Chapter 287: Chapter 287: Betting on the Rise
Lin Fei never expected that inside this rough stone priced at 800,000, there was actually top-quality Imperial Green jadeite.
Imperial Green jadeite with a glassy texture is the finest of all jadeites, and it is the highest grade of water species.
Lin Fei could see inside this rough stone, a fist-sized piece of Imperial Green, with a rich, pleasing color, no deviation in hue, a true and vivid green, intense yet not lacking in beauty, with striking translucency.
It is the finest jadeite for making pendants, bracelets, and bead chains.
Just this fist-sized piece of Imperial Green is already worth over a hundred million.
Therefore, Lin Fei decided to help Xiao Ling take this rough stone.
“Young Master Xiao, I think the chance of this piece of yellow salt skin rough stone increasing in value is very low! Plus, the price is too high, so we should be cautious,” Lin Fei sincerely expressed his opinion to Xiao Ling.
The rough stone priced at 25.5 million only contained egg-sized bean seed jadeite; Xiao Ling must not fall into this trap.
For so reason, Xiao Ling actually heeded Lin Fei’s advice and said, “Alright, I won’t invest in this most expensive rough stone for now.”
Boss Zheng, seeing that Xiao Ling gave up on this over-two-million rough stone under Lin Fei’s persuasion, lost a big deal just like that.
Boss Zheng was very displeased with Lin Fei.
“Young Master Xiao, since you don’t care for the best rough stone, why not choose a few moderately priced ones?” Boss Zheng quickly recomnded other rough stones to Xiao Ling.
Although Lin Fei knew that the most valuable was the smallest and lowest-priced rough stone, if he directly let Xiao Ling take it, not to ntion Xiao Ling might disregard it, but other wealthy businessn would laugh and suspect.
So, Lin Fei’s gaze turned to a piece of black sand skin rough stone, weighing over a hundred kilos, containing water species jadeite inside.
The water species jadeite was over a dozen kilos in size, transparent like water, soft in luster, and amazingly colorless clear water.
This is the best color and highest value in high-grade water species jadeite.
And this rough stone is priced at just 9.2 million.
The value of the water species jadeite inside has already surpassed the marked price.
Lin Fei had an idea imdiately and said to Xiao Ling, “Young Master Xiao, I think we can take a gamble.”
Xiao Ling, hearing Lin Fei say this, replied, “Alright, then Lin Fei, you help pick one, and if it turns green and increases in value, half is yours!”
Lin Fei said, “That wouldn’t be fair! The money was spent by you, Young Master Xiao, and if it decreases, wouldn’t you be at a loss?”
Xiao Ling said, “Lin Fei, even if it decreases, it counts as mine. I hope I can borrow so luck from you, the super Lin Fei.”
Exactly, that was why he listened to Lin Fei’s suggestion.
The day when Lin Fei showcased his strong performance at the school anniversary, winning first prize in several competitions, Xiao Ling subconsciously believed Lin Fei could have a strong montum and luck in stone gambling.
Of course, this is a kind of superstition among businessn.
But there is no doubt that Xiao Ling betting on Lin Fei turned out to be the right choice.
Lin Fei modestly smiled and said, “Young Master Xiao, since you trust so much, I’ll have to pick a good one, making sure you don’t lose.”
Xiao Ling, with an indifferent expression, said, “Everyone says in stone gambling, the chance of winning is very slim. Lin Fei, even if you lose, I won’t bla you.”
Lin Fei nodded: “Alright, then I’ll give it a try!”
Saying this, Lin Fei approached the rough stone containing water species jadeite, putting on an act and said, “This black sand skin rough stone is the most likely to produce high-grade green; I see this stone will turn green.”
As soon as Lin Fei finished speaking, the dozen or so rich businessn at the stall all showed a mocking expression, thinking this guy knows nothing!
A greasy-faced, overweight businessman looked at Lin Fei and laughed, “You say this black sand skin is the most likely to produce high-grade green, then why didn’t you take that 25 million rough stone yellow salt skin which is also most likely?”
The other businessn all laughed, “Young Master Xiao asking this guy to help pick stones is really unreliable.”
“Be careful, or he’ll gamble everything away.”
“Spending money recklessly.”
It was clear that these businessn thought Lin Fei and Xiao Ling were young and knew nothing about stone gambling.
