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[The Golden Eyes]
[Episode 8]
He bought a piece of uncut rough stone like this.
When it was cut, it was really green inside.
But, that brother, in his excitement, cut the stone wrong.
As a result, he had no choice but to cut the stone into fragmented pieces.
An item that could actually fetch ¥8,000,000 was reduced to fragmented pieces after cutting. ($1,2 million USD)
- How much? ¥8,000,000? - Yes.
Then, it's really a case where one cut by a knife can bring you either to paradise or hell.
What happened to your friend in the end?
Now, he's still all right. No one is looking for him, or making trouble for him.
Even the money for cremation was saved. They dug a pit and buried him in it.
- Is it really that serious? - Everything was cleared out. Not a single thing left.
From the look of it, we were not cheated too badly with that Ru Kiln porcelain ware from the Warring States period.
So, how much are the two of you preparing to spend today?
¥5,000,000? Great! ($750,000 USD)
- ¥5,000... - ¥50,000,000? ('qian' means thousand, 'wan' means ten thousand, 'qianwan' means ten million)
No, no, no additional four zeroes. Just ¥5,000.
¥5,000? ($745 USD)
Then, there's no need for you to go upstairs. Just walking around downstairs would be good enough.
Don't. What Uncle De taught us is,
"Listen more, look more, speak less, buy less."
Right, what he said is right. Then, please look some more.
You don't need money to look.
Look at this one. It's already been identified.
The blue flowers can really be seen.
Is that so? Really, Brother?
- Is that how you look at the stone? - Correct.
Isn't there any machine
that can look into the stone?
No, there's really none.
Can you see this?
It's true.
Do you understand what you are looking at?
- You brought an expert? - Half an expert. Half an expert.
How is it? Let's have some fun together.
Your luck is so good, but I think you should go downstairs and look around.
This brother likes to joke.
He and my... are so alike.
That one who directly dug a hole and buried himself.
Dear honored guests, please take your seats now. Our auction will start shortly.
We welcome everyone to this year's Spring Exhibition of the Precious Stones Cultural Exchange Meeting.
The following item that will be auctioned is, No. 3 Rough Stone.
It is also the heavyweight rough stone among the gamble stones this time.
It is from the jadeite mine in Myanmar.
Bidding starts from ¥4,000,000. ($600,000 USD)
Every price increment should not be less than ¥500,000. ($75,000 USD)
¥4,000,000 is not a high price.
Why don't you have a go at it, too?
¥4,000,000!
This gentleman has offered ¥4,000,000.
Mr. Zhuang has offered ¥4,000,000.
Fellow, do you think that the starting price you offered is able to get you
a rough stone of this quality?
You should not mess around here with the money you profited from the loopholes you found in Panjiayuan.
I'm bidding ¥5,000,000.
Okay, ¥5,000,000. This gentleman has offered ¥5,000,000. ($745,000 USD)
¥5,500,000. ($820,000 USD)
¥6,000,000. ($895,000 USD)
This lady has offered ¥6,000,000.
¥6,000,000. May I know if there's anyone who would like to better this price?
Little Zhao, how is the situation over there?
I'm going over to the exhibition hall to take a look. Okay.
I'm definitely going to get this stone today.
Bing Bing has just come back to the country. I must gift her with this.
- ¥7,000,000. - ¥7,000,000. ($1,04 million USD)
Currently, the item being auctioned is No. 3 Rough Stone.
Now, the highest price offered is ¥7,000,000.
Okay, Mr. Xu has offered a bidding price of ¥7,000,000.
Would Mr. Zhuang like to add on to it?
¥8,000,000. ($1,2 million USD)
- ¥8,000,000. - No...
¥8,000,000? Do we have ¥8,000,000?
Even if you sell that Yun teapot, you will not be able to get ¥8,000,000 for it.
Let me tell you this. This stone looks quite good on the outside,
- but no one knows how it will be when it is cut. - Okay.
- You'll be in trouble if you can't get two inches of green from it. - Mr. Zhuang has offered ¥8,000,000.
