Hai Dongyang nodded, then had his assistant exchange phone numbers with Tao Qing, add her on WeChat, and send her the location so that they could use navigation if they didn't know the way.

Le Yao glanced at it and saw that it wasn't too far from the mountaintop villa where she lived, about ten miles away.

Once Hai Shao saw that everything was settled, he got up to say goodbye.

Nangong Jue hasn't returned yet, and Le Yao can't go out, so what can she do? She can only continue looking at the stones and spending money.

The waiter had already earned over ten thousand yuan in commissions and was beaming with joy. As soon as he heard that the boss wanted to buy more stones, he immediately ran downstairs.

Le Yao just bought whichever one she liked, since she had nothing better to do anyway.

However, this waiter had already attracted the attention of many big shots, and they all followed him after seeing him come down.

The waiter was a man of the world; he calmly went over and reserved all the dozen or so stones that Le Yao had her eye on, then had them delivered to the stone-viewing room.

The stone-cutting masters in the stone-cutting room also get a share of the profits if they win, so they are naturally very happy.

Those who wanted to buy from him were a bit frustrated because this person didn't check the outer skin, the moss patterns, or the cracks; he just bought whichever stone looked good. It was incredibly capricious. In all the years that public auctions have been held, we've encountered capricious people before, but never anyone this capricious.

More importantly, their capriciousness is like being blessed with good luck. Look at this. They casually bought more than a dozen stones, spending three million, and what was the result? Only two stones yielded nothing, while the rest all yielded valuable items. Although none were as top-grade as glass-type imperial green, they had two pieces of icy jade and two pieces of glutinous jade, all of which were quite large, with a total value exceeding fifty million.

Those who were watching the spectacle were no longer able to feel envious or jealous. Had all the green stones in the market been bought up by this one person?

Sanya glanced at Black Hawk: "I really didn't expect that Tina to be so lucky."

Black Hawk remained silent, standing there quietly.

"Let's go back." Sang Ya got up and walked out, toying with the stone that Le Yao had given her before. Suddenly, she stopped. "Do you think there might be something green inside this stone?"

Black Hawk shook his head: "I don't understand this."

"Then let's go open it before we leave." Sanya tossed the stone to Black Hawk.

Black Hawk turned and went back into the stone chamber.

Because the stone was small, it wasn't processed by machine but rather cut manually. Unfortunately, they weren't lucky and found nothing inside.

"Heh." Sang Ya sneered, then turned and left.

Black Hawk hurriedly followed.

Le Yao had no interest in the stones at the moment, because Nangong Jue had been gone for several hours and hadn't returned yet. She had called him but he didn't answer. When she asked Yuan Bin and Tao Qing, they didn't know what Nangong Jue had been doing either.

"Don't worry, the Duke will be fine," Tao Qing comforted Le Yao. "He's probably just held up by something."

Le Yao nodded, and could only continue to wait, but she had no interest in buying anything anymore. Instead, she stared at the screen, watching the situation in the lobby, and suddenly frowned: "Where are Byron and Ai Chen?"

Tao Qing and Yuan Bin also hurriedly searched around, but they couldn't find the two people.

"I'll go down and take a look." Yuan Bin exchanged a glance with Tao Qing, then turned and went out.

Meanwhile, in a secluded spot not far from the manor, Byron was subdued.