God of Wealth Hall.
Purple-robed Deacon Wu led Jiang Fengqing, An Zicheng, Lu Jinxin and his men to a small room.
After gently knocking on the door, after a while, the purple-robed deacon pushed the door open and entered. The small room was extremely bright.
The marble walls were inlaid with several blue gemstones, emitting a faint light.
There was a counter opposite the door. Behind the simple and time-worn counter sat an old woman with white hair, her eyes slightly narrowed, and did not respond to their arrival. She seemed to be taking a nap.
"Elder, someone is here." Purple-robed Deacon Five stood in front of the counter and said softly.
After hearing this, the old man slowly raised his head, opened his cloudy eyes, and glanced at the five people who came in. He did not focus on the two people wearing straw hats, Jiang Fengqing, but looked more at Lu Jinxin.
"Why are so many people coming in at once? Isn't this the eldest young master of the Lu family? Why are you free to come to the God of Wealth Hall today?"
The old man's yawning words echoed faintly in the small room, looking very lazy.
Lu Jinxin quickly bowed and said, "Back to Elder Xu, I have nothing to do today, so I came to the God of Wealth Hall to meet Elder Xu and stop by to have some fun."
Lu Jinxin had a smile on his face and kept his posture very low.
You must know that the old man in front of you is a famous treasure appraiser in Chang'an. He is especially good at identifying jade. With his piercing eyes, there is almost no jade that he cannot distinguish.
With this pair of eyes, he used 3,000 taels of silver to sweep through the top ten stone gambling centers in Chang'an and raked in 100,000 gold in just one month.
Naturally, the top ten stone gambling houses couldn't swallow this breath, so they framed him for cheating and wanted to detain him.
It is said that the boss of Caishen Hall later personally came forward and spent tens of millions of gold to secure him from the top ten stone gambling centers. He became the treasure appraiser of Caishen Hall, responsible for appraising the gamblers' mortgaged gambling funds and assessing their properties.
"Haha, you little fat guy can talk." Xu Huoyan smiled, "What kind of treasure did you bring from home this time? Did you bring your two low-key friends here, or did you go to the Three Gorges Center? That private room upstairs? Let me take a look..."
Xu Huoyan took out a large number of black keys under the counter. The keys were marked with numbers from one to thirty-six.
"Elder Xu, there's no need to look for it. I'm just going to play in the lobby on the third floor today." Lu Jinxin said with a smile, "I don't know these two people. Wasn't there a lot of trouble outside before? These two people want to enter the God of Wealth Hall. , happened to bump into me, I was worried that they wanted to cause trouble in the God of Wealth Hall, so I stopped them."
"I said, why did you wake me up before? It turns out you were the one who did it. Okay, okay, I'm sleepy too. If you want to find me for treasure appraisal, hurry up. I want to sleep a little longer." Xu Huoyan He waved his hand impatiently.
Purple-robed Deacon Wu stepped aside, gave up his position, and looked at them quietly.
Lu Jinxin walked to the counter with a smile, and the man behind him took out a jade plate and a golden Buddha from his arms and handed them to him.
Lu Jinxin took it carefully and placed it gently in front of Xu Huoyan.
"Please also ask Elder Xu to estimate a good price for me and let me play in the God of Wealth Hall for a while today." Lu Jinxin said with a smile on his face.
Xu Huo's eyes widened when he saw the jade plate and the golden Buddha, and he said casually, "The Lu family is indeed a big family, and you have brought such precious treasures into the God of Wealth Hall for you. Naturally, I will not pay less for you." , after all, Master Lu is a regular customer of our God of Wealth Hall. The chips I gave you will definitely be enough for you to have fun tonight!"
Listening to Xu Huoyan's words, Lu Jinxin's bleeding heart instantly calmed down. He secretly stole these two treasures from his old man's study.
Although he knew that he was the only one in the Lu family, even if the old man got angry again, he would just beat him and scold him. But it still hurts after all.
As soon as Xu Huoyan entered the treasure appraisal state, his face was expressionless and his tone was calm without any emotion.
"This jade plate is bright in color, round and clear. The texture of this jade is light but heavy in the hand. It has a cool feeling when held in the hand. This jade is made from water bamboo jade from the South China Sea. Only this kind of jade can have such a feel. Jade The plate is carved with fish leaping in lotus pods, and the precision of the carving is enough to show the craftsman's top skills. However, in terms of details, the craftsman is still not very good at it. Look here, here, and here, there are all flaws and omissions... "
Xu Huoyan's words stopped there, he closed his eyes tightly and fell into deep thought.
Gamblers who have come to the God of Wealth Hall to pledge items will be very nervous when they see this scene, because this is Xu Huoyan's mental estimate of the value of the item. This is related to how many chips they can take away from Xu Huoyan later.
Lu Jinxin just nodded blindly and did not listen carefully to Xu Huoyan's comments. He didn't care whether the jade plate was good or bad, he only cared about the final number Xu Huoyan reported.
"Five hundred thousand taels of silver." Xu Huoyan opened his eyes, gently put down the jade plate in his hand, and said slowly.
Lu Jinxin waved his hand tightly into a fist, with a look of disappointment on his face. It was obvious that the number was somewhat different from what he expected.
However, he still forced a smile and said, "Mr. Xu, take another look at this golden Buddha."
Seeing Xu Huoyan gently pick up the golden Buddha, the wrinkles on his face instantly squeezed together.
"This golden Buddha... is quite interesting!" Xu Huoyan said with a little surprise, "I'm afraid it's an old object, it's been a few years."
