When it comes to the imperial capital, apart from the famous Great Wall, Temple of Heaven and Forbidden City, Panjiayuan is also a place name that appears very frequently on TV.

  In recent years, a wave of collecting fever has swept the nation. On TV, experts are fanning the flames every day. Panjiayuan, located in the southeast corner of Beijing's Third Ring Road, was originally the country's largest antique market, but now it is packed with tourists and amateur treasure hunters who think they can find hidden gems - of course, more often than not, they end up being the ones who get taken advantage of.

  However, few people know that Panjiayuan also has a stone gambling game.

  Some antique jade shops, the boss will casually place a few pieces of raw jade at the door to attract customers, but it's just for fun. If you really expect to cut out green from inside, the probability is even smaller than winning a lottery.

  This morning, the Dong family's jade store had just opened its doors when a female customer was seen examining the rough stones on the floor, while Xiao Wang, a newly graduated shop assistant, was still wiping down the counter with a cloth.

  "Customer, want to buy jade? Please come in!" Every time a piece of jade jewelry is sold, Little Wang will receive a commission, which makes this young man who has just joined the workforce full of enthusiasm for sales and full of energy every day at work.

  The woman in the windbreaker looked up and smiled kindly at him, and Xiao Wang's rag fell unknowingly onto the counter - San Qing Dao Zu, Xiao Wang dared to take an oath with his ancestors that he had lived a blank 23 years, and in this prosperous metropolis, he really hadn't seen such a beautiful woman.

  As the female customer smiled at him, Xiao Wang suddenly felt that the two acne on his face must be very eye-catching, and he was a little self-conscious, not knowing how to greet her for a while.

  The female customer smiled and pointed at the pile of stones on the ground, asking, "Are these for sale?" Her voice was like the soft rustling sound of wind blowing through a bamboo forest, making people feel both serene and distant, as if the bamboo leaves were mischievous little hands scratching at one's heart.

  "Sold! Two thousand for one!" Little Wang came back to his senses and nodded like a little chicken pecking at rice.

  The female customer didn't even haggle and seemed to have randomly picked two items before asking Little Wang to ring them up.

  Xiao Wang should be happy that the goods are selling at a high price, but today he seems to have been possessed by a ghost and scratches his head, saying: "That's the price for bargaining with customers. You're so straightforward, let's just say it's 1,500 yuan each." He feels that this is too revealing, so he adds another sentence: "Consider it a discounted price for you, and please come to our store often to support our business in the future."

  The female customer seemed to have not noticed Xiao Wang's nervousness after he added the words, and indeed paid three thousand yuan according to what he said.

  Xiao Wang took over the stack of banknotes, feeling that there was a faint scent on it - was it the smell of perfume? It was elegant and refined, definitely very expensive perfume. Such a woman should indeed use only the best things in the world, otherwise it would be a waste of her.

  The female customer bought the jade and didn't leave immediately. After thinking for a moment, she walked into the store and looked at the jade placed on the glass counter.

  Dong's Jade Shop was small, apart from a few "treasures", everything else was cheap old jade that the boss had collected from the countryside. There were also many self-made antiques or simply mass-produced pendants and ornaments from jade processing factories. Wang knew that the boss's favorite customers were those ignorant nouveau riche, who were the ones to be slaughtered like fat sheep.

  "This one, this one, and that one, wrap them all up for me." The female customer's slender white fingers slid across the glass counter, as if selecting three simple jade pendants.

  Xiao Wang took a closer look, and his dazed heart suddenly cleared up by half - although it wasn't very good jade, the price he got for it wasn't that expensive either. However, the three jade pendants chosen by this female customer were all genuine products personally collected by Old Dong.

  That is to say, no matter how good or bad the jade is, it's a genuine antique!

  Xiao Wang felt a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. If he sold these three items, not only would he not get a commission, but he probably wouldn't even get his bonus for the next few months. But how could he explain this embarrassing situation to the female customer?

  It seemed like she sensed Xiao Wang's nervousness, and the female customer suddenly let out a soft laugh: "I've picked out all the genuine items, you'll have to bear the boss's scolding now!"

  So she wasn't originally chosen by luck?

  The woman customer pointed at two more rings: "Wrap these two together and you can consider yourself having done nothing wrong."

  Those two jade rings were actually wholesale from the factory by the boss, made of worthless scraps processed by machines, and the wholesale price was even cheaper. Selling them at the marked price would make a huge profit.

  Xiao Wang felt a bit embarrassed, but the female customer seemed to see through his thoughts, "You're also working hard, can't make it too difficult for you, just wrap everything up."

  A sentence warmed Xiao Wang's heart, but as a man, he was one who bled but didn't shed tears, and could only show his gratitude through actions. With nimble hands and feet, he used the highest-grade gift box in the store to pack up all five pieces of jade.

  "Five pieces of jade, totaling 26,180. Thank you for your patronage, minus the discount is 26,000 yuan." Little Wang took over the card handed over by the female customer and quickly completed the payment procedure.

  "Sir, shall I help you call a car?" Seeing that the female customer who couldn't move her eyes seemed to have not driven here, Xiao Wang was somewhat worried about the two pieces of raw stone she had bought, which were quite heavy things, and how could he let her carry them back alone.

