However, Li Lechen felt that he should try again to extract the diamond using a toothpick.

Toothpicks are made of wood and can extract diamonds, while paperclips are made of metal and cannot. So what about using larger wooden chopsticks?

I decisively grabbed a chopstick from the kitchen and poked it in.

Sure enough, the liquid began to crystallize rapidly around the chopstick that had been inserted. And because the chopstick was much larger than the toothpick, the crystallization area was also much larger. Soon, a crystal about the size of a glass marble solidified.

Subsequently, Li Lechen tried several materials and poked in objects of different sizes. He finally came to the conclusion that any naturally growing material, such as wood, bamboo, grass stalks, and sweet potato strips, could extract diamonds from the liquid; while man-made materials such as metal, plastic, and rubber could not.

It's so much fun and amazing! The key thing is, if the diamonds that are extracted are real, wouldn't we be rich? After just a few rounds of experiments, there are already five large diamonds on the table. The largest one was poked out with a sweet potato strip and is about the size of a walnut. The smallest one was poked out with a toothpick at the beginning and is about the size of a mung bean.

Aside from the very largest one, Li Lechen felt that any of the other diamonds were much larger than the diamond ring his aunt always flaunted. If his aunt saw all these diamonds, wouldn't she be mortified?

Listen, listen to how my uncle used that diamond ring to beat out many handsome guys and win over my aunt, who was known as the village beauty.

It's a pity that the village beauty didn't take care of herself and turned into an old lady in the blink of an eye; even the biggest diamond ring couldn't save her.