Chapter 61: Chicken Claw Lock

  Inside the stone gambling, people who like to gamble on colors are the most. Usually after one cut, they all want to see if it's green or not. If it's green, generally it will rise, and whether it's a big rise or small rise still needs to be looked at further.

  Of course, betting on color is not necessarily going to win, and losing is also possible. The main difference lies in the breed. In the eyes of a connoisseur, breed is more important than color, so there's also betting on breed.

  Secondly, there is fog betting. Some people like to bet on fog. Everything has two sides, and when the fog comes out, it may get worse, but it may also get better. Among those who bet on fog, they prefer to bet on white fog, which has a higher probability of rising.

  Apart from white fog, there are also yellow fog, black fog and red fog, etc. Each type of fog can be gambled on, the worse the performance, the lower the price, the lower the purchase cost.

  Of course, with lower costs and prices, the possibility of gambling is greater, but risk and value still have a certain proportion.

  Outside of gambling fog, there is another way to gamble, called gambling for cracks. As the name suggests, it's all about looking at the cracks on the surface of the gambling stone, and analyzing the crack pattern to determine the outcome, before making a decision.

  People who have just entered the industry are generally just guessing, those who have played for a while may dare to guess fog, and those who dare to guess cracks are basically all masters. Wanting to see if there is jade inside from a crack is not something that ordinary people can do. It's said that in Yunnan, there was someone known as the 'Jade King', who rarely lost when guessing stones, he had a special skill which was looking at cracks, one look and it was accurate.

  Jadeite and jade fog are similar, the worse the quality of the jadeite, the lower its value. However, poor quality does not mean it has no gambling potential, as long as it is a piece of jade, there is still a chance to win. Just like the footrest stone Li Yang got before, with black fog on the surface and horse-tail jadeite, which was classified as worthless and discarded on the ground, but unexpectedly turned out to be an extreme treasure, Glass Emperor Green.

  However, the extremely rare stepping stones are after all a minority and can be said to be encountered only once in thousands of years. So for many people, they do not want to gamble on the outcome, especially some regular ones.

  Nowadays, this chicken claw crackle has become a regular crackle. Chicken claw crackle is difficult to say whether it's good or bad, because people who really know how to gamble on crackles like to gamble on chicken claw crackles the most. As long as the chicken claw crackle only exists on the surface, then inside there may be jade of various colors that are not bad.

  But to see if the chicken feet are only on the surface, that requires a very high level of skill. At least Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida do not have this standard, Li Yang does not either, but he has already understood the internal structure, whether or not he has this standard is no longer important.

  Zheng Kaida and Sima Lin shook their heads together, while staring at the stall owner.

  At present, the chicken claw pattern on this piece of jadeite has obvious signs of being concealed, as if it is afraid that others will find out. If you don't look carefully and ignore this chicken claw pattern or take it for a normal pattern, you'll lose big time. In case it's a chicken claw pattern that has penetrated into the jade meat, even if it's a good quality jadeite, its value will be greatly reduced. The chicken claw pattern will split the jadeite inside into four or five pieces, and some may not have any practical value at all.

  With chicken claw marks and a special disguise, I'm afraid no player would dare to buy such a gambling stone. Moreover, this disguise itself can reveal many problems, it's very likely that this gambling stone has been seen through by an expert and was not sold well, so it was transported elsewhere to see if it could be fooled out.

  The stall owner smiled awkwardly, and indeed there were signs of tampering on this gambling stone, but it didn't belong to counterfeiting, so apart from condemnation, there was no way to deal with the stall owner.

  "Li, you're something else! If it weren't for your reminder, I'd probably have gotten into trouble again!"

  Zheng Kaida was surprised and said that he really admired Li Yang, this hidden chicken claw pattern is not easy to distinguish, if it wasn't for Li Yang pointing it out, he probably wouldn't have noticed, and he had indeed taken a liking to this piece of jade.

  "I also happened to see that the color of the shell was a bit off and felt something was wrong, then I discovered it!"

  Li Yang shook his head and smiled, without any special ability to help, he wouldn't have discovered the chicken claw pattern that had infiltrated into the jade meat, it was precisely because of this chicken claw pattern that he spoke up to remind Zheng Kaida, otherwise he really couldn't say anything bad about this piece of gambling stone.

  "Humble, I've discovered now that your good luck isn't for nothing, I didn't think you'd have such high attainments in gambling at such a young age!"

  Sim Lin chuckled and looked at Li Yang with admiration. Previously, he had only thought that Li Yang was lucky, but now he finally discovered that Li Yang's level in guessing the quality of jade stones was not inferior to his own, and could even be said to be slightly higher.

  Praise for Sima Lin, Li Yang didn't go to distinguish, let them understand that their own gambling water standard is high, just right to cover up a part of the shock brought by good luck, and it doesn't harm him.

  Li Yang no longer considers the white rock sand shell gambling stone material, after his reminder Zheng Kai Da will definitely not buy it again. What Li Yang is thinking about now is another piece of full gambling material on this stall.

  When Li Yang just activated his special ability, he had already observed all the jade stones on the two stalls around him. There were not many good quality jades among them, except for a small piece of dry green jade on the stall next to him and this piece of jade in front of him.

  This piece of jade is not very large, about the same size as a car headlight, and its shape is also irregular. The outer skin is ordinary greenish-gray shell, without python and pine flowers on the surface, and there are several irregular cracks, fortunately these cracks are not too deep.

  This gambler stone doesn't look special from the outside, but inside it has a nice piece of peony-patterned jadeite with very good green color, which is a very nice blue-green. Compared to the bright yellowish-green one that Sima Lin had yesterday, this one looks even better.

  Furong Chong Feicui is considered one of the best varieties among mid-to-high-end jadeites, with a blue-green color. This piece of jade has about two kilograms or more of jade meat inside, and just this small amount is worth more than the tens of kilograms that Sima Lin gambled out yesterday.

  This piece of jade is also the best piece of jade rough that Li Yang has found so far, its quality is even better than yesterday's golden silk variety, unfortunately the quantity is slightly insufficient, it can't be considered a large piece of high-quality jade.

  "Li, little brother, what do you think of this?"

  Li Yang's performance just now has completely convinced Zheng Kai Da and Sima Lin. Zheng Kai Da picked up another piece of jade and asked Li Yang, who was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the one Zheng Kai Da had picked up was actually the very same piece he had been eyeing earlier, which could produce a high-quality Fuhong variety of jade.

  "What did he say?" Li Yang's heart began to waver.

  His ideal idea was to buy this piece of wool himself, match it with some inferior wool, and then unravel it again. He would then look for an opportunity to sell it to Zhang Ying, but now Zheng Kaida had taken a liking to it, making it difficult for him to make a choice.

  If I say no, he will definitely suspect if I buy it myself later. If I say yes, Zheng Kai Da will probably gamble on the price going up, and this piece of fine-quality peony-patterned jadeite won't be mine anymore.

  "This piece, I don't have much to say, it's quite bland, but there's nothing particularly bad about it either!"

  After thinking for a while, Li Yang finally made up his mind. He didn't say it was good or bad, but rather let nature take its course. If Zheng Kai Da really bought it, then that's his luck. All he could say is that he missed the opportunity by one step and couldn't blame anyone else.

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