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Chapter 177: This is albite, a fake!
After a moment, the agent placed the tea bowl heavily on the coffee table, causing the tea to spill out.
Then he glared at Lin Ran with a sullen face and said, "Mr. Lin Ran, what could this be if it weren't jadeite? Do you think it's quartz stone?"
Before Lin Ran could speak, he continued to laugh and said: "Mr. Chen Cheng, the jewelry appraisal expert you hired is unreliable. My suggestion is that you can replace him. He is really blind!"
He obviously regarded Lin Ran as Chen Cheng's clerk and belittled him.
When he heard someone slandering Lin Ran, Chen Cheng looked unhappy and said, "Mr. Ned, Brother Lin hasn't spoken yet, why are you so anxious?"
"What your men said is really unpleasant. They just said that this rough stone is fake. You also know that the rough stones on the market that are mainly used to pass off as jade are either quartz or marble." The agent was angry. He stood up and walked to Lin Ran.
He even snatched the flashlight from Lin Ran's hand without any explanation, shone it inside, and then showed it to everyone.
"Look, can quartz stone have such good light transmittance? Marble is even less likely." The agent said extremely impolitely.
Yang Jianlong was angry when he saw it. He wanted to snatch Lin Ran's flashlight back, but was stopped by Lin Ran.
"Jianlong, don't be unreasonable."
"But godfather, he bullies people too much!" Yang Jianlong muttered after being stopped.
"I have my own arrangements." Lin Ran looked on with a smile, waiting for the agent to finish his temper.
He was done with his temper, put the original stone back into the box, and threw the flashlight to Lin Ran.
"Mr. Chen Cheng, we have been cooperating for nearly a year. Could it be that the benefits I have brought to you are not as good as the little appraiser in front of you?"
The agent glanced sideways at Lin Ran and signaled Chen Cheng to fire him for offending him.
Chen Cheng was just sitting there with a frown on his face. After he made these mocking remarks, he stood up.
"Ned, don't go too far. This is China, not your mine."
"You?" The agent was suddenly scolded by Chen Cheng and seemed a little at a loss.
Although he does have the protection of his younger brother in China, he is now doing business in China and is not accompanied by bodyguards today.
If Chen Cheng really wanted to fight him, he would have to suffer the consequences of being dumb!
Frowning, the agent said, "Mr. Chen Cheng, do you not trust me?"
"Brother Lin didn't say anything, but you insulted him. How can I trust you?" Chen Cheng puffed up his chest and looked directly at the agent with no intention of giving in.
The agent originally thought that Lin Ran was just a small role, but he did not expect that Chen Cheng would stand up for him.
You must know that when he is doing business in China, the big boss is often accompanied by some treasure appraisers, who actually have the same status as domestic servants.
Treasure appraisers are even treated as commodities and exchanged, with no dignity at all.
This approach simply wouldn't work in China. After weighing the pros and cons, he folded his hands on his chest, sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, and said, "Okay, then let me hear what this third-rate treasure appraiser wants to say. ?”
Chen Cheng standing up to defend himself just now was something Lin Ran never expected.
The other party is an agent he trained in Myanmar, responsible for transporting jade from Myanmar back to the country. As the guy said, he is basically a partner.
Lin Ran and Chen Cheng only met once, and they could only be talked about, but they didn't really understand each other.
Chen Cheng actually fell out with his agent in order to maintain his dignity.
While being moved, Lin Ran also made up his mind to help Chen Cheng expose the conspiracy of the guy in front of him.
Looking at Chen Cheng's determined eyes, Lin Ran nodded and said, "This is indeed not quartz. Its scientific name is albite, or you call it Shuimozi. Am I right?"
The agent who was sitting on the sofa and shaking his legs suddenly stopped shaking his legs when he heard this and looked at Lin Ran expressionlessly, pretending to be calm!
"I don't know what you are talking about. You said this is not jade, but you came up with proof!" The agent was very shameless and seemed to have deceived many people.
Lin Ran looked at Chen Cheng: "Brother Chen, do you have a name here?"
"Of course." Chen Cheng said a few words to the clerk behind him. He left for a while and came back holding the scale.
"Brother Chen, based on your many years of experience in selling jade, what should be the quality of such a large jadeite rough stone?" Lin Ran asked.
Chen Cheng shook his head. He mostly came into contact with finished products and rarely with raw stones.
Recently, he was considering purchasing raw stones for processing, which could reduce production costs, so he gave the agent an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Lin Ran looked at the agent and said, "According to my many years of experience in looking at jade, the stone in my hand is definitely about one-third lighter than the original jade stone."
"If it were jade inside, its mass should be more than eight kilograms, but now that I'm holding it in my hand, it feels very light."
Put the rough stone in your hand on the scale, and sure enough the value showed six kilograms.
"It's unreasonable to make trouble. We'll find out by weighing a jadeite of the same size." The agent said disdainfully.
Lin Ran picked up the original stone, showed it to Chen Cheng and the agent, and then asked, "Then how do you explain the bubbles inside?"
Both jadeite and albite have cotton, but the cotton inside the albite is discontinuous, and there are translucent bubbles.
The jade cotton is continuous and linearly distributed without any transparency.
After Lin Ran's reminder, Chen Cheng also noticed this. He originally thought that the quality of the jade was just inferior, but he didn't expect it to be fake jade?
"Come and touch this jade surface again." Lin Ran took the original stone and asked Chen Cheng to touch the jade surface.
Chen Cheng did as he was told, but found nothing unusual.
Lin Ran asked: "Brother Chen, can you let me polish off some of the skin?"
"Please." Chen Cheng replied.
But the agent seemed very excited: "What are you going to do? Do you want to damage my jade and then frame me?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Ned, if this jade is real, I will naturally buy it and apologize to you in public." Chen Cheng said in a cold tone.
He felt that Lin Ran must have seen the problem!
Lin Ran picked up the rubbing knife and rubbed it on the surface for a while, making the jade's surface rough.
Then he smoothed it with sandpaper and handed it to Chen Cheng.
"Brother Chen, why don't you try touching it now?" Lin Ran had already touched it just now. He was a little worried at first, but now he was confident.
The moment Chen Cheng's fingers touched the surface, his expression changed!
Jade feels cold to the touch and has no temperature at all!
But the jade in front of me has a strong plastic quality and feels a little greasy.
After touching the jade bracelet on his hand, he confirmed what Lin Ran said.
"Mr. Ned, could you please explain the origin of this rough stone?"
Chen Cheng turned to the agent with a solemn expression!