Chapter Thirty-One: Out of the Jade

  Su Qing walked to the corner, staring left and right at a pile of stones. Others would pick out the fluff with flashlights, feeling around, but Su Qing just stood there without even crouching down.

  Song Jie saw Su Qing like this, doesn't seem to be the type who would look at stones either, and volunteered to help. "Su Qing, why don't we two help you pick? Although our level isn't great, at least we understand a bit."

  After finishing speaking for a while, Su Qing didn't react as if she hadn't heard. Suddenly excitedly pointing at the stones and saying: "Two seniors help move out that square one and that long one shaped like a pumpkin."

  Du Wei and the other person looked at Su Qing for a moment, then moved the stones as Su Qing said. Although they didn't know how Su Qing chose the stones, there were no signs of jadeite on them at all. Moreover, it's unlikely that the bricks would produce jadeite, so any one of them would be the same. Since Su Qing had chosen these two, she must have her own reasons, so let's just use these two.

  The stone was moved to one side, and Song Jie called Feng Shu over.

  "Little girl has chosen, are these the only two?" Mr. Feng smiled and pointed at the two pieces of wool fabric on the ground.

  "Alright, just these two pieces." Su Qing said as she took out 400 yuan from her purse and handed it to Uncle Feng.

  "The money is just right, the wool is yours. If you want to move it out of here, just ask your buddies for help." Mr. Feng smiled and went to entertain other customers. That pile of bricks had been ignored for a long time, but unexpectedly two pieces were sold today. Although it was only 400 yuan, it was enough for several days' worth of cigarettes and wine.

  "Su Qing, are these two stones going to be cut here?" Du Xing asked Su Qing for the buyer's opinion.

  Su Qing thought for a moment that it would be convenient to take the stones back and crack them open herself. Moreover, one of the stones contained something that wasn't simple, and Su Qing didn't want to draw attention to herself. However, her family didn't have a stone cracking machine, and buying two pieces of what others considered waste and then bringing them back seemed like too much trouble. "The round egg-shaped one can be cracked open easily, but the square one is more troublesome. Master, please just cut each side flat for me. I'll take it back home and put it in my room, maybe even use it as a base for a flower pot."

  The two of them were stunned after hearing Su Qing's words, and they actually spent 200 yuan to buy a stone to take home and use as a flower pot base.

  Three men came into the courtyard with stones, just as the first man's explanation of the stone had ended and everyone was discussing it.

  "It had just started to show a greenish color, looking like it was full of water. Who would have thought it was just a fake? What a pity, that person just spent over 500,000 to splash water."

  "This time's wool has a lot of python and pine flowers, the appearance is very pleasing. Unexpectedly, the cut-out jade is not that optimistic."

  "I cut a few pieces and it's just one bean species and one piece of hibiscus. The price has gone up, but I didn't make much profit."

  "It's good if you can earn money, but nine out of ten times you'll lose. Cutting out white flowers and relying on green skin is not a good strategy."

  As the crowd's discussion was just as Su Qing had expected, but that piece of wool with a green apple-shaped ice core on the outside looked good too, how come nobody chose it. Su Qing curiously turned her head back and found that the wool was no longer in its original place. The position of the jade inside was relatively biased, could it be that someone bought it without cutting it out? Su Qing searched for the jade cut into small pieces on the ground with a puzzled heart. After looking through them, Su Qing's heart wanted to burst out laughing. All the wool had been cut into square tofu blocks, but surprisingly, they wrapped the jade in one of the small stones, not revealing even half a point. Su Qing thought that this piece of jade was really destined for her, otherwise how could it have been cut so coincidentally? Since that's the case, dear jade, just wait to be taken home by me.

  On the other side, Du Kun had already asked Master to cut the stone for Su Qing. A group of people saw someone cutting the stone and gathered around to watch. But when they heard that the buyer only wanted the stone cut into six flat sides, everyone was greatly disappointed - who would buy a rough stone without cutting it? However, after seeing the six cut sides, none of which showed jade, they all thought it was just an ordinary stone, and Su Qing, a little maid, was intentionally pretending to be mysterious.

