The 103rd day of being eavesdropped

Gu Jinshui had been away for more than ten days. When he came back, Beijing was already filled with the atmosphere of the New Year.

Gu Yinxing knew that his brother was going home today, so he bought a big cake for Gu Jinshui to clean up the dust.

Gu Jinshui glanced at the delicate strawberry-filled cake and asked, "Did you buy this for me or for yourself?"

"Brother, why are you asking so many questions? We are all family. What I give to you is equivalent to what I give to me."

Gu Yinxing said with a shameless grin.

Gu Jinshui shook his head helplessly. He put down his luggage and took out the souvenirs he bought for his family. The women all had gold jewelry, and Yan Yan had a Buck hunting knife. Gu Jinshui saw someone selling it on the black market by chance, and thought Yan Yan might like it, so he bought it.

"Is this knife from abroad?"

Yan Yan took the hunting knife and couldn't help but pull it out of the sheath. He saw a cold light flashing on the blade, and it was obviously sharpened.

Gu Jinshui: "Yeah, the Americans are pretty sharp, so you have to be careful."

"Brother, you are biased, you bought him such a good thing, but you bought this gold for us." Gu Yinxing complained: "You are not careful."

"If you say so, give me your gift back."

Gu Jinshui stretched out his hand without hesitation.

Liang Ying and He Chunlian were both amused.

Liang Ying said: "Okay, stop joking, I'm cooking, Jinshui, go take a shower, and we can have dinner when you come out later."

There are quite a few people in the family now.

Liang Ying bought a few dishes outside, and made a dish of hand-shredded cabbage by herself. After cooking rice, we can have dinner.

Gu Jinshui was really hungry, holding the bowl, and ate three big bowls. After eating in the evening, he was so full that he strolled in the yard.

"Dad, I have something to talk to you about."

Gu Yousi came out dressed like a panda.

It snowed this morning, and the snow in the yard hasn't melted yet. It makes a crunching sound when you step on it.

Gu Jinshui turned his head and saw that she was like a ball. He laughed out loud, "Girl, why are you like a ball?"

Gu Yousi: "..."

Sometimes it's no wonder that she doesn't want to talk to her dad. She's so rude.

Who is like a ball.

"I'm talking to you about serious matters. Stop being so careless." Gu Yousi said seriously with a stern face.

Gu Jinshui couldn't help but laugh at her child pretending to be an adult. He pinched her peach-like face and said, "Tell me, what's the matter? If it's not a big deal, Dad will agree to it."

"It's like this. During the few days when you were away, Uncle Song came to inquire about you."

Gu Yousi slapped Gu Jinshui's hand away and took a step back. "For some reason, he seemed to think you would go to the gambling market. He wanted to find out where you were going and even tried to trick me."

Good things should be kept within the family.

The imperial green that her father was going to sell couldn't be given to Song Jianshe for free!

Gambling?

Imperial green?

Gu Jinshui was stunned. He frowned and thought, "I really want to go to the gambling market. There is a place specializing in this in the suburbs. I think next year is the 1990s, so I want to give you all some jade."

Gu Yousi understood.

She said, "When do you plan to go? How about taking us with you?"

"That won't work. There are all kinds of people in that place. Children can't go there."

Gu Jinshui refused directly.

Gu Yousi looked at him with dead fish eyes, "Dad, Lan Lin and I are not ordinary children."

"I know, you are good children with excellent academic performance."

Gu Jinshui pretended not to understand and patted Gu Yousi on the shoulder, "Good girls, you have an exam tomorrow, go back and review. If you get first place, Dad will reward you with 100 yuan!"

Gu Yousi took a deep breath and tried to suppress it.

However, Gu Jinshui's tone of teasing children was too irritating. She glared at Gu Jinshui and turned away.

Gu Jinshui smiled, but there was something in his eyes.

Gambling with stones? !

The final exam is the most painful and happiest day for children.

