Chapter 50: Gambling on Stones (6)

  "Old Zhou, brother, how do you want to deal with this piece of wool? Should we wipe it or cut it?"

  Wang Fengmang also came up and smiled warmly, saying that the small amount of wool in Zhou Ming's hand could be wiped off while walking, which was safer.

  "Cut it." Zhou Mingluo smiled very calmly, he clearly knew where the green was in this fabric, as long as he wiped along the edge, he would soon be able to get rid of the green.

  However, he didn't want to appear too unusual, and couldn't just go up and wipe it off, then directly wipe out the green, or people would suspect that he had known all along that this place could produce green. He carved the stone, first making a cut, appearing ordinary and normal, in order to perfectly conceal the fact that he had already known there was high-quality ice jade inside.

  But just then, Li also roughly saw the wool fabric and slightly frowned, saying, "Huh, Zhou's brother, this piece of wool fabric doesn't look very good."

  It's not just that it doesn't look good, this fabric full of moths, even if the green is cut out, the underlying green meaning may also be destroyed, it's really a bit unbearable.

  "Huh, then let's cut the stone, Young Master Zhou. Will you draw the cutting surface yourself, or...?" Wang Fengmo didn't seem to mind Li Zong's words and instead looked at Zhou Mingluo again.

  He guessed that the other party was probably a novice, and eight out of ten didn't understand how to cut jade. There's also a lot to learn about this. Even if there's green in the rough stone, if you cut it directly on the green, even good quality jade will be ruined. So where to cut and how to cut are both crucial. He was kind enough to remind Zhou Mingluo of this.

  "I'll draw it, cut along here." Ren Liheng also stood up and took a white chalk from the square table, drawing a mark on the wool fabric in Zhou Ming's hand. This mark was on the crack of the wool surface. When cutting stone, it is generally started from the crack, because it is cracked, even if there is green below, it may be damaged and cannot be used.

  The place where he scratched is just a scratch, and there are not only one scratch nearby, but many scratches.

  "Let's get started from here." Zhou Mingluo smiled and opened the protective cover of the cutting machine, and then Zhou Mingluo aligned the incision drawn by Ren Liheng with the cutter, closed the protective cover, and Wang Fengmang on the other side directly started the machine.

  In an instant, the entire machine burst into a loud hum, countless stone chips flew out, and a small part of them hit the cutting machine's protective shell, making a crackling sound. By this time, the whole room had become eerily quiet.

  Because cutting stone can't be done in one go, it requires a certain amount of time to wait.

  "Zhou, little brother, just watch here for now, I'll go take a look around." Li and the young man beside him seemed unwilling to wait any longer, directly opening their mouths with smiles. They came here to play Go, but they wouldn't keep waiting like this forever.

  After exchanging greetings, the two of them turned around and walked towards the shelves on both sides. Ren Liheng was about the same, while Wang Fengmang didn't care, just chatting idly beside Zhou Minglou.

  More than ten minutes passed before Wang Fengmang suddenly smiled and said, "Alright."

  He closed the shearing machine, took out the wool, and then took out a small hammer and tapped it lightly. The wool that was originally stuck together suddenly fell into two pieces, and several people who were watching the wool also gathered around immediately.

  After a glance, the other three people's faces all showed a hint of obvious disappointment and fell.

  The whole stone split in two, but inside there wasn't a single hint of green, this gamble has failed.

  "It's indeed collapsed, I told you so. This material looks really bad on the surface." Li said directly with a light cough, seemingly unimpressed.

  The young man standing beside him also nodded slightly, agreeing with his words.

  Even Ren Liheng was very helpless, he had already advised Zhou Minglu before, but the other party didn't listen to him at all, what could he do? Although a piece of woolly stone, cutting one knife may not see green, but the second knife, the third knife may also see green, however, this piece of woolly is too small, only as big as a small pumpkin, an eight-pound stone, cut along the position close to the center, didn't cut out any green at all, and the possibility of existing green in the remaining two pieces was really too small.

  This knife won't come out green, even if it's left to cut off the green, its size is absolutely limited, and that possibility is really too low.

  "No big deal, everyone pays tuition when they first gamble on rocks. Don't mind it, come help me pick one out." Wu Yu patted Zhou Mingluo's shoulder and said with a smile.

  "Go ahead and cut again, anyway I'm just playing around." Zhou Ming Luo certainly couldn't leave now, he knew there was green in this.

  "Alright then, one more cut."

  Cutting once more won't make a difference; although he no longer had any hope for this material, there was nothing else he could say.

  …………

  More than ten minutes later.

  There was another middle-aged man in the warehouse who also joined the selection team, and Zhou Ming's second stone cutting came to an end.

  "Hey, it's ruined again, this is the second time, this material can basically be abandoned."

  "Yes, it was cut into three pieces and still no green is seen. The remaining small stones will basically not rise."

  "It's just a loss, it was like this the first time I played, I used to pay a lot of tuition fees too."

  ……

  The several people who came around all naturally accepted this result, Ren Liheng still opened his mouth to persuade them a bit.

  However, Zhou Ming Luo smiled faintly and said, "Leave these three pieces, wipe them clean and try them out."

  The volume of the cut wool is not large, if you choose the green wool directly, it's likely that one knife can cut through the high green ice species. At this time, his behavior of covering himself up is almost done, and it's time to let the high green ice species see the light again.

  "Are you still wiping?" But his words made everyone around him suddenly stunned, and they all looked at Zhou Mingluo in a very strange way.

  This guy can't stand the stimulation, he must walk all the way to the end, the remaining three pieces of stone are so small, what's left to wipe? A 7-8 pound heavy stone cut into three pieces, a flat cutting surface, not to mention green, no fog is seen at all. Even if it can be wiped out in green, it will definitely not be much larger than the palm of your hand. And this material has such a poor appearance, even if it's a green water species, it's limited, I estimate it's worthless, what's the point of wiping?

  This can be directly treated as waste.

  "This is the first time I've played, and this piece of wool also has some commemorative significance, so I want to play with it a few more times." Zhou Ming Luo explained to Ren Li Heng, although he could read the eyes of several people.

  "Well, then go ahead and play." Ren Liheng was speechless, but could only nod in agreement. After all, the stone belonged to Zhou Ming Luo now, and those tools were just sitting there unused, so if he wanted to play with them, it was up to him.

  But in his heart, Ren Li Heng felt a little regretful. He estimated that Zhou Ming had lost 60,000 yuan at once and was not reconciled to it. If he had known earlier, he would not have brought him here, now he even felt a bit guilty.

  As for the others, except for Wang Fengmang, they all glanced at Zhou Mingluo and dispersed. The little guy can't play with them. They already knew how much the other party bought this piece of fabric for. With their family background, they really didn't care about that small amount of money. However, it seems that Zhou Mingluo is not that simple.

  Of course, several people also thought they were dignified and naturally wouldn't say much. Even if there was something to laugh at or despise, it would only be done secretly in private.