Chapter 138 3.60 Legendary Gambling Game (4)

Shopkeeper Luo stroked his beard involuntarily when he saw this scene.

As for how to calculate the value of a city, Tang Shang, whose business covers most of the civilized world, has a detailed algorithm. The old man just wanted to send his servant to bring the detailed map of the Viking territory, but Gustav had already thrown out the fiefdom token of Fengxi Castle.

The old shopkeeper waved his hand gently when he saw this scene.

In his opinion, Loki's defeat was inevitable.

Just like normal people in the 21st century would not carry property certificates when they go out. Ordinary Viking nobles would not carry such important fiefdom tokens when they go to the night market. Today, two cities appeared in this originally ordinary gambling game!

He has been a shopkeeper for more than 40 years, and this is the first time he has encountered a gambling game of this scale.

Loki's face was gloomy like a lead-black cloud. He opened the briefcase behind him again, and hesitated for a long time whether to hand over the "Imperial Seal".

After thinking for a few seconds, he decided that he had to give it a try, for a simple reason: he could not bear the consequences of losing Fog Duck Town!

If Fog Duck Town returned to the Bernard family, he would not only lose a large area of ​​land and people, but he would also have to face Yuna, who had nowhere to go!

The thought that he might need to share a room with this young lady

Absolutely not!

He clenched the imperial seal tightly with his fingers, silently praying that the white-bearded old man had better be a connoisseur, and then gently threw the 10-centimeter square seal onto the miniature gold mountain.

Ding!

The imperial seal landed steadily on the top of the gold mountain. Shopkeeper Luo just wanted to pick up the seal, but his half-extended hand suddenly hovered in the air.

The hand that could always remain stable hung in the air for a few seconds and began to tremble slightly. The old man narrowed his eyes and carefully observed the not-so-big square seal.

How could this thing

be so similar to the "imperial seal" recorded in ancient books?

But then again, if he hadn't been lucky enough to see the scrolls copied by other court officials, Shopkeeper Luo himself wouldn't know what the treasure looked like.

Moreover, except for a very few professionally trained treasure appraisers, no one knew that the "Imperial Seal" was broken and lost a corner during the usurpation of the throne by Wang Mang in the Han Dynasty.

The Tang people did not know this secret, let alone the Vikings thousands of miles away.

Gustav, sitting opposite Loki, was still very confident. To be honest, the Imperial Seal is not a treasure that looks like jewels. It is indeed a good jade that is as warm as water. But as a senior rich second generation, Gustav understands that once the jade of the Tang people is damaged, such as missing corners, cracks, etc., its value will be greatly reduced!

This jade seal was destroyed on the corner of gold. An ugly crack was filled with an even uglier piece of gold. This thing does not look valuable at all!

Haha, everyone said that Loki was inadvertently smart, but I didn't expect him to be such a fool! Knowing that Du Ju would lose, most people would choose to throw a worthless piece of garbage to lose a game, but he actually threw out a jade seal that was barely acceptable.

Gustav was full of confidence, with his hands behind his head waiting for the old court official to announce the final result.

But the result did not come for a long time.

The old court official carefully took out a pair of white silk gloves from his arms and put them on his hands, then gently picked up the jade seal. He first took it to his nose and smelled it.

His face changed drastically after smelling it!

Then for a long time, the old court official put his turbid old eyes on the outer wall of the jade seal to observe every line in it.

(According to rumors from shareholders in the company, the big cabinet of my Chuyun Trading Company, "Qingyun Zhenren", once sneaked into the palace in the dead of night to explore this treasure!)

2000 years ago, the Chu man "Bian He" got a rough jade in the "Baoyu Rock" in Jingshan. He presented the treasure to King Li of Chu. King Li's vassal thought it was just a broken stone and ordered his left foot to be cut off for deceiving the king. When King Li died and King Wu came to power, Bian He presented the jade again. King Wu's vassal came to the same conclusion and cut off his right foot.

Many years later. King Wu died and King Wen came to power. Bian He held the jade and cried for three days. His tears dried and blood flowed. King Wen sent his ministers to ask, and Bian He replied: "I am not sad because of the torture I have suffered, but because no one recognizes the treasure of heaven and earth." King Wen thought about it and decided to open the stone himself.

The stone that Bian He held for his whole life was hidden in the "He's Bi" that was famous in the world in later generations.

This story recorded in "Han Feizi·Heshi" is well known in the Tang Dynasty. But for people like Manager Luo who have been identifying treasures for a lifetime, they will think about more questions below the literal meaning.

For example, the "big shopkeeper" of Izumo Trading Company, Qingyun Zhenren. He has a completely different understanding of the imperial seal from ordinary people.

His understanding lies in the word "reverence".

Qingyun Zhenren's business is spread all over the Silk Road. He has countless shops and courtiers. All the shopkeepers are elites selected from 100 million Tang people.

However, even the most capable shopkeeper under him is not as good as the immortal courtiers in the palace of Tang King Li Shi who can identify immortal treasures and immortal medicines.

No matter how rich ordinary people are, they are just "common people".

They can't compete with the royal family at all.

One thousand two hundred years ago, the Chu State was also one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. The counselors around the king of Chu will definitely not be mediocre people who live in idleness. Since all the treasure appraisers around the two monarchs claimed that this stone was not jade, then the stone hiding the "He's Bi" was most likely not "jade" at all!

"He's Bi" is by no means a piece of "jade" in the popular sense.

Master Qingyun guessed that this stone was most likely an "outer god" that fell from the sky to the land of Kyushu like the "outer god".

Why does he think the imperial seal on the case of the current emperor Tang Dezong is an imitation? It was precisely because after he sneaked into the palace, he discovered that the traditional jade seal on Li Shi's desk was an ordinary piece of suet-fat jade.

If the jade hidden in Bian He's arms was such a piece, not to mention the two treasure appraisers under the king of Chu, even an ordinary pawnshop owner on the street would be able to see its value.

but now

It took shopkeeper Luo just three minutes to conclude that the jade seal in his hand was definitely not carved from any kind of "jade" on the market.

the reason is simple.

This jade seal is really ugly!