Although what Qiao Meng said was very domineering, the host was quite embarrassed at this time. I originally wanted to ask him to explain the two dragons, but who knew that he started to act pretentious, so he had no choice but to ignore the topic.
"Okay, it seems that our Master Qiao is very confident in himself. This is probably one of the reasons why he can win many battles." The host followed up and praised him.
The cheers at the scene were even more intense, and those eliminated contestants basically became fans of Qiao Meng. This can be said to be a rare scene in the treasure appraisal world.
Originally, this industry was a field where you competed with each other and no one was convinced. But now there is a master like Qiao Meng who can convince everyone. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, many people might not believe it.
At the end of this round of competition, Qiao Meng still watched with some reluctance as the Double Dragon Zun was taken back by the booth. This was a treasure he must get.
"Everyone, our semi-finals will not start until two o'clock in the afternoon. You can leave first or move outside to rest." the host announced.
There are now twelve people left. In the semi-finals, six more people will be eliminated, that is, two teams. In the final, a three-person team will be selected to become the district champion representative to participate in the national finals.
Because the time gap was too long, Qiao Meng felt very bored and drove away with Lan Hai, wanting to go shopping around.
"Brother, where are we going?" Lan Hai asked curiously.
"Let's make some tips. Is there a stone gambling market here?"
Qiao Meng didn't know where he was going at first, but when he suddenly saw the balance information popping up on his phone, he thought of where to go. There was no problem in opening one in the free time.
"What? You have so little time to earn tips. Gods can't be so casual, right?" Lan Hai expressed his surprise.
"What do you know? This world is long enough. It only takes three or four hours. Drive quickly." Qiao Meng urged.
So the two of them showed up in a hurry at the largest gambling city in the provincial capital. However, not many people came here because it was too early, and it was not the time for any activities.
There are quite a few shops in this shop. It is divided into three floors and is much more impressive than the small shops in S City. If you hadn't walked in and saw that the store was selling raw jade, you would have thought it was some high-end restaurant.
"Even your stone gambling establishments are so luxurious, but mine are still small shops." Qiao Meng said with emotion as he looked at the scene in front of him.
"No, the main reason is that the provincial capital needs a city appearance. Wouldn't it look more orderly like this?" Lan Hai explained.
The two of them chatted like this and came to the third floor. They saw a dozen people surrounding one of the stores. They felt that it was quite lively. It was in sharp contrast to the desolation of one or two people in other stores, so they went over to see what was going on.
It turned out that someone was cutting the ingredients, and it looked like it was about to turn green. There were already little green lights on the face, maybe just for fun.
Qiao Meng hadn't touched wool for a while and felt his hands were itchy, so he asked, "Is the boss here?"
The middle-aged man who was at the operating table quickly replied, "I'm the boss. You can choose whatever ingredients you want."
Qiao Meng and Lan Hai nodded and went directly to the store to choose. Not to mention that this store has a very complete range of materials, mined from various channels.
"This material looks pretty good, but the stuff inside is so boring." As soon as Qiao Meng appraised it, he discovered that there were basically few prices here that could be sold at high prices. At most, they were only small prices, and there was not much money to be made at all.
, so he complained.
"No, brother, can you tell what's inside right now?" Lan Hai was confused.
"You have to believe me, I guess you won't be able to make much money if you don't break the bank later on." Qiao Meng pointed in the direction of the boss in a low voice.
At this time, a voice suddenly came, "Boss, have I finished my piece of material? I'm in a hurry."
"It'll be ready soon. This piece of material will definitely increase in price and you must be careful, otherwise the losses will be huge." The boss immediately stopped what he was doing and responded.
Qiao Meng heard something wrong. Why did the voice sound so familiar? He turned around and turned out to be an old acquaintance.
"Wan Hang, you're welcome." Qiao Meng greeted with a smile.
"Qiao Meng, why is it you?" Wan Hang's face was obviously unhappy.
"Have your family's affairs been settled? Now you can become a rich young master again? And you even came to the provincial capital." Qiao Meng said with something in mind.
"Qiao Meng, what do you mean? It's not your turn to talk about my family's affairs. You will have to pay back the previous debt sooner or later." Wan Hang walked up to Qiao Meng's ear and said angrily.
After saying that, Wan Hang directly dumped a card to the boss and walked away without looking back. This unexpected little collision ended. He was confused when he looked at Lan Hai. But he didn't dare to ask anything now, because he saw
Qiao Meng seemed to be in a bad mood. It would be unwise to get into trouble at this time.
After losing interest, he didn't stop any longer. Qiao Meng went straight downstairs without saying anything. Lan Hai Zhihao, who originally wanted to see how he could make money in such a short period of time, followed behind.
At the same time, Wanhang, who was even more unhappy, made a call and soon a little boy was brought to him.
