CH 14

Chapter 14: Jadeite Storm – Part 1

“Today I have to go to Gambling Stone Street to do some things, are you going with me? Or would you rather stay at home?” Xing Mo asked Lin Luo.

“I will go with you!”

“OK.”

The two went to Gambling Stone Street in the same suspension vehicle, but Xing Mo did not go directly to the store, but instead went to an auction house at the end of Gambling Stone Street.

This auction house looks very big. It is often heard that it is owned by the Yin family, the first family of the empire and the family the queen of the empire is from. Therefore, the Yin family is the strongest both in terms of wealth and power in the empire as it stands.

“Xiao Luo, wait for me outside, I will come to you as soon as I’m done.” Xing Mo said to Lin Luo.

“Okay.” Lin Luo replied brightly.

Xing Mo went to the second floor, while Lin Luo was left in the lobby on the first floor.

There is a huge holographic projection in the lobby of the auction house. The projection advertises that an unprecedented auction will be held seven days later, and some of the auction items are also being displayed in the form of holographic models.

Lin Luo has seldom touched holographic models, so he couldn’t help but walk over to check it, and found that most of them were jadeites of better quality, and elemental liquids of various colors. There was also a bottle of black elemental liquid that caught Lin Luo’s attention. He turned the bottle of elemental liquid around curiously, and was dazzled by the long string of 0s on the price tag on the back of the bottle.

Isn’t it just the starting price? At this moment, Lin Luo, a young man who has never seen the world, was shocked. Is this auction house a black shop[1]?

Lin Luo carefully looked at the prices of the other lots again. They were all ridiculously high, and he became more and more sure that this was a black shop.

Lin Luo obediently found a place to sit down, not daring to look at those holographic models anymore.

Without letting Lin Luo wait for too long, Xing Mo came down from the stairs.

“Xiao Luo.”

“Brother Xing!” Lin Luo’s eyes lit up when he saw Xing Mo, just like a cute little milk dog, ran to Xing Mo in two steps, looking up with a silly smile on his face.

“Have you waited for a long time? Were you bored?” Xing Mo couldn’t help reaching out and rubbing his head.

“Wasn’t boring! Is your business done?”

“It’s finished, let’s go to the store to have a look. If there is nothing wrong, we can go back.”

“OK!”

The two of them walked towards Xing Mo’s shop together, only when they approached they found that all three floors inside and outside their shop was surrounded, and fierce quarrels continued to be heard from inside.

Xing Mo frowned, and immediately grabbed a person to ask, “Sir, what happened inside?”

“Hey, I heard that someone bought fake jadeite here and came to this store to make trouble.”

How would that be worth doing? In the stone gambling trade, if there is a case of selling fake jadeite, who would dare to buy jadeite in their store in the future?

Xing Mo could only conclude that someone had deliberately come to make trouble.

“Make way, excuse me, please make way.” Xing Mo immediately pulled Lin Luo and squeezed in.

There were four or five people in the shop surrounding Wang Ze, looking angry and unreasonable, clearly seeking some sort of explanation. Wang Ze’ face was flushed and neck veins were taut with anxiety, but after all, he was the only employee in the store and could not lose his composure to argue with the angry crowd.

“What’s going on?” Xing Mo asked with a calm face.

“Oh, the big boss is here?” The leader turned his head and immediately recognized Xing Mo after seeing him.

Listening to his tone, it was like finding fault deliberately, and Xing Mo became more and more convinced that these people had come prepared.

“Uncle Wang, tell me.” Xing Mo ignored him, but looked directly at Wang Ze.

“Shao Xing, they are talking nonsense! This piece of jadeite is not from our shop at all! We have not faked it!” Wang Ze said, pointing to a piece of jadeite on the ground.

“How could it not be? Isn’t the label on your piece of jadeite a label from your store? Would you like to call for the surveillance camera? Yesterday I heard that your store had a bet on a rare red jade, so I spent a lot of money to buy jadeite from your shop. I bought this piece of half-revealed jadeite in the store, and it turned out to be a waste stone after it was cut. This is so obviously a fraud, what else can be said?!” The man’s anger did not look faked, and his words were well-organized, as if he were a real victim.

On the ground was a piece of half-revealed jadeite with a yellow sand matrix stone weighing about 5 kilograms [2]. A small window was cut in the matrix stone, and the exposed part showed a layer of green jade with good texture.

This was originally a piece of jadeite with a high possibility of gambling, but now it has been cut in half, and only a layer of stone can be seen from the cut surface, and there is no green at all.

In fact, from the point of view of gambling on stones, this result is a very common occurrence in gambling, but the problem lies in the exposed window surface. If you look closely, you will find that there are seams on the border of the window, and there are faint traces of adhesion.

This is a very common method of fraud- fake windows, the seller will cut a hole in a colorless, or poorly sanded or cut gambling stone, and then paste a piece of jade with good color and good clarity into the hole that matches the size of the cut and use it to mask the actual poor quality of the stone.

There is indeed a label attached to the matrix stone of this jadeite. This label is indeed from Xing Mo’s shop. In addition to the price, there are some simple descriptions of the matrix stone, which is consistent with the jadeite on the ground.

These people were really well prepared.

The current situation really made Xing Mo unable to argue.

At this time, Lin Luo moved suddenly. He turned over the two pieces of jadeite in his hand, then looked up at the person, “Did you say this is fake jadeite?”

“Correct!”

“Why?” Lin Luo didn’t know the means of fraud, so he didn’t quite understand why they kept saying that it was a piece of fake jadeite.

“Oh, kid, what are you pretending to be stupid? Do you still need to argue with such an obvious fraud? This is the most garbage piece of scrap. You deliberately faked it, making me think this is a good piece of jadeite that can contain a good jade and sell at a high price. You sold it to me! This is a con! If you don’t give me an explanation today! I will report you! I will make sure your shop closes down!”

“But… this is obviously a good piece of jadeite.” Lin Luo blinked.

“Boy, are you deliberately disrupting the situation here? What’s the matter with you? Go away!” The man seemed to be annoyed by him and shook his fist at him.

Xing Mo stood sideways in front of Lin Luo, staring at the man condescendingly. Ultimately, the man didn’t dare to challenge Xing Mo, so he took a step back.

Lin Luo wasn’t scared by his fierce appearance. He stuck out a small head from behind Xing Mo, smiled and asked, “Then since you don’t want it, can you sell it to me? I’m willing to pay 100,000 credits.”

“100,000?! Sure I’ll sell it to you, but I still reserve the right to report the counterfeit!” The man’s eyes rolled. The price of this piece of jadeite was initially only 80,000. Now that it is cut, this person is willing to pay more? What a fool to buy 100,000!

“Okay, then it’s settled.”

===========Author’s Notes===========

The author has something to say: Thank you for your enthusiastic messages, the second more will be sent. Since I have to accompany Ma Ma to go to work early in the morning, I have to go to bed early today, so the update at 10 am tomorrow will be postponed to 8 o’clock in the evening. I will say hello to everyone in advance. I’m sorry, I will try my best to write the update tomorrow. Longer, love you guys! !

Xing Mo: There are always people who want to harm me!

Lin Luo: Let me kill them with gold fingers!

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] 黑店 – hēi diàn – scam, daylight robbery, sketchy business. Probably Luo is wondering if its a front.

[2] 5 kilo = 11lbs = 8.3 catties