The Mr. Liu who was being teased was a fat middle-aged man. He stood next to the stone cutter, smiling like Maitreya Buddha.
Mr. Liu is a jeweler, so he naturally won’t sell the jadeite he cuts on site.
So no one at the scene asked for a price or anything like that.
After the jade was completely cut out, Mr. Liu took it from the staff and put it into the box carried by his assistant.
The people around went to watch other stone cutters.
Number two was temporarily free, so Cheng Jingyi asked Yan Ning, "Will you go first or should I?"
"Aunt Cheng, you come first!" Yan Ning was not in a hurry.
Cheng Jingyi nodded, called the staff who knew the stone, and handed over the first piece of raw material she had chosen from the basket.
The stone was about the size of a football. After the staff checked the surface and found no cracks, they fixed the stone on the machine, closed the lid, and started cutting from the middle.
After a few minutes, the machine stopped and the workers moved half of the stone down.
Only a ten-centimeter green surface was revealed on the cross-section of the two halves of the stone.
"It has green color, but the color is not pure, and the water quality is not good. It looks like a glutinous variety." Cheng Jingyi said with some disappointment.
She asked the staff to continue cutting out the jade. After washing it with water, it could be seen that it was a bean green glutinous jade.
Cheng Jingyi took the jadeite from the staff and was about to put it into the bag when someone called her.
"Miss, I see you don't seem to like this jade very much. How about selling it to me?"
Cheng Jingyi looked up and saw a woman she didn't recognize.
The woman explained, "I own a small jewelry store, and usually sell these low- and medium-end jadeite.
This piece of glutinous rice that this lady opened is exactly what I need. I'll take it for 200,000 yuan."
Cheng Jingyi smiled knowingly, "Okay then, that saves me from having to figure out how to handle it myself."
Jadeite of this color and quality would not be looked down upon by high-end jewelry stores.
But it is a necessity for mid- and low-end jewelry stores.
She bought the raw stone for 10,000 yuan and sold the jadeite for 200,000 yuan, so she made a profit.
The woman counted out two hundred thousand from her handbag and handed it to Cheng Jingyi, then took the two pieces of jade from her, smiled and nodded, then left.
Cheng Jingyi took out the second piece of rough material she chose from the basket and handed it to the stone cutting staff.
After taking it, the staff observed it as usual, fixed the stone on the machine, closed the lid, and operated the machine to start cutting from the middle.
After a few minutes, the machine stopped and the workers moved half of the stone.
There was a white mass inside, with very coarse grains, and it was undoubtedly a piece of waste.
Cheng Jingyi was a little skeptical. She clearly saw green when she applied the light, so how could it disappear when she cut it open?
She walked over and looked at the stone, and asked the staff to cut the half on the machine from the surface layer.
The staff fixed that half of the stone and operated the machine to cut the stone.
After a while, the staff separated the stone with a layer of skin cut off, and the larger piece revealed a green spot the size of an egg.
The staff then cut vertically along the edge of the color and showed the cut surface to Cheng Jingyi.
"Mrs. Peng, the color is very light, only a thin layer. I don't think anything will be polished off."
Cheng Jingyi sighed and waved her hand to indicate to the staff that it was lost.
She looked at the rough stone in the basket that Yan Ning had picked for her, "I'm really unlucky today. I hope the one you picked for me will be good."
Yan Ning smiled beside him and said, "Just cut it open and you'll know."
Cheng Jingyi handed the last piece of raw material to the staff.
When the staff was about to fix the stone, Yan Ning suddenly stepped forward and pointed to the third part of the stone and said:
"Master, when you cut, cut from here downwards!"
The staff member glanced at Yan Ning and then at Cheng Jingyi.
Cheng Jingyi nodded, "Just do as she says!"
But she was also curious. Could Yan Ning's intuition really be so accurate? Could he even sense where to strike the knife?
The staff nodded, fixed the stone, covered it with a lid, and operated the machine to cut from one-third of the stone.
After a few minutes, the machine stopped and the staff moved the small stone away.
Yan Ning looked at the cut surface, it was all white, nothing at all.
She looked at the larger half of the cut surface of the machine again, which showed a bowl-sized, somewhat foggy, and translucent area.
"What is this?" Cheng Jingyi also saw it, but she didn't know what it was.
Yan Ning walked closer to the stone and took a closer look. He then said to the staff, "Master, please cut along the thin edge of this cut surface."
The staff nodded, and after getting ready, they operated the machine to carefully cut the stone.
After a few minutes, the machine stopped.
The staff removed the stone piece, and Cheng Jingyi and Yan Ning looked at the newly cut surface.
Before they could say anything, a surprised voice suddenly rang out from behind them: "Is it the White Ice Clan?"
Yan Ning turned his head and saw that the person speaking was a middle-aged man.
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