Chapter 539: Turning Sides 1
No one at the scene had high expectations for the few new faces who had just arrived in Myanmar to gamble on stones.
"But the Lu family still has Jin Can by their side. With external aid, there is a certain probability that we will gain something."
"Jin Can? You lost several million gambling on stones a few days ago, right? There's nothing to see! Focus on the Wu family and the big guys in our Burmese upper circle! Everyone has done their homework!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's attention turned to the Wu family and several wealthy families in Burma not far away.
Different from the heated discussions outside, the atmosphere inside the Wu family's house was solemn at this moment.
Wu Qi was both nervous and excited.
"How's it going, Dad? Did the big guy in our gambling stone group speak?"
Wu Qi shook his head.
Looking out of the lounge window, I saw the crowded Xiangyunzhai. In addition to a few local bigwigs, there were also many wealthy families who came to gamble on stones. Among them, there were not many Chinese. Including the Wu family and the Lu family, there was only the Long family.
This time, the Long family came to gamble on stones and invited a group of stone gambling experts from Country M.
There are only a handful of Chinese people.
Wu Qi arrived at Xiangyunzhai at six in the morning. After observing for more than two hours, he still couldn't see who looked like the big stone gambler in their group.
Wu Zhiheng was puzzled, "Dad, could it be that the big guys in our group are not Chinese at all?"
"No." Wu Qi confirmed, "I have contacted Bai Ji in the group before, and from what he said, the boss is Chinese."
"It's eight o'clock. Many people have gone to see the raw materials. Do we still have to wait here? The group leader won't be delayed by something, right?"
It would be fine if he didn't come, but the important thing is that the group leader hasn't been active in the past few days. He took pictures of the sixty or seventy pieces of raw stones present and sent them to the group. The group leader never said which piece of raw stone was valuable except for raw stone No. 20.
Since it was a blind auction, and the jewelry industry had a large demand for jadeite, Wu Qi certainly needed more than just a piece of rough material.
At least three pieces of material must be pressed, and these three pieces of material may be taken by others first because the bid is not high enough.
"Zhiheng, you and the expert team go downstairs to look at the raw materials first. Dad will stay upstairs to observe the situations of other families and see which raw materials they are interested in. This time, our Wu family can only succeed and not fail!"
"I know, Dad!"
"Lu Jingqing's family is also downstairs looking at the raw materials. Fu Zhi even got his hands on it himself. Ha... Zhiheng, don't provoke the Lu family when you go downstairs. Jin Can has been unlucky recently. Don't worry about them. They won't make any waves. You just need to follow the expert group to observe the raw materials. Don't argue with the Lu family. The Lu family will go to destruction on their own."
Wu Zhiheng was full of confidence: "Don't worry, Dad. I have learned a lot from the group leader in the gambling stone boss group in the past few years, and I can already become a master. As long as the group leader doesn't come in person, these people downstairs may not know more than me!"
"It's better to be safe than sorry. After all, these big families here made their fortunes by gambling on stones. Their strength should not be underestimated."
A rotten boat still has three pounds of nails. Even if it is the Lu family, Wu Qi despises them strategically but pays attention to them tactically.
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The exhibition hall downstairs.
Fu Zhi and the Lu family's expert group acted in batches. As soon as she arrived at the exhibition hall, she took out her mobile phone and looked at the album of several raw materials that she had picked out early in the morning, which were of good size and color.
The exhibition hall was bustling with activity. Authoritative experts from all over the country had gathered here, about fifty or sixty in number. They were gathered in groups of three or four in front of the raw materials they liked, holding documents, discussing in low voices, and taking notes.
Suddenly, they saw a little girl observing the rough stone. Everyone just glanced at her casually and didn't pay much attention. They thought Fu Zhi was some girl from some family who came here to broaden her horizons. They never thought that she was also here to gamble on stones.
"The raw material No. 20 is pretty good. I think the Wu family's expert team stayed here for a while longer."
"It's just that the price of this raw material is a bit high. After the bidding, it must be raised to 100 million. Only a big family like the Wu family can afford it."
"Of course, the background of aristocratic families is different from that of some small families. The Wu family wins nine times out of ten. The raw materials they like must be flawless!"
"Just wait and see. In this exhibition hall, many families are paying attention to the Wu family's movements and want to follow the Wu family in placing their bets!"
Wu Zhiheng heard the conversation among a group of onlookers outside the door, and he curled his lips slightly, unable to conceal the pride in his eyes.
At this time, someone shouted loudly, "Chu Yunsheng, Senior Chu is here! Everyone, make way!"