  Xiao Wang didn't notice that he was being very considerate today, thinking about making arrangements for this female customer, simply from the perspective of instinctive appreciation, feeling that she wasn't suitable for doing such heavy work.

  The female customer thought for a moment and agreed with Xiaowang's proposal - after all, it was also someone else's good intention, and refusing would be impolite.

  Xiao Wang ran out to hail a taxi. The female customer moved to the entrance of the store on her own, and since there was no one else in the store, it was also good to avoid suspicion.

  There was a hunchbacked old woman wandering on the street, seeing the female customer standing in front of the store dressed brightly and beautifully, she immediately fixed her gaze on her.

  "Miss, can you take a look at this?" The old woman said, trembling as she pulled out a cloth package from her bosom and slowly unwrapped it with her thin hands in front of the female customer.

  The female customer was about to wave her hand and say no, but when she saw the old woman's hair was all white, wearing a thin jacket in such cold weather, her waist was not straight, and her lips were frozen purple, her refusal got stuck in her throat.

  Lowering her head to look into the bundle, it was a phoenix hairpin made of pearls. The bright pearl still emitted a bright and watery color, the white pin body seemed to be made of white silver, the shape was quite rare, one phoenix body had two delicate phoenix heads... but what was wrong with it?

  The female customer was just thinking like this, when the old lady wiped away her tears and said: "This is an heirloom from our family... If it weren't for my husband needing money for surgery, I wouldn't have thought of selling this..."

  Anyone with a little common sense knows that in Panjiayuan, the one thing you can't listen to is stories - you're miserable, I'm miserable, everyone has their own misfortune, and in the end, your wallet is miserable too, and you'll even bring back a pile of "antiques" produced last year, which is the most miserable thing.

  This phoenix hairpin looks strange at first glance, it's probably because it feels too new - it looks like a freshly produced item.

  The old woman looked at the female customer with some tension, her hand holding the hairpin unconsciously tightening. She had run to several shops since early morning, and those who were polite said "can't be sure", while those who were impolite scolded her for coming to their door so early to peddle such obvious counterfeit goods, really unlucky.

  What the phoenix hairpin was like, the old woman naturally knew. She just couldn't understand why everyone said it was a fake when it was clearly an heirloom. If she hadn't thought of her seriously ill husband at home, the old man really wouldn't have had the courage to continue selling it to people.

  This beautiful-looking girl, will she buy it?

  The female customer was carefully examining the phoenix hairpin, seemingly moved. Just then, Xiao Wang went to call for a car and ran back with sweat all over his face - he had lost his head today, only thinking of it when calling for a car that no one was guarding the store, so he rushed back in a hurry.

  Seeing the female guest standing outside the door, Xiao Wang let out a sigh of relief and then felt that his own thoughts were too gloomy. How could someone like her do something like pickpocketing?

  Seeing an old woman in tattered clothes at the door, after asking a few simple questions, Xiao Wang instinctively furrowed his brow. In the several months he had been working at Panjiayuan, what hadn't he seen? He had heard stories of people waiting for kidney and heart transplants dozens of times, this kind of thing was really just child's play.

  But in the antique world, even if you can tell what's real and what's fake, you can't point it out when someone else is doing business, that's the rule.

  Xiao Wang didn't say it out loud, but instead said to the female customer: "Ma'am, your car has been called." He was half-reminding her, and originally thought that the old lady would be unhappy, but unexpectedly the old man seemed not to have caught his hint, and only looked at the still deliberating female customer with full of expectation.

  "Old man, how much are you planning to sell this hairpin for?" The female customer finally asked the price under the old man's expectant gaze.

  The sound is still the same, like the wind blowing through a bamboo forest, very pleasant to listen to. But Little Wang was secretly anxious, as soon as he asked about the price, the swindler would always be able to talk him into buying these so-called antiques, and in the end, he wouldn't know what had happened.

  The old man was intimidated by those shop owners and didn't know how to quote a price that the girl in front of him would accept, his face turned red with anxiety.

  The female customer seemed to have noticed the old woman's embarrassment and smiled as she asked: "How much does the surgery cost for the old man?"

  Xiao Wang was shocked and his chin almost dropped. The old woman didn't understand at first, but when the female guest said it again, she was surprised, delighted, and worried.

  "Want... fifty thousand." After finishing speaking, she regretted it a bit. This price, if it scared away the only buyer, how would they pay for her husband's surgery?

  The female customer did not raise any objections to the price, and quickly took out 50,000 yuan to buy the phoenix hairpin. Afraid that the old lady would be targeted by people with ulterior motives, she personally hailed a taxi for her.

  This process was swift and decisive, leaving Xiao Wang staring in amazement at one side.

  It wasn't until the female customer took all the jade stones away in her car that Xiao Wang came to his senses. That woman had such a good eye, she could pick out the real ones from a pile of fake jade, so how could she not recognize that phoenix hairpin?

  It's just that it's unclear whether the phoenix hairpin is real or fake, and regardless of which outcome, it can't erase her kindness - if it's fake, then the female customer was sympathizing with the old man; if it's real, she paid a high price of 50,000 for just one pearl pin, even if it's real, it may not be worth that much.

  Thinking of her being able to tell the difference between true and false at first glance, but still wanting to buy two rings together, Xiao Wang felt his nose itching badly - in this era, there are indeed such good people, so the world is not too bad after all?