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Chapter 1061 Xue Suxiu

The woman smiled and said, "I think we touched this raw material at the same time, so we can compete for it."She didn't know whether there was jade inside or not, but she thought that it was highly possible. She felt that this jade raw material was of good quality, and she was experienced in stone gambling too.

"Well, in fact, I touched this jade raw material half a second earlier than you," Gu Ning said and wasn't annoyed at all.

Although the woman tried to grab this piece of raw material away, her attitude wasn't very rude and she was also willing to compete for it.

People around them turned to look at them. None of them had paid attention to them before, so nobody knew whether they touched this raw material at the same time.

The stand owner did see both of their hands, but he thought they touched this raw material at almost the same time. However, Gu Ning insisted that she touched this raw material half a second earlier.

Zheng Peng and Leng Shaoting also noticed the argument. Zheng Peng asked, "It seems that boss encountered trouble, do we need to help her?"

"It's fine. She can handle it." Leng Shaoting clearly heard their discussion, and knew that it wasn't a big deal.

Since Gu Ning told them to wait for her, they should listen to her. If Gu Ning couldn't solve this problem, she would turn to him for help.

"Can you prove it?" the woman asked.

"There are surveillance cameras everywhere. It's easy to find out the truth," Gu Ning said, then turned to look at the stand owner. "Right?"

Seeing Gu Ning being so confident, the stand owner nodded. "Yeah, yeah."

"Great!" The woman had no intention to give it up.

Even if the surveillance video proved that she was half a second later than Gu Ning, she could apologize. It wasn't easy to find a piece of jade raw material of high quality, so she was unwilling to miss it.

Afterwards, the stand owner told his assistant to guard the stand, and he went to check the surveillance video along with Gu Ning and the woman.

After watching the video, they found that Gu Ning indeed touched the raw material half a second earlier than the woman.

"Well, fine, I'm sorry. This is yours," the woman said, although she was disappointed.

"Thanks," Gu Ning said, then turned to the stand owner. "Please weigh this. I want to buy it."

The stand owner was struck dumb for a second, because Gu Ning directly bought this raw material without observing it at all.

The woman was also surprised by Gu Ning's confidence.

"Sure," the stand owner said, then weighed the raw material.

After that, Gu Ning paid the bill, and left with it.

The woman walked away too, and kept on shopping for jade raw materials.

However, when she saw Gu Ning walking back to Zheng Peng, she was surprised again and walked over. "Hi, Mr. Zheng!"

Zheng Peng turned around, and his face lit up the second he saw the woman. "Oh, hi, Ms. Xue, been a while!"

"Been a while!" Ms. Xue glanced at Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting. She was a little stunned by Leng Shaoting's outstanding appearance, but soon calmed herself down. She wasn't a young girl anymore, so she had no interest in handsome young men.

"Ms. Xue, please let me introduce Gu Ning. She's my boss," Zheng Peng said.

Hearing that, Xue Suxiu was shocked. She knew that the boss of Colorful Jade Provider was a young girl but she didn't expect that the young girl was Gu Ning.

"I'm so sorry, Miss Gu. I didn't know that you're the boss of Colorful Jade Provider." Xue Suxiu apologized again. She respected Gu Ning, who was a successful young businesswoman, and they had cooperation in business too.

Xue Suxiu worked in the jewelry industry, and was responsible for acquiring jade. She was one of the clients of Colorful Jade Provider.

"It's not a big deal, Ms. Xue," Gu Ning said.

"Boss, this is Manager Xue of XX Jewelry Company. She's in charge of jade purchasing and also a client of our company," Zheng Peng said to Gu Ning.

XX Jewelry Company was a famous company in the jewelry industry.

"Oh, Ms. Xue, thank you so much for purchasing jade from my company," Gu Ning said.

"I should thank you, Miss Gu, because the jade from your company is always of high quality," Xue Suxiu said.

"Glad to cooperate with you!" Gu Ning smiled.

"Me too!" Xue Suxiu said. "Please excuse me, I need to leave now."

"Bye-bye," Gu Ning said.

Before long, Gu Ning and others arrived at the factory of Colorful Jade Provider.

Those jade raw materials she just bought all had jade inside, so she planned to cut them out at the factory.

Stone-cutters were already used to cutting jade out every day, and it wasn't surprising at all when Gu Ning came with several good jade raw materials.

They were curious why almost every piece of the raw materials in this factory had good jade inside, but they didn't dare to ask further about it, because they had signed an agreement not to leak any information. Nevertheless, many peers in the same industry were jealous of Colorful Jade Provider.

They all wanted to find out the reason, but no workers working in this factory were willing to tell them. Actually, none of them knew the real reason.

Chapter 1062 Help Xue Suxiu

Gu Ning, Leng Shaoting and Zheng Peng left the factory at 5 pm for dinner.Coincidentally, they met Xue Suxiu again at the restaurant.

There was a man following Xue Suxiu; he must be her secretary.

There was another middle-aged man and a young woman with Xue Suxiu, and the young woman was obviously the middle-aged man's secretary.

It dawned on Gu Ning that women always had male secretaries, while men often had female secretaries.

Xue Suxiu didn't see them, so Gu Ning didn't greet her.

However, Gu Ning noticed something abnormal in the middle-aged man's eyes.

It seemed that this man was going to trap Xue Suxiu, but it had nothing to do with her, so she didn't pay much attention to them.

After a short while, Gu Ning found that Xue Suxiu was dining in the next room.

Because she thought that the middle-aged man behaved strangely, she used her Jade Eyes to see what they were doing in the next room.

She was right. Gu Ning caught Xue Suxiu's secretary secretly put a pill into her glass when he was pouring wine for her.

It turned out that both the middle-aged man and Xue Suxiu's secretary planned to hurt her.

