（0037）

[Today's second update is delivered! ] 】

Xu Xingxia glanced at Gao Meng and said slowly: "He follows us, be safe." Seeing that it was getting dark, it was not safe for him to walk alone. ”

Gao Meng didn't speak anymore. Although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, Xu Xingxia's words were Gao Meng's dare not disobey. However, what he feared was not the discipline of the army, but Xu Xingxia's personal force. I have to say that this is really the sorrow of the Ming army.

After walking for a while, he was about to leave the Gobi Desert and enter Zhenyuan Pass, when Wang Qinian suddenly approached Xu Xingxia and took out a small box from his arms and gave it to him. Along the way, he didn't have a lot of words, and he felt a little timid and afraid, but this doesn't mean that Wang Qinian doesn't understand the rules. He intuitively found that this Ming army officer named Xu Xingxia was worthy of his relationship. It's good to have a good relationship with him. It's a pity that he doesn't have a very valuable gift in his hand, so he can only use the things in the box for the time being.

Xu Xingxia casually took the small box, opened it, and found that there was a piece of soybean-sized glass inside, which was crystal clear...... When I looked closely, I found that it was not glass, but something very precious in the future. Unfortunately, at this time, the sky was almost dark, there was not enough light, and the contents of the box were greatly reduced.

"Is this a diamond?"

Xu Xingxia said with some surprise.

Wang Qinian shook his head, indicating that it was not a diamond.

Xu Xingxia looked at it carefully, what is this not a diamond? After coming to the front of his eyes and looking at it carefully for a while, Xu Xingxia concluded that this was definitely a diamond. He happily said, "It's a diamond, I'm not mistaken." Wang Qinian, I can't imagine that you still have so many diamonds on you! Well, thank you! I accepted your gift! ”

Wang Qinian's expression felt a little strange, as if he didn't quite understand why Xu Xingxia was so happy. He suddenly opened the burden and showed it all in front of Xu Xingxia. Xu Xingxia glanced at it casually and was stunned. In Wang Qinian's baggage, there are actually a lot of diamonds! The biggest one is even the size of a little finger!

Xu Xingxia's whole body suddenly boiled with blood. Damn, so many diamonds! Damn, developed! For the first time, Xu Xingxia's mind took the initiative to think that he was going to make this Wang Qinian and snatch all his diamonds directly. , so many diamonds, it's insane!

"Rich!"

Xu Xingxia couldn't help but scream.

Suddenly, I felt that the people around me looked very strange......

Wang Qinian's expression was even more weird, as if he was looking at a monster.

Xu Xingxia subconsciously felt that something was wrong. Wang Qinian seems to be not stupid enough to show all the diamonds to himself. Money and wealth can't show up, such a simple truth, it is impossible for Wang Qinian not to understand. Unless he took the initiative to seek death. Looking at his expression, it seems that these diamonds don't look like anything valuable.

Gao Meng's look is even more eccentric. For these sparkling diamonds, Gao Meng didn't seem to have any feelings. This is obviously not normal. Even in front of the diamond, he can't keep steady, let alone Gao Meng? However, Gao Meng looked at these diamonds, and he just didn't feel it at all. Really, it's definitely not that he Xu Xingxia was dazzled and misunderstood.

For a while, countless strange and ridiculous thoughts appeared in Xu Xingxia's mind. He was sure that something must have gone wrong in one of the links that would lead to such a strange phenomenon. However, he didn't know what went wrong. He tried to control his mind, and said in a slightly trembling voice, "This is a diamond, haven't you seen it?" ”

Everyone around shook their heads strangely. Their reaction made Xu Xingxia feel even more strange. He felt as if he had fundamentally mistaken something. The priceless things of later generations, in this dynasty, seem to be rotten streets. Holding the diamond in his hand, Xu Xingxia was completely confused.

Wang Qinian suddenly narrowed his small eyes and asked cautiously, "Official, what do you say this thing is called?" Called diamonds? Isn't it worth a lot of money? ”

Xu Xingxia's expression suddenly became weird, his eyes looked at him a little dullly, his eyes slowly turned, and he said slowly: "This ...... It's called a diamond...... It's not worth the money, though......"

Wang Qinian was immediately deflated.

Looking at Xu Xingxia's expression just now, he thought that diamonds were very valuable.

