There are farm ladies carrying vegetable baskets and wearing floral short-sleeved shirts, as well as high-ranking officials with gold medals hanging around their waists.

A child was running in the crowd so fast that he bumped into a round beer belly without warning.

"What are you doing!"

The owner of the beer belly was knocked back a few steps by him. He was a fat, pale-faced man wearing an elegant gown. The flesh on his face trembled twice, and he immediately looked at the child with shock and anger.

Whose child is running around recklessly? "What are you doing so rashly, kid? Do you have eyes?"

A guard with a sword next to him shouted - on the other side of the pregnant middle-aged man stood a guard with the same appearance, looking very impressive, and it was obvious that this fat man was of some importance.

The child who wanted to apologize suddenly changed his expression and said, "Don't yell at me. I was scared by a dog when I was a child!"

"you!"

The guard's expression suddenly changed and he was about to draw his sword.

"Even if the child has done something wrong, it's not appropriate to take his life so lightly."

Just as the guard took a step forward, Han Zhenjian suddenly appeared, followed by Alipay.

"Why, do you want to meddle in the affairs of my Hewang Mansion?"

The guard turned and looked at Han Zhenjian, and drew the knife from its sheath.

Han Zhenjian touched his nose, and under his drooping eyelids, there was a pair of eyes flashing with cold light.

"Okay, stop wasting your time on these untouchables."

The fat prince with a pregnant belly waved his hand impatiently. His eyes were full of arrogance. He was too lazy to get entangled with these ordinary people, and even more disdainful to argue with a little brat. He didn't even look at Han Zhenjian and the others, and called the two guards.

"Let's go."

"Kid, you're not scared, are you?"

Han Zhenjian stepped forward and touched the head of the child who looked no more than eight or nine years old. He looked so mature that he didn't look like a child who was only a few years older.

Unexpectedly, the child not only did not apologize, but sneered and said indifferently: "You dare to offend Lord He, you can only wish you good luck..."

After saying this, he turned around and ran away, regardless of Han Zhenjian's sudden change of expression.

"Hey, this damn kid..."

Han Zhenjian was stunned, then burst into laughter.

After entering the gambling stone shop, Han Zhenjian and Fu BMW first hid in the crowd and observed secretly. After all, it was the first time for these two kids to gamble on stones, so they had to observe and learn the specific process on the spot.

Han Zhenjian touched one stone after another that was bigger than a person.

Stones like this that have not been cut are called rough stones.

Han Zhenjian tried to penetrate the raw material with the Dao Yun true energy of the Dao Tai realm.

As expected, I found that I could detect everything inside.

"Doesn't this mean that gambling is a sure win?"

Han Zhenjian was delighted. He never thought that his true energy could actually detect the internal structure of the stone.

Mortals definitely don't have this unique skill.

Han Zhenjian told Fu BMW the trick.

The latter tried it, but found that the true energy of the Guben realm could not penetrate into the stone.

"So, today's happiness belongs to me alone."

Han Zhenjian patted his shoulder comfortingly and taunted him, "Why didn't you cultivate to the Daotai realm earlier?"

"What you said, you can't become the head because you don't want to?"

Fu BMW rolled his eyes.

The place where the raw materials were being cut was crowded with people. The two teenagers squeezed through the crowd and went in, watching the excitement happily.

"Wow, the water quality is pretty good!"

A piece of stone that looked good had a layer of stone skin cut off - Han Zhenjian actually didn't know whether it looked good or not. To him, all the raw materials looked the same, but seeing so many people gathered around it, he thought it must be good.

As for the Emperor's New Clothes, those watching may not necessarily understand the business, but everyone wants to join in the fun.

As for what water quality is, Han Zhenjian had some understanding of it before. It is the basis for judging the quality of jade. The "quality" of jade is also called "quality", which refers to the size of the crystal particles. The smaller the crystal particles, the better the quality, and the larger the crystal particles, the worse the quality. It is roughly divided into old quality, new quality, and new and old quality.

"Water" is also called "water head", which refers to the light transmittance of jade, that is, the degree of transparency of jade. Experts divide water into one to three parts, and the transparency gradually increases from low to high. Three points of water is the most transparent, and glass type is three points of water.

The so-called good water quality can be simply summed up in one sentence: the stuff inside is quite valuable.

"I'll take this piece of raw material for twelve taels of silver. Are you willing?"

A middle-aged man carrying a bag full of silver on his back was excited at that time.

Generally, once the quality of the jade is revealed, there will be jade merchants coming to buy it immediately. At this time, the current buyer of the rough material can choose to sell it and make a steady profit, but he can also cut it again to see if it can still increase in value. Once it does, the value can soar again.

On the contrary, if there is only a small grain inside or the so-called water quality is simply wrong, it will be worthless in an instant.

Otherwise, why do they say that gambling on stones can make you rich overnight with just one cut, or lose everything with just one cut?

At present, there is no technology in the secular world that can detect in advance whether there is jade inside the stone skin.

This is also the reason why gambling on stones is still so popular. Unknown things are always the most attractive, and whether something can be produced depends on a few blind guesses.

Sometimes all the theoretical knowledge is useless.

"Don't rush to sell it. Why don't you give it another try? What if there is stock inside? Look how good this water is!" Someone nearby started to make a fuss.

"That's right. Look at this kind of water. If it's not handled properly, it could be a big piece of meat. It could easily cost hundreds or even thousands of taels!"

"Twelve taels is still too cheap."

“I suggest you take another look.”

"I don't think so. There may be a pitfall. I can still make money if I sell it now."

Most people are still optimistic about it. After all, the quality of the first cut is pretty good.

Han Zhenjian watched coldly from the side and walked forward to touch it.

Inside the stone skin is...

There is only a small piece of jade close to the cut side, and there are no large pieces of jade deeper inside, let alone the top-grade green jade.

This knife will cost you a fortune. If you sell it, you can make more than ten taels of silver. If you cut it again, you will cry.

However, Han Zhenjian did not say anything. Whether others made money or not was none of his business, and he did not want to give them any advice. Honest words were unpleasant to the ears, and if one gave the wrong advice, he would offend others.

Under the instigation of many people, the current buyer of this piece of raw material gritted his teeth and finally decided: "Then... let's cut it again and see?"

Han Zhenjian hehe.

Then the rough material with half of the stone skin removed was washed again and sent to the cutter.

After one cut.

"well!"

There was a sudden sigh from everyone around.

As expected, the corner of Han Zhenjian's mouth curled up, and the result was just as he saw, the cutting was empty.

There's nothing inside, just ordinary stones.

In other words, it is worthless and useless.

The buyer immediately slapped his thigh in frustration: "Alas!"

Han Zhenjian probably understood it, and now it was his turn to take action...

He touched the big rock when he saw it. As the Taoist power was poured into the rock, the world began to change in front of him. The rock in front of him seemed to become transparent layer by layer.

He could see at a glance whether there were any goods inside.

Although he is not a professional in this field, he has a general understanding that the greener and purer the color of the jade, the more valuable it is. Therefore, he is not very interested in some jades with small grayish-white spots inside. If he wants to sell, he has to sell big ones.

But after searching for a long time, I couldn't find any good stone inside.

"Nine times out of ten, you lose in gambling...more than 90% of these raw materials are empty."

Han Zhenjian complained.

Fu Baoma agrees: "No wonder these merchants don't cut it themselves, but want to sell it for money."

Even though he had the incredible luck that his master had mentioned, he still had to touch dozens of large rocks before he finally found a stone the size of a human head. Inside the stone was two petals of green jade that were about the same shape as a butt.

Judging from the appearance, it must be very expensive.

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