novelweb Chapter 687 Arriving at the Public Auction, Ready to Show Off Your Skills
Chapter 687 Arriving at the Public Auction, Ready to Show Off Your Skills
"Kid, stop and don't move. Or I'll shoot you to death."
Chen Yang was walking on the way to the gambling venue of the resort when suddenly two tall men rushed out from an alley on the side of the road and surrounded him on the left and right. Two guns were pointed at his waist.
Chen Yang glanced at the two of them and said speechlessly: "Are you guys planning to rob us?"
He was speechless. He had been robbed in the park not long ago, and now he was robbed again on the street. He could only say that the city of Dakan was rotten to the core, and it was worthy of being called the city of sin. It felt like this place was even scarier than the cyber fraud park.
You have to know that there are many soldiers patrolling the streets at this moment, each of them armed with live ammunition, but these criminals are not afraid, which shows how brave they are.
If there were no patrolling soldiers, I can’t believe how chaotic this city would be.
"Yes, we are robbing, not only robbing money but also robbing people. Come with us, or we will shoot you to death." A man threatened.
Chen Yang was stunned again. He didn't expect that the robbery would be upgraded this time. Not only did they rob money, but they also kidnapped and extorted. It was not ruled out that he would be beaten to death in the end.
Chen Yang shook his head, expressing his disappointment with the city. He looked at a few patrolling soldiers not far away and suddenly shouted, "Help! Robbery and kidnapping."
His loud voice alarmed people on the street and also scared the two kidnappers.
They never expected that with two guns pointed at him, the brat would still dare to shout for help.
This is an old man hanging himself because he thinks his life is too long!
The two desperate men were about to shoot Chen Yang on the spot, but he suddenly lost his mind and for an instant he felt dizzy as if his eyebrows were hit by a hammer.
It was just Chen Yang's trial, just an attack with his spiritual power. With just a thought, the two desperadoes were paralyzed and they couldn't even shoot.
Then Chen Yang grabbed one in each hand and threw the two out.
A group of patrolling soldiers rushed over quickly and controlled the two men.
"Damn, these two are useless. They can't even catch a single person!"
Yang Bufan hid in the dark and watched this scene, and was furious.
He paid for these two gangsters, so they robbed people and money. The plan was to kidnap Chen Yang, force him to cough up 1 billion, and then beat him up. It was not ruled out that they would kill him in the end to put an end to it.
In this part of Myanmar, killing a person is as easy as killing a chicken.
Unexpectedly, the plan failed and the two gangsters were caught.
After a small episode, Chen Yang continued to rush to the gambling stone venue in the resort.
Suddenly, he felt a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark. When he looked carefully, the gaze instantly dodged away, and a figure quickly blended into the crowd around him.
However, all this could not escape Chen Yang's discerning eyes. As soon as he released his spiritual thoughts, the identity of the person who was secretly watching him became clear.
"Yang Bufan, how could it be this bastard? Could it be that the extortion by the two gangsters just now was premeditated?" Chen Yang's heart suddenly shook.
However, he didn't think too much about it. After all, there was no evidence, so he just had to be more careful.
He couldn't just assume that Yang Bufan wanted to kidnap him and blackmail him just because he had a grudge against him, right?
If the fox dares to show its tail again, he will be caught and will not be let off easily.
The resort where the jade auction was held was surrounded by armed soldiers standing guard. No one was allowed to approach the wall and could only enter and exit through the main gate, and only with an ID.
Unrelated persons are not eligible to participate in the Jade Auction.
Except for a few distinguished guests who are actively invited by the auction party, most guests have to apply online and pass the review before they are eligible to participate in the auction.
One ID card can bring in two people.
So even if Chen Yang didn't apply, he could still come in with Yun Jinxiu's ID.
After entering the resort, Chen Yang was stunned to see the football field-sized area filled with various large and small stones.
The gambling stone conference he attended in Chuzhou was completely incomparable to the one here. The number of raw stones alone was not even a fraction of what was seen at the public auction.
But what Chen Yang saw
These rough stones are only part of this public auction, and more rough stones are inside the resort.
This resort covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, which is larger than some university campuses.
However, the number of guests who came to participate in the jade auction was not as many as Chen Yang had imagined. He thought that this place should be like a vegetable market, crowded and bustling with people, but in the end he only saw a sparse number of guests.
However, the Jade Public Auction is a high-end jade exhibition. First of all, the guests are screened. Only those with a certain financial strength can participate. It is destined that there will not be too many people attending the event.
