Furthermore, Chu Tian planned to purchase a large amount of jade. At this time, the Kashgar Yulong River and the Karakax River, which are rich in Hetian jade, have not yet started mining. Whether it is mutton-fat jade, black jade, green jade, etc., all of them are fine products. As long as you have a little money, you can ask the villagers to exchange them, or ask them to help pick them up and collect them when you come next time.

In southern Xinjiang at this time, except for the area under the jurisdiction of the Corps and the city, the people there were basically ethnic minorities who had lived there for generations, so most of them could not speak Chinese. Chu Tian walked in the village for a long time before he found a little boy who went to school in the city and could speak Chinese.

Chu Tian took out a handful of candies that ethnic minorities loved from his pocket and handed them to him, saying, "Adasi, I'll give you some candy. Can you help me translate?"

"good."

The little boy nodded and carefully took the candy from Chu Tian's hand.

Chu Tian said in a lighter tone, "I want white jade. Do you know who has it?"

Before the little boy could say anything, his adult ran over, pulled the little boy in front of him, bent down and said a lot of words in Uyghur, looking at Chu Tian as he spoke. The boy took out the candy in his pocket and showed it to the man, and also said a lot of words in Uyghur. Finally, he looked at the man with an uncertain look on his face and said something, and the boy nodded heavily.

The man stood up, walked up to Chu Tian, ​​and asked in broken Chinese, "Adasi, what do you want to exchange?"

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Money or flour and rice."

The man looked at the little boy, and the boy quickly translated. Chu Tian saw the man's face light up instantly, and hurriedly said a long string of words in Uyghur. The little boy nodded and looked at Chu Tian again.

"My Ata said that I have white jade at home. If you want it, you can go and have a look. My family wants white flour and rice, and we don't want money."

(Ata is the Uyghur word for father.)

Chu Tian thought for a moment before nodding, "Okay, but I still have to see if the white jade is good enough. Not all of it needs to be replaced."

The man listened to the little boy's translation, thought for a moment, and then took out a peace locket from his neck and showed it to Chu Tian, ​​"Mine, the one at home, is better."

Chu Tian took a look at the peace locket taken off by the man, and then touched it with his hand, and was surprised. Although he had never bought Hetian jade in his previous life, he knew that mutton-fat jade was the best among all Hetian jades. Its characteristics were that it was warm, firm, pure white and flawless without any bluish tint, and it felt as warm as solidified fat to the touch.

However, the man's peace locket at this moment was exactly the same as the mutton-fat jade he knew in his previous life.

Chu Tian took the man's peace locket and asked tentatively, "You said that the white jade in your home is better than this one?"

The little boy quickly translated to him without Ata looking at him.

The man nodded, "Yes."

Chu Tian actually didn't want to enter someone else's house, but looking at the man's innocent eyes and thinking that most of the ethnic minorities in this era were still relatively simple, he followed him to their house. However, while the two of them were not noticing, he teleported the small knife he had bought at the Grand Bazaar into his pocket through space.

"Apa, Aka, Ata brought people to our house to see Baiyu..."

(Apa means mother, Aka means brother)

The little boy ran into the yard first and ran towards the woman who was cleaning the carpet in the yard and a slightly older boy.

When the woman saw her husband bringing a Han man home, she quickly covered her face with her headscarf, turned around and walked into the house without saying hello and never came out again.

Chu Tian pretended not to see it. Every nation has different customs. He respected others and also respected himself.

The man invited Chu Tian into the house, but Chu Tian just smiled and waved his hand, saying, "No, I'll just wait here."

The man did not force it, but asked his son to take Chu Tian to sit on the wooden bed under the grape vines to rest, and he went into the house to find Bai Yu.

Chu Tian looked at the two boys in front of him, thought for a moment, and then grabbed another handful of candy from his pocket, which was actually a space, and handed it to the older boy.

"Here you go. Can you speak Chinese?"

The boy didn't reach out to take it, but answered in Chinese, which was better than the boy's, "Yes, I have studied Chinese for many years."

Chu Tian nodded, "That's right, take it and eat it. I also gave it to your brother..."

The boy shook his head embarrassedly and said, "Thank you, I don't want to eat it."

"Aka, it's delicious, why not eat it?"

As he said that, the little boy reached out and took the candy from Chu Tian's hand and stuffed it all into his brother's hand.

The boy held the candy in his hand, looking at a loss, "I..."

Chu Tian smiled and nodded, "Eat, it's okay..."

At this time, the man came out holding a big box. He put the box on the wooden bed, opened the box and took out the items one by one to show Chu Tian.

Chu Tian picked them up one by one and began to look at them. In fact, to be honest, he didn't know much about Hetian jade. He didn't know whether these jades were mutton-fat jade. He just felt that the white and warm stones in front of him were very pleasing to the eye. After thinking about it, he felt that if they were not the best mutton-fat jade among Hetian jades, they were not much worse. So he looked at the big boy and spoke.

"Please ask your Ata for me, how can I exchange these white jades?"

The older boy asked Chu Tian again after a moment, "I, Ata, ask, do you want to change them all?"

Seeing Chu Tian nodded, the older boy asked the man again. After the two of them communicated for a long time, the older boy spoke hesitantly.

"My Ata said that many of these white jades were picked up in the Yulong River when he was grazing. If you want them, you can exchange them for 100 kilograms of white flour and 100 kilograms of rice."

Seeing Chu Tian's shocked expression, he said embarrassedly, "I also think it's too much, but these are all found by my Ata in the river, and my family hasn't eaten white flour and rice for a long time, so my Ata wants us to..."

Before he finished speaking, Chu Tian said, "Okay, I'm willing to exchange it too, but I left the food outside the village. Can I go get it now?"

The boy looked at Chu Tian in shock. "A kind reminder, are you really willing to exchange so much food for these stones? These are just found in the river, they are not worth much..."

Chu Tian just smiled and said, "Didn't you say that these were found by your Ata with great effort? After all the hard work, it's worth it to exchange only 200 kilograms of food for such a big box!"

Chu Tian thought to himself, this big box of nearly 20 kilograms of stones of various sizes and shapes, let alone that these are not mutton-fat jade, even if they are inferior white jade or green jade, if they are kept for decades, they will not be able to be bought for less than 10,000 yuan each.

If he was lucky enough to find a piece of mutton-fat jade, the value would be so great that Chu Tian couldn't even imagine it...