After lunch, Lao Mian perhaps wanted to create momentum for the giant raw stone, and actually announced some numbers of the raw stones, publicly saying that if no one adds a price, they will confirm the buyer.
Only after finding a buyer can the jade be revealed and the green color brought out, then that large piece of raw jade can sell for a sky-high price.
Lao Mian and Yuanshi have been teaching for so many years, but Bianyu hasn't learned much of their skills. However, he has mastered the trick of looking down on people to a perfect score.
He couldn't tell if there was green in the original stone, so he specifically chose the original stones that everyone bid fiercely - for example, this No. 96, Lao Mian originally didn't think much of this stone and threw it into a pile of original stones just to make up the number, with a starting price of 8 million, which was a pit, but someone actually offered 25 million, Lao Mian felt that either his eyes were blurred or these mainlanders had all gone crazy.
The number 2.5 million is quite peculiar, except for Lao Mian and Ai Li this ABC, after Lao Mian read out the price and announced that the raw stone belonged to Ai, all the mainlanders present burst out laughing.
Aili didn't know what they were laughing at, and only after asking Li Anping in a low voice did she understand the significance of the number 250 - Aili's discontent had to be vented, and Li Anping's arm was once again adorned with several more bruises.
Lao Mian asked Ai Li if she understood, and Ai Li suspected that she had been fooled. Perhaps Liu Zhen and the others had already seen through her trick of sending someone to listen in on the price, or else how could they have come up with such a number? It must be intentional.
But Aili was now in a difficult situation, with many eyes fixed on her waiting to see the joke, and if she didn't dare to interpret the stone in public, it would seem that Fumanlou was timid.
"Untie it! How can you not untie it? Untie it for me right now!"
Lao Mian had someone move No. 96 to the cutting machine and asked Ai Li how to cut it, but Ai Li now felt that her "brain trust" was useless, so she told Lao Mian to just cut it randomly.
Lao Mian was initially unhappy with her disrespect, but as soon as he heard that it was just a casual explanation, he didn't hesitate and ordered someone to cut the 96th one in half from the middle!
"Two hundred and fifty has come out green!" The one covering her mouth in surprise was Wang Miao'e, her eyes wide open as if extremely shocked, saying the joyful news of "coming out green", but adding a "two hundred and fifty", making it not exciting at all.
Ai Li stretched her neck to look, a green intention was in the center of the original stone, looking at two quite large cutting surfaces, and it turned out that both sides of the original stone were cut out. She took a look at the color, no need to say that this time they all made a profit, and just pretended not to hear Wang Miao's "250" in her mouth.
"Two hundred and fifty, unexpectedly cut out a glutinous rice variety, it's really shocking." The speaker Lin Luo Ran also recognized him, it was the Guangzhou guy they met at Zhang Boss' place last time. Although he was praising, his Cantonese-accented Mandarin always sounded sarcastic.
Compared to Wang Miaoer who was waiting for the final settlement and the Guangzhou guy who left a thread, Cui Baozi had no scruples at all: "I'd rather buy one thread than pick one piece, this way everything is cut off, there's not even good jade left, isn't that what Miss Ai said last time?"
Last time Lin Luoran was at Zhang's place, Ai Li indeed said something like that. She didn't expect Cui Baozi to still remember it, and she gave him a fierce glare, but his shameless appearance with a face full of fat made her so angry that she almost ascended to heaven. Taking advantage of the fact that the second Buddha had not yet appeared, she quickly withdrew her gaze and said to everyone:
"It's just that the green is a bit deeper, and it's still a big profit. Is there any boss who wants to take over this material?" However, Ai Li wanted to get rid of it, and it seemed that she was really intimidated by Cui Huanzi's words.
It's unlucky to have 250, and the merchants all knew about Ai Li's previous inquiry about the price. Plus, Cui Huanzi said something, everyone couldn't help but observe carefully, no one wanted to take over this hot potato, they all shook their heads and didn't quote a price.
There was only one boss from Fujian who didn't know the prestige of the small boss of Fumanlou, and he tried to shout "5 million", but was stared at by Ai Li until he swallowed his words and retreated into the crowd, not daring to speak again.
"A bunch of ignoramuses!" Elly cursed under her breath and ordered Old Myanmar to unwrap all the raw stones.
Liu Zha looked at Lin Luoran who had been smiling secretly and said in a low voice: "Do you want us to take over at a lower price?"
Lin Luoran shook her head. Others didn't know the situation of that raw stone and hadn't bought it, let alone her who knew about it. Ai Li's one knife was indeed a wrong cut.
Lin Luoran thought of the several unremarkable stones he had picked out earlier, wondering if anyone had taken them away. He hoped that Aili's 25 yuan raw stone could be solved quickly.
Her eyes swept around in a circle, just in time to catch Mu Rou's gaze, the latter revealing a smile that sent shivers down Lin Luo Ran's spine. This made Lin Luo Ran dare not look around randomly anymore, and she could only focus on learning some basic knowledge of identifying jadeite rough stones with Liu Zheng.
Anyway, this trip is a big win for Lin Luo, just by absorbing so much spiritual energy. She doesn't need to worry about anything else, and it's even better that she can take advantage of Ai Li and make the couple suffer a bit. If things don't work out, she won't lose anything either, so why not?
The two of them chatted intermittently, and Liu Zhen also noticed that she was distracted, but didn't say anything, just smiled.
Finally, Aili's raw stone was solved.
Accompanied by waves of gasps:
"It's really worth the price! Luckily I didn't buy it!"
"It's just like this, such a material, isn't it deceiving?"
"You two are talking nonsense, actually it's just a wrong cut, otherwise there would be several pieces of silver to dig out, why not make money?"
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Aili stood still, her emotions couldn't be hidden by the frog mirror that covered a third of her face.
The glutinous rice flour is a good raw material, what's wrong with it? Unfortunately, after dissolving, both sides only have a thin layer, just like those people said, if you don't cut it open, it's very convenient to dig out the filling... Now, I don't know if I can grind some egg noodles to make up for the loss.
And all of this is because I wasn't careful and chose to cut through the middle!
Ai Li felt her temples throb for the first time, not because of the 2.5 million that hurt her heart, but because she was angry with herself for wasting 2.5 million and buying such a reputation, which was absolutely unacceptable to someone who valued face like her.
She took a step back and pulled Li Anping aside, "Tell me again, what did that Lin girl say at the time?"
Li Anping deleted the previous embarrassing words, deliberately emphasizing the information that Lin Luoran did not want Ai Li to buy that huge raw stone, and added his own opinion - according to Lin Luoran's personality, she must have seen something good in this stone.
Lin Luoran, can't even protect her own man, too incompetent. However, judging from the situation last time and this time, she seems to have some secret tricks up her sleeve when it comes to distinguishing jade. Ai Li says so with her mouth, but in her heart, she doesn't quite believe that Lin Luoran is just lucky.
Thinking of the number of scraps cut out from this piece, Aili had a few moments of hesitation. The potential value of the huge rough stone, was it real or just another trick by Lin Luoran?
