I lent my brother 500 yuan, and he offered his wife as collateral.

……

"Zzzzzzz—!!!"

The massive alloy saw blade cut into the stone, emitting a tooth-grinding shriek.

Throughout the entire stone-cutting site, hundreds of people were intently watching the largest stone-cutting machine, their breathing deliberately kept low.

The air was filled with the acrid smell of stone chips rubbing together—the smell of burning money.

Gu Shao Cong stood on the table, his expensive Armani suit soaked with sweat and clinging tightly to his back.

His eyes were bloodshot, bulging, and fixed on the flying sparks, while he mumbled meaningless words.

"Raise it... raise it for me... fifty billion... that's my fifty billion..."

If this move causes a price increase, the Gu family will not only weather the crisis but also leap to become the most powerful family in Sichuan.

Even if his father dies, he can still hold his own!

If it collapses...

It can't collapse!

That's the most treasured possession of the Su family's Hidden Dragon Pavilion!

That's the top bidder!

That's the "Dragon-Suppressing Stone"!

Manager Wang stood to the side, clutching the asset mortgage contract worth 2.5 billion yuan tightly in his hand, his palms sweaty.

He prayed frantically in his heart: Please don't cut out a pile of shit, at least... at least get some colored material, even if it's just a bean seed, it can fool people.

Qin Feng stood on the periphery of the crowd, looking languid.

He even had the leisure to tuck a stray strand of hair that had fallen across Su Qingxue's forehead behind her ear.

"Brother Feng..." Su Qingxue's small hands were icy cold as she gripped Qin Feng's clothes tightly, her voice trembling, "That rock is so big... could there really be nothing inside?"

"What's the use of being so big?" Qin Feng's lips curled into a sneer as his gaze swept through the crowd and landed on Gu Shao Cong, who was shaking his leg wildly. "His brain is full of water, so he sees everything as an ocean. This cut isn't just cutting stone, it's cutting the Gu family's life."

"Boom—Crack!!"

Just then, the machine emitted a dull, loud noise.

Cut through!

Everyone's heart skipped a beat.

"Open! It's open!"

The stone-cutting master turned off the machine, and the ear-piercing noise stopped abruptly.

The scene was eerily quiet; the only sound was the dripping of cooling water on the ground.

Two burly men walked up with crowbars and inserted them into the cut from the left and right.

"rise!"

With a low shout, the half-ton boulder crashed down to both sides.

"Water! Flush it quickly!"

Gu Shao Cong jumped off the table, not even caring that he had lost a shoe, and pounced on the two halves of the stone like a madman.

The water jet from the pipe swept over.

The originally grayish-brown cut surface revealed its true appearance.

There is no green.

There is no purple.

There wasn't even a decent amount of water.

All that met the eye was a stark white.

That lifeless grayish-white color is even worse than the inferior concrete used to build houses in the countryside.

Dry, rough, and covered with dense black cracks.

The cracks were like spider webs, not only on the surface but also deep inside the stone, tearing the entire piece of material to pieces.

The so-called "divine python belt" and the so-called "top-grade open window" are really just a thin layer of skin.

Beneath the skin, there was nothing but rotten cotton and dead cracks.

"this……"

Someone in the crowd gasped in shock.

Immediately following was a chilling uproar.

"Holy crap! It's a complete disaster! A total disaster!"

"What the hell is this thing? Even bricks are better than this!"

"White with a blue background? No, it's not even blue! This is just a lump of limestone in dire need of reconstruction!"

"Twenty-five billion... and this is all you bought?"

Those who had previously admired Gu Shaocong's boldness all changed their expressions.

It was the look one gives when looking at a truly tragic victim, filled with pity and a touch of schadenfreude.

Gu Shao Cong lay on the rock, his face pressed against the cold, damp surface.

He froze completely.

It was as if it had been frozen, maintaining that posture of opening its arms as if wanting to embrace the gold mountain.

"Impossible... I don't believe it..."

Gu Shao Cong suddenly raised his head, his face covered in mud and water, his expression as ferocious as a demon.

He pointed at the stone-cutting craftsman, his voice hoarse as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper:

"You fucking swapped my stone! This isn't a Dragon-Suppressing Stone! A Dragon-Suppressing Stone contains a dragon vein! It's Imperial Green! How could it be this kind of garbage!"

"Young Master Gu, with everyone watching, who would dare to trade your stone?" The stone-cutting master took two steps back, afraid that this madman would bite someone. "That's how this business is. Even a god can't judge an inch of jade; one cut can lead to heaven, another to hell..."

"Bullshit! You're talking nonsense!!"

Gu Shao Cong shoved the stone-cutting master aside and staggered to grab the powerful flashlight from the ground.

He frantically examined the cut surface.

Wherever the aperture reaches, all that's visible is cracking.

How many cracks were there? Forget about removing the bracelet, even trying to pry out a bead would shatter it into eight pieces.

"There's still a chance! The rock is so big... it just doesn't have any meat in the middle..."

Gu Shao Cong muttered nervously to himself, then suddenly turned and rushed toward the stone-cutting machine.

"Sizzle—!!!"

The machine was forcibly restarted.

