On the morning of Friday, December 11, Lu Cheng asked for leave and did not go to work, so he took a flight to Guangzhou alone.
This time, her mother Rao Yuqiu didn't go with her. Jiang Qiuyun didn't go either, saying she had to go to class and thought it was too far.
Lu Cheng got off the plane and found the hotel he had reserved. It was only 2 p.m.
Manager Li Hong had already arrived first and helped him go through the competition procedures and get his number plate, competition clothes and timing chip.
Li Hong looks very young, about 26 or 27 years old, with a round face and short hair, a height of 1.6 meters, a medium build, wearing a casual shirt, jeans, and light makeup on her face.
Lu Cheng saw another number plate in her hand, so he asked: "Is there another athlete who signed the contract?"
Li Hong nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, I will also participate in tomorrow's competition, named 'Hu Qikun'!"
Lu Cheng glared: "Ah? It's that bastard!"
Li Hong was stunned: "What? Do you know him?"
"This person is not authentic."
"Teacher Huang has signed him for more than two years! Why is this untrue? Tell me, when did he provoke you?"
"When I participated in the Hangzhou Marathon, someone tried to trip me up; when I participated in the Xiamen Marathon, I was hit by someone, but I was fine and the other person fell down. I now suspect that that person was hired by Hu Qikun!" "Do you have any evidence?"
"The Xiamen police may have evidence. It seems that the man took over the matter and did not tell Hu Qikun, otherwise he should be suspended."
"Forget it if there's no evidence. You weren't hurt anyway."
"Haha, I'm in a good mood and too lazy to talk to him."
Lu Cheng glanced out the window and said, "It's still early, I want to go out for a walk. Sister Li, do you want to come with me?"
Li Hong smiled and said: "Okay, where are you going? Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I am here to serve you. Hu Qikun has benefited from you. If he was the only one participating in the competition, I would not come to Guangzhou."
She helped Lu Cheng negotiate the first endorsement of 3 million yuan. "Oriental Sports Agency Co., Ltd." took 7%, which is 210,000 yuan.
In addition to the guaranteed salary, she and Huang Guangjing can also receive a certain amount of commission.
Every time she makes a business, she can take 15% of the company's income. 15% of 21,000 yuan, which is just over 30,000 yuan. This is pre-tax income.
For Li Hong, this is the first income she has received from Lu Cheng. If she can negotiate the Anta business, her results will be more objective.
The premise of all this is to have excellent athletes, and she is lucky to be able to sign Lu Cheng.
She also urges Lu Cheng to keep running good results, and even if he cannot win the Guangzhou Marathon championship, he must strive for the top three.
Because of this, she came to Guangzhou in person and followed Lu Cheng as much as possible to prevent him from being young and indifferent, going out to have a good time and drinking alone, or failing to participate in the competition in time due to various changes. It was only 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Resting in a hotel would be too boring! Since Lu Cheng wanted to go out, she dutifully followed him.
The two took a taxi from the door of the hotel.
Lu Cheng told the driver: "Go to Hualin Jade Street."
Hualin Jade Street stretches for more than 500 meters from Xilaizheng Street on Xiajiu Road in the south to Xinsheng Street on Changshou West Road in the north. It is the largest jade trading place and jade distribution center in Guangzhou.
After getting off the car, Li Hong asked with a smile: "Do you want to buy a bracelet or a ring? For whom? Is it your girlfriend or your mother?"
Lu Cheng smiled and said: "Just take a look, but I won't necessarily buy it."
He wanted to use jade slips as the carrier of runes, but he didn't know how much jade he would need, let alone which kind of jade was suitable. Since he was here, he wanted to see more.
Although Guangzhou is not the largest jade distribution center in China, it is still much better than cities such as Xiamen, Quancheng, and Hangzhou.
Hualin Jade Street has hundreds of jade shops on both sides of the street, with thousands of jade and jewelry stalls. Among them, the Hualin Jade Building is the largest, with nearly 400 stalls. There are also more than 200 temporary stalls in the street.
They are mainly concentrated in Hualin New Street and the green corridor in the center of Hualin Temple Street. These outdoor jade stalls are located on the same street as the jade shops on both sides, setting off each other and forming Guangzhou's unique market style.
Lu Cheng walked all the way and looked around, mainly looking at whether there were rough stones in the store, not the finished products.
He didn't even bother to look at the explicit information because the price/performance ratio was too low.
He walked into a stone gambling shop and found that there were many gambling stones in the store, as well as a pile of fist-sized snacks.
Without saying anything, he touched the larger rough stones one by one.
As he studied "The Great Witch Chant", his perception of jade has improved a lot. As long as he stretches out a finger and touches the original stone, he will feel a strange feeling. If there is good jade, the feeling will be stronger; if it is poor jade, the feeling will be stronger.
, the feeling is very weak.
The materials in this shop are very poor. After touching hundreds of rough stones, only two of them had some slight feeling. They were incomparable to the one in Hangzhou. It seemed that the owner of the stone gambling shop in Hangzhou was not just talking, and maybe he was actually married.
He married a Burmese woman, saved the country through curves, and got jade of good quality.
Lu Cheng picked up a rough stone weighing five or six kilograms and asked the store: "How can I sell it?"
The shop owner replied: "One kilogram is 13,000."
Lu Cheng dropped the stone, turned around and walked out.
Not far away, he entered another stone betting shop. This one had even fewer rough stones, only about fifty pieces in total, but they were all very big, with the smallest one weighing over thirty kilograms and the largest one weighing two tons.
Half!
Li Hong followed him, saw him reaching out and touching again, and advised: "Do you like to play this? I heard that gambling on stones is very risky. One knife will make you poor, one knife will make you rich, and one knife will sell you tofu!"
She thinks Lu Cheng is interesting and different from ordinary young people.
If you are an ordinary college student, you go to shops, movie theaters, and walk on the street with your girlfriends. Some people go to bars, disco, and ballroom dancing.
There are some college students who like to gamble on stones, but few pay attention to large rough stones.
She knew that Lu Cheng had just received a signing bonus and had received huge bonuses from the first two marathons, so she was afraid that he would use all his funds to gamble on stones. There was nothing wrong with gambling on stones, but what she was afraid of was a psychological imbalance if he lost the bet.
So she couldn't help but advise: "Just buy a small stone and play with it."
Lu Cheng spent a few minutes touching more than fifty stones, picked out a 70-kilogram rough stone, and asked the shop owner: "How to sell it?"
The boss was a middle-aged woman with a plump figure and a dark complexion. She glanced at it and replied: "1.6 million."
Lu Cheng said: "It's so expensive? It's much more expensive than the one next door!"
The woman sneered and said: "There are all brick materials over there, pulled here by the whole truck. I carefully selected the good materials from the Longken mining area, but the purchase price is too different!"
Lu Cheng said: "This stone has nothing to show for it. The shell is black and it doesn't look attractive. There is also a big crack here..."
"Why is it not showing? You can't tell it with the naked eye. You have to use a strong light to look carefully." Seeing that Lu Cheng didn't even have a flashlight, she thought he was just a stick. He was too young to spend a lot of money to buy rough stones.
Lu Cheng said: "I can only offer 1 million."
"No, we won't sell it for less than 1.5 million! These days, good jadeite is becoming more and more scarce, and so are good rough stones!"
"Cheaper, 1.5 million is too expensive."
Li Hong saw that he was determined to buy, but didn't want to persuade him, so he helped negotiate the price.
The female boss is unwilling to lower the price too much.
In the end, Lu Cheng spent 1.45 million to buy the rough stone.