Chapter 107: As You Wish

  Because Liu Zhiqing had to untangle dozens of kilograms of wool, it wasn't until Chu Chen and the others returned to Qianji Processing Workshop that they were finally able to finish untangling the last bit of wool.

  "Whoosh!"

  The people around all crowded their heads to look at the wool, just as Chu Quan and others came in, they also quickly crowded up.

  "What a pity!" Hou Yuanming looked at the two cut sides and shook his head regretfully.

  This piece of wool had been cut into two sides by Liu Zhiqing before, and now it was cutting half of the wool.

  On this half piece of wool, Liu Zhiqing had already wiped out a few windows before. The two closer ones also had some greenery, although the water was a bit dry, but the green was quite upright. However, after cutting it open, it was disappointing to find that it was actually a skin-green jade, with only a thin layer of emerald inside.

  Chu Chen shook his head and asked: "Liu Ge, where is the other half?"

  "Ah, over there." Liu Zhiqing pointed with some disappointment to a place not far from the stone grinder.

  Chu Chen walked to the location pointed by Liu Zhiqing, and saw that the other half had been cut into several pieces. Upon closer inspection, it was indeed ruined, but unfortunately, just like the other half earlier, this half of the wool also had green, but when cut open, the green inside was extremely scattered and distributed very unevenly, not even a little bit of jade material could be extracted.

  Liu Zhiqing said with a somewhat dejected tone: "Alas, it seems my luck is still bad."

  Chu Chen previously learned from Hou Yuanming that Liu Zhiqing's luck in gambling on stones was really very poor. Some looked great at first, but turned out to be worthless, or had flaws inside. This kind of thing happened all the time. If he hadn't made a few big wins earlier, it was 99% likely that he wouldn't have been able to hold on until now.

  Hou Yuanming patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Old Liu, don't be discouraged. Gambling on stones is like that, you lose nine out of ten times. Besides, you've already figured out the glass kind, which is more than I can do."

  Zhang Yanbin also spoke up, "Yes, Old Hou is right. Look at me, after all these years, I've only watched others cut out glass inclusions, and I haven't even touched one myself. So it's not that your luck is bad, it's just that the uncertainty of gambling on stones is too great. Otherwise, you can just wait for next time to reveal what's left of this rough material."

  Liu Zhiqing shook his head and said, "This piece of wool is still unsold, or I will definitely not sleep well tonight. After selling this piece, I have decided to focus on operating the wool business and no longer gamble on stones myself. Xiao Chu, your luck has always been good, why don't you help me sell this piece of wool? How about it?"

  Chu Chen waved his hand and politely declined, "Liu Ge, it's not that I can't help you solve it, since you've decided this is the last time you're going to gamble on stones, then you should be the one to solve it yourself. This way, it will also be more meaningful."

  Liu Zhiqing listened to Chu Chen's words and thought that it made sense. His own retirement match, how could he let someone else take care of it? Was it really true that the older one got in Jianghu, the smaller one's courage became? Moreover, if he let Xiao Chu help him out, later on when he thought back to this scene, he would also feel regretful.

  Thinking of this, Liu Zhiqing let out a mouthful of stagnant air in his chest and said: "It's really embarrassing, fortunately Xiao Chu reminded me in time, otherwise I will definitely regret it later. Win or lose, the last round I'll give it my all!"

  "Good!"

  Zhang Yanbin took a sip of wine and said: "This is the old Liu I'm familiar with, I'd like to toast you to a victorious start!"

  Then, Chu Chen and others also expressed their blessings.

  Liu Zhiqing thanked everyone and then, with a heroic spirit, moved another piece of wool to the dehairing machine, ready to start dehairing it.

  Liu Zhiqing's piece of fur is a piece of about 10 kilograms of Yangmei sand skin material, the surface of this fur has sand particles like ripe Yangmei, the color is dark red, some with champagne water (red and white or red and yellow alternating). The main producing areas are Laochang District and Dama'kang Chang District, and there are also a small number of productions in Muna.

  The quality of the wool fabric depends on whether the surface is even or not. As long as the base is even, it's good. This piece of wool fabric looks like it has a pretty even weave and also has some decent cashmere, looking quite nice overall.

  Hou Yuanming looked at the wool fabric and said with some envy: "Old Liu, this piece of wool fabric is from the old Yangmei Sha Pile factory district, it's performing very well. Where did you get it from? The price isn't cheap, right?"

  Liu Zhiqing smiled and shook his head, saying: "What you said earlier is right, but the price is not. Look here!"

  Liu Zhiqing turned the wool over. Everyone looked at where he was pointing, but saw a clear crack on one end of a strip of pine flowers, as if the green had been cut off.

  "Cut green satin? Old Liu, how did you think of buying this kind of fabric with cut green satin?" Zhang Yanbin looked at it and said in surprise.

