Lin Luosang licked his lips, trying to clarify the current point with him.
Before he could explain to him which was more important, making earrings or wasting money, the auction for the sixth rough stone began. The host began to introduce the new rough stone, so she did not interrupt.
Jiang Mei was extremely regretful for missing the opportunity because of lack of money. During the auction, Lin Luosang even heard the familiar sound of high heels stomping, which was Jiang Mei's habitual action when she was extremely angry and unwilling.
Lin Luosang didn't raise her bid for the next few auctions. After all, as a novice in gambling on gemstones, she felt that buying one piece would be enough for her first attempt. Furthermore, the piece she had her eye on was likely to be the highest-priced piece at 30 million.
Instead, Pei Hanzhou took over two more pieces. Although there were some twists and turns in the process, it was generally smooth - after all, he had money.
Soon we arrived at the last rough stone, which came from the Pagang mine.
Jiang Mei and the sponsor behind her had been discussing this for a long time.
"Pei Hanzhou bought two pieces of raw material."
"Three dollars now, that adds up to almost fifty million."
"If we don't take it now, we won't have a chance. It's almost the last piece!"
The sponsor warned her, "You don't know anything. Stop making such a fuss here, okay? What you just did was outrageous enough. If you really bought it for 20 million, who would pay you? I won't pay you anyway. Do you have the money yourself?"
"I never thought I'd meet Lin Luosang!" Jiang Mei pleaded bitterly. "I've been criticized so much online. People are comparing me to Lin Luosang everywhere, and I'm being beaten up. I'll really go crazy if I lose to her again in gambling on stones. Can you please be kind to me just this once? Please."
"You were so insistent on coming to the auction with me before, but didn't you repeatedly promise not to buy anything?" The sponsor finally backed down after much persuasion. "Okay, just this once. Twelve thousand is the maximum. No more."
Jiang Mei kissed the rich man's fat face happily: "I knew you were the best to me!"
Lin Luosang got goosebumps when she heard this, but Pei Hanzhou beside her curled his lips slightly.
There is no doubt that the man took in the entire conversation behind him.
The auction lasted for a long time, and Lin Luosang was already a little sleepy from waiting, but he was suddenly awakened by Jiang Mei's greasy and coquettish voice. Thinking that the auction was about to end, he couldn't help but sit up a little, stretch his muscles, and prepare to leave later.
Just as she was rubbing her shoulders, the man signaled his secretary to raise the price for the last piece of raw material.
As soon as Jiang Mei saw this, she immediately realized that the couple was determined to get this piece of material. Moreover, she had just discussed it with the sponsor, so she quickly raised her sign to try to intercept it: "Eight million!"
Secretary: "Nine million."
Jiang Mei was even more excited, "Ten million!"
Jiang Mei's voice almost broke because of nervousness.
The secretary looked at Pei Hanzhou's face and said, "Eleven million."
Jiang Mei took a deep breath and reached her highest limit. Her voice trembled a little, and she began to feel uncertain and panic, but she still tried her best to look elegant and decent: "Twelve million."
The secretary whispered to the man, "President, do you want more?"
"No need," Pei Hanzhou said calmly, "She can't afford it anymore."
Unexpectedly, the man would say such gentle words. Lin Luosang suddenly turned to look at him: "Are you so kind? Are you suddenly planning to show mercy and let her win the bid?"
The man smiled and tilted his head, "That's right."
"Your husband is such a man," he added after a pause, "a kind-hearted man."
Lin Luosang: “…”
It was not until the stone was cut that Lin Luosang understood why the man suddenly showed such kindness to Jiang Mei.
Since the last piece of raw stone is usually the most important, Jiang Mei volunteered to be the first person to cut the stone. After the machine hummed and ran, it cut the material, but no green was seen on the first cut.
Then he cut it twice more, but there was no trace of green at all - this stone, which was sold for 12 million and ranked third in price in the auction, did not produce any jade at all.
The cameraman even gave a particularly perverse close-up, with the entire dark grey cut surface being projected on a large screen in real time, and there was a burst of noise and laughter outside the stone-cutting room.
"Hahaha, this is such a loss. Young artists without military advisors should avoid gambling on stones. The water is deep."
"What a shame, it looks like good material."
"I'm not lucky enough to do that. I lost on the first try."
Next it was Lin Luosang’s turn to take number five.
Because of Jiang Mei's previous experience, she was a little unsure. She nervously clenched her fingers and unconsciously exerted force.
Pei Hanzhou casually drew two lines, indicating that it should be cut along the lines. When he handed it to her, he tilted his head as if he had something to say to her.
She thought he was going to convey some important information, such as the probability of cutting out green, so she quickly moved over and even tiptoed.
The man's slightly deep voice swirled around her ear, with a hint of moisture seeping in.
"You're going to pinch my arm until it's blue."
