Zhou Na looked at Li Muchen in the rearview mirror with some surprise.
"Mr. Li is really smart." Zhou Na readily admitted.
Li Muchen didn't say anything else and continued to close his eyes.
The car drove into the underground parking lot of a somewhat dilapidated six-story building in the west of the city.
After parking the car, Zhou Na took them into the elevator, swiped her card, and pressed the button for the top six floors.
"This used to be the largest thrift market in Wo City, the bottom three floors were all stalls, the fourth floor was the furniture floor, and the fifth floor was the office area. The sixth floor used to be unused, then Uncle Ming bought it and changed it into the current business place."
Zhou Na introduced.
"Feel free to go up the other floors, but the sixth floor is a clubhouse system, you have to swipe your card." With those words the elevator reached the sixth floor.
The elevator door opened, facing the wall was a shadow wall about two meters high, the wall was carved with a relief of a green dragon coming out of the water, a blue and white vat was placed right under the dragon head, water flowed down from the dragon's mouth and fell into the vat as if it was a waterfall.
The biggest function of the shadow wall is Evil-Spirit-Blocking, generally placed in the ancient courtyard in the middle of the entrance. Shadow wall to the interior, very rare.
The owner of this place did not use a screen, but a shadow wall, should be afraid that the screen can not block the evil spirit. Li Muchen judged that the goods coming in and out of here must often have something not too clean.
It seems that this Uncle Ming is also a big believer in geomantic omen.
Around the shadow wall, is a small hall, from the side of the small hall through the corridor, before seeing a large door. The door was open and inside was a hall.
However, the imagined luxurious scene of a private club did not appear, this is a layer of rough that is not even decorated.
In the hall, like an exhibition, there were dozens of stalls, some big, some small, some coffee table rattan chairs, three or five people sitting together and drinking tea, some on the ground to spread a piece of cloth, sitting on the ground, things casually put on the side.
There are also many people wandering around in the hall, see what they want to stop and ask a price.
Ma Shan skimmed his lips and said, "Isn't this just a ground stall night market?"
Zhou Na laughed, "You're right to say so, but don't underestimate this place, sometimes a few tens of millions of dollars are sold in one night, it's nothing new."
Ma Shan staggered, "That much? You'd be rich just pumping ."
Zhou Na said, "Except for small auctions, Uncle Ming never pump. Well, you guys go in and see for yourselves, I don't know much about these things, so I won't accompany you, when you want to leave, give me a call."
Li Muchen nodded, said thank you, and went into the trading hall with Ma Shan.
They casually strolled around, but of course, the main goal was the gambling stones.
There were a few stalls selling jadeite raw stones, and one of them was relatively large, occupying a corner of the hall, which was surrounded by many people looking at the stones.
Li Muchen walked over and his divine sense unfolded, sweeping over a piece of stone.
Wherever his divine sense passed, the inner texture of the stone was plainly visible in his mind, and he knew exactly what kind of material was inside.
Walked around, the scene of large and small hundreds of stones all looked all over, not a piece of favorite.
Not to say that these stones are not good material, but the price tag is generally very high, open window slightly see green are tens of thousands of starting.
Li Muchen does not understand the market of jadeite, even if there is really material, but also can not determine whether it is worth.
Most of the stones, he did not need to understand the market, but also know that it is certainly a loss.
For example, there is a roughly a dozen pounds of stone, open window full of green, priced at 300,000, but in fact, only the place of the open window a little bit of green, inside the substrate is not clean at all, the meat is coarse, there are cracks, to do a piece of sign are not enough.
"How is it, have a fancy?"
Ma Shan saw that Li Muchen did not squat down to look at it at all, just like this walking in the middle of the stone, a little anxious. Li Muchen shook his head, "Let's go, take a look over there."
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On the other side of the sixth floor hall, Feng Tianming and Zhou Na were sitting in a luxuriously decorated and elegantly furnished office drinking tea.
In front of him, there was a large screen on which scenes from various locations within the trading hall could be seen.
At this moment, one of the scenes was enlarged, and it was the corner of the gambling stone where Li Muchen was.
In the screen, Li Muchen was walking slowly through those messy stones.
He walked slowly, but didn't stop.
"Are you sure they are here to gamble on the stones?" Feng Tian Ming asked as he looked at the screen.
Zhou Na nodded her head and said, "I don't know this Li Muchen, but Ma Shan is a straight person, he won't lie to me."
She also asked, "Uncle Ming, why are you so concerned about him, just because he knows Master Qiantang Kun?"
