Ji Huaizhi ignored the two people's muttering and said to Chen Li, "Sister Li, please help me choose a style of clothes that the little girl likes. Money is not a problem." As he said that, he took out three hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Chen Li. Chen Li almost choked on her saliva when she saw the three Mao Zedong notes.
Even the clothes in the department store don’t require so many, but they are equivalent to half a year’s salary for an ordinary worker!
She returned one: "Two hundred is enough."
I guess there are some left over from both!
For now, let’s just define the relationship between the two as a gangster-forced love!
*
Li Yang held the clothes in his hands and felt that they weighed a thousand pounds.
He had clearly agreed to only help her with the fake marriage, but he did so much for her. She was afraid that she would have to work like a slave for him for several lifetimes to repay his kindness.
Li Yang wanted to refuse, but then he remembered Ji Huaizhi's stubborn nature, so he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Of all the words he wanted to say, he only said one: "Thank you."
Listening to the little girl's thick nasal voice, Ji Huaizhi patted her head: "Silly girl, what are you thanking me for."
What he owed her was far more than what could be repaid with a few pieces of clothing.
*
Ji Huaizhi heated up some bath water and helped Li Yang carry it to the makeshift shed in the corner of the yard. He said, "Let's make do with it tonight. We'll fix it tomorrow."
He is usually rough around the edges, and now that there is a little girl at home, it seems like he has to be more meticulous about everything.
Li Yang could now describe what Ji Huaizhi did for her as "indifferent", but behind this calmness, she silently increased her debt to Ji Huaizhi.
If she didn't feel guilty about treating Ji Huaizhi like a pig, she would do it without hesitation.
While taking a bath, Li Yang looked at the stars in the sky through the hole-filled thatched roof, thinking about how he could work like a slave for Ji Huaizhi to pay off his debt. He was rubbing his elbows with his head down when he suddenly caught sight of several stones of different sizes piled in a corner of the shed.
She looked again and unconsciously strained her left eye, and the burning sensation reappeared.
As the discomfort intensified, Li Yang discovered that the pile of stones seemed to be emitting a faint green or yellow glow.
Li Yang rubbed his eyes and when he looked again, he found that the light was still there.
She endured the discomfort, finished her bath quickly, put on her clothes, squatted beside the stone, and started to dig with her hands.
She found that these stones looked like they were picked up from the river. Some were smooth and some were rough. Some were the color and texture of elephant skin, some were the color of yellow pear wood, and some were gray-black and gray-green. The shiny one she just found was one of the elephant skin-colored stones and the gray-black stone. The elephant skin stone was as big as her two palms, and the gray-black stone was as big as an adult male's palm. After pulling the two stones apart, she found a duck egg-sized yellowish-brown stone with a colorful luster underneath.
Li Yang hurriedly took out the three stones. When she wanted to see more clearly, she felt a slight pain in her left eye, and then the color in front of her eyes disappeared in an instant.
Li Yang was confused.
She picked up the three stones, held them in front of her and looked at them again and again, but she found nothing except the color of the stones on the surface.
Is she dazzled?
She didn't think so. After all, her rebirth was an incredible thing.
Looking at these stones, Li Yang suddenly felt that they were very similar to the stones he had seen in the jade gambling world in his previous life!
Li Yang currently works at a jewelry processing factory. In her previous life, as the business grew, she acquired a jade carving factory, launching a jade and gold jewelry business. As a result, she's had the opportunity to see the raw jade stones purchased by the factory and, along with her coworkers, witnessed several large-scale jade gambling events. By chance, she also met a veteran craftsman at the jade carving factory, from whom she learned a wealth of jade-related knowledge.
Unlike people in the north who prefer soft jade such as Hetian jade, there are many varieties of jade in the south. There are more than 20 kinds of jade, including jadeite, white jade, jasper, green jade, Xiuyan jade, and southern jade. Among them, jadeite is the most popular in the Guangzhou jade industry.
Jadeite rough is divided into two types: mountain jade and seed jade. Mountain jade is mined directly from the mountains and features irregular shapes, numerous angles and cracks, a relatively rough and loose structure, and no outer skin. Seed jade generally refers to jadeite gravel. This is the pebbles formed when the rough jade is crushed by crustal movement and rolled downhill, carried by floods or rivers into ravines or rivers. These pebbles are often covered in a natural or weathered outer layer, preventing the jade from being visible. This is also known as gambling jade.
If Li Yang is not mistaken, the three stones in front of him are most likely seed materials.
But how do you confirm your guess?
Li Yang thought of the jade processing workshops of various sizes that have sprung up now. The workshops have machines for cutting jade, which he could try out.
But before doing this, she still needs to tell Ji Huaizhi because these are his things.
So, Li Yang cleaned the three stones quickly, then carried them back to the main room and placed them on the table.
Ji Huaizhi looked at the stones on the table, glanced at Li Yang with a puzzled look, and signaled her to speak with his eyes.
Li Yang scratched his head, wondering how to explain it. After much deliberation, he decided not to tell Ji Huaizhi that he seemed to be able to see different things with his left eye for the time being. After all, this conjecture had not been confirmed.
So she said, "I found these stones in the bathhouse. I think they look a bit like raw jade."
After saying this, she thought she would be met with Ji Huaizhi's ridicule. After all, it sounded like a fantasy. But unexpectedly, he nodded seriously and said, "You can ask someone to open it and take a look tomorrow."
Li Yang prepared a speech and said, "That's it?"
Ji Huaizhi glanced at her calmly: "No."
Li Yang immediately took the stone into his room like a treasure and placed it under the bed. Then he came out and said, "Then let's find a jade workshop tomorrow and ask them to help cut it open."
She asked Ji Huaizhi again: "Can I ask where these stones came from?"
Jadeite raw stones are not easy to obtain. It is impossible to pick them up casually in the river or on the mountain. Moreover, Ji Huaizhi is not the kind of person who would go out and pick up a stone just to throw it in a corner of his house.
Ji Huaizhi said: "A few years ago, someone I know used a few stones to pay off a debt."
Li Yang guessed the outcome: "You didn't agree, did you?"
Ji Huaizhi tutted his words lightly and said nonchalantly: "No one knows the value of it anyway."
He was a man who worked with Chen Gang to transport goods. Not only did he have no channels, he also loved gambling. Later, he made some money, but lost it all. He took out the stones used to pickle pickles at home, saying that they were raw jadeite stones, and wanted to pay off his debts.
As a result, he was beaten by Chen Gang, but Chen Gang also forgave part of his debt for the sake of his old mother with a broken leg.
The stones were brought back and had been piled in the corner, gathering dust. If Li Yang hadn't taken them out today, he would have forgotten their existence.
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