Gambling Match (Part One)

Du Yuncheng frowned, then turned and asked the stone-gambling master he had hired, "Master Xu, what do you think of this rough stone?"

Master Xu pondered for a while before saying, "How should I put it? There's still a good chance there's jade inside this rough stone, but it's hard to say how good or how large it is. Unless it's glass type, though, it's impossible to make much money from it. But I don't think there's a very high chance it's glass type..."

Du Yuncheng understood that Master Xu was advising him to be more cautious. He nodded, then muttered inwardly:

"Will it really be glass type?"

Most of the people present actually thought the same as Du Yuncheng, so after quite a while, no one else followed with a bid.

The auctioneer smiled and looked around. "Boss Chu has bid five hundred thousand. Does anyone else want to raise the bid?"

He asked twice like that. Just as the auctioneer was about to bring down the hammer, Du Yuncheng suddenly called out, "Five hundred and thirty thousand!"

"Five hundred and fifty thousand!" Chu Chen calmly raised the bid by twenty thousand.

"Five hundred and eighty thousand!"

"Six hundred thousand!"

"Six hundred and fifty thousand!"

"Seven hundred thousand!"

The two took turns raising the bid, and the increments grew larger and larger. Everyone watching felt their hearts pound, while the tension in the room grew increasingly intense. When the price climbed to one million, some people felt that the two of them had gone insane.

In everyone's eyes, this rough stone should have been obtainable for four hundred thousand even at Lu Changshun's shop, let alone at the stall. Yet the two had doubled the price and more simply because they were competing out of spite. The older people