"Ah, given the situation now, I don’t want anything else." The hoowner’s son slapped his thigh and said directly to Chen Yiyang, "Besides the house, I don’t want anything else.
By the way, you might as well have soone tear down all the floors and wall coverings in the house. Otherwise, the bugs inside won’t be thoroughly eradicated."
"In that case, the costs could get complicated." Chen Yiyang said, feigning difficulty.
"Just start working, and once you’re done, we can settle this and co up with a fair price. How about that?"
"That works." Chen Yiyang nodded in agreent.
After sending off the hoowner’s son, Chen Yiyang called for a cleaning company.
The company’s manager walked in, took one look, then imdiately ran out, covering his mouth.
He ran to a tree pit, leaned on the tree, and started vomiting.
He vomited for over twenty minutes.
The manager then held up three fingers to Chen Yiyang. "Thirty thousand. If it’s not thirty thousand, don’t even think about discussing this."
"Alright." Chen Yiyang nodded. He figured that at least half of the thirty thousand was compensation for ntal anguish.
He then told the manager, "However, you need to prioritize cleaning near the basent. I have things in the basent that I need to take."
"Sure." The manager nodded in agreent.
Due to the high price of the job and its difficulty,
the manager was concerned that Chen Yiyang wouldn’t pay afterward, so he asked for fifteen thousand upfront as a deposit.
While the manager instructed his employees to bring the equipnt for cleaning, Chen Yiyang drove off to buy so protective gear and stored it in his car.
In the afternoon,
the entire cleaning crew arrived.
Chen Yiyang put on the protective gear, covering himself from head to toe, and followed them inside to inspect.
But within ten minutes, he regretted it and walked out of the room.
Wearing the protective suit, he couldn’t sll the stench emanating from inside the house.
However, the visual scene was terrifying.
Lifting a cover would result in dozens of cockroaches crawling out.
Kicking a basket on the floor could scatter five or six rats.
Several employees from the cleaning company couldn’t handle it and left first.
The more daring employees, ard with insecticide, advanced inch by inch.
After spraying the clutter on the floor, they dragged everything outside the house.
These items were just too filthy.
Chen Yiyang felt embarrassed to leave them on the street for sanitation workers to clean up.
So he spent a few hundred yuan to hire a garbage truck.
They loaded all the trash onto the garbage truck.
Even so, the work progressed very slowly.
The original hoowner practically used the house as a warehouse, cramd full of things.
A single garbage truck was filled within an hour and had to leave.
The cleaning company had no choice but to bring in a few more employees from a fellow company to help.
Fortunately, by nightfall, the area near the basent was mostly cleaned up.
Chen Yiyang then donned his protective gear, walked over, and knocked off the rusted basent lock with a wrench before entering.
Unlike the insect-infested scenes upstairs, the basent was passable.
The basent wasn’t filled with clutter, just so tools for cutting jade stones and a few boxes.
Since these were just iron lumps, insects and rats didn’t favor the area. So, while covered in dust, it was not infested.
Chen Yiyang quickly inspected the area.
Aside from the box filled with jade, as ntioned in the report, there was nothing else.
He carried the box full of jade out.
By then, the sky had turned dark.
The curious onlookers had dispersed.
Except for the cleaning company staff, no one else was around.
Chen Yiyang took the box to his car and placed it in the trunk.
"You guys keep working. I’m heading out," Chen Yiyang said to the cleaning crew.
"We probably won’t finish today; it’ll have to be tomorrow."
"Just contact when you’re almost done," Chen Yiyang said, then rembered sothing.
He had promised the hoowner’s son to find people to strip the floors and walls for inspection to prevent insect and rat nests.
So he asked the cleaning company to recomnd a renovation company and contacted them to co the next day.
Once the cleaning company cleared away the junk, the renovation crew would scrape the walls.
Leaving the street behind, Chen Yiyang dragged the box with jade directly back to his apartnt.
After wiping down the entire box with alcohol wipes, he opened it.
Inside lay a pile of strangely shaped, uncarved jade stones.
Chen Yiyang took photos of these items and sent them to his friend Ah Niu in the jadeite industry whom he t in Jin City.
After seeing the pictures, Ah Niu called Chen Yiyang.
"Where did you get so much waste material, my friend?"
"Waste?" Chen Yiyang was startled, thinking he might suffer a loss this ti.
Could it be that these jadeites aren’t very valuable?