Now, the item being auctioned is the No. 3 Rough Stone that is from the jadeite mine in Myanmar.
- What do you think? - It is a heavy weight rough stone.
The cut face of this rough stone shows egg white color.
The transparency and hydration appears fresh and bright. It has to be the old-crater type.
- As long as there's green color of 4 mm, we can still make a profit out of this business deal. - I don't get it at all.
This gentleman who has offered ¥8,000,000 is the honored guest of Old Master Gu Tianfeng,
Mr. Zhuang Rui.
Mr. Zhuang is a nouveau riche in the antique trade. He is now preparing to advance into the precious gemstones trade.
Looks like Mr. Zhuang is determined to be successful today.
He wants to use this rough stone that is half-cut as a brilliant feat to amaze everyone.
Good. Is there anyone who would like to offer a higher price?
¥8,000,000 going once.
Continue bidding! Continue bidding!
¥8,000,000 going twice.
¥9,000,000! ($1,3 million USD)
¥9,000,000! Mr. Xu has offered ¥9,000,000!
We accept Mr. Xu's offer of ¥9,000,000. Mr. Xu of Xu Jewelry has offered a price of ¥9,000,000.
May I know if Mr. Zhuang would like to offer a higher price?
¥9,000,000 going once.
¥9,000,000 going twice.
¥9,000,000 going three times! Deal!
Congratulations to Xu Jewelry for winning the auction for No. 3 Rough Stone
with an auction price of ¥9,000,000. Congratulations to Mr. Xu Wei!
Bing Bing, although this rough stone is a bit expensive,
it is really suitable as a gift for you.
There's no need. It is wasn't easy for you to win the auction for this rough stone.
Please keep it for yourself.
Little Zhao, I discovered a suspicious target.
Would you like to come over and have a drink at my place to celebrate?
There's no need.
You really gave me such a fright earlier. What if no one continued bidding?
This rough stone would be...
What is it? Still looking? You're still looking?
You're getting addicted.
These won't do. If you really want something, take a look at those over there.
- No, these... - Please don't be sad.
Even if you won the auction for that stone earlier, we wouldn't have the money to pay for it.
This one is not bad.
Money is not the problem. We have money. The problem is, you must be able to get a good stone.
This... This...
This... I want this.
No, what do you—
Wait a moment. Let me take a look. Don't be in a hurry to buy it.
There's really a little bit of green; but look, there's no more inside. There's too many crack lines.
I think if you really want something, we should choose from there.
This is the one. Go and make the payment.
No, a lousy stone like this costs ¥3,000? ($450 USD)
So, does it mean that if I pick a stone casually from anywhere,
- I can sell it, too. - How much is it?
- ¥3,000. - ¥3,000?
Let him have some fun for ¥3,000. You are still left with ¥2,000. Treat me to a meal tonight. (¥2,000= $300 USD)
This... I... What is this lousy thing?!
Stop!
Who are you? Why are you running?
You... are chasing me. How can I not run?
Bring him back.
Boss Yu, you should trust me this time. Right?
You'd barely just left when the police came.
Are you tailing me?
Okay, I'll trust you one more time. Tell me, where will the transaction take place?
Having fun?
You should know that gamble stones are different from antiques.
This is not Panjiayuan, where you can profit from a scoop.
Who said that?
Old Master Gu.
Why can't anyone profit from making a scoop from gamble stones?
There are loopholes everywhere in life. It is just a matter of whether you are able to find them or not.
Let me have a look.
Little Zhuang, your loophole
doesn't look too good.
Until you open it, how can you tell if this stone is good or not?
You want to open it?
Yes.
What kind of precious gem
can a stone like that have after opening?
Whoever opens it is the same. If it gets opened,
then that's a miracle.
Don't be too pessimistic.
Didn't you say that there are some stones that might look good,
but when opened, have nothing. But those stones that might look rotten,
if you open them, they might be filled with good jade.
You're right. Stone gambling is that mystical.
But let me tell you this.