The pain is that if you don't do well in the exam, you won't have a good New Year, and you can forget about the New Year's money, but you can eat braised pork with rattan sticks; the happiness is because this is the last day, and after the exam, you will have a holiday and can have fun.

"Finally the exam is over, my dad said he would take me to Beihai Park tomorrow!"

"Oh, I can finally watch TV tonight, I wonder what happened to Jiang Ziya..."

The children laughed and chattered all the way.

Gu Yousi and Lan Lin seemed particularly calm, and even when Song Jianshe suddenly appeared, there was no change on their faces.

"Uncle Song..."

Gu Yousi stopped and grabbed the strap of his schoolbag, "You are trying to scare me to death."

Song Jianshe smiled awkwardly, "Little girl, uncle is looking for you for something important, have you asked about that thing?" "That thing, which one?"

Seeing his anxious look, Gu Yousi thought about it and asked deliberately.

Song Jianshe was stunned for a moment, anxious, and hurriedly said: "You didn't ask, I asked you to find out which gambling market your father went to."

"Oh, I remember."

Gu Yousi nodded, "No wonder I always feel that I forgot something."

Song Jianshe's heart tightened, thinking that it was not good, this little girl would not be unreliable and forget about this matter.

"You, you didn't ask?!"

"Oh, I asked." Gu Yousi nodded and said.

Song Jianshe was speechless for a moment, and his heartbeat was like a roller coaster, rising first, then falling, and rising again.

This was the first time in his life that he was played around like this!

Song Jianshe gritted his teeth and said, "Little girl, where did your dad say we were going?!"

Gu Yousi took a few steps back and pouted, "Uncle, you're so scary, I'm scared."

"Uncle Song, why are you still scaring our kids!" Lan Lin protected Gu Yousi without saying a word, frowning and looking at Song Jianshe with displeasure.

Although he is young, he has been influenced by his grandfather. Once he frowns, his aura is suddenly different from others.

"Me!"

Song Jianshe almost got angry.

Is this called scaring?

Seeing that the two children were not scared at all, Song Jianshe gritted his teeth and had to swallow his anger, "Uncle is wrong, uncle apologizes."

"Okay, I forgive you."

Gu Yousi waved his hand generously.

Song Jianshe's forehead was bulging with veins, and he took out fifty yuan from his pocket, "This money is for you, you can talk about it, right?"

"Sure."

Gu Yousi took the money without hesitation.

She tilted her head and thought for a while, "My dad seemed to say that he was going to Xicheng."

"Xicheng, is it the yard opened by Boss Wang?"

Song Jianshe asked hurriedly.

He had not been doing nothing these days. He also went out to inquire about where there were stone gambling places in Beijing. You know what, now he really knows a lot.

Gu Yousi nodded immediately: "Yes, that's it. My dad said he will go there tomorrow and he doesn't allow us to go with him. It's really too much!"

Song Jianshe didn't have the heart to pay attention to her. He touched his chin with his hand and muttered: "Xicheng, Xicheng, it's not far away. I heard that Boss Wang has a lot of new stones. Could it be there?"

He talked to himself, turned around and left, fully demonstrating what it means to pull the ladder out after climbing up the roof.

"Niuniu, why did you tell him about your uncle?"

After Song Jianshe walked away, Lan Lin asked Gu Yousi in a disapproving whisper.

Gu Yousi put the money in his pocket, "I lied to him, my dad didn't go there at all."

"Huh?" Lan Lin was stunned.

Gu Yousi turned his head to look at him, his grape-like eyes were filled with surprise, "You are not as stupid as him, are you?"

Lan Lin's ears immediately turned red.

He was a child after all, even though his grandfather taught him how to do business and how to behave, he was still not as cunning as Gu Yousi, the thousand-year-old fox.

The next day.

Gu Yousi and Lan Lin were painting in the yard.

Grandpa Lan invited a professor from the Academy of Fine Arts to come and teach the two children how to draw trees, using the jujube trees in the yard as the scenery.

While the two children were drawing, Gu Jinshui quietly put the money in his pocket and was about to go out.

