How could Luo Chen fail to see through such provocation and goading?
However, Luo Chen had no intention of getting involved, so he simply shook his head.
Shi Wang stared at Luo Chen with a dark gaze. He had long been famous in Tongzhou’s stone gambling circles. Many regular stone gamblers knew him.
But Luo Chen looked very unfamiliar, so Shi Wang concluded that Luo Chen must be a complete newcomer.
Since he was a newcomer, it was inevitable that Shi Wang would slaughter him for a big profit.
“Mr Luo, how about you pick any stone you like? I will pay for it. If it cuts good material, it is all yours.” Hong Biao had brought Luo Chen here to have fun, after all. He could not just enjoy himself and ignore Luo Chen.
But Hong Biao only meant for Luo Chen to pick casually. Some of the raw stones here were priced in the tens of millions.
“Forget it.” Luo Chen shook his head.
“My friend, why not try your luck? You are not scared, are you?” Shi Wang urged from the side. This was a perfect chance to make money.
Besides, he was not worried that Luo Chen could cut good material. Forget that Luo Chen was a newcomer, his young age alone said everything.
“Fine, since you put it that way, I will not hold back.” Hearing this, Luo Chen stopped being polite.
Luo Chen stepped forward and began to select a raw stone.
After walking around once, he finally picked a stone. It was only the size of a fist.
Yet the price tag was over eight hundred thousand.
“My friend, excellent taste. This is one of the treasures in our shop. No one has ever dared to cut it. Are you really taking this one?” Hua Dong Shi Wang pointed at the stone and said.
Although Luo Chen did not know many secrets of the stone gambling trade, with his experience he could still understand these little tricks.
In stone gambling, shop owners often judged stones in advance based on experience and other features to avoid losses.
To be honest, there might be some good stones, but most were extremely poor raw materials.
These extremely poor ones were usually packaged very nicely, yet when cut they revealed nothing, or only a tiny bit of jade.
Whether the water quality or colour, it was all very poor.
The real money came from how you packaged bad material to look high-end and sold it at a high price.
Once the deal was done and the money was in hand, whether the buyer lost or not was their own problem.
Shi Wang clearly mastered this art. For example, the stone in front of them was one he had already judged. It was absolutely impossible to cut good material from it!
The display was also deliberate, very eye-catching yet not overly so!
That made it the easiest to attract attention.
For ordinary people, this was gambling!
Win and get a beautiful model with long legs, lose and go work the streets!
But that was only for ordinary people.
For Luo Chen, such things did not exist, because he had the divine ability of perspective.
Even before cutting this stone, Luo Chen already knew it contained good material inside.
Although Luo Chen was not very knowledgeable, he had heard some things. As the saying went, thirty-six waters, seventy-two beans, one hundred and eight blues.
Inside should be a piece of bright green jade. Although it had some impurities, it should be worth around two to three million!
However, Shi Wang clearly did not think so, otherwise he would not have put this stone out for sale.
This stone was actually leftover material. When the original rough stone arrived, this piece had always been treated as ordinary scrap and tossed aside.
Naturally, no one wanted such a stone, but Shi Wang made his living from this. Many times he used pieces like this to pass off fakes as genuine.
So Shi Wang had slightly packaged this stone.
But even if there was a little material inside, it was the kind that gave you a glimmer of hope, then slapped you hard in the face.
In fact, Shi Wang could tell Luo Chen was a novice who did not understand the trade. At first he really did not want Luo Chen to pick this piece, because if he cut this one first, it would be one cut life, one cut death, one cut mourning cloth!
If the first cut brought no sweetness at all, Luo Chen would probably stop.
Then it would be much harder to earn more money from him.
But seeing that Luo Chen seemed to have settled on this piece, Shi Wang could only sigh inwardly. Earn what he could. Anyway, this stone was basically free. Selling it for eight hundred thousand was no loss!
Yet no matter how skilled Shi Wang was, compared to someone like Luo Chen who had perspective, they were not even on the same level.
Honestly, if Luo Chen wanted, he could tell what colour underwear Xia Jingjing was wearing today.
So gambling stones against someone like Luo Chen was simply asking for trouble.
Hong Biao naturally did not stop Luo Chen either. Eight hundred thousand was nothing to him. Letting Luo Chen buy a lesson was fine.
But who knew that after one cut, both Shi Wang and Hong Biao were stunned. Shi Wang’s face also looked unusually ugly.
“Good luck!”
“Mr Luo, your luck is just too good!”
“Conservative estimate, over five million in hand!” Hong Biao often played this game and could be considered half an expert. He could tell at a glance how much this jade was worth.
“Damn it, I come here often to cut stones and I have never cut anything of this quality!” Hong Biao looked jealous with a hint of shock.
The cut surface showed bright green. Although the quality was not top-tier, it was indeed worth over five million.
Shi Wang was also stunned. A nameless fire rose in his chest. If he had cut this material himself, that five million plus would be his.
But now in the blink of an eye it had been taken by someone else. This deal was a huge loss, and he was the famous Shi Wang. This scene was a bit humiliating.
“Mr Luo, what great luck!” Hong Biao praised from the side. Of course he never imagined Luo Chen had seen through it with perspective. He thought Luo Chen had simply cut it by luck.
“Mr Luo, how about we gamble bigger?” Shi Wang felt somewhat unhappy inside. Clearly he wanted to dig another pit and trap Luo Chen.
“Oh? How do we gamble?” Luo Chen said with a smile, seeming even more interested after winning.
“Here, some raw stones are priced over thirty million, some even up to fifty million, but others are only a few hundred thousand.”
“How about this, Mr Luo, you give twenty million. No matter if it is over thirty million or just a few hundred thousand, as long as you like it, pick any raw stone here!”
Shi Wang still seemed very confident. Almost all the raw stones here were extremely poor. The better ones he would not cut himself?
The previous one was probably just a fluke.
But he did not believe a fluke would happen twice in a row!
He especially did not believe Luo Chen’s luck could be good twice!
Honestly, none of the stones here were really worth twenty million. The prices were all made up by him.