Chapter 123: Everyone is waiting for Li Yang's return (Third update)

  After returning home, Li Yang immediately went online and searched for a lot of information about Ru kiln pen washes, but the information on the internet was too miscellaneous and valuable ones were very few.

  The general can and Xuande stove had been moved to the second floor study by Li Yang, after returning home, Li Yang was not in a hurry to smash open the general can, he just needed to know that there was a treasure inside, and it couldn't run away from his own home.

  After doing all this, Li Yang suddenly remembered that Wu Xiaoli was still in Nanyang, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone, only to find that it had run out of power and automatically shut down.

  The phone suddenly rang, rebooted, and immediately received several text messages. Li Yang's mobile phone had a call reminder function, which would send an SMS notification if someone called during the shutdown period.

  There were messages from Wu Xiaoli, Sima Lin, and Zheng Kaida. As Li Yang was reading the messages, more kept coming in. In the end, he counted them up and found that there were over thirty in total.

  Thinking of so many friends caring about him, Li Yang's heart felt warm.

  The person who called him the most was Sima Lin, with ten short messages all from his number. Next was Wu Xiaoli, with six, and Zhang Wei also called him three times.

  Li Yang first dialed Sima Lin's phone number. Sima Lin had called so many times, he didn't know if there was something else going on.

  "Li Yang, where have you been for the past two days? Why can't I reach you on your phone? Where are you now?" As soon as the call connected, Sima Lin's anxious voice came through, asking Li Yang several questions in a row.

  Li Yang was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Sima brother, sorry about that. My phone has been out of battery for the past two days. I'm currently at Mingyang's place."

  "Are you at home? Nothing's wrong, right? How did you get back home?"

  On the phone, Li Yang seemed to hear Sima Lin's long sigh, and he could feel that Sima Lin was really concerned about him, which moved him deeply.

  "Something happened these two days, I'll tell you after I go to Nanyang tomorrow. By the way, is Xiaoli still in Nanyang?"

  "You'd better give her a call, she's been worried about you these past two days"

  "Alright, I'll call her in a bit. Brother Sima, I can arrive in Nanyang tomorrow afternoon, let's talk when we meet."

  Li Yang hung up the phone and dialed Wu Xiaoli's number again. After some thought, he didn't make the call in the end. Anyway, he would arrive in Nanyang tomorrow, so it was better to talk face-to-face; over the phone, he wouldn't know what to say.

  The next day, which was the fifth day of the Nanyang stone gambling activity, after breakfast, Li Yang and Liu Gang drove to Nanyang. Previously in Mingyang, Li Yang had said that his car wasn't suitable for long-distance driving and needed time to break in, but now it seemed like the break-in period was already over after just a few days. Once things were settled in Nanyang, he would need to take the car in for maintenance.

  Li Yang arrived in Nanyang after noon, and there were still many jade enthusiasts gambling on stones. In the past few days, the most popular rumors in Nanyang were who had gambled and won, who had gambled and lost, and who had gambled out ice species or peony species. Of course, the name that was spread the most was Li Yang, whose glass species and blue elf had surpassed all the gambling stones.

  So far, this activity has only solved one piece of glass, which is Li Yang's.

  Li Yang went directly to the hotel and didn't go to the square. These past few days, he had been running around every day and was always in the car, which made Li Yang catch a bit of a cold and feel very uncomfortable.

  After taking the medicine and having a nap, he felt much better when he woke up. Li Yang sat in the hotel lobby waiting for Sima Lin and others to return, and heard many rumors about today's stone gambling on the square, with Shao Yuqiang and Feicui Wang's names being mentioned from time to time.

  According to the management office's statistics, the total number of sellers and buyers of jade stones has exceeded 500,000 people this time. All hotels in Nanyang are fully booked. Fortunately, these 500,000 people did not come at once, with some coming and going in between, otherwise some people might have had to rent private houses.

  "Li Yang, Li Yang"

  A loud shout suddenly came from afar, Li Yang hastily stood up, Sima Lin and Zhang Wei had already returned, and Wu Xiaoli was also with them, staring at him with a resentful look.

  "You little brat, you've finally come back! Next time, absolutely no sneaking off without a word, got it?"

  Sim Lin slammed Li Yang's shoulder heavily, and Li Yang immediately rubbed his shoulder in pain. Sima Lin's punch was not light, it really hurt.

  It's a painful return, but Li Yang knew that Sima Lin was concerned about him and this was an expression of anxiety afterwards. This bitter head could only be acknowledged.

  "I know, things were urgent back then, but I'm back now"

  "It's good that you're back, unfortunately you didn't go to the square today. You've been away for a few days and that little brat Shao Yuqiang has been showing off every day. Now nobody doesn't know him, if you were here, he wouldn't have had anything to do."

  Zhang Wei complained and said a sentence, it seems that Zhang Wei's impression of Shao Yuqiang cannot be changed.

  "What's so special about him, he's really formidable" Li Yang sighed and shook his head, slowly listening to them one by one as they talked about the past few days.

  After Li Yang left, the gambling stone activity became Shao Yuqiang's world. In these three days, Shao Yuqiang solved a total of two blocks of ice species jade, four blocks of hibiscus species, and also solved some golden silk species and dry green species. In just a few days, Shao Yuqiang's light green jade had made a profit of over 20-30 million, and he was still constantly buying stones everywhere.

  And for these three days, the champion of Wai Bi was always Shao Yuqiang.

