Getting the stones, Xiao Liao was overjoyed.
Li Du said, "What are you going to do with them? I'm actually quite puzzled. If you sell these stones, you might not be able to sell them for eight hundred thousand, right? "
Xiao Liao said ambitiously, "Of course I'm going to rub them open. These are all from Damakan. If they all have green, we will definitely make a fortune!"
Li Du said, "You want to gamble on stones again? Didn't you take an oath? "
Xiao Liao smiled and did not say anything. He passed the stones to Master Dao and said, "Rub them all open!"
Master Dao started the machine again without saying anything. He started from the second stone that had green and carefully rubbed off the outer layer.
According to their expectations, this stone should contain a full piece of jade, just like the first stone that Li Du had obtained.
But as the layers of stone were rubbed off, and the stone became smaller and smaller, there was no more green.
The people around sighed regretfully. "It's over!"
"Cut it open, buddy. There's no use in rubbing it like this."
"It's just a piece of jade. Maybe it can be used to play cards."
Xiao Liao was stunned and said, "How could this be?"
Master Dao's face was tense. He quickly picked up a new stone and started to polish it carefully. At first, he was still very careful with his polishing, but after grinding, all he got was some stone powder. Not to mention green, he didn't even see yellow!
Seeing this, Master Dao could not help but start rubbing the stone mill. With each rubbing, a large piece of stone fell off.
After a few rubbing, the whole stone was rubbed into pieces. There was no jade, there was nothing inside!
Xiao Liao's expression became extremely gloomy. He looked at the remaining four stones and shouted, "How could this be?!"
Master Dao's face was gloomy and he did not speak. Three of the four stones had not been touched. He put them on the stone mill and cut them. Crack, crack, crack. The stones turned into a few pieces.
The three stones were all empty!
Master Dao raised his head and was stunned. "Where's Brother Su?"
"He's outside, preparing to leave," a spectator said with a smile.
Another spectator was obviously familiar with them. He joked, "You two, I'm afraid you've met a master this time!"
"What do you mean?" someone asked, not understanding.
The spectator laughed softly and said, "What else? Can't you tell? Wasn't what had happened a little too coincidental? Doesn't it feel like I'm acting? Master Dao, Lu Da You, and the others are in cahoots! "
Master Dao glared at the spectator fiercely. His face was livid as he said, "Shut up and get lost!"
Seeing that Master Dao did not get anything from the stones, Li Du took the money and prepared to leave. He had only taken a few steps out of the teahouse when Master Dao and Xiao Liao caught up with him. They blocked him from the front and back.
"What's wrong?" Li Du asked, puzzled.
At this time, Xiao Liao did not have the miserable posture from before. He said fiercely, "Damn it, we made a mistake today. We have been beating the eagle all day long, but today we have been pecked in the eyes by the eagle. We have failed miserably."
Li Du frowned. "What? You want to teach me proverbs? "
Master Dao pointed at him and said, "We have met a master today. Put the money down and leave. We will mind our own business."
Godanwei was dumbfounded. "What the hell is going on?"
Li Du suddenly laughed and said, "What else could it be? Can't you see that someone is angry because he failed in his scam? "
Master Dao, Xiao Liao, Ma La Nian, and Lu Da You were in cahoots. What happened before was just an act. Lu Da You and Ma La Nian played the good cop, while Master Dao and Xiao Liao played the good cop. Everything was to gain Li Du's trust.
After going around in circles, their goal was to sell the stones that Master Dao had snatched to Li Du at a high price. These stones looked good, but there was a high probability that they could not produce jade.
If there was jade in a few random stones, would stone gambling be so difficult? Could it be so legendary?
Of course, they had put in a lot of effort into their scam. Among the seven stones, the one that Lu Da You had sold to Li Du was indeed valuable. Although it was not big, it came from Damakan.
Lu Da You and the others had bought the stone from an old shop in the market. The price was 100,000 RMB, so Lu Da You had sold it to Li Du for 100,000 RMB. That was their bait, but they did not want to let it go for nothing.
However, speaking of which, the price of 100,000 yuan for that stone was based on the relationship. If an ordinary person bought it, the price would increase by 20%. Hence, the scammers used it as bait.
The other six stones did not come from the old market in Damakan. They found them in the garbage dump.
The garbage dump here was not like the garbage dump in the city. Its full name was the Ore Dump. The mine produced a lot of stones every day. The selected raw jade was taken away, and the rest of the stones were stored in the garbage dump.
The garbage dump was not just garbage. There might be some raw jade that had been missed. Hence, there was a profession in Hpakant that was similar to treasure hunters. They searched the garbage dump for jade that might be there.
Every garbage dump had an owner. To enter, you had to buy a ticket. The stones that you picked up belonged to you. However, to take away any stone from the dump, you had to pay a tax.
They found the six stones in the garbage dump in Damakan. Since they had been studied by experts and thrown into the dump, it meant that they were basically worthless.
The value of jade was too high. The experts would not throw away the stones if they were not sure.
The experts could see that the stones were worthless, but how many experts were there in the whole of Hpakant? Hence, they found the stones to swindle. Because the stones looked good, it worked every time.
At the beginning of the scam, everything went as usual. Li Du bought an ore from Lu Da You, and it was a good stone that had changed color. Master Dao and Xiao Liao won Li Du's trust. In the end, they bought six stones and got four hundred thousand.
However, what happened next was beyond their expectations. Li Du took out two stones casually and they both changed color, which meant that they had value.
Most swindlers were greedy. Xiao Liao and Master Dao were jealous.
It was a well-known fact that there was a nest of chickens in Damakan. Hence, they could not help but wonder if the six stones were really a nest of chickens.
After thinking about it, they decided to take the risk. After all, the temptation of a nest of chickens was too great. These people were so greedy. How could they resist the temptation?
After receiving instructions from Master Dao, Xiao Liao went to beg Li Du and bought the stones back at twice the price.
In the end, after the stones were cut, they realized that they had lifted a stone and dropped it on their own feet!
Everything seemed normal. However, as swindlers, Master Dao and Xiao Liao realized the problem with a cursory analysis. There was no doubt that this was a scam, and they, the swindlers, had been cheated!
Even if Li Du was not a swindler, they had to treat him as one. This was because they had suffered a heavy loss this time. They had spent eight hundred thousand on the six stones, and Lu Da You had sold the stones for a hundred thousand. The first stone that they had sold had grown by at least a hundred thousand. In total, they had lost millions!
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