treasure hunter

Zhang Hao and Pei Miao were standing there glaring at each other, when Ma Cong suddenly walked up to Zhang Hao and said, "Master Zhang, please speak in a quieter voice, as it will disturb other guests."

Zhang Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, turned his head to look at Ma Cong, frowned displeasedly and asked, "Why did you only talk about me, Pei Miao and I quarreled, why didn't you talk about him?"

Ma Cong said: "Pei Miao is in his place, and you, coming here to argue with Pei Miao, it is obvious that you are the first to pick things up, so please keep quiet, my grandfather is not very happy anymore."

"It's unreasonable!" Zhang Hao's lungs really exploded when he heard this.

In the past, wherever he went, he was treated like a VIP. No matter who saw him, he kept his attitude very low and tried to please him in every possible way. He didn't expect the Ma family to treat him like this.

Zhang Hao stared at Ma Cong, tried not to speak too loudly, and said, "Are you hitting our Zhang family in the face?"

"It's absolutely nothing." Ma Cong smiled slightly, and said, "It's really not good to make a fuss on such an occasion, Young Master Zhang, when you are away from home, everything you say and do represents your Zhang family, for the sake of the Zhang family's face , try to restrain your emotions."

Zhang Hao clenched his fists and parted them again. He held back his breath. He was not stupid. He knew that Ma Cong was right. He was here to celebrate Jade King's birthday on behalf of the Zhang family. If there was any trouble at Jade King's birthday banquet, After returning, he will be trained by his grandfather first.

Zhang Hao gave Pei Miao a hard look, turned around and went back to his seat, Ma Cong smiled at Pei Miao and the others, and said, "You guys continue to eat." After finishing speaking, he went back to the main table.

After lunch, Ma Chongwen arranged for someone to take the guests to play in the back garden. The back garden is very large, with a lake inside and a long water pavilion running through the lake. In the middle of the water pavilion, there is a large pavilion called "Wenxin Pavilion ".

In this season, the lotus in the lake is in full bloom. Ma Chongwen and some elderly guests are enjoying the lotus while tasting tea in the Wenxin Pavilion.

The other young guests either lingered in the garden, or went directly to other places, or went fishing by the lake.

Pei Miao heard that a birthday gift would be presented later, so she hurried to the gate of the manor, went to her car, and took a box containing the birthday gift.

At 02:30 in the afternoon, Geng Congyun first took out a small box, handed it to Ma Chongwen, and said, "Old Ma, this is a birthday gift I prepared for you. Do you like it?"

Ma Chongwen shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm already very happy that you guys can come, so what gift should I give you?"

Geng Congyun said: "Open it and have a look, this is my heart, you must accept it."

Ma Chongwen laughed, opened the box on the table, and saw that the bottom was covered with red cotton, and a pure white jade chapter was lying on the red cotton cloth.

"Hey!" Ma Chongwen's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he exclaimed, "Suet fat jade medal?"

Geng Congyun smiled and nodded: "This is the jade chapter blank I carved in the early years. You can use it after you find someone to engrave your name on it."

"This is a good thing." Ma Chongwen took the jade chapter out of the box and played with it in his hand. He saw that the jade chapter was in the shape of a cylinder, about 2 cm in diameter and 5.5 cm in length. , Geng Congyun's carver, of course there is nothing to say, the two dragons are carved lifelike, not to mention how rare this flawless suet jade is, the carver of Geng Congyun alone has reached the million level.

The people around were also amazed, and praised that the jade medal that Geng Congyun gave was really a good thing.

Ma Chongwen was also very happy, slowly put the jade chapter back into the box, handed it to the daughter-in-law (Ma Cong's mother) beside him, and then said with a smile: "The jade chapter you gave me is really good, old Geng!" Things, but I don’t know calligraphy and painting, so if you give it to me, you’ll be blind for nothing.”

Geng Congyun laughed and said: "I really can't think of any better gift, you just accept it."

With Geng Congyun throwing bricks to attract jade, other people also offered birthday gifts one after another. Ma Chongwen was naturally not short of money, but birthday gifts represented everyone's wishes, so he accepted them all with a smile.

As soon as they heard that everyone started presenting birthday presents, other people came to Wenxin Pavilion to present presents one after another, and Pei Miao was naturally among them.

There is also a queue for presenting gifts, the elderly are given priority, and young people like Pei Miao are of course the last ones.

