Chapter 209 - Pay by Card (1/2)

After Xiao Hong finished his words, they rushed happily out to pick up three stones optionally and then queued up to buy the stones. Several people around sympathetically looked at Hao Ning and his friends who were so happy. Hao Ning knew that those people must have some methods to see through their own stones. They believed that there was no jade in these stones and laughed at Hao Ning and his friends in their hearts for their ignorance about the stones as outsiders.

“Hah-hah!” Hao Ning felt angry in his mind when he saw the mocking faces of those people. “You will regret it after I cut open those stones and take out the jade in the stones later.”

“Sir, 500,000 yuan in total.” The waiter pointed at POS with a smile. “Please pay by card here. Only by cash card. Credit card is unacceptable.”

“500,000 yuan for only three stones?” Hao Ning was stunned first and then understood immediately on second thought that the stones were transported from other places, so their prices were getting higher. But he did not have a bargaining because he would cut open the stones and take out the violet jadeite with green lines. 500,000 yuan was not a big deal. He held the stones and looked at Xiao Hong, waiting for her to pay by cash card.

Xiao Hong got a little angry by Hao Ning’s stare. “Why are you looking at me? Pay by your cash card!”

“My cash card?” Hao Ning was stunned and thought in his mind that he did not have so much money. He asked Xiao Hong, “Not yours?” Hao Ning added specifically in a low voice since he was afraid that Xiao Hong would not understand after hearing his words. “The jade which will be taken out by cutting open the stones later will pay back the cost of buying those stones. Don’t worry. I’ll give you 1 billion yuan later…”

“Bro, are you insane?” Xiao Hong pulled Hao Ning aside. “I am the Sudhana. I pick these stones and pay by card. Then I take out the jade by cutting open them and make money. But then what’s cause and effect?”

“You, you, you!” Hao Ning understood. He couldn’t use Xiao Hong’s money. He could not help complaining, “You have never told me that!”

“I’ve told you clearly.” Xiao Hong almost cried, “I said that you needed to do it by yourself because I needed to care about the issue of cause and effect. Don’t you believe that you just need to borrow the mana from me and pay by my card? Brother Hao Ning, what can I describe you? Your theology quotient is too low indeed.”

“What is the theology quotient?” Zhou Yuan stepped closer to figure out what these two people were talking about. “What’s that?”

Xiao Hong felt very depressed and explained, “Intelligence quotient, emotional quotient, financial quotient, and theology quotient are your ability of comprehension in theology.” He looked at Hao Ning after saying that, “I think Hao Ning’s martial-arts quotient is 1000 while the theology quotient is negative.”

Hao Ning was speechless. According to Xiao Hong’s explanation, martial-arts quotient was the ability of comprehension in martial arts. Hao Ning had nothing to say under such a circumstance and had to ask how much money Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan had. Zhou Yuan said that he was the immortal as well and could not help him, waving his hand. Liu Shuai and Hao Ning could not take much money at all since they were very poor. Liu Shuai had just bought so many things for Wen in his house for the surprise given to Wen while Hao Ning had just paid the three-month house rental. However, even if they had not spent their money on these things, they still could not afford the money to buy the stones at this moment.

“Um! Could the price be lower?” Hao Ning felt very embarrassed to tell the waiter, “I have only 30,000 yuan in total. Are there three stones which are worth only 30,000 yuan?”

“30,000 yuan?” The waiter was stunned and pointed to the stones held by Hao Ning and his friends. Then he gesticulated to measure with his hands, “Such big stones? Do you mean the crude stones?” After hearing his words, Hao Ning nodded seriously, but the waiter could not help laughing and said, “Sorry, we don’t sell the concrete.”

“You!” Hao Ning was about to lose his temper, but a voice came from the back, saying, “500,000 yuan! I’ll pay for them! Jienan, go to pay by card and remember to use my money.”

“So strange! Such a similar voice?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai looked at each other and suddenly thought of it, “Zhang Dalong!”

Looking back, they found that it was him indeed. Zhang Dalong looked at them with a smile.

“Wow! Mr. Zhang!” Xiao Hong turned back to shake hands with him quickly and said with a smile, “Mr. Zhang, are you interested in this as well?”

Xiao Hong knew Zhang Dalong, too? Hao Ning thought about it and felt that it was reasonable. People in a circle would know each other by attending some wine parties. It was not strange but normal.

“It’s because of this kid…” Zhang Dalong looked at Jienan who was about to pay and said with a smile, “He said that stone-gambling was very popular recently so that we came here to have a look. I have not thought that I would meet you and these young friends here. According to the circumstance, you know each other, right?”

“Hey-hey! Mr. Zhang, nice to meet you.” Hao Ning smiled at Zhang Dalong and nodded in response. He quickly pulled Xiao Hong to the side and asked, “He will pay the money, but what about the jade in these stones? Who will get the jade?”

Xiao Hong opened his mouth with a smile. Before he could answer, Zhang Dalong laughed brightly, “It belongs to you. It’s a gift I send you.”

“That’s a big cost.” Hao Ning laughed and held three crude stones in his hands. He rubbed his head happily as if he was really holding a precious thing. People around him could not help laughing at him, and even someone made a sound of laughing.

“We can’t accept this.” Xiao Hong laughed as well and said, “Mr. Zhang, we have no reason to receive your 500,000 yuan. When the jade is taken out from the stones bought by your money, we will give your money back after we sell them out for a good price.”

After hearing the words of Xiao Hong, Hao Ning understood now that Xiao Hong meant that he should only pay back 500,000 yuan to Zhang Dalong after they sold the jade out. Stone-gambling was risky. That was enough. Xiao Hong was giving him a reason to accept the money. “Yes, Mr. Zhang. We could not accept your money for no reason, but we will pay back the money to you after we sell the jade out.”

“OK, okay!” Zhang Dalong laughed brightly and said, “Pay back 500,000 yuan to me if there is jade in these stones, and otherwise, no need to pay the money back.”

It was not that he did not care about the money. Hao Ning and his friends helped him out before, and it seemed that Hao Ning needed help this time since they fell into trouble. There were two reasons why he did so. One was that he wanted to pay back the kindness of Zhang Dalong. The other one was that he had something to discuss with Hao Ning. Therefore, he used the gift to show his goodwill.

“Three idiots…” Several voices came over, saying with sarcasm, “Those are useless stones. They treat them like treasures!”

“Yes, they are like beggars looking at the wild geese flying in the sky.” Another voice laughed to echo, “They are discussing how to eat those wild geese after hitting them down. But those wild geese just fly away before they can come to an agreement.”

“Ha-ha!” The voice became louder and louder, and then a large group of people could not help laughing.

One of the people who were gossiping continued to satirize, “You are wrong. Beggars will negotiate after they see those wild geese fly away, but these people just sit on the ground and look at the sky. Then they begin to dream and say, ‘If there are some wild geese flying by later, should we steam or braise them?'”

“Ha-ha!” The laugh became much louder.

“You guys want to die, right?” A big voice came out. With several sounds of banging, those people fell to the ground with their hands covering their eyes. They just screamed out of pain. So painful! Hao Ning found that Jienan stood in the front with her angry face after seeing this.

He had the reason to be angry. When Jienan finished the payment and came back, he found that a large group of people were making fun of Zhang Dalong and Hao Ning. One of them was his boss, and the other one was the master of martial arts who he thought highly of. Besides, his boss came here because of his proposal, but now, his boss suffered sarcasm here. He had no reason to let them go.