"Is your name Li Xiu?" Wan Hang asked coldly.
"Yes! I am Li Xiu." The boy replied tremblingly.
"I know your father owes a lot of money, and he owed it to my casino. It's very painful to live in such a family. But now as long as you do something for me, the debt can be written off in one go, and you can also give me some money.
Your new life will be far away from that gambling father." Wan Hang said with a smile.
Originally, the boy was very disappointed and unwilling when his family situation was mentioned, but when he heard that Wanhang could give him a better life, he immediately gained new hope and said without hesitation: "Anything is possible, I am willing to do it."
"Okay, you are very young but you are very good at assessing situations. You are very good." Wan Hang said as he motioned to the assistant next to him to show Qiao Meng's photo to the boy.
"Look carefully at the people above. I just need you to grab his bag and find a way to bring it to me. That means you have completed your mission. Do you understand?" Wan Hang still had a smile on his face.
"Ming...I understand, but where is he?" The boy was quite smart and knew that he had to find someone first before he could do anything.
"I will tell you this later. Can the mobile phone be used? If you have any orders, I will call you directly." Wan Hang asked his subordinates to hand the latest mobile phone to the boy.
"Then I..."
"You can leave. The rewards for completing the mission will be given to you naturally." Then the boy nodded and left, while Wan Hang looked at the direction the boy was leaving with all his thoughts.
"Send someone to keep an eye on Qiao Meng and report back to me his whereabouts." He ordered after a while.
He was being plotted behind his back, but Qiao Meng didn't know it at all. He thought that today was just a day for enemies to meet and chat with each other. After leaving Stone Gambling City, he asked Lan Hai to drive to the old hotel where he wanted to go.
Do a temporary check on business conditions.
I didn't know this, but I was shocked when I came here. I didn't expect to find that the mysterious boss happened to appear here, and he came out of a special elevator.
"Lan Hai, please wait downstairs first. I have some personal matters to deal with." Qiao Meng immediately ordered.
"Ah, okay."
Although he was very curious, Lan Hai also knew that some secrets were beyond the reach of people at his current level, so he left obediently.
After Qiao Meng was left alone, he quietly followed the mysterious boss to see what he was doing here, and ended up going all the way to the conference hall on the top floor.
At this time, many management employees were confused. They didn't know why two bosses suddenly appeared here at the same time. They thought something big had happened and were very nervous, but they didn't dare to make a loud noise and could only nod and say hello.
Along the way, Qiao Meng even used gestures to tell them not to show off, so he followed him outside the conference hall. When he saw the mysterious boss entering, he hesitated whether he should go in too.
After wandering outside the door for a few minutes, the door suddenly opened, and a woman who came out was the one he had promoted to account manager before.
"Boss, big boss, please come in." The woman said very gently.
"Wha... What is the big boss? He and I are half and half. From now on, we can just call the boss the boss without adding any messy adjectives."
This made Qiao Meng unhappy. Although it was still temporary, at least he owned 50% of the shares. Why should he be called Big Boss?
"Yes, boss, I know I was wrong." The woman apologized quickly, very worried that she would make her boss unhappy. In her eyes, Qiao Meng was an extremely uncertain person.
Without saying anything else, he just walked in. Seeing that there were quite a lot of people inside, he just found a seat and sat down.
"Let's get to know each other. This is your half-boss. However, his identity is not allowed to be disclosed to the public for the time being, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences." The mysterious boss said in a very serious tone.
"You're just half a boss? You're threatening your own employees. Why are you here, so secretly?" The more Qiao Meng heard this title, the more unhappy he became.
"You guys go out first and come back in twenty minutes." After hearing the mysterious boss's instructions, these people immediately stood up and left. Qiao Meng knew that this was the time to get down to business.
"Tell me, what have you been doing these days?" Qiao Meng asked first.
"Of course I do what I should do, but you don't seem to understand what you are doing. If our company's confidentiality work were not very strict, you would have been exposed, you know?" the mysterious boss said very dissatisfied.
"Isn't this not exposed?" Qiao Meng, the mysterious boss who suddenly changed his attitude, said with a guilty conscience.
"Strictly speaking, you have violated the agreement between us. Do what you should do. The agreement is for you to appear as me instead of as your new boss, let alone to investigate the man behind the scenes."
The mysterious boss severely condemned Qiao Meng.
"Didn't I do what I should do? Didn't the company increase its profits? Do you think I want to expose my identity? Last time, a mole appeared under you and almost killed me. Do you know that the mastermind behind the scenes is staring at me now?
!" Qiao Meng was very angry at these self-blame and slammed the table angrily.
"What?" Apparently the mysterious boss did not expect that things would turn out so unexpectedly and was very surprised.