Although Miao Cuihua started her business in the jade industry, she was skilled in business. When it came to appreciating jade, she only knew the basics and was not very knowledgeable. Otherwise, she would not have invited a jade consultant to come along.
Her former jade consultant was an elder of Niu Ben, a master jade appraiser. The two had worked together for many years and made a fortune. Now that he was old, he wanted to retire and enjoy his later years.
So she chose her most capable nephew, Niu Ben, to be Miao Cuihua's jade consultant.
Niu Ben is actually quite capable, but he is not as experienced as his uncle. Although he has worked well with Miao Cuihua over the past two years, he has not met Miao Cuihua's expectations.
Niu Ben's professional skills were mediocre, but he was very ambitious and considered himself extraordinary. Because of this, Miao Cuihua had to clean up his messes several times.
She had unspeakable grievances in her heart, and although she wanted to find someone else, she couldn't find a more suitable one, and she had also offended the Niu family.
Just when the Wang family father and son had taken over half of the jade industry and Miao Cuihua was in a state of utter confusion, Liu Yihang appeared.
When Miao Cuihua saw Liu Yihang's talent, she was moved, but she knew that talent alone was not enough. Since he had just become her bodyguard, Miao Cuihua decided to give him a try.
"Xiao Liu, don't just stand there, come and help me take a look."
Liu Yihang pointed to his nose in surprise: "Sister Miao, are you talking about me?"
"Yes, if it's not you, who else is called Xiao Liu?"
"I...I don't understand, Sister Miao, you should look at it yourself, I really don't understand," Liu Yihang quickly declined.
"Don't tell me you don't understand. If you don't understand, how did you recognize that piece of yellow jade? And that spring-colored jade from that night, I really liked it."
Liu Yihang didn't know what Miao Cuihua was planning to do. Since she let him choose, he would choose. Anyway, all the materials here were open, and any piece he picked would contain jade. It wouldn't attract any attention.
"I just stumbled upon this by sheer luck, Sister Miao, so I'll really make my choice."
"You just choose, the outcome is on me," Miao Cuihua said generously.
Although they are all transparent materials, it is actually a high-stakes gamble because transparent materials are very expensive.
It's difficult to tell from a single cut piece whether there's jade underneath, or how much jade there is.
If you spend 100,000 yuan to buy a piece of raw material, and in the end only cut out a piece of jade worth 30,000 yuan, then you've lost the gamble.
So Miao Cuihua's words were quite domineering.
Upon hearing this, Liu Yihang felt a sense of trust. Well, if you take someone's money, you have to do their bidding.
Liu Yihang began to use his X-ray vision to examine the pieces one by one.
There was a yellowish-brown stone in front of me, priced at 32,000 yuan. One side had already been cut open, revealing green inside, and the color and texture were quite good.
Liu Yihang looked down and his heart shattered. The ground below was completely covered in what looked like dog excrement, utterly pulverized.
This piece is unacceptable.
This stone looks like a stone pier. It costs five thousand yuan. The stone is quite large, and the cut surface is also quite large. Only a layer of spinach green of bean type was cut out. If the bottom is all jadeite, it will probably break even.
Liu Yihang looked closely and saw that the color was getting brighter and brighter, and the texture of the water was also changing.
The jade inside gradually turned into icy jade, and its color became close to apple green.
Liu Yihang laughed to himself, thinking that the person who cut a window out of this stone was a bit unlucky. Such a large piece of icy apple green jadeite should be worth at least several hundred thousand, but he just happened to cut the worst window out of it, so the person who set the price could only set it at five thousand.
The prices of bean-based and ice-based varieties, spinach-green and apple-green varieties, are worlds apart.
We must take this one.
He picked it up and put it directly into Miao Cuihua's stone basket.
"Hey, hey. What are you doing?" Niu Ben called out to him as he saw the stone being brought in as well.
"Didn't you see this piece? It's made of beans and spinach. Even if the piece below it is all jade, it's worthless!" Niu Ben said angrily.
Liu Yihang said blankly, "But I think it's pretty good. Sister Miao told me to just take it."
Miao Cuihua quickly came to the rescue: "Niu Ben, I asked Xiao Liu to help you choose. It's okay. Since he took it, he must have his reasons. You can each choose your own."
This is essentially giving Liu Yihang a boost.
Niu Ben was extremely unhappy. He was the heir of the Xiangyu family, and this kid didn't know anything. He had only managed to find a few stones by chance.
They even look down on beans and spinach; how petty!
He snorted and turned to continue with his own business.
Liu Yihang said cautiously, "Sister Miao, maybe I should just give up. Actually, I don't know much about it either, and I don't want to ruin your plans."
Miao Cuihua had no objection to him taking the bean-type jadeite. Instead, she said, "It's okay. I have faith in you. How can a young person improve without practice? I've said it before, I'll cover the losses."
Liu Yihang said helplessly, "Alright then."
Next, Liu Yihang continued to look at stones. He mainly chose stones that were guaranteed to make a profit, at least those that would be worth significantly more than their listed price.
Moreover, the stones he chose were not particularly valuable. For example, the one he is holding now is priced at two thousand. Although it looks like an icy apple green, it has obvious cracks on it.
That's why it's only worth two thousand.
Once the crack penetrates the jadeite, even if it is imperial green, it becomes worthless.
So this is also a gamble.
Liu Yihang could clearly see that the jade inside not only had no cracks, but was also very close to icy green jade, making it a bargain that he naturally wanted to buy.
"This piece of jade has obvious cracks, it's no good!" Niu Ben advised earnestly, yet also angrily.
"Yes, yes, Master Niu, but I definitely can't eat this cracked thing," Liu Yihang replied.
“You stubborn young man, I told you that the stones you chose are all unorthodox and dangerous. They’re no good, no good at all.” Niu Ben was almost red with anger. He wasn’t a bad person, just a bit traditional, conservative, and petty.
Liu Yihang had seen the stones that Niu Ben had selected. Strictly speaking, Niu Ben was quite skilled; almost all the stones he selected were profitable.
However, because of his traditional and conservative personality, he missed some good stones, which were then picked up by Liu Yihang.
"Whether it's a risky approach or not, we'll only know once we figure it out, Master Niu. How about we make a bet?" Liu Yihang's heart stirred.
"What are we betting on?"
"I bet the crack in this stone isn't penetrated, and there's good jade inside. If it turns out to be different after the stone is cut open, I'll give you that piece of yellow jade, how about it?"
Seeing his certainty, Niu Ben was a little worried, but he couldn't lose face, so he said, "Then I'll bet with you. I bet that there's a crack inside this stone, and the stake is my piece of icy jadeite."
"Okay, it's a deal!"
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