Imperial Treasure
Chapter 317 - 227: Tearing Up?

Chapter 317: Chapter 227: Tearing Up?

Yu Quan and the others immediately glared with knitted brows, no longer mentioning the matter, and instead, each went to examine the rough stones nearby.

Sui Yi and Ah Yi were the youngest ones there, with tender faces, good looks, and quiet demeanors. After Elder Tang and the others spread out, the two became more noticeable, especially Sui Yi, who stood quietly. Even next to a patch of dirt clods, she made the scene seem like an ink painting.

The few men stared at her, starstruck, especially the man next to the weighing scale, who raised his eyebrows in a smile and said something to the man beside him.

It was in Xinjiang dialect.

Ah Yi instinctively felt it was not something nice and gave them a cold glance. In response, they became even more animated.

Since she didn’t understand them, Sui Yi didn’t care and just looked around... quite leisurely.

"Ah Yi, aren’t you looking?" Elder Tang was puzzled, as this girl was far more proficient than them, yet she seemed so calm.

"They won’t run; no hurry," she replied briefly with a clear voice, perhaps more eye-catching than the jadeite beads and jade.

The young man turned his head subconsciously towards Sui Yi and smiled, "Miss, is this your first time seeing rough stones?"

"No."

Not? It seemed she was an enthusiast with money to play around. The youth didn’t regard Sui Yi as a professional. In fact, Sui Yi didn’t consider herself one either. To her, these rough stones were more like a means to an end. Of course, she also liked beautiful things like jade, as ordinary people do, but her standards of liking were rather high, as Gong Jiu would say—our family’s Ah Yi has many admirers, but few she likes in return.

Indeed, there were very few people or things that Sui Yi liked. Those jewelries seemed luxurious, and even Gong Jiu and Flower Demon, who were used to seeing fine things, were somewhat tempted, but she never looked them straight in the eye nor wore them...

That was genuinely disliking them.

Since the youth thought Sui Yi was not a professional, it was even better. He smiled and came closer to introduce the origins of these rough stones...

"These all come from Pagan in Northern Myanmar, a historically famous pit with earliest mining. These rough stones have thin skins, primarily gray and yellow-white, with fine crystals. If they contain jade, the quality is usually good, with high transparency and full color."

The youth talked confidently, showing he was not completely ignorant. Sui Yi just listened and then smiled, "Thanks, I’ll have a look myself."

Her response was somewhat politely declining. The youth felt slightly rebuffed, but he didn’t insist and, under his sister’s discontent, resumed his prior work.

"Dongling Jewelry’s Young Proprietor, eh, Miss Sui doesn’t give him any face," Mr. Zou chuckled lightly, somewhat teasing.

The owner of Dongling Jewelry is surnamed Hu, with a son and a daughter under his command; the Young Proprietor is his son Hu Lin, and the daughter is named Hu Jie.

They have some reputation in Urumqi.

Avoiding Mr. Zou’s quietly approaching explanation, Sui Yi now bent down, her fingers sifting through the rough stones without looking up, "Mr. Zou is even more reputable, and I didn’t give him any face either."

That clearly meant not to continue the conversation.

Mr. Zou’s breathing hitched, but he said no more and, like Elder Tang and the others, went to look at the rough stones.

At the moment, Sui Yi was just making a show of it, having already spread out her Magnetic Sensation to sense these rough stones. Goat Head Freak’s arrogance was indeed justified; the quality of these rough stones here was much better than those of Zhang Guangbiao. Among the hundred or so in front of her, Sui Yi could sense one or two that contained jade, though the Magnetic Sensation was weak and the quality seemed not too high, but at least it was there.

After lingering for a while, Sui Yi finally touched those two jades. The first was a very small bean type, only the size of a marble. Sui Yi evaluated the price of these rough stones against this bean type’s price, which was negative in value comparison, so she naturally gave it up. As for the second piece... it was a light Blue Water Type, not very pure and not very deep in water, considered an average medium-quality Blue Water Jadeite, but it was the size of a cantaloupe.

Sui Yi weighed in her mind the jadeite jewelry market knowledge she had previously absorbed and instantly estimated the value of this Blue Water Jadeite to be roughly between one hundred fifty to two hundred million, while the price of these rough stones here was clearly marked on the board at thirteen hundred per kilogram...

Thirteen hundred... This price was also not low, twice as expensive as that of Zhang Guangbiao.

Casually weighing, most of the stones here were upwards of forty or fifty kilograms, numerous ones a hundred kilograms, any single piece being worth tens of thousands.

No wonder it was said that the daily transaction amounts here often reached tens of millions; just a hundred rough stones were sufficient, and this place seemed to have a good reputation. Sui Yi watched as the young man’s group had already picked over a dozen rough stones.