Chapter 765: Drastic increase?
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“Be careful – polish it off slowly!” Hou Mao Feng nagged the gemcutter.
The process of opening up the stone was exceptionally crucial – it could cause a good quality stone to be destroyed.
The gemcutter nodded. Even as an experienced cutter, he was still somewhat anxious.
Of course, he was anxious because of his overexcitement; if he managed to get a top-quality jade, his reputation would soar!
The crowd looked at that small window with a beautiful shade of green and they started commenting.
“This has the quality of a glass-type jade. The color is beautiful too!”
“That goes without saying! Jade has to be green and this is the shade of a green apple – the value of it is only second to an imperial jade!”
“If the jade comes out to be a nicer shade of green or an emerald green, even a small piece would be…… tsk tsk……”
“A small piece? You’re kidding! High-quality emerald green jade is valued based on their weight; when I went to Hong Kong for an auction before, I saw a small piece for a ring that was almost auctioned at 20 million Hong Kong dollars! H city hasn’t had an emerald green jade for many years now!”
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The quality of the jade was usually dependent on their type, color, and transparency.
“Type” referred to the jade’s texture and composition – the more exquisite a jade was, the more translucent it was. Some common terms used in the market were glass type, ice type, waxy type, bean type and more; glass type was the best. Apart from that, jade was also distinguished by the “old” type versus the “new” type. The value of the old type was higher than the new.
As for transparency, even though it was usually said that if a jade was good quality, it’d be more transparent, sometimes the transparency would be affected by the interior of the jade – meaning whether it was clean or cloudy etcetera. So the higher the transparency, the higher its value. For example, the glass type of jade had the highest transparency.
There were various colors of jade – sometimes, just a small color difference could have a price difference of over tenfold. Green jade was further divided into different shades such as emerald green, apple green, greenish-blue and more. Among them, emerald green, which was also known as imperial green, was worth the most.
So it was no wonder that everyone got so excited just by looking at the color of the jade.
Very soon, the gemcutter from Hui Cui Workshop started to cut open the jade……
The gemcutter followed the edge closely and cut the outer layer. Everyone watched eagerly and didn’t even blink, afraid to miss a thing.
“Water!” The gemcutter yelled.
The assistant next to him quickly took some water to wash the surface and the area that was cut was finally revealed to the crowd……
After seeing the raw stone with a portion cut open, the crowd was somewhat disappointed.
Indeed, it wasn’t so easy to get an imperial jade.
The gemcutter continued cutting the raw stone and carefully polished some areas of this giant rock.
In the end, it made the crowd more and more excited.
Although it wasn’t an imperial jade, the few areas he polished were all green……
What does it mean?
It meant this giant rock might be completely filled with jade!
“Although it wasn’t an imperial jade, it’s pretty good already. After all, it’s not so easy to get an imperial jade!”
“Exactly! It’s such a big rock. If it’s filled with jade, how much would it be worth?”
“Hui Cui Workshop has proved itself once again – they’re amazing!”
……
The eyes of the spectators were glistening.
At this moment, Xue Li looked at Ye Wanwan and discreetly gritted his teeth. He was fuming inside. If it wasn’t for this woman’s interference, this rock, which has drastically risen in value, should be ours!
“Miss Ye, are you satisfied now? How could the stone that director Qin researched and handpicked be wrong!”
The three experts from the Si family shook their heads regretfully. “Ay, what a pity. This material has probably risen in value tenfold and judging by the current situation, with so many green areas, it’s not impossible for the value to increase a hundred times……”
“Hahaha, Miss Ye, I have to thank you for this!” Hearing the comments around him, Huang Shi Xin smiled widely at Ye Wanwan.
Ye Wanwan smiled back. “Be careful, there might be nothing inside when you cut it open, oh!”
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Obviously, Huang Shi Xin, Hou Mao Feng and everyone else didn’t care about Ye Wanwan’s boast and thought she was just jealous.
“Continue! Just cut it open from here!” Hou Mao Feng pointed and instructed the gemcutter confidently.
“Alright, boss!” The gemcutter nodded, rubbed his hands and started to work on this crucial cut.
Everyone’s eyes were on the gemcutter’s hands and the excitement Huang Shi Xin had was completely expressed on his face.
The cutting machine started buzzing…
The gemcutter cut this stone into two then slowly washed the debris off with water.
Finally, the interior of this high-quality stone was displayed fully in front of the crowd.
In the hands of the gemcutter, a dark green material actually emerged. Hou Mao Feng used a flashlight to illuminate it. Under the glaring light, this dark green material was splendid and magnificent.
“Imperial jade?!”
Seeing this, Huang Shi Xin got excited.
Not only Huang Shi Xin, but the gemcutter from Glittering Jewels, Wang Hu, and Wan He Yun were astonished as well.
Imperial jade was one of the most expensive materials in Myanmar’s jade trade and when it was extracted, it was usually only about ten kilograms!
“Get an expert to appraise it!!” Hou Mao Feng hurriedly shouted into the store.
Upon hearing that, a couple staff members immediately left Hui Cui Workshop.
At this moment, the wrath Xue Li and the group of experts felt towards Ye Wanwan was boundless.
This is an imperial jade, eh! And it’s such a huge piece too!
“Hahaha, Miss Ye. I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed once again!” Huang Shi Xin chuckled.
Hou Mao Feng grinned. “I wonder what Miss Ye got from this batch of raw stones?”
Ye Wanwan didn’t entertain Hou Mao Feng and the others. She turned and asked Wan He Yun, “Boss Wan, how many stones are we left with?”