Following these words, the eyes of all the experts who were originally observing the raw material lit up, and they all looked over, looking at the energetic middle-aged man in a suit who appeared at the door, with a look of admiration and surprise on their faces, as if that man was an unclimbable mountain.
"Chu Yunsheng? So this is the famous Senior Chu who is good at gambling on stones! I see he is really extraordinary!"
"It is said that Senior Chu has a pair of yin-yang eyes. He can tell at a glance whether there is top-grade jadeite in the rough material that the machine cannot see through!"
"Senior Chu is well-known in the gambling stone industry. We have heard of him a long time ago. I didn't expect that he would come to participate in this year's gambling stone festival after two years of silence. If he makes a move, I'm afraid we will return home disappointed!"
"I just don't know whether Senior Chu is gambling on stones himself or helping others..."
Chu Yunsheng received everyone's awed gazes and walked in with pride. The experts who were originally looking at the raw materials stood up one by one out of respect and greeted Chu Yunsheng.
"Chu Yunsheng, isn't he going to retire? Why is he here at Xiangyunzhai?" Upstairs, Wu Qi frowned, fearing that something unexpected would happen again.
When Mr. Chen of Xiangyunzhai heard the news, he immediately came out from the backstage and greeted him, "Senior Chu! It is really a great honor for our Xiangyunzhai to have you attend the event today!"
Chu Yunsheng looked arrogant, "Boss Chen, you're too polite."
He said this, but his tone always showed that he agreed with what Boss Chen said.
"I came here this time because of the request of the younger generation of my family to help the Lu family. If Boss Chen has something to do, he can leave first. I also need to take my apprentices to meet Boss Lu."
Boss Chen smiled slightly, said a few more words, gave Chu Yunsheng great face, and then turned and left.
Although there were only four hours to observe the raw material, the expert group had already done a lot of homework earlier and had plenty of time. For a moment, no one turned around and everyone was paying attention to Chu Yunsheng's movements with their peripheral vision.
"Help the Lu family? Which Lu family?"
"Who else? Isn't that the new face we saw in the exhibition hall today, the Chinese guy walking with Jin Can?"
"Is it him? He doesn't look very rich, and I've never heard of this family. How can they afford to ask Senior Chu for help?!"
"What a lucky guy! Besides, you can't hire Senior Chu just by having money, you need power!"
“…”
The discussion was so noisy that even many experts were whispering.
Chu Yunsheng stood in the center of the exhibition hall and did not move for a while.
Of course, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to move, but he found that since he came to Xiangyunzhai, even Boss Chen came out to greet him, but no one from the Lu family came to entertain him!
Chu Yunsheng frowned deeply. He has been sought after since he became famous, especially now that he is getting older and gradually becoming a veteran in the industry, the ceiling of the gambling stone world. No one has ever taken him so lightly. In an instant, his face showed a hint of impending storm.
Perhaps it was because his face looked too bad that the atmosphere at the scene froze for a moment.
"Master," a young man in his twenties said from behind Chu Yunsheng, "Master, wait here. I'll go find the Lu family!"
Chu Yunsheng didn't say anything. He stood with his hands behind his back, and his eyes, which were different from those of ordinary people, revealed extreme impatience and dissatisfaction.
Chu Yunsheng's movements directly attracted the attention of many CEOs in the exhibition hall.
Wu Qi secretly shook his head, "Chu Yunsheng is such a powerful senior, but the Lu family doesn't even take him seriously."
His eyes were fixed on the movements of the Lu family. Chu Yunsheng's arrival was like a shadow hanging over the Wu family. Wu Qi felt unprecedented pressure.
No one has spoken in the group of gambling stone bosses so far.
Wu Qi lost his biggest support and was not as confident as before. With the addition of Chu Yunsheng, he felt something was not right. He waved to the secretary behind him and said, "Go downstairs and follow Chu Yunsheng closely to hear what's going on between him and the Lu family."
If there is a chance, even if it is just a slim hope, Wu Qi would like to pull people to his camp.
But Wu Qi did not expect that his fantasy would be realized so quickly.
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Downstairs, Fu Zhi took a pen and paper and concentrated on drawing a check mark on the document for gambling stone No. 26.
Turning around, she saw Jin Can, who looked hurried, rushing to Lu Jingqing, who was not far behind her, and hooked his arm around Lu Jingqing's neck, giving him a thumbs up, "Brother Lu, you're awesome!"
Lu Jingqing: “???”
