There were thousands of chat messages above, which shocked Gu Ning.
These people were so talkative!
Gu Ning read those messages. Some asked whether she had arrived at City G, while some were curious why she was in City G.
One said she was here to visit relatives, while one said she was here to meet a friend or a blind date. Gu Ning felt like laughing.
Gu Ning: "I'm in my hotel now, safe and sound."
Hao Ran: "Wow, boss is here."
Chu Peihan: "Boss, don't forget our gifts!" [Gift emoji]
Mu Ke: "Don't forget our gifts!" [Gift emoji]
Qin Zixun: "Don't forget our gifts!" [Gift emoji]
Zhang Tianping: "Don't forget our gifts!" [Gift emoji]
Yu Mixi: "Don't forget our gifts!" [Gift emoji]
Gu Ning laughed out loud. These people were so adorable!
She hadn't decided what she would bring back to them as gifts yet.
Gu Ning: "I won't forget. It's late now. I need to go to bed. Tomorrow is a busy day!"
Chu Peihan: "Fine, I'm more and more curious about what you're up to now."
Hao Ran: "Exactly, boss, are you going to live in the lap of luxury without us?"
Mu Ke: "Nonsense, Hao Ran, you're already living in the lap of luxury." [Kick out emoji]
Qin Zixun and Zhang Tianping: "Agree!" [Kick out emoji]
Hao Ran: "You all bully me." [Cry emoji]
Hao Ran: "Boss, I need your care." [Pitiful face emoji]
Gu Ning: "Get out." [Kick out emoji]
Everyone: "LOL." [Laughing out loud emoji]
Hao Ran: "You people! I'm going to die." [Spurting blood emoji]
Gu Ning: "Alright, I'm going to make a big deal, and I'll tell you one day. Good night."
Yu Mixi: "Good night, Ningning."
Everyone: "Good night, boss."
After the talk, Gu Ning started to read.
Stone gambling was also called object gambling. It meant that when the jade was mined, there was a layer of weathered
The original stones of jade were divided into two types, namely mountain material and seed material. As the name implied, the mountain material referred to the material from mountains. It had no outer skin and was a jade itself. However, most of the jade was poor in quality.
The seed material was the raw material of stone gambling that people often referred to. The seed material was formed in the riverbed. The surface of the seed material was weathered, so the outer shell was formed. Thus the inner condition couldn't be seen. One could only rely on his experience to judge whether the inner part had formed an emerald. Those seeds were called raw materials or raw stones.
The most profitable, most tempting, but also the most risky bet would be stone gambling.
There was a saying in the jewelry industry: Stone gambling was like life gambling. The winner could earn ten times or hundreds time more money, and became a millionaire overnight, while the loser could lose everything. Compared with stone gambling, stocks, real estate and other risky trades all seemed mild and gentle.
The buying and selling of the original stones of jade was the most mysterious trade in the jewellery industry. Its mystery lay in the word "gambling". Therefore, the buyers always called it jade gambling or stone gambling.
Generally, one couldn't tell what was in a stone from its appearance. Even with the technological advances today, there was no instrument which could quickly determine whether a stone was valuable or valueless through its shell. Therefore, the risk of buying and selling stones was very high, and it was also very exciting. Thus it was called "gambling" and was quite profitable if one won. Accordingly, this business had been going on since ancient times.
The jade used to gamble was also divided into different classes, mainly depending on the type, color and transparency.
Again, the quality of the jade mainly relied on three points: type, color and transparency.
The type referred to the variety of jade. Jade from a good type was hard.
The types from high to low levels were old pit glass, ice, hail, bean, oil green, hibiscus, gold, and so on.
The type of the jade was of great importance..
Color referred to the colors of jade. There were many colors of jade, but the best jade was mainly bright green.
The colors from high to low levels were green (king's green, bright green, apple green), red, yellow and purple.
The production of jade in special color was relatively small. The color of jade must be combined with great transparency, and it must be less cracked in order to be priceless.
Transparency was the ability of the jade to let the visible light pass through.
