Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 1524: Chapter 1508: Out of Luck

”Zhou Yan, let’s go!”

Seeing the situation, Zhong Zifan pulled Liao Song to squeeze out, with Liao Song still carrying that large bag of cash. After being dragged out of the crowd, his face involuntarily showed a look of confusion and bewilderment.

”It’s not finished yet. Where are we going?”

Seeing Liao Song’s confused expression, Zhong Zifan couldn’t help but laugh:

”Miss Huo hit it big. We have to hurry and buy firecrackers! High Icy Lemon Orange, such fine jadeite has been cut, of course, we must set off firecrackers to celebrate!”

Zhong Zifan laughed heartily. Liao Song came to his senses and quickly nodded in agreement. He glanced back at the courtyard reluctantly, then eagerly pulled Zhong Zifan to walk out.

Over there, Zhao Lijun was still cutting the stone. Liao Song was afraid to miss the unveiling of this High Icy Lemon Orange, but in this situation, it was indeed necessary to buy firecrackers to celebrate. Those few raw stone merchants obviously would not set off firecrackers, so this part was left to them to do.

As Zhong Zifan and Liao Song left, Yin Zeyan and Zhou Yan immediately seized their position.

Everyone was captivated by this piece of High Icy Lemon Orange. Even the siblings Zhou Zhen and Zhou Mei, who were usually at odds with Huo Sining, couldn’t bother with their grudges now; they anxiously squeezed into the crowd, their eyes fixed tightly on the stone cutting machine, afraid of missing such a beautiful piece of jadeite.

But those Tengchong traders each had weak legs. High Icy Lemon Orange and Flower Green Species Ocean Blue are two entirely different concepts. That piece of Ocean Blue they dismissed Huo Sining with a market price of 800,000, but this piece of Lemon Orange might require them to compensate ten or even twenty times 800,000.

At this moment, the sizzling sound from the stone cutting machine was melodious music to the surrounding audience, but to those raw stone merchants, it was jarringly harsh.

Although Zhao Lijun had just exposed a cross-section of the raw stone after two cuts, the saying ”better to buy a line than a whole surface” existed in the circle, yet the person who bought this rough stone was the Jade Queen, Huo Sining. With the precedent of the Flower Green Species, everyone had an inexplicable admiration and confidence in Huo Sining.

The name Jade Queen was not given for nothing.

Having seen green, cutting the stone next would be straightforward. Zhao Lijun forced himself to calm down and quickly cut several times, deftly peeling off the outer crust of the raw stone, and the entire outline of the Lemon Orange was soon revealed.

The jade meat was four to five kilograms, too big to be encompassed by both hands. Even though the raw stone hadn’t fully worn away the outer corners and fog layer, its scale was beginning to show.

Seeing such a large piece of jadeite, the discussion around increased little by little, with occasional glances towards those raw stone merchants who had set up the competition.

Those raw stone merchants had racked their brains and even resorted to verbal threats to avoid paying the 300,000 owed to Huo Sining. Everyone thought Huo Sining was going to swallow this dumb loss, but little did they know she would turn around and deliver such a harsh counterattack.

Judging by this piece of Lemon Orange, even at the lowest market price from these raw stone merchants, it would be over ten times higher than that piece of Flower Green Species. If they had to compensate such an amount, those raw stone merchants might go bankrupt.

”Sizzle,” Zhao Lijun was still using the stone cutting machine to cut the corner crust of the jadeite, but every cut was a death knell for those raw stone dealers.

Cut after cut, Zhao Lijun’s speed was not slow. Soon, the entire jadeite was fully revealed, with a size comparable to half a basketball and not yet polished, but already radiating a brilliant glow in the sunlight.

”Pop pop pop,” suddenly the sound of firecrackers echoed in the courtyard.

Zhong Zifan and Liao Song had returned with firecrackers just as Zhao Lijun was cutting the corner crust. But now they found it impossible to squeeze back in; there were simply too many people, so they had to wait on the outskirts. Upon hearing that the jadeite was fully revealed, they immediately lit the firecrackers to celebrate.

The crackling of the firecrackers enlivened the entire courtyard, but everyone’s attention was focused on the freshly unveiled piece of High Icy Lemon Orange in Huo Sining’s hands. Although they couldn’t personally unravel the stone, just witnessing the emergence of this jadeite was an indescribable thrill for everyone.

Over there, Zhou Yan and Boss Luo of Cuihua Jade Ornaments whispered together for a moment before suddenly asking:

”Miss Huo, fifteen million, Boss Luo and I would like to jointly purchase your piece of Lemon Yellow; what do you say?”

Zhou Yan looked earnestly at Huo Sining. He couldn’t afford such a jadeite alone, and Boss Luo from Cuihua Jade Ornaments seemed equally tempted, so after a brief discussion, they each decided to put in half and jointly acquire the raw material.

However, this time, Huo Sining laughed and directly shook her head, stating, ”Mr. Zhou, Mr. Luo, I’m really sorry. Crown Jade Beauty specializes in high-end jadeite business, and such a source perfectly fills our gap in materials. I can’t possibly resell it to fellow traders.”

Zhou Yan was stunned at her words and then recalled that there was a renowned jade company supporting Huo Sining. Such good material wouldn’t be easily handed over by anyone.

Zhou Yan and Boss Luo exchanged disappointed glances. Once they were sure Huo Sining had no intention of selling, they could only sigh, regretfully taking one last look at the High Icy Lemon Yellow, and reluctantly abandoning their bid.

Everyone understood Huo Sining’s decision; with such high-quality jadeite, a new product series could easily be developed. It was no wonder she was unwilling to part with it.

Lemon Orange itself is rare, not to mention high icy jadeite. For a small jewelry company like Cuihua Jade Ornaments, acquiring such a High Icy Lemon Orange would be considered a treasure of the shop.

The jadeite wasn’t sold, but everyone could glean its true market value from Zhou Yan’s earlier offer.

So, after declining Zhou Yan’s purchase request, Huo Sining turned around, looking bemusedly at the pale-faced Tengchong raw stone traders.

Those traders thought they could deceive people out of money by setting up a competition, but they never anticipated the situation would unfold as it did.

If they had known there was such a top-grade High Icy Lemon Orange in the pile of raw stones, they would never have chosen to set up the competition. They would rather unravel all the gambling stones, at the risk of any other loss.

Because the value of this single piece of jadeite already exceeded that of all the raw stones in their warehouse. Even if they sold all their raw stones at high prices, they couldn’t recoup the fifteen million.