“…”
Her ears softened, and she let go of his hand speechlessly and embarrassedly, taking two steps back.
The man raised his eyebrows nonchalantly, then turned his head to look at the emery wire that was cutting the jade.
As he spoke, the result of the first cut was already known.
Not only was the jade cut out, but the color of the jade inside was also rich and uniform, the texture was delicate and smooth, there were almost no flaws, and it was amazingly translucent.
The cutting masters were all stunned: "Oh my God, such a large area of glass jadeite was cut out?!"
Glass jade is the best type of jade, not to mention that this piece is almost full green, which is also top quality among the best types.
The excited discussions outside even reached Lin Luosang's ears.
"Oh my god, not only is it green, but it's also glass-type, and the water content is so high. I originally thought I would lose 30 million, but now I see it's a huge profit!"
"This is much better than the luck I had just with the 12 million."
"Pei Hanzhou rarely makes mistakes. If I had just followed his steps, I might have made some money."
Pei Hanzhou, who was mentioned, remained calm and handed it over for the second cut.
The second cut still had green, and the people watching the broadcast outside were already applauding and exclaiming, "How deep must this green be... Don't even think about it, don't even think about it, it must be ridiculously expensive, I can't even afford it, damn it."
Jiang Mei stared at the screen in front of her, and when she saw the large area of green spreading, she clenched her fists in her pockets.
The louder the others exclaimed, the more Jiang Mei felt that the subtext between their words was mocking her for taking a picture of a piece of waste.
The huge contrast caused it to collapse in an indescribable way.
Why on earth?! Why can I never catch up to Lin Luosang?!
Lin Luosang in the stone-cutting room was also completely shocked by the result.
Even though she was an entry-level player, she knew how amazing the price of this stone was. However, because her husband was very calm, she could not act like she had never seen the market before, so she just nodded with a trembling mouth.
In fact, her heart was already burning with emotion, and she felt that her vision of stone was as precise and unique as her songwriting. She was thinking about starting a side business and even wanted to change her cheering slogan.
Marketing genius Lin Luosang, gambling stone genius Lin Luosang.
…
Soon, the next two stones that Pei Hanzhou photographed also began to be solved.
But the man just said calmly: "You can go sit on the sofa for a while, the chances of winning these two pieces are not high."
Seeing his confident look, Lin Luosang was stunned for a few seconds: "...Then why did you buy it?"
It seems that he is actually quite experienced with jade. Just now, his aura was calm and confident, and he really asked for a high price for the raw stone. But when he said the probability was low, he was also very calm.
Lin Luosang was still puzzled until a sudden flash of inspiration struck him. He looked up and said, "You didn't mean to trick Jiang Mei, did you?"
"Don't put it so harshly," the man said, straightening his sleeves. "This is called strategy."
It seems to be true?
Lin Luosang: "What if you also bought Jiang Mei's 12 million...?"
"Investing tens of millions is nothing to me, but it's a huge deal to her." The man raised the corner of his lip, "I'm happy to do it."
Lin Luosang was even speechless for a moment.
Good, you are courageous and decisive, as expected of you.
As expected, only one of the next two pieces turned out green, but it was within Pei Hanzhou's plan, and the other one was of good quality, so overall he still made a profit.
When the two came out of the stone-cutting room, the secretary glanced at her phone and said, "Siman Jewelry is here to buy the jade material. They said they want the two pieces that showed green. You name the price."
The man hummed, "Wait."
"Why wait?" Lin Luosang asked, "Wouldn't it be better to sell it now? What if they don't want it in a couple of days?"
Pei Hanzhou: "I'll cut the material for your earrings first, and then give them the rest."
Her steps staggered.
...It's really hard for you to remember my earrings.
When Lin Luosang left the auction, he happened to hear an argument coming from the side hall.
The voice was familiar, and she couldn't help but take two steps closer and look into the garden through the cave gate.
It was a bit chilly today, and the wind made the bamboo forest rustle, but Jiang Mei had already taken off her lambskin coat and, wearing thin clothes, held the hand of the financial sponsor in front of her, as if begging for something.
In comparison, the sponsor is much more ruthless. After all, an artist who has passed his shelf life, has not produced any achievements on the surface, is ridiculed and has become a topic of gossip, and privately bid 12 million for a stone but still lost all his money - there is no need to continue to support him no matter how you look at it.
So he realistically shook off Jiang Mei's hand. Lin Luosang also vaguely heard the words "equity recovery and property return".
Jiang Mei was still begging, not even noticing that the bag in her hand had fallen. She was crying and shaking her head frantically.
Unable to bear the annoyance, the sponsor pushed her away with great force. Jiang Mei lost her balance and was pushed to the ground, with her messy hair covering her body. Her face was flushed from crying, and the veins on her neck were bulging.
