"Chairman Liu, you need to rest right now. Although you just only fainted, it"s not too big of a hindrance. If you don"t rest well, you could possibly develop cancer." Yan Tian looked at Liu Ruoxin who was preparing to go to work and scared her.
"What? Get cancer?" As soon as Liu Ruoxin heard she could get cancer, she immediately looked at Yan Tian incredulously.
In order for Liu Ruoxin to get sufficient rehabilitation, Yan Tian was forced to put forward his Oscar-winning acting skills to continue to trick Liu Ruoxin.
"Yes, I"ve studied medicine before. With your current situation, you"re at the most susceptible to developing cancer. Therefore, you need to relax properly, eat more high-protein, high-calorie foods." Yan Tian said to Liu Ruoxin earnestly.
As soon as Liu Ruoxin heard Yan Tian"s word, she thought it over for a moment. Looking at Yan Tian again, she skeptically asked: "Is what you"re saying true? If you dare to trick me, I"ll deduct your wages."
As he heard Liu Ruoxin, his heart thumped. He thought to himself, if I let Liu Ruoxin discover I tricked her, it won"t do if she actually turns out to deduct my salary. It would be a huge joke.
However, he had said this, so Yan Tian was forced to grit his teeth and say: "Oh my, Chairman Liu, how could I possibly trick you?"
Through Yan Tian"s continuous deception, Liu Ruoxin finally decided to rest for a day. She gave the company"s vice chairman a call and explained some matters. Afterwards, she sat down on the sofa and watched Korean drama. That was right, Liu Ruoxin liked to watch Korean drama as well.
This made Yan Tian terribly angry. He had duped her for half the day, and in the end, he was even unable to watch television. There was no way around it; who made him work outside of his job?
Yan Tian sat for a while honestly feeling bored. He decided he would spend this idle period to look for a jade store to see whether or not he could find a piece of blood jade.
"Chairman Liu, is there a place that sells jade nearby?" Since his understanding of Fengan City wasn’t especially deep, Yan Tian was forced to ask Liu Ruoxin.
"Jade? Why are you looking for jade?" Liu Ruoxin asked quite curiously.
"I want to find a piece of blood jade."
"Blood jade? What are you going to do? You"re better off not buying that kind of jade." After Liu Ruoxin heard that Yan Tian wanted to go look for blood jade, she then warned him with good intentions.
"Haha, it"s not a problem. I have a little use for it, nothing more.
"On Fengping road there"s a pretty good jewelry store. Go there and take a look." Liu Ruoxin thought it over and told Yan Tian of a jewelry store.
After Yan Tian heard Liu Ruoxin, he bade farewell to her and Auntie Sun, then got into the car and set off.
As Yan Tian drove the red Porsche swiftly, he found the jewelry store Liu Ruoxin spoke of. The store"s name was Jade Pavillion. At this time it seemed there wasn’t a single person inside.
"Is the boss here?" Just as Yan Tian entered, he said loudly.
"Hey, come in, come in."
Immediately afterwards, a seemingly forty-year-old man came out of a small room within the shop. At the moment, the man was all smiles, looking at Yan Tian.
"Mister, what do you require?"
"Do you have blood jade here? I want to buy a piece of blood jade." Yan Tian directly headed straight to the point.
"Oh my, young man. You can consider yourself to have found the right man. Let me tell you, others may not understand much, but I understand the most about blood jade." The store owner immediately chuckled.
"Then give me a piece." Yan Tian pressingly said.
"But Mister, I don"t know what kind of blood jade you want? Blood jade is divided into different categories." As soon as the store owner heard Yan Tian wanted a piece, he was excited, since if he sold a piece there would be much profit.
Blood jade was divided into categories? Yan Tian was ignorant of this matter. He had always believed there was a only a single jade cla.s.sification. He didn’t expect that jade would be divided into separate categories.
"How many categories are there?" Facing the store owner, Yan Tian lacked the slightest bit of knowledge.
The store owner thought it over, then explained: "For blood jade, there are two cla.s.sification. The first is produced in the snowy plateau of Tibet, and that is a red jade. It is called the Song of Gonjo Ma. It"s more commonly known as plateau blood jade. Due to it dark red coloring it has gained this name."
The store owner picked up a cup of water, took a sip, and continued to speak.
"Anyways, the other kind of blood jade makes people feel a little frightened. This indicates it is not such a simple kind of jade, rather, it points to a jade seeped thoroughly in blood. Whether it is jadeite or nephrite, as long as the inside has been seeped in blood, then it is blood jade.