"Uncle Zheng, do you have Ms. Xue's phone number?" Gu Ning asked all of a sudden.

"Yes, I do," Zheng Peng said, and took out his phone at once.

"Please call her right now. I have something to tell her," Gu Ning said in an urgent tone.

She was reluctant to get involved in another person's personal affairs, but she should do something since she already found out the dirty trick.

"Sure." Zheng Peng called Xue Suxiu without delay, then handed his phone to Gu Ning.

Leng Shaoting glanced at Gu Ning. He knew that she did it for a reason.

In the next room, Xue Suxiu just raised the glass and was about to have a drink, but her phone rang at this moment. She said something to the middle-aged man, then picked up the call.

Gu Ning felt relieved.

"Hi, Mr. Zheng," Xue Suxiu said.

"Ms. Xue, it's me, Gu Ning," Gu Ning said.

Xue Suxiu was surprised.

"Oh, hi, may I help?" Xue Suxiu asked.

"I just saw you in XX Restaurant, but you were with your friends, so I didn't greet you. I just thought of something important, can I talk with you for a minute right now? I'm in No.666 room," Gu Ning said. "Please come alone."

Xue Suxiu didn't understand why Gu Ning suddenly called her, but she knew that it must be something important. Therefore, she agreed. "No problem, I'm coming."

…

After hanging up the call, Xue Suxiu said to the middle-aged man, "Mr. Zhang, I'm so sorry. The boss of Colorful Jade Provider is in the next room right now, and she needs to see me for a while. I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Sure," the middle-aged man said, and didn't think further. He believed that nobody would find out his dirty trick.

After that, Xue Suxiu stood up and left.

Someone knocked on the door of the private room where Gu Ning stayed, and Gu Ning opened the door in person.

"Hi, Miss Gu, Mr. Zheng!" Xue Suxiu greeted Gu Ning and Zheng Peng after she walked inside. She didn't know Leng Shaoting, so she didn't greet him.

Leng Shaoting didn't know Xue Suxiu either, so he remained silent.

"Ms Xue, I noticed something strange with the middle-aged man who came here with you. The young man by your side exchanged glances with the middle-aged man too. I have a bad feeling and I think that you should be careful. You better not drink or eat tonight," Gu Ning said.

Xue Suxiu wasn't dumb, and she realized what would happen to her the moment Gu Ning said that. In fact, she had a premonition herself when her boss assigned the middle-aged man to be the vice president.

The middle-aged man didn't get along with her, so she was worried that he might scheme against her someday. However, she hadn't found any solid proof yet.

To her astonishment, her secretary was also involved in this.

She wasn't sure whether her secretary had already betrayed her because the young man had worked for her for several years. She decided to investigate later.

Seeing Xue Suxiu's reaction, Gu Ning understood that she must have suspicions of the middle-aged man.

"Miss Gu, thank you so much for telling me that," Xue Suxiu said with sincerity, but the problem was that she couldn't leave right now. Even though she knew she was in a dangerous situation now, she had no evidence.

Besides, the dishes could have nothing harmful inside.

"You're welcome. I just have a bad feeling and I hope that you can stay safe. I understand that you can't leave right now. If you trust me, you can take this pill. If there really is something harmful in the drink or dishes, it can protect you," Gu Ning said, and took out a porcelain bottle from her backpack.

Xue Suxiu was surprised and held doubts.

Anyway, since Gu Ning was kind enough to remind her to be careful, Gu Ning wouldn't hurt her, so she accepted it. "Thanks, Miss Gu."

"Be careful," Gu Ning said.

"I will," Xue Suxiu said.

Before she left, she stared at the bottle with hesitation for a while, but still opened it at the end and took the pill inside.

The pill melted the second it was put into her mouth, and she felt quite comfortable.

Chapter 1063 Go to Burma

She had stayed up very late every night with her work these days, and lacked sleep and energy, but this pill refreshed her.Gu Ning's medicine was unbelievable!

When Xue Suxiu got back to the next private room, she composed herself and said, "I'm so sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's fine," the middle-aged man said. "Let's enjoy our dinner now!"

Although Xue Suxiu was still worried, she had to eat with them.

The other three people around the table, however, checked Xue Suxiu's reaction once in a while. They felt quite confused seeing her being clear-headed and conscious for so long.

The medicine would come into effect within a minute, but nothing happened to Xue Suxiu even after a few minutes.

Xue Suxiu didn't miss their glances, so she was sure that there must be something harmful in the dishes on the table. Her secretary was also disloyal to her.

Thinking of that, she felt hurt and disappointed. Nevertheless, she had to stay calm and pretend that she knew nothing about it.

She was also sure that Gu Ning's pill was very effective, so she enjoyed the dinner as she liked and even invited the middle-aged man to share a drink with her.

…

Gu Ning was still a little worried about Xue Suxiu's safety, so she used her Jade Eyes to check her condition.

The middle-aged man, who was Mr. Zhao, and the others couldn't help but keep glancing at Xue Suxiu when she stayed normal. It was hard for Xue Suxiu to ignore their glances now, so she asked, "Why are you looking at me so often?"

They panicked and withdrew their glances at once.

Mr. Zhao said, "Nothing. Ms. Xue, you have a very good appetite today. I thought you would eat little in order to stay in shape like other women."

"I don't care about it and I eat as I like," Xue Suxiu said.

Mr. Zhao smiled, and said nothing further, but he couldn't figure out why things didn't go the way he wanted.

He didn't think that Xue Suxiu had found out about his dirty trick at all.

Is the pill not effective?

Mr. Zhao was disappointed, but he didn't dare to annoy Xue Suxiu right now. Therefore, they separated after dinner.

…

Gu Ning was also relieved since nothing terrible happened.