That stone by your buddy
don't have any moss on the outside. Its moisture seems questionable.
When you rub it, there's no green, and it even has cracks.
With that kind of quality, what good jadeite can you find?
The probability of that is similar to you growing a horn
and me growing a bucktooth.
Here, Sir.
Little Zhuang, let's cut yours first.
Little Zhuang, you have to pay a tuition fee in doing this field.
It's fine. I won't be paying it.
We're not afraid of paying tuition fees.
What's important is what you learn. What do you think?
Yes.
We'll start. Are you nervous?
In playing this, you're exactly the same after the anxiety.
Is it exciting?
Oh, my. No, no.
My heart can't bear it anymore.
Okay.
Your horn didn't grow.
Let me tell you that usually, if the first cut is negative, the succeeding cuts are usually negative, too.
Grandfather, are we still cutting?
There's not even any green on the first cut. Why should we still continue? Just throw it away.
General Manager Xu, why don't you cut yours instead?
What's the rush? He's not done cutting.
How about you two go encourage him?
The probability that there would be jade isn't that high anymore.
If there is,
I fear that it might be in the stone's center.
Let's follow the second line I made
and make our second cut. Let's cut it from the middle.
Calm down. Calm down.
Oh, my!
You have such divine hands, Teacher Gu! You...
Oh, my! This is equivalent to opening up my teeth.
Can you see my horns? It's even branching.
Grandfather Gu, just like you said,
it was really so exciting and nerve racking.
How about we follow your third line
and cut it again?
Listen to me, don't anymore.
You should know to stop when things are good.
That's more or less hundreds of thousands.
Stop cutting. If it crumbles from it, it won't even be worth ten thousand.
You've thought about it?
You're not stopping while the odds are good?
Why don't we go once more?
Good boy. You're just like me.
Let's make a third cut based on the line I made.
Okay.
Go! Go! Go!
Go!
Sir, let's make a third cut.
Old Master Gu, you're really amazing. Turning trash into a treasure.
Don't feel too pleased with yourself. Your material is not that good. Just wait to see mine later.
General Manager Xu, you're that confident?
If that stone of yours doesn't have much jadeite,
won't your reputation be completely destroyed?
There's this saying, "Newbies rely on luck, while we rely on good judgment."
Have you seen a glass type of jade? Let me show it to you later.
You really have such divine hands, Old Master Gu!
Divine hands!
You've increased its value.
You lad are really very lucky.
A trashy material would actually be filled with jade.
Also, behind this vaporous crystal,
is a whole icy jade!
A top grade "yang" green. (Yang green means the jade is half transparent, bright green with slight yellowish tint)
General Manager Xu, I don't understand jades that much.
What is icy jade?
I'm offering ¥8,000,000. ($1,2 million USD)
- ¥10,000,000! - Move aside. Let me be happy for a while. ($1,5 million USD)
- With such a huge icy jade, ¥10,000,000. - Can we sell this?
Little Brother, ¥18,000,000. How about it? ($2,7 million USD)
Wait! Wait! We're all rich people here. Let's sit down and discuss it slowly.
Come.
This way please.
¥3,000... ¥18,000,000... (from $450 to $2,7 million USD)
- General Manager Xu, it's your turn. - ¥10,000,000! - ¥18,000,000!
Little Brother, I'm offering ¥18,000,000. I'm showing enough sincerity.
- Look. Look. - Let me touch it.
I feel that it can go higher.
Cut.
He still wants to raise it. You can't anymore, right?
In my opinion, we should each yield a little.
This one's better!
General Manager Xu, ¥10,000,000.
I'm offering ¥10,000,000! ($1,5 Million USD)
General Manager, ¥10,000,000 is not bad. You earned a million more.
I really don't care about that ¥1,000,000. Continue cutting.
He doesn't care.
General Manager Xu, let's talk about it.
Look. No wonder it was so expensive.
General Manager Xu!
¥20,000,000! General Manager Xu, I'm offering ¥20,000,000 ($3,000,000 USD)
Stop your nonsense. ¥30,000,000, General Manager Xu sell it to me. ($4,5 million USD)
- I'm paying ¥30,000,000. - That guy's so lucky.