The professor saw his sneaky look and was stunned for a moment, stroking his white beard. Gu Jinshui quickly made a gesture to keep quiet. The professor understood and nodded.

Gu Jinshui then turned around and walked away lightly.

But man's calculations are no match for God's calculations. The snow buried dead branches and leaves, and when he stepped on them, there was a crisp sound.

Gu Jinshui froze in his movements.

Gu Yousi's speechless voice came: "Dad, you are going out, do you need to play tricks?"

Gu Jinshui touched the back of his head awkwardly and laughed dryly: "Ha, ha, you know?"

Gu Yousi put down the pen, turned around and looked at him, his expression was speechless.

Gu Jinshui cleared his throat: "Well, you guys study hard, Dad has something to do."

"Goodbye, uncle."

Lan Lin considerately let Gu Jinshui down the stairs.

Gu Jinshui was so happy in his heart, smiled and nodded at him, took his things and went out.

"Brother, are you really going there to buy stones?"

On the bus, Douzi held the handrail and said to Gu Jinshui, "I have to remind you that in their business, you can become poor with one knife, rich with one knife, and lose your money with one knife. You really can't tell whether you can make money."

"I'm not trying to make money." Gu Jinshui looked at the streets passing by outside the window. Pedestrians were intertwining like shuttles, traffic lights were changing and crisscrossing, the sky was blue, and a few pigeons flapped their wings and flew across the blue sky. Today was a rare good weather before the New Year.

"If you're not after the money, then why are you going there?"

The car was noisy and the conductor was calling people to check tickets. Douzi hurried closer and lowered his voice: "That red stone mine is so ruthless and doesn't give face. They won't refund the things you buy."

"That's more to my liking."

Gu Jinshui showed his white teeth, "Okay, you don't need to persuade me about this. I know my limits. But how is your tourism business doing?"

Gu Jinshui had long stopped exchanging foreign exchange bonds. He had completely changed his career at the beginning. Shanhu, on the contrary, was interested in antiques and was willing to work hard. Although he only looks at ancient coins now, he has already trained his eyesight in this area.

But Douzi was unwilling to study. In his words, he had a headache when he read textbooks since he was young. If he had to read books every day to do business, he would rather die.

Therefore, Gu Jinshui showed him a way to charter a car and set up a travel agency to take foreigners, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and other cities to travel around Beijing. They knew the locals well about the good scenery and delicious food.

Not to mention, with the booming tourism industry in recent years, he made a lot of money.

Douzi chuckled and said, "Not bad, brother, we want to start a company and buy a few more cars. What do you think?"

"You decide on your own,"

Gu Jinshui said, "You have to discuss it with your wife and your brother."

Gu Jinshui knew the limits. Douzi was his younger brother before, but now his business is doing well and he has no interest in it. It's better to stop talking.

Sure enough, Douzi said that the family had already discussed it and they all thought that it was time to expand the business.

The two talked about business all the way and staggered to the red stone quarry in the suburbs.

The red stone quarry was really big. There was an iron gate outside, and when you walked in, you saw piles of stones in the yard,

and there were many people. Inside was a very simple workshop, and there was a constant sizzling sound coming from inside. Once you walked in, you knew what the sound was. It was the sound of a stone grinder, the grinding wheel turning, cutting the stones. The people were surrounding a large stone that had been rubbed to a watery color.

Douzi hurriedly brought Gu Jinshui in to join in the fun.

"Rise, rise, rise..."

The spectators around kept shouting, staring at the cut roller with burning eyes.

Gu Jinshui couldn't help but be attracted. He saw that the jade color on the roller gradually deepened after cutting. In addition, various kinds of cotton wool were clearly visible in front of everyone's eyes.

"Oh, it's not only broken, but there are so many cotton wool!"

Someone couldn't help but say distressed.

Jade is most afraid of cotton wool and cracks. Generally, jade of this quality will not be sold at a low price.

The owner of the stone turned pale.