As Yan Tian heard this, he knit his brows. He himself didn’t know what type of blood jade the the crummy ring needed. Furthermore, the book only said that blood jade was capable of breaking the seal. However, it didn’t speak of what kind of blood jade.
"Mister doesn"t know which one he needs?" The store owner finished speaking, then asked, faintly smiling.
"Blood jade? Seeped in blood? How is it done?" Yan Tian was in no hurry to say which one he needed, on the contrary, he was quite curious about blood jade.
"You can consider yourself to have asked the right man. The formation of blood jade and corpses are related. As people bury the dead, they place a jade artifact in the mouth. Then, the jade forcibly goes through the person"s mouth. If the person just died, the jade will be swallowed in one breath and will then freely fall through the throat. It then enters the veins and arteries and is thickly covered within. After the pa.s.sage of a millennia, and the blood has seeped through in death, strands of blood will have pa.s.sed through the core of the jade. Then it has formed a magnificent blood jade." The store owner explained patiently.
There was human blood soaked within blood jade? If this came forward, who would dare to wear it?
"There"s a relation between blood jade and people? What if it"s an animal?" Yan Tian looked at the store owner suspiciously.
"Everyone knows blood jade is quite precious. Because of this, even though the production method is simple, the price is high. As a result fake dealers use a type of seemingly natural method to produce blood jade. They take a jade and put it in a dog"s mouth and seal its mouth. After the dog has breathed it"s last, it"s skeleton is buried in the earth and after several tens of years it is exhumed. You can get blood jade like this. Of course, no matter if it is human blood or dog blood, both are relatively spiritually sensitive. Within dog blood jade there is resentment congealed inside. Furthermore, there is no benefit to the wearer."
"Since blood jade is so precious, why is there so much blood jade on the market?" Yan Tian curiously said.
If what was said was just as the store owner stated to be, and blood jade was so precious. Why had Yan Tian seen so much blood jade before? Among poor people, many of them wore it.
"Hehehe, young man. In the current era, the reason why blood jade is so plentiful is because of artificial dye. This type of jade, although many people call it blood jade, it simply not genuine blood jade. This kind of blood jade doesn"t have the slightest bit of spirituality." The store owner laughed, then carefully explained.
After Yan Tian listened to the store owner"s explanation, he thought it over and felt at ease. Right now, there were a lot of unscrupulous businessmen. In concern to expensive items, those dealers would naturally think of all methods to pa.s.s off a counterfeit. Furthermore, they were able to frequently pa.s.s off fakes as genuine articles.
Take the cell phone market in general. They would frequently give rise to high-quality fake cell phones. These high-quality fakes were much cheaper than the the going market price by far. Since people regularly sought small advantages, they were deceived.
"Then what is the price of true blood jade?"
Yan Tian knew of the preciousness of blood jade. As soon as he asked the price, he didn’t believe that a fake piece of blood jade would be able to activate the ring.
"The price? For the first type of of naturally-occurring blood jade, since the production amount is extremely scarce, the price should be around a 1,000,00 RMB. For the second type of blood jade, although its man made, it"s also extremely rare. Human blood jade where there is a jade within the corpse is the most expensive one. According to the product quality"s fixed price, it"s a few less several thousand. However, they often reach a 1,000,000RMB and so far as 10,000,000 RMB." The store owner answered in the same old smiling manner.
When Yan Tian heard what the store owner had said, he almost face planted on the ground. So it happened to be that it held a weight of a 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 RMB. Even if he worked his entire life, he still wouldn"t have enough to buy half of one.
"Do you have it here as of now?" Although Yan Tian couldn"t buy it, he planned to first have the store owner take it out to look at.
"Haha, such a precious item; my small store naturally does not possess it. If mister wants, I can actually help you find a place that does." The store owner smiled, nodding his head.
How could such a precious treasure be possibly casually taken out in the store? Yan Tian thought about it and felt at ease. In general, there weren’t many people offering to buy rare items. Furthermore, when they were put on the market, there would be an auction. An ordinary jewelry store would naturally not own these treasures.
"Eh, hold on, can you repeat what you just said?" Yan Tian scratched his head embarra.s.singly.
In fact, Yan Tian didn’t plan on buying blood jade today. It had to be known that right now he only had several tens of RMB in his pocket. He couldn’t even afford a fake. He was only taking advantage of his free time to take a look.
However, taking a look at the price had scared Yan Tian stiff. Originally, he had planned that as soon as he had sufficient wages, he would go buy it. But right now, it seemed like he didn’t have several years to save up enough money. Yan Tian thought to himself, should I go do several a.s.signments?
"OK, that"s fine. This is my business card. If you want to find me, you can." The store owner said, then handed over his business card to Yan Tian.