Chapter 2313 - 2273: Counterfeit Goods in Jade City

Ye Qiu tugged at Cao Ling and Xiaomai, asking them what jade artifacts they liked. Ye Qiu would buy them all, but the two women weren’t particularly interested.

Lin Xiang had seen many jade artifacts in Southeast Asia, mainly transported from Myanmar, but hadn’t expected there to be even more here.

After browsing around, Cao Ling only bought a Jade Buddha, while Xiaomai and Lin Xiang didn’t want any jade artifacts.

Just as Ye Qiu was about to leave, he noticed a commotion in front of a store.

Ye Qiu and the three women went over to see that a female tourist suspected the jade artifact she bought was fake.

However, the store owner thought the female tourist was causing trouble.

This Jade City consists partly of Jiangbei Group’s self-management and partly of third parties. As for where their jade artifacts are imported from, it’s unclear.

But if someone dares to sell jade artifacts here, it certainly damages the reputation of the place.

As soon as a place has fake merchandise, it will eventually collapse sooner or later.

Ye Qiu squeezed forward, seeing the fashionable young female tourist saying, "They say everything here is genuine, but this jade, I can immediately tell it’s fake."

"Miss, if you don’t want to buy, then let it be. Don’t defame my business here."

The male owner said.

"How is this jade artifact fake?"

Ye Qiu asked.

"I’m from Zhongzhou, where it’s known for fake jade and initial inspection didn’t reveal it, but later I noticed this jade is too perfect, without a flaw, and upon closer examination, it’s clear this jade is definitely artificial, not transported from Myanmar."

The fake antiques, fake jade, and those synthetic diamonds from Zhongzhou are well-known, with this young woman coming from there likely knowledgeable.

She came to Jinling for holiday, heard the jade artifacts in Jade City are genuine, with a ten-fold compensation for fakes, and hence visited with her friends.

Of course, she perceived most are genuine here, except possibly some jade artifacts in this store might be mixed with fakes.

Genuine and fake sold together.

Ye Qiu took it, but his spiritual energy did not detect the presence of jade essence.

However, if this Jadeite stone were genuine, he would sense it through his spiritual energy.

This indicates the jade artifact was indeed fake.

Unexpectedly, fake goods appeared so quickly.

If that’s the case, this Jade City might not last for three years before going out of business.

Clearly, business depends on reputation.

But if a single bad apple spoils the whole batch, the loss would be huge.

"Return the jade artifact to me."

The owner said.

The counterpart did not recognize Ye Qiu.

However, Ye Qiu said, "How much for the jade artifact? I’ll buy it."

"Sir, you know your jade, selling for 180,000 to you."

180,000?

"Alright, I’ll buy it."

"There’s a problem, and you’re still buying?"

The young female tourist said.

Ye Qiu said nothing.

After swiping the card to purchase it, stepping outside the crowd, he called Cai Yong directly.

"Brother Qiu, it’s me, what’s up."

"Someone is selling fakes in Jade City just now."

Selling fakes?

Now, Jade City is managed by Jiangbei Group, which is handed to Cai Yong, although a professional manager might manage company affairs.

"Brother Qiu, which store is it?"

Cai Yong hadn’t heard about fake sales here; otherwise, he’d have taken swift action against the owner.

"Come over."

Ye Qiu invested significantly in this company and naturally didn’t want anyone to damage it so soon.

As Cai Yong hurried over, it took about half an hour, and Cai Yong found Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu handed the jade artifact to Cai Yong, saying, "I can be 100% sure this is a fake jade artifact; I just don’t know where the supply is from. You need to investigate it thoroughly; I hope not to see another bad apple."

Cai Yong also understood; if the reputation of Jade City is affected, things will turn terrible later.

Cai Yong got Ye Qiu’s point, and as Cai Yong went to handle the issue, Ye Qiu was preparing to leave with Cao Ling, Lin Xiang, and Xiaomai.

These three women, of course, knew this Jade City was actually Ye Qiu’s property.

Initially, on the first day of operation, the revenue reached a hundred billion.

It’s conceivable how much wealth this Jade City brought to Ye Qiu.

As Ye Qiu was about to leave with the three women, stepping outside Jade City, he unexpectedly saw several thuggish-looking individuals surrounding those female tourists.

Among them, someone Ye Qiu found familiar; wasn’t she the young female tourist from Zhongzhou?

"Ye Qiu, it seems those people want to assault the female tourist."

Cao Ling could see it.

Ye Qiu knew this was retaliation.

Retaliation from the jade shop against the female tourist.

How terrifying!

Ye Qiu hurried over as those thugs tried to make a move on the female tourist, swiftly knocking them to the ground, saying, "With me, Ye Qiu here, see who dares to act."

Ye Qiu?

Isn’t he Brother Qiu?

Cai Yong’s boss?

Unless they don’t want to live anymore.

As the thugs, clutching their pain, hurriedly ran off, Ye Qiu looked at the female tourist and asked, "Miss, are you and your friends okay?"

"I’m fine. I just saw these people chasing me. It should be called by that jade store owner." Clearly, this female tourist was also scared.

If she’d known earlier, she wouldn’t have meddled.

"Do you want to report it to the police?" Ye Qiu asked.

"No need, reporting won’t help." The female tourist thought this place was certainly colluding.

Of course, many places are like this.

However, she was frightened, so she decided to leave Jinling as soon as possible.

Now she wanted to return to the hotel with her friends, then fly out of Jinling back home today.

"Thanks for your help, we’re okay now." The female tourist said.

"If you’re worried about personal safety, you can leave with me first."

Ye Qiu’s car was right outside.

As the female tourist and her friends came over, they were surprised to see the young man, dressed plainly, driving a luxury Land Rover, realizing why he acted so generously, buying the fake jade artifact.

"To be honest, that Jade City is my business. I don’t want anyone selling fakes there."

This young man’s business?

The female tourist and her friends were amazed.

This young man is quite something!

"Jade City has self-managed and third-party businesses, and the one just now should be a third-party one. The self-operated would have no reason to sell fakes since I have a stable jade supply from Myanmar, regularly delivered here. Moreover, it’s the largest Jade City in the Yangtze River Delta."