Tang Songyuan sighed and said, "Of course I have confidence in this,"
"It's just that Master, I have only been involved in stone gambling for two or three months, and I have never participated in such a gambling battle. You are so relieved to let me participate?"
Ni Dehong laughed and said, "What's so worrying about this?"
"Actually, your talent is very good and your skills are very solid. The key is that your luck is very good."
Then, he changed his mouth and said:
"Actually, having said that, winning or losing doesn't matter to me for a long time. This title of Stone King is not self-proclaimed by me. Whoever likes it can take it."
The name Stone King means fame and fortune, but looking at Old Man Ni, fame and fortune are not important to him at all.
Tang Song and Yuan Pian smiled lightly and said: "Then I will let it go and participate, but I still want to ask, are there any benefits to winning?"
Ni Dehong glanced at him lightly, smiled meaningfully and said: "If you win, you will be the new generation of Stone King!"
Tang Songyuan was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, I might as well lose.
As long as I can make money by gambling on stones, everything will be fine. So the title of King of Stones doesn't fit with my low-key persona.
Ni Dehong seemed to have read through his mind, walked closer, patted his shoulder and said:
"Don't put any pressure on this matter. I really don't care about the name Stone King. You can just treat it as playing with them later."
Tang Songyuan chuckled and said with a smile: "I know Master, but if I can win, I will definitely win."
In fact, what he said before was just modesty. With the clairvoyance ability that can see through everything, it would be difficult to lose in any stone betting competition.
The next morning, Tang Songyuan once again brought two sacks of cash and followed Luo Gang into Pagan to collect raw jade stones.
On a dirt road entering the town, Tang Songyuan saw the bodies of two men.
His shirt was uncovered and his belly was facing up, and his face was covered with a sign made from a waste paper shell.
Luo Gang curled his lips and said: "This place is like this. A few people die every now and then. Just get used to it."
Tang Songyuan did not speak, but nodded in approval.
When food and clothing are a problem, human life is sometimes really worthless.
In addition, Tang Songyuan also saw a parade consisting of several hundred people, holding signs and various slogans, and shouting various rhythmic slogans.
Seeing his confused look, Luo Gang laughed and said: "This is already the fifth time this year. Kachin State officials are too lazy to pay attention to such small-scale protests."
Tang Songyuan was even more confused. He wondered: "This is the fifth time. Has this kind of thing happened often before?"
Luo Gang chuckled and said, "No, otherwise, how do you think Myanmar got into such chaos?"
"There are many things behind this, and Westerners are actually adding fuel to the flames..."
"Myanmar is in such chaos right now. Various coups, military conflicts, and many things are basically caused by Westerners behind the scenes!"
Tang Songyuan nodded and said, "Western people are very good at doing this kind of thing."
While talking, the pickup truck drove into a narrow street, facing the river on one side, and the houses on the other side were also low and dilapidated.
Luo Gang parked the car at the door of one of the houses.
The door was ajar, and Tang Songyuan could see that the furnishings in the room were very simple, just a bed, and a man in his thirties or forties was lying on the bed, sleeping soundly.
A woman with a delicate face squatted at the door, washing her clothes as if no one was around.
The two got out of the car. Luo Gang walked to the door. Without even looking at the woman at the door, he patted the door several times and shouted:
"Ne Win, get up!"
The man jumped up from the bed. When he saw it was Luo Gang, he cursed, but he still sat up from the bed and put on his shoes.
Luo Gang explained his purpose of coming to him again in Burmese, and Ne Win reluctantly put on his clothes.
Luo Gang whispered to Tang Songyuan again in Chinese:
"This guy is a drug addict. He used to be a small mine owner. Although he later became bankrupt... he still has a lot of good stuff hidden in his hands."
"Come with me!" Naven put on his clothes, waved to the two of them, and took the lead in leading the way through the hall.
After passing through two dark and damp rooms, Ne Win opened a wooden board to reveal a narrow staircase leading underground.
Before going down, Tang Songyuan saw through his perspective vision that dozens of jadeite rough stones of different sizes were piled randomly in the small basement space.
Following Ne Win down to the basement, Tang Songyuan also smelled a rotten and dilapidated smell, which was very upsetting.
This guy is really careless.
Ne Win also held a flashlight, shook the stones on the ground, and chirped a few words.
Luo Gang translated for him: "He said, that's it. You can choose whatever you want. After you choose, he will quote you a price."
Tang Songyuan raised his eyebrows, took out his flashlight and looked at the jadeite stones collected by Ne Win.
A dark space is conducive to viewing rough stones under a lamp, but this was not needed at all in the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties.
His clairvoyant vision had already given him a clear picture of the condition of this batch of jadeite wool.
There were not many of high quality, so Tang, Song and Yuan reluctantly picked two pieces.
One piece is white sand skin, weighing seven or eight kilograms. The skin is thick and vaguely gray-white.
One piece is gray-white fish skin, weighing just over four kilograms. The skin is white with large swaths of light green showing through, making it a pretty good coloring material.
"He said you only bought two pieces? He asked you to pick some more..."
After selecting the stone and asking about the price, Ne Win was not very satisfied and asked Luo Gang to persuade Tang Songyuan to buy more.
Tang Songyuan shook his head and said: "Those are not right!"
Seeing his persistence, Ne Win had no choice but to stop persuading him. He asked for 120 million for the piece of white sand skin and 200 million for the gray and white fish skin.
The price was indeed not low, but Tang Songyuan felt it was worth the money.
Although the piece of gray-white fish skin is only a little over four kilograms, the skin is very thin, has no fog layer, the seed water has reached ice level, and the color is a uniform and full emerald green.
It is a very rare fine rough stone.
After returning to the ground with the materials, Tang Songyuan impatiently paid and left.
After returning to the car, he said to Luo Gang with disgust: "I smell a smell of decay and depravity from him."
Luo Gang also laughed and said, "I think so too. His gentle and virtuous wife was blinded in vain."
Tang Songyuan raised his middle finger at him. He also discovered just now that this guy had never looked directly at Ne Win's wife, but the corner of his eye fell on Ne Win's wife intentionally or unintentionally.
He said: "Are you hoping that Ne Win will die of addiction soon, so that you can help him take care of his tender wife?"
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