Xue Huan followed the servant with her spiritual sense and found that the servant was carrying a basket out of the back door. He walked a distance and then poured all the waste in the basket onto the ground.
The piece of waste containing jade was pressed at the bottom.
The place was a sparse forest with a lot of waste piled up in it. Many children were playing in it, chasing each other and running around, as if it were a playground. There were also adults who came here to pick up scraps.
Although the rough materials here are all waste materials that are not wanted after the various gambling stone shops cut the stones, there may be jade hidden in one of the waste materials.
Even if there is no jade, it would be nice to pick it up and use it to build walls.
When the servant left, the adults who came to pick up bargains immediately swarmed over and rummaged through the pile of newly delivered wool.
Xue Huan walked out of the casino while using her spiritual sense to monitor the situation over there.
At the door, I met a man named Tang who was thrown out by the thugs.
She patted his shoulder. "Want to know if there's any jade among those scraps? Come with me."
The man surnamed Tang's eyes lit up and he followed.
When the two arrived at the scrap yard, the rough material containing the icy green apple-colored jadeite was still there and had not been picked up by anyone.
Xue Huan breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward, picked up the material, and handed it to the man surnamed Tang. "By the way, what's your name, brother?"
The man gave his name sullenly: "Tang Yu."
Tang Yu? Why does it sound so familiar?
Oh right! Isn't Tang Yu the son of Mr. Tang? He owed a loan shark a lot of money and secretly used the house deed to pay off his debts, which nearly got Mr. Tang and Xiaobao kicked out, leaving them with nowhere to live.
"My name is Zhao Yu, and I'm from Fengchi. Brother Tang's accent sounds very familiar to me. Could it be that Brother Tang is also from Fengchi?"
Tang Yu looked at her in surprise and said, "Yes, my hometown is Fengchi."
Xue Huan smiled and said, "It seems we are from the same hometown."
After chatting for a few more sentences, she was certain that this Tang Yu was Old Man Tang’s son!
He left his father and ran to Yujing after owing high-interest loans, and was still addicted to gambling on stones. Xue Huan didn't know what to say to him.
While gathering information, Xue Huan did not forget to scan the waste materials and picked up a few pieces one after another.
Those who came to pick up bargains looked at her with strange eyes. They came here because they were poor and could not afford to buy decent raw materials. But this young man looked like a man with plenty of money, and he actually came here to pick up bargains?
Xue Huan ignored the strange looks from those people and focused on scanning the waste materials with her spiritual sense.
It was said to be waste, but under her spiritual sense scan, she actually found a lot of materials containing jade. Although the quality of most of the jade contained was very ordinary, jade was still jade, and no matter how poor the quality was, it could still be sold for money.
Besides, these materials are free.
Xue Huan didn't despise it. She took out a large cloth bag from her sleeve and asked the man named Tang to put all the waste materials she had picked into it.
That cloth bag was the one she had taken out at the night market before. She later refined it, intending to make it into a storage bag, but failed and it became a semi-finished product.
Although it is a semi-finished product, the capacity of the cloth bag is several times larger than the original one.
A storage bag requires spiritual energy to use, but this semi-finished cloth bag does not. Even ordinary people can use it, so she named it the Treasure Bag.
It looks like it has an average capacity, but it can actually hold a lot of things. Moreover, because it is engraved with space runes, it actually has some functions of a storage bag. For example, once the things are put in, they cannot be seen from the outside, and the weight is also much lighter.
Tang Yu obviously realized the extraordinary nature of the bag, but did not say anything.
Watching Xue Huan wandering around the scrap yard, picking up a piece of scrap and handing it over from time to time, Tang Yu belatedly realized that this person was not treating him as free labor.
"When are we going to cut the stone?" Tang Yu sat down on a stone and put the cloth bag at his feet.
He just wanted to know whether there was jade in the piece of material he had bet on before. If there was, it would prove that the set of betting stone methods he had summarized was correct and feasible!
In addition, he hadn't eaten for a whole day, so he was so hungry that he felt dizzy and had no strength left.
Xue Huan also noticed it and handed over a piece of silver. "You can ask someone to buy you some food."
Tang Yu took it, called a child, and asked him to buy some food for him.
The child took the money and ran away happily. Soon he came back with food and a string of changed copper coins in his hand.
Tang Yu took the food and copper coins, and gave the child two coins, "For running errands."
The child was very happy, "Thank you, uncle!" and ran to reunite with his friends with the money.
The food the children bought was scallion pancakes and steamed buns. Tang Yu wrapped the steamed bun with the pancake and took a big bite. Half of the bun was gone. He chewed hard, but because there was too much food in his mouth, he almost choked and rolled his eyes.
He beat his chest and tried to swallow the food.
Xue Huan handed over a gourd of water. Tang Yu took it and gulped it down, finally swallowing the food.
After eating and drinking, Tang Yu felt that he was finally alive again. He picked up the cloth bag and followed Xue Huan closely, willingly working for her.
After going through the entire scrap yard, Xue Huan actually found quite a few bargains.
With so much raw material and the large amount she had bought before, it was unrealistic for her to cut the stone by herself, and she didn't want to spend time on it.
"I want to hire you to cut stones for me. I'll provide food and lodging, and I'll pay you one penny for every piece you cut. How about that?"
Tang Yu: "One penny for one piece? If you don't even get a piece of jade, wouldn't you be at a huge loss?"
Xue Huan: “…”
This guy really doesn't know how to talk. If he were another employer, he would probably be fired on the spot, right?
She smiled confidently: "I won't lose."
Tang Yu: "Okay." Everyone who gambles on stones has great confidence in himself, and feels that he is the one favored by God, but the moment the rough material is unraveled, he will know that he is nothing.
As a bystander, Tang Yu suddenly had an epiphany.
In the eyes of others, isn't he nothing?
But whether he could get the jade or not, he wouldn't lose out. Each piece cost one penny, and there were dozens of pieces of material in the bag.
As for why he didn't suspect that Xue Huan was lying to him?
Would someone who could produce such a strange cloth bag cheat him for a few dozen taels of silver?
Xue Huan took Tang Yu to buy a stone-cutting machine, and returned to the inn. She booked a room for him next door and moved some of the raw materials that had been delivered to his room.
Looking at the pile of raw materials, Tang Yu felt a little dizzy. Besides the materials in the bag, she had bought so much raw materials? How long would it take to finish the work?
However, when he thought that one piece of raw material was equal to one penny of silver, and ten pieces were equal to one tael of silver, he felt that he was okay again.
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