The customers in the jade gambling shop shook their heads at the sight. Fifty taels was not much in the jade gambling street, but it was a considerable sum for daily expenses.
No one who spoils their child would actually spend fifty taels of silver to buy a worthless stone!
Zheng Baoling had been somewhat suspicious, but upon seeing this, she met Su Hua's gaze with a forced smile. "Miss Su just sold a single flower for 15,000 taels of silver, yet you can't even afford to buy your little nephew a stone to play with? That's far too stingy."
At this point, she became even angrier. Why was Su Hua so lucky that she could get 15,000 from Young Master Jinyun with just a worthless flower?
She painstakingly saved up money for over a decade, only to buy a broken jade pendant.
The way people's fortunes differ is just too unfair.
Su Hua blushed slightly at what she was being told, but she still stubbornly held her head high, looking every bit the stingy and miserly person. "An orchid is an orchid, and a broken stone is a broken stone. How can they be the same thing? This orchid was obtained by risking one's life to get it from deep in the mountains and forests. It's the only one one one has seen in over ten years. It has to be used with care."
Having said that, he didn't bother to pull her up, and directly dragged Su Erlang up from the ground. "You brat, if you don't behave, you'll be staying in this shop all day by yourself. If you encounter a ghost tonight, don't just cry your eyes out..."
The little boy trembled at the sound, but his eyes remained fixed on the big turtle in Zheng Baoling's arms.
Seeing this, Xiao Jinhan, who had been silent all along, sighed heavily, "Hua'er, the child has finally made it to Tangshan Prefecture, and if he finds something he likes, let's just buy it for him!"
As he spoke, he pulled a fifty-tael silver ingot from his sleeve.
"Miss Zheng..." Wei Jianjia finally realized something was wrong. Su Hua was always the most cunning, and Xiao Jinhan was even more extraordinary. How could they possibly spend fifty taels to buy a broken stone?
However, before she could even speak, Zheng Baoling swiftly snatched the silver ingot from Xiao Jinhan's hand and tossed the large tortoise to Su Erlang as if it were a hot potato, saying, "Cash on delivery, this tortoise is yours for the taking."
Young Master Yan raised his eyes, his gaze slowly shifting from Su Hua's face to the large tortoise in Su Erlang's arms, a thoughtful look flashing across his dark eyes.
The Qin siblings also glanced inside without prior arrangement.
The customers in the jade gambling shop all thought that Xiao Jinhan and Su Hua were the aunt and uncle of Su Dalang and Su Erlang. Upon seeing this, they couldn't help but secretly curse the spendthrift man.
With fifty taels, and double that amount, you could go to the cheaper rough stone area and pick out a small piece. But in order to amuse the little kid, he actually bought a stone.
Su Erlang hugged the big turtle like a precious treasure, stopped crying and throwing a tantrum, and just held the stone tightly and smiled at Su Hua.
In all his life, this was the only thing his aunt had ever asked him to do, and he ultimately did not disappoint her.
I don't know if I used too much force, but suddenly there was a cracking sound on the tortoise shell.
Two pieces of bean seed, each about the size of a fingernail, fell off.
Su Erlang's smile froze for a moment, and he quickly handed the tortoise shell towards Su Hua, "Auntie, is this big tortoise about to crack open...?"
It was this gesture that made the eyes of the people who had been watching the spectacle from the stone-cutting platform widen suddenly.
"High-quality icy green jadeite! Even the cracks in this turtle-like creature are actually high-quality icy green jadeite!"
"My goodness! This is a mother-and-child jade!"
"The number of times the Mother-Child Jade has appeared is even less than the number of times the Earth Dragon has appeared in our Tangshan Prefecture. This old man has truly had his eyes opened today!"
"Everyone says that the jade inside this mother-and-child jade is better than the mother jade outside. This exposed high-ice, bright green is not only better than the cracked bean-type jade, but it is even more beautiful than the bright green color of the small window at the beginning!"
After receiving the money, Zheng Baoling turned to pick out rough stones in the low-priced area. Hearing the sound, she turned around abruptly, her eyes suddenly brightening from their dullness. "I'm not selling it anymore. I'm not selling this cracked stone."
She moved with lightning speed, rushing to Su Erlang in the blink of an eye, about to snatch the tortoise shell from his hand.
However, Xiao Jinhan acted even faster, not only taking the tortoise-shell stone ahead of time, but also pulling one adult and three children behind him. He looked at Zheng Baoling expressionlessly and said, "Once you've placed your bet, you're done. Mistakes won't be investigated. Miss Zheng, are you trying to break the rules of jade gambling?"
Zheng Baoling, who was overjoyed, was now half-drenched. "No, I didn't want to sell it! If I had known it contained Zheng Yang Green, how could I have sold it to Su Hua? You...you people are clearly setting me up..."
Xiao Jinhan ignored her and only glanced at Liu Lin.
This is the Liu family's shop, and Liu Lin naturally wouldn't want to break the rules of gambling on stones. The man closed his folding fan and stood in front of Zheng Baoling with a smile, "What Young Master Xiao said is true. Since Miss Zheng has already sold the raw stone to Miss Su, whatever is inside is none of Miss Zheng's business. I hope Miss Zheng won't make things difficult for me."
He actually had some doubts about whether the Su family was just lucky or if they had already guessed what was inside the raw stone.
Liu Yuxian, who had been waiting to see Su Hua make a fool of herself, was so angry that she was like a toad and almost tore the handkerchief in her hand to shreds. This Su Hua, her luck is just too good!
Previously quiet jade dealers are starting to get restless again.
"Young lady, sell me this mother-and-child jade, I'll pay fifty thousand taels!"
"Fifty thousand taels? You must be dreaming! We've come this far, everyone knows it's full of high-grade ice and pure green jade. I'll offer sixty thousand taels, young lady, if you sell it to me, you definitely won't lose out."
"Sixty-five thousand, I'm willing to pay sixty-five thousand..."
Su Hua gazed at the mother-and-child jade, her delicate brows furrowing slightly. After the tortoise shell cracked, the temperature within the bracelet's space rose again, but it was still different from the first time she saw the jade within the space.
She was a little curious whether the mother and child jade was truly made entirely of pure Yang green, and then nodded to Xiao Jinhan.
Seeing this, the man tacitly placed the jade back on the stone-cutting platform.
The two stone cutters swallowed hard and picked up their large saws again to polish the cracks in the stone. This time, however, they were extra careful.
The cracks on the jade were less than half a centimeter thick; with a gentle pull, pieces of jade crumbled and fell off.
Everyone held their breath in tension, watching as streaks of vibrant green, high-grade ice, gradually appeared in the upper half. Then, the great law bar was sawed open to reveal the lower half—
As soon as the shop opened a little, a collective gasp filled the air. "Royal Purple! They actually have Royal Purple!! My goodness, a combination of vibrant green and Royal Purple, this is a once-in-a-century spring-inspired color..."
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