The last piece of raw jade was quite large.
The whole piece weighed twenty kilograms, practically a giant piece of raw jade.
Because it was a raw jade, people weren’t too hopeful about it.
Many raw jades are used for beginners to practice on, and getting bean-quality jade out of them is considered good enough.
So naturally, how could anyone be hopeful?
After a while, many people at the jade-cutting site had dispersed.
The jade-cutting master asked, "Mr. Lu, this piece is quite large. Should we cut it?"
"Alright," Lu Li went ahead and picked up a piece of chalk, drawing a few lines on it. "Cut according to my markings."
The jade-cutting master said, "Okay."
After saying that, the jade-cutting master called over a young guy to help, fixed the raw jade onto the machine, and then started cutting.
Crackle, crackle, the sound of cutting began.
Although many people had left the scene, Liu Kexin and Chen Man Ni remained, watching intently.
Soon, a cross-section was revealed.
Chen Man Ni exclaid, "Is that green showing again?"
"Huh?"
"Green showing again?"
"Really? Let see."
A group of jade rchants who had initially walked away turned back around.
Sure enough, a small part of jade had already been revealed on the cross-section.
Brother Gu, standing behind the counter, kept glancing sideways, his eyes full of astonishnt.
He really hadn’t expected Lu Li’s keen eye to be so impressive, choosing three pieces of raw jade in a row that all revealed green jade.
The green revelation rate was a bit scary!
Brother Gu pondered whether Lu Li was a stone-gambling expert and considered whether to make friends with him.
Over at the jade-cutting site.
The guy with the big gold chain carefully watched for a mont, "Looks a bit like icy glutinous jade."
The middle-aged woman agreed, "It’s icy glutinous jade; it’s indeed rare for raw jade to reveal such high-quality jade."
"Look how large this piece is."
"One cut and it’s already revealed green; the piece shouldn’t be small."
"If there are fewer cracks, I’d be willing to pay a high price for it."
"Act like it’s certain, just you want it?"
A few jade rchants bickered among themselves.
Lu Li didn’t bother with what these jade rchants were doing and instructed the jade-cutting master to reveal all the jade inside.
This piece of raw jade was relatively large, making the task ti-consuming.
For such a large piece of raw jade, if the internal jade distribution was uneven or the structure too complex, it might take several days to cut through.
But fortunately, the jade within Lu Li’s raw jade was clumped together, and the cutting didn’t take too long.
After approximately thirty to forty minutes, the jade was completely revealed.
It was indeed just as the guy with the big gold chain and the middle-aged woman had judged, a piece of icy glutinous jade with floral patterns.
Icy glutinous floral jade isn’t as valuable as icy jade, but given the large quantity of jade from this raw piece, it was estimated to weigh about six or seven kilograms.
The guy with the big gold chain imdiately asked, "Mr. Lu, are you selling?"
Lu Li looked at him, "What’s your offer?"
The guy with the big gold chain straightforwardly said, "Two point one million. If you’re willing, I’ll take this piece of jade. If not, you can ask around to see if anyone else offers more. If not, my offer stands."
Lu Li glanced at the crowd.
The jade rchants all smiled and shook their heads upon hearing the big gold chain’s offer.
Clearly, they did not plan to compete.
Lu Li used his Mind Reading Technique to check the lowest price the big gold chain was willing to offer and found the other party was sincere with the quote.
He said, "Alright, it’s yours."
The big gold chain was delighted, "Great, great, thank you."
The remaining few pieces of raw jade had very poor quality jade.
Lu Li instructed the jade-cutting master to continue working on them.
He then went to the bank with the guy with the big gold chain and the young woman to make the transaction.
During this ti, in conversations with them, Lu Li learned that the guy with the big gold chain was nad Cheng Hao, and the young woman was Zhang ngfei.
Before long, money was transferred at the bank.
Six hundred and thirty thousand was imdiately credited.
Lu Li calculated for a mont.
After deducting costs, he made a profit of five hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred yuan.
Just by coming here for a stroll, he made nearly six hundred thousand?
Lu Li couldn’t help but secretly marvel; jade truly was a high-profit business.
But then again, it’s also an industry with great risk.
After all, not everyone can have x-ray vision to see if there’s jade inside the raw jade.
So people spend a fortune on a top-notch raw jade, but if it doesn’t yield much jade, they could end up losing everything.
Needless to say, the x-ray vision skill was amazing.
It was so wise to initially opt for this skill voluntarily!
...
Back at the Cultural Square.
Lu Li chatted with Cheng Hao as they walked.
"Mr. Lu, your keen eye is really impressive; all three pieces of raw jade you spotted had great increases in value."
Cheng Hao said with a big smile, "With that kind of eye, I wouldn’t be surprised if you uncover imperial green jade soday."
Lu Li modestly said, "Just luck."
Cheng Hao blinked and said, "How about I add you to a group? Most people in there are jade rchants, but there are also so jade enthusiasts. If you have any good jadeite in the future, you can just call out in the group."
Well, adding Lu Li to the group was secondary.
His actual intention was to take the opportunity to add Lu Li on WeChat.
A person with such sharp insight—who knows what high-quality jadeite he might unlock in the future?
Of course, Cheng Hao wanted to make connections.