General Manager, ¥30,000,000 for a non-icy jade.
If it were me, I'd sell it.
Can you and I be the same?
Continue cutting.
Still cutting? If the next cut is still green,
it won't be just ¥30,000,000.
I think they won't be able to cut anything.
Just watch.
Too bad. There was only a little amount of green.
It has crumbled.
Really? Let me see.
General Manager Xu.
Just that little?
Let's go.
It has crumbled!
Bro! Bro, it's not that I want to say this.
It's really important to listen to advice. If you did, you would have gotten ¥30,000,000.
Let me look at a ¥30,000,000 stone. How could it have crumbled just like that?
- Keep it well. - General Manager Xu is different from us after all.
That's right.
¥30,000,000... Just playing with it.
For you.
For me? This...
This isn't even as valuable as this ring of mine.
Okay. I got it.
Too bad.
It's really your first time gambling a stone? You have such good luck.
That's right. All is just luck.
Say, if that stone was ¥6,000,
I wouldn't have bought it.
Do you know why?
Because I only have ¥3,000 in my pocket.
[¥18,000,000 has been transferred to account 8346. This serves as your receipt.]
Still counting? How many times have you counted it?
Brother Ma, stop in front.
Why?
I'm going to an ATM to count it again.
Are you all right?
Brother Ma, let's gather tonight. My treat.
Sure.
Xiao Rui Rui, we'll soon be very successful in our career.
That... in our first step in the summit of life,
we must first buy a car and change our house.
Change our house? Isn't our house quite good?
Where do you two live?
In a basement unit.
Basement unit?
I find it spacious.
How huge?
Less than a hundred square meters.
Less than a hundred square meters... That's more or less the same size as my bathroom.
How could a living person live in a basement?
I have a huge unused courtyard.
It's empty anyway. Just move in there.
This doesn't seem appropriate.
Very appropriate.
Oh, right, Brother Ma. Rich people like us
shouldn't take advantage of other people. We'll pay you rent.
Quite righteous.
Is living in a basement that bad?
Hello, Zhuang Rui.
I was at work earlier and was quite busy, so I didn't hear your call.
What is it?
It's nothing. I was just thinking to treat you to a meal earlier.
Then, how about we have some night snacks?
Sure.
How come there's only you? Where's your boss?
My boss is busy today. She can't come.
She can't come?
Is the reason your boss is not daring to show her face because she is feeling guilty?
Those of you who are making your living on the ground surface are even more shady than us.
You want us to risk our lives for you.
And you don't even care whether we are dead or alive!
You're not even complying to the underworld code of honor.
Boss Yu, don't be agitated.
You keep talking about some code of honor. What about your own morality and justice?
When you took someone's money, you should help to relieve them of disasters.
Actually, both of us understand this very well.
You have nothing with you at all.
You didn't manage to steal the jade eye at the pawnshop.
There was also no jade eye inside Qi Yuan's tomb.
Even though this is so, we are still paying you as agreed.
That is our code of honor.
The money... Go through it.
At least, you still understand these matters.
Tell your boss that she did not spend this money in vain.
Consider this as compensation for our mental health.
Starting today, I'm officially informing you
that unhealthy food like instant noodles
will be completely disappearing
from our world.
What are you doing? Let's go.
Is this your dad?
This is my grandfather.
Since I was young, my dad would tell me stories about my grandfather,
but I have never met him.
Each time before I went to bed,
my dad would read a book left behind by my grandfather.
Grimms' fairy tales?
Three battles with the white-boned demon?
Geology of China.
Say, one of you studied geography, the other one studied history.
The subjects of specialization of your grandfather and you are really boring.
Are these the items left behind by your late grandfather? Bring them along.
I can't be certain yet whether they were left by him.
But my dad said that my grandfather was not dead.
My family displayed all the photos of my grandfather's exploration of the earth surface
in the house.
My dad said that my grandfather was someone who loved adventure.
