Chapter Forty-Three: Red Light

  It wasn't until later that Liu Yi Yang realized that the one who had just set off firecrackers was Wang Yu Fang, and Li Zhi Ming was also by his side.

  Firecrackers had been going off for over ten minutes, the ground was covered with red scraps of firecracker paper, and a sanitation worker nearby was sweeping them up with a broom.

  Jade Street has a traditional habit of setting off firecrackers, but the paper scraps left over from the firecrackers must be cleaned up by oneself, otherwise a fine will be received from the market management office. These cleaning workers are all store employees, and after the firecrackers are set off, they will immediately clean up thoroughly, without affecting the cleanliness of the market.

  "Zhiming!"

  Liu Yi Yang walked to the entrance of the store and beckoned Li Zhi Ming, who was twenty-one years old this year. He was very tall and sturdy, and it was he who had chased after the little thief first and beaten him to the ground.

  "Yi Yang, you're here!"

  Li Zhiming turned around and saw Liu Yi Yang was obviously very happy, quickly walked out and punched a fist on Liu Yi Yang's shoulder.

  Li Zhiming's unconventional greeting method had once caused Liu Yi Yang a lot of trouble, his fist was quite hard, and in the past, every time Liu Yi Yang would carefully guard against it, not letting the fist land on his own body, to avoid hurting for a while.

  For this, Liu Yi Yang had said to Li Zhi Ming many times not to use so much force, but he would just chuckle and continue as usual. This bad habit of his made him fall out with many friends. Only Liu Yi Yang never blamed him, knowing that he wasn't being intentionally reckless, it's just that every time he reached out, he couldn't control his strength.

  Because of this, although they had known each other for a short time, they became good friends.

  "Go on, you're getting stronger!"

  After Li Zhiming's punch, Liu Yiyang's body didn't even flinch, nor did he rub his shoulders and cry out in pain like before. He still stood there with a smile.

  "Recently I've been exercising a lot, much better than before, what's going on inside?" Liu Yiyang smiled and changed the subject, asking about things inside.

  Li Zhiming's previously heavy fist now felt like a scratch, earlier he was still wondering if the opponent had finally changed his temper, but looking at Li Zhiming's surprised eyes only then did he understand that it wasn't Li Zhiming who had changed, but rather he had undergone a transformation.

  This change is understandable, but unexpectedly, the divine mirror in his body not only made him faster, but also strengthened his physical strength, no wonder he didn't feel any pain when he was pounced on by zombies that day.

  "There was a stone friend from outside, who had an itchy hand and bought a large piece of rough jade in this place. Unexpectedly, he suddenly opened it up and got a very good quality ice crack jade, the estimated value of which has exceeded 300,000 yuan. This material was originally bought for only 10,000 yuan, but now it's worth tens or even hundreds of times more, what a huge surge!"

  As soon as he mentioned the inside story, Li Zhiming immediately became excited. Previously, he happened to have nothing to do with his hands, and the people in front of the store were all busy, so he helped that outsider Shi You to solve the problem of the woolen fabric.

  It can be said that the wool was unshrunk in his hands, so he is so excited.

  "So that's how it is! No wonder!"

  Liu Yi Yang nodded slightly, he had known Li Zhi Ming for a long time and was no stranger to these jade stones. He knew that sometimes cheap jade rough stones could be solved into priceless jade, but he also understood that more often than not, they would end up being worthless, wanting to make money from jade stones wasn't easy, many people had lost everything because of their obsession with jade stones.

  "Come on, I'll take you inside for a look!"

  Li Zhiming grabbed Liu Yiyang's arm and walked in without saying a word. The Play Jade Workshop was divided into two floors and front and back yards. The first floor had a very large storefront, with more than 300 square meters, much larger than Xuan Ya Zhai.

  These over 300 booths are now all crowded with people, and the surge has attracted many stone gamblers.

  As he walked in, Liu Yiyang quickly saw a middle-aged man with a delighted expression holding a piece of jade and taking pictures, which was also the store's habit, leaving records for people to understand later.

  Now the walls of Yu Fang's playground are filled with stories and photos of big wins, but no one knows how many more gambles were made after these photos, and how many people left in despair.

  "I saw that piece of jade, it's the one I dug out, unfortunately there's a crack inside so it can't be made into a bracelet. If it could be made into a bracelet, its value would have doubled!"

  Li Zhiming said excitedly, Liu Yiyang carefully looked at the small piece of jade in his hand and nodded silently.

  The color of the jade is very good, it can be seen from a distance that it's very bright, this is indeed a good piece of jade. The price of jade has risen sharply recently, and good jade is hard to come by, so this piece will definitely sell well.

  Don't mention others, even Liu Yi Yang would be a little envious of this lucky person.

  "Yi Yang, come, I'll show you the new materials outside. These are all newly arrived, and the quality is extremely good. Even I want to open two pieces!"

  Li Zhiming pulled Liu Yiyang outside, where there was a table with many blocks of gambling stone wool on it. Most were half-gambling stone wool with windows open, and a few were full-gambling stone wool.

  Apart from this long table, there is also a large table outside the hall, which looks like a basket-like table.

  There are more stones inside the rattan table, most of which are unopened whole wool products, ranging from large to small, with some larger ones in the corner, but they all look ordinary.

  Liu Yi Yang knew that Li Zhi Ming had introduced him to these before. These were low-value, heavily screened public kiln materials, all of which were priced by the kilogram, ranging from 300 to 600 yuan per kilogram. The better wool was priced by the block and placed on the long table. The wool that Shi You Hua had bought for 10,000 yuan earlier was also on the long table.

