Chapter 31 Big Mac
Du Ruo calculated that she would be going on a business trip in three days, so she let Xiaozhe stay in the kindergarten for a while. By the time she came back, the project would be almost finished, and the mother and daughter could move into the main house.
After three days of observation, Du Ruo gradually felt relieved.
Brother Chen is worthy of being a company commander, he has strong leadership skills. Several of his subordinates are his former comrades-in-arms, and they have a high degree of tacit cooperation.
What is rare is that their work style is upright and the quality of the projects they produce is convincing.
Du Ruo said, "Brother Chen, have you ever thought about taking on projects yourself?"
In fact, Brother Chen’s leg injury is not serious, and he can do some odd jobs.
Brother Chen smiled and said, "Sister, it's not as easy as you say. The big engineering teams have all kinds of equipment, but we only have a few plastering trowels and a few broken wooden frames. Who would give the project to us?"
Du Ruo asked, "Is the equipment expensive?"
Brother Chen smiled and said, "It's not cheap. Nowadays, building construction is all about efficiency. It requires a lot of large machines. A medium-sized construction team would need at least 30,000 or 40,000 yuan to equip itself with them."
Du Ruo looked at the red line on Chen Yuantou thoughtfully.
After making arrangements for his son, Du Ruo set out three days later.
This time, we went to the jade market on the border. Due to its special geographical location, it has gradually become the largest raw stone market in the country in recent years.
This trade fair was held in a grand manner, inviting dozens of powerful Asian jewelry groups to participate, as well as numerous domestic jade processing companies of all sizes.
Their Linshan City Jade Processing Factory is a medium-sized enterprise, and is not very noticeable among the big players. Director Shen is also aware of his own situation and keeps a very low profile.
Not all of these people come here to gamble on jade. Most of them want to pick out some of the jade that is rising in price on the spot and buy it back. The same is true for their factories.
Factory Director Shen personally led the team this time, firstly to purchase raw materials, and secondly to build relationships and expand business.
After arranging everyone's affairs, Director Shen left in a hurry.
Du Ruo locked the door of the room, put a wad of money in his pocket, and went directly to the wool market.
There aren’t many people in the rough stone market. Everyone has just arrived here and hasn’t had time to come and see the raw stones.
Those who can rush here first are those who are very interested in gambling.
As expected of the largest raw stone market in the country, in just a short while, Du Ruo had already seen the horizontal lines above the heads of several people fluctuate, but with varying intensities.
It seems that in order to increase the brand's popularity, the quality of this batch of rough stones is indeed good.
However, for a raw stone like this, the possibility of producing green is high, but the probability of producing top-quality jade is still low.
If top-quality jadeite is unearthed, it will definitely be sold at a good price in this environment.
But the difficulty is about the same as buying a lottery ticket. Even gods cannot tell the difference between fine jade and fine jade, and no one can tell what is underneath the surface.
A group of people gathered at the door of a shop in front. Du Ruo squeezed over to take a look and found that they were actually two huge raw stones.
The piece on the left has a very strange shape, it looks like a big duck, and its name is also very strange, "Heart of Eternity".
It is about three meters high, nearly two meters wide, and weighs ten tons.
The stone next to it is even bigger than it is. It is three meters high, more than three meters wide, and weighs twenty-five tons. It has a very vivid name, "Big Mac".
Most people cannot afford to gamble on this kind of raw stone, which can easily cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. Not to mention bidding, the reserve price alone is beyond the reach of many people.
There were more than a dozen people evaluating the huge raw stone in the center area. The leader was wearing a black French shirt and trousers of the same color. The materials were exquisite and the tailoring was excellent. Gold cufflinks inlaid with rubies adorned the man's wrists. He was staring at the raw material expressionlessly. It was Yuan Tingchuan, whom Du Ruo had met once before.
It seems that Yuan Group is very interested in these two pieces of raw materials?
Although this kind of raw material is risky, the profits it brings are also considerable. Not to mention that after the bet goes up, the value increases by more than ten times, the advertising effect and influence it brings cannot be underestimated.
Du Ruo was watching the excitement from the outside when a man who looked like a bodyguard walked up to her and said, "Ms. Du, Mr. Yuan wants you to come over."
Du Ruo glanced at Yuan Tingchuan, and the man was still staring at the raw material.
Unable to resist her curiosity about the wool, she followed the bodyguard to the central area.
This is a special area with not many people.
Before Du Ruo could say anything, she heard Yuan Tingchuan say, "This piece of rough material performs well, the moss and blue and white are evenly distributed." The man's narrow and long phoenix eyes were naturally cold, and his gaze fell on Du Ruo's face. He asked slowly, "What do you think, Ms. Du?"
Du Ruo looked at her slender white fingertips, smiled and said, "It is difficult for even gods to judge the quality of jade. Who said this correctly?"
She was not a gambling stone master who took commissions from Yuan's company, nor was she shameless enough to think that she had any cooperative relationship with Yuan's company. Naturally, she would not offend anyone.
Yuan Tingchuan's eyes flashed with a strange color. For various interests, the people around him would try to please him. Even if he didn't ask, they would still want to show their courtesy. This Ms. Du...
Du Ruo was also someone who had been through many ups and downs. Although the strange look in Yuan Tingchuan's eyes was only for a moment, she noticed it.
Du Ruo sneered in her heart. There is an old saying that goes "He who has no desires is strong." She had no demands on the Yuan family. To her, Yuan Tingchuan was just an ordinary person.
As for buying and selling jade antiques, if there is no Yuan family, there are still Li family and Zhang family. As long as the items are good and there is enough profit, there will be no shortage of buyers for her items.
This big guy is used to being in a high position. Does he think everyone has to get used to him?
When they met for the first time, Du Ruo discovered that Mr. Yuan's courtesy and politeness were just a way of maintaining his upbringing. Deep down, no matter who he was, he had a subtle arrogance.
Yuan Tingchuan pursed his lips. For some reason, he felt extremely uncomfortable. He ignored Du Ruo like a child, and his coldness kept people away.
Du Ruo enjoyed the quietness; her purpose of coming in was not to enjoy the "air conditioning".
Du Ruo looked at the rough material with interest inch by inch, searching his memory for anecdotes from the gambling stone world. Such a huge gambling stone rough material, whether it was a gain or a loss, could not happen quietly.
Du Ruo was staring at a crack in a trance when he heard several Yuan's jade gamblers say, "Mr. Yuan, we all agree that these are all secondary cracks and will not affect the quality of the jadeite."
"Postnatal cracks" are cracks that occur on the periphery after the jade has been formed. Since the jade has already been formed, it will not cause any damage.
Du Ruo had already withdrawn her hand thoughtfully. She gently patted the dust off her palm and stood aside in silence.