CH 111.2

In Xu Jian’s view, if Lin Luo hadn’t just urged him to keep working the jadeite, he would have just thrown away the jade as garbage. He had to repay his debts, so even if he were to lose some money, he wanted to sell his jade to Lin Luo.

Although his jade wasn’t big, it had good texture and color, which was in line with the company’s needs. Subsequently Lin Luo agreed to purchase it at a price of 70,000 credits.

“No, no, why did you increase the price? It really doesn’t need to be that much.” Xu Jian waved his hand again and again.

“Either you accept it, or you sell it to others.” Lin Luo didn’t want to take advantage of his friends.

Xu Jian had no choice but to accept the money, but he became more trusting and respectful of Lin Luo in his heart.

“Ha ha, it’s my turn next! Xiao Luo help me see how my piece is?” He Kun triumphantly put his jadeite on the stone cutting machine.

When Lin Luo saw this piece of jadeite from him, there was a little doubt in his eyes. This kind of bacon skin water stone jadeite had no business being for sale on a planet with a desert terrain with yellow sand as far as the eye could see like Polis… Although it was also possible that the jadeite trader brought it from other planets, but for some reason he always feels that it was a bit inconsistent.

Just when Lin Luo wanted to observe further, the two brothers Han XinYuan and Han XinYu finally came to the stone cutting area. After the previous incident, they had become more cautious in choosing jadeite, so it was only after shopping for a long time that they bought two more jadeite.

“Hey, this piece of water stone…” When Han XinYuan saw the jadeite on the stone cutting machine, he also showed a look of surprise and looked at He Kun in silence.

“What’s wrong? Is… is there something wrong with this piece of jadeite?” He Kun realized that there was something wrong no matter how slow he was.

“I’m not sure right now, let’s take a look first.” Lin Luo said, leaning close to the jadeite and carefully observed.

But the more he looked at it, the more solemn his complexion became.

“Mr. Han, would you take a look too?” Lin Luo said to Han XinYuan.

Han XinYuan didn’t decline either and went forward to check it before he eventually showed the same solemn expression as Lin Luo.

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong with this jadeite? Is it fake jadeite?” He Kun couldn’t help but ask.

“It’s not fake… but it’s also not real…” Lin Luo shook his head slightly.

“Vice President Lin, what do you mean?” Zhao XiaoLei and Xu Jian were also at a loss, and they even called out the name they used in the company.

“Meaning this piece of jadeite is real, but the skin around the jadeite was faked.”

“What?”

There was a long history to counterfeit rough jadeite, and there were various methods to them. With the improvement of technology, many types could be faked, but a fake was still a fake. As long as a person had good eyesight, they could still find some clues.

For example, the bacon skin water stone jadeite was generally high-grade material. Due to the movement of large ocean waves, the ore with this jadeite would be tumbled along by the current with the sand all year round. This would sand the originally soft and flawed gravel parts off of the matrix and would leave only the hard part, which would result in a water stone with a smooth exterior. Generally, the water stone jadeite was thin and transparent, and the gambling rate was relatively high.

Although there were some cracks on the surface of He Kun’s material, the impact wasn’t too bad. You could still see a little green in it, which was enough that it should have greatly increased the value of the piece of jadeite. That it was bought at a price of only 100,000 credits was a bit too low.

The Fifth Star Territory’s stone gambling rally was set up to promote the Fifth Star Territory’s jadeite. It was unbelievable that someone would transport water stone jadeite from other star regions to sell at such a bargain price.

These two doubts appeared at the same time, which is what made Lin Luo and Han XinYuan both start to get suspicious.

Then after the two of them made further observations, they confirmed the fact that this piece of jadeite was a fake.

The skin was an important indicator for observing the quality of the jade inside a piece of jadeite, but the seemingly smooth skin on this piece of bacon husk jadeite was actually made by artificial polishing. Even if the merchant tried to hide it, it was different from the naturally formed husk. The clues could be seen from small holes, gaps, contrasting colors, and changes in sand.

An ordinary stone gambler may have been deceived, but it was difficult to fool stone gamblers like Lin Luo and Han XinYuan who could use mental powers to assist in observation.

They could be sure that He Kun’s jadeite was fraudulent.

The skin of mountain stone jadeite was very thin, so counterfeiters would deliberately select some pieces with blemishes and cracks on the surface that exposed some of the jade under the surface, then polish them to sell at high prices disguised as water stones.

After cutting, usually only fragments of jade or dry green or dry white jade with very poor texture would be extracted, which wasn’t worth much at all.

“Xiao Kun, at which stall did you buy this piece of jadeite?” Lin Luo asked in a deep voice.

“I, I…” He Kun’s head was blank at this time. He originally thought that he was making a lot of money by buying a good-looking piece of water stone jadeite at 100,000 credits, but he didn’t expect that he was actually being cheated!