Xie Li said lazily, "Sure, but you have to pay. It's a friend's price." He then turned to Su Ying and his henchmen and said, "You guys get some too, also at a friend's price."
However, after looking around, she realized that Luo Zhihan had just said he had something to do and left with Gu Chen and the others.
Forget it, I won't leave any for them.
Among the crowd, the middle-aged man who had just bid 180,000 couldn't help but sneer when he saw Xie Li's confident demeanor.
"This young girl really doesn't know her place. Is gambling on rough stones based on the size of the raw stone? Doesn't she even know what kind of rough stone she bought is!"
Everyone in this shop is an expert. That rough stone wasn't expensive, only 20,000 yuan, but no one has bought it yet, simply because the material is too poor.
Shining the light in, there's no sign of anything good. What if we find a whole piece of junk later? That would be embarrassing.
The onlookers were also not optimistic and were discussing it amongst themselves.
Ming Xiaoxiao couldn't stand it anymore, "So what if you're experts? Maybe Xie Li just got lucky?"
The middle-aged man was inexplicably rebuked, and his face immediately turned somewhat ugly.
This girl looks so innocent and delicate, why does she speak so rudely?
Ming Xiaoxiao bit her lip and bowed: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it... but please don't talk about my friend like that."
A middle-aged man wouldn't argue with a young girl, especially since Ming Xiaoxiao seems to be the kind of girl that elders like—well-behaved and sensible—she was only speaking up for her friend...
The middle-aged man glanced at Xie Li. He was already very dissatisfied with Xie Li for not selling to him, and now his impression of Xie Li was even worse.
I originally wanted to stay and see the results, but I was too lazy to watch anymore, so I called a few friends and left together.
He was one of the biggest buyers here, and once he left with his men, the others who were skeptical also left.
The crowd thinned out suddenly, with only a handful of people remaining to watch.
Ming Xiaoxiao glanced at Xie Li and breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's good that they've all left. It'll save them from having nothing good to say when they find out the scrap metal later," she said to Jiang Yifan with a smile.
Jiang Yifan's eyes flickered behind his glasses. He didn't want everyone to leave; he wanted to make a fool of himself when Xie Li was at his most smug.
"Why don't we all stay? We're classmates after all, we should at least show our support."
He wanted to see how Xie Li would be proven wrong after making such boastful claims.
Xie Li didn't pay any attention to the crowd. He gave the stone-cutting master a few instructions, started the cutting machine, and paused after making just one cut.
The stone-cutting master looked up at Xie Li with a complicated expression: "Young lady, how did you know?"
These words seemed out of nowhere, making Ming Xiaoxiao a little nervous: "What's wrong?"
"It's just wasted cutting it!" someone nearby laughed. "If it were really good material, would they waste it by cutting it horizontally in the middle? This girl is a complete novice."
“No,” the stone-cutting master couldn’t help but argue upon hearing this, “It was her request…”
After thinking for a while and not knowing how to explain it, I simply turned on the machine and cut it all open.
Soon, the cross-section of the rough stone was revealed to everyone.
Even though Ming Xiaoxiao didn't understand any of this, she realized that Xie Li seemed to have made the right bet this time.
She forced a smile, turned around and said, "Xie Li is quite lucky; the 20,000 yuan isn't completely wasted."
She had seen similar jade bracelets in the basement of the market; they seemed to cost over a thousand yuan each. Judging from this piece of raw jade, it could probably make several bracelets like this.
"But this result is already very good, Xie Li, congratulations."
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