148: Jadeite raw material prices have surged!
Chen Kai rubbed his hands excitedly and put down the stick to take a break; holding his arm up for so long had made it sore.
He looked up at the Jade Rough Stone still hanging on the tree branch, faintly glowing, and scratched his head.
He prepared to rest for a while before continuing to get it down.
Chen Kai was half-squatting on the ground, leaning on the stick, and just as he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, a sudden, sharp screech of brakes sounded behind him.
"Oi! Xin Baluo Neitalai?"
Chen Kai was stunned, muttering to himself, "What on earth is he saying?"
He immediately turned his head to look and discovered it was the same guy transporting Jade Rough Stone who had been riding his Electric Scooter like a maniac just a moment ago.
The guy immediately parked his Electric Scooter by the roadside, one foot wearing a flip-flop, while the other foot was held up in the air, hopping forward on one leg.
Looking at the leg he was holding up, it didn't seem to be injured; he was simply barefoot, hopping around on the ground.
Chen Kai's heart tightened. Could this guy have realized he lost a piece of cargo and come back to look for it?
He nervously looked up slightly. The Jade Rough Stone, which had been teetering on the edge after being poked by his wooden stick, had been blown back to its original position by a gust of wind, though it had shifted just a tiny bit.
But because of that tiny shift, it was now almost impossible for it to fall on its own; he would have to use external force to pull it down again.
Chen Kai finally let out a long sigh of relief and looked at the guy hopping on one leg with a puzzled expression.
He saw the delivery guy from Myanmar take a mobile phone out of his pocket and say a long string of words into it.
"Xinjue Dao Feibaguo Miantui Kaiba La???"
Then, he handed the phone to Chen Kai.
Seeing this, Chen Kai figured the guy was about to ask him for the Jade Rough Stone.
He immediately prepared to deny everything; if the guy had the ability, he could find it himself. It was in the tree, anyway, and without the hint from the Intelligence System, even he wouldn't have been able to find it, let alone this Little foreigner.
It was a stone from the Mosi Sha mining area, with a black outer skin as dark as ink, and with it being dark out, the tree bark was also a brownish-black color.
Even if he turned on a flashlight, he wouldn't be able to find it.
The next moment, the Little foreigner suddenly handed the phone to Chen Kai.
Chen Kai was stunned, took the phone, and saw it was a translation software page.
On the translator was a string of Burmese, with the translation into Chinese below it.
【What are you doing here? Have you seen my flip-flop?】
Upon seeing the words on the translation software, Chen Kai gradually relaxed.
He looked up at the Little foreigner, whose face was full of appeal for help, without a hint of suspicion.
He took the phone back and muttered a sentence, which the translation software then translated.
【I forgot to wear my glasses today, and it's too dark, so I can't find my flip-flop. Thank you.】
Chen Kai smiled in a friendly manner; as long as the guy wasn't coming to fight him for the Jade Rough Stone, it was fine.
He pointed to the bushes nearby and waved his hand to signal the Little foreigner to follow him.
It's no wonder they say sign language is a universal language; the Little foreigner understood immediately and followed him toward the nearby bushes.
After a short while, Chen Kai pushed aside a bush, and there, to his surprise, was a hot pink flip-flop.
It was a good thing he hadn't just tossed the flip-flop away earlier; otherwise, this Little foreigner would have spent ages lingering here looking for it.
It would have seriously delayed his time to continue getting the Jade Rough Stone down from the tree branch.
When the Little foreigner saw the flip-flop lying quietly in the bush that had been pushed aside, his eyes instantly lit up.
He said in broken Chinese, "Thank you!"
"You, really good person! Can we add, WeChat?"
The Little foreigner was full of gratitude and even gave a thumbs up.
"You're welcome, sure."
Chen Kai waved his hand casually, showed his WeChat QR code, and after adding the Little foreigner on WeChat,
he watched as the Little foreigner put down the leg he had been holding in the air and put on the flip-flop.
Then, the guy got back on his little electric donkey, pulled a drift turn, burned rubber on the spot, and "whoosh," sped away.
Seeing this scene, Chen Kai curled his lips, and his hanging heart finally settled down.
He returned to the wooden stick, picked it up, and vigorously poked the branch a few times; the palm-sized, teetering Jade Rough Stone finally fell down with a "clunk."
It fell straight into the bushes of the green belt.
Chen Kai hurriedly reached out to pick it up, and after confirming he hadn't grabbed the wrong stone, he ran back to his Electric Scooter, sat on it, and quietly examined this stone from the Mosi Sha mining area.
On the black skin, a Windowing had been made by a grinder, just a gap about a finger wide.
Through the gap from the Windowing, he could see the flesh inside, and when he shone his phone's flashlight on it,
Chen Kai was stunned for a moment. The jade flesh inside the Jade Rough Stone skin didn't look like jade at all; it looked like glue, with a texture like sticky jelly.
And the light refracting from the jade flesh was a cyan-blue!
"Sticky variety?! Damn, no wonder it cost fifty thousand yuan."
"I've hit the jackpot this time."
Chen Kai chuckled, his hands itching to cut it open. He thought about it and decided against it; this thing had a "rogue window," and if he gambled on it, he might lose big.
It was safer to just sell it for fifty thousand yuan.
He immediately rode his Electric Scooter back to the Rental House, planning to go to Xiao Chen tomorrow to sell this Jade Rough Stone.
In less than half an hour, the Electric Scooter was parked in the shed downstairs at the Rental House, and he immediately went upstairs; by the time he got home, it was nearly twelve o'clock.
After a quick wash and shower, it was already 12:01.
He opened the daily intelligence system right on time to check today's intelligence.
【Ding!】
【Today's Intermediate Intelligence refreshed: Most of the Jade Rough Stone in the country is manually carried into the country from Myanmar, but starting tomorrow, customs will tighten, and there are some issues within Myanmar. Due to various reasons, the prices of finished Jade Rough Stone products in the Jade Market will skyrocket. The most scarce among them will be the Jade Rough Stone from the Old Pakan mining area, which has a high yield rate, old water and variety, and is basically a guaranteed profit. Prices will soar to 1.5 times their value, and after seven days, they will return to normal without warning.】
【Suggestion: The host should only buy Jade Rough Stone raw materials with a base price of over 200,000, and do not buy Jade Rough Stone raw materials under 100,000. It is recommended that the host does not hoard more than 400,000 worth of jade at one time.】
Chen Kai gasped.
That meant that regardless of quality, as long as it was a raw stone from the Old Pakan mining area and bought at market price, it would definitely be able to be sold at 1.5 times the market price in the future.
That meant a stone bought for one million would net a profit of 1.5 million!
It was essentially a completely risk-free business, but... this would likely require collaborating with Liu Yunshang.
With his eye, he couldn't tell the market price of Jade Rough Stone at all.
If he went to buy Jade Rough Stone alone, he would probably be ripped off.
The Jade Rough Stone market is the same as the antique market; a 500-yuan stone is quoted at 50,000, and if you haggle it down to 5,000, even if you know you're losing 4,500, you still have to buy it.