Secondly, most of the guests who participate in the jade public auction are Chinese. After all, China is the world's largest consumer market for jade. However, Myanmar has been experiencing political turmoil in recent years, and various online fraud incidents have emerged one after another, which has discouraged some guests who originally intended to participate in the public auction.
In addition, the five-day public auction has lasted to the fourth day. As it draws to a close, there will definitely be fewer and fewer people.
Of course, the number was only small compared to the crowded market. Chen Yang looked around and saw that there were still hundreds of people. Especially in the busiest stone-cutting area, the crowd was three layers deep.
Chen Yang released his spiritual thoughts and easily sensed Yun Batian's breath. Following the breath and taking a closer look, it was not difficult to find Yun Batian's figure. He was looking at stones in a rough material area, with a magnifying glass in one hand and a high-powered flashlight in the other. He even wore reading glasses. If you didn't know, you would think he was an expert in gambling on stones.
This time, the Yun family father and daughter came without a gambling stone consultant, just the two of them.
The Yun family originally had a gambling stone consultant, Huo Donglai, a well-known gambling stone expert in Chuzhou. However, this old man was disrespectful and was bribed by Yang Bufan with a large sum of money, and together with Yang Bufan, he harmed the Yun family.
The Yun family fired Huo Donglai in anger.
For this Myanmar jadeite auction, since Chen Yang agreed to come, the Yun family father and daughter did not hire a new gambling stone consultant.
They have been gambling on stones these days and ended up losing tens of millions.
Although they are all rookies, the fact that they can lose so much money shows how deep the water is in the gambling stone industry.
The gambling stone venue was very large and the number of raw stones was astonishing. Chen Yang took a quick look while walking towards his future father-in-law, Yun Batian.
It was the first time that Chen Yang experienced such a large-scale gambling stone conference. He felt like he had come to a mountain of gold and silver. Looking around, the colorful stones seemed not to be stones but gold, silver and jewels.
Whoohoo!
He took a deep breath and could clearly feel that the concentration of spiritual energy in the resort's courtyard was much higher than outside.
This is not surprising, because jade contains spiritual energy. When so many jade raw stones are placed together, the spiritual energy continues to overflow. Although it is a trickle, when more of it gathers, the concentration of the spiritual energy will be considerable.
Chen Yang's greedy breathing and intoxicated look attracted many people's attention. They thought that this guy was taking drugs and stayed away from him.
Chen Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly restrained himself and stopped being so unrestrained, for fear of being reported and kicked out.
The entire jade auction venue is divided into two major areas, one open bid area and the other hidden bid area.
At this moment, all Chen Yang could see were materials with obvious bids, while the materials with hidden bids were in the backyard of the resort, which required a long walk to get there.
An open bid is an on-site auction where everyone bids for each piece of raw stone, and the one with the highest bid wins.
The secret bid is different. Each rough stone has a corresponding number, and there is a bidding box next to it. If you like this rough stone, you can secretly write down a bid amount and put it in the bidding box.
On the day of bidding, each piece of hidden-bid raw stone will be awarded to the bidder with the highest bid amount.
Tomorrow is the day for the blind bidding, and tonight is the final blind bidding time.
You need to know how to bargain when bidding secretly. You should not only have your own psychological price, but also consider the price that others may offer. If you bargain well, you can bid for the rough stone you like at a very low price. If you bargain badly, you may end up wasting money.
Now that the public auction has come to an end, there is no need for bidding. As long as you negotiate with the stall owner, you can pay, receive the goods, and cut the stone on the spot.
This is also the reason why the stone-cutting area is so lively, because many people buy clearly labeled materials and cut the stones on the spot.
In a venue as big as a football field, hundreds of simple sheds of various sizes were built, and each shed corresponded to a stall.
Countless jadeite raw stones are displayed in various stalls, large and small, with different colors and shapes. There are at least tens of thousands of them, and the whole place is like a sea of stones.
Some of the sheds are hung with banners with the names of the companies they belong to, demonstrating the formalization of the jadeite raw stone industry.
"With so many jadeite rough stones, I'm sure the number of jadeite that can be extracted will be considerable."
Looking at the raw stones that were either oozing with spiritual energy or showing hints of green, Chen Yang felt excited and was ready to show off his skills.
He gambled on jade not for money. Firstly, he wanted to help the Yun family, and secondly, he needed jade to carve array plates and set up spirit gathering arrays.
