Seeing that Ding Ning ignored him but whispered to Mu Yanran, Xiang Bolong even more jealously resented and chillily satirized him in anger.
“What a bumpkin! He is too coarse to show in public. You are such a poor guy who has never seen the world. You just see ten million and it is like seeing heaven. You will never make a fortune.”
Ding Ning’s face darkened gradually. Although he clearly knew that this son of a bitch was goading him, he still felt uncomfortable.
Xiao Nuo was a good judge of character. Ding Ning had an inferiority complex. The feeling of inferiority did not result from the fact that he came from a border town, but the shadow that Bai Qinglian brought to him.
All he was thinking was the disdainful face of the old man who had kept Bai Qinglian as a mistress, which made his heart painful for that.
There was ferocity like a wolf in his eyes. He looked at Xiang Bolong without emotion on his face and sneered,
“You don’t have to goad me. I know you have lost money and you feel uncomfortable. You want to earn it back. People say that someone who is willing to take the gamble should willingly pay the loss. But this is the first time that I have seen such a freak like you who cannot afford to lose. The gambling quality is like moral quality. It seems that your moral quality is really bad. I was too embarrassed to win your money. It seems that I am too kind. Since you want to gamble, OK, I will give you another chance. Ten million yuan is too little; I have no interest. Twenty million yuan, do you dare to or not?”
Twenty million? Xiang Bolong’s face changed. Especially the cold light in Ding Ning’s eyes made his legs weak.
Although he came from a rich family, the money did not belong to him. He only had millions of pocket money every month.
His savings over the years added up to around ten million in the account. After he lost five million cash, there was only six to seven million left.
Even the ten million bets he made were borrowed from a few friends to make up for it. As for twenty million, he was really afraid of it.
“Gambling with him. This guy is a talent; he wants to use this to scare you off.”
“Isn’t it just twenty million? It’s casual for us to pool enough money. Even thirty million you can also gamble with him, not to mention twenty million.”
“Isn’t it just a matter which can be dealt with two cars? Bolong, gamble with him. Otherwise, he will really think that we are as poor as him.”
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Ding Ning’s arrogant declaration infuriated a group friend of Xiang Bolong. These playboys all clamoured and supported Xiang Bolong.
The young man in white looked at Ding Ning dignifiedly. Unlike this group of playboys around him, he felt that Ding Ning was full of confidence, which made him faintly have a bad feeling. He whispered, “Be careful. This guy seems to be not simple.”
“Childe Bai, isn’t he just a lucky guy? What’s your worry?”
“That’s right. Childe Bai, don’t you show too much respect to that guy? A guy, all over his body are inferior goods. Does he really think he is somebody?”
“Take it easy, Childe Bai. Just twenty million. He has defeated Xiang Bolong twice and is still so arrogant. That is making us lose face. If it is spread that we are unexpectedly abused by a poor man and do not dare to take it, how can we act in the future?”
“Just twenty million. It’s a mere trifle. I don’t believe that this guy has X-ray Vision.”
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These men supported Xiang Bolong with indignation one after another. After the young man in white thought carefully, he couldn’t help smiling for it that he had worried too much.
Yes, although that young man looked full of confidence and had a kind of unspeakable special temperament, this was the gambling on stones but not the competition of background and influence. What was the worry?
Besides, in Ninghai, this small place, he, Childe Bai, was never afraid of anyone. He did not really believe that guy had X-ray Vision.
It must be that this guy had learned to gamble on stones for a while, so he hid his strength, pretended to be very stupid, let the opponents take him lightly and then easily took them down. However, Childe Bai was doing a lot of research on gambling on stones. He was confident that he wouldn’t be wrong about it; this crude raw jade stone must be a stone in a white cover without any spots, stripes even mosses. It would be damned if it could rise in price through gambling.
Facing the aggression of Xiang Bolong, Ding Ning must be bravado and want to scare Xiang Bolong off by using substantial bet.
Thinking about this, the heroism of Childe Bai dramatically increased. Although he did not care about these little childes around him, they followed his lead.
As the linchpin of this small circle, he naturally needed to stand up for his heelers. He took a step forward and lazily said, “20 million is nothing. Or simply we bet more, 30 million.”
Ding Ning’s face showed signs of hesitation. The bet was not too high for him and he was not afraid of losing. He had Absolute Touch which was no difference with the X-ray Vision. It was impossible for him to lose.
He just subconsciously did not want to provoke this Childe Bai. He could see that this young man was not an everyman from his bearing and style of conversation.
Combined with the way he was respected and revered by a group of playboys, all these signs indicated that this guy had a hard background.
A playboy was not horrible. But sometimes the energy a group of playboys made could be very horrible.
If he were in Ninghai alone, of course, he would have no fear. However, now he was a man who had a girlfriend. He did not want Ling Yun suffering the retaliation because of him.
But he did not expect that his hesitation made Childe Bai firmly believe his conjecture. Sure enough, this guy had bravado and wanted to scare them off by using the substantial bet.
Childe Bai lifted the eyebrows right away and gave Ding Ning a meaningful look. “If you think you cannot afford it, then we’ll bet 20 million as you’ve said.”
He also had a feeling that he couldn’t see through Ding Ning. He instinctively did not want to offend this kind of people thoroughly. A compromise would make a conflict much easy to resolve. That was a way to save both sides’ faces.
“30 million is OK. Since Childe Bai is in the mood, I’ll play a game with you.”
