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In the entire Jiangnan Province, there are only two places where raw jadeite from northern Myanmar is circulated.

One is the eighth floor of the Dihao Building in the center of Jiangbei City, and the other is the gambling stone street in the west of Jiangbei City.

Both sources are sourcing raw stones from various mines in northern Myanmar, using the same raw materials, but their market rules are quite different.

The entry threshold for the eighth floor of the Emperor Hotel is extremely high; those with assets of less than ten million yuan are not allowed to enter.

All the raw stones in the site have not undergone any manual screening, window cleaning, or skin treatment. They are completely preserved in their original appearance from their excavation in northern Myanmar. They are clearly priced, and each stone comes with a certificate of origin from the mining site. There are no fake or refurbished stones.

Even if the source of the goods is guaranteed to be genuine, the daily failure rate of the raw stones cut by Emperor is still as high as 60% to 70%. Guaranteeing the authenticity of the raw stones does not mean that jadeite will definitely be found inside.

Jiangbei Stone Gambling Street has no entry requirements.

Even if you are penniless and dressed in rags, you can freely come and go to look at the raw stones.

However, the market here is a mixed bag. Acid-washed materials, glue-injected materials, synthetic materials with added skin, and scraps glued together with raw stones are rampant. Seventy percent of the materials are artificially faked, and laymen are cheated nine out of ten times.

Emperor's Fortune relies on luck; the source of goods is 100% genuine, and the risk lies only in the raw stones themselves.

In the jade gambling street, one must have a keen eye to distinguish between genuine and fake stones, as well as to judge their internal texture and quality, which carries double the risk.

It's currently mid-June, and the outdoor temperature is soaring to 36 degrees Celsius. Hot winds carrying dust blow in, and even the asphalt roads are radiating heat.

But the gambling stone street in Jiangbei was still bustling with people, showing no signs of being deserted.

The street is lined with open-air stalls, with rough, gray-black stones of varying sizes piled up in a staggered pattern, and stone dust and discarded stone skin scattered on the ground.

The area around the stall was filled with twenty or thirty people. An old man squatted on the ground, holding a powerful flashlight close to the stone surface, repeatedly stroking the raw stone's veins and pine flower patterns with his fingertips.

"This piece of yellow sandstone has continuous pine flower patterns and a python vein running through a third of the stone. Judging from the skin, it comes from the Moxi Sha mine. There's a high probability that it will yield icy jadeite with floating green hues. It could conservatively increase in value by 200,000!" The stall owner spoke confidently and vigorously promoted the piece.

The old man was very interested, his eyes fixed on the yellow sand skin material in his hand.

"Sir, trust your judgment. This piece of jade is guaranteed to be genuine, and the chances of it appreciating significantly are very high!" the stall owner continued, intensifying his persuasive efforts.

"Now that you have this material, if you let it go, someone else might buy it immediately, and you'll miss out on a small fortune!"

Upon hearing this, the old man was so delighted that he couldn't bear to put down the material. He had no choice but to shine a flashlight on it and examine it carefully from all angles.

After waiting for a while, he finally sighed and reluctantly put the fabric down.

"Sir? You really don't want this material that's so expensive?" The stall owner asked anxiously.

"Leave it to someone who is destined to find it." The old man shook his head, not taking the bait.

Left with no other option, the stall owner could only hawk his wares to the onlookers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, is anyone interested in this piece of jade? Don't hesitate, or the icy jade will be gone."

The onlookers all shook their heads repeatedly, while some laughed.

"The pine flower pattern is a surface color that has not penetrated into the stone. Moreover, the surface of the raw stone has a white mist layer, which indicates that the inside is tender. If you cut it, the whole thing will likely be a failure, and at most you'll find some worthless material."

Seeing that he couldn't fool anyone, the stall owner's face flushed red, and he argued, "It's not like it's 100% guaranteed to fail. What if it suddenly goes up in price?"

"I'd believe you a little if you didn't blush when you said that," someone joked.