Xu Xingxia's expression became more and more eccentric. Looking at Wang Qinian's appearance, it seems that they don't realize the value of diamonds at all. In the world, there is such a strange thing? His eyes rolled several times in a row before he slowly calmed his thoughts. After thinking about it, Xu Xingxia asked slowly, "These diamonds ...... Where did you get that? ”

Wang Qinian said sullenly: "It's a group of merchants from the west, it seems to be from the Ottoman Empire, far away from us. As they passed through the grasslands, they were sacked by horse thieves. Everything of value was robbed, and only these things were scattered across the grassland. Some of them were picked up for others to play with, and I picked some up and bought some from others. ”

Xu Xingxia couldn't help but ask, "How much did you buy it?" ”

Wang Qinian raised three fingers,

Xu Xingxia subconsciously said: "Three thousand taels ......"

Wang Qinian's eyes, which were originally squinted, suddenly opened as if they were bull's eyes, and instantly expanded more than ten times.

Xu Xingxia changed his words and said: "Thirty thousand taels ......"

Wang Qinian's face, as well as his eyes, looked even more like a monster.

Xu Xingxia couldn't help frowning, and said bluntly: "How much is it?" It can't be 300,000 taels, right? You don't look like you have 300,000 taels of silver! ”

Wang Qinian looked at Xu Xingxia up and down like a monster. From his eyes, Xu Xingxia clearly felt that this guy did regard himself as a monster. After a long while, Wang Qinian stammered: "Diamond ...... The biggest one...... Thirty pennies...... The others are all triliterate...... I spent about 300 yuan on such a bag of diamonds......"

"What?"

"Three hundred dollars?"

Xu Xingxia almost fell off his horse.

Depend on! So many diamonds, 300 dollars? Did I hear it wrong?

God, that's not a joke, is it? These diamonds, if they change hands in the future generations, will be at least tens of thousands of times or even hundreds of thousands of times the profit! Is this Wang Qinian crazy? How can you say such a number? There are so many diamonds, if they are shipped back to the next generation, they will be worth at least hundreds of millions! That's enough to buy tens of thousands of lives!

Unexpectedly, diamonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars in later generations were worth less than half a tael of silver at this time, which is really ...... Xu Xingxia really couldn't find any words to describe it. He just had a feeling that the world was not normal. Finally, Xu Xingxia pressed down all the nonsense in his heart and talked carefully with Wang Qinian. The topic of conversation is, of course, about these diamonds. He didn't believe that these diamonds would be so cheap.

As a result, after some talking, Xu Xingxia sadly discovered that diamonds were really so cheap in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Kingdom, no one knows the value of diamonds at all. Ming people generally like jade, pearls, coral, etc., and no one regards diamonds as jewelry at all. To illustrate the most popular jewelry in the country recently, it is estimated that it is jadeite.

Jadeite was introduced from Myanmar after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it took more than 200 years to gradually become the mainstream jewelry. In front of jadeite, diamonds have no status at all, and no one even knows the name diamond. Only a few people know that this stone is called adamant, and it is very hard and hard. Other than that, there is nothing else.

The use of diamond jade is also used by alchemists, that is, those so-called Taoist priests occasionally, and ordinary people have no chance to touch it at all. Since I don't know, I don't know, I don't have the opportunity to get in touch with it, diamonds are naturally cheap and useless in everyone's minds. Compared with jadeite, it is completely one heaven and one underground.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a strange thing......"

Xu Xingxia looked at the diamond in his hand and whispered to himself.

What can this thing do? Since the people of the Ming Kingdom did not realize its value and wanted to sell it for money, it was basically impossible. In fact, to put it bluntly, things like luxury goods need to be marketed for a long time, and if others do not recognize them, the value cannot be reflected at all. It's a pity that he Xu Xingxia doesn't have such time. Luxury aside, the only value of a diamond may be its hardness.

As the hardest substance in nature, diamond is harder than steel and glass. Cutting glass? Cutting steel? In Xu Xingxia's mind, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred to him, and he thought of an excellent use. Anyway, it's a good idea to use diamonds to process that kind of thing. It is estimated that there is nothing else that can do it except diamonds.

"Wang Qinian, sell me all these diamonds of yours, and I'll buy them at three times the price." Xu Xingxia made up his mind and immediately said quietly to Wang Qinian.

"Good, good, good." Wang Qinian couldn't ask for it.

"In the future, you will continue to help me buy diamonds, as many as you want, and it doesn't matter if the price is a little higher. I want these diamonds, a little bit of a use. Xu Xingxia said lightly. In fact, he needs these diamonds for a great purpose. However, this must not be shown. Otherwise, it would be unpleasant for someone to compete with him. The thing he pondered required a lot of diamonds.

"Good, good, good." Wang Qinian hurriedly agreed. It's pure extra money, and of course he's making a good fortune. The only pity is that the number of such things as diamonds is too small, otherwise, he will be developed. Xu Xingxia opened it, but it was three times the price!

[Ask for collection~~~Ask for recommendation~~~]