So many enthusiastic readers who deeply love Hongchang (Red Sausage) and X-ray vision have sent tips again; I'm deeply moved!

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The Swift car crawled into the Hongkangshengshi residential complex at a snail's pace.

By the time Wang Zhuo got out, Qi Fei and Qiu Lu, who had arrived earlier, had already finished unloading the vehicle.

"You drove this slow on purpose, slacking off, didn't you?" Qi Fei laughed, wiping sweat from his brow as he took the chilled mineral water Wang Zhuo handed him.

"Why is this garage so huge?" Qiu Lu looked around, feeling something was odd.

Wang Zhuo smiled, "It was three separate garages knocked into one.

The original dividers were thin plywood, so I had the property management arrange to have them removed." "Is the rough material safe here?" Qiu Lu's primary concern was still this.

"The complex has 24-hour surveillance, plus the local police station.

My dad also installed an electronic guard dog on this door.

As long as we aren't facing armed robbers, it's definitely safe." "That's still not a sure thing.

In Guangdong, people have even used trucks and guns to rob pig farms," Qiu Lu chuckled, "That news story was all over—and that place is supposedly the safest in the entire country." "Don't listen to those officials blabbering to you," Wang Zhuo waved his hand dismissively.

"Anyone can brag.

In reality, once you actually assess it, the Northeast is safer." "Let's put irrelevant talk aside for now." Qi Fei finished a bottle of water and let out a contented sigh, turning to Wang Zhuo.

"That piece of material wasn't good, was it?

Why did you sell it?" Wang Zhuo was just wondering how to explain that when Qiu Lu's phone rang at the perfect moment.

"Hello?

Brother Qiu?!" "I have big news for you: the rough stone your friend sold?

It was a complete flop!" "How badly did it flop?

Let me put it this way: besides that slice of blue-water jade the size of a piece of bread he cut out underneath, the only other jade found was a piece the size of a ping-pong ball where you polished it!

It’s truly bizarre!" "Are you sure nothing was missed?

Impossible!

It’s been sliced into thin pieces!

They even changed the saw blades twice!" "A bangle?

No way!

The width isn't enough.

If you tried to make it into a bangle, it would only fit a three-year-old!" "A southerner with a small mustache offered a hundred thousand for it, and got into an argument with that group of people.

If security hadn't intervened quickly, that man with the mustache might have ended up hospitalized." "Honestly, a hundred thousand isn't bad.

I estimate you could have bought it for seventy or eighty thousand." …… Hanging up the phone, the two men stared at Wang Zhuo with looks of utter disbelief, unable even to voice their questions, because the situation was simply too miraculous!

After a long pause, Qi Fei swallowed hard and asked, "Did you really do that on purpose?" Wang Zhuo certainly couldn't admit it.

"I guessed it, I absolutely guessed it." "How much did you buy that piece of rough for?" Qiu Lu asked.

Wang Zhuo pulled out the receipt from his pocket, only then realizing he didn't even know the identification number of that rough stone, and gave a wry smile.

"Unless we match every single piece of material here, we can find the exact price.

But I estimate it was around thirty thousand yuan." Qiu Lu and Qi Fei exchanged glances.

Turning seventy or eighty thousand out of a thirty-thousand-yuan rough was indeed a profit.

But the miraculous part was the two incredibly deceptive viewing windows, which led others to mistakenly believe it had the potential to be a massive, fully green stone, thus skyrocketing its perceived value.

After this artificial inflation, the stone would inevitably revert to its actual worth.

However, through this transfer, Wang Zhuo effortlessly pocketed over two million, while those who bought the material lost everything!

It was divine!

Qiu Lu couldn't help but ask, "Did you know all along that stone would fail?" "I was just guessing, because the performance of that stone wasn't very optimistic," Wang Zhuo continued his fabrication.

"I studied those two polished spots carefully.

The profit wasn't unexpected, but I truly didn't anticipate the material would collapse to this extent." This statement was pure fabrication.

When he selected that piece, he knew it only contained those two patches of blue-water jade and estimated it might double in price, so he bought it.

What he hadn't anticipated wasn't that Zheng Mingshun and the others would lose big after buying it, but that someone would be willing to pay a hundred thousand for those two pieces of blue water, far exceeding his estimate.

However, this explanation fooled Qiu Lu and Qi Fei.

After all, such a bizarre event could only be explained away as coincidence.

If anyone was to blame, it was only those people for having poor eyesight and bad luck.

Having thoroughly taken Zheng Mingshun and that Fatty Li for a ride, Wang Zhuo was in high spirits.

"Brother Qiu hasn't been to my place before.

Come upstairs for a drink!" Qiu Lu nodded with a smile, then suddenly remembered something.

"Has Sister Qi been here before?" Talk about bringing up a sensitive topic.

Qi Fei managed an unnaturally forced smile.

"I passed by once a while ago, so I dropped in for a bit." Wang Zhuo managed a dry chuckle.

Qiu Lu's question immediately brought to mind the scene of Qi Fei's accidental exposure that day.

From her somewhat strained expression, he guessed she must have thought of it too.

The three of them stepped into the elevator.

Qi Fei suddenly recalled something and asked, "Wang Zhuo, does anyone else live at your place now?" For some reason, she