…

In the car, Xue Suxiu looked at her secretary thinking how she should deal with him. Her head ached a little when she thought about this problem, so she rubbed her temples.

"Manager Xue, what's wrong? Do you feel uncomfortable?" her secretary asked to see whether she wasn't in a good condition.

"I'm fine. I'm just a little tired," Xue Suxiu said.

Hearing that, her secretary shut his mouth, but felt upset and confused.

…

Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting went to a hotel together after dinner. They had nothing else to do.

…

Once Xue Suxiu was home, she called her leader, and told her leader what she had been through tonight.

Her secretary was disloyal to her, and she had to get rid of him.

The next morning, Xue Suxiu's new secretary reported for duty in her office, while her ex secretary received an offer to study abroad, which was organized by their company.

Normally, only excellent staff members would have the chance to study abroad, but Xue Suxiu's ex secretary was an exception.

It wasn't appropriate to directly fire him right now, so Xue Suxiu's leader made use of this offer to move him away from Xue Suxiu.

The young man was greatly surprised when he heard the news, because it happened too suddenly, and Xue Suxiu had never mentioned it before. He thought that Xue Suxiu might have found out what he had done behind her back. However, Xue Suxiu stayed kind as usual to him.

He didn't ask her why, because he wouldn't admit it even if Xue Suxiu had already found out.

"Well, I know you're confused about why you suddenly got this chance to study abroad, and why I've never mentioned it before. Well, my new secretary is my leader's relative, and I only got this information yesterday myself. In order to make you feel better about it, we are giving you the chance. You can seize this chance, and you'll have a brighter future in our company," Xue Suxiu said, and lied.

It was an acceptable reason, but still not reasonable.

The young man couldn't reject it, and had to accept it.

After walking out of Xue Suxiu's office, he called Mr. Zhao at once and told him everything.

Mr. Zhao was very confident that nobody could find out his dirty trick, so he was sure that Xue Suxiu told the truth. In that case, the young man felt relieved.

…

At the same time, Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting left for Yangon, Burma. Although it was only 9 am in April, the sunlight was very strong.

Because of the public jade bid, there were a lot more people here than before.

Zheng Peng had booked a presidential suite in Yangon Hotel for Gu Ning.

Chapter 1064 The Public Jade Bid in Burma

Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting went to the hotel once they arrived at Yangon, Burma. They planned to take a shower before they went to the public jade bid. However, as soon as they walked into the Yangon Hotel, Gu Ning saw a familiar face.The person was Zhao Yuefeng.

Zhao Yuefeng's face lit up the second he saw Gu Ning.

"What a coincidence, Miss Gu!" Zhao Yuefeng greeted Gu Ning with a broad smile, then his sight fell on Leng Shaoting. "Nice to see you, Mr. Leng."

"Hi, Uncle Zhao, when did you come here?" Gu Ning smiled at him, while Leng Shaoting just nodded an acknowledgment.

Zhao Yuefeng understood that Leng Shaoting always stayed cool, so he didn't mind it.

"I came yesterday. Miss Gu, did you just arrive?" Zhao Yuefeng asked because Gu Ning was still in clothes with long sleeves, while people in Burma were all wearing clothing with short sleeves due to the hot weather.

"Yeah, we just arrived," Gu Ning said.

"Have you booked a room yet?" Zhao Yuefeng asked with concern, because there were no available rooms anymore.

"Yes, and we're going back to our room now," Gu Ning said.

Gu Ning only carried a small suitcase with her this time, containing some clothes and skincare products.

Because she came here with Leng Shaoting, it wasn't appropriate for her to put it into the telepathic eye space.

"Great, see you then!" Zhao Yuefeng said. "I think you better be quick so that you can have more time to look for jade of high quality."

In fact, Zhao Yuefeng hoped that he could join Gu Ning's team, because he might get some guidance and help from Gu Ning given her outstanding stone-gambling ability. However, he was unwilling to bother her.

Anyway, the public jade bid would last for three days, and they could meet each other again sooner or later.

On the first day, jade was put out for closed bids, and the prices would be made public the next day. The jade could be cut out in the afternoon on the second day, which depended on the buyer.

The third day of the public jade bid was an auction.

"See you," Gu Ning said, then walked away with Leng Shaoting.

They moved fast, and left the hotel half an hour later.

…

The public jade bid only accepted cash, or bank cards from Swiss Bank. Although Gu Ning had a bank card from Swiss Bank, she wasn't sure she could use it here, so she still went to exchange for dollars from a local bank.

The public jade bid wasn't located in the city center, but a place 20 kilometers away in a suburb.

Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting took a taxi and reached there about a dozen minutes later.

When they got to the entrance, Gu Ning showed her invitation letter, and a staff member gave Gu Ning a document with information of matters needing attention in bidding, a bidding item number, bidding category (open bid or closed bid), quantity as well as reserve price, and bid time on it.

…

Although the rules said that only people with an invitation letter could get inside, others were able to enter this place by paying some money too.

The public jade bid was held at a spacious square with shops on either side and stands of jade raw materials in the middle.

Jade raw materials that were placed in the shops were all selected with great care, so it was more likely to cut jade from them, and their prices were comparatively higher.

On the contrary, the jade raw materials placed on those stands were picked at random, so it was less likely to cut jade from them, and so their prices were lower.

The shops around the square had three stories. Only the first floor was open for buyers, and the second along with the third floor was a teahouse or a restaurant, which were only available for people with an invitation letter. And across the square, there was a five-story building where the jade auction would be held.

There were many people on the square, but luckily the square was large enough that it wasn't crowded.

However, there were countless jade raw materials placed in the square, and it was impossible for a normal person to have a look at all of them. It wasn't a problem for Gu Ning however, because she had a pair of Jade Eyes.

