76: Chapter 77 Revenge
Wu Yong sneered and left the auction hall with his broken jade.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for completing the challenge.]
[Fifty percent of the shares of Tiangong Group have been credited!]
[Ten thousand points have been credited!]
[Congratulations to the Host for breaking ten thousand points! Rewarded with a private jet!]
The sound of this overwhelming wealth echoing in his mind was truly pleasant.
An Xin's lips curled up, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
This smile was seen by the undercover scouts nearby.
All the undercover scouts, and the forces behind them, had a new understanding of An Xin.
There was still half an hour left until the opening of the raw stone selection point.
During this gap, the area outside the Temple of the god of wealth was packed with people, all of them trying to seek help at the last minute.
After settling the emerald raw stone, Zhou Quan also queued in the crowd, carrying a large bag of high-quality incense and candles.
Chu Xinxin watched everyone queuing, feeling curious, and wanted to experience it too.
Chu Xinxin tugged at An Xin's sleeve.
"Brother An Xin, let's go pay our respects too!"
An Xin affectionately stroked Chu Xinxin's head and gently said "okay."
An Xin went to queue, and Chu Xinxin went to buy incense and candles.
She bought the most expensive incense and candle set directly, spending 18,888.
The two queued together for fifteen minutes and finally managed to enter the temple.
The deity enshrined inside was the god of wealth.
There was no Matchmaker, which made Chu Xinxin a little disappointed.
She had wanted to pray for romance.
"If you want to pray for romance, I can take you to Love Island; it's very effective."
An Xin noticed Chu Xinxin's thoughts and promised right then.
A single sentence made Chu Xinxin's eyes light up again.
The two waited a short while and finally got the chance to worship the god of wealth.
An Xin devoutly offered incense to the god of wealth.
"god of wealth, please bless me to earn one million points this year. If it comes true, I will come back here to fulfill my vow and gild your statue."
An Xin silently made a wish in his heart.
Chu Xinxin's wish was also very devout; she did not pray for wealth for herself.
She used her incense offering to pray for wealth for An Xin.
"god of wealth, please bless Brother An Xin to make a fortune and have endless money to spend every year."
Because they were in a rush to pick raw stones, the two did not stay too long. After finishing their wishes, they left the temple and met up with Zhou Quan at a restaurant. The three of them had a simple meal and returned to the exhibition.
During the meal, An Xin and Zhou Quan had already discussed their strategy.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the doors to the secondary raw stone selection area opened on time.
Buyers entered one after another. This time, when Zhou Quan and An Xin entered the venue, they clearly noticed that the number of undercover scouts had increased.
The two had designed secret signals when picking raw stones, and An Xin would use the signals to tell Zhou Quan which raw stone to buy.
Why couldn't they just buy directly?
The reason was simple: the raw stones An Xin pretended to like would be intercepted and bought by the undercover scouts here.
The raw stones Zhou Quan pretended not to like would also be bought.
The raw stones that Zhou Quan really wanted to buy, the ones where he showed a strong desire to purchase, no one would snatch.
He took them easily.
No one competed with him, no one snatched them.
An Xin seized upon the psychology of these people, deliberately tricking these undercover scouts into buying waste materials.
The stone-opening machines were outside, and the stones were opened uniformly. The stone-opening service was only provided after the trading ended, all to stir up everyone's emotions.
Being watched by these people, An Xin wandered until the secondary raw stone trading ended without being able to buy a single raw stone.
Facing the targeting, An Xin wasn't angry at all.
The treasures he had his eye on were already in his hands.
Fooling so many people was quite tiring.
An Xin found a chair to sit and rest. Chu Xinxin thoughtfully brought him iced cola, and she also held a small fan, fanning An Xin from the side.
There was air conditioning in the rest area, so it wasn't hot at all, but this silly girl was still persistent in using the fan to cool An Xin down.
An Xin couldn't help but pinch Chu Xinxin's cheeks.
"Stop fanning, if you keep fanning, your brother will turn into an ice sculpture. In ten minutes, the temperature in this rest area will drop significantly."
Fifteen suckers had bought raw stones that were guaranteed to lose money; how could the temperature not drop?
Chu Xinxin, who didn't know the inside story, looked blank.
"Is the air conditioner about to break?"
"You come sit here and wait, and you'll know."
An Xin took a sip of cola and thoroughly enjoyed the roar of the machines.
Watching people he disliked lose money was even happier than making money himself.
"Cotton inclusions? How could this be waste material! That kid An Xin had studied this raw stone for a long time."
"Mine also plummeted, plummeted so hard I lost my underwear."
"That kid An Xin doesn't understand raw stones at all; being able to mark lines on the emerald must have been just blind luck. We've been played by fake news."
"Only one raw stone is decent material; how am I supposed to compete? It's over, my shop is going to lose money this year."
The odds on raw stones this year were particularly high.
Nine out of ten gambles lose, and one-twentieth of the losers were scammed by An Xin.
An Xin didn't feel ashamed at all.
The local snake of Qingshan City, Zhuge Yunshan, received news from the undercover scouts and was so angry at their wasteful behavior that he smashed three teacups in a rage.
What Zhuge Yunshan cared about was not money, but face.
He knew that people from the Conglong Family could not be provoked.
In order to vent his anger, Zhuge Yunshan could only order his subordinates to pay extra attention to An Xin's friend, Mr. Zhou Quan.
With An Xin's help, Zhou Quan easily obtained three pieces of high-quality jade material.
Now, all that was left was carving and entering the competition.
As soon as Zhou Quan arrived at the workshop, he discovered a problem: his desk had been tampered with. Checking the carving drill, Zhou Quan was startled.
His drill had been modified into an air gun.
It was completely unusable; if he were careless and used it to work, it would injure his eyes and blind him.
Zhou Quan realized he had offended someone.
He had no choice but to thicken his skin and call An Xin again.
"Mr. An, I've run into some trouble."
"Tell me, what trouble?"
"Someone tampered with my carving tools, trying to cause me to accidentally go blind. I need to borrow your background to protect myself; I can pay protection money."
"If you really treat me as a friend, you don't need to pay me protection money for such a small favor. Zhou Quan, if you call me 'little brother,' I will treat you like a brother. If I took your money, how would I be any different from those people in the Qingshan Gang who play dirty?"
A few words from An Xin made Zhou Quan's eyes turn red.
"Thank you, Brother An."
Zhou Quan's voice on the phone was a bit heavy.
"I will work hard on the carving; I will definitely win this grand slam."
"I believe you can do it, keep it up, Big Brother Zhou."
After soothing Big Brother Zhou's emotions, An Xin left Chu Xinxin alone to rest at the hotel.
He sent a WeChat message to Ling Feier, asking her to be a temporary driver.
He needed to go and hold the fort; an ordinary car would definitely not do.
Ling Feier, who had just started her live stream, received An Xin's WeChat message and immediately abandoned the thousands of fans in her live stream who were ready to buy, rushing to the garage to get a car.
"Brother An, don't worry, I will drive my family's best car for you. I will help you hold the fort and make sure you feel that this 50,000 driver fee is worth it."
"Pay attention to safety, don't get into an accident. I'm in a rush; it's not easy to find a second driver in a short time."
"Are you concerned about me? Would Sister Chu Xinxin be angry if she knew?"