Chapter 52: Fifty-two, Shocking Chapter 52: Fifty-two, Shocking “Buying these three raw stones could have bought a lot of new clothes and snacks, do you really not feel any heartache?” Lu Hui looked at Song Yan Ning, wanting to tease her. She was young and had little concept of money, but new clothes and snacks were favorites of children, and she should understand their value.
Song Yan Ning shook her head. What she wanted was the “Spiritual Energy” in the raw stones, which she already received. Even if there was nothing inside the raw stones, there was nothing to feel heartache about.
Lu Hui smiled and turned his head to look at Old Wang, who was cutting stones. This little girl was quite amusing, he hoped she could maintain such a good attitude later on.
Seeing that Old Wang had finished cutting the last raw stone, Lu Hui turned his head towards Song Yan Ning and Yang Lisheng, “I’ll go cut the stones for you, little girl, which one do you want to cut first?”
“Let’s cut the two smaller ones first, and leave the big one for last,” Song Yan Ning pointed to the two smaller raw stones on the ground.
“Okay.” Lu Hui nodded and stepped toward the stone-cutting machine.
“Why is Boss Lu going to cut stones again?”
“He’s not going to choose those three raw stones on the ground, is he? I remember many players have looked at that big one, saying the chances of it turning green are slim.”
“I also heard people say, maybe Boss Lu is just being capricious because he’s rich.”
Although Lu Hui was not very famous in the Gambling Stone World, he was quite well-known in the jewelry world, which is why most players there recognized him.
Lu Hui moved one of the smaller raw stones in front of him and looked at Song Yan Ning, “Little girl, how do you want to cut this raw stone?”
“Uncle, why don’t you decide?” said Song Yan Ning with a smile. Since there was nothing inside anyway, it didn’t matter how it was cut.
Hearing the conversation between Lu Hui and Song Yan Ning, the crowd suddenly realized.
“So these raw stones are not Boss Lu’s. I was saying, how could Boss Lu have such poor judgment.”
“Isn’t that grandfather and granddaughter pair the ones who just cut a raw stone? They don’t think every raw stone will have jade inside, do they?”
“It’s possible, they’ll soon know what’s called ‘daydreaming.’” The crowd discussed, none of them optimistic about these raw stones.
Lu Hui took up the stone-cutting machine and started it, immediately filling the area with the hissing sound of stone cutting.
Soon enough, the raw stone was cut in two.
Lu Hui crouched down, observed the cut raw stone, and shook his head, looking towards Song Yan Ning and Yang Lisheng, “This one did not turn green.”
“Okay!” Song Yan Ning nodded, her face still wearing a mild smile, seemingly unconcerned.
Lu Hui was somewhat surprised by Song Yan Ning’s demeanor. No matter how clever Song Yan Ning was, she was still just a child about six or seven years old, and wouldn’t be expected to be so calm. Even he felt uncontrollable disappointment when the raw stones he bought didn’t turn green. Even if the raw stone was small, it was still bought with money.
After clearing away the waste stone in front of him, Lu Hui moved another raw stone before him and took up the stone-cutting machine to continue cutting. Once all three raw stones were finished, he wondered if the little girl could still maintain such a composed expression.
The second raw stone was also quickly cut open, and Lu Hui looked at the cut raw stone towards Song Yan Ning and Yang Lisheng, “This one doesn’t have anything either.”
Song Yan Ning remained expressionless; this was what she had expected.
Yang Lisheng frowned slightly. He hadn’t held much hope, but he couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed.
Lu Hui looked at Song Yan Ning for a while, then turned his gaze away and asked the shop’s staff to move the third raw stone before him, and took up the stone-cutting machine to begin cutting again. In his opinion, Song Yan Ning and her company were likely to lose their money this time. Although the previous two raw stones were small, one of them had shown some signs of possibly containing green. But this one would need a miracle.
“Do you guys think this raw stone could turn green?” a middle-aged man in the crowd asked two friends beside him. He had never gambled on stones and didn’t understand them; he was just there to see what it was all about today.
“There’s no chance of it turning green,” one of his friends said assuredly. He had heard about this raw stone; buying it would be like throwing away money.
“Why?” the middle-aged man asked, puzzled.
“If a raw stone contains jade, there will be some special signs on the skin of the raw stone, such as Black Sand, Loose Skin Sand, Yangmei Sand Skin, Iron Sand Skin, Water Flipping Sand Skin, etc. Then there is the Fine Skin, commonly seen are the old elephant skin, potato skin, bamboo leaf skin, Field Frog Skin, bacon skin, etc. Lastly, there is Coarse Skin, this type of skin corresponds to a sparse internal structure and poor transparency, with lines from weathering, which indicate the inner color, cracks, white cotton, and so on. There are also markings on the raw stone like Songhua, Xuan, and mist, which can be used to assess. If you want to get into this circle, I’ll explain it to you slowly when we get back.”
“Oh!” The middle-aged man nodded, half-understanding. The saying ‘different trades, different circles’ applied—he figured it would be better for him not to get involved in the Gambling Stone Circle.
When Lu Hui heard a crack, he knew the raw stone had been cut open, and even though he didn’t have much hope, he crouched down intending to see the result.
A streak of jade green caught his eye, and Lu Hui, disbelieving, widened his eyes and tremblingly touched the streak of green. He wanted to know if this was an illusion. A stone that everyone had dismissed as waste had green in it, and not just any green, but the extremely rare Emperor Green.
“Pour water, pour water fast,” Lu Hui returned to his senses and excitedly shouted to the assistant nearby.
The assistant was also staring at the raw stone, and upon hearing Lu Hui’s words, he took up a ladle of water and poured it on the stone. The chippings on the stone washed away, and the green became even more bewitching and enchanting, radiating an aura of nobility.
“It’s green, it really turned green!”
“Is that Emperor Green? My God!” Everyone stared at the raw stone in stunned silence, their eyes filled with amazement, envy, and disbelief…
“Grandpa, the stone has jade in it, let’s go have a look,” Song Yan Ning, pulling the still-dumbfounded Yang Lisheng, walked over to Lu Hui.
Lu Hui took a deep breath, calming his emotions, and stood up, looking at Song Yan Ning and Yang Lisheng, “Congratulations! You are really lucky! This time you found Emperor Green, and it’s worth a lot!” He indeed envied their luck; he had bought so many raw stones and had never discovered such top-grade jade.
“Yeah, I didn’t think we would be so lucky either, hahaha…” Yang Lisheng laughed happily. He was really surprised; finding one piece of jade was already lucky, but now they had found another one, and this jade was even better than the previous piece.
Lu Hui looked at the patch of jade green on the ground, envy evident in his eyes, “Can you sell me half of this jade? Rest assured, I will give you a satisfying price.” Of course, he wanted to buy the whole piece of jade, but he didn’t have that much capital.