75: Chapter 76: The Routine

Because he was feeling down, Zhou Quan did not participate in the subsequent bidding.

Those undercover sentries were also deceived by Zhou Quan's dejected appearance.

An Xin, on the other hand, looked toward the auction stage without saying a word.

After watching three or four exhibits, he finally urged Zhou Quan to pull himself together.

Still pretending to be uninterested, Zhou Quan returned the bank card and the green submariner he had borrowed from An Xin.

An Xin's fingers gently brushed over the watch face.

"Sorry, I snuck out, so I didn't bring enough money to help you, leaving you with a lifelong regret. Boss Zhou, don't be like this. I've looked at the remaining raw stones and there are still some decent materials. If you don't pull yourself together, you'll lose even the sesame seeds after losing the watermelon."

Zhou Quan took some of An Xin's comforting words to heart.

He lifted his head with little enthusiasm.

He participated in the next few rounds of bidding, calling only two or three hundred thousand, but whenever someone increased the bid, he gave up.

"Forget it, this is the Qingshan Gang's territory; I won't be able to get anything good."

Zhou Quan's tone was heavy, and his eyes were slightly moist.

This dejected appearance made many high-ranking people curl their lips in a smile, laughing at Zhou Quan's overestimation of his own abilities, and laughing at his poverty and naivety.

An Xin said no more, leaving room for Zhou Quan to breathe.

Every detail was carefully performed by the two of them, with the sole purpose of playing with those self-righteous upper-class people.

The raw stones on the Gold Jade Fate auction stage would not be cut immediately, but rather cut all together after all auction items had been sold and all buyers had drawn their cutting lines.

Wu Yong, who had bid on number six, could still smile now because he hadn't seen the true appearance of that broken jade material.

An Xin took Chu Xinxin's small hand and put the green submariner back on her wrist.

Chu Xinxin did not accept the card with the three hundred thousand.

She still wanted to use this money to help An Xin's friend.

To help pave the way for An Xin to make money.

An Xin saw through Chu Xinxin's thoughts and did not decline again.

Raw stones with good quality were auctioned off one by one.

The most inconspicuous raw stone, which looked the least valuable, finally made it onto the auction stage.

The auctioneer finished reading the details of the raw stone and started the bidding; the venue was silent for ten seconds, with no one calling out a bid.

Zhou Quan was the only one to bid.

He bid one hundred thousand.

This time, no one else competed with him for the raw stone, and he bought the raw stone that everyone ignored for four hundred thousand.

This raw stone was not well-regarded because its skin looked too fake and man-made. Its skin gathered all the characteristics of high-quality stone rinds.

The features were so obvious that it was like placing a textbook example of a raw stone on the auction stage.

This kind of thing had caused too many people to go bankrupt, and those at the auction were not novices.

Everyone was afraid that this thing was just a rotten stone.

Only Zhou Quan and An Xin knew in their hearts that this was a real treasure.

All the raw stones had been auctioned off.

Zhou Quan had no interest in drawing the cutting lines, so he handed the pen to An Xin.

An Xin went on stage, took the raw stone that looked like a man-made fraud, and seriously planned out the cutting lines.

His focused appearance provoked some professionals to tease him.

"Young man, that's just a rotten piece of stone, a golden shell with a rotten core. You're drawing so seriously, but once you cut it, it'll only be more heartbreaking when four hundred thousand is gone."

"Are you Boss Zhou's enemy? Did you draw these lines on purpose to provoke Boss Zhou? Do you want him to have a heart attack and end up in the ICU?"

"This material hasn't been opened yet, how do you know it's a rotten one?"

An Xin pretended to be a novice who didn't understand anything.

"Of course, it's because the skin of this raw stone looks too much like the textbook emerald. This thing isn't hard to fake, and every year it tricks tens of thousands of gamblers into bankruptcy. One cut leads to poverty; many people have been impoverished by such stones with a single cut."

"I've learned something new, thank you for the explanation, uncle."

An Xin smiled and did not argue with these people at all; his enthusiastic demeanor became somewhat subdued.

An Xin's name was not yet known in the gambling stone circle.

For now, no one took An Xin seriously, treating him entirely as a kid who had run out of the Hidden Families to play.

The more seriously An Xin drew, the more everyone paid attention to this "fake emerald raw stone."

Everyone was looking forward to seeing Boss Zhou suffer the loss of four hundred thousand.

"Dear guests, please step away from the machines. The 'Opening for Wealth' segment has arrived. Everyone, please look forward to finding out who is the 'Luck King' of our first raw stone auction."

"Is there any need to look forward to it? It's definitely the ice-type jade that Mr. Wu bid on. I'm afraid the 'Gold Grand Slam' this year will be taken by the second-in-command of the Qingshan Gang."

"You can only dream of being a member of the Qingshan Gang if you're envious."

Some people who didn't buy any stone material sighed helplessly.

It wasn't just the buyers who were watching the stone opening here, but all the participants present.

As the roaring of the machines stopped, everyone's heartbeats seemed to be paused, and they all cast their eyes toward the raw stone in the number one box.

The raw stone in the number one box revealed a green color; it was Class A high-quality jade, with a market price of around four million, so buying it for two million was a small profit.

The first four jade materials were all small profits.

This made the faces of those who won their bets blossom with smiles.

"Congratulations, congratulations."

The sounds of congratulations never ceased.

When it came to the jade material in the number six box, the sounds of congratulations were louder than the harsh sound of the machine opening the lid.

Everyone looked at the treasure in the number six box with great anticipation.

Unexpectedly, this raw stone that had sold for a sky-high price was just ordinary material.

It was only a small triangular piece of ice-type jade with clear quality.

The market price for this kind of jade is around four million; twenty million was an inflated price five times higher.

"This... how can this be? Why isn't it full ice-type?"

"Look at the emerald green here, doesn't it look like a mountain range? Perhaps it's because the position of the green is good that it fetched a high price."

Those in the know saw the mediocrity of this material, but no one dared to say it out loud.

Wu Yong, who had bought the rotten material, could only suppress his emotions and fake a smile to accept the insincere praise from these people.

Every insincere compliment was like a slap in the face, burning Wu Yong's ears red.

He glared fiercely at An Xin.

He had indeed underestimated this man.

People from the Conglong Family have such despicable methods; this acting was truly superb.

Wu Yong's intuition was not wrong; the waste material that none of them had thought highly of had yielded a treasure.

It was a full-green emerald, an emerald raw stone the size of a muskmelon, with a market price that could reach twenty million.

The price of this piece of material that Boss Zhou "didn't think highly of" had skyrocketed.

Boss Zhou's dull eyes regained their luster because of this emerald.

Wu Yong clenched his fists.

"Boss Zhou, congratulations, you've opened an emerald; this is a good piece of material. Didn't you like the ice-type jade material I auctioned? I can give you the chance to get it. Just trade it for this."

Wu Yong's plan was quite calculating.

"That piece of jade and I are not destined; it's not something a nobody like me can touch. I cannot accept Mr. Wu's kindness."

Wu Yong was so angry that he furrowed his brows.

"You don't know what's good for you! You will regret this. Don't think that just because you picked up a bargain you can win the Gold Grand Slam. Zhou Quan, this is Qingcheng, not your hometown of Shangguang."

"I know, that's why I'm not daydreaming. Mr. Wu, rest assured, I won't fight you for your precious ice-type jade."