Lu Jinxin's face instantly looked much better, and he looked at Xu Huoyan nervously.
After looking at it for a long time, Xu Huoyan's eyes almost grew to the size of the golden Buddha. This time it took him twice as long as it took to appraise the jade plate.
"This three-inch golden Buddha... was probably made by the monks of Mount Putuo during the time when the demon tribe and the human race were at war. The craftsmanship is rough, but it shows the majesty of the Buddha statue. Although the golden Buddha is only three inches, it is as big as it is clumsy. The carved lines are as elegant as flowing clouds and are integrated into one body. And this Buddha statue has gone through the precipitation of time, but the Buddha's light has not diminished at all, and there is even a faint fragrance of Buddha lingering..." Xu Huoyan pondered for a moment, put down the golden Buddha, and closed his eyes. It seems that he has begun to estimate the value of this golden Buddha.
Lu Jinxin began to sweat on his forehead and swallowed unconsciously.
Judging from Xu Huoyan's evaluation, this golden Buddha is much more valuable than this jade plate. It's no wonder that the jade plate was placed on the wooden shelf outside by the old man, and the golden Buddha was hidden in a secret compartment of the desk, which took a lot of effort for him to take out.
The purple-robed deacon Wu on the side also had two extra eyes on the golden Buddha. After all, it was very rare for a treasure to be evaluated like this by Xu Huoyan.
"Three million taels of silver!"
The six words that Xu Huoyan suddenly spoke hit Lu Jinxin hard in the heart, making him look blank for a moment and opening his mouth so wide that he could put down an egg.
Lu Jinxin couldn't believe this number for a while. In his mind, the golden Buddha seemed to be worth more than one million, but it could not survive more than two million. But he never expected that Xu Huoyan could be given the price of three million.
"Master Lu, if you are satisfied with the price, we will sign and pledge the chips. If not, we can still discuss it." Xu Huo looked at Lu Jinxin with a smile, and a pile of black coins had already appeared in his hand.
This coin is the so-called God of Wealth coin. It is said to be made from a meteorite salvaged from the South China Sea. No one can imitate it. A black coin can be worth 100,000 silver.
As soon as Lu Jinxin saw the pile of God of Wealth coins, he quickly said, "Satisfied, satisfied, I'm very satisfied! Sign and pledge now!"
Xu Huoyan smiled even brighter, placed the jade plate and the golden Buddha under the counter, and then took out a stack of white paper and pen and ink from under the counter.
After briefly writing the agreement, Xu Huoyan handed the paper and pen to Lu Jinxin, and then put the paper on the counter
"Master Lu, just sign below. Here are 3.5 million chips."
Lu Jinxin didn't even look at it. After taking the pen, he wrote his name in a flash, and held the pile of black God of Wealth coins in the palm of his hand.
"Then I'll thank Elder Xu right here!" Lu Jinxin smiled gratefully at Xu Huoyan.
"No, no, I see Master Lu's face is rosy, and there seems to be sunlight shining on his head. It looks like he will win a lot tonight!"
Both of them laughed.
"By the way, I almost forgot about these two people behind me." Lu Jinxin put the God of Wealth Coin into the hands of his men, moved away, and looked at Jiang Fengqing and An Zicheng, who had been motionless.
"You two may not know the rules of the God of Fortune Hall, but I will briefly explain them to you today. The first floor of the God of Fortune Hall is a gambling game opened by the God of Fortune Hall. You only need to pay five thousand taels of silver as a deposit to enter and play. As for the second floor and above, it is for gamblers with corresponding status and qualifications to organize their own games and play in the private rooms, or the Caishen Hall will be the banker, and the gamblers will bet against the Caishen Hall." Lu Jinxin squinted his eyes. He smiled and said, "Do you two want to go to the third floor with me to play? By the way, I almost forgot, you have to exchange the corresponding chips before you can go upstairs to play. You two can exchange the chips first, I'm not in a hurry anyway, I'm here Waiting for you here."
Bang bang
Xu Huoyan lightly knocked on the table and said, "Even if the two guests want to play on the first floor, please pay the deposit as soon as possible. I will continue to sleep."
The purple-robed Deacon Five on the side also had a hint of displeasure on his face at this time. He still had a mission, so he couldn't delay for too long.
"Five thousand silver? I don't have that much money on me..." Jiang Fengqing said calmly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Jinxin shouted, "No money? What are you doing in the casino if you don't have money? Are you looking for fun with the five purple-robed deacons? Are you trying to cause trouble in the God of Wealth Hall? I can tell you, if you don't give me an explanation today, You will definitely not be able to walk even half a step out of the gate of the God of Wealth Hall!"
Lu Jinxin’s words were sonorous and powerful. Jiang Fengqing was instantly slapped with a big hat, and even the purple-robed Deacon Five on the side nodded slightly and looked at Jiang Fengqing and An Zicheng with unkind eyes.
As for Xu Huoyan, he also had a bad impression of the two people wearing straw hats. He had seen too many people who clearly had no money but wanted to fish in troubled waters and enter the God of Wealth Hall to indulge their gambling addiction. They all made such poor excuses after being caught.
However, such people cannot get out of the door of the God of Wealth Hall. After all, having no money does not mean that they are worthless.
Caishentang's gambling stone mining has always been short of people. After all, when mining stone mines, many people will die if the mine collapses, and there are always people dying of exhaustion in the mine every day.
Therefore, every night at the back door of the God of Wealth Hall, someone from the God of Wealth Hall would sneak out secretly carrying a few big bags.