Feng Tian Ming shook his head, "If he was just a friend of Master Kun, I would at most respect and let him have a few points, but yesterday he defeated Master Hong, who is the representative of the Southern School of Tai Chi in Wo City. After I went back, I asked Master Hong, although his mouth is not convinced, but in his heart is convinced. What made Master Hong angry was that this Li Muchen clearly used Taiji Kung Fu, but he didn't admit it."
"Didn't he say that he learned it right there?"
"Hmph! Learn it off the shelf? Master Hong studied kung fu for thirty years before he achieved this. He easily defeated Master Hong, you said he learned it off the shelf. Is that possible?"
"So, he is also a Taiji disciple?"
"Master Hong thought he was a Northern School Taiji and came to throw down the gauntlet."
"But yesterday was clearly a chance encounter."
"Regardless of whether it was a chance encounter or on purpose, this is a matter within their Taiji Sect. Hong Tiancheng has already reported to the Southern Taiji Sect's General Rudder, and when the time comes, whether it's Kui Li or Ghost Li, naturally, someone will be able to tell the difference."
"Then ,Uncle Ming want to ....."
Feng Tian Ming took a sip of tea, "In my line of work, it is inevitable that I will encounter times when I need to rely on force to solve problems. Master Hong is the one I hired at great cost. However, as you know, these old men who play Tai Chi, who boast of their prestigious schools, want to save face, and there are some things that they do not care to do. I am in need of an expert like Li Muchen by my side."
"Uncle Ming wants to recruit him, but I see that this person is very arrogant. I'm only afraid that he will be difficult to tame." Zhou Na said with a bit of worry.
"All people have weaknesses, since he came to gamble on stones today, it means he lacks money." Uncle Ming said confidently.
Zhou Na was slightly shocked, "Uncle Ming, you want to trap them, right?"
Feng Tian Ming laughed, "A character like this, how would I use underhanded means? I am just curious, with his kung fu, there are many ways to make money. Why would he come to gamble on stones? Gambling is not a fight, you can't just rely on brute strength, you have to rely on your eyesight."
There are several jadeite stones in the field, but the scale is relatively small.
Li Muchen walked two more, still did not find a stone worth getting.
Ma Shan was a bit anxious: "Mu Chuan, in the end, is it okay? Or, let's just buy a piece at random. Anyway, it's a one-shot deal. If we win, we'll hug the clubhouse models, and if we lose, we'll go home and eat instant noodles."
Li Muchen laughed: "Don't be in a hurry, we won't go back empty-handed today."
The reason why he was so confident was because when Li Muchen was walking around just now, he didn't find any good stones, but saw a few valuable antiques.
One of them was an ancient bronze mirror that was obviously freshly unearthed and still carried the yin qi of the underground soil layer.
From the aura that was faintly emanating from the thick green rust covering it, Li Muchen concluded that this was a magic weapon in ancient times, only that it had been damaged and needed to be repaired.
However, this level of magic weapon, even if it was completely repaired, would still be difficult to satisfy him.
Today's main purpose is still to gamble on stones, really can't buy a good jade, then consider buying this mirror. After restoration, we should be able to sell some money.
In the corner there is the last stone seller, because of the smallest scale, so it is very inconspicuous. Li Muchen almost ignored it.
But as soon as they arrived in front of this stall, Li Muchen's eyes lit up, and on this small stall, there were actually several good stones. As soon as the owner saw them coming, he greeted them warmly.
"Both of you, what kind do you like?"
Pointing to a piece of stone with an open window, the window's color was very green, he said, "How about this one? Real old pit goods, absolutely good."
Li Muchen, however, did not even look at it, pointing to a pile of unremarkable stones next to it and asked, "How do you sell this one?"
"Oh, that ah," the boss rolled his eyes, his tone suddenly became scornfully "five hundred a piece, just pick."
Li Muchen casually picked two, let Ma Shan pay a thousand dollars, asked, "Cut or not?"
"I don't cut here, they can there." The owner pointed to the biggest stall selling raw stones that Li Muchen initially went to. Li Muchen then walked over with Ma Shan holding the stone.
The boss there looked at the material in their hands and said, "If you don't buy the material from me, if you cut it, you will be charged with the knife. These two pieces of material aren't big, so let's make it 50 cents a knife. But I can first declare, this is Jadeite wool material, you may not even earn the cutting fee."
Li Muchen said, "It's okay, cut."
The boss, also no nonsense, took the stone to cut.
The first stone is cut down, there is nothing inside, white bread like, a little jade light can not be seen. The boss said: "still cut?"
Li Muchen said: "Cut."
The boss began to cut the second stone. A knife went down.
"Wow!" The boss let out a gasp. Full green!