  The prices of wool fabrics there range from several thousand to tens of thousands, and there are also expensive wool fabrics worth hundreds of thousands or even millions per piece, but they are all on the second floor and not displayed in the first-floor hall.

  Those who can afford such expensive and heavy woolen goods are either seasoned players or wealthy individuals. They won't choose the lower floors, and the upper floors are also quieter.

  Li Zhiming did not let Liu Yiyang go to see those public kiln materials, the probability of that kind of wool material rising is too low, sometimes the jadeite produced is not worth processing, the labor cost is too high, and the price after processing is not enough to cover the labor cost.

  He took Liu Yi Yang to see the wool on the long table. He was a jade carver, and his salary wasn't low either. It wasn't much different from Liu Yi Yang's current salary. If he said he wanted to buy a few pieces of wool, he really had the ability to do so.

  "This piece is great, I had my eyes on it earlier. The water head is sufficient and the inside is very bright. It can be made into several nice jade pendants, with a high chance of appreciation!"

  Li Zhiming picked up a piece of black leather dice material, slightly larger than his fist and about half the size of a brick. He excitedly showed it to Liu Yiyang, saying that the material had several windows on it, which shone brightly when illuminated by a lamp, looking quite good.

  "I don't understand these things either, and it's no use even if you tell me!"

  Liu Yi Yang smiled slightly and shook his head gently. His understanding of the gambling stone was still through Li Zhi Ming, so now Li Zhi Ming asking him was equivalent to asking in vain.

  Li Zhiming chuckled and shook his head, saying: "I know, but you're lucky, kid. You actually picked up a leak, a jade pendant worth 400,000 yuan! That's why I'm letting you take a look!"

  "You also know about this?" Liu Yi Yang looked a bit surprised, they were in the same antique city, but this side was all about jade, and didn't intersect much with the antique side.

  "Of course, Guwan City is such a small place, if you didn't come I was going to look for you. Quickly, what do you think of this piece?"

  Li Zhiming smiled and directly stuffed the woolen gloves into Liu Yiyang's hands.

  Helpless, Liu Yi Yang could only lower his head and carefully examine the fabric. He was also a bit curious about what kind of fabric would attract Li Zhi Ming so deeply.

  Black skin, this is the black woolly skin of the Burmese python, this fur also comes from Mandalay, Mandalay is a famous old market in Myanmar, where most of the furs are not large and easy to produce high-quality goods.

  Liu Yi Yang's mind gradually focused together.

  Suddenly, his vision turned pitch black, and the hand holding the wool slightly trembled, almost dropping the wool to the ground.

  He reappeared in that dark space, and in the center of the space was a huge copper mirror. The "Qian" character on it was emitting red light, while the "Kun" character below had a faint black color.

  Under Liu Yi Yang's gaze, some of the red glow from the Qian character transferred to the Taiji diagram below, and the Taiji diagram also lit up.

  It only shone for an instant, and the black space disappeared. Liu Yi Yang's eyes recovered their light again, but in the next moment his eyes widened once more.

  Suddenly, a transparent pale red light burst out from his forehead, illuminating the gambled stone material in his hand. The entire stone immediately became completely transparent, and its three-dimensional structure appeared before his eyes.

  This piece of stone has become like a glass cabinet, where everything inside can be seen clearly.

  Liu Yi Yang noticed that the jade in the window-opening area of this stone is not bad, but it quickly turns into stone debris below. The whole stone does not have much jade, only a thin layer in the window-opening area.

  Just on the surface, they can't even make a thin pendant.

  Even if Liu Yi Yang didn't know much about jade, he was clear that this kind of material was definitely a fake, and a big one at that.

  "How was it? How did you really feel?"

  Li Zhiming saw Liu Yi Yang in a daze, grabbed his arm and asked urgently, while Liu Yi Yang turned back, with a hint of strangeness on his face.

  The pale red transparent light had disappeared, and the stone in his hand had returned to its original appearance. However, everything inside was already etched in Liu Yi Yang's mind, as clear as a high-pixel digital camera taking a snapshot.

  "Did you see anything just now?"

  Liu Yi Yang replied ambiguously, and asked in a low voice, "Earlier when the pale red light appeared, wasn't he startled?" There were many people around, if others saw it, he wouldn't be able to explain it clearly. Who knows, maybe some research institution would take him away for study.

  "What's wrong with you? I asked you to help me take a look at this fabric!"

  Li Zhi seemed a bit inexplicable, and he stretched out his hand to wave it in front of Liu Yi Yang's eyes. His appearance made Liu Yi Yang completely put his mind at ease. Not seeing was good, this proved that the pale red glow just now and the red spiritual energy before were only visible to him, others couldn't see them.

  "How much is this material?" Liu Yi Yang didn't say what he saw, but just asked a sentence.

  "40,000, the jade inside is quite good, I think it's worth the price. As long as I can make a profit of 4 pieces of pendants, I won't lose money, and if I make 6 pieces, I'll have a profit. If I process and carve them myself, I'll make even more!"

  Li Zhi Ming immediately replied that this piece of jade is bright and oily green, dry green variety, the jade is very beautiful, the flesh is fine, can be processed into some Buddha statues and auspicious animal pendants, each pendant price is over 10,000 yuan.

  If he can get six blocks out of it, then he will definitely make a profit. Li Zhiming will carve them himself, so the labor cost is also earned by him.