I Know Everything - Chapter 627
Chapter 627: Collapse.
Chen Huan didn’t take the boss’ complaint seriously.
He pointed to the first stone again, “How much is this one now?”
“20k.” The boss offered.
“What about this one?” Chen Huan pointed to the third stone.
“100k.” The boss quickly answered.
“What about this?” Chen Huan pointed to the fourth.
“Hehe, since you’re an expert, I’ll give you a discount.” The boss huffed, “110k, can’t be lower.”
“What about this one?” Chen Huan pointed toward the fifth stone.
“You also have this good stone from Mameng and there’s an opening that shows there’s something.” The boss explained and then said, “It weighs 5kg so I’ll price it at 500k, it’s absolutely a fair price!”
Chen Huan pondered over it.
The Boss was probably not telling the truth.
This kind of experienced business would be more cautious if he was scared a bit so it was possible for him to give in a bit but if he expected him to be frightened and not make a profit out of this, it was impossible.
Only idiots would do the type of business that didn’t have any profit.
They would rather not sell than not make profit out of it.
According to the tips given by the Jade Master, only two stones there had a high chance to yield jade.
The other party selling jade wasn’t stupid either.
The price of the two jadeites with the highest chance of yielding jades were the highest, which proved that the boss had good judgment.
But it was impossible for Chen Huan to buy only those two pieces, otherwise it would be too obvious and attract the attention of people.
“I’ll buy this one, this one and this one!” Chen Huan pointed to the third, fourth and fifth stones, “How about 400k for them?”
“I was about to quote 510k but you offer me 400k for all, isn’t the bargain way too low?” The boss said bitterly and was horrified.
Chen Huan’s offer is only 10k more than the money he had to use to buy them.
It meant Chen Huan accurately grasped the value of those stones.
Of course, business wouldn’t be concluded as who would want to sell for just 10k profit?
“Then what’s your offer?” Chen Huan asked.
“Hmm, I’ll take a step back and take away the 10k.” The boss said with a smile, “Give me 500k and everyone comes out as a friend!”
“Alright, I’m not a business and don’t enjoy bargaining.” Chen Huan laughed, “450k, we have a deal if you agree or I’ll walk out if you disagree.”
“Doesn’t work like that…aiya, why you little brat is so impatient.” The boss quickly shouted at Chen Huan, “450k then! Bro, you’re an expert!”
Compared to before, he was more sincere in his ‘expert’ praise.
He may look young but he exuded the confidence of a veteran.
After that, he pointed to the surrounding stones and said, “I still have plenty here, want to look further, little bro?”
“I’m good, I can’t be too greedy.” Chen Huan said with a little smile, “Boss, do you have the machine to cut the stone here?”
“Oh, my place is small so I don’t have it.” The boss pointed toward his back, “There’s a place at the back dedicated to cut the stone for the customers and it’s next to the business administration here. The prices there are very cheap, between 100 to 5000 yuan, all top masters there.”
“Alright, thank you!”
Chen Huan paid him via Habao Pay and went to the place indicated by the boss with stones packed in a bag.
It was a corner shed next to the administration offices and there were ten stone cutters neatly arranged in two rows.
However, it wasn’t the busiest time as only three of the stone cutters were used and the rest of the workers were smoking and chatting.
Seeing Chen Huan walk over, a forty something years old man stood and asked, “Here to cut stone?”
“Yes!”
Chen Huan handed him the three stones and said, “How do you plan to cut them?”
“The one with the open crack is easy to handle. We just had to grind from the crack so the price is 1000 yuan.” The cutter said, “The remaining two stones are 500 yuan for the two if you want the straight cut and 2000 yuan if you want to do it by layers.”
The straight cut they would cut one piece off from the left and one from the right before cutting along the center.
This type was really fast and people would know the result at the end very quickly.
The downside was there would be no pill for regret when there was a good jade and you cut it off.
So most people that were hopeful would use the grinding or shredding.
Grinding was polishing.
The shredding would just peel the stone layer by layer.
Shredding was mostly used in open windows type.
This was a lot more complicated to do but it harmed the jade the least as they could preserve the jade the moment they discover it.
Since everyone knew that shredding was best, why was there still the straight cut?
The biggest reason was obviously the price.
Buying a several thousand stone and then spending another one or two thousands to shred it, it wasn’t a good business move at all.
In that case, it was more practical to cut it straight.
Chen Huan was doing an experiment so he couldn’t be that rough.
“Alright, 3000 yuan it is!” He said.
“Scan the QR code there to pay.” The cutters pointed at the QR code on the wall near the office.
Those businesses advanced really fast as the time went.
After Chen Huan paid and the cutters confirmed it, he went to cut the stones.
The cutter was a master so he obviously knew what he was doing.
The first he cut was the stone at the size of cantaloupe and the chance of yielding jade was 37%.
Relying on his experience, he started to peel from the four sides of the stone.
In the end, nothing was uncovered.
He shook his head slightly and then increased his strength slightly to grind about one centimeter deep.
Still nothing.
On his third shredding, the cutters didn’t increase his strength and just started to peel one centimeters by one centimeters.
It wasn’t until half of it was gone that a bit of white emerald was uncovered.
The white was like white marble but for jade, white wasn’t a good color.
But after the cutter carefully polished it, this white jade turned brighter and brighter, which attracted the attention of the surrounding people.
But then, they let out a sigh.
“It’s broken!”
“Hai, there’s a crack!!”
Chen Huan and Shui Qianyu were standing just right next to it so they naturally saw it.
The color of the stone was translucent with a crack on it as it laid on the jadeite like a centipede.
The cutters followed the outlines to completely excavate it and that jade was at the size of an egg but there were deep cracks on the left and right.
The green part was just 5cm long and 2cm wide but not sure how deep it was. The rest of the stone was white and the quality of this jade was quite low.
“What a pity!” Someone exclaimed nearby, “This piece of jadeite can still be used to make a pendant if there were no cracks, it should be worth around 300k yuan… now you can only sell it for ten or twenty thousand!”
“Who would disagree?” A thin old man in his fifties said to Chen Huan, “Boy, I’m willing to pay 20k, how about you give it to me? I think it’s best if you let me see if I can save this stone with my skills.”
Chen Huan didn’t answer yet and took the jade from the cutter.
The information on it changed again.
“A piece of low quality Jade that is worth at most 50k yuan in this planet.”