CH 75.2

Lin Luo moved the chrome knife directly along the edge of the black tinea scabs and cut out the fog layer with a single cut, but it revealed a nebulous black fog.

The corners of Ollie’s lips curled when he saw this. Feeling that Lin Luo was about to cut his losses, he withdrew his gaze in boredom and continued to cut his stone.

He held his grinding wheel and ground it against the light yellow fog layer. Gradually, green showed up. From the window that was sanded out, the green was still relatively intense, the texture was very delicate, and the clarity didn’t look like it would be bad.

“Your Excellency! It’s green! I ground it out!” Ollie shouted excitedly.

Andre nodded slightly, but did not show any specific expression. Although he didn’t often bet on stones, he also knew the truth that ‘a grind is not a rise, only a cut is a rise’.

As for how good the piece of jadeite is, you still have to cut it open to know.

Ollie continued to grind down the stone with excitement. It became more and more revealed, showing more and more of the internal jade. By the time a palm-sized window was ground out, the quality and direction of the internal jade could basically be seen.

Seeing that the jade type should be hibiscus and the color was also a relatively grassy green, Ollie became more confident in himself.

He changed to the chrome knife and slowly cut down along the edge of the jade that was ground out. After the ubiquitous cut was done he couldn’t wait to pour water on the cut surface, wanting to see how much jade were inside.

However when he saw the cut window clearly, he was completely stunned. It was not that there was no jade inside, but light yellow impurities penetrated into the interior like spider webs. Although the color wasn’t deep, it completely destroyed the integrity of the jade and caused the internal energy of the jade to escape.

Ollie suddenly remembered what Lin Luo had just said. It was exactly the same as the jade’s actual situation when cut, and the inside really was eaten by fog…

However, at the moment, there were a few clear gasping noises from around Lin Luo’s jadeite cutting machine.

Ollie immediately looked in Lin Luo’s direction, and saw that he had also cut his jadeite piece, but the cut surface of his was a beautiful lake blue with a great crystal structure. Looking at it, it should have been a rare blue water jade.

Ollie couldn’t have imagined this result. He wasn’t optimistic about that piece at all. The surface was full of black tinea, but after cutting away the black mist Lin Luo finally cut out a blue water jade…

“How did you do it? This piece of jadeite was obviously so bad…” Ollie didn’t care about the obviously bad jade in his hand and rushed to Lin Luo in two or three strides to ask cautiously. , “You… can you tell me how?”

“Of course.” Lin Luo smiled and explained the difference between live tinea scabs and dead tinea scabs to Ollie, then explained to him the gambling nature of black mist, “For example this jadeite’s skin- the sanding looks normal, but the type is very old, and these live tinea scabs are evenly distributed, indicating that there’s a high probability of jade inside. As for the black fog, people generally think that always indicates polluted jade, but in fact it may also be around high quality jade.”

Ollie nodded vigorously, remembering everything Lin Luo had said. He was determined to not take things for granted next time, and knew he had to observe carefully.

In the end, Lin Luo succeeded in cutting out a piece of blue water jade of about 3 kilograms from a yellow sand skin jadeite.

The second piece of jadeite was next up. It was a piece of white salt sand skin jadeite. It was a little big, about 20 to 30 kilograms. Before Lin Luo started, Ollie volunteered to help him move the piece of jadeite to the stone cutting machine.

There were obvious clumps of black tinea scabs plastered in the middle of this piece of jadeite, and most people wouldn’t have been willing to bet on such a jadeite.

“What’s so special about this piece of jadeite?” Ollie couldn’t help but ask.

“I chose it for three reasons. First, because of its skin. The reason why this jadeite is called white salt sand is because the stones that makes up its matrix on the surface are as fine as white salt grains. The possibility of good jade come from jadeite like this is high. Second, if you take a closer look at this mass of black tinea scabs you’ll see that the skin isn’t deep, and you can pull a lot of it off with your hands, indicating that the black tinea scabs are likely to be distributed in parallel lines up against the upper layer close to the skin. It’s unlikely to have had much impact on the interior. As for the third point…” Lin Luo said, he turned the jadeite over and pointed to the small white strips that were sunken in on the other side of the jadeite. “These are the seedlings. They’re the external reaction of the earth on the skin. Seedlings like this are hard to find on white sand skin jadeite. Normally, the seedlings are on the bottom section and if there they should be full and thick. This jadeite’s seedling distribution is even and good enough, so I judged that the jade inside should be pretty good, which proves that this is a good piece of jadeite worth gambling on.”

Ollie still listened with suspicion. He knew the first two points, but didn’t observe it carefully enough, so he didn’t find them. The third point though, he hadn’t even heard of. Is that a term peculiar to the Empire?

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[Little Theater on Moshang]

Andre: Next, I will perform a stunt.

Lin Xiao Luo: What what? Break boulders in your chest?

Andre: That’s all trivial, I want to show iron teeth and bronze teeth! Bring the jade!

Lin Xiao Luo: You… you!

Andre: Isn’t it super awesome?

Lin Xiao Luo: Waste! luxury! cruel!

Andre:?

Lin Xiao Luo: Jade is so beautiful, how can you bear to eat it?! You are so good, why don’t you eat diamonds!