I was an alchemist in those years

The next day's competition was scheduled for the afternoon, and Yue Qianling had been listless since morning, so I 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!" Yue Lei Ting said with a frown as he looked at the pile of stones as he was a well-informed person after all. "Yesterday was a divination to predict the name of the dish. Uncle Gu wants them to gamble with stones today, right?"

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

Gu Anqi explained to Xiao Lianshan.

"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."

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.

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, I suddenly realized, smiled and said.

"This arrangement is really ingenious. The content of the second competition is life in the five Taoist arts!"

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."

Yue Leiting 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 game of luck, and this kind of competition is too formal."

"This arrangement actually has his deep meaning." I smiled and explained to Yue Leiting. "It's hard for a god to break an inch of jade, and 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. People with good fortune have a greater chance of getting jade stones. People with bad luck, Even if you give him a good jade stone, you might get nothing."

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.

Zhou Fu 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 sequences came out, I saw Lan Qing's face was very worried, and I seemed to be fine, holding the note in my hand with an expression of indifference.

number seven!

I understand in my heart what Lan Qing is worried about. The six people in front of me are not ordinary people. The more I go forward, the better my chances of winning, but I chose the seventh, but I don’t even have a chance to choose. The rest are given up by others. It can be seen that the faces of the last remaining people will definitely not be good!

Gu Xiaotian gave everyone a stick of incense time, and one-third of the incense on the table had been burned.

Song Hui was the first to enter the stage to choose a candidate. In the first competition, he used the number of people to make a divination, and his ability to do divination at will is still fresh in people's memory.

It seemed that it would not be difficult for Song Hui to choose the one with the best luck today from the seven people in front of him.

He walked back and forth several times in front of the seven people, each of them watching carefully, finally stopped in front of the third person in the middle, and nodded meaningfully.

I think the person Song Hui chose was somewhat disappointed. Song Hui’s divination and hexagrams made a deep impression on people yesterday, and he can be counted as the best among the seven, but after all, Song Hui’s attainments in Qimen Dunjia are far superior through his physiognomy.

The person he chooses is born in the sheep, the fire in the sky, the five elements are prosperous in the earth, and lack of wood. Thoughtful, resourceful, and knowledgeable, this person was born at the time of Bingchen on the day of Gui, and he took Wuji as an official, and the position of Chen was the official treasury of Wuji's land, so it is said that he sits in the official treasury.Gui uses Bing as wealth, and Chen belongs to the water bureau, which makes Binghuo lifeless, and the life master is very expensive.

But today is compared with the fortune of the day, this person is not satisfactory, because people who love water like the north, but he is standing in the northwest today. In the future, the sky will be water, and there must be fire to help him. He likes a lot of water, but avoids gold. A lot, metal in the five elements is in the west, gold is a lot and water is turbid, so his luck today is not very good!

Song Huixuan's people selected among the pile of stones, took one and stood up, Jieshi also used his knife in front of everyone, and the stone was cut open within a few minutes.

I know a little bit about jade wares. A green line on the cut stone really extends to about three or four centimeters wide. Unfortunately, it is not very thick, so I can’t make a few jade wares. At most, I can make a pendant. The color is very transparent and the value should be high.

The people in the courtyard were amazed. The stone betting business has always been mysterious and exciting, but most of it is technical work, so people in the underworld rarely participate. They have heard about stone betting.

But what surprised everyone even more was that Song Hui didn't know anything about gambling stones, but he was able to choose such a jade-bearing stone through observation, which was amazing.

The second person to choose was Zhou Fu. Like Song Hui, after walking back and forth a few times, he chose the first person on the left.

Zhou Fu, Lan Qing, told me on purpose that he is considered a senior, but seeing him choose this person today, I am somewhat disappointed. This person’s day is dominated by water, and he was born in autumn. He must have gold to help him. , like wood, fire, this person's day pillar Renxu, sit down for wealth and kill, kill and kill, kill and kill, the Lord is very noble, although today is not a day of good luck, but the fortune is not low!

But Zhou Fu seems to have forgotten what day it is today. Today is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, Kui Chou day in the lunar calendar, and the day of the ox is against the sheep. This person happens to belong to the sheep.

The stone had already been untied, and Zhou Fu in front of him looked pale, as if he didn't believe that the person he had chosen would choose such a stone.

Before the stone was untied, there was a deep green line in the crack, the color was soft, but when the knife was cut down, there were many thin cracks in the green inside, it was impossible to make a complete jewelry, it was completely like a waste stone.