"Is something going to happen to this kid?" Li Xiu looked at the address Chu Jun sent, and it turned out to be outside Chongshan City.
Li Xiu pondered for a moment and decided to go take a look.
I found Official Ximen, but luckily he hadn't started modifying the Ghost Faced Demon costume yet, so Li Xiu took it back and used it first.
Go out with the Ghost Faced Demon costume, leave Chongshan City, and head towards the slope to the west.
No wonder there is no mobile phone signal here. Chongshan City is built in the deep mountains and old forests. Except for some signal towers in the city, there is no mobile phone signal at all outside the city.
"How could Jun Chu appraise gems in a place like this?" Li Xiu came to the place Chu Jun mentioned and saw that there were no buildings around, just a sloping grassland.
However, it seems that the turf here should be artificially laid, and this kind of grass does not grow in the Southern Cross Federation at all.
"Li Xiu, this way." Li Xiu saw Chu Jun waving to him from afar.
Besides Chu Jun, there were several people there, an old man, a middle-aged man, and several others who looked like bodyguards or followers.
"Li Xiu, let me introduce you, this is Boss Zhou." Chu Jun introduced both parties.
However, they only said that the old man was Boss Zhou, and that the middle-aged man’s surname was Yu, and he was also called Mr. Yu.
"Boss Zhou, you see everyone is here, how about we take a look at the gems?" Chu Jun said to the old man.
"Don't worry, let's hit the ball first." The old man was holding a golf club and gesticulating with the ball on the ground. Then he pushed the ball lightly into the hole with a putter.
"Boss Zhou, your skills are superb, I can't beat you." Chu Jun said with a smile.
"Young people shouldn't be too impatient. Let's do this. If you play another round with me, you don't have to bother with scoring. It's just a score. If you can beat me by one stroke, old man, I will give you a gem. If you can win,
I will give you as many gems as I shoot today, what do you think?" Boss Zhou said with a smile.
"This..." Chu Jun hesitated and said nothing.
Li Xiu saw that Boss Zhou was deliberately trying to embarrass Chu Jun. He probably had no intention of doing business with Chu Jun today.
"Boss Zhou, do the scores I win count?" Li Xiu asked with a smile.
"Of course. Young man, do you also like to play golf?" Boss Zhou looked at Li Xiu and asked with a smile.
"I don't play much, but I am very interested. In this era, there is no harm in exercising, what do you think?" Li Xiu pretended not to notice Chu Jun, who kept winking at him, and said with a smile.
"Okay, let's play a round. The rules are still the same. If you beat me by one shot, I will take out a gem. This is a standard 18-hole course. The par is seventy-two. When I was young,
I have shot within 60 strokes before, but now that I am old, I am afraid that I will not be able to score within 60 strokes." Boss Zhou said as he got on an electric four-wheeler and drove towards the teeing ground.
Chu Jun pulled Li Xiu into another car and asked Li Xiu while driving: "Li Xiu, how are you playing golf? Boss Zhou was a professional when he was young and even set a new record."
"It doesn't matter, tell me first what are the rules of golf?" Li Xiu said.
"You don't know the rules?" Chu Jun looked at Li Xiu with wide eyes and almost lost control of the car.
"Let's talk about the rules first." Li Xiu smiled.
"There's no hope anyway, just keep exercising." Chu Jun was a little speechless, but still told Li Xiu the rules.
To put it simply, there are a total of eighteen holes on this golf course. As long as you hit the ball into the eighteen holes in sequence, the fewer times you use it, the better. The total length of the eighteen holes is about six thousand meters.
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For a standard eighteen holes like this, the standard is to shoot 72 strokes. Someone like Boss Zhou who can complete 18 holes with only about 60 strokes is already at a professional level.
Generally speaking, people who don't know how to play can score hundreds of strokes. Amateurs, depending on their level, usually score over 80 or 90 strokes, and more than 100 strokes are also common.
"How many strokes do you want to win?" Li Xiu said to Chu Jun after listening to the rules.