Seeing how lucrative jadeite was, Lu Li naturally didn’t reject the offer, "Alright, thank you."
Cheng Hao took out his phone, added Lu Li on WeChat, and then added him to the WeChat group.
Lu Li glanced at it.
This WeChat group was called "Rare Treasures of the World."
Several people inside were shouting out.
"I just unlocked a piece of icy green jadeite, anyone interested?"
"Just received a Qing Dynasty porcelain piece, PM if interested."
"Damn, I just saw soone unlock glass-like jade!"
"Damn!"
"Damn!"
A large group of people expressed their shock, flooding the chat with "damn."
Whether it was glass jade or not, Lu Li didn’t really care.
However, he was quite interested in the information about Qing Dynasty porcelain being sold in the group.
Lu Li asked, "Old Cheng, there are people selling antiques in the group too?"
"Ah, jade and antiques are pretty much in the sa boat," Cheng Hao casually said, "Sotis people who receive good stuff will call out in the group to see if anyone’s interested. If you’re into antiques, just be a bit cautious. The group’s a mixed bag, and so might sell forgeries."
Whether they sell forgeries or not doesn’t concern .
I’m just looking for an antique sales channel, not looking to buy antiques.
Lu Li didn’t expect that after strolling around here today, not only did he make nearly six million, but he also unexpectedly found an antique sales channel.
He secretly pondered that the porcelain pieces he had previously found, when compared with online information, were estimated to be worth around two to three million.
Currently, he had about seven million on hand.
If he got rid of those porcelain pieces, is it possible his assets could surpass ten million?
If they really exceeded ten million, it’s not to say about luxury villas.
At the very least, buying a luxury apartnt should be no problem!
Thinking about this, Lu Li couldn’t help but feel excited, eager to rush ho to take pictures of those porcelain pieces and post them in the group to see if anyone was interested.
Unable to suppress his thoughts, he imdiately sought out a stone cutter, throwing the ten to twenty pounds of jade he had extracted like garbage into a burlap sack.
Just after putting the jade into the burlap sack,
suddenly, Brother Gu ca over, extending his hand and said, "Mr. Lu, hello."
Lu Li looked at him and shook his hand, "Brother Gu, hello."
Brother Gu chuckled, "To be honest, I didn’t expect you to be so fierce in a fight, not to ntion having such keen insight into jade, selecting a pair of raw stones that yielded three significant increases. That’s a rare occurrence."
Lu Li modestly replied, "Just lucky, there are still many raw stones that haven’t increased, right?"
Brother Gu laughed helplessly, "If every piece increased, I’d definitely suspect you have x-ray vision."
You really are smart!
Buddy actually does have x-ray vision!
Of course, Lu Li wouldn’t reveal that and exchanged so casual chat with him.
In the end, he added Brother Gu on WeChat and asked when the next morning market would be.
Brother Gu straightforwardly told Lu Li that the next morning market would be next week; he didn’t specify the exact day, only saying he would notify him in advance.
Soone over there called for Brother Gu, possibly business-related.
Brother Gu apologized, "Mr. Lu, I’m a bit busy on my side, sorry for not entertaining you well."
Lu Li waved it off and said, "No problem, you go ahead. We can chat later when you’re free."
"Alright."
Brother Gu said no more and turned to leave.
Originally, Lu Li intended to go find Liu Kexin and Chen Man Ni, who were chatting by the wall.
Unexpectedly, sothing surprising happened.
A person nad Brother Sun actually ca over to greet him warmly.
Brother Sun approached with a flattering smile and greeted, "Mr. Lu, hello."
Lu Li looked over, "Hello, and you are...?"
Brother Sun quickly said, "I’m Sun Demin, I run a small security company."
Lu Li nodded, "Oh, it’s Mr. Sun, hello, hello."
Sun Demin imdiately gave a thumbs up, "Mr. Lu, you’re really fierce. I saw in the news that you single-handedly took on over ten ard thugs, and then today, you fought ten again, truly brave to the extre. What a pity I ca late and didn’t get to witness your prowess."
Lu Li chuckled, "Not too bad, thanks for the complint."
Sun Demin seized the opportunity to say, "Can I add you on WeChat to keep in touch in the future?"
Lu Li thought for a mont, more friends an more opportunities, and he didn’t refuse, "Sure."
Sun Demin was overjoyed, quickly taking out his phone to scan and add Lu Li on WeChat.
After exchanging a few words, Lu Li said goodbye to Sun Demin.
He approached the corner where Liu Kexin and Chen Man Ni were, planning to invite them for lunch as a token of gratitude.
Chen Man Ni, already interested in Lu Li’s bravery today, naturally didn’t refuse.
Later, the three of them had lunch at the nearby De Yue Building.
After lunch,
Lu Li took Liu Kexin to her company and offered to pick her up after work.
After all, she didn’t drive today because she introduced him to Chen Man Ni, so it wouldn’t be right not to pick her up after work.
After dropping Liu Kexin off at work, Lu Li drove straight towards his rented place at Poly Yuxi.
Eager to quickly turn those antique porcelains into cash, he wasted no ti.
As he drove, he silently prayed, "Hope I can sell all those porcelains and get a high price, then I’ll be a millionaire!"
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