"It’s not exactly waste. These should be jadeite raw materials left after bracelets were made," Ah Niu explained over the phone.
"Look at these jadeites, aren’t they like slabs? But the middle part has been hollowed out."
"That’s right, this box has about ten pieces of jadeite like this, all with a bracelet-shaped hollow in the middle," Chen Yiyang replied.
"This shape is because so rather bold jadeite rchants only make bracelets and nothing else.
So when they buy large jadeite, they directly cut it into slabs and hollow out the parts used for bracelets, leaving the rest to sell to others for further processing.
I see that your batch of jadeite is of very good quality. Even though the middle part has been hollowed out for bracelets, the leftover scraps are probably too precious to have been sold. How have they been preserved until now?"
Facing Ah Niu’s question, Chen Yiyang had to answer, "These jadeites were bought from a jadeite rchant. He said they were leftovers from a long ti ago, forgotten, and only recently rediscovered."
"Brother, how much did you buy this batch of jadeite for?" Ah Niu asked with great interest.
"Why don’t you tell how much this batch of jadeite is worth first?" rebutted Chen Yiyang.
"I’ll conservatively estimate, at least two million."
Ah Niu quoted a price that surprised even Chen Yiyang.
"Isn’t it supposed to be waste? How can it be so valuable?"
"Yes, it’s waste, but it’s waste left from making bracelets. Do you know what jadeite is used to make bracelets?
Only the best quality jadeite with the least impurities is worthy of being made into bracelets.
Even though these leftover scraps can’t be made into bracelets, they can still produce high-quality jadeite jewelry.
My two million is a conservative estimate. If you actually put them on the market, you might get up to three million if priced reasonably."
"Alright then," said Chen Yiyang, after listening to Ah Niu. "I’ll drive to Jin City tonight. Help contact your acquaintances in the industry. Tomorrow morning, they can co and look at the goods. We’ll do the transaction on the spot, cash for the goods. How about it?"
"No problem," Ah Niu imdiately agreed.
After their first collaboration, Ah Niu and Chen Yiyang had t several tis for tea and chats.
So he trusted Chen Yiyang, knowing that helping out would eventually benefit him too.
Carrying a box worth two million jadeite, Chen Yiyang couldn’t sleep.
He got out and put the box of jadeite back into the car’s trunk.
Then he drove his Hongqi car all the way towards Jin City.
Driving from Jin City to West Capital takes more than seven hours.
If Chen Yiyang drove by himself, it would definitely be fatigue driving.
He wouldn’t be so careless, risking danger for millions.
So about three hours into the drive, he parked at a rest area, ate sothing, and waited.
Soon after, a car stopped here.
Zhou Jianjun got out and approached.
"Boss," Zhou Jianjun greeted Chen Yiyang.
When Chen Yiyang joined the peeled fruits and vegetables factory, Zhou Jianjun also started earning an additional salary as Chen Yiyang’s driver.
Now, he earns more than ten thousand a month with very simple job duties.
So any request from Chen Yiyang was executed without question.
After receiving Chen Yiyang’s ssage, he took a taxi, instructing the driver to bring him to the rest area.
"Get in the car, you drive and we’ll continue to Jin City," ordered Chen Yiyang, letting Zhou Jianjun drive.
While he himself took a nap in the back seat.
Upon arrival in Jin City, dawn was just breaking.
Chen Yiyang told Zhou Jianjun to head back while he carried the box of jadeite to his apartnt for a nap.
By nine in the morning.
He took the box to Ah Niu’s shop.
By then, quite a few people had gathered at Ah Niu’s shop.
Hearing that a batch of cheap jadeite already showing its quality was for sale, many colleagues ca to see the situation.
Even after a nap, Chen Yiyang, still a bit lacking in energy, carried the box into Ah Niu’s shop and opened it for inspection.
Just as Ah Niu had said.
The quality of the jadeite was exceptionally high.
Moreover, so jadeite ca from old mines, now hard to find unprocessed.
Every boss present began to bid.
Ah Niu stood beside Chen Yiyang, helping to judge whether the prices were reasonable.
Chen Yiyang offered about fifteen percent less than the market price, but only if paid on the spot.
By lunchti.
The entire box of jadeite had been sold completely.
Chen Yiyang received a total of three million one hundred and twenty thousand.
Apparently, Ah Niu’s earlier estimate was really conservative.
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