Wan He Yun replied with a ghastly expression, “Left… we’re left with just one piece…”
They cut another piece just now and it was another empty one.
With so many stones, even if they weren’t as good quality as Hui Cui Workshop’s, they had still been carefully selected by him, yet there wasn’t a single decent one.
Perhaps he really wasn’t suitable for this profession…
“Hahaha…” Hou Mao Feng burst out in laughter. “Miss Ye, I think you’re really going home with nothing! Open it up – don’t you have one more? Why aren’t you doing it? Are you scared?”
“Miss Ye…” Wan He Yun didn’t know what to say and felt very guilty.
“There’s still one more, right? Just cut it!” Ye Wanwan said very casually.
“Master Wang, please cut it…” Wan He Yun said weakly.
“Alright.” Wang Hu nodded and began working on it.
This stone was really big, about 50 kilograms heavy. It was a classic black sand rock and it was also the most expensive rock among this pile of rocks.
The machine began to slowly cut the stone that weighed almost 50 kilograms.
Minutes and seconds passed, and the interior of the 50 kilogram stone was gradually revealed before everyone’s eyes.
The second the color of the raw stone was revealed, Wan He Yun’s heart sank all the way to the bottom…
It’s over… it’s empty…
“Hahaha, this woman spoke so confidently before and I was almost convinced there was some exceptional stuff in there. In the end, it was a piece of yellow jade?”
Yellow jade was the lowest grade among all the other jades.
“So, this woman actually spent so much money, yet all she got was a rubbish piece of yellow jade?”
At this moment, the crowd laughed heartily at the jade that came out of that 50-kilogram rock.
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It was the last piece of rock.
Wang Hu’s fingers were trembling…
But in the end, it was still… a loss…
It was a yellow jade…
It was an extremely ordinary yellow jade worth merely a few hundred dollars…
While Hou Mao Feng’s rock actually had an imperial jade.
“Ye Wanwan, this is what you meant by winning and making profits?! Just calculate how much losses you’ve incurred for the company!”
At the same time, on Xue Li’s screen, Feng Yi Ping raged after seeing that yellow jade.
“Haha, this is hilarious – one of them is worthless junk, while the other is an imperial jade… this is interesting, Ye Wanwan. So when do you intend to fulfill your promise and get the h*ll out of the company?” Si Ming Li sneered.
However, before Ye Wanwan could speak, a couple experts rushed over.
One of the experts holding the flashlight looked carefully at the so-called imperial jade. After verifying it a couple times, he shook his head and said, “This is not an imperial jade!”
Huang Shi Xin’s face instantly fell. “What nonsense are you spewing? If this isn’t an imperial jade, what is it then?”
The expert was quite unhappy about Huang Shi Xin yelling at him and he replied firmly, “This type of material does appear to be very translucent and seems to be a good quality ice or glass-type jade. Especially the floating blue flower type – it really looks similar to the ice or glass type of green jade and is often used to pass off as an excellent quality jade. But there is a vast difference in price…”
At this moment, the experts from the Si family that Ye Wanwan brought along took a closer look as well.
Looking at it again, they realized it was true…
“This… this is truly not an imperial jade…”
They subconsciously believed this piece of stone from Hui Cui Workshop was a high-quality jade and didn’t doubt it at all or inspect it further. They didn’t expect that it was just garbage.
However, it was very hard to determine and even for an experienced person, it was very easy for them to identify the jade incorrectly, not to mention under all the present pressure and chaos.
At this moment, Wang Hu, who had not given up and was still cutting the stone up, suddenly exclaimed excitedly, “MISS YE! BOSS! There is a… a jump in color!”
This so-called jump in color meant that two or more different colors appeared in a piece of stone at the same time.
One of Hou Mao Feng’s experts caught a glimpse of that green shade and rushed over excitedly. “This… this is…”
“Damn…”
In just a short while, the expert who identified Hou Mao Feng’s stone turned to the other experts and beckoned them over. “Hurry! Hurry, look at this!”
Those experts quickly stepped forward and shone their flashlights on the rock.
Under the intense light, this piece of material appeared to be a purer shade of green.
“Imperial… imperial jade! This is the true imperial jade!”
Following what the expert said, everyone present stood rooted to the ground.
What?
Hui Cui Workshop got a fake one while Glittering Jewels Pavilion actually got the real deal – the real imperial jade?
How is this possible?
“This is the biggest imperial jade I’ve seen in my entire career. I can’t even estimate how much it’s worth.” A certain expert looked at the huge rock weighing almost 50 kilograms and exclaimed in shock. Even though only a part of the middle portion was jade, it was still unexpected.
“Imperial jade… how could that be?! This is impossible! How could you say that ours isn’t imperial jade and theirs is! My store has been around for so many years – how could I incorrectly identify an imperial jade, huh?” Hou Mao Feng was fuming.
“Boss Hou, this really is imperial jade. If you don’t believe me, take a look at it yourself!” The expert was helpless and thought to himself.?Even if you keep your store open for a couple more years, how many times will you get the chance to see imperial jade?
Hou Mao Feng hurriedly went forward to size it up. After the expert made repeated explanations, he had no choice but to believe it…
Hou Mao Feng glared angrily at Ye Wanwan and was so furious that his blood flow was about to go in the other direction.
If it wasn’t for this woman, Wan He Yun’s goods would’ve been his!
Huang Shi Xin was going crazy. He kept interrogating the experts.
“Imperial jade… hahaha, the color actually jumped and it’s an imperial jade!” Wang Hu was so happy that he was dancing for joy.
He actually cut open a stone containing an imperial jade in his lifetime.
And this was top-quality material – it was simply a miracle!
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