City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1783 - 1743: Feeling Out the Stones

The owner of this Jade Store claims that these raw jadeite stones were transported from the older mines in Myanmar. Currently, the price here is two hundred yuan per jin.

This means that these things, which look almost indistinguishable from regular stones, cost two hundred yuan per jin.

While a whole truck of ordinary stones only costs a few hundred yuan, you can imagine how valuable these raw jadeite stones must be. Now, Ye Qiu noticed that even a relatively light-looking stone would cost several thousand yuan.

If it were heavier, it would cost between twenty to thirty thousand or even forty to fifty thousand per piece.

These things that look just like stones can surprisingly sell for forty to fifty thousand yuan.

In the past, Ye Qiu thought making money was quite easy for him since curing someone would earn him at least a few million. But now, seeing this, he realized that a single stone here could cost tens of thousands, making his earnings seem insignificant.

Ye Qiu stood there with other tourists, watching as the store owner introduced the items, aiming to attract more tourists.

From a glance, the jade and jadeite stones here must weigh at least tens of thousands of jin, leading one to wonder just how much money is involved here.

Of course, if you brought them in from Myanmar, the price might be only tens of yuan per jin, and after taxes, it becomes the current two hundred yuan per jin. If transported to the East Sea, the price could rise to four to five hundred yuan per jin.

Soon, a buyer purchased two pieces of jadeite stone, and after weighing, it turned out to be over two hundred jin, costing about forty to fifty thousand yuan.

There’s a stone carving machine there, specifically for cutting these raw jadeite stones.

Two of the store employees placed one piece of jadeite stone on the carving machine, cutting it according to the buyer’s price request.

Like the other tourists, Ye Qiu watched as the piece was quickly cut into several parts, but none revealed any jadeite inside.

Then they cut those parts into smaller chunks, resulting only in stone dust, with no jadeite whatsoever inside.

The buyer had instantly lost forty to fifty thousand yuan.

The buyer seemed distressed, but said nothing.

He could only stand aside, watching other buyers gamble on the stones.

No matter whether you’re gambling yourself or watching others do it, it’s an extremely thrilling experience.

Right now, Ye Qiu had watched several buyers in a row pick jadeite stones that turned out to be nothing but ordinary rocks, revealing nothing when cut open.

Then, a bald middle-aged buyer had just cut open a jadeite stone, finally revealing a surface of jadeite. When Ye Qiu and the others looked over, they indeed saw a small piece, which appeared to be bean green jadeite.

This type of bean green jade isn’t expensive, and compared to the piece he bought, he made a small profit. However, factoring in the previous losses, he was still in the red, though not as severely.

"Boss, this piece of bean green is not bad, it can be processed into a jade bracelet," said the store owner.

By saying this, he wanted to prove that the raw jadeite stones weren’t counterfeit, indicating that some of them indeed contained jadeite.

Ye Qiu stood and watched; relying on the naked eye, there was nothing visible.

Since this batch of jadeite stones is the lowest quality, those that have already revealed jadeite have been picked out, making it impossible to identify them.

The remaining ones could also be gambled on, but their wager prices are certainly different, potentially costing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even several hundred thousand each.

Now, Ye Qiu was coming into contact with the most ordinary kind, which feels most exhilarating in play. Regardless of using flashlights or laser pens to illuminate, there’d be no reaction at all.

Just like shining a flashlight on a stone, what reaction would you expect?

However, if there were other stones clearly containing jade, a flashlight shone in darkness would reveal an obvious green glow from the exposed jade green.

For now, Ye Qiu continued watching, and about half an hour later, he noticed that only two or three buyers had good luck, winning stakes on a few very ordinary pieces of jadeite.

For any better quality jadeite stones, one would need to gamble from this batch of raw stones, unless blessed with extraordinary luck.

Therefore, these primarily attract outside businessmen or tourists, while locals generally don’t partake in this at all.

Ye Qiu thought he had watched enough, and he contemplated going over to take a look himself.

However, when Ye Qiu walked over to touch those raw jadeite stones, a middle-aged man adorned with a gold chain, wearing sunglasses and looking quite rustic, laughed and asked, "Kid, do you even have money to gamble on stones?"

Until now, no one had paid much attention to Ye Qiu, but seeing him stand there for so long in ordinary clothes and now about to touch those raw jadeite stones, the middle-aged man found it amusing.

"What? Are you the owner? Can’t I even touch these stones?"

The owner of the Jade Store was another middle-aged man. Seeing that Ye Qiu had been watching and wanted to touch the stones, naturally, no one would object.

"Feel free to touch," said the Jade Store owner.

Ye Qiu ignored the others and continued feeling those raw jadeite stones on his own.

If only touching them, undoubtedly, would yield nothing. They’re just ordinary stones; no matter how you feel them, they’re the same.

But if Ye Qiu released Spiritual Energy, he wanted to test if there was any connection with the jade buried inside the raw stones.

He believed that this Spiritual Energy is inherently different, absorbed between heaven and earth into his dantian, now with these raw jadeite stones, if there was any jade inside, it might respond differently.

Just earlier, as Ye Qiu was observing those jade stones, he didn’t try sensing them. Now, releasing Spiritual Energy to sense, he found that even after touching several pieces, there was no reaction whatsoever.

Were there indeed no jade stones inside?

Or did his Spiritual Energy not work?

Ye Qiu wasn’t sure.

So, he had to keep trying.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man who mocked him earlier was already picking a raw jadeite stone. Ye Qiu suddenly felt a reaction from a stone sandwiched among several other pieces when he released Spiritual Energy.

There really was a reaction!

The sensation differed greatly from when he touched other stones, akin to suddenly absorbing Spiritual Energy with great comfort.

"Boss, I want to try this one," Ye Qiu said to the Jade Store owner.

"Kid, you really got the money? I reckon even selling you wouldn’t be enough to buy this raw jadeite stone," mocked the middle-aged man in a gold chain, watching Ye Qiu.

Still disinclined to engage, Ye Qiu signaled to an employee who helped him select that piece of raw jadeite, rolling it out for weighing, which surprisingly turned out to be worth 120,000 Huaxia Yuan. This meant the raw jadeite stone weighed 600 jin.

Had it been only him, Ye Qiu could easily have moved it, though he refrained from displaying that in front of these people.