After returning to the inn, Xue Huan entered the space as usual, placed the food she had bought earlier on the table, and shared it with Mu He and Mosquito.
There are many living things in this space, but only the two of them have intelligence and can chat with her so that she doesn't feel too lonely.
After telling them about what she had seen and heard outside that day, Xue Huan handed the bag of raw materials to the puppets and asked them to untie the raw materials and take out the jade flesh inside.
She herself practiced step by step.
The next day, Xue Huan officially began her journey of purchasing raw materials.
The first stop is the famous Raw Material Street, where hundreds of raw material stalls and jade shops are located, gathering jade merchants from all over the country.
Especially since the Emerald Festival is coming in a few days, this street is even more lively and bustling with people.
Those raw materials were like summer watermelons, placed in piles, waiting for people to pick them.
Xue Huan can detect the situation inside the rough material by releasing her spiritual sense, so when buying rough materials, she doesn’t need to be as picky as other people. She doesn’t know how to look at the mining site, cracks, etc. She only needs to see whether the jade inside the rough material meets her requirements.
She simply and roughly bought everything along the way, "This, this, and this, calculate how much it costs."
After paying, Xue Huan told the inn's address and asked the shop assistant to help deliver the raw materials to the inn.
The shopkeeper was delighted to see her so straightforward. He quickly calculated the price for her and even gave her the change.
"Please mark the material so we don't get it mixed up."
Xue Huan took the carving knife handed to her by the shopkeeper and carved an English letter on each piece of raw material, arranging them in order. In this world, she should be the only one who can recognize them, right?
It is also a mark that belongs to her alone.
"Goodbye, sir!" The shopkeeper watched her leave with a smile on his face.
If every customer was as generous and straightforward as this young man, then he would not have to worry about not being able to sell the raw materials piled up in his warehouse.
Xue Huan walked from one end of the street to the other, buying things along the way. As a result, she bought so much raw material that there was not much left of the 30,000 taels of silver notes she brought with her!
This money is too wasteful.
We have to find a way to get some money.
In fact, if she wanted to make money, she could just cut a few pieces of rough material. The materials that caught her eye would have jadeite of good quality, at least with egg white texture, and one piece could be sold for a lot of money.
But these jades were bought by her to be processed into spirit stones, so she naturally couldn’t sell them, otherwise wouldn’t she have bought them in vain?
Fortunately, she soon found a way to make money.
In front is Yinyu Pavilion, the largest and most imposing raw material shop in Yujing City. It has three floors. The first floor is a gambling stone field, the second floor sells raw materials, and the third floor sells finished products made of various jades.
A gambling stone field is actually similar to a casino, except that the object of gambling is replaced by rough stones instead of dice.
The entire first floor is divided into small casinos, each of which is equipped with a stone-cutting machine, a stone-cutting master, an apprentice, and a dealer to preside over the gambling.
Before the stone is cut, customers can bet on the condition of the jade inside based on the various characteristics of the rough material and then place a bet.
After all the customers have placed their bets, the stone cutter will start cutting the stone. When the results come out, it will be clear whether the bettors have won or lost.
The capital for this kind of gambling on stones can be large or small, depending on the customer's own financial resources and courage. Some people cannot afford to buy a whole piece of rough stone, or simply like the excitement of gambling, so they like to come here.
The whole hall was noisy and steamy, with a mixture of various smells, which certainly didn't smell very pleasant.
But the people here are immersed in the craze of gambling on stones and don't care about this little problem.
Moreover, if you stay in a fish market for a long time, you will not smell the stench. If you stay there for a long time, you will naturally not be able to detect it.
Only someone with a keen sense of smell like Xue Huan could not bear it.
She simply shut off her sense of smell.
This way, it will feel much better.
A waiter came to greet her, but Xue Huan refused the waiter's service and instead walked around the gambling tables to learn the rules of gambling on stones here.
“Ah, it’s open!”
"Alas, this piece of raw material is obviously in good condition, why doesn't it produce emerald green?"
"In my opinion, it's still safer to bet on Cui. Even though the odds are low, at least it's safe."
Xue Huan walked to a gambling table where jade was being taken out and heard the gamblers' discussions.
"How could this happen? This shouldn't happen." Among a group of gamblers, a very dejected man stared distraught at the piece of raw material that had been cut on the stone cutter, muttering to himself. It was obvious that he had lost the bet and could not accept the situation before him.
Suddenly, he rushed over, pushed the stone cutter aside, and sat on the carousel himself. "This side hasn't been cut yet, I didn't lose..."
When cutting a stone, one usually cuts it in the middle to see if there is any jade inside. Therefore, there is a saying in the gambling stone circle: "One cut makes you poor, one cut makes you rich."
Whether you can win the bet depends on this one knife.
But sometimes this method of cutting from the middle will miss the jade hidden in the corners, so if time permits, most people will cut the rough material open to see if there is anything missing.
But this is a casino, and the gamblers are all waiting for the results. It is naturally impossible for the stone-cutting master to cut the rough material into pieces. He can basically only cut it three times. The first cut is to split the rough material in half from the middle, the second cut is to split one half in half again, and the third cut is to cut the other half in half.
After three cuts like this, a piece of rough material will be cut into four pieces. If no jade is produced after three cuts, it is basically impossible to produce jade.
The situation where jade exists but is not cut out is extremely rare.
But at the moment, this down-and-out man obviously could not accept the result of his losing the bet, and unwillingly wanted to cut all four pieces of raw material into pieces to see how they turned out.
The casino naturally would not allow gamblers to act recklessly, and soon the casino's thugs came over.
"It's you again! Tang, if you make trouble again, we'll break your legs!"
"Let me go! There must be jade hidden in that material! I want to extract it!"
The man surnamed Tang tried hard to break free from the thugs.
However, when everyone present heard his words, they just thought that he was making a fuss because he was unwilling to accept defeat, and no one believed him.
Even Xue Huan, who was watching from the sidelines, didn't believe it. How credible could the words of a gambler who was obsessed with gambling be?
However, she still used her spiritual sense to scan the pieces of waste, and the next moment she was stunned!
Hidden within one of the scraps was a jadeite! It was icy jadeite! It was the size of an egg, and the color was like a green apple, evenly distributed.
At this time, a servant came over with a basket, picked up the waste materials on the stone-cutting platform, threw them in casually, and then carried the basket away.
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