Chapter 27: Betting on a Rise Again (3)

  We had lunch at a restaurant inside the ancient city, five people ordered six dishes. Li Yang and Gu Lao drank some wine together, both of them took taxis, while others drove their own cars. Zhang Wei only had one cup because he had something to do in the afternoon.

  Li Yang's alcohol capacity is quite good, people from Mingyang like to drink wine, especially like the liquor with medium degree, 42 or 46 degrees of liquor are particularly popular here, Li Yang himself can drink seven or eight liang of such liquor, all of which were trained in school and after graduation.

  When Li Yang returned to the Cuiyu Pavilion, his head was still a bit dizzy. After washing his face with cold water, he immediately felt much clearer. Wang Haomin was already urging Li Yang to open the stone on the side. The quality of those gambling stones in Zhang Wei's store was still quite good, and they performed better than the ones Sima Lin brought back from Pingzhou.

  Gu Lao and Sima Lin didn't say a word, but from their eyes, it was clear that they also wanted to see Li Yang decipher the stone here. After hesitating for a moment, Li Yang asked Zhang Wei to take out the gambling stone material from the room and decipher it on the spot.

  In fact, if he had a choice, Li Yang didn't want to untie it here. Once untied, this would definitely be another big surge, and in that case, Li Yang would...

  Four wins and three draws, all of which were big wins. Such an achievement is quite astonishing for a young person who doesn't know much about the industry.

  However, Li Yang didn't have a good choice either. The stone was extremely hard and could only be opened with a professional diamond cracking machine. Li Yang didn't have such tools anywhere else, and anyway, if he tried to crack it elsewhere, these people would probably find out again. So, he might as well just open it here directly.

  Zhang Wei took out this piece of wool, which was not very large, weighing only about a dozen kilograms. According to Li Yang's previous observation, if the jade inside were dug out and made into four pairs of bracelets, the remaining material could be used to make many pendants, rings, and other small items, with a total value that would definitely not be low.

  "Come, put it down!"

  Wang Haomin helped Zhang Wei put the fabric under the cutting machine, and it was up to Li Yang, the owner of the fabric, to decide where to cut. Li Yang, who was no stranger to cutting stones, thought for a moment before drawing a line directly in the middle of the fabric.

  Cutting directly from the middle is a way many jade enthusiasts like, so that they can see the situation inside at a glance. However, this method also has its drawbacks. A complete piece of jade is easily damaged and sometimes a piece of jade that could have been made into four bangles ends up only making three, like Sima Lin's which was ruined to make one less bangle.

  Li Yang cut from the middle, which also destroyed the integrity of the jade, but Li Yang had already carefully calculated it before. Cutting from the middle only damaged a little and did not truly affect the integrity of the entire piece of jade. Moreover, cutting from the middle looked more natural and was more in line with Li Yang's identity as a newcomer.

  "Alright, little brother, you cut it!"

  Zhang Wei skillfully set up the cutting machine and gave a shout to Li Yang. Here, when cutting stones, it's usually the owner of the rough stone who operates it personally, just like buying an instant lottery ticket - people who buy lottery tickets always want to try their luck themselves.

  "Okay, I'm coming!"

  Li Yang nodded, cutting jade was not unfamiliar to him, and it wasn't a particularly difficult technical task either. Besides, Li Yang also wanted to personally cut this piece of jade.

  "Hiss!"

  The ear-piercing sound of the stone cutter started, Zhang Wei, Sima Lin, Wang Haomin and Gu Lao all stared at the wool on the stone cutter, especially Zhang Wei, he didn't have the good attitude of the Qingdao stone seller, he particularly wanted to know what the result would be like for the wool that came out from his place.

  "It's green, it's up!"

  Wang Haomin shouted first, Zhang Wei hurried forward to help Li Yang splash some water. When he cut open half of the fur, a bit of green was revealed inside, but it was still unclear what kind of material it was.

  "Not bad, looks like it's either apple green or yellow green, Mr. Li, I really admire your luck!"

  Zhang Wei nodded, Li Yang continued to cut down, and several people leaned in closer. Wang Haomin looked up with his head tilted back, still peeking inside.

  "It's Huang Yang Green, no mistake, the water quality is also good, I think it's ice species!"

  Wang Haomin suddenly said a sentence, and the others nodded secretly. When looking at Li Yang's eyes, they became somewhat complicated, especially Zhang Wei. He had only heard people in the industry mention that Mingyang had such a person, and he came to know Li Yang with the intention of making friends. Unexpectedly, Li Yang had gambled on another piece of jade here, and what's more, it was the jade from his place.

  "Whoosh!"

  The jade was cut in half by Li Yang, and Old Gu hastily wiped the cut surface clean with water. The opened jade fully revealed itself.

  "It's an old pit ice species, yellow-green in color, and it's rising, a big rise!"

  The old man stroked his cheek and exclaimed loudly. Sima Lin nodded secretly beside him, with envy in his eyes.

  On the other hand, Zhang Wei and Wang Haomin looked at Li Yang's eyes differently. Such good raw materials were hard to come by even on a daily basis, and even if they encountered them, it was not certain that they could buy them. Now, seeing such good things on their own turf, Zhang Wei couldn't help but regret not going to solve the gamble himself, and began to think about how to buy some raw materials from Li Yang's hands.

  "Li, I'll give you 15 million for these two and a half pieces of wool fabric. What do you think?" Zhang Wei was still thinking when Wang Haomin made an offer, but the price had skyrocketed from 1 million to 15 million, Li Yang's price this time had absolutely soared.

  "Wait a minute, this piece of wool was cut from my place, I should be the first to bid as the owner. Mr. Li, I'll give you 16 million, how about returning these two and a half pieces of wool to me?"

  "One hundred and fifty thousand, one hundred and sixty thousand!" Li Yang shook his head with a smile. Before cutting the stone, he had already thought of it, after cutting it open, they would directly quote a price to buy this half-gambling material, but Li Yang did not expect that there would be competition here too.

  "One hundred and fifty thousand is a bit low, Li younger brother, I'll give you two million, just let me have it!"

  When Li Yang shook his head, Wang Haomin immediately became anxious and directly quoted a price of 20 million. Gu Lao and Sima Lin slightly shook their heads, but neither of them said anything.

  In terms of quality, this piece can be confirmed to be a high-quality Huang Yang Green jadeite with a strong translucency and fine grain, far surpassing the white salt and pepper skin half-translucent jadeite at home. The price of 2 million is not considered expensive.

  "Two hundred and twenty thousand, I'm letting you go to my house to pick one out, so don't fight with me over this!"

  Zhang Wei hastily bid again, his store had not seen such high-end jade for a long time, and he must have this ice-type jade, even if it was still half-gambling rough material.

  "2.4 million!" Wang Haomin smiled wryly at Zhang Wei, and said again: "Wei Ge, my good brother, what you mainly sell here is mid-to-low-end jade, I can only digest this high-end jade on my side, besides, you should also know how long it's been since I've had such top-notch goods. Now those high-end customers don't even come to me, just be nice and let me have it!"

  "No way, how did you know I don't have any high-end customers here? In the past, I could let it go, but this time absolutely not. If you're going to grab low-to-mid-range jade, forget about getting goods from me!"

  Zhang Wei shook his head vigorously. In the past, he could let Wang Haomin have it, but this time it was absolutely impossible. This was a genuine old pit ice jade, which he hadn't seen in many years. He regretted not having extracted all of it from the raw materials he had stored away earlier. If only he had done so, with this piece of ice jade as the treasure of his shop, business would definitely be much better in the future.