Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 722: Chapter 719: Fake Chicken Blood Stones Too

Huo Sining had no idea how to determine the pit type of the Chicken Blood Stone, nor which characteristics indicated that the stone was genuinely Old Pit Stone.

But when she got her hands on this stone, there was always an indescribable feeling in her heart.

Apart from the features of the stone’s veins and coloration, the fineness and oiliness of this stone were too perfect, its interior was clean, and its flesh was of superior quality.

The most important point was, and she didn’t know if it was a problem with the lighting, Huo Sining always felt the whiteness of the stone’s material looked dull and the color somewhat stiff, holding it gave a particularly uncomfortable feeling.

A forged antique, no matter how exquisitely crafted and seemingly flawless, would reveal its authenticity to an expert when held in their hands.

Maybe this kind of judgment was unfounded, just an intuition, but it was exactly this kind of indescribable feeling that many people couldn’t grasp in their entire lives.

Huo Sining didn’t know where her intuition came from, and it wasn’t something she cared about. She had a perfect cheating device, and wasn’t it easy to find out the truth?

She closed her eyes slightly and activated the Heavenly Eye with her thoughts. Soon, the interior of the Chicken Blood Stone was laid bare before her eyes.

A strong red appeared, but quickly, after a thin layer of kaolinite, the whole stone’s veins suddenly changed.

The white stone appeared before her eyes, and the corners of Huo Sining’s mouth twitched involuntarily—this was not kaolinite at all, but clearly granite!

Such a perfect piece of Chicken Blood Stone turned out to be a fake!

It took just a blink of an eye to examine the stone, and a hint of astonishment flashed in Huo Sining’s eyes, but her face showed no sign of displeasure.

Although she was surprised, she also quickly realized the truth.

If there could be fakes among Jadeite raw materials, why couldn’t Chicken Blood Stone be the same?

Wherever there is exorbitant profit, there will be deception, and with Chicken Blood Stone enticing antique lovers, how could unscrupulous dealers miss such an opportunity?

After seemingly taking a serious look at the stone, Huo Sining placed it back where it was, and that instant, her hand seemed to inadvertently touch several other pieces.

My goodness, they were all fake, all the stones were bonded with filler glue and stone powder, and inside the kaolinite were all granite!

Such bravado, Huo Sining thought as she glanced unintentionally at the boss and indeed saw a hint of wariness and nervousness in his smiling eyes.

Huo Sining did not expose him but just shook her head silently and stood up to walk toward other stalls.

When the boss saw Huo Sining walking away, he became anxious, ”Madam, you must have compared my goods with those of other stalls, and you’ll find that the quality of my stones is the best. One hundred thousand is really a fair price, if you find anything unsuitable, can’t we talk it over? Or could I give you a discount?”

The boss clearly did not want to miss out on Huo Sining as a customer; because she was dressed in gold and silver, she looked like a nouveau riche, and her taste in attire clearly showed she couldn’t possibly be someone knowledgeable about Chicken Blood Stone.

The boss was used to making such deals, deceiving the money of clueless laymen. When he finally stumbled upon a sucker like Huo Sining, how could he possibly let this opportunity slip away?

Seeing the boss’s anxious expression and shifty eyes, how could Huo Sining not know what he was scheming?

She wasn’t worried about being duped herself, but she didn’t want her identity to be exposed by Liu Yuxuan and Liu Yunhui.

Unfortunately, Liu Yuxuan and her father had already arrived at the stall where she was, and although they had not realized that she was Huo Sining, she thought it best to avoid them just to be safe.

”Shopkeeper, I want to buy Da Hong Pao as a birthday gift for someone. Although your stone is good, it’s not certain to produce Da Hong Pao. I can’t take that risk; it’s better to buy known stones instead.”

Huo Sining’s explanation was logical and reasonable, which would have usually deterred any regular shopkeeper from pursuing the matter any further.

Regrettably, this shopkeeper lacked discernment and took Huo Sining for a fool, dead-set on swindling her. He said urgently:

”Who says my stone can’t produce Da Hong Pao? This is an Old Pit Stone, and just yesterday, a shopkeeper picked a few from me and cut Da Hong Pao right there and then. If you don’t believe it, how about this? I’ll cut it for you to see. If I reveal a blood-red color, then you buy it. How about that?”

This trick was worn out in the jadeite circle, but the shopkeeper seemed impatient, as if he was genuinely provoked by Huo Sining, and he rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the stone-cutting machine, and started cutting a chosen piece.

Huo Sining didn’t stop him, instead, she stood in place, her expression seemingly moved, but the sneer at the bottom of her eyes could not be concealed.

Unfortunately for the shopkeeper, he was so caught up in his performance, he didn’t notice.

Soon, a thin slice of stone was cut open, and the first stone, under the shopkeeper’s expert hand, revealed a striped pattern with delicate white to pink keypoints of kaolin, with a dense texture free of impurities, slightly translucent greasy luster, tinged with yellow—a typical feature of frozen Tianhuang Stone.

With such a thin cut, the first stone had already increased in value, and the previously quiet stall began to attract a crowd of onlookers excited for the action.

Seeing the increase in value of the Tianhuang Stone, surprise flashed across the faces of the onlookers.

But the shopkeeper seemed delighted, showing the cut surface of the first valued stone to Huo Sining, then casually picked out the second piece to cut.

The shopkeeper continued and cut four stones, and apart from the third piece revealing plain white kaolin, the rest had all increased in value.

Tianhuang frozen, white frozen, lotus powder frozen—all were high-quality materials of excellent texture.

The crowd watching the stone cutting became visibly excited after witnessing the value go up with the fourth stone; it looked like many were itching to try their luck.

Huo Sining stood by calmly, showing no intention of calling out a bid.

She had already mentioned she was looking for Da Hong Pao, and she held no interest in other types of material.

The shopkeeper, gritting his teeth, picked up the fifth piece, as if really in a grudge match with Huo Sining, determined to cut Da Hong Pao out of it.

That piece was the same fraudulent rough stone Huo Sining had seen before.

As the shopkeeper began marking it with a pen for cutting, the corners of Huo Sining’s mouth turned up slightly, the mockery in her eyes deepening.

The lines were drawn precisely where the stone was tampered with, ensuring that the cut would indeed reveal red.

Indeed, to the shock and disbelief of the onlookers, the Chicken Blood Stone, valued at one hundred thousand, lived up to expectations by yielding a ”Da Hong Pao.”

If it weren’t for Huo Sining’s Heavenly Eye Skill foreseeing the stone’s interior, knowing that the stone had been tampered with, she might have been awestruck by the shopkeeper’s seemingly sincere maneuver.