Chapter 234 - A Tiny Bet
The stones of various sizes and colors that were sitting in front of them were stones that were not extracted.
The pair of amateurs looked at each other feeling half-amused, half-annoyed.
“We came all this way after all. Why don’t we get one to play with? We can experience how it feels,” Sun Qiluo suggested.
Yun Xiangxiang shook her head. She did her research. The reviewers said that the green tint on the cut surface of some stones was actually something plastered on the surface by the sellers. It was a treacherous business. Amateurs like them should forget about trying to one-up the sellers.
Yun Xiangxiang whispered that to Sun Qiluo, making her retreat immediately. The pair still walked around to ask about the prices. The supposedly invaluable jades were sold like they were nothing.
Yun Xiangxiang and Sun Qiluo left with nothing to show for their efforts. Sun Qiluo turned around to look once more before reluctantly leaving.
“We will be going to Heshun Town for the recording, right? It’s coming up soon. There’s a jade market there too. We’ll look around there when that happens,” Yun Xiangxiang didn’t want to stay here.
Since they were just two ladies walking in the streets, they might be taken advantage of by cunning sellers.
“Let’s pick one too, shall we?” Lu Jin looked around and simply pointed at one.
There were also stones that were cut halfway. These would be the ones that were revealed to contain jadeite, but until they were fully cut, nobody knew how big the jadeite was. Stones like that commanded exorbitant prices. As they were just experiencing how it felt, they wouldn’t buy those.
Hou Cang also picked one at random. The shopkeeper gave a fair price. There was no haggling between them.
Naturally, Yun Xiangxiang couldn’t ask for any special treatment. She went around and looked at the stones once before settling on one she liked.
She finally took one that was the size of a goose egg. “I’ll have this one then.”
“This one, hmm… one hundred yuan it is,” the shopkeeper thought about it for a while before announcing the price.
“How are you going to cut this one?” He Xingzhou was curious.