There was no limit for one's bids. As long as you have enough money, you could bid for every piece of jade raw material. However, nobody would do that.

There were thousands of jade raw materials in the square, but there wouldn't be jade in every piece of them. It was highly risky, and no one was willing to do that.

Gu Ning held a pen and a piece of paper in her hands. She started from the stands, because there were too many people inside those shops at the moment.

People could only make closed bids on the first day, so there might be many people who bid for the same piece of jade raw material, and only the most generous buyer could get it. Because there were too many jade raw materials, not every piece was bid for.

Gu Ning decided to put in a higher bid if she found any she liked. She was going to make a lot more money than the bid after all.

Leng Shaoting followed Gu Ning in silence. Even though Gu Ning didn't talk to him, he didn't feel bored at all.

Gu Ning would only choose jade raw materials with jade above medium-high level inside, but it wasn't suitable for her to bid too many times, so she would let Leng Shaoting help her do it.

In most cases, there was only stone in those jade raw materials. There might only be 10 jade raw materials with jade inside among a pile of jade raw materials, so it wasn't easy to find a jade raw material with jade of high quality inside.

After checking five stands, Gu Ning bid on five jade raw materials.

When she came to the ninth stand, she met Zhao Yuefeng again. He was with several other businessmen.

"Hi, Miss Gu!" Zhao Yuefeng greeted her.

Gu Ning glanced at the jade raw material in Zhao Yuefeng's hands, then smiled and said, "Well, I don't think there is jade in it."

Hearing that, Zhao Yuefeng put it down at once.

Chapter 1065 Encounter Aimee

However, a man by Zhao Yuefeng's side was displeased, and said with a cold face, "You're just a young girl. How much can you know about stone gambling?"

Zhao Yuefeng was a little annoyed. "Chairman Wu, Miss Gu is my friend, so please show some respect."

"You…" Chairman Wu was mad when Zhao Yuefeng sided with Gu Ning. "Fine, if you want to listen to a young girl, do as you like." After that, he walked away.

Zhao Yuefeng ignored him, and apologized to Gu Ning, "Miss Gu, please don't mind it. He's always like that."

"It's fine." Gu Ning smiled. She wouldn't be mad at a stranger.

Afterwards, Gu Ning glanced at those jade raw materials placed on the stand, then said to Zhao Yuefeng in a low voice, "Look at the F-1003 jade raw material. I think there might be jade in it."

There was a piece of medium-high-level jade in it, and Gu Ning said that to give Zhao Yuefeng a hint.

Zhao Yuefeng understood it and he also trusted Gu Ning. "Thanks, Miss Gu."

"You're welcome. I'm afraid that I've gotta go now," Gu Ning said.

"See you," Zhao Yuefeng said and didn't stop Gu Ning.

Once Gu Ning was gone, Zhao Yuefeng wrote the number of that jade raw material down. He believed that there was jade in it, so he made a much higher bid for it to make sure that it would be his.

…

It seemed that Gu Ning was fated to meet more than one familiar face at this public jade bid in Burma, because after walking for a short while, she ran into Aimee Hill.

Aimee came here along with her older brother, Adam Hill. Adam held no grudge against Gu Ning, but Aimee did.

Aimee had tried to kill Gu Ning in vain before, so Gu Ning wouldn't let her get away with it this time.

When Aimee saw Gu Ning, she was scared, because she remembered Gu Ning's warning. She was born in the Hill family, but her older brother had told her that their family wouldn't help her if she annoyed Gu Ning.

Gu Ning had a close relationship with Situ Ye after all, and Situ Ye cared a lot about Gu Ning too.

Aimee was still jealous of Gu Ning, and she still hated Gu Ning, because Situ Ye liked Gu Ning and Gu Ning had injured her.

Thinking of that, Aimee thought that she should teach Gu Ning a lesson.

Gu Ning stayed calm and didn't care what Aimee was thinking. She didn't forget what Aimee had done to her, but she had no intention to deliberately get back at Aimee. However, Aimee showed up in her sight today, and there was no reason for her to miss this chance.

Besides, if Aimee had avoided meeting her and kept a distance from her, she would be kind and let her go, but Aimee just had to do the opposite. Therefore, Gu Ning understood that she must do something to stop Aimee from hurting her again.

The second Leng Shaoting saw Aimee's expression, he knew that this woman had a grudge against Gu Ning, so he gave her a cold glance.

Aimee felt threatened by that glance, and moved her eyes away in fear. Adam also got nervous when he saw Gu Ning's expression, and gave Aimee a warning glance to tell her not to annoy Gu Ning.

Nevertheless, Adam didn't know many details of what Aimee had done to Gu Ning, or he wouldn't be so optimistic.

"Miss Gu, nice to see you again," Adam politely greeted Gu Ning.

"Nice to see you too, Adam," Gu Ning said.

Adam didn't know Leng Shaoting, so he just nodded at him. Leng Shaoting did the same.

Gu Ning planned to get revenge on Aimee, but not now, because in her eyes it was more important to find good jade.

"Adam, if you don't mind, we need to go over there," Gu Ning said.

"Please," Adam said and stepped aside to let Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting pass.

When Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting were far away, Adam warned Aimee again, "Aimee, don't ever think to hurt that girl again. If you cause any trouble to our family, nobody will help you. If Arthur gets the goods on us, our family will be in a dangerous situation."

Arthur Hill was also a member of the Hill family. He was Aimee's older cousin. Although the Hill family looked to be harmonious, the young generation were competing against each other for the right of inheritance.

It was unavoidable in a powerful family, and Leng Shaoting was going through the same thing. The Tang family in City B was very special and different in that situation. It really wasn't common among super-rich or powerful families.

