Huadu Gifts and Crafts Wholesale Market.
Lin Sanqi and his cousin Lin Qiang were wandering around the market, heading in one direction.
Lin Qiang looked at the little brother next to him, wanting to say something but stopping himself, with a constipated look on his face.
Lin Sanqi was unhappy when he saw this: "Brother Qiang, just say whatever you want to say. Don't you welcome me? Then I'm leaving?"
Lin Qiang quickly put his arm around his little brother's shoulders and said earnestly:
"Qizi, I heard from Grandpa that you have a big business now, so I think you should have enough money. Even if you don't have tens of millions in assets, you must have a few million. Look, there's no need for you to buy fake diamonds, right?
I'm telling you, if your reputation for picking up girls gets ruined, no girl will want to date you anymore. Worse still, if you're getting married and someone comes to you and tells you that Lin Sanqi used fake diamonds to steal your body, you won't even have a wife.
Lin Sanqi almost spit out a mouthful of salt soda:
"Lin Laoliu, you're such a fool! Who told you I bought fake diamonds to pick up girls? I'm so handsome, tall and mighty, I have the looks and the money, and why would I use fake A-grade diamonds to cheat people?"
Lin Qiang heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this:
"That's good. We in the Lin family must do things with integrity and not do things that are not worthy of public display."
In fact, Lin Qiang was afraid that Lin Sanqi would use fake diamonds to pick up girls and ruin the family's reputation. Then he would be implicated and no girl would be willing to have sex with him.
Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes at his cousin and thought that if Lin Laoliu wasn't the local boss of this wholesale market, he wouldn't have asked him to be his guide.
The two walked around the crowd and came to the second floor of the wholesale market. After turning around a few times, they arrived at the decoration area.
As soon as he reached the second floor, Lin Sanqi was almost blinded by the light. All the counters here were shining brightly, especially under the spotlight, making it impossible to open your eyes.
"Qizi, don't make trouble. These counters are all selling fake gemstones. The Henan diamonds you want are also here. I'll take you to the counter. I have a good relationship with the owner. I will definitely give it to you at cost price later."
Lin Sanqi followed while looking at the shops along the way.
Wow, there are all kinds of gems in here, red, green, blue, purple, and yellow, each one is as beautiful as it can be. The row of fake jades on the counter alone are even more translucent, crisp and green than the real ones.
It is indeed a country of copycats, there is nothing it cannot imitate.
If there are no counterfeit products in the country, it only proves that the product is too bad, not attractive enough, and they are too lazy to copy you. In that case, the product itself needs to reflect on itself.
Lin Qiang had already turned into a shop at this time. Lin Sanqi looked up and saw a sign saying: "Zhecheng Qinxin Diamond Wholesale Department".
Wow, diamonds are being wholesaled directly in the small single product market. Can you imagine that?
Zhecheng, Henan, is a magical small county that has caused the De Beers Group and the Youtai Group to grit their teeth in hatred, and has been strongly condemned by the six major jewelry companies in the United States.
With the power of this small county, it has crashed the global diamond market and turned top luxury gems into handicrafts that are sold on the streets. I just want to ask you, is this amazing? Is this enough?
Lin Sanqi thought, if there were more counties like this, those foreign investors who made tens of millions would be screwed.
Wait, Lin Sanqi suddenly thought that he seemed to be a small capital that was deceiving people. Those things like Cordyceps, Tangerine Peel and Wild Ginseng seemed to be the products of capital speculation.
It’s over, the dragon slayer turned out to be a dragon himself.
However, Lin Sanqi thought that his things were worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and he was cheating rich people. This was called robbing the rich to help the poor!
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi felt much more comfortable and decided to take advantage of the opportunity of time travel and go back to 1960 to reap some benefits.
When Lin Sanqi walked into the store, he found Lin Qiang flirting with a beautifully dressed woman. Lin Qiang pinched the woman's face, and the woman punched Lin Qiang like a spoiled child.
"Ahem, Lao Liu, I, well, should I leave first?"
"Come here, let me introduce you to this beautiful lady, the boss lady. And this handsome guy is my younger brother, and he wants to buy some diamonds for fun. Nao, introduce him to me."
Dong Qinxin glanced at Lin Sanqi and said with a smile, "Hey~~ I'll come here obediently, Aqiang, your brother is really handsome."
It would have been fine if she didn't speak. She was a fashionable urban girl sitting there, but as soon as she opened her mouth, there was a strong smell of Henan spicy soup, and Alice immediately became Zhaodi.