Ding Ning soon stopped thinking and said calmly. Although he really did not want to offend this Childe Bai, that did not mean he was afraid.
If this guy really did not have a correct judgment on himself and was going to attack people around Ding Ning, even if he was the god, Ding Ning still had 10 thousand ways of making him disappear quietly.
Mu Yanran’s face changed. This guy really bet so much money with them which let others worry. She looked at Ding Ning and wanted to persuade him a little bit. However, when she thought about that Ding Ning definitely would show that hateful face and naughtily say that she was caring about him, she immediately closed her mouth.
She secretly groaned in heart, “I did not care about you. At the worst… At the worst, I would repay a part of gambling debt for you. Anyway, your carving skill is good. You can pay for it by using your carving skill.”
As soon as she thought about that Ding Ning tragically carved jade ware every day for her, Mu Yanran immediately became relaxed and showed a slight smile at the corners of her mouth. She even wished him to lose.
“Do you have 30 million? Bumpkin?”
A playboy who colored his hair in white and looked like a pulsatilla chinensis looked at Ding Ning’s clothes all over his body which was less than 300 Yuan and asked satirically.
Ding Ning curled his lip and glanced at Xiang Bolong. “The guy who always gives money away must know this best if I can afford 30 million or not.”
“You are the fucking guy who always gives money away; all of your family are the people who always give money away.”
Xiang Bolong was miffed and shouted.
But Childe Bai slightly changed countenance and squinted at Xiang Bolong with calm eyes, which made Xiang Bolong shudder.
Xiang Bolong showed an adulatory smile. “Childe Bai, you can be at ease. Even if this guy cannot afford 30 million, the thing in his bag must worth this price, even way more than 30 million.”
“What is so valuable?”
Everyone changed countenance for that. A playboy who was as thin as a bamboo pole asked curiously.
“Emm, you just need to know that I have a thing which is worth 30 million. As for what it is, you will know that if you win. It’s not necessary now.”
Ding Ning did not want the thing about the 9000-year-old ganoderma lucidum to be spread. He immediately interrupted the performance desire of Xiang Bolong and stopped him from speaking.
“That does make sense. If we win, we will naturally know that. If we lose, it’s not necessary to know that. Let’s get started. Do we need to sign the bet?”
Childe Bai heroically waved his hand and restored the lazy look. It seemed that he could not change countenance, even if the sky fell down.
“I believe that Childe Bai is not a person who makes a fortune by breaking his words. It doesn’t matter if we sign the bet or not. No one will repudiate this debt.”
Ding Ning said this without blush and panting, which frightened the group of playboys.
This debt? What the fuck, this was 30 million. Wasn’t he a bumpkin but that low-key child from a great family who was a master? How could he be so confident?
Childe Bai slightly squinted and showed a meaningful smile on the corners of his mouth. He was not wrong. “This guy is not simple. He is definitely not an everyman.”
The stone cutting master did not care about what they thought in the heart. He started to work without hesitation. He was too excited to extricate himself. This was a bet of 30 million.
Although he had seen the precedent for cutting the jadeite worth of tens of millions even hundreds of millions, it was the first time for him to see such a bet with so much money.
His heart trembled slightly, but his hands were still steady. The cover of stone was cut open with the thunder of the grinder.
“The gambling is over. There is no green.” Someone shouted disappointedly.
Mu Yanran’s heart tightened and she looked at Ding Ning subconsciously when she found that Ding Ning’s face was calm without any panicky look. She secretly admired that the psychological quality of this rascal was quite good.
Xiang Bolong and others held their breath and watched the raw stone tensely. They also heard the shout of the bystanders, but they knew that guy was definitely a layman.
If after the first cut there was no green, it might not end the gamble. Sometimes it was normal that there would be green at the second cut or the third cut.
The stone cutting master was not surprised. After all, it was very lucky to have two or three stones which had green among 100 stones. Moreover, the condition of this raw stone in front of him was worse than the crude raw jade stone which was cut and showed a Shiny Type.
But there was compassion in his eyes. He also came from a poor family. He was mentally more inclined toward Ding Ning.
After all, if those childes lost, they just lost their pocket money for about a year, but if Ding Ning lost, it was very likely that he lost all his fortune and even could not recover after this setback from now on.
Just as he was about to make another cut, Ding Ning suddenly said, “Wait!”
The stone cutting master looked at him with surprise and did not know why he stopped him halfway.
Everyone also felt puzzled. Was this guy ready to admit defeat? Mu Yanran sighed secretly and thought about how to mobilize funds to help Ding Ning pull through.
“What? Are you planning to play the game that if you surrender you will only lose a half?”
A chubby playboy with little eye mockingly said, causing a group of playboys to laugh.
“Dude, since you are gambling, you have to gamble till the end. It is not suitable for you to surrender and only lose half.”
Xiang Bolong seemed to be sure to win and shouted with a pleased face.
“Surrender and only lose a half? Even if you agree, I do not agree!”
Ding Ning glanced at him contemptuously. He got a marker and drew lines on the raw stone and spoke to the stone cutting master, “Master, please cut according to my mark.”
“Okay, sir!”
The stone cutting master replied. He was infected by Ding Ning’s strong self-confidence and inexplicably had a kind of confidence that after this cut, there would definitely be green, just like the Shiny Type showed before.
As the gravel flew and a cloud of dust pervaded, a green color appeared quietly.
“There is green. There is really green.”
The stone cutting master excitedly shouted. He was more excited than he raised the price himself through gambling.