Douzi asked around and came back to Gu Jinshui and said, "Brother, this person paid 1,000 yuan to buy the stone. He said that the water color looked good when the window was opened. I didn't expect it to be so disappointing when it was opened. This stone can't be kept."

"This is a knife to poverty, a knife to wealth."

Gu Jinshui said thoughtfully.

Douzi said, "That's not the case." He lowered his voice and said to Gu Jinshui, "Don't look at the simple clothes of these people here. They are all rich. They are all domestic jade dealers. The thin old man over there."

He pointed at the old man and said, "He is in Guangzhou and I heard that he is worth millions now."

"Millions?"

Gu Jinshui was a little surprised.

He glanced at the old man. The old man was wearing a gray-green cotton jacket and cotton pants, and a thunderbolt cap on his head. If

you just look at his appearance, no one can guess that he is a wealthy man. "Yes, let's not talk about him. I saw an acquaintance. I'll let him take us."

Douzi waved to a tall man who was walking towards him.

The tall man saw Douzi and came over with a smile. They greeted each other and the tall man asked, "Do you want to buy expensive or cheap ones?"

"What do you think?" Gu Jinshui asked, "These are all stones. How can you tell the expensive from the cheap?"

The tall man smiled and pointed outside, "The stones outside are cheap. No matter which one, they are all 200 yuan each. The stones in this room are expensive. They are divided into those with windows and those without windows. The cheapest is 1,000 yuan, and the most expensive is the big stone, which is 100,000 yuan!"

He pointed to the big stone in the middle of the factory.

They saw the stone when they came in just now. It was about the height of a child.

The tall man led Gu Jinshui and the others over. This stone had a window. The window was a touch of rippled water green, with dark and light colors distributed in an orderly manner.

He put a flashlight against the window and shone it. The water below was like a lake, so deep that Douzi couldn't help but praise it.

The tall man said, "That's right. Otherwise, our boss wouldn't dare to ask for a price of 100,000. This thing is a golden thread. As long as there is nothing wrong with it, we will definitely make a profit."

Douzi looked at Gu Jinshui, "Brother, are you interested? "

Gu Jinshui looked at the stone, thought about it, and shook his head, "I can't afford it. Let's leave it to someone else."

The tall man was obviously used to it. He shrugged and nodded, "Okay, then you can look for it yourself. If you like something, come to me. You are Douzi's friend. I will give you a discount later."

"Thank you." Gu Jinshui thanked him.

The tall man waved his hand and went to greet other customers.

However, Gu Jinshui looked around and almost checked all the houses with open windows

or not, but he had no intention of buying anything. Douzi couldn't help wondering, "Brother, if you don't like what you have here, why don't we go outside?"

"No need."

Gu Jinshui waved his hand.

The stones outside were piled up like a mountain and sold at a low price. It was obvious that they would not be good products.

He swept his eyes and his sight suddenly fell on the gravel next to the stone grinding machine. Gu Jinshui's sight was suddenly attracted by a stone.

This stone was the one that the man had just broken.

Obviously, the owner was dissatisfied with the price of the stone and threw it on the ground.

Gu Jinshui walked over, squatted down and took a closer look.

Everyone thought that the old man only taught him how to look at antiques, but in fact, the old man also taught him how to look at stones.

There is a saying in the jade industry that green follows black, which means that in the rough jade gambling stones, the emerald green jade may be accompanied by black "rash". [1]

The cut side of this stone has a lot of black rash, and there is a high possibility that there is green underneath.

And looking at the deep black color on the top, the green is probably not light.

Thinking of this, Gu Jinshui's heart moved, could this be the top-grade imperial green.

"What's the matter, brother, you've been looking at it for a long time, do you want it?"

The person standing next to him asked.

Gu Jinshui gathered his thoughts, raised his head, and revealed an honest smile on his face, "Yes, it looks pretty good. I want to buy it for my wife and make her into a bracelet or something."

The people around him couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

"What's wrong? What kind of bracelet can you make with so many cracks on the stone?"

