Chapter 203: Spirit Jade
Chapter 203: Spirit Jade
Su Yazhen was quite surprised. “You want to invest?”
“Yes.”
Zhong Yunxiu subconsciously straightened her chest.
This was the only point where she could surpass Su Yazhen, something to boost her confidence. “I know many friends. My family has many connections too. I could help with sales promotion, even endorsement advertising?”
Su Yazhen couldn’t help but laugh. “Then I’ll give you five percent.”
Her relationship with Zhong Yunxiu was extremely close, closer than real sisters. So she decided to give part of her own share directly to Zhong Yunxiu.
Additionally, although the Zhong family’s influence couldn’t match the Su family’s, they still held significant weight in Huhai (modeled after Shanghai).
Zhong Yunxiu wasn’t exaggerating when she said she could help promote.
“Only five percent?”
The beautiful young lady looked a bit disappointed and pouted. “Fine.”
Su Yazhen smiled faintly.
If it were anyone else, she wouldn’t part with even one percent.
Zhong Yunxiu was too young to understand just how much profit that five percent represented!
Last night, after the birthday banquet at Su Garden ended, Ye Jinlan had specially kept Su Yazhen behind.
The old lady of the Su family questioned her in detail about how she obtained the raw jade.
Then the old lady instructed Su Yazhen to find Gao Jing by any means necessary to uncover the source of the jade.
If Gao Jing still had more of this miraculous jade that shone brilliantly when placed in water and made the wearer feel incredibly at ease,
buy it all at any cost!
If Gao Jing possessed a large quantity of this raw material, secure the exclusive agency rights at all costs.
In Ye Jinlan’s eyes, this unheard-of, wondrous jade could crush all Southern Myanmar jadeite into dust.
That included the highest grade, old mine, glass-type Imperial Green jadeite!
Having just a few pieces wasn’t a big deal.
But if Gao Jing truly had a mine of it, it could completely overturn the top-tier jade market within the country!
There were simply too many opportunities here for manipulation and enormous profits involved.
Though the old lady hadn’t stated it explicitly, Su Yazhen knew exactly what she needed to do.
Once she secured the agency rights and controlled the supply,
her first move wouldn’t be to immediately flood the market with this jade.
Instead, she would first finely carve a batch of jewelry pieces.
Then… stockpile them.
Stockpile them until when?
Until Ye Jinlan had completely sold off all the top-quality jade she had collected over decades!
Otherwise, if Gao Jing’s jade products hit the market too early, Ye Jinlan’s lifelong savings risked devaluation, becoming much harder to liquidate.
Su Yazhen deeply admired the old lady’s calculation.
Despite being eighty years old, her mind remained razor-sharp!
Precisely because of this, Su Yazhen had earlier willingly offered part of her own profits to Gao Jing.
All to monopolize the supply.
This business venture, if successful, wouldn’t be small-time, involving mere hundreds of millions!
Clearly, Zhong Yunxiu only wanted to join in for fun.
She had no idea how much she stood to gain!
“Mr. Gao,”
Su Yazhen asked, “Do you have other colors of this jade? Is it graded like regular jadeite, such as glass type, icy type, waxy type, and so on?”
This was essential information she needed, bearing directly on raw material pricing.
Gao Jing didn’t answer straight away.
He simply reached into the bag he carried.
Then he pulled out one piece, two pieces, three pieces, four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven pieces.
A total of seven jade pieces were placed before Su Yazhen!
The jade pieces were similar in size, all raw material with the outer stone layer removed.
The seven pieces displayed seven colors: green, purple, blue, yellow, red, white, and ink-black. Their quality was either glass type or icy type.
Waxy type? What kind of junk stuff was that?
Gao Jing wouldn’t bother with such trash!
Under the light, the seven-colored stones shimmered vividly.
Their captivating jade radiance illuminated the widened eyes of Su Yazhen and Zhong Yunxiu!
Zhong Yunxiu murmured softly, “So beautiful…”
Each piece was roughly fist-sized. Placed together, their visual impact was extraordinarily powerful.
Su Yazhen herself was momentarily dazzled.
But she was no ordinary person and quickly regained her composure.
Miss Su spoke very seriously to Gao Jing: “Now, I feel even more confident about this partnership!”
“Mn.”
Gao Jing lightly tapped the tabletop with his finger and said, “Miss Su, consider these as samples. Take them back to grade and appraise them. We’ll use their value as a reference for future pricing.”
He had prepared these pieces long ago, storing them in his Storage Space.
Now was the perfect time to use them.
According to their agreement, Gao Jing was effectively the first to sell raw material to Su Yazhen.
For a long-term, exclusive agency deal, clear pricing standards were essential to prevent future issues.
Honestly, Gao Jing’s own value assessment for the Seven-Colored Stones had nothing to do with typical jade color or water/transparency grades.
The deciding factor was entirely the amount of Spiritual Energy it contained.
But in the Primary World, who besides him could measure the Spiritual Energy content in Seven-Colored Stones?
To avoid complications, he decided it was simplest for Su Yazhen’s side to grade and appraise it.
After all, processing and sales were her responsibilities – Gao Jing had no intention of interfering.
Su Yazhen showed great sincerity; naturally, he wanted to demonstrate a partnership spirit.
“Alright,”
Su Yazhen gave Gao Jing a profound look and said: “Then I’ll transfer five billion into your account right now, as the advance payment for the first batch of raw material.”
Gao Jing nodded.
He gained fresh recognition for the boldness of this affluent heiress.
“By the way, Mr. Gao,”
Su Yazhen asked again: “Do you happen to have larger pieces?”
“Yes,”
Gao Jing replied. “I have material weighing several tons. And I assure you, apart from me, no one else in this world possesses the same jade!”
Was there anyone else on Blue Star who held a Bronze Anchor like his, enabling travel to the Great World?
Impossible.
It was absolutely unique!
Frankly, he could easily provide glass-type jade weighing hundreds of tons, not just a few tons.
But that would just be too shocking.
Though Su Yazhen might not believe it a hundred percent, Gao Jing’s absolute confidence left her unable to doubt him.
“Uncle,”
In that moment, Zhong Yunxiu, who had snapped out of her daze, suggested brightly: “Shouldn’t we give your jade a special name? To set it apart from regular jade?”
Gao Jing and Su Yazhen exchanged a glance.
She made a good point!
The Seven-Colored Stone was not ordinary jade.
It possessed strange properties like shining brilliantly in water and the wondrous ability to nourish the wearer’s body.
From a marketing perspective, it absolutely needed its own exclusive name.
To clearly distinguish it.
Su Yazhen smiled: “Mr. Gao, you should be the one to name your jade.”
“Then let’s call it…”
Gao Jing didn’t refuse. He paused thoughtfully before replying: “‘Ling Fei’. ‘Ling’ like ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirit energy’.”
To be precise, the ‘Ling’ in it referred to ‘Spiritual Energy’!
“‘Ling Fei’? (Spirit Jade)”
Su Yazhen considered it, then nodded firmly: “Good. From now on, that’s what we’ll call it – Spirit Jade!”