"I understand," Aimee said, but she lied.

Adam didn't have much time to teach Aimee to behave herself, so he kept on looking at jade raw materials.

The Hill family was also involved in the jewelry industry. Except for Adam and Aimee, Arthur and Yak also came here on behalf of the Hill family.

It was a test laid down by the Hill family for them. Although Adam was always the best out of the younger generation, he had to continue to compete against the other children in their family to become the sole heir.

Chapter 1066 Meet Zhang Dequan

Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting walked around, and wrote down numbers of jade raw materials they liked along the way.In order not to attract too much attention, Gu Ning observed many other raw materials too.

Leng Shaoting was also curious about Gu Ning's behavior, because it seemed to be very easy for her to choose a good jade raw material, but he didn't ask any questions about it. He knew it was her secret. Everyone had secrets after all.

Nevertheless, even though Gu Ning did her best to behave like a common buyer, she still aroused others' curiosity. She wrote the numbers down too fast!

It didn't mean that she would make a bid for all of those jade raw materials on the paper, but her behavior still surprised others.

When Gu Ning finished looking around the square, it was already lunchtime. Therefore, Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting decided to have lunch before they went to those shops.

After this morning, Gu Ning wrote down numbers of 375 jade raw materials with jade inside, but there were only 12 pieces of top-level jade among them.

It was really hard to find jade of high quality.

Gu Ning wrote numbers of over 90% of the jade raw materials with medium-high level or above jade inside down on her paper, and left 10% for others.

It wasn't a fair game, but Gu Ning was already being kind. In addition, it wasn't illegal after all.

…

When Gu Ning walked into a restaurant, she met another familiar face. The person was Zhang Dequan, the head of Jade Association in City Teng.

There were two middle-aged men and two young men with Zhang Dequan. They seemed to be his helpers.

Zhang Dequan was excited to see Gu Ning, but wasn't surprised at all, because he knew that she would attend this public jade bid.

By now, Gu Ning's jade business in City Teng was already superior to the Zhang family's and the Lu family's. Her company became the No.1 jade company in City Teng within a short time.

Not only in City Teng. Colorful Jade Provider was also dominant in many other cities which were famous for their jade industry.

It was very difficult for other jade companies or jade providers to compete against Colorful Jade Provider. Other businessmen in the same industry were jealous of it, but they could do nothing about it.

Competition in the business world was always fierce and cruel. Moreover, not everyone would scheme to hurt others just because the others did better than them.

In fact, only evil people couldn't tolerate the fact that someone could be more successful than them. The Wang family in City Teng was a great example.

Nowadays Gu Ning's company, the Zhang family's company and the Lu family's company were the three largest jade developers in City Teng.

The Zhang family was amazed by Gu Ning's achievement, but they weren���t jealous of her, and they even hoped to maintain a good relationship with her.

The Lu family had tried to scheme against Gu Ning behind her back before, but they failed and gave up.

Neither of the two families was willing to have the same result as the Wang family.

"Miss Gu, nice to see you again!" Zhang Dequan beamed the moment he saw Gu Ning and walked to her.

The other people with Zhang Dequan were surprised when they saw Zhang Dequan being so polite to a young girl.

Since Zhang Dequan was so polite to her, the young girl couldn't be an ordinary girl.

"Master Zhang, been a while! How are you doing?" Gu Ning greeted Zhang Dequan with respect.

"I'm good," Zhang Dequan said. "Miss Gu, did you find any jade raw materials you like?"

"I found some," Gu Ning said with a smile.

"We don't see each other often. Why don't we dine together today? My treat," Zhang Dequan said.

"Sure." Gu Ning accepted Zhang Dequan's invitation.

"Ha-ha, this way please." Zhang Dequan guided Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting towards the private room he booked.

When they were all seated, Zhang Dequan introduced the others to Gu Ning.

"Miss Gu, please let me do the introduction. This is my nephew, Zhang Binsheng. His father, Zhang Decheng, is my older brother," Zhang Dequan said to Gu Ning.

Zhang Binsheng was the heir of the Zhang family, and he had learned a lot from Zhang Dequan. He wasn't bad at stone-gambling and the members of the Zhang family got along with each other, so they didn't have many conflicts although they did have to compete against one another for the heir position.

Zhang Binsheng was the winner of the competition in the end because of his outstanding ability, and the Zhang family was in harmony now.

"Binsheng, this is the boss of Colorful Jade Provider, Gu Ning." Zhang Dequan turned to Zhang Binsheng.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Zhang." Gu Ning politely greeted Zhang Binsheng.

Zhang Dequan was greatly surprised to hear that Gu Ning was the owner of Colorful Jade Provider.

"Nice to meet you too, Miss Gu!" Zhang Binsheng smiled at Gu Ning. He really appreciated her outstanding ability.

Zhang Dequan didn't introduce the other three men to Gu Ning because they weren't very important. The middle-aged man was Zhang Binsheng's secretary, while the two young men were their bodyguards.

Gu Ning didn't introduce Leng Shaoting to them either, but they understood that Leng Shaoting was from a powerful family too given his natural air of power.

After lunch, they had a rest for a while, then went outside to keep on looking around for good jade raw materials.

Chapter 1067 Lu Weiwei

Zhang Dequan and Gu Ning were going to seperate once they left the restaurant. However, they met several members of the Lu family when they reached the first floor.Lu Weili, the oldest son of the Lu family, who was 34, and Lu Weiwei, who was his younger sister and was 27 this year, came on behalf of the Lu family. There were two stone-gambling experts and two bodyguards with them too.

Although Lu Weili was the heir of the Lu family, he wasn't very good at stone gambling, so he brought two experts with him. And because Burma was always involved in wars, so it was much safer to have some bodyguards by his side.

