Each small booth has a piece of material placed on it, and the thirty pieces of material are arranged in three rows.
The host looked to the scoring expert group, and after receiving the signal, announced that the first round of competition had officially begun.
"In ten minutes, the contestants from both companies can go on stage to view the rough stones. After ten minutes, each team is asked to inform the expert group of the rough stones selected."
After the host finished speaking, he walked off the stage and gave up the stage.
Li Mianhui from the Shen family walked up to the stage after the host stepped down and looked among the rough stones one by one.
"Meng Yan." Jia Baiyuan leaned close to Meng Yan's ear.
"How about it?"
"Uncle Jia, wait a minute, I'll go up and take a look and give you an answer." After Meng Yan finished speaking, he stood up and walked towards the stage.
Thirty rough stones and ten minutes of inspection are more than enough.
Meng Yan opened his magic pupil, tried to lock the rough stones within his field of vision into one, and quickly walked around to look at them.
Gradually, Meng Yan became more and more surprised.
This Jade Association's action is indeed extraordinary!
I really don’t know where they found such a piece of raw stone from. Meng Yan has seen neither too much nor too little since he learned the art of phase stones. This is the first time that such a strange situation has occurred.
"How can this No. 9 ingredient be stuffed with white jade meat? Shouldn't this be a characteristic of jade that grows near volcanic mines?"
"Didn't Lao Pagan's stalactite material disappear from the market decades ago? Where did the Jade Association get this No. 16 material?"
"How did this No. 21 hibiscus seed material come out of the pit? How come there are two faults in it?"
The more Meng Yan looked at it, the more surprised he became. Where on earth did the Jade Association get these strange raw stone materials?!
No wonder you can be qualified to run for the president of the association if you double the number of two million. Although it is not unusual in the jade industry to double the number of two million to four million, if you choose among this pile of special materials,
, if you can make a profit by cutting the selected materials, you are already considered a first-rate master.
"Huh? This piece of material actually contains Gao Bing?" Meng Yan stopped in front of a piece of material.
The No. 6 rough stone was placed in the center of the stage, separated from him by a rough stone.
From Meng Yan's perspective, he opened his magic pupil and saw that the light inside the material was very pure, exuding the pure light of high-ice jade.
But this light looks a bit strange. It seems to be many rays of light superimposed on a flat surface. There are some almost negligible ghost images of light on the edge of the light.
To put it simply, just like the Thousand-Hand Guanyin, from Meng Yan’s perspective, only one hand can be seen from the front, but behind the Thousand-Hand Guanyin’s hand, there are still an unknown number of hands stretched out.
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Meng Yan was ready to get closer and study it carefully.
"Mr. Meng, please stop!" The host standing at the edge of the stage suddenly picked up the microphone and raised it, startling Meng Yan.
"Ah?" Meng Yan didn't understand what was happening.
"I'm just going to take a look. I don't know how to do anything else." Meng Yan pointed at the No. 6 rough stone that was just a few steps in front of him.
The host shook his head: "Mr. Meng, no."
"The organizing committee has regulations that contestants can only stand at the front of the stage and observe the rough stones with their eyes. They are not allowed to get close to touch them, they are not allowed to view them from different angles, and they are not allowed to use tools such as flashlights to help judge."
Meng Yan was confused. Is there such a rule?
He turned his head to look at Jia Baiyuan in the audience, and saw him nodding in approval.
Meng Yan: "???"
Isn’t this too outrageous?
"Aren't your competition rules too outrageous?" Meng Yan said to the host in surprise.
"It's too difficult not to let people touch it, not to let people look at it with a flashlight, and not to let people look at it from different angles!"
The appearance of these rough stones is enough to confuse people, but they cannot be touched with hands or change the angle without the help of a flashlight. How can this not make things difficult for people?
What are the people in the Jade Association thinking? Do they think everyone who knows the stone has magic eyes?
"Tch! Country bumpkin! Do you think that just anyone who knows a little bit about stones can become the president of the Jade Association?!" Suddenly Shen Jingshi's sinister laughter came from the audience.
"You guy who doesn't even understand the rules of the Jade Association, are you here to make everyone laugh? The Jia family doesn't think it's embarrassing to hire you, hahahaha."
"It's better to come down quickly, give up this competition as soon as possible, and generously hand over the position of president of the Jade Association. Fighting with our Shen family to the end will not end well."
These words were spoken to Meng Yan, and he was also challenging Jia Baiyuan. Shen Jingshi had the support of his father, the head of the Shen family, at the scene, and he felt quite confident for a while.
Meng Yan took two steps back, returned to his original position, and continued to observe other rough stones.
Jia Baiyuan, on the other hand, closed his eyes and rested his mind below, completely ignoring Shen Jingshi's provocation.
"Oh, no." Meng Yan shook his head and gave up the idea of getting to the bottom of it.
Even if you go to other directions and look at rough stone No. 6 from an angle, you can't see any clues.
The positions between these rough stones seem to have been specially arranged. Even if you go to the extreme edge and look at it, you can't find a good angle to see clearly behind the No. 6 rough stone, so you can't determine the true value of this high-ice material.
Meng Yan looked away and focused his energy in other directions. After confirming all thirty jade stones on the stage, he finally settled on two options.
One on the twelfth and one on the twenty-sixth. If nothing else happens, the material inside must be the most valuable among this batch of rough stones.
If both pieces can be won, after deducting the principal of 1.5 million, there will still be 500,000 left to participate in the three rounds of competitions, and the combined value of these two pieces of materials is already 6 million.
In this way, Jia Baiyuan should be a sure winner in this Jade Association competition.
Afterwards, he and Li Mianhui both walked off the stage to discuss with people from their respective families.
This is a competition within the four major families to select the president of the Jade Association. Therefore, it is stipulated that the contestants must be from the four major families. Meng Yan can only be called a helper to give advice. The final decision-making power rests with Jia Baiyuan. Contestants from the four major families participating in this competition.
A minute later, after discussion, Jia Baiyuan had to go on stage in person to designate the selected rough stone.
"Meng Yan, how are you?" Jia Baiyuan asked anxiously when he saw Meng Yan coming back.
Meng Yan picked up the mineral water next to him and took a sip, then sat next to Jia Baiyuan and lowered his voice.
"On the 26th, Uncle Jia, you will choose him soon."
Among the numbers 12 and 26, the value of number 26 is slightly greater than that of number 12, and the Jade Association's score is rounded, so there may be one more number in the tens of thousands. The fraction of a hundred thousand digits jumped up again.