  Someone saw Su Qing and let Fang's wool be cut more square, jokingly asked Su Qing: "Little girl, do you want to make that round one even rounder?" As a result, people are small and love to spend money recklessly." Then heard someone laughing haha.

  "This uncle is joking, Fang Zheng's taking it back home and putting a pot of orchids on it would be just right, round and useless but looks good. It's troublesome to take the worthless stone back, let's open it up and see what's inside." Su Qing glanced at the person who spoke, the piece of woolen fabric he had previously unwrapped was bought by him. He didn't have the skills to gamble on stones and lost money, yet he dared to mock Su Qing, a child. Su Qing thought this person was somewhat foolish, hadn't he seen that she was brought here by Du Xuan? Was it true that he had the capital to not be afraid of offending people, or was he just a stupid fool who only knew how to show off his quick mouth?"

  The grinder started to rotate again, and the master who was processing the stone was processing Su Qing's egg-like wool. Everyone stared at the stone processor, eagerly waiting for the result.

  Su Qing walked up to Uncle Feng's side and pointed at the pile of discarded materials, smiling as she said: "Uncle Feng, can I have a few of those stones that were cut into tofu-sized blocks?"

  "That's just a stone, it's useless to keep it. If you can use it, take it away." Su Qing's request was immediately agreed by Feng Shu, looking at the young masters of the Du and Song families' attitude towards her should not be ordinary people. A few pieces of scrap fabric are worth taking, being a good person is better than being a bad one.

  "Then I thank Uncle Feng. Although it's not jade, the quality of the stone is very good and can be used in many ways when placed in our home courtyard." Su Qing happily expressed her gratitude to the other party, then pulled Song Jie to help her move the stones. When no one was paying attention, Su Qing quietly put a piece containing jade into her space.

  After moving the last stone, the solution to the stones on that side also became clear. Just as Su Qing walked near the crowd of onlookers, someone shouted: "It's green!"

  The master of the stone-washing skill put the stones in a basin, washing and scrubbing them with clear water. The faint green color was like the tender leaves of newly grown trees, very pleasing to the eye.

  "What good luck! It's actually green, and the color of the water is pretty good too."

  "It's not quite as fragile as glass yet, but it's getting close."

  "I don't know how much green is inside, if it's just relying on the skin being green then that's a pity."

  Look at this piece of jade wool cut out. The onlookers started discussing it in all directions.

  The master of the stone continued to cut the material, and a circle of people watched Su Qing, this little girl, wondering if her good luck would continue.

  The jade was completely dug out, and a fist-sized block of tender green crystal-clear jade appeared in front of everyone. Everyone couldn't help but take a deep breath, this is the best piece of jade that has been dug out today.

  "It's really beautiful, the color is just right and it's not small either. Making two or three pairs of earrings and some pendants shouldn't be a problem."

  "It was worth coming here just to see such a beautiful piece of jade."

  "Nobody noticed this jade, and then a little girl bought it. What good luck she has!"

  "It seems like it was picked from the brick material in the corner of the wall."

  "It's unlikely, those are all unwanted leftovers, how could they have come into contact with such beautiful jade."

  "It's indeed a brick, I got 400 yuan for it. If I had known there was such a piece of jade inside, I would have dismantled the whole pile of wool myself." Feng Shu is now speechless about what he's feeling.

  "What good luck, picked up a bargain."

  "This piece of jade is really good, I'll offer 10 million, don't know if this little girl will sell it or not."

  "One billion, I'll give one billion two hundred million."

  13 million.

  Su Qing hadn't even said whether she wanted to sell or not, yet everyone had already started bidding.

  I'm so heartbroken, these days there are very few votes and collections. Moreover, no one has given any rewards, it's really pitiful. Please give some support.