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Published at 15th of December 2018 11:37:38 AM


Chapter 153

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Chapter 153 Life Was Full of Surprises
"It's so odd. The stone was full of steel. That boy is really unlucky."

The boy was upset and he looked down at his hands with disappointment.

"Never mind. Change the stone out and cut a new one."

Ye Fei looked at the lumps of steel with eyes full of excitement rather than disappointment, as though he were looking at treasure.

"You’ll still let me cut your stones? You’re still willing to believe me?" the boy asked, looking at Ye Fei with astonishment.

"You know how to do this better than I do. But if you cut a stone and it breaks, you get discouraged and even doubt your life. That’s stupid. Life is like the stone. You never know what's going to be inside the next stone you cut," Ye Fei smiled and said softly.

"Ye Fei, I’m surprised. Your words are so philosophical!" Lin Qingwan said before falling into deep thought.

She had been a student at Shanghai University, but Ye Fei had never even attended high school. However, philosophical knowledge and wisdom were not always learned from books but from experience as well. Although Ye Fei was illiterate and thus unable to read books, he’d learned a lot from the places he’d been.

"Hah, Miss Lin, you lose. That stone was 800 thousand Yuan, double that is 1.6 million. Please pay me now," Xu Tongda said with a sneer.

Ye Fei glanced at him. He knew the man was putting up a front. He was trying to pressure Lin Qingwan to stop gambling before they found jade in one of the other stones.

"Ye Fei, I trust you," Lin Qingwan said, looking at Ye Fei.

"Well, go ahead then, I’m guessing the next one will be another lump of steel," Xu Tongda said calmly, though he spat on the ground in anger.

Ye Fei sneered at him, then turned around to point to a melon-shaped stone and said to the boy, "Now cut this one."

The boy nodded, narrowed his eyes for a moment, adjusted the cutting machine, then cut into the new rock.

"Look, it’s green!"

After someone shouted, all of the gamblers crowded around. Sure enough, the cut in the stone revealed precious green beneath the surface.

All of the gamblers immediately fell silent.

After a few moments, the gamblers resumed talking. They all excitedly discussed the find.

"Icy jade! it's special icy jade. The green is really good. Is that apple green? It's the first time I've seen it."

"Oh my god, icy jade! Apple green! Jesus, the 1.6 million yuan she lost just now, she’ll get that back several times over."

The quality of jade was determined based on several factors, including color, clarity, and most importantly, type, which included glass, icy, waxy, and so on.

Among them, glass jade was the best, with icy jade being the second best.

This piece of jade was even better than glass jade. It was extremely rare, likely worth more than 50 million.

King's Court, a company that had been in the jade business for more than ten years, had only cut three pieces of glass jade that were all about the size of a finger.

Nowadays, icy jade was rare, and this jade was what would be considered “special ice jade,” the best icy species. More importantly, this jade was apple green, which was a very valuable color.

"I have never seen such good jade in all these years!" an old man shouted.

"It’s old Mr. Hu," someone said about the old man.

"When did Mr. Hu get here?"

Everyone happily greeted the old man. As the chairman of the gambling association and an expert in jade identification, he was a celebrity in the gambling circles in this city. If he said this jade was apple green, no one would refute it.

Xu Tongda suddenly stood up, peering at the stone in shock.

Mr. Hu smoothed his gray beard, smiled and said, "This type of jade is worth tens of millions."

Hearing Mr. Hu’s words, Xu Tongda’s face went pale and he began to sweat.

Lin Qingwan, on the other hand, was so happy that she jumped in the air.

Ye Fei looked at Lin Qingwan. She looked beautiful as she wore a smile rather than her usual cold expression.

"Boss, what do we do? Do we continue to cut it if the green is already visible?" the boy asked. It was his first time cutting a stone and finding green, so he was very pleased.

"No," Lin Qingwan said. Although she still wanted to gamble, gambling was mostly for fun. She was a businesswoman, not a professional gambler, so she was uncomfortable with risk. She decided to put the stone up for auction immediately.

"Five million. I'll pay five million!" an old man immediately said once the auction was announced.

"Six million."

"Seven million."

"Seven and a half million."

"Eight million."

In just in a few minutes, the stone was worth eight million yuan.

In the end, Mr. Hu paid eight and a half million yuan to get the stone. Although it could have garnered a higher price, no one wanted to disrespect Mr. Hu by bidding over him. Had the auction continued, the jade could have earned tens of millions of yuan.

"How exciting!" Ye Fei said happily.

His own monthly salary of 50,000 yuan was not low, but in this gambling house, that amount hardly counted as money.

After Lin Qingwan sold the jade, she thought for a while and determined that even if the rest of the stones were not jade, she would still earn a fair amount of money. She soon urged the boy to continue cutting, crying, "Hurry up, cut the remaining four stones! Quickly!




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