Chapter 661: Sure enough, it’s exciting
Shen Bai slapped the hand off his shoulder and glanced at Gu Yi with a warning look.
After that, he briefly introduced the two parties: "Gu Yi, your family is in the jade and jewelry business, this is Su Xing, Miss Su."
He and Gu Yi are childhood friends.
Seeing Shen Bai's formal tone, Gu Yi couldn't help but restrain his nonchalant attitude and smiled at Su Xing, "Hello, Miss Su."
"Hello, Mr. Gu."
The two shook hands politely.
Su Xing appeared polite and distant on the surface, but in his heart he was thinking unkindly: Did the elder who gave him this name do it on purpose?
There were a few bosses nearby who knew Shen Bai, and they all greeted him.
Soon everyone's attention shifted to gambling on stones.
Just then, a man in his thirties came over with a piece of raw stone the size of a basketball and asked a stone cutter to help him cut it.
Many people gathered around.
Su Xing, Shen Bai and Gu Yi also moved over there.
Su Xing looked carefully and pricked up his ears, listening attentively to the jargon of these gambling stone players.
The stone cutter fixed the rough stone on the cutting machine and said with a smile: "My dear, we are ready to cut it. Where do you think we should start?"
The man pointed to a spot on the stone and said, "Excuse me, Master. Please clean the window from this side first."
Master Jieshi nodded and said, "Okay."
An uncle who was watching nearby said, "Well, this python belt looks quite lively, with quite a few pine flowers, but be careful with the cracks on the skin, don't cut into the cracks."
The man nodded and said, "Yes, I hope the crack doesn't go in. Master, be careful."
The stone-cutting master started the machine and the blade slowly cut into the stone. For a moment, the only sounds at the scene were the roar of the machine and the nervous breathing of the people.
After a while, after the first cut was completed, the master stopped the machine and poured water to rinse the cut surface.
Everyone took a closer look, and someone whispered, "The water head looks average, and the meat is a bit rough."
The man's face changed, and he said, "It's okay, it's just the first cut, cut it again and see, maybe it has mutated."
Another experienced stone gambler said, "Master, looking at this situation, we need to adjust the direction of the next few cuts and cut towards the place where the meat is finer. Maybe we can cut out some good meat."
The man nodded, "Master, then listen to this old man and cut this way."
The stone-cutting master started the machine again, and as the blade cut, the atmosphere became more and more tense.
After the second cut, rinse it clean and this time a hint of green appeared.
There was an exclamation from the crowd.
"It's green! Master, there's hope!"
Su Xing's eyes lit up, and she subconsciously tilted her head and stared at the green surface of the stone.
At this moment, she felt nervous and excited.
The man laughed and said, "It looks like there's hope for growth! Master, can you expand the green a little more?"
The stone cutter said, "Okay, but this stone has variables. I will try my best to cut it in the right direction, but I can't guarantee that I can cut it into the color band."
With the next few cuts, the master carefully cut along the places where there might be green. Everyone held their breath with each cut.
But as the cutting went deeper, the green did not appear over as large an area as imagined. Instead, there were more and more cotton wool and impurities inside the stone.
The man's face no longer had the previous joy on it, and now looked gloomy.
The people around also shook their heads and sighed.
Su Xing, a bystander, was disappointed as well.
The veteran stone gambler who spoke first patted the man on the shoulder and said soothingly, "Brother, it's good that the material didn't collapse at all. At least there's some green in it. Just consider it as paying tuition."
The man sighed: "Oh, forget it, this business is all about the heartbeat, but I'm not lucky today, I'll try again next time!"
Finally, the man left the gambling stone hall with the remaining stone debris.
Shen Bai looked at Su Xing and asked her with a smile: "How do you feel?"
Su Xing sighed: "It's really exciting."
She was just watching and she felt the feeling of her heart riding a roller coaster.
Shen Bai said: "Gambling on stones is like this, full of uncertainty, whether it rises or falls is a matter of a moment."
Gu Yi at the side also smiled and said: "Gambling on stones is mysterious and exciting, with risks and opportunities coexisting. This is its charm."
Su Xing smiled and said nothing.
In fact, many people have the mentality of gamblers, right?
Nine out of ten people lose when gambling, and it’s probably the same with gambling on stones.
Su Xing followed Shen Bai and Gu Yi to watch two more rounds of excitement. So far, no player had seen a big increase in their gains.
One player managed to barely break even, but the others all collapsed.
Su Xing watched the excitement at the scene and recalled some of the plots in the gambling stone novels he had read. It felt quite magical.
Moreover, she only half understood some of the jargon used by these stone gambling players. Novels are just novels and cannot be fully applied to reality.
Even though she had looked up some information, she was unable to fully understand the down-to-earth conversations with these people.
Gu Yi suddenly said, "Old Shen, let's go and play some."
He looked at Su Xing again and smiled at her, "Miss Su, do you want to try your luck too?"
Su Xing said, "You guys play, I know nothing about this."
Shen Bai smiled at her: "You are in the novice protection period, maybe the god of luck will favor you."
Su Xing looked at Shen Bai and Gu Yi who tempted her to "gamble" and was speechless for a few seconds.
But she had to admit that she was a little restless in her heart.
"Then I'll go with you to take a look."
She may not necessarily buy the raw stones, but it should be quite interesting to look at them closely, touch them, observe their appearance, and experience the feeling of the protagonists in the books when choosing raw stones.
As the three of them talked, they walked towards the raw stone area over there.
As he got closer, Su Xing discovered that many raw stones, transparent materials, and semi-transparent materials were already priced. Some were fixed prices, while others were calculated by weight in kilograms.
There is also an area with a lot of raw stones, piled up randomly. There is a sign in front of it that says "Raw stones are 500 yuan each, you can pick whatever you want."
These raw stones are the cheapest in the hall, and should be raw stones and scraps of average quality.
Su Xing first followed Shen Bai and Gu Yi, and listened carefully to their experiences in selecting raw stones.
Seeing them using flashlights and magnifying glasses to observe and discuss, she also took out her own tools and started observing along with them.
But after listening for a while, she sighed.
In their words, choosing raw stones is as easy as choosing cabbages.
What's more, they are only looking at materials with a price tag of over a hundred thousand or even millions.
They never even glanced at the materials worth thousands of dollars.
Su Xing said to Shen Bai and the others, "I'll go over there and take a look."
She was ready to go for a stroll on her own.
Shen Bai turned around after hearing this and said, "I'll go with you."
"Don't." Su Xing said immediately: "I can just walk around by myself, you guys are busy, don't worry about me."
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I rewrote about two-thirds of the previous chapter because I felt that the concepts of falsification and restoration should not be confused.
If you feel like the plot doesn't make sense, you can just flip ahead.
Chapter 659 has also been slightly modified. Artificially optimized jewelry and jade cannot be completely considered fakes, and we do not want to mislead everyone.