Li Ziwen, after his shop lost over a billion yuan worth of jade rough stones, specifically reviewed the surveillance records.
Seeing Guo Xuyang mow down several people, he knew that Wang Shimin had spoken the truth.
This Guo Xuyang possessed an extraordinary ability, able to discern the jade within the rough stones.
He then informed his brother, Li Ziqi.
However, when his brother sent people to find Guo Xuyang, the latter had already gone abroad and couldn't be located.
During this period, Li Ziwen had also been quite dejected. Wang Shimin had not fully recovered since returning from the Myanmar jade public auction last time.
It was quite a coincidence today. He had not intended to come.
But the shop called, saying that jade rough stones were running low and needed to be replenished.
He had no choice but to come and see what the situation was.
Just as he was preparing to leave, he saw Guo Xuyang arriving with several women.
"Hello, Mr. Li. I've brought some friends to hang out," Guo Xuyang said.
"Please, please, come upstairs." Li Ziwen personally led Guo Xuyang towards the second floor.
The second floor had been mostly picked over, and there shouldn't be many good pieces left.
Li Ziwen was well aware of this situation, so he deliberately led Guo Xuyang and his group to the second floor.
Guo Xuyang glanced at Li Minxi and then looked up.
Li Minxi immediately understood.
"Mr. Guo, shall we go upstairs? I've been to the second floor, but I haven't been upstairs yet," Li Minxi said.
"Then shall we go to the third floor? Mr. Li?" Guo Xuyang inquired.
"Alright, alright." Li Ziwen was resigned and led the group to the third floor.
Although many good pieces had been selected from the third floor last time, there were still quite a few good rough stones on this floor.
"See what you like and pick a few to play with," Guo Xuyang suggested.
"Yangzi, help us pick later," Li Minxi said.
"No problem. I'll chat with Mr. Li here for a while."
What kind of person was Li Minxi? A shrewd and worldly individual.
She knew Li Ziwen's intention, which was to prevent Guo Xuyang from making any selections.
If Guo Xuyang couldn't pick himself, surely he could still look at the stones for them, right?
Li Minxi led Xiao Yun, Xiao Yu, and the others to select stones.
Meanwhile, Guo Xuyang was making awkward small talk with Li Ziwen.
Just then, Pi Xiaoqian arrived.
Seeing Guo Xuyang chatting with Li Ziwen, he was a bit bewildered, "What's going on? Caught in the act?"
"Brother Guo, what a coincidence. You're here to hang out too?"
"Mr. Pi, I've brought some friends to hang out," Guo Xuyang replied.
"Shall we pick some stones together?" Pi Xiaoqian suggested.
"No, thank you. You go ahead. I'll chat with Mr. Li."
Pi Xiaoqian felt a pang of regret and cursed inwardly, "Why is this bastard Li Ziwen here?"
"Then you chat. I'll go take a look," Pi Xiaoqian said as he walked inside.
He had some knowledge, but it was superficial.
In a moment, he saw Li Minxi and the others selecting stones in another room and followed them.
"Xiao Xi, what's the situation?"
"What situation? Bad luck.
As soon as we wanted to go upstairs, we saw Li Ziwen coming.
He's clinging to Yangzi like a stubborn stain."
"Then what do we do?"
"What to do? Nothing we can do. I don't know anything about stones anyway."
"Then we're just guessing blindly?"
"What do you suggest? Do you know stones?"
"I only know which stones come from which pits. I can't tell the rest."
"What's the use of that? I suggest each of us picks four stones at random and leaves it to fate.
Later, we'll have Yangzi help us screen them.
If we can't find any good ones, there's nothing we can do."
"Okay. That sounds like a good plan.
Li Ziwen, that scoundrel, won't let Yangzi pick, but he can't stop him from looking at stones for us, can he?
Let's do it this way. I'll go get the carts."
Pi Xiaoqian said this and went to fetch two small carts.
"I'll pick the biggest ones. Anyway, the bigger the stone, the higher the chance of hitting the jackpot.
Last time, I picked two myself."
"You pick yours, and we'll pick ours. It's best if we don't pick together.
Otherwise, it will be difficult for Yangzi to speak later," Li Minxi said.
"Alright. I'll go to another room.
You pick here.
Why haven't Mr. Wu and Mr. Cheng come up yet?"
Before Pi Xiaoqian finished speaking, Wu Youzhi and Cheng Xiuping also entered.
"Why is Brother Guo chatting with Li Ziwen?" Wu Youzhi asked.
"Xiao Xi said that as soon as they were about to come up, they encountered Li Ziwen."
"Then what should we do?"
"I just discussed it with Xiao Xi. Each person picks four stones, and then Yangzi will look at them. We'll leave it to fate."
"This plan is feasible. Mr. Cheng, shall we go pick some stones?"
"Okay. I'll go get a cart," Cheng Xiuping said.
"It's best if we don't go together.
Let's put on a good show. Even though Li Ziwen knows us.
If we don't say anything, he won't tear down the facade," Pi Xiaoqian said.
"Alright. We'll go to a different room. When we leave later, try not to be in a crowd."
Wu Youzhi said and then left.
The group picked stones quickly, but they were all very coordinated, stretching out the time considerably.
This gave Guo Xuyang ample time to examine the stones for everyone.
Because Li Ziwen was watching, Guo Xuyang pretended to crouch down and looked at the stones for Li Minxi.
It had to be said that Li Minxi had great luck. Out of the four stones she picked randomly, all of them contained jade.
However, only two were of good quality; the other two were barely at the bean-green grade.
"These two are good," Guo Xuyang said, pointing at the two rough stones that were of ice-jade grade.
"Then I won't take so many. I'll come back to buy them later."
Li Minxi said and returned the two bean-green grade stones.
"Uncle, you have to give me a good price."
Li Minxi, holding the two ice-jade grade rough stones, said to Li Ziwen.
"Xiao Xi, call me brother. I'm not that old, am I?"
Li Ziwen said, then raised his hand and beckoned a staff member over.
"How much are these two stones?"
The staff member took out a scanner, scanned the codes, and said, "Mr. Li, seventy-two thousand for both."
"Fifty thousand. Give them to this Miss Li," Li Ziwen said.
"Thank you, uncle," Li Minxi said happily.
She took out her phone, scanned it, and paid directly.
Then she stood aside, waiting for Guo Xuyang to look at the stones for Guo Yiyang.
Guo Xuyang took a look and said, "They're so small. Just take them all."
Guo Yiyang's selections were not large, the biggest being no more than three kilograms.
The four stones weighed at most ten kilograms.
"How much?" Guo Yiyang asked.
The staff member scanned them one by one and said, "Twelve thousand."
Guo Yiyang picked up his phone, transferred the payment, and then followed Li Minxi downstairs.
Xiao Yun and Xiao Yu also bought small stones, and Guo Xuyang had them all taken away.
Finally, Pi Xiaoqian arrived, pushing four rough stones weighing fifty to sixty kilograms.
"Brother Guo, could you help me take a look? See how I picked?"
"You're planning to empty Mr. Li's coffers," Guo Xuyang said with a smile. "That must cost quite a bit of money, right?"
"I don't know how the stones are. If they're suitable, I'll buy them all."
"Since you want to buy them, then buy them. I can't see through them either."
What kind of person was Pi Xiaoqian? If he couldn't understand this, he shouldn't be in business.
"Brother, help me see how much they cost?"
Pi Xiaoqian called a staff member over to scan the codes on the stones.
"A total of two million two hundred and thirty thousand," the staff member said.
"Alright. Swipe card. Please send them downstairs for me."
Pi Xiaoqian handed his bank card to the staff member and said.