The group sat down at the dining table.
Wang Pengcheng picked up the bottle and poured a glass of wine for Zhan Yihan and himself. "Xiao Zhan, drink a few more glasses with me today. Let's see who can drink more."
"Okay." Zhan Yihan nodded with a smile.
"Dad, stop comparing. You definitely can't compare to Brother Zhan." Wang Ruini smiled and made a face at Wang Pengcheng.
Tian Cuifang nodded in agreement, "That's right, Xiao Zhan is so young, and you are over fifty years old, how can you compare with him?" This old man still thinks he is young.
"Which side are you on? Besides, who said I will definitely lose because I'm old? I've never lost when I drink." Wang Pengcheng said unconvinced.
"You're the best, right?" Tian Cuifang smiled and shook her head, looking at Su Jinyue and Zhan Yihan. "Xiao Zhan, Xiao Su, just treat this as your own home. Don't be shy. Try this sweet and sour pork ribs. Is it delicious? This is my first time cooking it."
"We won't be polite." Su Jinyue nodded with a smile, reached out and picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and put it in her bowl.
"I put some of the seasoning you gave me yesterday in this dish. Speaking of seasonings, Xiao Su, the seasoning bottle you gave me was made of jade, wasn't it?" Tian Cuifang asked. She had meant to return the bottle to Su Jinyue today, but she'd forgotten about it in a rush. If she hadn't mentioned the seasoning, she wouldn't have remembered it. Old people have bad memories.
"Yes." Su Jinyue nodded. The bottles she used to store her elixirs and seasonings were all made of jade. She had a jade mine in her Golden Leaf Realm, so she didn't have to worry about running out of jade, no matter how many small jade bottles she made.
"Then I'll get it back to you," Tian Cuifang said, and stood up. After Ruixiang explained that the jade bottle was made of jadeite, she poured out the seasonings inside and cleaned the jade bottle.
"Aunt Wang, you don't have to give it back to me. I have plenty of those jade bottles." Su Jinyue stopped Tian Cuifang and said. Although the jadeite used to make the jade bottle was of good quality, it was only considered ordinary jadeite in her case.
"Are there more?" The Wang family looked at Su Jinyue in surprise, as if what she said was a heavenly book.
Su Jinyue nodded and took out two more jade bottles from her bag. "My cousin is in the jewelry business. These jade bottles are made from scraps he doesn't want. They're not worth much."
"But Ruixiang said that this jade is of very good quality. A jade vase like this is worth at least a thousand." Tian Cuifang looked at Wang Ruixiang doubtfully. She didn't understand whether he was telling the truth or Su Jinyue was telling the truth.
"A friend of mine is also in the jewelry business. I have been learning from him recently and have some understanding of jadeite. However, he does not deal in jadeite, but Hetian jade from Xinjiang. If it weren't for the New Year, I would have stayed in Xinjiang for a few more days," said Wang Ruixiang.
"Is the jade bottle really the price you mentioned?" Tian Cuifang asked. This was all she cared about.
Wang Ruixiang nodded. "According to my experience, yes."
Tian Cuifang looked at Su Jinyue, "Xiao Su, I'll get it for you." If it was just an ordinary bottle, she would have accepted it, but she really couldn't accept a jade bottle worth thousands of dollars. It was too expensive!
Su Jinyue shook her head helplessly and said with a smile: "Aunt Wang, let's talk after dinner. I won't run away."
Tian Cuifang thought about it and sat down. "You must take it back later."
Su Jinyue smiled and nodded.
"Sister Zhan, do you know anything about jadeite?" Wang Ruixiang asked. He knew from Su Jinyue's words that she probably didn't know much about jadeite, otherwise she wouldn't have said the jade bottle was worthless.
"A little bit," Su Jinyue said. She didn't need to understand too much, because she could tell the quality of jade just by looking at it.
"Me too, but my friend is very knowledgeable about jadeite. This time in Jiangcheng, he won a piece of top-quality Hetian jade." Wang Ruixiang said, with a hint of admiration for his friend in his tone.
"Brother, when are you going again? I want to go with you." Wang Ruini said after swallowing the fish in her mouth. She had always been curious about what gambling on stones was, how someone could tell whether a stone was made of stone or jade.
"That won't work. Xinjiang isn't peaceful," Wang Ruixiang refused without hesitation. His friend had actually considered going to Myanmar, but Myanmar is plagued by constant war, and it's doubtful whether he'd be able to return. While Xinjiang is relatively safe, there are still some villainous organizations.
"Brother, please take me to see it! I'm really curious and want to see how jade comes from." Wang Ruini looked at Wang Ruixiang coquettishly. Her brother loved her the most, and as long as she acted coquettishly, her brother would agree to her request.
"Absolutely not this time," Wang Ruixiang said firmly. He couldn't joke with his sister's life.
"It's not easy to see the gambling stones. I have two pieces of jadeite rough stones that my cousin gave me. I'll open them for you later." Su Jinyue said with a smile. She had so many rough stones in the Jinye world, so she could just pick out two pieces.
"Really, that's great! Thank you, Sister Su!" Wang Ruini said happily.
"Don't be polite. I'll get it after dinner. It will be opened sooner or later anyway." Su Jinyue said.
"But I don't have the tools to cut the stone here," Wang Ruixiang said. When he went to Jiangcheng, he loved watching people cut the stone, especially the moment when the raw stone was cut open and jade was discovered inside. The excitement and thrill he felt was truly thrilling.
"I have a grinding wheel," Su Jinyue said. Of course, if she wanted to cut a stone, she would cut the rough stone with a thinner surface.
"Were they all given by your cousin?" Wang Ruixiang asked in surprise.
Su Jinyue smiled and nodded, "I'm actually a little interested in gambling on stones, so this time I came here and brought a few rough stones that my cousin gave me."
"Sister Su, could it be that those pieces of raw stones are all rocks?" Wang Ruini asked.
"No, one of them has already had a window opened." Su Jinyue shook her head.
"Open the window? What does that mean?" Wang Ruini asked in confusion.
"A window means the rough stone has been loosened somewhat, revealing jadeite," Wang Ruixiang explained. Unlike jadeite, the rough surface of jadeite is relatively thin and can be polished away with a grinding wheel. However, jadeite rarely becomes visible after polishing. Sometimes, even within a large rough stone, there's only a single fist-sized piece of jadeite.
Wang Ruini smiled knowingly, "Sister Su, have you ever seen gambling on jade? Have you ever seen jadeite mined?"
Su Jinyue nodded. "I have seen it, but gambling on stones is extremely risky. If you're not careful, you could lose everything. That's why there's a saying in the gambling world: 'One cut to heaven, one cut to hell.'"
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