"It's best to win by more than five strokes, but if you don't even understand the rules, there's no need to feel any pressure, just have fun." Chu Jun said.
Li Xiu smiled and said nothing. Chu Jun helped him get the qualification to enter the Brave Trial Field. This favor must be repaid, and now it is time to repay this favor.
After several people came to the tee, Boss Zhou first chose a club and then hit a few balls to warm up.
Mr. Yu, Li Xiu and Chu Jun also tried to hit a few balls to warm up first and find out the feeling.
"This hole is a standard par-4 hole, and the distance is more than 200 meters." Boss Zhou said with a smile: "When I was young, I could only use two strokes at most on this par-4 hole, and I often hit double eagles.
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Li Xiu didn't understand what he meant by the double eagle ball, and looked at Chu Jun aside.
Chu Jun explained in a low voice: "One stroke less than par is called a birdie, less than two strokes is called an eagle, less than three strokes is called a double eagle, and there are several other names."
"The highest par for a hole is five. If you can score a hole in one, it will be four less than par. What is that called?" Li Xiu asked.
"Theoretically, it's called Triple Eagle, but this kind of ball should be very difficult to hit. The distance of the par-5 hole is more than 400 meters. Even professional players will find it difficult to hit that far. Of course, there are many trial players who can hit that far.
It’s far away, but it’s still difficult to score a hole-in-one, and I’ve basically never heard of the Triple Eagle ball.” Chu Jun thought for a while and said.
"It seems that you, young man, are not very familiar with golf." Boss Zhou said with a smile.
"You'll get used to it after playing around." Li Xiu replied.
"Okay, I'll let you fight first." Boss Zhou felt that this young man was not very humble and was a little unhappy.
Li Xiu didn't refuse. He stood on the table, holding the club and assuming a hitting posture.
He had just seen a few people's batting postures and had practiced them. It was not a problem for him to hit a hole-in-one at this distance.
Boss Zhou looked at Li Xiu, the corner of his mouth turned up slightly, and said in his heart: "Young man, don't underestimate the sport of golf. There is a lot of knowledge in it. You even chose the wrong club, and you still play with me. You really think the old man is good."
Bullying?"
While Boss Zhou was thinking about it, Li Xiu twisted his waist and swung his arm, and had already knocked the ball away.
Watching the ball flying high into the sky, Boss Zhou was a little surprised. The ball hit very far, had a good arc, and seemed to be in the right direction.
Boss Zhou quickly picked up the telescope and stared at the direction of the golf ball's flight.
To his surprise, the ball actually flew towards the golf hole on the green, but it seemed to be a little higher and about to miss the hole.
The next second, Boss Zhou's eyes widened.
The ball actually landed on the flag at the entrance of the hole. Once blocked by the flag, the ball fell down and fell right into the hole.
"Is this beginner's luck?" Boss Zhou looked a little strange, but he still felt that this was just Li Xiu's luck.
"Hole in one, beautiful." Chu Jun shouted excitedly.
"Haha, beginners are lucky, the flag is a big help to you." Boss Zhou said.
Next it was Boss Zhou's turn. He took a deep breath and glanced again and again in the direction of the green, seemingly hoping to also make a hole-in-one.
Unfortunately, God did not care about him. Although the ball hit the green, it failed to enter the hole.
Mr. Yu and Chu Jun were even further apart. Chu Jun even missed the direction.
Several people left the tee box and continued playing.
Boss Zhou only took two strokes. On this standard par-4 hole, it was originally a good result worth celebrating. But with Li Xiu's hole-in-one ahead of him, Boss Zhou couldn't be happier.
During the second shot, Boss Zhou still let Li Xiu play first, while he and Mr. Yu sat on the chairs behind and chatted.
"Young people are just too impatient. The wind is so strong now and they don't know how to take shelter from the wind. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!" Boss Zhou looked at the flag swaying in the wind, squinted his eyes and smiled.
"How can young people be as calm as Mr. Zhou? They still have a lot to learn." Mr. Yu said following Boss Zhou's words.
