Chapter 939: First Day of the Trade Fair
Knowing that Shi Lei was going on a business trip on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Sun Yiyi and her mother also expressed their intention to return to Wudong on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
After breakfast, Shi Lei returned to Wudong with Sun Yiyi and Sun's mother.
After sending them home, Shi Lei went straight to the airport and met Qu Xingye.
They took a plane to Banna in southern Guizhou. It only takes two or three hours to drive from Banna to Xiaomengla in Myanmar.
When the plane arrived in Banna, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. Qu Xingye had already contacted Myanmar and there was an off-road vehicle waiting for them at the airport.
After getting in the car, Qu Xingye introduced to Shi Lei: "At the rough stone trade, the total value of rough stones exceeds 100 million, so guests with more than 5 million in funds will be picked up and dropped off there. In about three hours, we can arrive at the trade The hotel in Xiaomengla where the meeting is located is also arranged by the vendors of the trade fair. There are no hard and fast rules. You can just not buy it. The trade fair will start at ten o'clock tomorrow morning and will not end until dark. "
Shi Lei smiled and said: "Mr. Qu bets on stones worth more than one million. The number of rough stones worth over 100 million doesn't seem to be too much."
Qu Xingye waved his hand and said: "You don't know something, Mr. Shi. The ones I bet on are all semi-finished products. The windows have been opened on the skin and you can see a lot of content inside. Therefore, the prices are relatively high. And not all of them are They are more than a million, and most of them are actually only a few hundred thousand, while the larger ones have no windows at all, ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands, but not from thousands to tens of thousands. As Mr. Shi imagined, they are all stones worth more than one million, so the total number of rough stones is quite considerable, at least in the thousands."
Shi Lei nodded. Although he had gained some knowledge about jade gambling stones before setting off, he still knew nothing about the specific situation.
"I really don't know much about these things, and I need more help from Mr. Qu."
Qu Xingye immediately shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I only know some superficial rules. I used to think that I was discerning enough, but now, I really dare not say how much I can help Mr. Shi. If you want me to help , I suggest you, Mr. Shi, just take a look, or buy a few rocks worth less than 100,000 yuan, and just play with them. Those high-priced rough stones that have been opened, Mr. Shi, it is best not to touch these things. Jiukong, it looks like it's green, and if you drive in, there will be a layer of green skin. There are many stones that were bought for hundreds of thousands or millions, but are only worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands when opened. If the quality is particularly good, how can they leave it to us if they gamble it away because of trouble in the mine? "
Shi Lei smiled, turned his body slightly to Qu Xingye, and said: "Since Mr. Qu knows that it is difficult for the rough stones at these trades to make a big profit, why do you still come to gamble?"
Qu Xingye smiled bitterly and said: "Do I still have a way out now? My entire property is only ten million. If I am used to the life like before, I may not be able to support this ten million even for three years. I can only gamble my luck." , After all, there is still a chance. For my sake, no matter how slim the chance is, I will give it a try. I always hope to win back the factory, which can be regarded as an explanation to my wife and children. "
Shi Lei looked at Qu Xingye's bitter face, and he had already keenly felt that if Qu Xingye still lost all his money this time, he would be the only one left when the return trip failed.
Judging from the information queried online, people from different parts of the world disappear inexplicably every year at Myanmar’s Stone Gambling Fair.
Shi Lei had also thought about whether the people who could control the Stone Betting Fair here had private armed forces and would detain the people and prevent them from taking the jade away if the bets soared. But listening to Qu Xingye's introduction along the way, this kind of thing rarely happened. He had been here at least more than ten times, and he really had never heard of such a thing.
It seems that those who disappeared were all because they lost all their money through gambling and finally returned home without shame, so they ended their lives here.
During the two days of communication between the first day of the new year and today, Shi Lei also discovered that Qu Xingye is not the kind of person who refuses to repent. However, he now bears a great burden in his heart and always wants to return to his previous situation. I want to use my last ten million to fight to the death.
After chatting all the way, the car arrived at the border between China and Myanmar. The driver asked the two for their passports, said a few words to the soldiers at the border, stuffed some cash, and then waved his hand and let the vehicle go.
After driving for another hour, the off-road vehicle stopped under a seven or eight-story building. The driver told the two of them in jerky Chinese that the hotel had arrived.
The hotel was probably only a domestic three-star hotel, and it wasn't too clean. However, in a place like this, Shi Lei had nothing to be particular about.
At first, a standard room was arranged for the two of them, but Qu Xingye knew that Shi Lei would definitely not be used to living in the same room with him, so he discussed it with the other party. Shi Lei vaguely heard Qu Xingye said that the two of them would at least stay in this room. After purchasing more than 10 million stones at a trade fair, the other party finally adjusted it into two rooms for the two of them.
After Qu Xingye got the room card, he returned to Shi Lei and said, "Master Shi, we share a room, and I'll live next door to you. It's getting late, so take a shower and go to bed early. Tomorrow morning at nine "Yes, I'll wake you up and let's have breakfast together. After that, a car will take us to the fair."
Shi Lei didn't say much, nodded and went upstairs into the room.
There was a smell of dampness and mildew in the room, but this was not the time to be particular. Shi Lei rinsed it casually and lay on the bed, but he was so groggy that he couldn't fall asleep completely. It wasn't until dawn that he finally fell asleep. .
After sleeping for a while, he heard the doorbell ring. Shi Lei got up sleepily and opened the door for Qu Xingye. He washed himself and followed Qu Xingye to have breakfast.
The breakfast was a bit unexpected. It was almost exactly the same as in China, with soy milk, fried dough sticks, porridge and sesame cakes, and it really tasted the same as in China.
Qu Xingye told Shi Lei that this was also specially arranged by the organizer. Guests from different countries had different breakfast arrangements.
"The trade fair is only one day?" Shi Lei asked while drinking soy milk.
Qu Xingye shook his head and said, "Three days in total, but often more than that, because as long as the raw stones are not sold out, the trade fair will basically continue. These people live by mining raw stones, and every piece of raw stone is cash in their eyes."
Shi Lei nodded. After eating, the two got on a minibus. After shaking for more than 20 minutes, they finally arrived at the scene.
In the car, Qu Xingye told Shi Lei that the trade fair was protected by private armed forces, and there were many local people with AK47s on their shoulders standing at the door and even inside, but there was no need to be afraid, because such gambling jade trade fairs often cause disputes, and those people were just there to maintain order and prevent disputes, and also to protect those who made money from gambling or wanted to take the jade away directly.
Shi Lei expressed his understanding, but when he got off the car, he was still a little surprised, because there were really a lot of people carrying guns.
Even Qu Xingye was a little surprised. He frowned and asked a local who was obviously acquainted with him for a long time why there were so many people responsible for the safety of the trade fair this time.
The man smiled and explained to Qu Xingye and Shi Lei in awkward Chinese: "All the raw stones in this trade fair come from an old pit, and the total value of the raw stones is over 500 million, so special security needs to be guaranteed."