Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 531: Chapter 528: Petty Tricks

However, when Liu Yuxuan heard Huo Sining’s words, her entire face twisted, and her eyes seemed ready to shoot out flames as she looked at him:

”One hundred thousand?! My piece cost two million and it’s from Old Pagang’s Hei Wusha (Black Oosh)!”

Liu Yuxuan thought that Huo Sining simply didn’t know the value of the goods, mistaking her old mine’s raw material for a new mine one and trying to get it cheap from her. Therefore, she was extremely angry and looked at Huo Sining with malice in her eyes.

Huo Sining didn’t persist, and upon hearing Liu Yuxuan’s comment, he simply shrugged:

”Two million is indeed not false, and I never doubted that under its intact condition, it would be worth as much, but now it has been cut with a window, and not only was it split, but it revealed black moss, hence it is no longer worth that price.”

”Miss Liu is so skilled in stone gambling, you must also be a person within the same circle, and you can’t possibly have not heard these jargons from the stone gambling world: one cut could lead to poverty or riches, heaven or hell.”

”One cut can cause the price of a piece of stone to soar, or turn it into waste. Offering one hundred thousand is already a high bid. Otherwise, you ask the other people here, see how much they are willing to pay.”

Huo Sining was indeed not bullying, as nobody present dared to gamble on moss and eat the green; not even for fifty thousand, let alone one hundred thousand.

But while it is true no one could predict certainly with jade, who could ensure that it wouldn’t yield some High Jade? Perhaps the moss that eats the green could suddenly mutate, cutting out a piece of Emerald?

Provoked by Huo Sining’s words, Liu Yuxuan steeled her heart, thinking that the worst outcome would just be ruining a piece of stone. After all, she had already gambled and risen three stones today, and although they weren’t of very high-grade material, she could still make a profit of one or two million by flipping them. So, breaking even on today’s trip was still no issue.

Thinking this way, she let go of the idea of selling it and smiled at Huo Sining, saying indifferently:

”I’m sorry, miss, but I’m definitely not selling for one hundred thousand. Since nobody is willing to offer a good price, I’ll just continue with the stone gambling.”

Huo Sining didn’t argue further. Hearing Liu Yuxuan’s words, he nodded, smiled, and backed away.

This time, Liu Yuxuan didn’t have Zhou Jiajia operate the stone cutting machine. She pushed the stone herself in front of the machine, positioned it at the right angle, and pushed it towards the grinding wheel.

Huo Sining couldn’t help but remark, as he watched Liu Yuxuan’s technique, that her stone cutting skills were truly professional. The angle she cut at was precisely at the edge where the moss eaten into the green reached its deepest, still a distance away from the center of the stone.

The accuracy of her cut was impeccable, exposing the entirety of the moss eaten green, and the section of the jadeite material with black moss would be completely separated from the other two-thirds of the Mogang rock.

The stone cutting machine buzzed, Liu Yuxuan applied force with her hands, and as the machine vibrated with the frictional sound, the raw stone was split in two.

”Sigh, it collapsed, just as expected—moss that eats into the green. The black moss has penetrated through the whole piece; there’s no jadeite left to extract.”

Seeing the cut surfaces of the raw stone, with one side filled with white Mogang rock and the other side completely covered with black moss, the onlookers all sighed.

When gambling on black moss, what’s crucial is to bet on the depth to which the black moss has ’eaten’ into the green. If the ’eaten’ jade isn’t deep, there’s still a chance to gamble, but in this case, it was evidently a loss.

Liu Yuxuan’s complexion also looked somewhat unsightly. If she had just agreed to sell the raw stone to Huo Sining, she could have at least gotten back her original investment of one hundred thousand, but now with her single cut, the prime stone had truly become worthless scrap.

Huo Sining had known this would be the outcome from the moment she backed away, so she wasn’t at all surprised. Instead, she quietly said to Ouyang Jun,

”When this Miss Liu is about to leave, you tell her you want to buy all her scrap, ten thousand for the lot.”

Clearly, the stone was ruined. If Huo Sining spoke up again expressing her desire to buy it, it was very likely to arouse Liu Yuxuan’s suspicions. Huo Sining didn’t dare to take that risk, so she had to get someone else to do it.

Ouyang Jun was stunned, looking at the mossy green waste stone, he asked puzzledly, ”But isn’t that material already gone to waste? Why do you still want to buy it? Is there something special about it?”

A gleam flashed in Ouyang’s eyes, his curiosity evidently piqued by Huo Sining’s move.

Huo Sining shook her head without explanation, and with an air of mystery, smiled and said, ”Just do as I tell you.”

A jadeite raw stone worth two million, gone after just a couple of cuts, even Zhou Jiajia was somewhat unable to come to terms with it.

This was her first encounter with stone gambling, and knowing that Liu Yuxuan was coming to Ruili to participate in the stone gambling market, she had insisted on following Liu Yuxuan here.

Initially, watching Liu Yuxuan’s continuous rise with three cuts, Zhou Jiajia had found it quite interesting, excitedly bustling about for Liu Yuxuan, even coquettishly insisting that Liu Yuxuan let her try her hand at stone gambling. She never anticipated that her single cut would cause Liu Yuxuan’s two million to vanish like smoke over water.

”Sister Liu, I’m sorry, if it wasn’t for my insistence on gambling on the stone, it wouldn’t have been cut apart.”

Zhou Jiajia felt very embarrassed and guilty, she had heard what the onlookers were saying—the performance of the raw material had been very good, with a very high chance of yielding high quality jade. If it wasn’t for her terrible luck, Liu Yuxuan wouldn’t have gambled away the stone.

”It’s not your fault, the raw stone itself had problems. Stone gambling relies on vision and skill—my vision wasn’t good enough to spot the problems, so others can’t be blamed. Ten bets, nine losses in stone gambling is very normal, and it has nothing to do with you.”

Liu Yuxuan consoled her with a few words. Although she said this, losing such a large sum of money at once was undeniably painful.

Just at that moment, an unfamiliar man suddenly approached, looking at Liu Yuxuan and asked, ”Miss Liu, I was wondering if you’re still selling this scrap?”

Liu Yuxuan was stunned, glancing at the mossy green waste stone on the ground, bewildered. It had been cut to such a state, and there was still a fool wanting to buy it?

”Well, the Emerald inside your material has a very pure color, and I happen to be collecting such fragments to create a mosaic. If Miss Liu is willing to part with it, how about I buy it from you for five thousand?”

Ouyang Jun said the blatant lie with a straight face, after all, in the stone gambling circles, nobody really knows anybody, and making up a lie on the spot isn’t embarrassing—even if it gets dismantled.

However, Liu Yuxuan was clearly not so easily fooled. Hearing Ouyang Jun’s words, she grew suspicious. Could it be that there was still jade flesh within the mossy green stone?

But this thought flashed through her mind and was dismissed by her almost immediately.