Chapter 662: Raw Melon Eggs
"If that’s the case, why do these people still come?"
Bai Xiao didn’t understand.
"There’s an old saying, ’To get rich, bet on stones; to go broke, bet on stones.’ The stone betting business is like licking blood from the blade, you either become rich overnight or go begging. It’s perilous and unpredictable, and you have to judge based on the stone’s external features, such as the type of skin, what kind of sand is revealed, whether there is green pine or white python bands, considering a variety of factors to determine if there’s jade inside and the quality of it. Due to the mystique of stone betting, even a veteran can slip up occasionally, and one oversight could lead to complete ruin."
Shao Ming had been around for a long time, and although he didn’t understand it himself, he spoke as if he were an expert.
Bai Xiao smiled wryly; they really were full of gambling spirit. Although she didn’t understand it fully, she knew that essentially, these were all gamblers.
This was a kind of disguised gambling, but aside from luck, it also hinged on visual acuity and knowledge.
A lot of people had gathered around, from China, from Myanmar, and other countries. The men of Myanmar were tanned like buckwheat, wearing gray clothing and worn sandals, walking with a duck-like gait; they had a bit of earthy homemade spice on their faces, their bodies exuding a sour sweat smell, decorated with tattoos, and their red betel nut-stained teeth made them smell of dry tobacco, which gave them a rather odd scent. The women of Myanmar were even stranger, their fair faces smeared with clumps of "old Myanmar powder," their heads decorated with a few wildflowers; occasionally, they retyed their dresses with hooking motions that attracted men, their movements as graceful as willows swaying in the wind; they looked enchantingly bizarre, their lips blood-red as if they had stolen and eaten a chicken, like seductive fox spirits.
In any case, Bai Xiao couldn’t help but squeeze closer to Shao Ming, unable to stand the smell.
Many people saw that the two of them were not looking at stones but rather observing people, which caused puzzled expressions.