Gu Shao Cong had no intention of securing the stone. He picked up the handheld cutting head of the grinder and, like a chainsaw killer, began to frantically cut at the half-stone!

Sparks flew everywhere!

Stone chips flew everywhere!

"Give me the green card! Give it to me! Give it to me!!"

He was cutting while howling, his voice so shrill it sent chills down your spine.

Pieces of gravel were cut off one by one.

Grayish-white.

It's still grayish-white.

It remains grayish-white.

Every cut was like stabbing Gu Shao Cong in the heart.

Every piece of gravel that falls to the ground represents tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in assets vanishing into thin air.

Manager Wang stood to the side, his face also looking rather grim.

Although they got the money (collateral), the scene was too ugly.

Everyone knows what a "pig butchering scam" is.

But the fact that the pig was slaughtered so brutally, leaving not even a single hair, would be a blow to the Su family's reputation if word got out.

It's too cruel.

They really didn't leave us a single piece of meat.

Ten minutes later.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of gravel.

The once majestic "Dragon-Suppressing Stone" has now become a pile of construction waste.

The largest is no bigger than a fist.

None of them are usable.

It's a complete and utter collapse.

Clang.

The grinding wheel slipped from Gu Shao Cong's hands and crashed to the ground.

He knelt amidst the rubble, his hands mangled and bloodied, blood mixed with stone dust dripping onto the ground.

Once that frenzied energy dissipates, all that remains is endless emptiness and fear.

2.5 billion.

The Gu family's ancestral home, shops, working capital...

It's all gone.

They replaced it with these rotten stones that were too rough to even pave a road.

Gu Shao Cong stared blankly ahead, his lips trembling:

"It's all over...it's all over...I'm a sinner...I'm a sinner of the Gu family..."

He suddenly remembered something.

He suddenly turned his head and looked at the figure on the outskirts of the crowd.

Qin Feng squatted down and picked up a small pebble, about the size of a fingernail, from the ground, playing with it in his hand.

"Qin Feng!!"

Gu Shao Cong let out a blood-curdling scream and scrambled over to grab Qin Feng's trouser leg.

"It was you! You tricked me! You knew all along that this stone was useless, didn't you?! You deliberately inflated the price! You deliberately lured me into this trap!"

Before he could even get close.

Qian Wanda's shiny leather shoe had already kicked him hard in the chest.

"Bang!"

Gu Shao Cong flew out like a tattered sack, crashing heavily back into the pile of rubble, his whole body curled up like a shrimp in pain.

"Young Master Gu, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."

Qin Feng stood up, dusted off his hands, and looked down at him.

His gaze was as calm as if he were looking at an ant.

"During the bidding just now, you were the one who shouted that you wanted to grab the 'Dragon Vein.' You were the one who was willing to bet your entire fortune. I even kindly granted your wish."

Qin Feng's lips curled up slightly, revealing a set of white teeth that looked particularly chilling in the dim light.

"What? If you win, it's because you, Young Master Gu, have a sharp eye; if you lose, it's because someone tricked you?"

"What kind of logic is that?"

Although the surrounding crowd felt sorry for Gu Shao Cong, no one dared to utter a word after hearing Qin Feng's words.

In the jade gambling business, one must accept the consequences of their bets.

Although everyone could see that this was a scheme orchestrated by Qin Feng, Gu Shao Cong was too greedy for his own sake.

"besides."

Qin Feng took out the still-warm imperial green jade from his pocket and tossed it in his hand.

The emerald green light stung Gu Shao Cong's eyes.

"Remember the bet we made earlier? Whoever cuts out the least valuable piece has to kowtow and pay ten times the amount."

Qin Feng pointed to the pile of rubble on the ground.

"I just looked at this pile of garbage. It's only worth the shipping fee for a scrap yard. I'll give you two hundred and fifty."

"This piece of imperial green jade is conservatively valued at 80 million."

"Young Master Gu, we need to calculate the price difference."

Upon hearing this, Gu Shao Cong rolled his eyes and, with a "whoosh," fainted from anger.

"So easily amused."

Qin Feng shook his head and put away the jade.

He turned around and looked at Manager Wang, whose face had turned deathly pale.

"Manager Wang, it seems Young Master Gu can't repay this debt now. But since he's mortgaged his entire fortune to the Su family, this gambling debt..."

Qin Feng smiled meaningfully: "Shouldn't the Su family be the ones to settle accounts with him?"

Manager Wang's face twitched violently.

This kid...

Killing the pig wasn't enough; they also had to steal the butcher's knife?!

"Mr. Qin, you jest." Manager Wang forced a smile that looked more like a grimace. "This is your and Young Master Gu's private account; the Su family will not interfere. However..."

He glanced at the mess on the ground, then at the unconscious Gu Shao Cong, a ruthless glint flashing in his eyes.

"Guards, liquidate the assets mortgaged by the Gu family!"

The Su family wants money.

Since Gu Shaocong can't come up with the money, he has to liquidate those assets as quickly as possible.

Qin Feng turned to Qian Wanda: "Mr. Qian, it's up to you to judge now. The Gu family's products are indeed quite good."

"I'm sure you can find some great bargains."