52: Witness the moment of miracle

Although Chen Xinyi didn't really understand much of what Wan Yuanliang had said earlier, she understood the last sentence perfectly.

Being in high demand also meant it was very valuable.

Upon hearing this, Ye Su also realized what kind of thing he had uncovered.

"I never expected it, you actually guessed right!" Chen Xinyi stared at Ye Su with shining eyes, as if she had found another incredible highlight in him.

Wan Yuanliang's flattery and Chen Xinyi's admiring gaze gave Ye Su's vanity a small boost, and he couldn't help but puff out his chest: "What guessing? This is called skill, dude, get it?"

"Look at you getting all cocky."

While Ye Su and Chen Xinyi were flirting, the master took back the stone and drilled another hole of similar size about two centimeters next to the small hole.

He used a flashlight to confirm that the light transmission between the two small holes was roughly the same before connecting them into a single window.

Without offering any opinion, the boss handed the windowed stone back to Ye Su.

"Handsome guy, I'll take this stone, how about twenty-five thousand!"

Outside the counter, the professional scavengers who had been keeping an eye on the shop immediately called out their bids to him after seeing the window Ye Su had opened.

"Twenty-six thousand, Handsome guy, twenty-six thousand! You don't know what the stone will look like once it's cut, so you'd better sell it to me for twenty-six thousand; that way, you're guaranteed a profit without any risk!"

"Twenty-seven thousand! Handsome guy, I'll offer twenty-seven thousand!"

In the blink of an eye, several professional scavengers had gathered around, and the price of the stone was bid up to thirty thousand.

Watching the few people outside the counter swarm over like zombies in a movie, offering Ye Su such a high price of thirty thousand, Chen Xinyi, who had never seen such a scene, was instantly stunned.

Thirty thousand!

A stone he had just bought for twelve thousand, with only eight hundred spent in the shop to drill a hole, had increased in price by eighteen thousand!

This money was just too easy to make!

If she had this kind of eye, she wouldn't need to work at all; she could just make enough money to live comfortably, appearing once a month like her period!

What surprised Chen Xinyi even more was that, faced with a profit of over seventeen thousand, Ye Su refused without a second thought:

"Everyone, I'm sorry, but I plan to open this stone myself."

"Don't do that! Handsome guy, if you cut it and find it's just crust, you'll be stuck with it! You'd better sell it to me; the price is negotiable, how about thirty-two thousand!"

Thirty-two thousand?

Go cool off somewhere else.

Ignoring the professional scavengers' bids, Ye Su handed the stone back to the master: "Please cut it for me."

Having cut stones for so many years and seen countless gamblers who wanted to bet on another cut after opening a window, the master was not surprised by Ye Su's decision: "Do you want a big cut or a small cut?"

"I'm not sure either, please help me decide."

Since the window was already open, Ye Su trusted that the experienced master definitely knew how to proceed with the cutting.

"Alright, since you've already opened the window, I'll just charge you two hundred for the labor this time."

"That works."

Taking the stone, the master placed it on the table and, based on its size and the light transmission after thinning, began to sketch out the cutting lines with a pen.

The master recommended by Wan Yuanliang was indeed very skilled.

He didn't rush to cut it open on the first pass; instead, based on the window position and the protrusions of the stone skin, he cut off a thin slice from the outer layer, exposing the jade meat inside.

"It really is chicken-fat yellow; look at this color infusion, it must have penetrated deep inside!"

The professional scavengers outside the counter, who had been craning their necks and trying hard to look into the room, were full of regret upon seeing this.

If they had known, they should have bid higher just now and let that young man sell the stone to them!

The master was not affected by the noisy environment outside. After determining the second cut, he started the wire saw and cut precisely along the designed lines.

This cutting job was clearly much more difficult than the last one. The master spent about twenty minutes cutting before Ye Su heard the wire saw stop working.

Chen Xinyi, the most nervous of the three, had already crowded forward, wanting to take a look.

The window opening had determined the twelve thousand spent on the stone, but the bids from outside had already sent the value of this stone soaring to thirty-two thousand.

Whether the thirty-two thousand would continue to rise or go down the drain depended on the result once the stone was opened!

Wan Yuanliang stood a little further away, but he was also staring intently at the stone in the master's hands, wanting to know if Ye Su's eye was really that sharp.

Only Ye Su, the person involved, remained calm the whole time, only rising to step forward once the wire saw stopped working.

After wiping his hands clean with a towel, the master finally separated the cut stone under the watchful eyes of the group.

"The transition from skin to meat is very natural, and there's no dead center; this chicken-fat yellow is good material."

When the master pushed the stone back to Ye Su, he also complimented him: "Handsome guy, your eye is really good."

From opening the window to cutting the stone, the master certainly knew how much this thick-skinned stone-wrapped jade tested one's judgment.

When the others were bidding earlier, Ye Su remained unmoved and firmly told him to continue cutting, which proved that this young man had been confident from the start, certain that it would contain meat.

For this judgment alone, he was better than many stone gamblers who had been hanging around the fifth floor for years.

After scanning the payment to the master, Ye Su took the stone and modestly showed off a little: "I also had an element of gambling in it; fortunately, it was the right gamble."

"Handsome guy, final price, fifty thousand, give me this material!"

"Fifty-one thousand!"

"I'll offer fifty-two thousand!"

Outside the counter, the scavengers who saw the stone in Ye Su's hand began to bid, instantly driving the price up to fifty-five thousand.

Seeing this situation, Ye Su also understood that the sixty thousand suggested price from the system was likely aimed at these scavengers in front of him.

Since they could still make a profit after taking it over, it meant that the final price for this chicken-fat yellow should be higher than sixty thousand.

Sigh—

Ye Su sighed in his heart.

No wonder the old saying goes that connections are wealth.

If he could know a few friends in the jade business and sell this thing directly to them, skipping the middleman's markup, he could probably earn another ten or twenty thousand more.

Unfortunately, he didn't have such connections.

So Ye Su could only wait for the scavengers outside to bid, and whoever offered over sixty thousand would get the stone.

Chen Xinyi was flashing her big eyes, looking back and forth between Ye Su and the stone in his hand, as if she had discovered a new world.

In a short while, twelve thousand had turned into fifty-five thousand, and the price was still rising; how many more skills did this man have that she didn't know about!

Just as the people outside the counter were about to continue bidding, Wan Yuanliang had already walked to Ye Su's side and asked in a low voice: "You're planning to sell this material, right?"

Ye Su's eyes lit up: "Yes, do you have a way?"

"You should probably let the people outside disperse first."

"Alright."

Ye Su turned around and waved to the people outside: "Everyone, I'm sorry, but this item has already been claimed by a boss."

"Sigh—"

Hearing this, the few scavengers all sighed to themselves.

It was hard enough to come across such a good piece of material, and with a quick resale, there would be tens of thousands in income, but in the end, the duck that was about to be eaten just flew away.