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Chapter 883 - 884 Luck Seems Pretty Good

Chapter 883: Chapter 884 Luck Seems Pretty Good

Yunnan Province’s annual Jade Stone Gambling Conference was held on schedule in Kang County, which is close to Da Guang and serves as the hub for the jade stone industry in Yunnan Province. The entire county relies on the jade stone industry for eighty percent of its business activity, with the remaining twenty percent also related to the jade stone derivative industries.

Because Kang County is near Da Guang, not only are there local types of raw stones available, but also a continuous flow of raw stones from Da Guang.

Especially during this annual Jade Stone Gambling Conference, the number of raw stones coming from Da Guang was even greater.

To promote and enhance the fame of the Gambling Conference, Yunnan Province had invested considerable costs and efforts into this event.

As for the Da Guang government, they had also put in significant effort.

Initially, Kang City was just a small county town, but later, with support from various quarters, it gradually expanded to resemble a provincial capital.

On this day, at the designated location of the Jade Stone Gambling Conference in Dragon Square, the opening ceremony was being conducted in full swing.

To attend the conference, Li Changlin and the Tang Family members had arrived in advance and collected a lot of information.

Covering an area of over ten thousand square meters, the square hosted numerous raw stone suppliers who had piled up their diverse collections of raw stones over the space.

Compared to the conference they had attended in Nanfu Province, the scale here was many times larger. Witnessing the orderly arrangement of such a vast number of raw stones, Tang Hongyuan was momentarily overwhelmed.

In fact, it wasn’t just Tang Hongyuan; even Tang Ying and Li Changlin felt the same.

Once upon a time, who amongst them would have ever thought they would come to Kang City for such an event?

Although the Tang Family was in the jade stone business, they were essentially at the retail end of the chain, which was not on the same level as those directly selling or gambling big on raw stones.

Of course, the Tang Family did visit this conference annually to seek opportunities, but those from the Tang Family who could come here held much higher status than Tang Hongyuan and Tang Ying.

Tang Ying was considered a direct descendant of the second generation of the Tang Family, while Tang Hongyuan was the direct eldest son of the third generation. Priorly, they had not qualified to come to Kang County.

Only the direct and elite descendants of the first generation of the Tang Family could attend such events.

At that moment, Tang Hongyuan was somewhat dazzled by the array of stones, and even Tang Ying looked a bit confused.

The multitude of raw stones in the square was overwhelming; small and large, successful and failed, they numbered over a thousand. With so many stones to choose from, neither knew where to even start.

Fortunately, the main decision to purchase raw stones did not rest on their shoulders, but on Li Changlin.

Currently, Tang Ying and Tang Hongyuan were merely there to assist and convey messages for Li Changlin.

Now in the square, over a hundred descendants of the Tang Family were strategically positioned around. Once Li Changlin decided on a particular raw stone, either Tang Ying or Tang Hongyuan would immediately arrange for people to purchase it.

Though there were many raw stones, there were equally as many customers. Hesitating to make a purchase might result in losing the stone to someone else, and acquiring it later would then involve a much higher cost.

Given the significance of the annual Jade Stone Gambling Conference, the organizers provided detailed guidance on pricing.

Such policies aimed to attract more visitors, allowing everyone to afford and enjoy the event.

This clearly benefitted everyone involved.

However, it also undeniably imposed significant restrictions on the various original stone suppliers.

Under such circumstances, suppliers naturally considered various strategies to cope, such as hiring raw stone experts to identify the type of stones. High-quality stones were specially reserved, either for their own cutting or for selling at higher prices to other distributors.

This was a necessary measure, but even then, not all high-quality stones could be identified with absolute certainty.

Thus, the situation wasn’t too unreasonable.

In this context, the odds of purchasing a stone that would significantly appreciate in value were obviously slim.

Fortunately, Li Changlin had the Clairvoyance Potion, a significant advantage. Coupled with the jade stone knowledge he had recently crammed, he was naturally more confident.

Although the stones had already been selected once, most of the raw stones still contained jade; they weren’t so-called useless stones.

"Li Changlin, once the opening ceremony is over, you can start selecting freely. All of the Tang Family descendants are prepared; everything is in your hands," Tang Ying said earnestly, standing beside Li Changlin.

Twenty billion in investment was, after all, not a small amount.

The Tang Family, trusting Li Changlin, had gone all in.

Regardless of anything else, everyone hoped to make money.

Li Changlin nodded his head. While a leader was fervently speaking at the opening ceremony, he discreetly used a bottle of Clairvoyance Potion and then started examining the pile of raw stones in front of him.

"Ah, sticky rice variety, and not small either, nice, nice! This looks like good luck!"

Soon after using the Clairvoyance Potion, Li Changlin spotted a raw stone weighing several jin of the sticky rice variety. The stone itself wasn’t very large, probably around fifty jin in weight, and it only cost three hundred thousand.

A purchase of three hundred thousand could return more than ten times the investment, an exciting prospect indeed.

"Brother Tang, do you see that stone? Once the opening ceremony is over, have someone buy it immediately. It contains sticky rice," Li Changlin whispered to Tang Hongyuan and discreetly pointed towards the target. Tang Hongyuan understood immediately and nodded in agreement.

Li Changlin spoke softly, as he had already observed that there were no Ancient Martial Arts Experts around, so he wasn’t afraid of being overheard.

Unbeknownst to them, someone else had also noticed that stone.

It was a mixed-gender team, both around twenty-one or twenty-two years old, the man handsome and the woman pure-looking. At that moment, the man was pointing his phone at the raw stones, which might have looked like he was snapping photos or filming.

Unbeknownst to them, his smartphone clearly showed the type of jade stone within that particular stone.

"Damn, it’s the sticky rice variety. Little Demon, we’re going to strike it rich. Look, there’s sticky rice inside that stone. As soon as the opening ceremony ends, let’s buy it," the man whispered to the girl, nudging her gently before moving the phone in front of her.