He planned to build Qinghe Village into a resort, and even planned to create a 5A-level tourist attraction in Yunwu Mountain. He needed a large number of jade-carved array plates to set up a huge spirit-gathering array to condense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
As long as there is a spirit gathering array, both the Qinghe Resort and the Yunwu Mountain tourist attraction will surely shine, attracting a large number of tourists every year and making a lot of money.
Whether it was Chen Yang's penetrating golden pupils or his special ability to sense spiritual energy, they were all his powerful weapons that made him invincible at the gambling stone conference. If he was given enough time, he could even clear out all the jadeite at the gambling stone conference.
Even though many of the raw stones in the jade public auction were just dug out from the ground and were said to have a very high yield of green, after a quick tour, Chen Yang discovered that there were not many raw stones in the marked area that could produce mid- to high-quality jade. Most of them were low-grade jade, or simply could not produce any green.
After all, jade is a rare thing, and the higher the grade of jade, the rarer it is. There are tens of thousands of jade raw stones in this yard, but only a few hundred of them can really be worth a gamble.
If you don't have good eyesight, no matter how much money you have, it won't be enough to make up for the loss here.
Therefore, those jade merchants will pay a lot of money to hire gambling stone consultants, and some will even hire several at a time.
"Mr. Lin, what do you think of this piece of material? The small window has been rubbed out with fog, and a faint green can be seen under the fog, which means there must be jade in it, but I don't know how much, and the quality is hard to guarantee. The price of 10 million is a bit too high. I don't know whether to buy it or not."
"Nine out of ten are green, Boss Yang. I am optimistic about this material. Not only does the window have fog and green, but the appearance is also very good. There are several pieces with pine flower python patterns on the skin, and the weathered surface is dark yellow. This is a typical Pagang raw material. Although the price of 10 million is a bit high, this piece of material weighs 480 kilograms, which is a big piece. I think there is still a great possibility of appreciation."
Chen Yang was just taking a quick look when he suddenly heard two men discussing a large piece of raw material weighing several hundred kilograms.
The one of the two men named Boss Yang looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He was dressed in a suit and had a famous watch on his wrist. He had an elegant temperament, exquisite clothes, and extraordinary bearing. You could tell at first glance that he was a big boss-level figure, and his wealth must be enough to at least reach several small goals, otherwise he wouldn't be able to support such a strong aura.
The man called Mr. Lin was a white-haired old man wearing a Tang suit and cloth shoes. He had the demeanor of a master and was obviously not an ordinary person.
Coincidentally, these two men were none other than Yang Hongsheng, the father of Yang Bufan mentioned earlier, and Lin Shirong, a famous stone gambler invited by the Yang family from Lingnan.
Yang Bufan was not at the scene at the moment. He was just spying on Chen Yang and now no one knew where he had gone.
Chen Yang didn't know Yang Hongsheng or Lin Shirong. When he heard their conversation, he instinctively looked at the large piece of raw material in front of them.
This is a large piece of rough stone that is half a person's height and weighs several hundred kilograms. There is a palm-sized window opened, through which a layer of white mist can be seen. When a strong flashlight is shone through the window, green can be seen seeping out, indicating that the stone has turned green.
It was precisely because this window turned green that the price was a little high, reaching a staggering 10 million Chinese yuan.
In the past, the internationalization of Huaxia currency was not high, and the public auctions in Myanmar were marked with euros. Now the internationalization of Huaxia currency has been rising all the way, and it is likely to surpass the euro, and the public auctions in Myanmar have switched to Huaxia currency.
After all, most of the participants in the public auction are Chinese jade merchants, and the Chinese currency logo can bring great convenience to Chinese jade merchants.
Except for this window that has turned green, the appearance of the raw material is also very good, with pine flowers and python patterns, and the weathered surface is yellow, which is pure Pagang raw material.
However, even with such a piece of raw material that performed so well, Chen Yang did not sense much spiritual fluctuation, almost none at all.
After taking a closer look with his golden eyes, Chen Yang smiled and shook his head slightly.
As the saying goes, even gods cannot tell the quality of jade, and it turned out to be true. This piece of rough material that the two people liked and was worth 10 million yuan was empty except for a small piece of jade under the window, without any trace of jade.
Although the jadeite under the window has reached the ice grade and can be made into two bracelets, it is not worth much money, at most a few hundred thousand yuan. It can be said that it is a huge loss to buy this rough material.