Chapter Seventy-four: Red Phoenix

  All the jade gambling stones stored by Zhang Wei were exposed to Li Yang's eyes at this moment. There were also two decent peony species here, but they were too small and far less valuable than the one Zheng Kai won in Zhengzhou.

  What surprised Li Yang the most was that largest piece of gambling stone wool that he hadn't noticed last time, which was placed next to the safe and was over half a meter high. In terms of size, among all the gambling stones Li Yang had seen, only the one solved by the three brothers from Zhengzhou was larger than this one.

  But most importantly, there is jadeite in the gambling stone.

  This piece of jade is huge, weighing over 100 kilograms, and it's all emerald green inside. However, the quality isn't great, barely reaching the level of oil-clear type. Although this piece of jade is large, its price isn't that high, not even one-tenth of the price of the golden-silk type jade that Li Yanggang sold.

  A piece of jade this size alone is not enough to attract Li Yang, what he wants is the value of the jade, not his own collection. In comparison, he would rather choose a small piece of peony-patterned jade that can be sold for hundreds of thousands than such a large ordinary piece of jade.

  "What's wrong with you, Lao Li?"

  Wang Haomin was gazing at Zhang Wei's unsellable goods with a look of regret, when he turned around to see Li Yang standing there stupidly and hastily asked a question.

  Li Yang forced a smile and shook his head, saying: "I'm fine!"

  Wang Haomin smiled and said, "Is it that you don't know which piece of jade to choose from so many, or are you regretting only asking to buy two pieces?"

  Li Yang hadn't even responded yet when Zhang Wei's voice came in first: "You think Li is as greedy as you!"

  Before his voice had fallen, Zhang Wei had already entered the small room where the gambling stones and safe were kept, his two eyes staring at Wang Haomin with a hint of anger.

  "I was wrong!"

  Wang Haomin immediately turned around, these gambling stones were like Zhang Wei's **, Wang Haomin knew that his words had touched Zhang Wei's reverse scales.

  "Director Zhang, don't be angry, I've already set my eyes on one piece, how much is this piece selling for?"

  Li Yang smiled secretly in his heart, but his face remained expressionless. He slowly raised his hand, and the finger he pointed at was exactly the largest gambling stone on the ground.

  "This piece?"

  Zhang Wei looked at Li Yang in surprise, this piece of jade rough stone had been shown to a senior expert by Zhang Wei before, and there was a great possibility that it contained jadeite, but it was difficult to produce good quality jadeite, so it had always been left there, without any intention of cracking it open.

  "That's right, this one!"

  Li Yang nodded heavily, still recalling the scene he had just seen in his mind.

  This entire piece of jadeite is all high-quality material, enough to supply all the low-end jadeite sold in every jewelry store in every county and city of Mingyang for a whole year.

  But what Li Yang focused on was not this point, in this large piece of oil green jadeite, there were two strokes of bright red color, like two goldfish, vivid and lively, giving people a strange feeling.

  These two goldfish are not unfamiliar with the red arowana, this is the red arowana among the arowanas, besides green, there are also red, yellow, purple and other colors of arowana, the value of these colors depends on the performance of the water quality, if it's just an ordinary red arowana paired with ordinary oil blue, the price won't be too high.

  What really caught Li Yang's attention were the shapes of these two red jade, larger in front and smaller at the back, flat and round, no matter from which angle, they looked exactly like goldfish. And these two pieces of red goldfish were so close together that at first glance, they seemed to be competing for food, vividly lifelike.

  "I originally spent 1 million yuan to acquire this piece, and I never had the chance to open it. If you really want it, little brother, 3 million will do!" Zhang Wei fell silent for a moment before slowly lifting his head.

  At first, the thing that was bought for 100,000 yuan is now being sold for 300,000 yuan. No matter how you look at it, it seems like Zhang Wei is making an exorbitant profit. However, in the line of business of gambling on stones, Zhang Wei's method can be said to be not excessive at all, and even a bit light.

  The price of jadeite has skyrocketed, driving up the price of raw jadeite. The materials that Zhang Wei could buy for 100,000 yuan back then now cost at least three to four times more, and good-quality jadeite can increase in price by four to five times or even tenfold, which is quite normal. Zhang Wei only raised the price threefold when selling it, which is considered very generous.

  Li Yang's face revealed a hint of a smile as he said, "Alright, Director Zhang, I'll take this one. I'm also very curious about such a large gamble!"

  "No problem, Li, are you going to crack open this seal stone here or take it back?"

  Zhang Wei smiled slightly, this big piece of jade Zhang Wei didn't have much hope for it, if it wasn't likely to produce low-grade jade inside he wouldn't have bought it in the first place, however, based on the original price of the raw material, neither his purchase price at that time nor the current selling price to Li Yang was considered low.

  "Take it back, such a big piece, it's inconvenient to dissolve here!"

  Li Yang gently shook his head, the batch of jade stones he bought in Zhengzhou was about to arrive soon. After gathering all these jade stones, Li Yang planned to carefully carve them and bring out all the jade, which could be sold for a good price even if not now, but in the future when an opportunity arises.

  "Alright, I'll arrange for someone to send it over to you soon. Is there anything else that catches your eye?"

  Li Yang's answer made Zhang Wei very happy, this big piece of jade was regretted after the initial purchase, even if it were ordinary jadeite, it would only be slightly higher than the cost, let alone a full gamble on the material, so Zhang Wei had been unable to make up his mind to solve it.

  Now, Li Yang is willing to take the risk and buy it. Zhang Wei is of course willing. For other good full wool and semi-wool fabrics, Li Yang can choose this one and he will be absolutely satisfied.

  "And this one too!"

  Li Yang pointed to a piece of semi-finished wool fabric, and Zhang Wei's facial muscles twitched slightly, but he still had a smile on his face: "This piece is doing very well, Li brother, I'm telling the truth, this piece of wool fabric is worth at least 800,000!"

  The piece of semi-gambling material pointed out by Li Yang has been cut open on one side, revealing the inside peony-patterned jadeite. This kind of semi-gambling material is what Zhang Wei is least willing to sell.

  "800,000!"

  Li Yang bowed his head and thought for a moment, this piece of Fuyong jadeite is the best performing one among all the gambling stones here in Zhang Wei's place, it's also quite large, if it's solved, it would be worth at least 15 million. Zhang Wei attaches great importance to this raw material as well.

  "What about this part?"

  Li Yang pointed to a piece of pure wool fabric, and Zhang Wei's heart immediately felt much more at ease. Those well-behaved semi-pure wool fabrics could be said to be his heart's treasure, although he hadn't unraveled them himself, but similarly didn't want to sell them to others.

  "This piece, if you want it, Li, I'll give it to you for 80,000!"

  Zhang Wei quickly replied that Li Yang was asking about another piece of jade, which also had a piece of peony green jade inside, only smaller than the one in the previous half-piece of jade, worth around 10 million.

  But from a value perspective, spending 800,000 to buy jade worth 1.5 million is far less cost-effective than spending 80,000 to buy jade worth 1 million.

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