Stone Gambler

Emerald, this precious gemstone is covered with a layer of weathered skin when it is mined, and it is impossible to know whether it is good or bad, only after cutting it can be known. Because so far, there is no instrument that can really detect whether there is jade in the rough stone. People can only rely on the experience summed up over the years and personal vision. Therefore, the transaction of buying and selling jade rough stone is full of the nature of gambling, also called gambling stone.

And stone gambling has a unique meaning in Boya Continent. For the orcs, he is the hope of survival and life. Every tribe on the mainland has a thriving stone gambling industry. The place where Bixi brought Bai Zishi is the most prosperous stone gambling market in Maca City. The shops on the entire street are all stone gambling shops.

This street is very wide, about 300 meters long, but to Bai Zishi's surprise, all the orcs and sub-orcs in his eyes, such a wide street can be seen to be crowded. Bixi was used to such lively scenes, he held Bai Zishi's hand tightly and walked along the crowd, there were too many people here, and they were too tall for Bai Zishi, so Bixi was very worried that he would be squeezed away by the flow of people. Although the pinching was painful, Bai Zishi still held back and said nothing.

This is a very strange feeling, as if there is a sense in the dark. In such a crowd of people, he raised his eyes casually, saw and recognized the weak sub-orc man at a glance. Vincent leaned against the corner of a shop, staring fixedly at the petite figure looming in the crowd. His excellent eyesight allowed him to clearly see the tightly frowning brows of the fair and beautiful Little orc man. He gritted his teeth too. Vincent straightened up, and quickly came to a position not far from Bai Zishi against the crowd. All of a sudden, his gaze was focused on Bai Zishi's wrist held by Bixi, and there were already red and purple bruises on the place where his fingers were pressed.

"Hey, you're scratching him." The deep and distant voice sounded indifferently, like the sound of gold and stone, and Bi Xi froze for a moment before realizing that the words seemed to be addressed to him. Stopped, Bixi let go of the Little orc man's hand, the obvious purple bruises looked so conspicuous and glaring on the white and tender skin, he couldn't help but exclaimed in self-reproach, and pulled his hand He asked repeatedly, "Does it hurt?"

Bai Zishi shook his head uncomfortably, but his frowning showed his insincere words. Vincent's eyebrows were tightly wrinkled, and an astonishing pressure immediately condensed on his handsome face as deep as a knife. Xi left it unintentionally, but felt shocked, and hurriedly looked away.

Bai Zishi gently withdrew his arm, pulled his sleeve down and covered it slightly, not wanting Bixi to see him blame himself even more: "It's okay, Bixi, you didn't do it on purpose, I'm too weak .”

"If you know you are weak, you should pay more attention to protecting yourself." Vincent's cold words sounded like a reprimand. Bai Zishi was taken aback, and looked at Vincent in a daze—who is this person?

Vincent seemed to be aware of his slip of the tongue, lowered his eyes lightly, and pulled Bai Zishi's wrist, then took out a small cylindrical bottle from his jacket pocket, and sprayed it twice on his wrist. Next, the cool feeling made Bai Zishi twitch his hands uncomfortably. Vincent raised his eyes and looked at him calmly, his black eyes were bottomless: "Don't move." Bai Zishi really stopped obediently for some reason, and let him hold him back. Vincent seemed quite satisfied, a soft color appeared on his cold face, then he covered the bruise with the palm of his hand, rubbed it lightly, then stopped and asked lightly: "How is the strength?"

"Ah? Uh...it's...a bit heavy." Vincent gave him a normal glance, and Bai Zishi immediately changed what he wanted to say from "it's okay" to the truth "it's a bit heavy". Vincent kneaded again, which was much lighter than before, and it could be seen that he had carefully grasped the strength. Bai Zishi stared in a daze at the unknown orc's broad, honey-colored palm rubbing against his small, fair wrist. He only felt that the place where the two were released was hot, and the heat had been rubbed into the skin. After a while, Vincent let go of his hand. Bai Zishi felt that there was only a piece of warm comfort left in the place that was still hurting just now. He suddenly realized that the feeling just now was the effect of medicine. He looked at Vincent, sincerely Thank you: "Thank you."

"name."

"Ah-?" Bai Zishi raised his head blankly, looking at the indifferent orc who looked handsome no matter how he looked.

"I said, your name." Vincent's voice was very low, and when he spoke, he gave off a very sharp and crisp. Bai Zishi was distracted for a while, and when Vincent asked angrily for the third time, he answered reflexively: "Bai Zishi."

"Bai Zishi...Bai, Zi, Shi." Vincent said the name twice, looked down at Bai Zishi's extraordinarily delicate face, a softness flashed in his eyes, and spit out a name: "Vincent. "

"Vincent?" Bai Zishi repeated with some doubts, a satisfied look flashed across the tall and handsome orc's face, he nodded, and said, "Remember."

"Ah?" Remember what? Bai Zishi couldn't react, but at this time the tall and handsome orc had left them and walked forward, and disappeared in the crowd after a while.

Bixi has been silently watching the interaction between the two of them, without saying anything, only after Vincent left, she handed her hand to Bai Zishi: "Hold me, let's go."

