Yang Zhigang's car was rented by Li Yang, and Li Yang didn't care at all about Yang Zhigang's broken van.
There is still a sense of intimacy in Li Yang's heart. When he just graduated from college and was studying to take the driver's license test, his elder brother Li Chenggong borrowed such a van for Li Yang to practice. It can be said that Li Yang started learning to drive with a van.
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Yang Zhigang's personality was similar to his appearance. He was a very down-to-earth person. After renting a car in Liyang, he immediately drove to Ruili without asking any questions.
The van is noisier. Li Yang has lived a civilian life since he was a child and doesn't care much about it. Needless to say, Liu Gang has flown in helicopters that were noisier than when he was in the army. Compared with that, the noise of this car is just
drizzle.
"Buzz!"
Li Yang casually took out the phone. After changing the phone to vibrate, Li Yang never adjusted it again. Vibration is sometimes more convenient than ringtone.
Looking at the number, Li Yang was stunned for a moment. The call was actually from He Jie's cousin Wu Du. Li Yang and Wu Du exchanged phone numbers when they had dinner last time.
"Li Yang, when will you call back?" As soon as the call was connected, Wu Du's urgent voice came from the other side.
"I just arrived in Yunnan today and I haven't been back to you recently. Is there something wrong?"
There was a pause on the phone for a few seconds, and then Wu Du's voice became more urgent: "Yunnan, you went to Ruili? Why didn't you call me?"
Li Yang slapped his head fiercely. This young master had said that he would come with him to experience Ruili's betting market. After returning to Mingyang, Li Yang had long ago left this matter to the Eight-claw Kingdom. In Li Yang's consciousness, he only
I took what Wu Du said at that time as a casual joke. After all, students who have just graduated are very energetic and often talk about going here and there.
"I'm sorry, I came directly from Chongqing because I had something to do. I didn't reply to the phone number, so I didn't teach you!" Li Yang was a little embarrassed. In any case, he was the one who let others go.
"Okay, stop talking, I will go there tomorrow, just wait for me in Ruili then!" Wu Du hung up the phone after finishing speaking.
Li Yang shook his head helplessly and put away his cell phone. Yang Zhigang kept driving steadily. The van looked a little shabby, but the inside was quite clean, which made Li Yang very satisfied.
The car didn't drive very fast, and they arrived in Ruili in more than two hours. After arriving, Liu Gang immediately went to the hotel. They had not booked a car before arriving, but they had booked the hotel early.
Fortunately, the hotel has a good reputation and I gave them the room. Unfortunately, the hotel is already full and it is impossible to open an extra room.
"It's okay, boss, I can just sleep in the car!"
After hearing that there was no room, Yang Zhigang didn't seem to care much. He smiled widely and pointed to the car outside.
"No, it's hot during the day and cold at night. It's very inconvenient to sleep in the car. Come on, let's go outside and see if there are any other hotels!"
Li Yang immediately shook his head, but in his heart he was more satisfied with this honest driver. Although the rent of one thousand a day is high, it might be good to have a reliable driver to follow him. For Li Yang now, more money or less does not matter.
What's important is safety and comfort.
"Oh well!"
Yang Zhigang did not object, Li Yang did not let him drive, and the few people walked out of the hotel. Yang Zhigang followed Li Yang and Liu Gang all the time, really like a follower or bodyguard.
After asking two hotels and one hotel in succession, there were no available rooms. This made Li Yang quite helpless. He then thought of Wu Du who wanted to come over tomorrow. He wondered what would happen if this kid knew that there were no hotel rooms here.
If you react, I'm afraid you'll get angry and leave immediately.
After walking for a few streets, I still couldn't find a vacant room. There were only a few days left before the Ruili betting market. At this time, there were already many foreigners coming to Ruili. Even those who didn't come, they booked the room early.
Are there any spare rooms at this time?
"Boss, there's no need to look for it, I can just sleep in the car!"
Yang Zhigang said again, in fact, he himself also understood how difficult it was to find a room to stay in Ruili at this time. It was a pity that he was in a hurry and forgot to bring a quilt, otherwise there would be no problem sleeping in the car.
"Let's look ahead. If it doesn't work, we'll go back!"
Li Yang sighed, but he didn't walk these streets in vain. At least he got a preliminary impression of Ruili.
As early as when he was in Pingzhou, Li Yang heard others say that Ruili was full of gambling stones, making it a city of gambling stones. After arriving, Li Yang realized that the hearsay was indeed very untrustworthy.
It is true that there are gambling stone and jade shops in the streets I walked on, but there are only a few of them, and the gambling stones in those few shops are mostly made of fake wool made in Xinchang. They look like they are from Laochangkou, but in fact they are all fake.
Fake.
But if you think about Li Yang, you can understand that Ruili is a large port city. Stone jade is only an import business. There are also import and export businesses of wood, clothing, home appliances, daily necessities and many other things. How could the entire city
It's gambling on stones.
