The Beautiful CEO’s Dragon Blood Bodyguard
Chapter 249 - 0249: Gambling on Stones (Part 2)

Chapter 249: Chapter 0249: Gambling on Stones (Part 2)

Having learned Lin Yingying’s identity, Mu Tianyou displayed even more arrogance. He puffed up like an old hen showing off her feathers, desperately trying to flaunt his charm in front of Lin Yingying.

With a stretch of his hand, he had someone behind him light a cigar for him to smoke, and then he sneered at Long Fei, "Fine, since you want to play, this young master will keep you company. Just don’t blame me for not giving you a chance when you wet yourself from losing!"

The young men and women he brought with him cheered on, "This idiot is so brain-dead, daring to compete with Young Master Mu in gambling on stones. Doesn’t he know Young Master Mu is the expert in this area?"

"Let him show off if he wants, just wait to see how he’ll lose face later!"

"A mere security guard dares to challenge Young Master Mu. They really have no idea that Young Master Mu grew up among the gambling stones!"

The crowd mocked him in unison, looking at Long Fei with disdain.

The onlookers and players didn’t think highly of Long Fei either, and Sixth Master Tan’s group was even more worried, thinking that Long Fei’s ten million was probably wasted.

"Can we start now?"

Mu Tianyou was a bit impatient to slap Long Fei’s face.

"Yes!"

Long Fei nodded calmly and went with him to the Lower Quality Area to start picking.

Mu Tianyou’s gaze was sharp as he searched throughout the Lower Quality Area, quickly focusing his attention on a few gambling stones.

Fearing that Long Fei would snatch them, he simply carried them over to check them carefully.

The Lower Quality Area, as its name implies, consisted of gambling stones with relatively poor appearances.

They weren’t large, and they had thick skins, mostly rough and thick-skin varieties.

Not only were they loosely structured, but they also had low hardness and poor transparency.

Mu Tianyou had someone bring over a sling bag, from which he took out professional tools to meticulously examine and judge the stones.

Long Fei just strolled through the area with his hands behind his back, as if he were taking a walk in the park.

Even Sixth Master Tan couldn’t bear to watch, hustling over to give Long Fei meaningful glances, hinting for him to pick one he had a good feeling about.

But Long Fei just gave him a faint smile, as if he hadn’t understood his hint.

In the end, he found a gambling stone from a pile of weeds about the size of a cantaloupe.

There was no shine on its surface, utterly ordinary, like it was just a cobblestone.

This stone would go unnoticed if thrown on the road.

Mu Tianyou spent a long time with a high-beam flashlight until he finally found a stone that satisfied him.

Under the beam of the flashlight, one could even see a trace of green veins in the stone.

He happily picked it up, giving Long Fei a look.

When he saw the shabby stone in Long Fei’s hand, he couldn’t help but burst into laughter. "You’re choosing this one?"

"Yes!"

Long Fei nodded.

Mu Tianyou’s voice was full of mockery, "Do you even understand gambling on stones? This gambling stone doesn’t have a single green vein, and with such a rough surface, how could there possibly be any green inside?"

Long Fei replied calmly, "We’ll know if there’s any when it’s cut open."

"Still got a tough mouth!"

Mu Tianyou chuckled and shook his head, taking his gambling stone to the cutting area.

Long Fei followed, passing by Sixth Master Tan.

Sixth Master Tan called out anxiously, "Brother Long, how can you not understand my hints? I just saw a stone that definitely has jade in it. The one you picked, it’s just too unreliable."

Long Fei said with a smile, "Gambling is all about luck, Sixth Master. Don’t worry, I’ve always been very lucky!"

Sixth Master Tan felt like spitting blood, thinking where in the world did all this luck come from.

In the gambling stone business, experience counts for a lot, right?

He followed Long Fei to the stone cutter, which had been prepared by the master cutter.

The crowd around them buzzed with discussion. When Mu Tianyou took out his stone, they immediately exclaimed, "What a bright stone skin, there’s definitely something in there."

"No doubt, he really is a skilled expert. We were in the Lower Quality Area for a long time and didn’t spot such good material!"

"This security guard is finished. He’s trying to show off in front of an expert like he knows what he is doing!"

Sixth Master Tan and Ma Kui shrugged their shoulders, looking utterly doomed.

The two sisters, Lin Yingying, watched Long Fei, knowing he had some special ability, but they were still a bit nervous when it really came to the test.

After all, they weren’t sure if Long Fei’s x-ray vision was going to work.

Perhaps he could see through clothes, but not stones.

As the cutting machine screeched, sparks flew everywhere.

The stone selected by Mu Tianyou was split open by a knife, revealing its core.

The jade’s green color shone with a translucent brilliance under the sunlight, like a kiwifruit cut open, it was of medium grade ’glutinous ice’ type, with at least a two ’fen’ of water content.

The value of jade is looked at from five aspects.

They are grade, water, base, color, and workmanship.

The jade cut from the raw stone hasn’t been worked on yet, so it temporarily doesn’t have "workmanship".

Grade comes in eight levels.

The top level is called Dragon Stone Jade, the high levels include glass type.

Below that are semi-glass type, ice type.

Glutinous ice, glutinous type.

Ice bean, bean type.

The word "type" here refers to translucency.

The better the jade, the stronger its translucency and the finer its texture. It’s like glass.

The inferior jade has poorer translucency and a looser texture. When you hold it, it feels gritty, like rock candy.

The slab of stone chosen by Mu Tianyou had an emerald roughly the size of a walnut inside.

In every aspect, it was a rare medium-to-low grade jade.

If it were worked into a pendant, it would sell for tens of thousands in the market.

Bear in mind, this stone was chosen from the Lower Quality Area.

The selling price of lower-grade raw stones is only five to six hundred, so this was a huge windfall.

A group of experts rushed to give Mu Tianyou the thumbs up, thinking experts are indeed experts, born into a gambling stone family.

Mu Tianyou held his head even higher, and said disdainfully to Long Fei, "Mr. Security Guard, are you still competing, or not?"

Long Fei smiled faintly, "We have to pull out the mule or the horse to stroll around to really know."

Mu Tianyou taunted, "The stone you picked, it has no green on the surface and comes from old tree bark material. If there’s any green inside, I’ll call you dad."

"Alright, I can hardly accept you as a son!"

Long Fei shrugged, amusing everyone present.

A skinny, dark-skinned guy behind Mu Tianyou saw Long Fei disrespecting Mu Tianyou, stepped forward wanting to strike him.

Mu Tianyou grabbed him quickly, shaking his head as a signal.

He didn’t want to make a scene in his own Stone Workshop.

"You can act tough now, but later I will make your face swell up."

Mu Tianyou snorted coldly, and let the master stonemason open up the piece of raw stone.

This master was an old hand here, at one glance at the stone Long Fei had chosen, a hint of contempt surfaced on his face.

Even a rookie who’s just entered the trade wouldn’t choose that stone.

What did Long Fei see in it? And even dared to compete with his young master?

The cutting machine buzzed and everyone’s attention was focused on the stone, wondering if a miracle would happen.

Sixth Master Tan and company were old hands at this, and even they couldn’t help but feel nervous for Long Fei at this moment, sweating for him.

With a clack, the raw stone was split in half.

Similarly, a flash of green light streaked out, immediately eliciting gasps from everyone on site.