Chapter 96 – Crystal Gambling! (1/2)

It was 9.20 am. Dong Xuebing took out his sling bag, which contains 110,000 RMB from the sales of the antique books, from his closet. After that, he went to the ICBC bank across the road from his house. This was a small branch, and one-day notification was needed for withdrawals more than 50,000 RMB. Dong Xuebing, who had wanted to withdraw 100,000 RMB from his account, was lazy to go to another branch. So, he only withdraws 50,000 RMB. 160,000 RMB should be enough. He pulled up the collar of his jacket and walk out to the streets to flag a taxi. He went straight to the stores outside of Panjiayuan. Many stores were selling raw stones there.

“Boss, do you have any unprocessed jade stones?”

“No. We only sell finished products here. You can try other shops.”

“Excuse me, can I gamble stones or jade here?”

“Oh, we do not have these.”

“Do you know where I can gamble stones?”

“Stone gambling? There is not a lot of such places in Panjiayuan. If you are interested, you can go to the Haidian or Chaoyang districts. Every weekend, there are auctions for unprocessed stones. The prices are reasonable, and the quality of the stones are higher.” Dong Xuebing also know about the auctions in Haidian’s antique market. But the procedures there was to pay for the stones first before cutting. It takes too much time. His 6 minutes was not enough to even bid for the stones. This was why Dong Xuebing was targeting those smaller shops.

Dong Xuebing carries on walking around Panjiayuan.

Suddenly, there were sounds of a stone cutting machine from a distance.

Dong Xuebing’s eyes widen. When he was working part-time in the past, he had seen people gambling stones. This was why he was familiar with this sound. He raised his head and walked towards the direction of the sound. But when Dong Xuebing reaches the shop, he saw a man using the stone cutter to cut a stone. It was not a jade stone. From the color and shape of the stone, it should be uncut crystal stones. Natural crystals. Crystal gambling? This was rare. Dong Xuebing hesitated for a while and then entered the shop. Crystal gambling, Agate gambling, turquoise gambling, Nephrite jade gambling, and jade stone gambling, can all be considered stone gambling. Dong Xuebing does not need to specifically to look for jade stones or Nephrite jade stones. The returns for crystal gambling was high too.

The cutter machine stopped, and a small window was cut out of the natural purple crystal stone.

The buyers were a young couple, and the girl asked. “Is this crystal good? How much can it sells?”

“The color inside is ordinary.” The overweight boss put down the cutting machine and take a closer look at the stone. “It’s worth 800 to 1,000 RMB.”

“We bought it for 5000 RMB, and we can only sell it for 1,000 RMB?” The woman heard the boss and gave her boyfriend a slap angrily. “I told you not to buy it, and you insist. See, we lost!” Only 1 out of 10 wins in stone gambling. Although the risk for crystal stone gambling was not as high as jade stone gambling, it’s almost the same. It’s normal to pick worthless stones. If anyone could find an unprocessed stone worth tens of thousand RMB with 5,000 RMB, it will be abnormal. Furthermore, Beijing was not a place known for stone gamblings. All the unprocessed stones were brought in from other places and were the leftovers from the quarries. This increases the difficulties of winning in stone gambling.

That man was pissed to hear his girlfriend scolding him. He gritted his teeth: “This and that! Open up these two!”

The girl shouted angrily: “Stop buying! You can put the money to better use!”

The man ignored her and paid the boss.