Chapter 309 Crispy Rice Cake (5)
"It's a soft armor for self-defense, worn outside the close-fitting underwear," Lin Fei said, swipe his finger to the name of the person who took the soft armor, and said, "This person is also a businessman. Businessman, it’s just that the things you buy and sell are really interesting.”
Due to the special yamen of Dali Temple and the relationship of the case, Dali Temple officials have dealt with high-ranking officials in the court, relatives of the emperor, down to common people, and even refugees and beggars. He has dealt with all three religions and nine streams, and boasts of being extensively involved.
But looking at the business that Lin Fei wrote after the name of this person, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu were also a little dazed when they first saw it.
There is no other reason, the business done by this person written after the name is only two words: stone gambling.
The so-called stone gambling means that merchants put a pile of rough stones together, clearly marked the price, for people to choose and buy. There are pure stones in this rough stone, and there are also valuable jade in some stones.
These stones are often difficult to identify the inside of the stone just by looking at the appearance, even experienced experts will miss it, let alone ordinary people.
Therefore, the word "gambling" in the stone gambling business accounts for a considerable proportion. Although we know that most of the rough stones are ordinary stones, the possibility of buying an ordinary stone at a sky-high price is very high. Many people are addicted to the beauty of dropping pies, even ordinary people, as long as they see stone betting merchants coming out to set up stalls in the market, they can't help but stop and go forward to enjoy themselves.
"This man's name is Liu Sanqing. For several generations, the ancestors of the family have been doing this kind of 'gambling with stones' by watching people, and collecting the hard-working business of transporting stones, until the business of 'gambling stones' was passed on to his father," Lin Fei said. Said, "Father Liu was transporting stones, watching others buy beautiful jade from the rough stones bought at his stone stall, and became rich overnight, and finally couldn't bear his end."
It seems that the owner of the gambling shop who runs the gambling shop should bear the brunt of his own hands. Once he is out of the game in person, the boss will not be far away from the gamblers.
"After Liu's father left the field, he cut the rough stones brought from the mine by himself. Most of the stones are waste materials. Even if there is jade, most of them are materials that can't be sold at any price," Lin Fei said. "It was hard to cut it open, and the exposed material was good for planting water. Some people wanted to buy it back at a high price to bet on the half-opened one. Liu's father refused and chose to open it by himself. As a result, after it was fully opened, there was only a thin layer of jade skin. It's broken, this knife can be said to have lost most of his ancestors and his own wealth."
This is the mentality of a gambler. Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu were not surprised to hear this. After hearing Lin Fei say that he had lost most of his net worth, the two knew that the matter was not over yet. After all, for a red-eyed gambler like Father Liu, after losing most of his net worth, wouldn't there be a small half of his net worth left? As long as there is money in hand and a way to get it, he will not stop.
This batch of stones was cut open again, revealing the jade mouth. The planting water of the jade cut is good, someone bids to buy this half-opened one and go back to gamble. Liu's father was hesitating because of the loss of most of his fortune last time, when his wife Wen Xun came and saw Liu's father betting again, she immediately had an argument with him, threatening to go back to her mother's house with Li and so on.
Father Liu, who was hesitant at first, simply sold the cut material to someone else because of the dispute. As a result, the person opened all the jade on the spot. Except for the surface layer of stone, the inside was full of beautiful jade, and the bet was raised. In this situation, thinking about what was my own one moment ago, it is not my own in the next moment, and thinking about losing most of my fortune in a bet, Father Liu was furious, and vented his anger on Mrs. Liu, who was arguing with him On his body, he moved his hands in anger.
"...Father Liu first beat Madam Liu who made him 'unable to get rich' half to death, and then beat Madam Liu who was half dead, but still wanted to stop him, then went out to drink to relieve his anger. After drinking all night, when I got home, I found Mrs. Liu lying on her back, motionless, the blood on the back of her head had already dried up," Lin Fei couldn't help shaking his head when he said this, "Mrs. Liu is dead."
"I think before entering the gambling game, Liu's father and Mrs. Liu were also a couple who were in love with each other, and the relationship between the two was also good. If it weren't for this, Mrs. Liu wouldn't still stick around after Liu's father lost most of his fortune in gambling, but I didn't expect to be affectionate, but it ended up like this," Lin Fei said, "Mrs. Liu's family naturally didn't agree, especially when she saw Mrs. Liu who was beaten and injured all over her body, she was furious. The two families turned against each other. I have a deep hatred for the people and things related to the other party..."
When Lin Fei said "people and things related to the other party", Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu immediately got excited and thought of a person: "So...then Liu Sanqing must become the existence of two families that are incompatible with each other."
Lin Fei nodded, and said: "Father Liu's accidental murder has been proved to be conclusive, and he paid Madam Liu's life with his own life. Because Liu Sanqing has the blood of an 'enemy', the two families put the blame on each other, and all rely on the villagers to take care of him. Later, I don’t know how he caught up with the people from the Liu family’s ancestors in the mine pit, and started the stone gambling business again. It’s just because of the lessons learned by Liu’s father, I heard that although he was in the stone gambling business, he never Touch the bet, until now, it is considered a small fortune, life is good!"
Since life is good, why does he, a businessman, wear soft armor?
Regarding this, Liu Sanqing, who had just bought a batch of stones from other places and returned to Chang'an in recent days, had his own explanation.
"My lord doesn't know, it's not easy to do business these days," said Liu Sanqing, who was inspecting stone materials with his subordinates, "The business of betting on stones started from the mine. If there are not many materials in a batch of rough stones, who else will come to my stall to gamble? Good wool materials must be snatched, and the colleagues who buy wool, the miners in the mine, and the local people are not Good stubble, quarrels and fights are commonplace. If you don’t believe me, you can go and find out if there are frequent stabbing incidents in the ore pit. I’m used to wearing a soft armor on my body for self-defense!”
Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu looked at the dark and thin middle-aged man in front of them. They would go to other places every few months to buy stones. Although he is a wealthy businessman, this Liu San Qingguang is also full of tendons. Seeing how effortlessly he moves the wool, he must have a lot of strength.
There is a special stone-cutting tool among the rough stones in the yard. Seeing that the tool can easily cut the stone with a single knife, it is expected that if it is not a stone, but a person...it must not be difficult.
Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu looked at Liu Sanqing in front of them, waiting for him to explain how the soft armor worn inside was left on the cruise ship.
(end of this chapter)