Chapter 46

Reining in his consciousness, Jing Tian turned to the fat man who was eager but hesitant, and said, "Aren't you going to pick a few?"

Upon hearing this, the fat man did not take his eyes off the original stones, and absentmindedly replied, "I think I'll pass... ."

After saying that, he looked at the twenty or so original stones piled in front of Jing Tian and said, "Wow, you must think you're shopping at a supermarket, picking up so many."

At this moment, a young man walked up to the two and said, "Hello, gentlemen. My name is Qi Longfei. My brother asked me to attend to you. If you need anything, just let me know."

The fat man said, "There's nothing else. Help my brother settle the price for these original stones and find a master to cut them."

Hearing this, the manager's brother looked at the pile of original stones in front of Jing Tian and hurriedly said, "Wait a moment, big brother. I'll get a cart for you."

Not long after, the young man pushed a supermarket shopping cart over, placed the original stones Jing Tian had picked out into it, and then led the two to the checkout area.

After Jing Tian paid over thirty thousand, he said to Qi Longfei, "Are these stones going to be cut in those two workshops?"

Qi Longfei replied, "No, those two workshops are for cutting large original stones with large cutting machines. I'll take you to the small original stone grinding workshop."

The two nodded and followed Qi Longfei through a cutting machine workshop to a room at the back.

"Master Zhao, are you free? Can you help these two guests cut the stones?"

A man in his fifties, dressed in work clothes, got up from his resting chair and came to the group. Seeing the pile of stones in the cart, he was surprised and said, "Oh, that's quite a lot. It will take some time."

Then Master Zhao said to Jing Tian and the fat man, "Gentlemen, there are quite a few original stones. I can't cut all of them in one day. If you trust me, can I have my two apprentices help?"

Jing Tian asked somewhat puzzled, "Isn't it just a matter of cutting them open? Why does it take so long?"

The few people present exchanged glances and laughed.

The fat man said, "Only large original stones are cut directly. Your small original stones are ground bit by bit with a grinding wheel, which is why it takes time. You, a complete novice, actually dare to play with original stones. I don't know what you were thinking."

Qi Pengfei and the stone cutting master, hearing this, could not say anything and remained silent, but their expressions were as amused as the fat man's.

Jing Tian, feeling depressed, said, "I just wanted to try something new, to see if my accumulated luck over the years could bring me some fortune."

Then, Jing Tian said to the stone cutting master, "You decide. I have no problem with it."

The stone cutting master nodded and said to Jing Tian, "Follow me, sir. If you get tired, you can rest over there." The stone cutting master pointed out a resting place for the two and called his two apprentices to move the stones.

As the three of them sat at their workbenches and started grinding with large and small grinding wheels, Jing Tian lost interest after watching for a while. He asked the fat man, who refused, so he had to go to the resting area and use the laptop provided by the store to go online. After more than half an hour, the fat man, who was tired, also came over and, after a brief struggle with Jing Tian, they found a movie to watch, while simultaneously making fun of the plot...

"Hey, it's green!" one of the apprentices at the workbench shouted.

"What, what?" The fat man, hearing this, reflexively darted over and, along with the others, looked at the original stone in the apprentice's hand.

Jing Tian, scanning with his consciousness, saw it was a piece of jadeite that appeared murky, but he couldn't act indifferent, so he also got up and went over.

"Damn! You've got to be kidding me. A novice like you actually hit the jackpot and got jadeite..." The fat man, watching the apprentice continue to carefully polish the stone, said to Jing Tian with a grudge.

Jing Tian, rolling his eyes at the fat man, said disdainfully, "This is what you call luck. Do you know what luck is? Don't compare me to you."

In no time, a piece of jadeite, about the size of an adult's fist and irregularly round, was completely cut out.

Jing Tian took it, looked at it, and passed it to the fat man, who had been waiting impatiently. After looking at it for a while, the fat man said regretfully, "Ordinary bean jade, and the size is only suitable for a small pendant, not very valuable, but it's better than nothing. At least it covers the cost of the stones you bought."

After looking at it for a while, the two, having lost their interest, went back to watching the movie. During this time, the store owner, hearing about the jadeite, came over with his brother to greet them. Jing Tian, in the end, sold the jadeite for eighty thousand yuan to the store, and the manager served them tea and pastries.

Jing Tian, watching the two brothers, Qi Pengfei and Qi Longfei, busily running around, thought to himself that with five more pieces of jadeite to be cut, he wondered if the two could handle it...

Since the first piece of jadeite was cut, there were constant exclamations of "It's green!" Jing Tian and the fat man moved the resting area's table and chairs to the side of the workbenches, and the two brothers, along with a group of customers who sensed the excitement, surrounded the three workbenches, leaving no room for anyone to pass.

There were no other jewelry store managers bidding up the price, nor were there any brainless second-generation rich kids rushing over to seek a confrontation. Instead, there were a few speculators who, every time a piece of green appeared, asked Jing Tian if he wanted to sell. This annoyed Jing Tian, and in the end, the fat man, knowing Jing Tian's thoughts, told everyone to wait until all the stones were cut. After seeing there was no profit to be made, the onlookers finally quieted down.

After more than four hours, the five pieces of jadeite were sequentially placed on the table in front of Jing Tian.

The two murky original stones Jing Tian had picked up at random turned out to be bean green jade, similar in size to the one sold to the store, but one of them, the fat man said, had a shape suitable for a bracelet.

The three stones Jing Tian had specifically chosen turned out to be an adult palm-sized golden thread jade, a fist-sized rose jade, and the most valuable, a cigarette box-sized ice jade.

This left everyone in the store, whether they were onlookers or the owner, and even the master who had cut the jadeite, in disbelief. Even the fat man, joining in the audience's exclamations, cautiously asked Jing Tian if he had some special ability to see through the original stones...

Jing Tian, whose eyes had long been spoiled by the emerald imperial jadeite he had obtained from "Crazy Stone," clearly showed no interest in the jadeite that had been cut. After a negotiation with the fat man and the manager, Jing Tian's five pieces of jadeite were purchased by the store for sixteen million yuan.

Seeing the two brothers, whose eyes were already beaming with joy, Jing Tian hesitated about whether to continue gambling on stones here... In the end, his lazy nature took over, and he decided to make enough money here, as he might not come back in the future.

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