He would not have died so easily.
He only changed his name, his area of residence,
and the way he lives, that's all.
I believe, too, that heroes don't die.
Heroes don't die!
Quickly!
Are you free this weekend? There's a Precious Stones Cultural Exchange Meeting here.
Would you like to attend?
Thank you. Thank you, Grandfather Gu.
You're welcome.
This is material obtained from the stone that Qiming and I gambled with for the first time.
We almost made a big loss.
So we divided it into two pieces,
and made them into a pair of pendants.
This serves to remind us all the time
not to have thoughts of getting rich overnight.
We must be steady and reliable in the way we live and in every thing we do.
I never imagined that after so many years,
even though I didn't meet my old friend,
I saw this pendant again.
I'm even happier that
you are actually Qiming's grandson!
Then... did you know my grandfather very well?
We were best friends!
That year, he went to Gansu to sit for the imperial examination.
He never came back after that.
Imperial examination? Did he contact you at that time?
What happened later?
Wait a moment.
[From the Archaeology Department of Peking University; For Gu Tianfeng]
That year, the one going to Gansu for the imperial examination
should have been me.
But I fell and injured my leg just before I was due to leave.
So, Qiming went in my place instead.
We agreed that when he returned, I would treat him to a big meal.
I never imagined that... there was no more chance.
After he went to Gansu, we kept in contact through letters.
What I know, is all in this letter.
At that time, I could not understand
why my dad would always say my grandfather would come back.
Once grandfather was back, my dad, grandfather, and I
would then be able to go to an archaeological site.
But it has been so many years with no communication.
Even if Qiming is not around anymore, you still have me.
In the future, I will bring you to any place you want to go, whether it's for archaeological work or to collect local cultural materials.
After losing contact with Qiming,
I kept wanting to find your family.
But your whole family moved out.
I'd lost contact with them. Now, it's really good.
I finally found you.
Otherwise, I would never be able to let go of this issue.
Grandfather!
Xiao Rui, you are here, too?
Xiao Yu.
From now on, Zhuang Rui is your older brother.
What?
What's wrong?
Qiming and I were very close to each other that we didn't differentiate what's his or mine.
His grandson is also my grandson.
Come, sit down.
I am now your adoptive grandfather.
That's fine, right?
Since you are fine with it, call me grandfather now.
Grandfather.
That's right. That's more like it.
Xiao Yu, call him "Older Brother."
I say, Grandfather. You are not saying this for real, right?
You can tell that I am older than Xiao Rui.
What nonsense are you talking about? Is that important?
Anyways, you both are my grandsons. Are you going to say it or not?
Okay. Today, my grandson and adoptive grandson are complete.
Let's drink together and celebrate later.
But, Grandfather, I want to go back and read the letters my grandfather left.
♫ The sky loses its color ♫
♫ It's all the rain's fault ♫
♫ Can you stop for a while, just give a moment of clear sky ♫
♫ Love is an apple ♫
♫ Only after taking a bite did I know ♫
♫ That everything about the Garden of Eden ♫
♫ Is true ♫
♫ I want to be the only one in your eyes ♫
♫ Even if I would be banished to the far horizon one day because of you ♫
♫ I want to be the only person in your heart ♫
♫ Just for you, why fear the wind and rain ♫
♫ My dream is hazy ♫
♫ All because of you ♫
♫ The rare rainbows are just refraction from my glistening tears ♫
♫ What's strange is ♫
♫ I'm not sad at all ♫
♫ The feeling when I weep ♫
♫ is actually bliss ♫
♫ I want to be the only one in your eyes ♫
♫ Even if I would be banished to the far horizon one day because of you ♫
♫ I want to be the only person in your heart ♫
♫ Just for you, why fear the wind and rain ♫
♫ I want to be the only one in your eyes ♫
♫ Even if I would be banished to the far horizon one day because of you ♫
♫ I want to be the only person in your heart ♫
♫ Just for you, why fear the wind and rain ♫
♫ The feeling when I weep is actually bliss ♫
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