But the financier showed no mercy at all. Instead, he hurried away as if avoiding the plague, with disgust unconcealed in his eyes.
It was hard to imagine that half an hour ago, Jiang Mei had kissed his chubby cheek affectionately, but now the situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse, and crying like this didn't bring back even the slightest bit of heartache from him.
Fragile and pathological intimate relationships cannot withstand the test at all and will collapse in an instant at the slightest setback.
Lin Luosang stood there and watched for a long time until her secretary reminded her to get in the car, and then she came to her senses.
When she got on the bus, she still had a lot of emotions in her heart. After a long while, she finally uttered a ten-word motto:
"Men are really no good."
Pei Hanzhou, who had just cut jade worth tens of millions to make earrings for his wife:?
Just over two hours after the jade auction, Jiang Mei was once again trending on the internet, with this time the focus being on her attempts to trip up Lin Luosang.
The production team of "Audio-Visual Feast" probably had a complete falling out with her. An insider released a short audio clip, which turned out to be the clip of her arguing with the director team backstage. In the clip, she shamelessly said that she wanted to eliminate Lin Luosang, and she used a bad tone and cursed people frequently, which was completely inconsistent with the literary and artistic personality she had created before.
But the insiders were smart and only released a part of Jiang Mei's long speech, and deleted all the parts involving the program team's answers, making Jiang Mei look more like a psychopath.
After the navy retreated, almost no one supported Jiang Mei anymore:
[This tone...his character is completely broken.]
[Haha ...
Lin Luosang is so miserable! I'm so angry I just asked my boss for two days off. I have to go to the next game to support her.
After being at the top of the trending searches for a few hours, someone discovered that Jiang Mei had logged out of her Weibo account and cleared her Instagram account.
The media called the agent and studio to inquire, but the agent did not answer the phone, and the studio number quickly became invalid.
Sheng Qianye, who was enjoying the melon, also quickly sent a message to Lin Luosang: [What does Jiang Mei mean by this? Has she retired from the entertainment industry?]
Lin Luosang: […It should be.]
His reputation has become so distorted, his financial sponsor has left, and his image has been completely destroyed. There is really no possibility of turning things around, and the only way out is to quit the circle.
The entertainment industry is changing so fast that netizens will only remember the departure of an unimportant artist for three days at most.
Three days later, this person will be erased from everyone's memory as if he had never appeared, and will hardly be mentioned even after dinner.
Only when the relevant topics are occasionally mentioned, the audience will be dazed for a moment, remembering that the name Jiang Mei once appeared ambitiously, but because of her vanity and strong competitive spirit, she finally disbanded the studio in a mess and cleared all the certified accounts.
Jiang Mei's withdrawal from the entertainment industry did not cause much stir. That night, Lin Luosang and Pei Hanzhou, who had time, went to see their great-grandmother together.
The old man was in good condition. He was almost unable to hold on a while ago, but after an operation, he recovered a lot.
Perhaps seeing that Pei Hanzhou had a family, the old man was in a much happier mood. I heard that he ate more than before.
After a short chat beside the bed, the old man said of his doctor: "Doctor Wei really saved my old bones from the jaws of death. If I have the chance, I will definitely go to his house to thank him in person. You should also thank him for me."
"Yeah." Pei Hanzhou nodded. "I went to thank you after the last operation."
"That's good," the old man said, remembering something. "It seems Doctor Wei's daughter has also returned to China. Do you have any good friends around you that you could introduce to Xiaoyao?"
"What's that Xun... I think he's quite a handsome man."
"Luo Xun?" Pei Hanzhou shook his head. "He's not a good person."
After a pause, the man seemed to recall something, lowered his eyes to glance at Lin Luosang, and repeated a certain motto with a meaningful tone: "No man is a good thing."
Lin Luosang, who had just said the original sentence this morning, said: "..."
A man who holds a grudge.
The old man was so amused when he heard this that he reached out to hit him, laughing and helplessly saying, "How can you talk like that! He's your friend after all!"
The final meeting ended happily.
The man was in a good mood today, and he didn't know why. Anyway, the return car was driven by President Pei himself.
Lin Luosang rolled down the car window and felt that most of his troubles had been solved. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and hummed his own song "Opportunity" in the night breeze.
The evening breeze carries the fragrance of unknown flowers and leaves, passing through the hair and lingering around the nose, making people feel relaxed and comfortable all over.
When she sang love songs, her voice was light, soft, and had her own unique flexibility. When the ending tone was half-hooked, it was wrapped in a light and seductive itchy feeling.
As the car was about to enter the parking lot, the man stepped on the brakes and stopped.
Lin Luosang, who was humming enthusiastically, also jumped out of his own world and turned to look at him: "Why don't you leave?"
The man tapped the steering wheel calmly, his eyes indifferent.
"I want to hear you sing for five more minutes."
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