147: Finding bargains in jadeite rough stones

【Today's Intermediate Intelligence refresh: At 9 PM tonight, a palm-sized Jade Rough Stone will appear in the Flowerbed next to the Hanjiang intersection. A delivery guy responsible for transporting Jade Rough Stone from Myanmar accidentally fell while riding his motorcycle on the road, spilling a whole cartload of goods into the Flowerbed. One Jade Rough Stone, being only palm-sized and in the dark, was left behind. Recommended selling price: 51,000.】

Chen Kai was stunned. Another piece of intelligence about jade? And this time, it's to go directly to the roadside to Score a Bargain on a rough stone?

If that's the case, the diamond business in Jiangnan is actually quite good; there's even a guy coming directly from Myanmar, riding a motorcycle to deliver raw materials to the Jiangnan Jade Market.

If the intelligence is about continuing to Score a Bargain on Jade Rough Stone, he doesn't plan to cut it himself this time. He doesn't really understand jade, and if he messed up the cut, it would be ruined.

There is also a technique in jade called Windowing, where the outer skin of the Jade Rough Stone is ground away with a high-speed drill to reveal the jade meat inside. The value of the jade increases significantly after Windowing.

However, this requires a professional master craftsman to do it personally.

And it requires the owner of the jade to personally identify the most valuable part of the Jade Rough Stone.

Not all the jade meat in a piece of jade is valuable; it's very likely that inside a large stone, only a bead-sized area is valuable.

The purpose of Windowing is to expose this bead-sized area, leaving the buyer with the fantasy that they could make a huge profit once they open it up.

The professional term is also called a "rogue window"; after Windowing, you can't see the jade texture in other areas, and the reflected light only shows the best part of the jade texture.

Chen Kai thought for a long time and decided that whatever state he finds it in, even if it's a rough stone that hasn't been touched by a single cut, he will sell it as it is.

If he messed up the Windowing and ruined it, it would be destroyed.

Thinking this, he scrolled through some videos for a while before falling asleep.

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The next day at noon, Chen Kai casually went downstairs for lunch, then went back home to lie down like a corpse for a while. It wasn't until 7 PM that he drove his little electric donkey towards the designated location.

It took less than an hour to reach the intersection designated by the system.

There were only two Flowerbeds at this intersection, and he didn't know where the guy would fall.

He put down the kickstand of his Electric Scooter and sat silently on it, scrolling through his phone while glancing around.

Before long, he locked his gaze onto a dark-skinned man. The man was riding a "battle-damaged" Electric Scooter, riding fast even though the headlights weren't even on.

There was a small basket on the footboard, filled to the brim with stones.

"It should be him."

Chen Kai muttered, put away his phone, and kept his eyes fixed on the man riding the Electric Scooter and singing.

Just at the turn of the intersection, a speeding black car quickly shot through the crossroads. The man riding the little electric donkey immediately slammed on the brakes and sped towards the Flowerbed on the side.

The wheel of the Electric Scooter hit the Flowerbed, and the whole person flew out with a "whoosh." Along with him, the basket of stones on the footboard also flew out.

Fortunately, it didn't hit the man, but the stones were scattered all over the ground.

Chen Kai watched from a distance. The man riding the Electric Scooter lay on the ground for a long time before angrily spitting out words similar to "Sawatdee-ka." He listened for a long time but couldn't understand what on earth the man was saying.

The man got up from the ground, brushed the dirt and dust off his body, shouted "Oh my god," and started picking up the stones on the ground.

It was already dark at eight or nine in the evening, and since they were stones from the Mosi Sha mining area, the outer skin was all black. Other mining areas had stones with yellow rough stone skins, but his Mosi Sha Jade Rough Stone all had black skins, blending in with the ordinary stones originally in the Flowerbed.

Chen Kai continued to wait by the roadside until half an hour had passed. The man finally filled a basket with stones, picked up his Electric Scooter, and continued on his way to deliver the goods. He had even lost one of his slippers.

Seeing this, Chen Kai immediately crossed the road and hurried over, parked his Electric Scooter next to the Flowerbed, and pushed aside the grass in the Flowerbed to start searching for the stone emitting a faint glow.

He pushed aside one bush after another, but still couldn't find any trace of the stone emitting a faint glow.

"Hmm? The system's intelligence shouldn't be wrong; it wasn't wrong last time, it must have flown somewhere." Chen Kai muttered to himself, but after pushing aside several more bushes, he still found nothing.

"Hiss... what the hell, why isn't it here?" Chen Kai found a flip-flop in the furthest bush, but nothing else, only ordinary stones. Since it wasn't emitting a faint glow, it definitely wasn't jade.

Chen Kai scratched his head and looked around again. Apart from the bushes, there were only a few trees planted by the roadside. Then there was the plastic fence surrounding the bushes, but after looking around the fence, the gaps were so small that it was impossible for the rough stone to be stuck on the fence, right?

But that also seemed unlikely; if it were stuck on the fence, how small would that stone have to be?

Chen Kai scratched his head. He had been crouching on the ground pushing through the bushes for so long that his back was aching. He stood up to straighten his back, and his gaze inadvertently swept over the branches of the tree planted next to the Flowerbed, and his expression suddenly froze.

"What the f*ck?!"

"Oh, holy sh*t! How the hell did it fly into the tree?!?"

Chen Kai was completely dumbfounded. He had been looking on the ground for a long time; no wonder he hadn't seen where the Jade Rough Stone had fallen. It turned out that when the wheel ran over the Flowerbed just now, it had been bumped directly onto the tree branches.

Now, the pine tree branches by the roadside were emitting a faint glow.

"How the hell am I supposed to get it down?" Chen Kai muttered in a daze. A stone had flown onto the branches; the guy surely hadn't noticed it.

It was pitch black outside. If it weren't for the faint light of the Score a Bargain item reminded by the system, who would notice a black stone on the branches? It was just a small black stone about the size of a palm. It was already dark, and the tree bark was also black. You couldn't see where this stone was at all.

And how to get it down was also a problem. The branches were over two meters high, and he couldn't jump up there at all. He couldn't just throw stones to knock it down, right? He didn't have that kind of accuracy either.

He thought for a moment and started bending down to look in the small woods next to the bushes. After searching for a long time, he finally found a small wooden stick, twenty or thirty centimeters long. As long as he stood on his tiptoes, he should be able to poke the stone off the branches. He immediately returned to the Flowerbed bushes and started poking the branches on his tiptoes. After poking for a long time, he finally poked the Jade Rough Stone until it was teetering on the branches.