field.

Qiu Nuo didn't seem to notice Yue Qianling's dissatisfaction, and said seriously.

"Qian Ling is right. There are generally three steps in betting on stones. The first step is to wipe the stones, which is also a step that experts will do. Many beginners don't know how to bet on stones. When they get the stones, they use a hammer to break them open. The emeralds of the mine were also broken by this knock, and anyone who knows this business is the first to rub stones."

"The second step is to cut the stone." Yue Qianling took Qiu Nuo's words without hesitation. "Stone betting jargon says that rubbing the price does not count as price increase, and cutting the price is considered price increase. Stone cutting is the most critical step to determine whether the stone is valuable, but an experienced stone betting businessman, as long as the price rises after rubbing the stone, he will increase the price and resell it. Let others gamble, and the risk can be shared, because the risk of cutting stones is very high, and there is only a slight difference between ups and downs."

Qiu Nuo nodded with a smile, and when she continued, Yue Qianling said disapprovingly.

"The third step is the whetstone. The whetstone is for polishing, to fully express the transparency, so that people can see its color or water."

"Because of these three steps, I feel strange. Even experts, no one dares to say that the stone they choose must be in stock, but most of the seven people participating in the competition now don't even know the three steps of getting started. , Asking them to choose stones to determine the outcome would be too childish, is it a gamble on luck?" Qiu Nuo said in great bewilderment.

Chu Tianci and the other six people were thinking similarly to Qiu Nuo, and they were suddenly asked to choose stones to compare their value. Chu Tianci didn't know what to do, and didn't know where to start.

Gu Xiaotian nodded to his subordinates, and after a while seven people came in and stood side by side in front.

"I'm afraid you seven don't know anything about stone gambling. It's really difficult for you to choose yourself, so I found seven experts for you. The people standing in front of you are all hot people in the stone gambling industry, and the seven of you What you have to do is to select someone from these seven stone gamblers to help you gamble!"

After listening to Gu Xiaotian's words, Lan Qing suddenly realized, smiled and said.

"Uncle Gu's arrangement is really ingenious. The content of the second competition is life in the five Taoist arts!"

"Fortune-telling?" Xiao Lianshan asked curiously, still not understanding the meaning of this arrangement. "Aunt Lan, what does life mean in the five Taoist arts?"

"The so-called fate is to understand life through deduction of fate, analyze the influence of the universe, the natural sun and the moon on the human body, and then improve human life. There are many main methods used to push fate, such as Ziwei Doushu, Ziping Pushing Fate , Xingpinghuihai, etc., the method is based on the time of birth and the theoretical basis of the five behaviors of yin and yang.”

Gu Xiaotian stood up and walked slowly in front of the seven people who participated in the competition, speaking in a leisurely manner.

"It is said that fate is determined by the heavens. How much money each person brings is determined in the fate. The seven of you just look at their faces and see who brings the most money and who is the most prosperous today. Usually, the calculations are for the future. Sure No one knows for certain, but today I want to see who among you all will say that it is a well-deserved fortune."

Qiu Nuo still shook his head in doubt and said in puzzlement.

"Even if we invite seven masters in the stone gambling industry, but stone gambling is never completely sure, it is really a gambling of luck, and this kind of competition is too formal."

"Uncle Gu's arrangement actually has his deep meaning." Lan Qing smiled and explained to Qiu Nuo. "It's hard for a god to break an inch of jade. As you said, there is no surety in gambling on stones. It's all about luck, but everyone's fortune has its ups and downs, and wealth has its ups and downs. Of course, the chances of people with good fortune will be greater if they choose jade stones. For a person whose fortune is bad, even if you give him a good jade stone, you may get nothing."

Yan Tongshou is quite famous in watching the fate of the fate, and nodded in agreement.

"This competition is said to be a competition of betting stones, but in fact it is a competition of fate. The use of betting stones to judge the outcome is for the purpose of standing out. It is clear at a glance whether the calculation is accurate or not. I am the god-given ability to judge fate. Seeing it with my own eyes, I believe there is nothing wrong with him."

"I saw it with my own eyes..." Yue Qianling smiled weakly, and said in a low voice with grief. "There are many things that may not be true even if you see them with your own eyes!"

Kong Guan took out a sealed paper box, put it in front of the seven people, and said solemnly.

"For the sake of fairness, whoever chooses first will be chosen second. There are seven numbers in this paper box. You all choose together. When you get the number, you will choose the number one. It's up to fate!"

Song Hui chose number one.

Yan Tongfu chose number two.

Lu Yong chose number three.

Teng Guoyuan chose number four.

Chang Leyuan chose number five.

Ouyang chose number six by mistake.

……

When the first six were arranged in sequence, Lan Qing looked very worried and sighed lightly.

Chu Tianci seemed to be fine, holding the note in his hand with an expression of indifference.

number seven!

"Luck can't be so bad. From one to seven, you can still choose the last number?" Xiao Lianshan also said regretfully.

"Although Tianci is quite accomplished in viewing and judging fate, the six people in front of him are not ordinary people. The further they go, the better their chances of winning, but Tianci chose seventh, but they didn't even have a chance to choose, and the rest were all others. Those who give up, it can be seen that the last remaining people will not look good!" Lan Qing whispered worriedly.

Yue Qianling's heart is completely cold now. Hearing Lan Qing's words, she resents Chu Tianci even more. If he hadn't won the first round so easily and gracefully, she wouldn't have been obsessed with buying Chu Tianci to win. Can't make it through.

Looking up and seeing Chu Tianci dare to smile at herself, if it wasn't for a competition now, Yue Qianling really wanted to rush up and peel Chu Tianci's skin.

Chu Tianci had a very ordinary smile on his face, because he didn't expect that he would get the seventh number. It was a helpless wry smile, but now it was not Chu Tianci, but Ouyang Cuo that he was most afraid of.

He really couldn't understand the meaning of the smile on Chu Tianci's face. If a master fights with a move, the outcome is just one move away. Besides, there are six people in front of him. Chu Tianci is in the seventh position. It can be said that this competition has not yet started. Tianci had already lost, but Chu Tianci could still smile, maybe others couldn't understand, but Ouyang Cuo knew very well that there was a faint confidence and ease in Chu Tianci's smile.

The last choice, or even having no chance to choose, how could Chu Tianci not worry at all?

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