The second Lu Weili saw Zhang Dequan and his group, he greeted them, "Hi, Master Zhang, and Lord Zhang!"

He greeted them on his own initiative, but didn't sound kind. The Zhang family and the Lu family were competitors in the jade industry after all.

Lu Weiwei, on the other hand, was stunned by Leng Shaoting's appearance. She could barely move her eyes away from him.

Lu Weiwei had a plain face, but thought too highly of herself, and was only attracted to handsome men. She would do anything in order to get a handsome man she was attracted to.

Leng Shaoting, however, felt disgusted when Lu Weiwei fixed her eyes at him. He didn't lose his temper just because she was staring at him, but simply moved a little farther away from her.

However, Lu Weiwei wouldn't withdraw her leer, causing Gu Ning to frown with displeasure.

"Hi, Lord Lu and Miss Lu," Zhang Dequan said.

"Master Zhang, what do you think of today's jade raw materials?" Lu Weili asked.

"Hard to tell," Zhang Dequan replied.

"Master Zhang, you're being too modest! I think you can get a lot of good jade raw materials today," Lu Weili said with jealousy evident in his tone.

Yes, he was being jealous. Zhang Dequan was the head of the Jade Association in City Teng, and he was well-known for his excellent skills at stone-gambling. Therefore, Lu Weili got jealous upon thinking that Zhang Dequan could get a lot of jade today.

"Ha-ha, I hope so!" Zhang Dequan said.

At this moment, Gu Ning used her Jade Eyes to see the numbers on the piece of paper in Zhang Binsheng���s hands.

She planned to bid for different jade raw materials from them to avoid conflicts. If they still had conflicts, Gu Ning was willing to leave some to them in case they got nothing at the end of the day.

"Good luck!" Lu Weili also laughed a little, but with a cold face.

Afterwards, Lu Weili's sight fell on Gu Ning. He was struck dumb for a second, then realized who Gu Ning was.

"This miss must be Miss Gu, who just replaced the Wang family and became one of the three largest jade providers in City Teng, right?" Lu Weili purposely asked this question with arrogance to take Gu Ning down a notch.

He understood that Gu Ning wasn't simple since she could replace the Wang family, but he didn't believe that she was able to do it alone. In fact, Lu Weili thought that Gu Ning was too young to be important.

"Yes, I did replace the Wang family," Gu Ning said with confidence.

"Very well. I'm surprised that Miss Gu is able to make such a great achievement at such an early age!" Lu Weili said in an ironic tone.

In his eyes, Gu Ning was simply a little girl, and the real boss of Colorful Jade Provider must be someone else.

Lu Weili was curious why Gu Ning was chosen to represent Colorful Jade Provider. He was too self-satisfied to face reality.

"It's not a big deal," Gu Ning said and took Lu Weili's irony as a compliment. "If you'll excuse me, we need to leave now."

Gu Ning hated Lu Weiwei staring at Leng Shaoting, and couldn't stand it a second longer.

Lu Weili didn't stop her, but Lu Weiwei opened her mouth. "Wait a second."

After that, she walked straight towards Leng Shaoting and said to him, "Hey, why don't you give me your phone number? We can share a meal together someday."

Saying that, she put on a smile she thought was attractive, but it actually was quite disgusting.

Leng Shaoting ignored Lu Weiwei. It was as if Lu Weiwei wasn't talking to him.

Gu Ning stood in between them and coldly looked at Lu Weiwei. "Miss Lu, don't you think it's too much that you ask my fiancé for his phone number right in front of me?"

Other people also disliked Lu Weiwei's behavior, but they weren't surprised because they knew her personality very well.

"Fiancé?" Lu Weiwei was a little surprised, but soon sneered, "So what? You aren't married yet, so he's still available."

Chapter 1068 A Warning to the Lu Family

Hearing that, everyone was shocked by Lu Weiwei.Although Leng Shaoting and Gu Ning indeed hadn't got married yet, they were already engaged. She was challenging Gu Ning by saying that to Gu Ning's face.

Leng Shaoting was mad this time, and glared at Lu Weiwei.

Lu Weiwei felt scared. Even though she knew both of them were annoyed now, she was unwilling to give up because Leng Shaoting was the most handsome man she had ever seen.

Witnessing Lu Weiwei's inappropriate behavior, Lu Weili had no intention to stop her. Nobody could tell what he was thinking.

Zhang Dequan was willing to support Gu Ning, but he also knew that Gu Ning wasn't a weak girl.

"Miss Lu, it sounds that you're very confident about yourself, but I think that you're no match for me," Gu Ning said.

Gu Ning seldom attacked others in public, but Lu Weiwei was asking for it.

"You…" Lu Weiwei was mad when Gu Ning despised her. "I was born in the Lu family!"

"So? I'm the boss of Colorful Jade Provider!" Gu Ning said.

"A jade provider is barely comparable to my family's wealth," Lu Weiwei said with disdain. Lu Weiwei had heard little about Colorful Jade Provider, so she thought that it wasn't important.

"Weiwei." Lu Weili had to stop her at this moment.

Although a jade company was indeed barely comparable to their family's wealth, it wasn't a good thing if they had a bad relationship with its boss. Colorful Jade Provider was one of the three most famous jade companies in City Teng after all.

Lu Weili didn't care about Gu Ning, but he was afraid of the real boss behind her back.

Zhang Dequan and the others thought that Lu Weiwei was quite stupid after hearing her opinion of Colorful Jade Provider. She had no idea how fierce the competition in the jade business in City Teng was.

"Am I wrong?" Lu Weiwei didn't think she was wrong.

Gu Ning laughed a little. "You're right. A jade company isn't worth mentioning compared with your family's wealth, but I had ruined the Wang family before I built Colorful Jade Provider."

