CH 62

Lin Luo and He Kun walked to the stone cutting machine together, and waited patiently for Xu Jian and Zhao XiaoLei to finish cutting their stones.

Xu Jian had two pieces of jadeite, but because they were not big they were dealt with quickly. One piece collapsed, and the other was a small win. Overall he made a small profit, which was not bad. Zhao XiaoLei was miserable. His sole piece of jadeite was completely broken, and all the money he invested in it was lost.

“Hey, well it’s your turn.” Zhao XiaoLei sighed and shook his head, handing over his position in front of the stone cutting machine.

“Xiao Kun, please go ahead first. Anyway, you only have one piece.” Lin Luo said to He Kun.

“Okay, then I’ll go first.” He Kun was also very straightforward, and directly picked up his jadeite and walked forward.

He Kun’s jadeite was an old pit water jadeite. Although there were no obvious pine flowers or python bands, the sanding on the skin was pretty good, so it was worth a bet in terms of exterior performance. It was a small piece of jadeite which did not easily attract attention, so He Kun was able to take this piece of jadeite at a price of just over 1 million.

The skin of water stone jadeite is usually very thin, so He Kun directly started grinding the stone.

Just after He Kun started to work on his stone, there was a warm cheer in the distance, and the crowd swarmed in one direction. It seemed that someone had bet on excellent quality jade. The quality of the hidden bid auction materials was really good.

“Brother! Over here!”

Suddenly, Lin Luo heard a familiar voice, looked up, and saw Han XinYu. He should have also come to occupy a stone machine in advance with some people from their branch. Because of the crowd, Lin Luo didn’t notice him until he got out of the crowd and made a sound.

Han XinYu’s greeting was naturally to his brother, Han XinYuan.

Han XinYuan’s appearance was somewhat similar to Han XinYu, both of them were very good-looking, but he was a bit more mature and stable looking than Han XinYu, and the whole person exuded a more gentle temperament, which easily made people feel good. No wonder he had so many fans and called a male god.

There was also a handling robot behind Han XinYuan, which was carrying a large basket of gambling stone jadeite. Carefully counting, there was as many as a dozen pieces. Many of these jadeite were familiar to Lin Luo. They should be the jadeite materials that he recorded on his list. It seems that Han XinYuan’s ability to bet on stones is really extraordinary.

Han XinYuan also noticed Lin Luo’s gaze at this time, and walked over with a smile, “Hello, I’m Han XinYuan and Han XinYu’s brother.”

“Hello. I, I’m Lin Luo.”

“I know. You are amazing.”

“You’re giving me too much credit…” Lin Luo scratched his head in embarrassment.

“Are those the jadeite you won?” Han XinYuan’s gaze fell on the basket behind Lin Luo.

“Yes.”

After seeing the piece of carbonized jadeite, Han Xin could not help but shake his head with a wry smile, “So you bought this piece of jadeite.”

“You… also liked this piece of jadeite?”

“Yeah…” Han XinYuan suddenly lowered his voice and asked, “Did you also find the straps?”

Although Lin Luo didn’t know what he was talking about, he guessed that it was the inconspicuous charred pine flower ribbon, so he nodded.

“It seems that you are better than Xiaoyu said.” Han XinYuan looked at him with complicated eyes, and then smiled again, “I look forward to having a chance to compete with you in the Stone Gambling Tournament.”

“I am also looking forward to it.” Lin Luo said the truth. He really thought that Han XinYuan was very powerful. He came from a stone gambling family and was knowledgeable. He was also able to apply mental power to stone gambling. If he was able to compete with him in the field, he could definitely learn a lot.

After the two greeted each other, they returned to their respective teams.

It didn’t take long for He Kun’s jadeite to finish being cut, and a piece of waxy ice emerald jade weighing 2 to 3 kilograms was revealed, which was sold at a very good price.

“Xiao Luo! It’s your turn!” He Kun smiled and pushed Lin Luo to the stone cutting machine. He had become very convinced of Lin Luo’s stone betting ability, so he was very much looking forward to seeing what kind of jade would come out of Lin Luo’s stones this time.

Lin Luo smiled helplessly, walked forward, picked up the smallest piece of jadeite in the basket, and set it up on the stone machine. For convenience, he still used the order of cutting from smallest to largest.

He Kun made sure to turn on the recording function of his light brain. Without the presence of a person with management and judgment rights like the branch president a recorded video of the process would need to be sent to the Stone Gambling Association after all the jadeite here was cut. That way after they could receive their points after the light brain evaluation.

The first thing Lin Luo wanted to solve was the 5 kilograms piece of white salt sand skin jadeite. On the surface of this piece of jadeite, there was a two-finger-wide light yellow python belt easily found.