Bai Zishi pulled him back a little dullly, and was led forward by Bixi.

At this time, Vincent, who was walking among the crowd of beasts, looked down at his palm. When he held that wrist just now, he felt that it was so soft and slender, as if it could be broken with a little effort. Thinking of Bai Zishi's cute look when he stared blankly at him, a smile flashed in his eyes --- he was silly, but quite funny.

"I saw it~~" A playful voice came to mind at this moment, Vincent knew who it was without turning his head, and walked straight into a woolen shop without looking back. Ellen looked at the back of the orc's head in front of him, folded his arms and smiled indifferently: "Vincent, I thought you were not interested in sub-orcs? I didn't expect that this time, you actually fell in love with a minor! And told others Your name... tsk tsk... But speaking of it, that little orc man really looks ticklish. It looks so petite and soft, not to mention the rare pair of black eyes. The best Mo Cui...it's really unbearable to think...uh...it's nothing."

Vincent withdrew his cold gaze and warned in a deep voice, "Stay away from him!"

"I know, I know." Ellen nodded shyly, Vincent turned his head and didn't look at him again, Ellen patted his heart in fear, shrank his neck, and followed behind him, not daring to say anything more.

Bai Zishi and Bixi walked through the crowd for a long time before they walked into an unremarkable small shop. Different from those popular shops that came along the way, there were only a dozen or so Boya orcs in this shop, and the orcs even more. I didn't see one. Bai Zishi felt a little strange in his heart, and saw Bixi walking towards a middle-aged orc man who was sitting leisurely beside him. This orc man was tall and had short fiery red hair. He looked restrained and calm.

Bixi greeted him very familiarly: "Owen, have you got any new ingredients recently?"

Owen showed a smile: "Well, a batch of goods just arrived this morning, and you are not too late. How is it? How about the woolen stuff you brought back last time?"

Bixi smiled wryly: "Don't mention it, it's broken, the best piece is the lotus seed, and the best-performing one is almost a good ice seed, but it's densely packed with cracks!"

The smile on Owen's face faded away, and he comforted him a bit: "Playing with rocks, you lose out of ten bets. This is...?"

Bixi is also an experienced stone gambler, and this kind of battle is nothing. She just nodded casually to comfort Owen, and brought Bai Zishi over: "This kid wants to follow the path of a stone gambler. I will take him Come and see the world."

Owen is not surprised. There are many sub-orcs who want to be stone gamblers these days. There are too many sub-orcs who have been taken over by people these years, but in the end it will be good if one or two out of a hundred succeed. .

After the two exchanged greetings, Owen led them to a corner inside: "The new wools are all here, and the ones on the shelves are half-baked fabrics. Every piece of wool that has performed well on the ground has a price tag. The other batch is sold by the catty, 300 points per kilogram. There are also 1,000 points over there, and you can call the number after you have chosen." After the explanation, Owen ignored them and left.

Bixi was a regular customer, so he didn't care at the moment, because he brought Bai Zishi with him, instead of looking at the half-gambled wool, he went to the batch of wool that performed well and squatted down to have a look.

Bai Zishi also took the opportunity to ask his own question: "Bixi, why are there... so few people here?"

Bixi smiled: "Don't look at Owen's lack of people here, he is the number one in the gambling stone market in Maca, but he doesn't allow orcs to come in here, and Jieshi is not here. After the sub-orcs picked out the wool, they called , someone will help you transport the selected wool to the stone calcination field of this store, which is the lively place.”

Only then did Bai Zishi suddenly realize that Bixi had taken a fancy to a piece of white sand skin wool at this time, and he pointed to a dark strip **** wide on it: "Look, this is a python belt, whether it is as deep or as shallow as the skin. The weathered and semi-weathered sand grains are arranged in a regular and directional manner such as bands, rings, and blocks. The appearance of python bands indicates that there may be green in it, and the python bands are generally parallel to the direction of green. Some of the faintly visible color blocks like dried moss, plaques and strips are called "pine flowers". It refers to the traces left by the green on the original raw material of jadeite, which has gradually faded after weathering. According to the color of pine flowers The depth, shape, direction, quantity, and density can be used to infer the depth, direction, size, and shape of the green inside. The place with python belts does not necessarily have green, and the appearance of "pine flowers" must be present to explain the green color inside. There may be green..."

Bixi carefully explained the knowledge of gambling stones to Bai Zishi, and Bai Zishi also listened carefully, verifying that the gambling stones in Boya Continent are different from those on the earth. After listening, he realized that there is actually no difference. The biggest difference Also on earth, the brighter the color of jadeite, the more valuable it is. Here, the value of jadeite is related to the concentration of the color. Whether it is a bright bright color or a dull dark color, the more uniform and rich the color, the more valuable it is, because this It means that the energy distribution of the emerald inside is even and sufficient.

After talking for a long time, Bixi felt that the speech was almost done, so she asked Bai Zishi to practice his eyesight in this pile of stones, and then went to the half-gambled shelf by himself.

Bai Zishi calculated the remaining 2,000 points from his purchases in the past few days, and looked at the pair of 1,000-point wool. He can only buy two pieces at most! Thinking about it, he walked towards the wool area.