The divine doctor's concubine emptied the palace and went into exile

Chapter 272 Gambling on Stones

"You, little boy, are you here to Wanshizhai not to gamble on stones? Are you here to have a meal?"

"Sir, you may not know that in addition to gambling on jadeite, Wanshizhai can also recycle the jadeite you dig out." The waiter smiled and said: "From your accent, you should not be a local. Let me take you around!"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Thank you very much." She took out some silver coins and handed them to him.

The waiter took the silver and smiled even more: "Sir, please come in!"

Seeing this, Shaoyao whispered, "Miss, this gambling stone shop is obviously a scam, let's go!"

"Silly Shaoyao, today your young master will let you see what a master of gambling on stones is like." She patted Shaoyao's little face and walked forward, looking like a cynical young man.

Shaoyao had no choice but to follow her.

At this moment, a cry of surprise came from the innermost part of Wanshizhai.

"Oh! It's going up! It's going up!"

"It's green! It's green!"

"A huge increase! A huge increase!"

Shang Ruoyi walked towards the source of the sound.

I saw a group of people gathered around a shelf with a huge piece of raw stone on it.

The raw stone had been cut into a surface, revealing the lush green jade.

"Although it has increased, it's not a huge increase! I spent seven thousand taels to buy this raw stone."

"But this rough stone is so big. If it is full of jadeite, it can be sold for at least 30,000 taels. Isn't this a big increase?"

The one who bought the raw stone was Zhang Ruru's brother. At this moment, he raised his chin and looked at the raw stone with pride. He was secretly delighted in his heart. Fortunately, he bought the raw stone. Seven thousand taels became thirty thousand taels. He made a fortune!

"Congratulations, Master Zhang! It's really a huge increase!"

"Mr. Zhang's luck is truly unique. We are truly envious of him."

"Hahaha," Zhang Qian laughed, "My luck is definitely not something that you mortals can compare to." He squinted his eyes and said to the people next to him with disdain, "My luck is very good today, so you who are plagued by bad luck should stay away from me."

The crowd watching couldn't help but curl their lips when they heard this. Why did the young master of the Zhang family have such an arrogant personality?

However, for the sake of the jadeite, everyone still gathered there and did not leave. After all, it had been a long time since Wanshizhai had produced jadeite of such a high value.

"Mr. Zhang, are you selling this jadeite?"

"If I sell it, I'm willing to pay 15,000 taels."

Fifteen thousand taels?

Zhang Qian frowned: "Didn't you just say 30,000 taels? Why are you offering 15,000 taels now?"

"Hehe, Master Zhang, you don't know that your jadeite stone does look quite big, but it doesn't have much quality. If the stone was full of jadeite, it would be worth thirty thousand taels. But now you have only cut a piece of it, and we don't know what it looks like inside or how much jadeite there is. Naturally, we can't give you that much money."

What he said was quite truthful, and the onlookers nodded frequently.

How could Zhang Qian be willing to hear this?

He said loudly: "My rough stone is full of jade. If you don't believe me, I will open it and show you!"

He said to the stone cutter next to him: "Tsk!"

The master turned the stone-cutting roller, and the huge knife fell down.

Shang Ruoyi looked at the stone-cutting machine and nodded. The design of this stone-cutting machine was very ingenious. Although it was not as fast as the modern electric stone-cutting machine, the speed was not much different. At this time, everyone in Wanshizhai was attracted by the sound of stone cutting, and they all wanted to see how amazing the jade in the raw stone was.

Shang Ruoyi looked at the place where he cut, raised her eyebrows and whispered: "After this cut, his stone will be worthless."

The stone breaker made a loud noise, so no one else could hear her words, but Shaoyao beside her heard them clearly and couldn't help asking, "How do you know it's worthless?"

"Just wait and see! You will understand in a moment."

After a while, the speed of the stone calender slowed down and the harsh sound slowly disappeared.

"Today, I will let you see how good my luck is." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the onlookers gasp as they looked at the white stone.

How can this be jade?

This is basically stone!

Still an ugly stone.

Zhang Qianshitou could not help but stand there in a daze.

This, how is this possible?

Where is his jade?

Where did the jade go?

How could it be a stone?

He quickly stepped forward, grabbed the master who was in charge of cutting the stone, and shouted angrily: "Where is my jade? Where is my jade? You bastard, did you replace my raw stone with another one?"

Upon hearing this, Master Jieshi hurriedly said, "Sir, even if I have supernatural powers, I can't replace your jadeite!"

No one would doubt his words. After all, with so many eyes watching him, how could he switch things up?

Zhang Qian's chest rose and fell violently. He turned back suddenly and looked at the man who had offered 15,000 taels earlier: "15,000 taels, I'll sell it to you!"

The man couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Mr. Zhang, you only have so much jadeite. Let alone 15,000 taels, even if it's 150 taels, I'll think twice."

When everyone heard him say this, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"It's what he deserves! He deserves it. Who made him so arrogant?"

If Zhang Qian had not been so rampant just now, maybe some people would have sympathized with him if he was cut to pieces this time. But now people just felt very relieved.

Shaoyao looked at her young lady, her eyes widened: "Sir, this is amazing! How did you know this?"

Shang Ruoyi pointed to her eyes and said, "I can see it."

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In fact, Shang Ruoyi was not talking nonsense, she really saw it, but her eyes were different from others. She had already seen clearly what was inside the jade.

This jadeite rough stone is really very interesting. There are actually three pieces of jadeite in this rough stone. The smallest and worst quality one is the one that Zhang Qian opened. The place where Zhang Qian asked someone to cut it was exactly where that piece of jadeite was cut off. The other two pieces are on the other side. If the stone-cutting master had moved a few centimeters to the side, he would have been able to cut the second piece.

But fate is against him. Perhaps it is just as the man just said, he is too arrogant and even God does not give him the chance to make a fortune.

Zhang Qian looked at the broken stone with red eyes, and said with gritted teeth unwillingly: "Cut it again, I don't believe that I can't cut anything out of such a big stone."

At this time, the young master who came with him whispered to persuade him: "Master Zhang, I think it's better to forget it! If you can't cut anything out, won't it be even more embarrassing?"

"That's right. It's only seven thousand taels. If you lose the bet, you lose it. You can win it back later. Why do you act like you can't afford to lose?"

Zhang Qian gritted his teeth when he heard this.

They said it easily, that's seven thousand taels!

If his father knew about this, he would definitely break his legs.

He turned to the man who wanted to buy his rough stone and said, "Seven thousand taels, the cut one and the one at the back, I'm selling them all."

Hearing this, the man couldn't help but sneer: "Mr. Zhang, I won't buy this broken stone of yours even if it's worth 700 taels, let alone 7,000 taels."

The crowd watching also laughed out loud.

At this moment, a voice came out: "Seven hundred taels, I want it."