However, Xiao Ling was sowhat indignant upon hearing these comnts and said, “Gentlen, how do you know my friend will gamble away?
Also, even if it fails, so what? Who doesn’t rise from where they fall? Without failure, there can be no success, it’s also a kind of learning.”
The businessn all smiled, still thinking they were too inexperienced, yet said, “Young Master Xiao is right, he is right.”
Xiao Ling looked at Boss Zheng and said, “Boss Zheng, I’ll take the piece Lin Fei recomnded.”
Boss Zheng’s face instantly bead with joy, and he agreed, “Great! Does Young Master Xiao want to process the stone on site or take it for later?
Xiao Ling was annoyed that those businessn considered him and Lin Fei as novices and wanted to prove that he was not that incompetent.
He said to Boss Zheng, “Process it on site.”
“Alright.” Boss Zheng responded and instructed his worker to process the stone for Xiao Ling.
“Wait a mont.” Right then, Lin Fei pointed at another ten-sothing-kilo piece priced at 800,000 with coarse sand skin and said to Boss Zheng, “Also, buy this small one as well, make it a round number of ten million.”
When Boss Zheng saw the coarse sand skin rough stone Lin Fei was referring to, he was delighted. This piece had participated in several stone gambling events but had not sold due to poor skin and small size, with a low chance of increasing in value.
Unexpectedly, Lin Fei actually bought it.
He happily said at once, “Great, both on-site then?”
Xiao Ling was just about to say to process them both on site, but Lin Fei said, “The smaller one has too small a chance of increasing, so it doesn’t need processing, just the bigger one.”
The reason Lin Fei didn’t want Boss Zheng to process the small rough stone was that he didn’t want to expose the top-quality Imperial Green jadeite inside.
Because the water species clear jadeite inside the other rough stone was already astonishing enough.
Upon hearing Lin Fei’s words, the businessn at the stall once again showed ridicule: indeed still a novice!
Knowing the small chance of increase but still buying, is it because there’s too much money with nowhere to spend, or buying an unworthy stone to use as a pillow?
Unreliable, too unreliable!
This was what those businessn thought of Lin Fei.
Xiao Ling had no objections and waved his hand: “Boss Zheng, just do as Lin Fei says!”
“Alright, no problem!” Of course, Boss Zheng wasn’t going to refuse when soone was giving him money.
He imdiately instructed a strong worker to process the stone.
Xiao Ling also made out a check for ten million on the spot for Boss Zheng.
Boss Zheng took the check, grinning from ear to ear.
At this mont, the worker began processing the stone. As the cutting machine started, everyone’s eyes were fixated on the rough stone under the blade.
They say one cut could make you rich, and another could make you poor. With one successful cut, one could get rich overnight, but if it fails, it could result in complete financial ruin.
With a screech, the cutting blade descended, and amidst the jarring sound, the stone skin fell off.
However, after one cut, no one saw any green.
Boss Zheng imdiately smiled at Xiao Ling and said, “Young Master Xiao, it’s only the first cut, still early.”
Thus, the worker went for a second cut, a third cut, cutting over a dozen tis without seeing even a hint of green.
Boss Zheng had changed his tone, saying, “In stone gambling there are ups and downs, one or two fails don’t matter, there are opportunities. As long as one gets a good material like top-grade glass type, it all recuperates.”
Needless to say, he no longer held hope for Xiao Ling’s rough stone.
Those businessn were all having a watching-the-show expression. With over a dozen cuts and no green, what hope was there to see any green?
It seed Young Master Xiao’s nine million was down the drain, or rather, used for tuition.
The worker asked Xiao Ling, “Young Master Xiao, should I continue processing?”
Xiao Ling frowned slightly; in his view, this rough stone had already failed, and he was about to say no more processing.
But, at this mont, Lin Fei said, “Continue processing.”
Lin Fei knew well that just two more cuts would reveal the water species jadeite.
Seeing Lin Fei unwilling to give up, Xiao Ling signaled the worker to continue.
The worker then let the cutting machine fall again, once, and once more, and suddenly the worker halted, eyes widened, staring at the cut rough stone.
The cross-section of the rough stone showed a soft luster of water species jadeite clear as water, and this was just the tip of the iceberg!
“This is clear water jadeite of the water species!” Boss Zheng’s eyes flashed, and he exclaid with a trembling voice that couldn’t hide his excitent.
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