"You?" Lu Weiwei was shocked.

Lu Weili also rounded his eyes in shock. They had heard news about it, but didn't believe that a young girl could do that.

In addition, the Wang family was ruined because many of their dirty secrets were exposed, so they believed that it must have been the Wang family's enemies in politics who had done it.

To their astonishment, Gu Ning told them that she was the person who had unseated the Wang family.

"It's impossible!" Lu Weili blurted it out.

"Well, I simply gave the Wang family's enemies a helping hand. That's it," Gu Ning said with a smile, which was scary.

She wasn't showing off her ability, but gave the Lu family a warning. If it was possible, Gu Ning preferred to spend less time on scheming against them.

"Lord Lu, I have no intention to become the Lu family's enemy, so I hope we can mind our own business. If you really dislike me, I don't mind playing the game with you," Gu Ning said and warned. After that, she looked at Lu Weiwei. "Miss Lu, don't ever leer at my man again, or you'll regret what you've done."

Lu Weili was stunned, and didn't know what to say now.

"You…" Lu Weiwei was furious, and still wanted to argue with Gu Ning.

"Weiwei, shut up!"

Before Lu Weiwei could say anything else, Lu Weili stopped her. No matter what, they shouldn't have conflict against Gu Ning now.

Lu Weiwei pouted, but had to listen to her older brother.

"Let's go now!" Gu Ning hated to stay here for a second longer, so she walked out at once, followed by Leng Shaoting. Zhang Dequan and the others also left soon.

…

"Weiwei, don't do that again," Lu Weili said to Lu Weiwei.

"I understand," Lu Weiwei said, but she was still reluctant to give Leng Shaoting up.

…

Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting went to the first shop of jade raw materials after walking out of the restaurant.

Compared with the stands, there were far fewer shops, so it didn't take long for them to look around the jade raw materials. There were only one or two hundred jade raw materials in each of those shops.

It was more likely to find jade of high quality in select jade raw materials.

Among the one or two hundred jade raw materials, there could be more than five pieces of medium-high-level jade.

Chapter 1069 Conflict with People from Country R

After looking around seven shops, Gu Ning already found over 30 jade raw materials with good jade inside. In fact, there were more jade raw materials with jade inside, but some of them had been chosen by Zhang Dequan, so Gu Ning didn't write their numbers down.Although Gu Ning had the intention to leave some good jade raw materials to Zhang Dequan, it depended on his luck whether he could get all of them.

Zhang Dequan had only written down a few numbers of those jade raw materials, so Gu Ning still had plenty of choices.

A short while later, Gu Ning received Zi Beiying's call. Zi Beiying just arrived at Yangon, Burma, and she asked Gu Ning whether she was at the public jade bid at the moment.

Gu Ning gave her an affirmative answer, so Zi Beiying directly came to meet her.

Yangon was the capital of Burma, but it wasn't very large, so Zi Beiying reached the square within half an hour. Mengda and Nan came along with her.

Zi Beiying didn't have the invitation letter, but it was very easy for the Zi family to get one, so Zi Beiying entered the square with an invitation letter in her hand in the end.

"Gu Ning, I'm here!" Zi Beiying was super excited to see Gu Ning.

"Hi, Mr. Leng and Miss Gu." Mengda and Nan greeted Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting.

Leng Shaoting and Gu Ning nodded at them.

"Hi, Shaoting!" After giving Gu Ning a big hug, Zi Beiying greeted Leng Shaoting with a broad smile. She didn't feel embarrassed at all although she had admired Leng Shaoting before.

She was a smart and kind girl. She mostly liked Leng Shaoting because he was very outstanding among his peers, but they knew little about each other. In addition, Gu Ning was Zi Beiying's good friend now, and Zi Beiying was unwilling to lose such a good friend.

"Hi,"Leng Shaoting said to her.

"Gu Ning, what do you think of the jade raw materials in the square?" Zi Beiying asked Gu Ning.

"Well, I think I have about a dozen shops left in the square, and I've already found many jade raw materials with jade of high quality inside," Gu Ning replied.

"Oh, sounds great. You can keep on looking around and I won't bother you," Zi Beiying said. She knew nothing about stone-gambling, and came here just for fun.

"Sure," Gu Ning said.

Afterwards, Gu Ning walked ahead. Zi Beiying followed her, and sometimes looked around herself.

Actually, Zi Shaomin and Zi Beiying's father was unwilling to let her take part in this public jade bid in the beginning, because Burma wasn't a safe and stable country, but Zi Beiying told them that Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting would be there too, so Zi Shaomin and her father agreed.

They weren't familiar with Gu Ning, but were quite familiar with Leng Shaoting.

Zi Beiying wasn't a weak girl either, and she had two ace bodyguards by her side too. With Leng Shaoting's help, they believed that she would be safe.

Zi Beiying's father had recovered now. Although it was Leng Shaoting who had given them the medicine, they knew that the medicine belonged to Gu Ning, so they felt grateful to her.

Nevertheless, Zi Beiying had a conflict with someone after she had gathered together with Gu Ning for a short time. Coincidentally, Gu Ning's enemies, Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin, were also involved in it.

Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin were present at today's public jade bid too, but Zi Beiying didn't have the conflict with them at the very beginning.

The thing was that a man accidentally rubbed against a woman's body among the crowd on the square, which was unavoidable because there were too many people today, but the woman was very violent and pushed the man away with great force. It was obvious that the woman wasn't an ordinary woman, and the man stumbled into a pile of jade raw materials.

It was quite painful falling into a pile of hard rocks, and his back started bleeding instantly.

Zi Beiying noticed that the man didn't do it on purpose, while the woman was too violent, so she was annoyed. Most importantly, Zi Beiying noticed that the woman was from Country R, so she got furious at once.

