Chapter 729 - Play Until Your Heart Pounds
Naturally, since it was more likely for someone to get jadeite when choosing the stones from the half gamble area, the cost of buying these ores were much higher too. A stone that was about the size of a medium-sized ball was actually around ten thousand taels. Of course, if more than half of this type of raw ore was occupied by jadeite within, it could be sold for at least twice the previous buying price. Thus, getting rich overnight wasn't an uncommon thing at the gambling stone hall.
Dong Ming noticed that Long Tianba was hesitating and proposed an idea, "We don't know much about this, so how about we first go outside and take a look?"
Long Tianba had gotten his father's permission this time before he came here. Thus, he had around fifty thousand taels in banknotes on him. However, even with that much money on hand, there weren't a lot of options for him to pick from, especially in the half gamble array of stones. Any one of those partly opened ores commanded a price in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
Long Tianba was well aware of the sky-high price of jadeite. He had given Young Master Dong a hanging ornament made out of bright green jadeite that was of glass quality. It was only about the size of half a palm's length but cost him over thirty thousand taels. As for the piece of high-quality majestic green jadeite, which was the size of his head, it'd be able to supply enough material to make tens of hanging ornaments with extra material to spare. If it was used to make a fine jadeite bracelet, it could be sold for around the high price of a million taels.
After calculating it in his head, asking for a hundred and fifty thousand taels for a raw ore really wasn't that bad! After all, that high quality jade had immediately been bought by someone as soon as it was revealed. Furthermore, the man who bought the jadeite was named Businessman Liu and had been congratulated by everyone around him, "This piece of majestic green jadeite can make around eight to nine bracelets as well as some hanging ornaments and face ornaments. You could make ten times the profit after selling those off. Businessman Liu, you move too fast ah!"
"I was lucky, just lucky!" Businessman Liu gleefully held onto his newly bought jadeite. Of course he needed to be fast and swift when a good piece of jade came out. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone else steal it away from him?
Didn't getting ten times the profits mean that he would make ten million taels soon? Long Tianba's previously hesitant heart suddenly became interested again.
However, he still decided to follow Young Master Dong's proposal and arrived at the full gamble stone hall to watch how other people picked their stones. Young Master Dong was quite well-known in these circles. Many of the more knowledgeable people here all treated him with politeness and patiently answered his questions.
The people here blabbered on about gambling on 'color, type, clarity' as well as looking at ores outer shell, pine-flower patterning, and python marks...Long Tianba felt his head spin after hearing all of this and his temples began to pound.
Young Master Dong seemed to be the same as him and didn't seem to quite understand what was going on. In the end, he said, "Older Brother Long, how about...we first choose a couple stones from these bins that are sold by weight. In any case, they're not very expensive, so we wouldn't lose too much anyway..."
"Jackpot! Hit the jackpot ah! It's the three fortunes three color jadeite!" In the northwest corner of the stone gambling hall, they could suddenly hear a ruckus that interrupted Young Master Dong's words. The two of them exchanged a look and began to move to that area.
There was a youth around twenty years old holding onto a piece of jadeite that was about the size of a basketball. He had a giant foolish smile on his face. The jadeite had stripes of green, purple, and red colors. Even though it hadn't been polished yet, it still glittered with a mesmerizing glow.