Lin Sanqi was thinking about the train he had taken from Hong Kong back to the capital. When passing through Henan, all the curtains had to be drawn, which showed that this province was very difficult.
The Central Plains is a land of suffering. It never gets a chance to enjoy good things, but always gets involved in wars. For thousands of years, it has been plagued by natural and man-made disasters. It is so tragic.
"Hello, Madam, I want to buy some diamonds."
"Look for what you want to buy, and I'll give you the cost price."
Look, people from Henan are so generous.
Lin Sanqi looked around and found that the store was filled with sparkling diamonds, and some were directly diamond jewelry, including necklaces, bracelets and pendants.
Lin Sanqi thought about it and decided to take the original diamond:
"Sister, I want the best diamonds. How much do you charge?"
Dong Qinxin opened a row of cabinets and took out plates one by one and placed them on the table:
"Handsome boy, how big a diamond do you want? These are the best quality, and can be made directly into jewelry. We use the lower quality diamonds in industry or as scraps for handicrafts."
Lin Qiang also came over and joked:
"When I was a kid, I watched pirated DVDs like 'Diamond Thief,' 'Ocean's Thirteen,' and 'The Thief of Thieves,' and I knew diamonds were incredibly valuable. A small bag of diamonds could send gangs into a fight. Look at these diamonds right in front of me! This world is truly amazing."
The proprietress rolled her eyes at Lin Qiang and said, "Are you touching the diamond or my thigh?"
Lin Qiang's dirty hands were still on the boss lady's snow-white thighs, and he said flatteringly:
"Diamonds are cold, what's so good about touching them? They're nothing compared to your thighs, little heart. They're smooth, tender, white, and straight. I could play with them for a whole year."
Lin Sanqi wanted to persuade her but didn't dare to, thinking to himself, "Brother and sister, please stop touching me. If you continue, I won't be able to publish my novel and it will be censored."
So he had no choice but to bury his head and begin to carefully study the diamond in front of him.
Lin Sanqi didn't know how to identify this thing, he just knew that when he shone it under the light, it was so bright that it was intoxicating.
"Sister, how different are these diamonds from real diamonds? Can you tell the difference?"
The proprietress flirted with Lin Qiang while casually explaining:
"What are real diamonds and fake diamonds? Actually, these are foreign terms. According to the rules of our industry, these are real diamonds. What you call raw diamonds and synthetic diamonds are exactly the same in terms of composition, structure, physical properties and optical characteristics.
Understand it this way: what do you think is the difference between naturally formed ice and ice taken out of the freezer?
Lin Sanqi thought for a moment and said, "There doesn't seem to be much difference. They're both formed by water, but one is formed naturally in winter, and the other is artificially created by refrigeration."
"Right? The same arrangement of carbon atoms, how can there be a distinction between natural and artificial? Or between domestic and foreign diamonds? Don't worry, not only can ordinary women not tell the difference, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference even if you took it to a jewelry store.
Just to make a joke, the only difference between our Henan diamonds and foreign diamonds is that our Henan diamonds are too perfect. Natural diamonds have flaws, but ours really don't.
Look at the diamonds in my store. They have D color, VVS clarity, and 3EX cut. Natural diamonds can’t achieve that.”
Lin Sanqi didn’t understand what D color, VVS clarity, and 3EX cut meant, but he understood that these Henan diamonds are difficult to distinguish from natural diamonds.
Especially these top-grade artificial diamonds in front of us.
That's good. If it's difficult to identify in 2023, it would be even more difficult to identify in 1960, 64 years ago.
Okay, okay, let’s play it like this.
"Okay, sister, how much are these diamonds for?"
"Handsome boy, you're Aqiang's younger brother, so I won't charge you a rip-off. I'll give you all the cost price. The 1-carat and 2-carat ones are 1,000 yuan each. The 3- and 4-carat ones are more expensive, so I'll give you 1,500 yuan each. The bigger the carat, the more expensive it is."
After saying that, the proprietress took out a diamond of even larger carat, which was indeed industrially produced and was exactly the same in size and shape.
Some of them were very large. The proprietress took out one of them and said jokingly:
"No, this diamond is called the Star of Africa, and it's known as the King of Diamonds. It weighs 530.02 carats and has 74 facets. It's exactly the same as the one on the scepter of the King of Eagle Country. If you could sell it, it would be worth $2 billion."
Lin Sanqi thought to himself that if he sold the diamonds on the old woman's scepter, the Queen of England would go crazy. (End of this chapter)
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