Sabah Town
One morning a few days later, Xiao You asked Xu Gang for leave to go to Sabah with me.
"Brother Xu, I'm going to Sabah tomorrow. I want to take a few days off."
"Sabah? What for?"
"I'm going to see some friends. I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you so much!"
"Are you going alone?"
"Yes."
"Aiya, how can I go alone? Aren't you afraid? Why don't I go with you? Didn't I tell you that I haven't been to Sabah yet?”
"How can I leave you here? Besides, both of us are leaving. How can Enz be alone? Everyone still needs to eat. I don't dare to cause others to gossip about you! Let's wait for the future." Little You smiled.
Behind him, I said,"Little You, why did you say you were going alone?" What are you afraid of?"
Xiao You smiled,"He said he wanted to go to Sabah with me." If I say I'm going with you, will he let me go? We can't go together tomorrow. Don't let them know. The fewer people who know about this, the better."
The next morning, I woke up at six. At this moment, everyone else in the company was still asleep. I'll wait for Xiao You by the road first. Soon, her light figure appeared. We'll walk to the mines first. Xiao You said she wanted to take a ride there.
I was unfamiliar with this place, so I had to listen to her.
The mining department was going to the market today, which Xiao You had specially chosen. We walked around and met a young man who came from Sabah to sell clothes. After the gathering, we took his small tractor back to Sabah.
The road to Sabah could not be called a highway. It was only two meters wide. The branches and thorns on both sides of the road occasionally swept across the people's heads and bodies. Xiao You sat in front of me and talked to the young man who was driving. I saw a tree branch sweep over and quickly pressed Xiao You's head down.
"Xiao You, I'll sit in front of you.”I sat in front of her without any explanation.
We arrived at Sabah after an hour. This was a big town with several streets. The young man asked Xiao You to go to his shop to eat, but Xiao You said no; After we parted ways, we went to a small restaurant to eat two bowls of noodles.
"Big Brother Dabao, I have many acquaintances here. The less you know, the better. You shouldn't stay here for long. Let's go find Zhou Duyan now. When we get there, don't talk much and act according to my eyes.”
According to Little You, One-eyed Zhou specialized in the jade business and was a famous expert here. He had a unique eye for stones.
We entered a shop. There were some jade ornaments and stones on the counter. A girl was sitting at the back reading a book. When she saw us, she smiled and said,"Aiya, Sister You, long time no see. How long has it been?"
"He's cooking for someone in the Bull's Ear Mine. Golden Lotus, where's Boss Zhou?"
"He's behind us. Are you looking for him?"
"Yes, I have something to do. I'll go find him myself."
We walked through the shop to the back. There used to be a courtyard here with many flowers and plants planted. All kinds of stones were scattered messily in the courtyard.
"Boss Zhou, how have you been?" Xiao You shouted at the main house.”
In the main room, a thin old man in his fifties was sipping from a pipe. He looked up and eyed us suspiciously with one eye, but said nothing.
"Boss Zhou. Don't you recognize me? I'm Xiao You!"
"You, what are you doing here?"
"Aiya, can't I come to see you? I know you like sweet things, so I brought you some pastries.”
"You little girl, do you have something to ask of me?" The old man laughed.”He glanced at the snakeskin bag I was carrying with one eye.
"What are you talking about? I'm mainly here to see if you're doing well, and I'm also here to show you a stone.”
"Stone? What kind of stone do you have?"
"Big brother, take it out and let the old man have a look.”
The old man took the crystal in his hand and casually looked at it before passing it to me. He lifted the water pipe and started smoking with a disdainful look.
After waiting for a while, Xiao You couldn't help but ask,""Aiya, why didn't you say something?”
"What do you want me to say?" The old man laughed.
"What kind of jade is this?"
"What jade?" the old man asked. Little girl, do you think that everything is jade? What do you want me to say when you show me such a rotten rock?”
"There has to be an explanation, right?" Xiao You smiled and said," It can't be that you can't recognize it, right? This stone is rare, right? Since you don't know, we'll show it to the others. Brother Dabao, let's go! Hmph, I thought he knew everything, but there are things he doesn't know…"
The old man couldn't help but sneer." Yes, yes. Hurry up and show it to others. It might be a treasure."”
Xiao You winked at me and stood up to leave.
Just as we were about to leave, the old man's voice sounded from behind."Little girls, come back! I have something to say."
We turned around and went back into the house. "How dare you say there's something I don't know?" the old man said. Hmph, this is just a crystal. Who doesn't know? Is it worth showing me?"
"Yes, yes, crystals; you're right, thank you. Da Bao, have you given up now? It was just an ordinary crystal. Let's go." Xiao You said as she pulled me away.
When he reached the door, the old man's voice sounded again,""Wait, come back! I still have something to say."
"Aiya, why are you so talkative?”Little You smiled. "We still have to hurry back."
"Show me the stone again." the old man said.
I handed the stone to him. He looked at it for a while and asked,""Where did this stone come from?"
I glanced at Xiao You and she nodded. I told her what happened.