Pei Miao was the second to last, and the last one was Chen Song, who made him the youngest.

Pei Miao handed over a long box and said, "Old Ma, I wish you good luck and longevity."

"Well, good." Ma Chongwen nodded with a smile and asked, "What is this?"

Pei Miao said, "You'll know when you open it."

"Okay, let me take a look." Ma Chongwen said as he opened the box.

I saw a writing brush lying in the box, the pen holder was bright green, it turned out to be a pen holder made of emerald.

This pen holder has a lot of background, it was received by Pei Miao from Tian Gui's house, and it was originally He Shen's property.

"Hey, a pen made of jade." Ma Chongwen exclaimed, carefully took the brush out of the box and looked at it.

Seeing this, Chen Song couldn't help sneering: "Although the color is good, but it's only high-glutinous, you can afford such a gift?"

Chen Wei frowned and said in a low voice: "Chen Song, don't say a few words."

Chen Song rolled his eyes in displeasure: "That's right."

Ma Chongwen looked at the penholder carefully, and said slowly, "This doesn't seem to be a simple jadeite penholder, Pei Miao, is this something from ancient times?"

Pei Miao nodded, "Yes, this is He Shen's, and it has his name on it."

"Oh... let me just say..." Ma Chongwen said with a smile, "I'm not very proficient in antiques, but I can still tell that this pen holder is a bit old, and this pen holder, whether it is color or water, can It is in line with the pursuit of jadeite during the Qianlong period, and at that time, jadeite of this quality was equivalent to the current emperor green glass, which was extremely precious."

Everyone was amazed when they heard the words. Originally, this pen holder was a thing of Heshen, which was already very remarkable, but Ma Chongwen also said that this pen holder was cherished at that time, which was comparable to the glass kind of emperor green, so it was even more remarkable. .

Just listen to Ma Chongwen continue to say: "Qianlong loved jadeite, and he was the first to bring about the first wave of jadeite craze in our country, but their pursuit of jadeite at that time was different from now. The first requirement is color." , emerald is the best, and then planting. The texture of emerald should be delicate. As for the water head, it should be of moderate length. The high-waxy emerald is more than 20 centimeters long and has no cracks in the whole body. It is estimated that such raw materials were difficult to find in the imperial palace at that time, but He Shen was able to get it. It is really a very rare treasure. "

After hearing Ma Chongwen's explanation, everyone was stunned, and then praised Pei Miao for sending such a precious gift.

Ma Chongwen put the pen back into the box, pushed the box in front of Pei Miao, and said, "This gift is too expensive, I can't accept it."

Pei Miao smiled and said, "Mr. Ma, I've already given away everything. Why can I accept other people's gifts but not mine?"

Ma Chongwen shook his head and said: "It's not the same, your pen is too precious, you can take it back, I accept your wish."

Pei Miao still insisted, and several other old people also tried to persuade him.

谷帏

Pei Miao knew that since Ma Chongwen had made his decision, it would be difficult to change it. In the end, he had no choice but to pick up the box and said apologetically, "I didn't think twice. I should give a more suitable gift."

Ma Chongwen laughed and said, "It's the best gift for you to come."

Next, it was Chen Song's turn.

Chen Song asked Ma's "waiters" to help him carry up a big stone, to be precise, it was a rough stone with a window opened.

This is an old Pagan black sand stone, very big, weighing about 25 kilograms, the window is a spider window, about half the size of a palm, from the window you can see the green jade below, full of glue, at least It is also at the level of ice sun green, very beautiful.

Chen Song proudly said: "Mr. Ma, this is a piece of rough jadeite that our company's stone gambling experts found from Myanmar. I really couldn't think of any good gift to celebrate your birthday, so I brought this stone here. , I wonder if Mr. Ma can analyze this stone in person, so that we can see the demeanor of the Emerald King."

"Hey, you are here to take the old age test." Ma Chongwen laughed, got up and walked to the stone, looked at it twice, and asked, "Is this stone not cheap?"

Chen Song said: "It's okay, 880 million."

"880 million..." Ma Chongwen nodded thoughtfully, "That's the price ten years ago."

Chen Song couldn't help giving a thumbs up: "Mr. Ma is really a god, this stone was indeed bought ten years ago."

Seeing that Chen Song actually gave such a special congratulatory gift, the others immediately became interested and persuaded: "Old Ma, why don't you show off your skills, let's open our eyes."

