CH 2.2

Inside the quarry, Li Jun and Lin Luo were ready and waiting beside the cutting machine.

When Li Jun saw the people from the consulting group coming over, he nodded slightly towards them. As someone who has worked here for decades and has dealt with members of the consulting group quite often, two sides can be said to be old acquaintances. Although there was a new face in the consulting group this time, since He Fei didn’t introduce them specifically, he didn’t ask.

A short and slightly hunched old man in the consulting group nodded towards Li Jun, then took a piece of jadeite weighing 7 or 8 Kilograms [1], drew two lines on it, and handed it to him.

“Old Li, be careful with this piece. Grind it slowly along the lines and use that to take a look first.” The old man urged in a deep voice.

There is a band of matrix stone wrapped around the exterior of the jadeite like a tightened belt with little loose matrix “flowers” around the belt. This combination of belt and flowers in the surrounding matrix means that this piece of jadeite is likely to be green, so the consultants are optimistic about this piece of jadeite.

It’s just that there is a very inconspicuous crack at the bottom of this piece of jadeite. The consultants can’t judge whether this crack will affect the jade inside, so they hesitate again and again, but ultimately picked it out and prepared to open it and see.

“Understood.” Li Jun took the piece of jadeite and mounted it on the machine.

Although today’s technology has developed rapidly, the jadeite cutting machine used in stone processing still needs to be operated manually, and the shape is very retro. At most it is more easy to operate than in the past. After all, jade containing energy is invaluable. Once the structure of jade is destroyed, it will cause a large amount of energy to escape, and the resulting loss will be immeasurable.

Li Jun switched the stone cutting machine to grinding mode, put on a pair of dust-proof glasses, and then started to slowly grind along the lines drawn by the old man with the sanding wheel.

The sound of the stone grinding was very harsh, but no one around expressed dissatisfaction with it, instead they all looked excited.

Li Jun didn’t stop the machine until the second like drawn by the old man was ground away.

“Splash water.”

Lin Luo immediately picked up the water scoop, scooped the water and poured it over the wiped area- a yellow mist came.

“Fog! It’s fog! Yellow fog!” A consultant became excited.

Experts with general experience can judge the quality of the jadeite by the color of the fog, such as white fog and yellow fog, which means that there may be good jade inside.

“Let me see!” The old man rushed forward and took the piece of jadeite into his hand. After careful observation, a smile gradually appeared on his face.

“Old Li, keep grinding!”

Li Jun nodded, and continued to use the abrasive wheel to grind away the yellow mist, and a bright green immediately appeared.

“It’s sunny green! A very positive green!”

The richer the color of jadeite, the higher the possibility that it contains elemental energy. Such jadeite has a higher value than light-colored jadeite of the same type.

The sun-green exposed by this piece of jadeite is bright and pure. Even the worst bean jade can be sold at a very good price as long as they can extract elemental energy.

Although Lin Luo couldn’t see the color, he could judge based on the reactions of the people around him that they were off to a good start.At this time, two other consultants also came over, and they whispered for a while before drawing a line on the jadeite again.

“Let’s cut along this line.” This line happened to be able to cut off the cracked part in its entirety. They felt that no matter what, it was necessary to figure out whether the cracked jade would affect the jade.

“Okay.” Li Jun switched the cutting machine to cutting mode, and the grinding wheel was replaced by a sharp chrome blade. Chromium is the hardest kind of metal currently known [2], and it can easily cut the hard skin of jadeite open.

Li Jun pressed the chrome knife and slowly cut it towards the cracked position. His hand was very stable and the knife was accurate.

After only hearing the sound of ‘bzzzt’, the jadeite was cut in half, but the exposed cut surface was all broken jade.

The old man sighed deeply, and sure enough, the cracks still hurt the flesh inside.

“What should we do now?”

“Old Li, look at it…” The old man waved his hand.

There is an old saying, ‘grinding up a stone is not called uplifting.’ This is exactly the situation at hand. This knife has greatly discounted the value of this piece of jadeite . You must know that the broken jade is worthless.

Li Jun nodded, and took another cut according to the position parallel to the incision. This knife cut out a large amount of broken jade, but Li Jun saw the remaining half of the rough cut surface with a sharp eye. There seems to be a decrease. He decisively replaced the cutter with a grinding wheel, and pressed it against the broken jade.

The old man didn’t say a word, he stood by his side and watched. After Li Jun lifted the grinding wheel, he saw an intact sun green.

The impact of the cracks on the jade stopped here.

===========Author’s Notes===========

(The “kind” of jade refers to the thickness and transparency of the jadeite structure. The “kind” is an important indicator for evaluating the quality of jadeite. A kind of jade not only makes the light-colored jade appear warm and shiny, but also makes the color uniform and full. The emerald water is clear and full of spirit.)

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===========Jadeite Knowledge Classroom===========

As the saying goes, the layman looks at the color, the expert looks at the species, the species of jade, that is, the beauty of its texture itself, a good jade should have a fine texture and high transparency.

This article assumes that the better the jade planting water and the higher the transparency, the more energy it contains. The brighter and more positive the color, the more elemental energy it contains. Elemental energy is very useful for supernatural players, so brightly colored jade with water is the most valuable.

I won’t explain it in detail here. You just have to have a concept. As the plot develops, I will slowly write out these settings and tell everyone.

[The setting of energy jade in this article is purely fictitious, so if there is any discrepancy with the characteristics of jade in reality, please follow the setting in this article. 】

===========Translator Corner===========

[1] 7 to 8 kilos = 15.4 to 17.6 lbs = 11.7 to 13.3 catties

[2] I combed through the raws and translated the comments and I’m sure that the author really was talking about Chromium, the chemical element with the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. Magic irradiated space chromium I guess.