"I see." Old Man Zhou smiled." Young man, since you're telling me the truth, I won't hide it from you. I'll tell you the truth." I didn't look carefully just now. This thing is a crystal, but it's a rare brown crystal. It was slightly more valuable than ordinary crystals. If you want to sell it, I can buy it for the sake of the pastries that the little girl brought. If you don't want to, then forget it."
"Then how much do you think it's worth?" I asked urgently.
"Twenty thousand at most. I'll give you 18,000 to earn some profit, which is the commission fee.”
Twenty thousand? I'm a little surprised! This old man was probably telling the truth. I've seen it in a jewelry store before. It's a beautiful purple crystal bracelet that only costs a few hundred yuan. I might as well sell it to him. I hesitated.
"How about it? Do you want to sell it? Forget it if you don't want to sell it. I still have something to do, so I won't accompany you anymore!”The old man stood up.
Just as I was about to speak, Xiao You pulled my hand and said first,"We're not selling it, we just want you to take a look…"
"Okay, okay, okay. Please go back. I still have something to do!”The old man's face darkened." I don't have time to talk nonsense with you guys.”
"Big Brother Dabao, let's go."
I was unwilling. When I reached the door, I hoped that Old Man Zhou would call us back. However, he stopped shouting.
After we left the shop, I couldn't help but say,"Xiao You, 20,000 yuan is about it!" I don't think he's mistaken!"
"Of course he wouldn't be mistaken. If it was anyone else, they would definitely believe him. But I know that he's not telling the truth. Brother Dabao, I'm even more confident now. Your crystal is worth at least 200,000! Do you know, the people in the One-eyed Zhou industry also call him Poisonous Eye Zhou. He has a very sharp eye for stones. Moreover, he didn't like ordinary jade stones and didn't accept them. He didn't think they were profitable. The things he offered to buy were definitely not ordinary goods. The item he offered is worth at least ten times…"
According to Little You, One-eyed Zhou had been in the jade business with his father since he was young. After that, he went to Pagan for a few decades and trained a pair of fiery eyes, specializing in collecting money for people. But pots are often broken by the well, and shoes are often wet by the river. Once, he looked after a stone for a bully. It was a piece of water stone, a raw stone that had been cut out by a very powerful Cave Master. The surface of the stone was greenish-black and had a clear python pattern. Moreover, there was already an opening, and it was green and full of glass. The asking price was 500,000 yuan. However, this stone had a huge problem. There was black ringworm on the surface of the stone, and it was the deadly boar's hair ringworm. This kind of ringworm was mostly deep inside the jade and could not be extracted. No matter how good it was, it was still a piece of trash. The local stonemaster felt that this was a good piece of material and strongly advocated buying it. The bully is not sure, please Zhou Duyan to decide. Zhou Duyan looked at it carefully for a long time and determined that it was a piece of waste rock. Seeing Shi Shi and Duyan Zhou's heated argument, their faces turned red. One-eyed Zhou asked Shi Mu if he dared to place a bet. The loser would gouge out an eye, and Shi Mu would not dare to make a sound. The bully saw the decisiveness of Zhou Duyan and gave up on the business. In the end, the stone was bought by someone else and opened on the spot. It turned out to be a rare glass material worth more than two million yuan. The local tyrant was so angry that his face turned ashen, and Zhou Duyan was so shocked that his face turned ashen. After the outsiders left, the bully had his men pull out Zhou's right eyeball with a cupping cup and stomp it to pieces. However, after this calamity, Zhou Duyan had learned from the bitter experience and honed himself more and more. His vision became more and more accurate, and he had already reached the point of perfection.
It was getting late, so they could only stay in Sabah for a night. Xiao You said that for the sake of caution, she would stay in a hotel and not go to an acquaintance's house.
The two of them went to a restaurant to eat.
There were four or five tables in the restaurant, and we were arranged to sit at a table in the corner. Just as he was drinking tea and waiting for the dishes to be served, the girl in the restaurant led a man dressed in Han Chinese attire over. She smiled and said,"All the tables are full. Only your table has empty seats. He's alone. Just make do with him and let him sit with you, okay?”
The man bowed to us and kept apologizing. He pulled out a plastic chair and sat down, placing a canvas travel bag on his lap.
The man took out a packet of smoke and asked me to smoke it."You two don't look like locals. What business are you doing here?”
"Nothing much. I'm just here to play and buy something.”I said.
"Buy something? Oh, do you want jade?"
"Jade?" I asked curiously.
"Yes, yes, yes. I'm in the jade business. " Do you two want to take a look?" he said as he unzipped his canvas bag, took out a rock, and handed it to me.
It was a brown rock shaped like a goose egg. There was a one-centimeter-diameter hole on the stone surface, and it was green inside.
"What kind of stone is this?" I asked.
"Don't you know?" he asked in surprise. This is jade! Look at the color of the water, it's neither old nor tender; A treasure that was one in ten thousand. If you want it, the price is negotiable.”
I looked at Xiao You. She didn't say anything and kept sizing up the man.
She took the jade and looked at it, saying,"How much do you want?"
"Not much, just 200,000!”
