169: Tao urgently needs to sell black jade!

An hour later, Chen Kai parked the mercedes-benz car downstairs at his Rental House.

He slowly stepped out of the Mercedes-Benz, locked it, and then went upstairs to retrieve the jade.

Just after taking the elevator up, Chen Kai immediately found himself in a dilemma.

Both pieces of jade were top-quality. One was Ink Jade, and the other was violet. No matter which one he sold first, they would definitely be snapped up frantically in the market.

Moreover, he was wondering whether he should take these two stones to the market first to see what kind of price they could fetch.

Setting up a stall to sell them himself was definitely unrealistic. It was already nearly twelve o'clock, and selling jade at a stall would take at least two or three days to make a sale.

It was common for a piece of jade to take a month or so to sell; that was considered a normal rate of capital turnover.

Making him squat there for two or three days just to make an extra ten or twenty thousand yuan wasn't as good as just selling it directly to Xiao Chen.

Plus, he could take the opportunity to annoy A Tao. That jerk had really gotten under his skin the last two times.

"Forget it, I'll just take this one to sell first."

Chen Kai picked up the Ink Jade, stuffed it into his pocket, and went downstairs, heading toward Jade Street.

He planned to ask about the price first before deciding whether to go to Xiao Chen's place to sell it. What if he could sell it in the market instead?

Furthermore, he had his own reasons for selling the Ink Jade first. The violet one could be sold at any time; after all, that color was very rare, and jade that turned out to be violet would generally have a decent value.

But the Ink Jade was different. This thing was purely a gamble—one cut meant life or death, leaving absolutely no room for a middle ground.

With violet jade, at the very least, it wouldn't be so ugly that it couldn't be sold once cut.

Even at worst, after cutting, it would still fetch a price; at most, it would be a small loss if the price wasn't high.

But the Ink Jade was truly a matter of life and death in one cut. If you cut it and it turned out to be pure Ink Jade—completely jet-black, with a black-green glow under the light—then you'd make a huge profit.

Conversely, if you cut it and it turned out to be crow meat, then it was all for nothing, and you'd lose a clean hundred thousand yuan.

crow meat didn't fetch a good price. It wasn't purely black; it was gray-tinted. It was called black, but in reality, it was gray. And if your luck was bad, the whole stone would be dull and grayish.

If there was also white cotton inside—it was already dull, and with white cotton-like inclusions, it would be even harder to sell.

That would truly be Waste Stone Pile material, a total loss of a hundred thousand yuan, with absolutely no consumers willing to pay for it.

Therefore, this kind of Ink Jade had to be sold first. After all, it required someone to gamble on it. Now that goods from Myanmar couldn't get in, it was a good item. Once goods from Myanmar started coming in, he might not be able to sell it.

Once he resolved this hot-selling but highly polarized item, selling the violet jade would be very easy.

Thinking this, a smile curled on the corners of Chen Kai's mouth.

He went downstairs, started the car, and sped toward Jade Street.

...

In less than half an hour, Chen Kai parked the car in a parking spot at the entrance of Jade Street.

After getting out of the car and confirming that the palm-sized Ink Jade was still in his pocket, he bypassed Xiao Chen and A Tao's shop and walked quickly toward Jade Street behind the two shops.

The main reason was that the two slightly lower-quality stones had both been sold at Xiao Chen's shop. It wouldn't be very good to have a good item and choose to go around the market first.

After passing their shop, he discovered that the Jade Market, which usually had few people browsing, was already nearly packed.

Chen Kai raised an eyebrow and casually walked toward the nearest jade stall.

He noticed that these jade stalls basically had no Old Pakan materials; there were mostly Jade Rough Stone materials like Mosi Sha, Huika, Muna, and Damakan.

There was only one piece of Old Pakan material, and it looked very mediocre in terms of water and texture.

It was actually priced at 180,000, with no discounts and no bargaining!

Moreover, if anyone came to ask about it, the stall owner would get impatient, acting as if they were guarding a family heirloom.

Chen Kai secretly clicked his tongue. After walking around the Jade Market, he had roughly figured out the pattern for Old Pakan materials in the jade circle right now.

Any stall owner who had Old Pakan material kept it tightly guarded; if the offer was lower than their exorbitant asking price, they wouldn't sell.

They would shout things like, "If you don't buy it, there are plenty of others who want to!" Anyway, there wasn't much of this Old Pakan material left on the market, and in the end, they would be glad they bought it now despite the price hike.

Chen Kai shook his head. These stall owners were truly insatiable.

They were selling at nearly double the price; they really treated jade enthusiasts like suckers.

If they had hiked the price by twenty or thirty thousand, someone would definitely have bought it, especially with everyone feeling anxious about when goods could be shipped from Myanmar again.

But raising the price by this much was just too excessive. In the end, they wouldn't be able to sell it, and it would all be stuck in their hands. When that time came, wouldn't they be crying and regretting it?

Chen Kai shook his head, found a stall owner who looked agreeable, and stood in front of the stall to take out the Old Pakan material.

When the stall owner saw the Old Pakan Ink Jade, his eyes lit up, and his expression became excited!

However, it was only for a split second before he hid his excitement.

With an indifferent, nonchalant face, he raised his eyes to glance at it twice, then immediately turned his head away, not looking at it for even a second longer.

"Oh, Ink Jade, is it? It's not worth much, but I'll take it off your hands for eighty-eight thousand. Let's just consider it making a friend."

Chen Kai gave a disdainful smile. "You want to make a friend of me? And then make double the profit with a clear conscience, right?"

When the stall owner saw he had been exposed, he immediately got anxious.

"It's just an Ink Jade, it's not worth much. This is a price just to make friends with you; I really do want to make a friend of you!"

Chen Kai snorted coldly; the implication was for him not to be ungrateful.

So, buying this material for eighty-eight thousand was supposed to be his favor, right?

Chen Kai turned to leave, and the stall owner immediately panicked. "Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going? I'll give you a hundred thousand. A hundred thousand should be enough to sell it, right?"

Chen Kai stopped in his tracks, turned back, and said with a half-smile, "A hundred thousand? Are you trying to scam me because I'm an outsider? With your buying prices, I wouldn't be surprised if you went bankrupt one day."

After saying that, he walked quickly toward Xiao Chen's shop.

This Jade Street market was just too damn scammy. For a piece of material worth ten thousand or so, they dared to quote a million. How the hell was one supposed to play here?

The time he'd spend haggling with them for several hours would have been enough to sell it at Xiao Chen's place long ago.

Besides, haggling and pulling back and forth was super draining and exhausting; forget it.

Thinking this, Chen Kai walked quickly toward Xiao Chen's shop.

...

At this moment, A Tao was sitting in Xiao Chen's shop, and the two of them were discussing something.

"Xiao Chen, my customer wants an Ink Jade. Do you have any channels to get one?"

Xiao Chen immediately gasped. "A Tao, it's not that I don't want to get it, but if it turns out to be crow meat after being cut, wouldn't that be a disaster?"

"This thing is too risky; I'm a bit afraid to deal with it."

A Tao smiled mysteriously. "It's different! My customer isn't going to cut it."