Chapter 67: Chapter 67: A Single Hammer Cost 400,000

Even though he was involved in the entire transaction process, Lin Jianguo still had no hope for this stone.

Because no matter how you look at it, even with a strong flashlight, it’s still just a rock with no transparency at all.

Faced with everyone’s skepticism, Lin Yi smirked disdainfully:

“You’ve never seen this before, right? It looks like a roadside rock, but it’s a genuine Myanmar old mine jadeite rough. See this here? It’s called ‘pineflower,’ which is the weathered appearance of the jadeite surface.”

However, after talking for a while, Lin Yi unfortunately realized that he was just playing the lute to a cow. No matter how he explained ‘pineflower’ and ‘python pattern,’ to them, it’s still just a stone.

Although practice is pragmatic, and ideals are ideal, one must admit that practice is the father of ideals.

Seeing everyone’s reaction, Lin Yi simply stopped explaining. No matter what he said, it was futile, and it was better to open it up and let them see for themselves.

But when Lin Yi wanted to open the stone, it was a bit unfortunate. Clearly, this jadeite rough couldn’t change its rocky essence.

With what he had on hand, it was obvious he couldn’t open this thick stone.

“Uh, boss, how about going to the basement to find a hammer and smash it open?”

A hammer? It was amazing that this guy could think of it. Wow, never heard of anyone using a hammer on a jadeite rough! If the stone enthusiasts heard this, they would smash Li Huiqun with a hammer.

Using a hammer can indeed smash open the jadeite, but even if it’s smashed open, the jade inside would be ruined.

Of course, for others, using a hammer is not viable, but for Lin Yi, it’s no problem at all.

He was after what was inside. Whether intact or fragmented, when the system recycles and breaks it down, it’s all the same.

“Nice~”

After hearing Li Huiqun’s suggestion, Lin Yi snapped his fingers, then grabbed the stone from the table and headed outside.

Although Father Lin thought using a hammer was inappropriate, he couldn’t stop this brat.

So, he could only reluctantly shake his head and follow.

Fortunately, Lin Yi’s basement was just inside the hallway, so there was no need to go outside and face the online influencers and reporters.

A hammer is an essential tool at home. Grabbing a pair of pliers to lay at the bottom, and placing the jadeite rough on top.

He called for everyone to step back, then Lin Yi swung the hammer down onto the jadeite rough.

It must be said, this jadeite rough had a unique shape; palm-sized with a thickness of about five centimeters, shaped like a disk.

It was precisely because of this that, as Lin Yi swung the hammer down, there was a loud crack, and the rough stone on the pliers was smashed into seven or eight pieces of varying sizes by Lin Yi.

Seeing the stone so easily smashed open, everyone rushed forward and picked up the pieces.

With their actions, exclamations of surprise rang out.

“Huh? Why is it purple inside?”

“Mine too, could there really be jade inside??”

Tossing the hammer aside, Lin Yi picked up a piece to inspect, and a purple hue immediately caught his eye.

Although he had long known through the system that there was jade inside, seeing it for real now, Lin Yi was also quite surprised.

He hadn’t expected the jade inside to look like this; it resembled an egg, with a shell as thick as egg white, about one centimeter, wrapping around yolk-like purple jade inside.

Especially since the jade inside wasn’t the usual green, but purple, which made it even more intriguing.

However, for a jade novice like Lin Yi, perhaps purple and green were just random. Little did he know purple jade is even more precious, especially with one of such quality as Lin Yi’s.

“Hey, what do you think? Saw it, right? This is jadeite. See this water here? It’s icy-glutinous type. Just these pieces together are worth at least this much!”

Saying this, Lin Yi flashed three fingers in front of them.

Upon seeing this, Li Huiqun was stunned, then exclaimed in disbelief:

“What? Just this much is worth 3,000 bucks? Damn, this thing is so valuable? It doesn’t even look good. Also, isn’t jade supposed to be green? Why is this purple?”

Hearing Li Huiqun’s words, Lin Yi almost smashed the jade in his hand into his face. 3,000 bucks? You have the nerve to say that? I spent over 10,000 just to buy this stone!

“You stingy dog, can’t you think bigger? It’s not 3,000; add two zeroes at the end!”

Lin Yi was right; such a large piece of icy-glutinous purple jadeite, if taken out intact, wouldn’t just be worth 30,000, even 60,000 would be reasonable!

Of course, that’s under the condition of being intact, and now it’s turned into seven or eight broken jade pieces, only fit for carving into small pendants, greatly reducing its value.

Even with an interested buyer, it would at most fetch 200,000, and not a penny more. This is a classic example of a one-hit loss of 400,000!

Nonetheless, for Lin Yi, it didn’t have any impact at all, because after breaking down and reconstituting these fragmented jades, even if it was the original quality, it could yield double the amount.

A piece of jade originally valued at 60,000, after reconstruction, would exceed a million in value!

This was why Lin Yi chose to use a hammer.

Ring ring ring.

Just when everyone was astonished by the price Lin Yi disclosed, Lin Jianguo’s phone rang while he was also examining the jade.

Checking the screen, it was a call from Empress Dowager Ye, but the content after picking up the call left Lin Yi, Li Huiqun, and others all startled.

“Lao Lin, you’re downstairs, right? Lin Yi’s principal and homeroom teacher came to our house. They’re outside the hallway, so just open the door to greet them properly.”

In the quiet basement, the voice from the phone’s earpiece spread clearly to everyone’s ears. Li Huiqun and a few others shivered reflexively.

The principal, to them, was naturally someone to be feared.

Lin Jianguo ended the call quickly and then got up to invite everyone to go welcome them.

Although reluctant, they couldn’t just bail now.

Upon reaching the hallway door and opening it, they immediately saw what seemed like the Wicked Witch and the principal, along with the school’s director of moral education standing at the door.

Perhaps due to the director of moral education’s large build, the reporters and influencers merely maintained a distance, taking photos…

[To be continued…]

ps: Finished writing the third Chapter, goodnight everyone!