Imperial Treasure
Chapter 331 - 236 The Pamphlet

Chapter 331: Chapter 236 The Pamphlet

There’s also a method called "open bidding." First, you identify some rough stones at the auction that you’re interested in and remember their numbers. After the auction starts, whenever a number is announced, large groups of merchants compete to bid, and the highest bidder wins. It’s similar to a live auction...

"Most formal public trading platforms use this form, and our previous small workshop transactions were informal... Among the public platforms, there are more sealed bids and fewer open bids..."

"How do you know so much..." Elder Tang couldn’t quite grasp how Sui Yi suddenly became so knowledgeable about the public trading platforms.

Sui Yi just shook his smartphone and coolly spat out two words, "Baidu."

This answer made so much sense that everyone was at a loss for words.

"Alright, more people are arriving; let’s disperse," Sui Yi said.

A bunch of people trying to examine rough stones obviously didn’t seem reliable, and they were easily dispersed by the crowd. Moreover, everyone had different interests, so saying to disperse was rather prescient.

Anayi stayed with Gong Jiu, who didn’t understand much about gambling stones, because she felt uneasy about her. Flower Demon clearly wanted to see Miss Gong make a fool of herself, so she followed along. Tang Laosan’s group always moved as a trio, and in the end, Sui Yi paired up with Ah A.

Both of them were young, dressed casually, and looked like students on an outing. Amid the middle-aged and elderly people milling around the venue, or at the very least the white-collar workers, they stood out.

Ah A had seen Sui Yi gamble on stones before, but compared to the efficiency with which she checked the stones relative to other people, hers was noticeably higher... she often even hit upon jade, making him feel as if jade were as common as cabbages.

"Sui Yi, is this how you just look and that’s it?" Ah A still found it somewhat incomprehensible.

His question was met with a typical Sui-style response: "And touch a bit."

Ah A: "...."

Given such a shrewd answer, it’s no wonder Elder Tang and the others couldn’t get a reliable explanation from Sui Yi and eventually came to their own conclusion.

--Our Sui Yi is indeed quite amazing.

However, Ah A didn’t just stand by watching; during crowded moments, he occasionally helped by fending off some of the pushing.

"Sui Yi, they all prepared notebooks and pens, don’t you need..." Ah A noticed many people carrying small notebooks and pens, scribbling something on paper...

It seemed like they were recording.

Sui Yi saw this too. Although she had an excellent memory and could remember a large number of numbers, she might not remember every detail about each piece of rough stone as clearly. It was okay if there were only a few, but if there were many, she might mix them up. Moreover, she should at least go through the motions, so she sent Ah A to get a notebook and a ballpoint pen from the organizer’s pavilion...

With the notebook and pen, Sui Yi looked even more like a student. The merchants and guards passing by were very curious about this young and beautiful girl. Indeed, the girl felt and looked, then scribbled on paper with a serene expression and effortless poise, seemingly quite knowledgeable...

But maybe an hour later, it was nearly midday, and the sun was scorching hot, even hotter than the temperature inland. Many couldn’t stand it and shed their outer layers, wearing only a light shirt.

The two had already passed by roughly eight hundred pieces of rough stone, an alarmingly fast pace. Ah A glanced around and saw that some of the merchants they had met earlier were still squatting at the starting area~~

"Alright, let’s take a break," Sui Yi suddenly stood up, to which Ah A reflexively said, "Ah, I’m not tired."

"I’m tired," Sui Yi said, slapping the notebook holding the pen into Ah A’s chest, then rubbing her temples, her complexion somewhat exhausted. The Magnetic Sensation had drained her significantly; she had only taken a cursory look at these rough stones, going in-depth only if one showed promise. She might also have missed some, but she wasn’t greedy; enough was as good as a feast.

"You’re just handing this to me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll look at it and use it?" Ah A couldn’t help but laugh, raising the small notebook in his hand.

"If you can understand it," she replied.

Ah A looked suspicious and quickly flipped open the uncensored notebook, only to find a page densely filled with numbers. The numerical identifiers were clear, but what did those special symbols mean?

Sui Yi’s notebook, if gotten by someone else, might be incomprehensible, yielding only some numbers for the auctioned rough stones...

But what he didn’t know was that not all those numbers contained jade; the ones with value had a specific arrangement pattern. Those special symbols represented the characteristics of the jade within the rough stones, and only Sui Yi could decipher them at a glance.