The stall owner was so ashamed upon hearing this that he dared not say another word.

The most crowded part of the entire street is the stone-cutting square in the middle of the street.

Several large oil-cutting machines roared to life, their ear-piercing cutting sounds echoing throughout the room. Stone dust mixed with cooling water splashed everywhere, making the ground slippery and white.

Nearly a hundred people were gathered in layers, all standing on tiptoe and peering intently at the half-cut rough stone inside the cutting machine.

The owner of the rough stone was a middle-aged man. His forehead was covered in sweat, his body was slightly leaning forward, and he dared not breathe loudly.

He spent 170,000 yuan to buy this piece of Mowanji black jadeite rough stone. What he liked was the raised black python-like band on the side. As the old saying goes in the industry, a python-like band is good for color, and nine out of ten python-like bands have color.

He bought this piece of material because he saw the chance of a huge price increase, and now he's just waiting for the craftsman to polish it and reveal the jadeite.

The cutting machine blade slowly cut into the stone, breaking through the surface skin to reveal a grayish-brown stone interior, devoid of any green.

The onlookers erupted in discussion upon seeing this.

"It's too early to draw conclusions. The price action is converging, so there might be hidden green inside. If it really does turn completely green, you could become rich overnight!"

"Don't get your hopes up too high. Black sand is the most likely to be all show and no substance. Even if the python belt looks conspicuous, there's a chance it's hollow inside."

"It hasn't cut all the way in yet, don't rush, the python pattern is narrowing inwards, maybe the green is hidden inside!"

"It's useless. The black sand fog layer is too thick, and the base is grayish. Even if green comes out from inside, it will be melon-skin green, and the quality is only like bean seeds. It's completely worthless," a veteran stone collector said confidently.

He frequented the jade gambling street for many years and had seen thousands of pieces of jade with rough skin, so he had a sharp eye.

"This piece of black jade is gone."

In just two minutes, the blade completely cut through the raw stone, splitting it in two.

The cross-section is grayish-white, and the flesh is loose. Only on the surface of the python skin area is there a tiny, light green tinge, so faint that it can be ignored.

Complete collapse.

The middle-aged man's legs went weak, and he collapsed onto the stone-cutting platform, his face pale and his lips trembling as he muttered to himself.

"Impossible... He clearly swallowed the python skin, and the pelt was in perfect condition, how could it have collapsed..."

They wouldn't even give him an 80,000-yuan ice crystal.

The 170,000 yuan investment was almost entirely lost.

Bystanders sighed and shook their heads, murmuring their lamentations.

"This is what jade gambling is all about; it's truly a case of one cut leading to heaven or one cut leading to hell."

"Even a black sandalwood with such a good texture could collapse completely. What bad luck."

Some people made grand pronouncements based on the results:

"Don't be envious just because you see green when you open the window. Ninety percent of the green that comes out on the surface is just a thin layer of green that only adheres to the surface of the stone. Once you go in a millimeter, the color disappears completely. This is where laymen are most likely to be fooled."

On the side of the crowd, Qin Jianjun, dressed in a light blue casual short-sleeved shirt, quietly watched the entire stone-cutting process.

His chest rose and fell slightly, and his breathing became rapid involuntarily.

In just a few minutes, 170,000 yuan was reduced to a pile of useless rubble. According to others, they didn't even recoup their investment.

Is this what jade gambling is all about?

He wouldn't have given it a second glance before, but things are different now; the Qin family is rich!

He even felt a stirring in his heart, wanting to buy a piece of material to see if there was any real quality inside.

It must be said that Qin Jianjun, who loves fishing, is easily attracted to things that bring great surprises and uncertainty.

Even if the hook sinks into the water, you don't know if there's a bite; even if the line is tight, you don't know if it's a small fish or a big fish that's taken the bait.

Gambling on stones is somewhat similar to fishing.

Even if you cut open a piece of material, just like other anglers tell you there's a bite here, you'll never know if there's anything inside until you've completely cut it open, that is, until you catch a fish.