"Wherever it's my turn to teach, the world will teach them a lesson first." Boss Zhou almost narrowed his eyes as he watched Li Xiu hit the ball away in the wind.
Unlike football, basketball and other sports, golf is more susceptible to the influence of the environment. The wind may not seem very strong, but when the ball reaches the air and flies a long distance, it will be affected by the wind and seriously deviate from the target.
Li Xiu hit the ball and it flew out. As expected, the ball deflected greatly while flying in the air.
Boss Zhou was still smiling at the beginning, but as the ball flew farther and farther and gradually began to fall, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
The ball was originally very deflected, but due to the influence of the wind, it gradually approached the location of the hole and was about to fall towards the hole.
Boss Zhou stood up immediately, picked up the telescope and looked, and saw the moment the ball entered the hole.
"Young man, you are really lucky." Boss Zhou said with a forced smile.
"Luck is also a part of strength." Li Xiu said calmly, without giving Boss Zhou any face.
Boss Zhou coughed slightly: "You should rest for a while, and then we can go to the next hole together after we finish playing. The next hole is a par-5 hole, which is not easy to play."
Turning around, the smile on Boss Zhou's face immediately disappeared, and he muttered: "Young people nowadays are so unlovable and have no sense of humility at all."
This hole was a par-3 hole. Boss Zhou scored a good score of two strokes, but he still couldn't be happy.
When we got to the third hole, Boss Zhou sat there in a daze, still thinking in his heart: "I don't believe your luck can be that good. Even if you are lucky enough, the distance of this hole is five meters."
It's 100 yards, I don't believe you can still get a hole-in-one by luck, if you can still get a hole-in-one, I'll eat this club."
"Mr. Zhou, what are you thinking about making you so happy?" Mr. Yu asked with some confusion when he saw Boss Zhou laughing.
"I was thinking that this young man has good talent, but his temper is not very good. If he can change his temper, he might become an excellent golfer in the future, and he might be able to be used by us," said Boss Zhou.
"I think he is very good now. If possible, I would like to talk to him later," Mr. Yu said.
"No way, you want to ask him to participate in the trial, just rely on his two goals, it's all luck..." Boss Zhou said with some surprise: "Aren't you afraid that he will give you the opportunity that you finally got?"
wasted?"
"I don't think that's luck, this young man is very powerful." Mr. Yu said seriously.
"What's so great? You don't understand the game. Those two shots just now were just luck. Who can hit a hole-in-one like that? Let me tell you, if he can make a hole-in-one this time, I will eat all the clubs."
Yes." Boss Zhou accidentally said everything in his heart.
"This distance is a bit far. It's really difficult to score a hole-in-one on a par-5 hole." When Mr. Yu was talking, Li Xiu had already knocked the ball away.
He still used the same iron as before, which is generally used for teeing off on par-3 holes and is not suitable for hitting too far distances.
Li Xiu has been using this club since the beginning and has never changed it.
The moment he hit the ball, the skill mark on Li Xiu's finger appeared. It was an E-level blood boiling skill.
As Li Xiu swung his hands and waist, the ball hit the white ball with the head of the ball, sending it flying high towards the green.
Seeing the ball flying high and far, and actually flying in the direction of the green, Boss Zhou stood up suddenly, walked directly to the teeing table in front, and took a closer look with a binoculars.
"No way... It's impossible... You can't come in..." Boss Zhou's face kept changing, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching, almost shouting out what was in his heart.
Become a man!
The ball hit the hole in one again, cleanly and without any sloppiness.
"That's okay..." Boss Zhou stared blankly, feeling a little numb. Now he was a little doubtful whether Li Xiu was a simulated robot. How could a normal person hit so accurately?
This is a hole with a distance of more than 500 yards. It is a hole-in-one. Boss Zhou has played golf all his life and has never seen anything like this.
Not to mention Boss Zhou, everyone in Chu Jun was dumbfounded. This was not playing ball. It was like a missile equipped with a positioning and tracking device.
"Li Xiu, you are amazing. This ball is as accurate as a tracking missile." Chu Jun said happily to Li Xiu.