Lu Jingqing raised his eyes and looked at Jin Can with a cold expression, "What?"
"You're still pretending with us? Didn't you hear the noise in the middle of the hall?"
Jin Can looked as if Lu Jingqing didn't treat him as a good brother and didn't tell him little secrets. However, the area where Lu Jingqing and Fu Zhi were standing was exactly the edge of the entire exhibition hall.
The exhibition hall could hold a thousand people, and with so many people gathered in the center, the noise made by them was so loud that if you were not paying attention, you would not be able to hear any sound at all from the edge.
Jin Can then got to the point, "Chu Yunsheng! Brother Lu, you are awesome! You actually invited him as an outside aid! It really gave me a big surprise. But since you invited him, there is really no need to ask me to come! My ability is far inferior to his!"
"Chu Yunsheng?" Lu Jingqing frowned and said in a cold voice, "I have never invited such a person."
Chu Yunsheng's name is too famous in Myanmar, and the Lu family is only a first-rate family in City A of China. It is not good enough to be shown outside, so how can they invite such a gambling stone tycoon?
Lu Jingqing is still very self-aware.
"Could it be that you made a mistake?"
"Impossible!" Jin Can answered decisively, "I saw Senior Chu Yunsheng just before I came to see you. After confirming it again and again, I arranged for him to sit in our lounge and drink tea. How could this be wrong?"
"Chu Yunsheng did come to the Lu family to help."
Before Lu Jingqing could think clearly, Fu Zhi closed the document in his hand, glanced at the Wu family members not far away who were looking over here from time to time, raised his eyebrows slightly, and thought of this matter, and said slowly: "I know a stupid and rich third-generation rich man here, he invited people here."
"You?!" Jin Can looked at Fu Zhi in disbelief.
But looking at Fu Zhi, a petite and gentle little girl, he instantly understood what the third-generation rich meant.
It costs money to pick up girls.
Lu Jingqing was just worried after hearing this, and said to Fu Zhi: "You can't have an early relationship with a rich third generation, understand?"
Fu Zhi: “I know.” She paused, afraid that Lu Jingqing wouldn’t believe her. Thinking of her relationship with the Gu family, Gu Yanqi’s father even called her dad.
So he explained seriously: "Don't worry, Dad, I treat him as my grandson and have only the affection between a grandfather and a grandson."
"If we go deeper, it will only be the elders' high hopes for the younger generation, hoping that their grandchildren will become successful, hope that their grandchildren will have a family, hope that their grandchildren will have a career, and finally hope that they will have great-grandchildren. Do you understand that?"
Lu Jingqing: "...Maybe I understand."
This is probably what happens after a couple gets married, love gradually turns into family affection, but his daughter skipped this step and directly elevated it to a grandfather-grandson relationship, and even pushed her grandson to another woman.
As expected, he is a top student who gets first place in every subject and is always one step ahead of ordinary people in love.
Today's young people's views on love are really eye-opening.
In order to prevent Lu Jingqing from asking more in-depth questions about premature love, Fu Zhi immediately took Lu Jingqing and Jin Can to meet Chu Yunsheng.
Seeing Lu Jingqing and Jin Can rushing over, Chu Yunsheng's expression improved slightly.
The apprentice behind him was no less humble than Chu Yunsheng. He started by mocking, "In the whole Myanmar, so many people wanted to ask my master for help in gambling on stones, but my master just agreed to the Lu family and flew back from Country M. You Lu family didn't even send someone to the exhibition hall to pick up my master in advance. Is this the Lu family's family education?!"
"Chang Yuan, don't be presumptuous!"
After the disciple finished his ridicule, Chu Yunsheng followed up with a rebuke.
Lu Jingqing already understood clearly about picking up people.
First, Fu Zhi forgot that Chu Yunsheng would come, and second, Chu Yunsheng did not decide in advance when to come to the exhibition hall.
But Chu Yunsheng's attitude was clear, so Lu Jingqing still explained it in a good-tempered manner.
Chu Yunsheng was still dissatisfied and glared in Fu Zhi's direction.
If you can forget such an important thing as him coming to help, how can you forget to eat? !
Ignorant youngster!
But for the sake of the Gu family, he endured it and said, "In this case, time is tight, Mr. Lu, I will take my apprentice to look at the raw materials first."
Jin Can replied, "I will go with the expert team to help you."
"No need." Chu Yunsheng said arrogantly, "When gambling on stones, you can't win just by having more people. When I'm looking at the rough stones, I don't like others wandering around me the most!"
(End of this chapter)
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