The jade with a higher transparency was more valuable. The best jade was like glass, and was called "Glass Bottom" in the jade industry.
After understanding the stone gambling, Gu Ning turned to the computer to learn about the domestic jewellery brand's history, development, fame, reputation, founders and its chairman.
Regardless of whether it was the first, second or third, or not on the line, Gu Ning has read it all over.
But the time was limited, so Gu Ning didn't check the foreign brands now. Besides, Gu Ning hadn't developed so fast. She wanted to be influential, but she also knew to take it slowly.
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The next day, Gu Ning got up at seven am. She called for breakfast first, then brushed her teeth and washed her face.
30 minutes later, her breakfast arrived.
Gu Ning wasn't in a hurry, because it was too early so the stores weren't open yet.
At half past eight, Gu Ning called the reception and ordered a tailored car.
The hotel was efficient. When Gu Ning went down to the first floor, her tailored car was waiting for her.
Antiques and stone gambling were always together. So Gu Ning told the driver to take her to the antique market.
It wasn't far from downtown to the antique market. She would arrive there after 40 minutes, if there was no traffic jam.
On her way, Gu Ning took out her phone. Her friends were talking in the "Family of Fighters" group again.
But Gu Ning didn't get involved in their talk. She took a glance, then put her phone away.
When she arrived at the antique market, it was slightly past nine. The antique market was already active.
Gu Ning knew she would spend a lot of time in the antique market. She would not make the driver wait for her for so long. So she told the driver to leave first, and she would call him when she needed to go back.
The minute Gu Ning walked into the antique market, she became excited and nervous.
The antique market in City G was much bigger that the one in City F. The objects were also in a larger number.
The power of Gu Ning's Jade Eyes was thin now, so she decided to take a look at stones first. She wanted to absorb the power.
Antiques and stone gambling were set separately on the two sides of the street. Following the sign, Gu Ning walked towards the street of stone gambling.
The nearer Gu Ning was to the street of stone gambling, the more excited she got, just like there was a large amount of thick power and money waiting for her ahead.
The market of stone gambling in City G wasn't very big. There were only around 10 shops, but people were everywhere.
Gu Ning walked into the first shop. It wasn't big, and was around 40 square meters. There were piles of large and small stones on the ground and the platform.
Those were raw materials of stones.
These raw materials had already been selected by the boss, and were stacked in equal order. All marked with a price.
On the ground were raw materials of a low level, while on the shelves were raw materials of a high level.
Raw materials could be sold by number or weight.
The price of a raw material didn't rely on its size. From a professional point of view, if the skin was good and the green rate was high, it would be marked as a higher level, and was more expensive.
Of course, the higher level didn't equal to a high green rate. After all, it was extremely difficult to choose the right raw material with jade in it. No one knew whether there was an emerald in a raw material.
Therefore, even if it was a raw material of a low level it was possible there was an emerald in it.
It all depended on one's luck.
There were many people in the store, and no one came to welcome Gu Ning. Gu Ning liked that though. She wasn't willing to shop with a salesman who kept talking beside her ears.
Gu Ning immediately used her Jade Eyes to scan over those raw materials. She checked those on the shelves first. They were supposed to be in the high level with high green rate. However disappointedly, they were mostly white stones.
Although there were some jade in them, the jade wasn't of good quality. It wasn't worth much even if you cut it out. Gu Ning didn't want to waste her time on it.
Then, Gu Ning turned to the raw materials on the ground. They were all white stones again.
It seemed a pair of Jade Eyes wasn't enough. Gu Ning also needed good luck!
She stepped out of this shop with disappointment then entered another one.
The result was the same. The raw materials were either white stones, or with bad jade in them.
The power in Gu Ning's Jade Eyes was thin, so she felt tired after a short time. She prayed in her heart, hoping to find jade soon. Otherwise her power would be completely consumed soon. Without the power, she couldn't use her telepathic eyes.
It seemed the God had heard Gu Ning's pray. When Gu Ning was about to close her Jade Eyes she found two raw materials with green jade in them among a pile of raw materials.