  Some people saw Shao Yuqiang's dominance and had evil thoughts, wanting to use Shao Yuqiang's hands to rob the surging gambling stone.

  This crooked idea is actually related to Shao Yuqiang himself. Now most players know that Shao Yuqiang once snatched the Mingyang Yushi Association's chairman a piece of gambling stone, as long as someone sees Shao Yuqiang ask for the price, they all rush to throw money to buy it, and the price is not even returned.

  There are indeed many such people, but none appeared today. Several of them were bullied by Shao Yuqiang, who deliberately used poor quality jade to deceive people and bid high prices. None of them managed to snatch good jade from Shao Yuqiang's hands.

  The Activity Management Department also turned a blind eye to this. They too wished that someone would teach this arrogant young man a good lesson.

  But also because of this, Shao Yuqiang is now very unwelcome here. Not only the people from the Jade Stone Association are looking forward to Li Yang's return, but many peripheral players are also eager for Li Yang to come back soon. In everyone's heart, only Li Yang can surpass Shao Yuqiang.

  When they said that, Li Yang couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. He felt like he had become Batman, expected to come and defeat the devil.

  A few people were chatting when the hotel staff started pointing and gesturing in their direction, no need to guess, it was clear that someone had recognized Li Yang. In the Nanyang stone gambling circle, Li Yang's popularity surpassed that of any celebrity, even Yao Ming couldn't compare to him.

  After resting for a night, by the second day, which was also the sixth day of the gambling stone activity, Li Yang had not yet arrived at the square. News about Li Yang's return had already spread, and countless people were eagerly passing on this latest news. In the end, many people fixed their gaze on the young man who was strolling leisurely around the square under the protection of his bodyguards.

  Shaoyuqiang received the news of Liyang's return yesterday, which was not as imagined by others. Shaoyuqiang couldn't wait for Liyang to come back earlier, it was too lonely for him without a rival.

  Moreover, Shao Yuqiang wants to win Li Yang fairly and squarely this time. In the first two confrontations, he lost both times, but he didn't admit defeat willingly. The first time was because of intimidation, and the second time was due to carelessness. Shao Yuqiang doesn't think his level is inferior to Li Yang's.

  At nine o'clock, Li Yang and Sima Lin arrived at the square together. Looking at the familiar Gambler's Square after three days, Li Yang also felt a sense of melancholy. Fortunately, he had acquired a Ru kiln pen wash in the past three days, which made up for his regret.

  As soon as Li Yang arrived at the square, he was recognized by many people. Unlike before, no one crowded around him this time, and they all gave way to Li Yang.

  This feeling is more unbearable than being stared at by many people.

  He walked through several booths lined up in a small path, and this feeling still existed. Li Yang could only reluctantly accept the situation and carefully search for gambling stones.

  With Shao Yuqiang blocking in front, Li Yang doesn't have to worry about being too high-profile even if he breaks through. Now everyone is eager for Li Yang to break through a few more blocks and suppress the arrogant Shao Yuqiang.

  As he walked along the way, Li Yang found that there were still not many good jade stones, and he didn't know if it was because the activity was about to come to an end. The proportion of good jade stones was even smaller than before.

  Looking at so many ordinary jade stones, Li Yang actually admired Shaoyu Qiang very much. He used his special ability to observe a large pile and felt tired, but Shaoyu Qiang looked at each one carefully and was still able to identify so many good quality jadeites, it's really unknown how he did it.

  After looking at nearly a thousand pieces of jade, one that caught Li Yang's eye finally appeared. This was a relatively large piece of jade, with several kilograms of golden silk-type jadeite inside. However, it wasn't the best type of smooth-silk jadeite, but rather a mid-range rough-silk jadeite, which made its value slightly lower than that of smooth-silk jadeite.

  These few kilograms can probably sell for around two million, which is ordinary for Li Yang but a huge sum of money for many people.

  Facing the stall, Li Yang suddenly pointed to another piece of jade and asked for the price. Li Yang didn't know if those people would put the crooked idea they used on Shao Yuqiang on himself, but it's better to be careful anyway. Li Yang definitely didn't want to suffer like Zhang Wei once did.

  "Mr. Li, this is very cheap, 30,000 yuan," the seller said enthusiastically, and Mr. Li Yang was certain that he had never seen him before and didn't know how he knew himself.

  Upon hearing the seller's quote, Li Yang couldn't help but roll his eyes. 30,000? This kind of gambler's stone is worth at most a little over 10,000 yuan.

  Ten thousand

  Li Yang immediately haggled over the price, and the seller shook his head repeatedly, but kept looking around. Li Yang also looked around, but there was no one nearby trying to snatch the gambling stone from him.

  "Ten thousand won't work, it's not enough principal. If Mr. Li wants it, a lucky number, twenty-eight thousand."

  "Too expensive, forget it, how about this one?"

  Li Yang pointed to another piece, this is the jadeite that will produce gold threads.

  Li Yang was somewhat disappointed and no one came to snap up the goods, so the seller didn't dare to raise the price randomly, otherwise Li Yang's deal might have gone down the drain.

  "Mr. Li, this one is also 30,000."

  "Thirty thousand," Li Yang nodded slowly, this time the seller didn't open his mouth too wide, the performance of this gambled stone was not cheap at thirty thousand, but it was reasonable.

  "Three hundred thousand, I'll take it!" Li Yang threw out 300,000 cash and directly picked up the gambling stone. Three hundred thousand turned into two million, what a profitable business deal!