When Boss Zhou heard Chu Jun's words, his heart suddenly moved. He stopped playing and asked the bodyguard behind him to take the ball played by Li Xiu and cut it in half. He wondered if there was something inside.
Positioning device, otherwise how could it be so accurate.
Boss Zhou has already forgotten that this ball belongs to him.
Of course, the result was nothing, which made Boss Zhou even more depressed.
Boss Zhou stopped playing the next holes because there was nothing to play. Li Xiu scored a hole-in-one every time. Boss Zhou felt that golf was not interesting at all and he did not want to play it again in the future.
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"No more playing, just tell me how many gems you need." Seeing Li Xiu hit a hole in one again, Boss Zhou threw the club in his hand directly.
"Boss Zhou, I don't want more. I'll buy the five gems we negotiated before at the price we agreed on." Chu Jun said, suppressing the excitement in his heart.
"You don't need to pay. I'll give you the gems. Can this little brother lend me some?" Boss Zhou directly asked the bodyguard to bring over a box full of gems. When he opened it, he saw that it was full of large gems.
There are many gemstones ranging from three to five carats in size to over ten carats in size, and they are all high-end products such as rubies and sapphires, not cheap gemstones such as tourmalines.
After picking out five sapphires and giving them to Chu Jun, Boss Zhou looked at Li Xiu and didn't even discuss the price.
"Boss Zhou, Li Xiu didn't mean to offend him, this is all my fault..." Chu Jun said quickly.
"You misunderstood. I don't want to embarrass him. I just want to chat with this little brother and exchange experiences. There is no other meaning." Boss Zhou waved his hands quickly. He just wanted to know why Li Xiu could hit so accurately.
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"This..." Chu Jun couldn't decide and looked at Li Xiu.
"No problem." Li Xiu nodded and agreed.
Boss Zhou was immediately overjoyed. He pulled Li Xiu and let Li Xiu get into his car. He couldn't wait to ask: "Little brother, can you tell me, do you have any tricks for playing golf? How can you hit the ball so accurately?"
"It's not really a trick. I got talents that enhance control and accuracy in a training ground before..." Li Xiu pushed all of this away from the talents of the trialists.
"It turns out that little brother, you are a trialist. It is not easy for a trialist to get talents. I didn't expect that little brother, you have already achieved so much at such a young age. Your future achievements are limitless..." Boss Zhou kept saying.
Praising Li Xiu almost makes Li Xiu go to heaven.
Chu Jun, who was in the car behind, looked more and more weird when he heard that Zhou Bailong, the gem king of Hongsha City, actually flattered a young man and made him look so refreshed. If he told this, no one would believe him.
Although the five main cities of the Southern Cross Federation are equal, no one can control anyone else. They are equal in name.
But in fact, Hongsha City has the most say among the five major cities, because Hongsha City produces the best rubies in the world and the best sapphires in the world. It is the strongest among the five major cities.
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Of course, Taylor City can no longer be regarded as one of the five major cities. Some smaller cities with slightly better development are much better than the current situation of Taylor City.
Zhou Bolong is known as the gem king of Hongsha City. He has more or less shares in one-third of the gem mines in Hongsha City.
Even throughout the Southern Cross Federation, many gem mines have his shares.
Such an old man only had such a few hobbies, but Li Xiu took advantage of them. Zhou Bailong still did this, and kept asking about which training ground could give him the same abilities as Li Xiu. He seemed eager to try.
He is quite ready to try it out on his own.
Of course, even if Zhou Bailong really wanted to go, no one would really dare to let him in.
If something happens to Zhou Bolong, big trouble will happen to the Southern Cross Federation.
Zhou Bolong invited Li Xiu, Chu Jun, and Mr. Yu to have dinner together, and even asked Li Xiu to sit next to him, looking very affectionate.
Chu Jun originally wanted Li Xiu to help him identify the gems, but he didn't need it now. Zhou Bailong didn't want his money at all. Five sapphires over three carats were all given away for free. Why would you appraise the gems that were given away for free?