Ruili is not that big, so we reached the suburbs not far ahead.
There were suddenly a lot more stone gambling shops here. Li Yang saw two or three on the street he just turned around. After walking a few steps further, there were suddenly more stone gambling shops.
This made Li Yang very surprised. He looked back, shook his head and smiled.
Unconsciously, they arrived at the stone gambling street in Ruili. Of course, there are many stone gambling shops here. It is a professional stone gambling street. It would be strange if there were no stone gambling shops.
These shops are different from those in Nanyang and Pingzhou. Most of the shops in Nanyang or Pingzhou are mainly about jade, supplemented by gambling stones. Here they are all about gambling stones.
The street is an old street, and the store is also an old store. After entering the store, all kinds of stone materials are displayed, and there are also a few jadeite raw materials. As for the jadeite finished products, there are not many.
Later, Li Yang learned that most of the finished jadeite products are in the tourist area, where there are more jade shops. This place can be said to be a professional stone gambling center, and it also undertakes the wholesale business of stone gambling.
There are also hotels on Beishi Street. After checking into two hotels, they found that there were no available rooms, which made Li Yang even more helpless.
Just after coming out of a hotel, Li Yang noticed that people from several stone gambling shops nearby had come out and hurriedly walked in one direction. After a while, more people walked out of the shops.
When they came out, they all hurried towards the same place, and a few people even ran there.
"Someone's betting on stones has gone up again!" Yang Zhigang suddenly grinned, with some envy on his face.
Li Yang's heart moved and he blurted out: "How do you know?"
"I've been here many times. I used to help people gamble on stones. If it wasn't for betting on stones, there would be no way there would be so many people chasing after them. It must be because the bets have gone up!"
As Yang Zhigang spoke, he stretched out his hand to stop a person who had just passed by them and asked a few questions in the local dialect.
Li Yang couldn't understand a word of these dialects, so he could only wait patiently.
After saying a few words, the man left in a hurry. Yang Zhigang then turned back to Li Yang and said: "Not far ahead, in the old Zhao family's stone processing factory, someone solved a piece of glass seed. These people all
I heard about it from a friend on the phone, and now I’m anxious to go see it!”
"Glass species?"
Li Yang was stunned for a moment, his mouth opened wide, and he suddenly looked back at the direction in which these people were walking.
Glass-grown jade is the highest level of jadeite. Such jadeite is usually rare to find. This year's Nanyang City Market gathered so many stone gamblers and wool dealers, and only Li Yang solved it.
Just one piece.
In the Pingzhou Grand Opening, the most famous stone gambling event in China, only five pieces of glass were produced. This is already the best result in all previous Grand Openings.
But no one expected that just an hour after they arrived in Ruili, they heard the news about the discovery of the glass species. At this moment, even Li Yang was moved.
Yang Zhigang was straightforward, but he was not stupid, and he had served many people who came to gamble on stones. One look at Li Yang's face and he knew what he was thinking. He asked with a smile: "Boss, I know the place.
Do you want to go take a look?"
"Okay, let's go and have a look!"
Li Yang immediately nodded, glass species, this is glass species. When he encounters such jade, even Li Yang who didn't solve it himself wants to take a good look at it. As long as he likes gambling on stones and loves jade, I'm afraid he won't be able to refuse it.
The temptation of glass.
At this time, Li Yang finally understood why so many people came out. When they heard the news about the birth of a glass species, not many people could hold back unless they really couldn't leave.
It was convenient to have a guide following him. When Li Yang agreed, Yang Zhigang immediately led Li Yang and Liu Gang towards the direction where the others were going. After a while, they saw a very old-fashioned large iron gate.
The iron gate was wide open, and there were many people inside, and people were constantly coming this way from the outside.
On the big iron gate, there are five very old red letters - Zhao's Jieshi Stone Factory.
"The Zhao family is well-known in Ruili. It is a big family. There are a total of six calcite factories on Beishi Street, two of which belong to the Zhao family!"
Yang Zhigang introduced him softly. He was the driver and also the guide. He had the obligation to explain everything to Li Yang. This was also his job. He had done it many times before, so he was familiar with it.
"Six calcite factories?"
Li Yang was startled for a moment, then nodded. This street didn't look big, but there were actually six calcite factories. Looking at the size of the calcite factory in front of him, we knew that the remaining ones were not small either. It was very difficult.
Imagine that such a dilapidated old street can support so many calcite factories.
However, Li Yang was not in the mood to think about this at this time. They had already entered the stone factory and knew where to find the glass species without searching. Under a large pergola on the right, at least one to two hundred people had gathered, and there were many more.
People are outside trying to squeeze in.
After finding the place, Li Yang's pace immediately accelerated a lot. There were already a lot of people there. If he went there late, he might not be able to see the calcite inside.