One was almost as big as a football, while the other was merely bigger than an apple.
Both of them were of good quality.
Gu Ning felt excited, but remained calm. She walked like an ordinary customer to the pile of raw materials. With a cart, Gu Ning picked up those two raw materials with green jade in them.
To avoid special attention, Gu Ning also picked up another three raw materials in different size. They were all smaller than a football.
"Hey, how much are these in total?" Gu Ning pushed the cart to the counter.
The boss was a little surprised to see Gu Ning, who was a teenage girl, but since she was a customer, the boss treated her kindly.
There were marks on the raw materials, so the boss didn't need to ask where Gu Ning had picked those raw materials up.
Those raw materials were all of a low level, and weren't expensive. 200 yuan a pound.
Those five raw materials that Gu Ning had picked up weren't big. They added up to 40 pounds and cost 8,000 yuan.
Eight thousand weren't much as long as there were emeralds in those raw materials. If they were all stones, eight thousand would be too much.
Gu Ning paid her bill. The boss asked, "Miss, do you want to cut them out now?"
"Yes, please," Gu Ning replied.
Gu Ning was here for money. She definitely wanted to cut the raw materials on site, and sell to the emeralds right away.
"Lao Zhang, come and cut the stones out," the boss called someone inside the room.
"I'm coming." A man, who was around 50 years old, walked out from the room. He came to the counter, seeing Gu Ning. He was surprised that the customer was a young teenager.
Lao Zhang asked with uncertainty, "Miss, it's you who wants to cut the stones out, right?"
"Yes," Gu Ning answered.
"Please follow me." Lao Zhang then guided Gu Ning towards the area where they cut stones.
Meanwhile, those customers in the shop all stood around them to have a look.
Although there was a faint, almost zero, possibility to get jade out, it was the exciting point of stone gambling. Even if it was impossible to get jade out, the gambler would stay hopeful.
Everyone who enjoyed stone gambling shared the same feelings.
And the crowd was surprised the owner of those raw materials was a young girl.
Most customers here were middle-aged men or the elderly. There were few young people, especially young girls around.
Gu Ning handed the worker a waste material first. The worker asked her, "Miss, how would you like to cut it? Rub or cut?"
"Cut, please," Gu Ning said.
"Cut it directly, or draw lines first?" the worker asked again. Although he could tell this one must be a waste material, he needed to follow the customer's order.
"Cut it directly, please." It was a waste material. Gu Ning didn't care at all.
Cutting a stone directly didn't mean to cut it randomly. The worker still needed to have a good judgment.
The machine started to work. After one cut, it was nothing but a white stone. After another cut, there was still nothing in it. After the third cut, the stone had already been cut half out. Nothing in it. It was waste.
The crowd felt disappointed after the result.
But if there really was jade in it, the crowd would be envious.
That was human nature.
Gu Ning calmly picked up another waste material. It also proved to be a pure stone. The crowd began to feel bored. Some walked away.
The third time, Gu Ning chose a big raw material with jade in it.
"Let me draw lines first," Gu Ning said, then drew some lines on it.
She didn't draw the lines accurately, but basically the same.
The machine started to work again. After one cut, the out layer was removed. There was a light green color open to the air.
All of a sudden, Gu Ning sensed a kind of strong power. She was excited, and couldn't wait to absorb it.
The power was absorbed into her eyes. She felt cool and comfortable. Her sight became better and she was energetic now.
At the same time, the worker raised his voice in excitement, "The jade! There is jade in it!"
His voice immediately attracted everyone's attention in the shop.
The people in front of them were all surprised and wide-eyed. It was so incredible! Those who had just left immediately turned back, and some who just entered the store, all came up.
"What? There is jade in it?"
"Yes, there is jade in it!"
The onlookers seemed more excited than Gu Ning, who was the owner, because stone gambling was a high-risk business, and the green rate was always low.
Most of the onlookers knew Gu Ning was the owner. They all looked to Gu Ning with envy, but Gu Ning stayed calm as usual.
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