Zi Beiying hated people from Country R.

Since she had witnessed the woman's violent behavior, she had to do something now.

Therefore, once the man got back to his feet, Zi Beiying ran over and pushed the woman into the same pile of jade raw materials.

She purposely did it so that the woman could taste the same unpleasant feeling.

The woman was in a lot of pain after the sudden fall. Luckily, she was good at martial arts, so she was stronger than ordinary people, and wasn't seriously hurt.

"Miss Yamaguchi!"

Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin were scared when they saw that.

The next second, a strong man who stood by the woman's side ran forward to punch Zi Beiying.

Mengda jumped out to fight against him without delay.

While the man from Country R was fighting with Mengda, Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin helped Miss Yamaguchi get back to her feet. She wasn't seriously injured, but was still hurt, so she glared at Zi Beiying as if she was going to tear Zi Beiying to pieces.

After a few minutes, the man from Country R lost the fight with Mengda. He knew that he wasn't a match for Mengda, so he turned to swear at Zi Beiying.

"What are you doing? Why did you push her?"

"I think you should ask this miss why she violently pushed that innocent man into the pile of jade raw materials first," Zi Beiying calmly said.

Chapter 1070 Shouta Minamino

"You…" The man was mad. He didn't think that it was the woman's fault. "He asked for it himself. He knocked into Ayumi!""He didn't do it on purpose. It's too crowded on this square. Couldn't you see it?" Zi Beiying said.

Most onlookers supported Zi Beiying, because the man and the woman from Country R were indeed too rude.

"You…" The man was furious, but didn't dare to fight against Mengda again.

At this moment, Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting came after hearing the noise.

When Gu Ning saw Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin, she was displeased, but didn't show her real feelings on her face.

Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin were also surprised to see Gu Ning. In fact, Qi Ziyue felt happy to see her, but he was a little upset when his sight fell on Leng Shaoting.

He didn't recognize Leng Shaoting, so he wasn't aware that Leng Shaoting was a member of the Leng family, but he hated to see such a handsome young man standing by Gu Ning's side. He wondered whether he was Gu Ning's boyfriend.

Thinking of that, Qi Ziyue was unhappy and didn't greet Gu Ning.

He was so self-centered!

Tang Yaxin, on the other hand, hated Gu Ning as usual, so she directly ignored her.

"Beiying, what happened?" Gu Ning asked Zi Beiying.

Zi Beiying then told Gu Ning everything, and Gu Ning thought that Zi Beiying was right. If she had witnessed the same thing, she would have done that too.

However, it wasn't appropriate for them to cause trouble here, so Gu Ning said, "I don't think we should argue or fight anymore, or we'll be chased out by the host."

Hearing that, Zi Beiying agreed to stop arguing with them.

The man and the woman from Country R were unwilling to let Zi Beiying get away with it, but they had to agree because they didn't want to be chased out either.

Even though they couldn't cause trouble here right now, it didn't mean that they wouldn't do anything in the future and at another place.

Gu Ning glanced at the man whose back was still bleeding.

"Mengda, please help him get over here," Gu Ning said to Mengda.

"Sure," Mengda said, then supported the man to walk towards Gu Ning.

Gu Ning took out a porcelain bottle from her backpack and poured out a power crystal. She told the man to take it, and let Mengda help him move to a quiet place for a rest. After that, Gu Ning and her friends left.

Once they were gone, Qi Ziyue, Tang Yaxin, the man and the woman from Country R held different ideas.

"Damn it, how dare they treat me like that!" Ayumi Yamaguchi's expression was evil.

Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin turned to give her a glance. Seeing her expression, they knew that she would take revenge, but they said nothing to stop her.

They now relied on the Minamino family to help the Tang family enter the market in Country R.

The Minamino family was an influential family in Country R, and Shouta Minamino was its sole heir. As long as Shouta Minamino was willing to help them, it would be easy for them to enter the market in Country R.

"Ayumi, don't worry. I promise that I'll take revenge for you," Shouta Minamino said.

He liked Ayumi Yamaguchi and his heart ached for her when he saw her hurt.

However, Ayumi Yamaguchi disliked Shouta Minamino because he wasn't good-looking, but she didn't reject him either. In fact, Shouta Minamino was a plan-B in Ayumi Yamaguchi's eyes.

Shouta Minamino was aware of it, but he was willing to be a back-up.

Although they weren't a couple on the surface, they did everything a couple did. Therefore, Shouta Minamino thought that it wasn't a big deal that Ayumi Yamaguchi didn't accept him as her boyfriend.

"Takuya, go follow them. I want to know which hotel they are staying at. Be careful not to be noticed by them," Shouta Minamino said to a young man by his side.

He just had a fight with Mengda, so he knew that they weren't weak.

"Yes, sir," Takuya said and left.

Ayumi Yamaguchi was injured now, so she needed a rest.

The Minamino family was also involved in the jewelry industry, but jade jewelry was just a part of their family's business and they didn't know much about jade raw materials. They came here mainly for the auction which would be held on the third day.

It wasn't important for them to join in the first two days of the public jade bid.

In that case, Shouta Minamino went back to the hotel along with Ayumi Yamaguchi. Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin also left.

They were in the same group as Shouta Minamino and Ayumi Yamaguchi, so it wasn't appropriate for them to stay if they left.

…

Gu Ning soon noticed that someone was stalking them, and she knew the person must be sent by Shouta Minamino.

She did nothing, because she wanted to know what the person was going to do.

Actually, Gu Ning planned to cause big trouble because Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin were also involved in it.

Since Qi Ziyue and Tang Yaxin were in the same group as the two people from Country R, Gu Ning thought that it was a good chance to teach them a lesson too.

Gu Ning couldn't wait to see them in trouble.