Chapter 7 - The Gamble Stone Festival (1/2)

The Gamble Stone Festival in Donghai this time was jointly organized by a dozen of jewelry companies that were well-known around the country, and the scale of the festival was unprecedented.

Tianji Jewelry Town was a 28-storey building. And the Gamble Stone Festival was held from the first to the fourth floors.

After they got off the car, Zhang Jun saw a large number of people coming in and out of  the entrance of Tianji Building. It seemed that many people were participating in the Gamble Stone Festival, which was also a sign of the successful marketing.

Entering the first floor of the building, Lin Xian let Zhang Jun go first by himself to the festival because she had some business arrangements. Then she took the elevator alone to the upper floor.

And Zhang Jun went into D Zone to buy some stones for fun.

The whole venue was divided into four zones, A, B, C and D. The raw jade in A Zone were the most valuable, often worth over one million yuan. In B Zone, the stones were sold at a minimum of one hundred thousand yuan while in C Zone one could buy a stone around ten thousand yuan.

As for D Zone, the stones were the least expensive, where one stone only cost several hundred or thousand yuan. At the same time, it was the most crowded place as well.

Zhang Jun went to D Zone. He moved close to the booths, walking slowly, observing the stones secretly, and hoping to find some valuable raw jade.

He had won two million yuan in the casino. The sum was big enough for him to buy a lot of raw jade as he liked.

There were three types of stones sold in this zone. The first type was called “bet rocks”, raw stones that even sellers couldn’t decide if there was jade inside or what kind of jade they had. This type of stone was the riskiest ones and essentially one could only rely on luck.

The second type was called “bare rocks”, which were cut open in advance so the buyers could see clearly the inside, and the value of the stones could be immediately determined. Of course, there were also risks of buying “bare stones” because the exposed cut of the jadeite might be good quality, but the inside wouldn’t reach that level at all.

The third type was called “half bet, half bare”. These stones were scraped only a bit for the buyers to see the inside. There were also risks of buying such stones, so it was called “half-betting”.

All the “half bet, half bare” and “bare” stones with good outer layer were sold at a high price. Even if there was really jade inside, the buyer could make only a limited amount of money from it. Zhang Jun showed little interest in them. He just focused on the “bet rocks” that were the riskiest.

Although Zhang Jun had already X-rayed Lin Xian’s jadeite samples, he was still not reassured. He decided to investigate the internal structures of the stones by observing the “bare rocks” in this zone, so that he could make better judgment.

The four zones all came with stone cutting machines. The guests could cut open the stones on the spot after they bought them. The cutting process was very exciting. Many buyers would stare at the stones they bought for the result.

After the stones were cut open, some of them laughed happily while others were rather upset. The former have clearly chosen the right stones and won a lot, while the latter had lost.

After some time, Zhang Jun found that most people were losing, and only a few of them made money. Among them there were an old man, whose stone proved to be an ancient-pit wax-jade, which was worth several hundred thousand yuan at the cost of just 3,000 yuan. With the stone in hand the old man was laughing heartily.