"Yes, old horse, I haven't seen you Jieshi for many years, let me feast my eyes today."

The old buddies all tried to persuade Ma Chongwen to interpret the stone on the spot. Ma Chongwen was a bit eager to think about it, but when he turned his head to look at Pei Miao, he suddenly had an idea and laughed, "It's kind of boring for me to interpret the stone alone. I thought of a more interesting way to play."

"What game?" Everyone asked curiously.

Ma Chongwen said: "Many of the people here today are friends from the jade world, and they know a little bit about jadeite. Let's everyone guess the internal situation of this stone, and then write it down on paper. , After the stone is cut, see whose answer is closest to the real situation, then whoever wins, I am willing to give away a treasure to the person who wins, as a reward, how about it?"

"This is interesting!"

"Can everyone participate?"

Everyone asked in a hurry.

Ma Chongwen smiled and nodded: "Everyone can participate, as long as they can guess the closest to the real situation, no matter who it is, I will give a reward."

After he finished speaking, he sent someone to fetch the pen and paper.

Taking advantage of this gap, everyone began to study this stone one after another. No matter whether they know how to gamble with stones or not, there is no harm in taking part in it. Maybe if you are lucky, you will get caught.

Soon, the pens and papers were brought, and the Jade King distributed the pens and papers to everyone, saying: "Everyone just needs to write down on the stone what is the value of the emerald after the stone is cut, and everything is based on the current market price." For calculations, write specific numbers, not interval values.”

Everyone nodded and continued to look at the stone.

Pei Miao was very curious about this stone, so she looked around it too.

Seeing Ma Cong standing beside him, Ma Chongwen didn't respond, so he asked, "Cong'er, why don't you participate?"

Ma Cong smiled and said, "I won't participate."

Ma Chongwen raised his face and said, "Why, do you think you are invincible?"

Hearing this, Ma Cong quickly lowered his head and said, "Don't dare."

Ma Chongwen beckoned to him, Ma Cong came up to Ma Chongwen, Ma Chongwen whispered in his ear: "You really may not get my reward, go and play with everyone."

"Yes." Ma Cong said and moved to the stone.

The appearance of Ma Chongwen whispering in Ma Cong's ear was seen by many people, and everyone was guessing, did Ma Chongwen tell Ma Cong the answer?If that is the case, it is almost impossible for them to win.

Even so, everyone is still studying this stone, expressing their opinions, as if everyone is a master, and the one who pretends to be the most serious is Chen Song. After all, this stone was brought by Chen Song, and he has been studying it for the longest time. , he threatened that this stone must be a stone that has grown so much, and then based on various shell performances, he began to deduce the condition of the emerald inside the stone. of.

In fact, many guests have the same idea as Chen Song. It is very rare for Lao Pagan to perform so well with the window open. It just soared.

So, many guests started to pick up pen and paper and write down their speculations on paper.

Pei Miao has been studying this stone carefully. He wanted to test his own ability, so he didn't use the whole mind domain. After careful observation, he found that only the window part of this stone can press the light, and other places can't press the light. No performance.

The shape of the stone is fairly regular, generally shaped like a big mango, and the window opening is close to the tip of the mango.

After careful observation by pressing the lamp, Pei Miao found that there was a boa constrictor at the tip, that is, where the window was opened, that is to say, the window of this stone was opened on the boa constrictor.

Because this stone has been placed for too long, there is already an oxidized layer on the surface, which makes the color of the leather shell darker. There are actually green pine flowers on its waist, but the green pine flowers are scattered, similar to a small gray pine flower. Ringworm coexists.

Pei Miao studied the stone for a long time, and got up almost at the same time as Ma Cong. The two looked at each other, and Ma Cong asked with a smile, "Have you finished reading?"

Pei Miao nodded, "Yes, what about you?"

Ma Cong said: "It's over too."

Pei Miao said: "Then write the result." After finishing speaking, Pei Miao picked up a pen and paper, wrote a number on the paper, and signed his name.

Ma Cong also returned to the table, took a pen and paper from the table, and wrote down his answer and name.

After everyone wrote the notes, they were folded and handed to the table.

Pei Miao and Ma Cong were the last ones to finish writing. Seeing that they had finished writing, Ma Chongwen got up and said, "Okay, I'll write down my speculation too."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the pen and paper, and wrote down a number on the paper - 50.