  Jade with "dui lv jie" (literally, "green-blocking crack") is a type of jade where the green color is blocked by a crack. We know that in jade, the green color usually grows in a certain direction. However, sometimes a crack appears, cutting across the green area and stopping its extension. This crack is like an insurmountable wall, blocking the green color on one side, hence it's called "dui lv jie". Therefore, this type of crack is extremely harmful.

  Several people on the scene, including Wen Yuting, a newcomer, knew about the harm of green velvet, so everyone was very puzzled as to why Liu Zhijun would buy this kind of fabric.

  However, Chu Chen saw Liu Zhiqing's smile but silent expression and knew that there must be a hidden situation. He looked at the fabric from head to toe and then smiled: "Brother Liu, you think this is a misplaced weft, right?"

  Speaking of cut green silk, one can't help but mention a similar type of silk, namely, offset silk.

  The formation of jadeite with displacement is due to the effect of two opposing forces, causing the two local areas of jadeite to move in opposite directions along a plane, resulting in displacement. This presents a situation where a green line is broken and shifted by a certain distance. If the separated green color is examined in detail, it can be determined that the two green colors were originally connected.

  In this case, the streaks are called displaced streaks, and the green is called displaced green. The plane of displacement sometimes shows as a distinct cleavage, while at other times it is so perfect that only a faint line can be seen from the characteristics of the displacement, and the combination is as tight as one body.

  So we need to know that the cut green thread is not the thread covering the green, but after the mistake, the other half of the green is lost. For the situation of misplaced threads, since there is no shortage of green in jade, the impact is not great. However, the situation with cut green threads is different, as it has half less green than normal estimates, so special attention should be paid to whether the transverse green thread can become a cut green thread.

  Liu Zhiqing didn't expect Chu Chen to see through it so quickly and said with some surprise: "Little Chu, how did you know?"

  Chu Chen pointed to the side that seemed to be cut off by a green thread and said, "Everyone take a closer look, this place actually has an expression, but it's too faint so it can't be seen clearly. Liu Ge, is this a Qiao Mian Mang, what do you think?"

  Liu Zhiqing involuntarily gave a thumbs up and said, "Xiao Chu, your eyesight is indeed formidable. You were able to find this python in such a short time. If I didn't know better, I would have thought you knew about it beforehand!"

  Three men, due to their experience with guessing the number of stones, quickly figured out the answer, but the two girls looked left and right, unable to guess it. Wen Yuting became impatient, pinched Li Guodong, and scolded: "You're useless, I couldn't figure it out, won't you teach me how to do it?"

  Li Guodong winced, his face twisted in pain. He said wordlessly: "Yuting, recognizing python patterns isn't something you can learn overnight. It takes careful and patient long-term observation and exploration to be able to recognize them at a glance. Not to mention, the color of the python's markings is very light, usually you need to splash some water on it to see clearly."

  Upon hearing this, Wen Yuting finally understood what was going on and helped Li Guozhong massage the spot that had been pinched earlier. At the same time, she said, "Hmph, you should have made it clear earlier, I think you deserved to be pinched!"

  Since he thought it was a misplaced stitch, Liu Zhiqing didn't wipe it away and prepared to cut it open directly from the misplaced stitch.

  "Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

  The wool was not very thick, so the cutting speed was quite fast, and in just a few minutes, half of it had already been cut. While Chu Chen and the others saw a glimpse of the cutting surface, they had already seen green.

  Chu Chen's eyes were good, and he smiled at everyone: "Liu Ge is satisfied this time, that green looks very regular!"

  Hou Yuanming nodded and smiled: "Hehe, it's just that I don't know how the water is, if the price of wool isn't expensive, then it can be considered a big increase."

  "With the green yarn bought at a cut price, I think it's impossible for the price to rise further," Zhang Yanbin said excitedly. In his heart, he also hoped that Liu Zhiqing would make a big profit, so that he could get good quality jade material.

  "Whoosh!"

  The wool was cut into two pieces. Everyone hurriedly washed the wool clean with clear water, then picked up the flashlight and shone it on, and the result was also quite pleasing.

  From the cut window surface, both sides have green and the scope of both sides is very large, and the variety is also good.

  Hou Yuanming happily patted Liu Zhiqing's shoulder and said, "Alright, this will definitely make a profit. The yellow-green glutinous rice is of high quality. Old Liu, how much did you pay for this material?"

  "Twenty thousand!" Liu Zhiqing excitedly raised two fingers.

  "Great! That's a big surge!" Zhang Yanbin said excitedly.

  Due to time constraints, some of the previous bosses have already left. If they had heard the two words "big rise", they would have definitely gathered around. Even so, when some workers heard about the big rise, they quickly gathered around too.

  Lao Qian happened to be walking out of the office inside, heard the two words "big rise", and quickly ran over, that speed, like an athlete, not at all like a nearly fifty-year-old.

  Lao Qian carefully examined the fabric, smiled and said: "Little Liu, you can now be considered to have gone through hardships and are now enjoying the fruits of your labor. What do you think about this fabric? Should we sell it now or unravel it first?"