"Boss Zhou, Boss Zhou, someone wants to buy your stone, come here quickly."

Everyone wanted to see the fool suffer a loss. Boss Zhou heard the commotion here and hurried over. When he saw Gu Jinshui, he took a look at him first, and then saw that he was wearing a foreign watch on his wrist, and then a smile appeared on his face, "Little brother, do you want to buy my stone?"

Douzi squeezed in, and when he heard this, his head buzzed, and he quickly grabbed Gu Jinshui, "Brother, this stone is cut into pieces, why are we buying it, let's buy something else."

Gu Jinshui thought to himself, Douzi came at the right time.

He immediately said, "Douzi, you don't understand. The top part is broken, but the bottom part may not be broken. Besides, the top part is not small. It's a good deal for us to buy it."

"Yes, it's really a good deal." Boss Zhou wanted to take advantage of Qiao and raise the price, but when he saw Douzi coming to mix it up, he was eager to sell it and said, "If you offer 500, I will sell it to you."

"500, are you crazy? This stone is worth 500?"

Douzi has been here several times, so he naturally knows the market price.

Although many people will take such broken stones home, some people are too lazy to deal with them, and feel annoyed when they see them, so they just throw them here and let others deal with them.

This grandson actually asked for 500. He is really arrogant!

Boss Zhou looked a little embarrassed. "Three hundred, three hundred really can't be less. Such a big stone is worth this price even if it is sold by pound."

"Three hundred is three hundred."

Gu Jinshui agreed without thinking. Before Boss Zhou could smile, Gu Jinshui said, "However, we have to ask someone here to be a witness. This stone is mine since you sold it to me. If anything is found by rubbing it, it's all mine. You can't argue with it."

Boss Zhou agreed immediately. Douzi saw that he couldn't stop Gu Jinshui and was helpless. He had to ask Gaoge to be a witness.

The two sides exchanged money and goods. Boss Zhou got the money and smiled. Gu Jinshui got the stone and smiled even more brilliantly.

On the other side.

Song Jianshe took a taxi to the gambling stone field in Xicheng.

He looked at the door for a long time, but didn't see Gu Jinshui. He thought that maybe Gu Jinshui was late. Just as he was hesitating, he heard someone inside exclaiming: "Why is there such a big stone here?"

Song Jianshe only knew that the stone that was about to produce the imperial green was big and ugly. Hearing this key word, his ears moved and he hurried in.

The appearance of the gambling field is similar, but the difference is that this place is all stones outside, and the stone grinding machines are all inside the house.

Song Jianshe walked in and saw a huge and ugly stone in the middle of the yard. A man next to him seemed to be from this place and was talking to someone: "This stone is big, so the jade produced is big. Our boss said that he thinks this stone has great potential and will sell it for 500 today!"

"500, it would be worth it if it could really be cut and raised, but there is no window and it has grown like this,"

many people shook their heads and said: "Besides, the size of the jade has nothing to do with the size of the stone. 500 is too expensive." People

around nodded one after another.

Everyone is an expert, so naturally they will not be fooled by a few words from the staff.

If a big stone can be cut and raised, everyone doesn't need to worry about it, just find a big one.

What's more, the stone has no window, which can only mean that the boss is not confident about the stone and wants to find a scapegoat to take over.

"I want this stone!"

Song Jianshe shouted immediately.

People around him looked at him in surprise.

Song Jianshe thought that everyone admired him, so he straightened his chest, took out five big bills from his pocket, walked out, and slapped the money on the stone, "Five hundred yuan, this stone belongs to me."

The staff member was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed, probably because he saw that Song Jianshe was unfamiliar, and was afraid that a young man would come back to make trouble, so he kindly reminded him, "In our place, we sell stones, and we are not responsible for cutting them too high or too low, and we don't allow people to make trouble. The last person who made trouble had his legs broken!"

"Don't worry, I know all these rules, how could I make trouble."

Song Jianshe was full of confidence.

The confident smile on his face made everyone feel confused. Could it be that this ugly stone was strange?