"Two hundred thousand?" I suspected that I had misheard.
"Yes, I'll sell it to you at this price. Do you want it?"
"I can't afford it even if you want 20,000!" I laughed. Was such a small lump of stone worth so much money?”
The man revealed a disdainful smile. You haven't seen jade before, have you?”
As they spoke, our dishes were served. I was embarrassed to let him sit alone and watch us eat. I said,"Come, come, eat first!"
Unexpectedly, he did not stand on ceremony and said,"Okay! It's fate that we met by chance. It's my treat today. Little sister, give us a bottle of Langcangjiang white wine; Also, hurry up and serve my dishes."
He poured three glasses of wine and raised his glass."We are all people who have gone out. It's rare for us to meet. Let me propose a toast to the two young couples!"
I looked at Xiao You. She was blushing.
"We're not husband and wife. You've misunderstood.”"We're friends," I said.
"Oh, isn't that so? Good, good, good. It's all the same. Come, cheers!”He drank it all.
I was hungry and happy. I wanted to drink too, so I drank it all in one gulp. He didn't expect Little You to drink it in one gulp.
"Good, this is great! It seems that we are both emotional people." He refilled his cup.
Soon, the bottle of wine was finished. He asked for another bottle. His dishes were also served. They were all red braised pork, fried belly, cold chicken, and other dishes.
After a few glasses of wine, he started to talk more about his experiences. It turned out that he was also from China and had come to Myanmar since he was young. He had always been in the jade business. He talked about many things about jade. It turned out that there were so many mysteries in this industry.
"Brother, in our line of work, there are ups and downs. If you saw a stone, you would go from penniless to rich overnight. However, if he was wrong, he would instantly turn from a millionaire into a pauper. This was all based on foresight and experience. I've experienced many ups and downs over the years, and I've seen many things. More importantly, he has a good eye. Although he doesn't hit the target 100%, he's pretty close to it…"
I couldn't help but feel moved when I saw how he was bragging. Taking advantage of the wine, he took out the crystal from the snakeskin bag and let him see if it was a treasure.
His eyes widened as soon as he saw it. He snatched it and looked at it attentively for a long time before sighing,"Ah, brother, I didn't expect you to have such a thing. To be honest, although this thing of yours isn't considered a treasure, it's not something ordinary crystals can compare to. Are you selling or not? If you sell it, I'll give you 100,000 yuan. If you don't sell it, pretend I never said anything. 100,000 dollars was the highest price for the crystal. If you miss this opportunity, you won't be able to find a buyer who knows the goods like me in the future. Think about it. So it was fate that brought us together today.”
I'm tempted. 100,000 yuan! I didn't expect it to be worth so much money. Perhaps he had made a mistake and overestimated it? Sell it to him.
I was just about to speak when Xiao You said,"Ah, this old brother." This thing of ours belongs to someone else. He asked us to bring it over for him to take a look. It's impossible for him to sell it.”
" Xiao You, you…" I retracted my words because she kept blinking at me. I remembered that it was all thanks to her during the day and stopped talking.
"Isn't that so, brother?" the man asked.
"Yes, yes, yes. We're keeping it for someone else. We don't dare to sell it.”
"Oh, alright, alright. Let's drink.”
After that, the man didn't say anything else, and the three of them hurriedly ate. I wanted to pay the bill, but the man didn't let me and rushed to pay. The three of them exchanged a few polite words and then parted ways.
"Little You, so this is really a treasure. 100,000 yuan, I think it's about enough. I almost agreed to sell it to him. Why are you winking at me? "Could it be…" I asked impatiently.
"This is not the place to talk. Let's stay here first.”
Sabah only had a simple inn. We paid for the accommodation and took each woman upstairs to her room.
Xiao You went out to take a look and returned to her room. She smiled at me and said,"Brother Dabao, your crystal is worth more than 100,000 yuan!”
"What? How much is that worth?" I was shocked.
"I don't know either. But it was definitely more than 100,000! What I mean is that you should bring it back to China and appraise it properly. Find out what kind of treasure it is and what its name is. We don't even know what this thing is or what it's called. We can't sell it so easily. Brother Dabao, you don't understand the jade industry. It's not new to lose hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan because of a mistake.”
"Is that so?" I was very surprised. "So powerful?"
"Moreover, I feel that there's something fishy about the person I met today. He has been looking at the snakeskin bag a few times, whether intentionally or unintentionally.”
"Well, I didn't notice; I was just listening to him. Little You, you're so meticulous. I'm counting on you to come here this time. I really have to thank you properly.”
"How are you going to thank me?" Little You smiled.
"This…How about this, when the crystal is sold, we will split the money equally?”
"Ah, you're really generous. But I don't want your money!" Xiao You seemed a little unhappy and said," Let's sleep early and wake up early tomorrow." We have to walk back. It's not Ji Zitian. There's no car.”
[This Little You doesn't seem to like money. So, she helped me out of kindness?] Or did he have some intentions?
This book is provided by FunNovel Novel Book | Fan Fiction Novel [Beautiful Free Novel Book]