Chapter 261: No Merchant Without Deceit
At this moment, Li Yuan was unaware that Ye Fei had already picked through the entire box of raw stones. He only felt that she had only taken two stones, which was a bit too few: "Fei'er, you can take more. Don't try to save money for me."
Ye Fei beckoned to Li Yuan with her finger, signaling him to come closer.
Li Yuan obediently leaned closer, and Ye Fei lowered her voice and said, "I only chose two rough stones because only these two rough stones contain gems."
"..." A hint of surprise flashed in Li Yuan's eyes. How did she determine that?
"There are many people here, I'll tell you when we get back to the academy." Ye Fei winked playfully at the boy, keeping him in suspense for the time being.
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Next, Ye Fei turned her attention to another wooden box placed in the corner. The raw stones inside were relatively large, so it could only hold a dozen or twenty.
"Qingli, what's the quality of the raw stones in this box?" Ye Fei asked Qingli through the contract.
After a long silence, Qingli obediently replied, "Master, there are gems inside the top piece of raw stone, and there is more than one gem that can be cut out."
Ye Fei was slightly surprised: "More than one? That's a huge profit."
"However, this is the only rough stone in this alley that can be cut into a gem; the others are just waste."
Ye Fei silently rolled her eyes. She really didn't know if the probability of finding gemstones was too low, or if this Treasure Pavilion possessed some unknown magic that allowed people like Qing Li to see so easily whether there were gemstones inside the raw stones.
Ye Fei took out the raw stone that Qing Li had mentioned, and symbolically took a few more pieces of scrap from the other boxes.
This Jubao Tower is essentially a gambling den, and gamblers are the most ruthless people in the world.
She took the only three usable rough stones from a pile of scrap, which looked suspicious no matter how you looked at them.
Therefore, in order to avoid attracting the attention of these gamblers, she had to keep herself as private as possible.
Xie Qingui and Yun Fusang had almost finished selecting their raw stones. Ye Fei had Qing Li use her ability to see clearly to check them, and sure enough, all the raw stones they had picked were waste.
Qingli muttered a complaint in her mental space: "Master! This Treasure Pavilion is a total rip-off! I doubt that more than ten of the raw stones here will actually yield gems!"
Ye Fei shook her head helplessly. As the saying goes, "No merchant is without guile, and no businessman is without guile!"
"Xiaofei, are you also planning to give it a try?"
Xie Qingui couldn't help but chuckle as he saw Ye Fei take several raw stones: "However, a single raw stone in this Treasure Pavilion costs a thousand gold coins, which is indeed a bit pricey."
Ye Fei mumbled, "Um... I'm just playing around. There's a lot of luck involved in opening these raw stones, so as long as I don't get carried away, it's fine."
After selecting a rough stone, you must pay before proceeding to the next step of cutting the stone, to prevent unscrupulous people from taking the opportunity to run away.
Li Yuan helped with the payment, and Ye Fei, having some free time, took a walk around the first-floor hall.
At a certain table, a large number of onlookers were intently watching the man in the center cutting the rough stone.
All the other tables had onlookers, but this table had an unusually large crowd.
The man bent over, his forehead covered in fine beads of sweat, as he carefully used a cutter to cut the fixed rough stone, the sharp blade covered in thick stone powder.
With a snap, the cut surface remained gray.
"Oh dear! No shipments again!" someone sighed and shook their head.
"Old Six has been here for a whole day, and he hasn't even managed to open a low-quality gem. He's probably about to lose it..."
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