Python belts are one of the important basis for people to judge whether there is jade in a jadeite. Although the color of this python belt was very light, it did exist.

Therefore, Lin Luo was decisive and took this piece of jadeite at a price of 3 million.

Lin Luo drew a line along the edge of the python belt and decided to start cutting the stone from here.

With the harsh sound of cutting the stone, the first cut was over.

After washing away the white stone dust, the crystal clear light green jade flesh was exposed.

“Ah, the transparency is very high, the crystal structure is good, but the color is a bit light…” Xu Jian stepped forward and said with some regret.

“The color difference is one point, and the price difference is several times. With such a light green, Xiao Luo is probably going to lose some this time.” Zhang XiaoLei also sighed.

“Hey! This is just the first cut, maybe the color inside will become darker!” He Kun glared at the two of them angrily, then comforted Lin Luo, “Xiao Luo, ignore them, let’s continue to cut.”

Lin Luo smiled, and didn’t take Xu Jian and Zhao XiaoLei’s words to heart. He already knew what the inside of this piece of jadeite looked like.

He continued to draw lines on the jadeite, and let the jadeite cutting machine cut down little by little. It really was like what He Kun said. The closer they got to the back and the more cut surfaces were exposed, the more the color gradually darkened.

“Hahaha, I knew it! It’s green on a white background!” The color name of green on a white background is very vivid. Green and white are distinct, like a large lush green plant was growing on the white snow. The white was transparent, and the green was verdant. The two colors intermingled with each other without being abrupt.

Such jadeite are actually not uncommon, but there are very few that have such a good crystal structure. Although the value of green jade with white background is not as good as that of all-green jade, the wood element energy that can be extracted is by no means small.

As soon as this piece of jade was finished being cut, someone could not wait to bid, “Little brother, can this piece of jade be sold? I am willing to pay 3 million!”

“I’ll pay 3.1 million!”

“I’ll pay 3.2 million!”

Hearing that some people had started bidding here, more and more people squeezed in, most of whom were from energy companies.

The price quickly rose to 3.7 million. For people from energy companies, this was almost the limit price of this jadeite, and they would not be able to make much profit if they continued to bid.

“3.8 million.” Just when Lin Luo thought there was no one bidding, someone suddenly increased the price.

The familiar mechanical sound is obviously Andre who carried the strong atmosphere of a local tyrant.

Obviously, after a few days, the people around had a certain impression of this lavish Federal merchant, so after he bid they all shook their heads and left.

“This jade belongs to you, Andre.” Lin Luo smiled and handed the jade to Andre.

Andre paid the money very readily, and put the green-on-white jade into his space button.

“Andre, can I ask, why do you want to buy so many jadeite?” Except for energy companies, few people buy jadeite in such large quantities, not to mention how many jadeite Andre bought outside these days. After having bought so many from Lin Luo, Lin Luo would inevitably have some curiosity about it.

“I have a fleet, which consumes a lot of energy.”

Lin Luo:…

Well, he was a local tyrant with his own private fleet. The world of rich people was really beyond imagination.

Seeing that Andre didn’t mean to leave, Lin Luo went back to the stone cutting machine and began to cut the second piece of jadeite.

This was a piece of pineapple skin jadeite. The outer skin looked good, but there was an annoying ponytail fissure [1] on the surface. A fissure of this type could easily affect the jade inside, so few people would be willing to bet on such a jadeite.

Lin Luo bought this piece of jadeite just as a cover. He had to gamble a loss once or twice so that his subsequent wins would not be too exaggerated.

Although he knew in his heart that this piece of jadeite was bound to collapse, he still had to put on a bit of a show and follow the normal cutting process.

Five consecutive cuts, each one cut out layer after layer of solid rock.

“Xiao Luo, it’s okay. It doesn’t matter if this piece loses. You’ll definitely have more wins later!” He Kun worried that Lin Luo would be disheartened, and lightly patted his shoulder to comfort him.

Lin Luo smiled back at him, “I’ll borrow your auspicious words. I’ve found that your guesses have been accurate today. If the bet goes up on the next one, I’ll treat you to a big dinner tonight.”

“Okay, then I’ll wait! Hahaha!” He Kun answered with a big smile.

Having said that, He Kun did not take his words to heart.

When Lin Luo was cutting the third piece of jadeite, his attitude was much more solemn than the first two pieces. This was a piece of bayberry skin jadeite, which was a mountain rock variety. The sand on the surface was like ripe bayberry, and showed a dark red color. It was also from an old pit which made it a kind of jadeite that generally had an easier time producing excellent quality jade.

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

[1] Ponytail fissure: A grouping of small fissures gathered like a horse’s tail- they are extremely destructive. Even if the jade inside was extremely good it is usually unable to be salvaged.