Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 131: Chapter 128 Good Luck Continues

Since Su Qingqing’s stone started rising in value from the first cut, Zhou Zhen’s face had turned quite unsightly. Seeing that the brick-material had actually yielded a rare High-Ice-Type Red Fei, his complexion completely darkened.

“How about it, Zhou Zhen, you said women shouldn’t gamble on stone. Are you satisfied with the result now?” Su Qingqing looked smugly at Zhou Zhen, tilting her chin and asking, “What was our bet again?”

Zhou Zhen’s face turned various shades of green and white, too spectacular for words.

He was silent for a moment before turning his ashen face towards the Master next to him with a nod.

The Master hesitated, a flash of anger in his eyes, but in the end, said nothing and handed over the rough stone he was holding to Su Qingqing.

Su Qingqing glanced at Zhou Zhen and Ye Zixin from the corner of her eye and then ignored the two, instead turning to beam foolishly at Su Jinyuan: “Brother, could you cut this piece for me too?”

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Seeing his little sister with the newly-acquired rough stone making faces at him, complex emotions flickered through Su Jinyuan’s eyes. He had never expected that his little sister would be so lucky, cutting a top-quality Red Fei from a blindly purchased brick-material piece.

Although the High-Ice-Type Red Fei wasn’t very big and couldn’t be made into a jade bracelet, it was still suitable for grinding into a few ring faces or other pieces of jewelry.

Women have an affinity for red, and jewelry of such a vibrant color would definitely be welcomed by ladies from prominent families and noblewomen.

The thought that she had not only won the bet but also gained an additional piece of quality rough stone made Su Qingqing’s heart swell with delight, and her smile was irrepressible.

Zhou Zhen, on the other hand, felt shame-faced as if everyone around him were mocking him. With a chest tight with frustration, he couldn’t stay at the Stone Cutting Factory any longer and left with Ye Zixin and Wu Linger in a sorry state.

“Serves him right!” Su Qingqing couldn’t help but spit in contempt when she caught sight of this scene from the corner of her eye, cursing under her breath.

“Alright, stop gloating after getting lucky!” Huo Sining, disliking Su Qingqing’s smug attitude, couldn’t help but chide her with a laugh.

Seeing that Su Qingqing’s rough stone had increased in value, Bai Yishan was also somewhat anxious. Now that Su Jinyuan was starting to cut his piece, she couldn’t possibly cut in line, so she could only worry inwardly.

Just then, the stone cutting machine next to them opened up. Bai Yishan found an opportunity and squeezed over, grabbing the rough stone in her hand and said to the Stone Solver Master next to her, “Master, could you please help me cut this one too?”

Bai Yishan’s rough stone was also selected from the brick-material, but Huo Sining hadn’t handled it, so he didn’t know if there was any jadeite inside.

Su Qingqing’s brick-material yielding High Jade was an unexpected surprise, and Huo Sining thought the chances of Bai Yishan’s piece yielding green to be slim, so he didn’t pay much attention to her. His eyes were fixed on Su Jinyuan’s stone solving.

Unexpectedly, after a few minutes, someone shouted, “There’s green, there’s green!”

Huo Sining was momentarily stunned and incredulously turned his head to look over at Bai Yishan.

Su Jinyuan too was surprised, putting down the rough stone in his hands and hurriedly rushing over to Bai Yishan’s side.

“This is Oily Green Species on the rind, can’t tell how deep the green goes. Although it’s said in stone gambling, ‘better to buy a line than a piece,’ but with the skin being so thin, cutting less than an inch to reveal such a large patch of green is a rare occurrence. It looks like the jadeite inside might be bigger than the Bean-type one Mr. Su bought earlier.”

Master He had rich experience in evaluating rough stones, and upon seeing the cut surface, he immediately judged that the jadeite inside should be sizable.

Mr. Su Jinyuan was repeatedly shocked and stunned by these two women.

Even messing around could cause such a big commotion; he really didn’t know which words to use to describe it anymore.

“Little girl, where did you buy this material? Each piece you cut turns up green, that’s a really good sign!”

The onlookers around them had their eyes turn bright red with envy, clearly stimulated by these two novices.

Su Qingqing smiled and said, “It’s in a store not far from the Stone Cutting Factory called Jade Beauty. They had a lot of rough jade piled up outside, five thousand for each piece, and we picked ours from there.”

Su Qingqing’s response instantly caused an uproar among the crowd, “The Jade Beauty store? Aren’t those the unsold stocks of ‘brick material’ that have piled up over the years?”

“Are you kidding me? Can High Ice Type Red Fei really come out of ‘brick material’? Did the owner make a mistake?”

“No way, I’ve got to go and take a good look. If I can get a piece for five thousand and cut green out of it, I’d make a fortune!”

If a novice could randomly buy rough jade that turned up green, there was no reason they couldn’t gamble on an increase in value. It must be that something was up with those rough jades; perhaps the owner got confused and mixed up the new stock from the old mine pits with the ‘brick material’. If they went now, they might still find a bargain!

Watching Bai Yishan’s piece of Oily Green Species that had turned up green, many of the bystanders could no longer contain themselves, and they turned around and ran towards the Stone Cutting Factory as if injected with chicken blood.

“Is this ‘melon rind’ Oily Green very valuable?” Huo Sining, who didn’t understand jade, couldn’t help but ask Master He standing beside him.

“It’s not worth it; Oily Green Species is only considered low-grade jadeite. Miss Bai’s piece of material, both color and water, are quite average; a bracelet at most could sell for two to three thousand,” Master He explained with a smile, but this choked Huo Sining.

A bracelet selling for two to three thousand indeed wasn’t impressive, showing that the jadeite wasn’t of high quality, but that didn’t change the fact that her piece was huge! Bai Yishan’s piece of rough jade weighed nearly twenty pounds, and such a thin slice had just been cut from it, revealing green inside. If the inside was full of Oily Green Species, then she’d made a huge profit.

How much material did one bracelet need? Even if one pound of jadeite could make just a pair of bracelets, her piece could yield nearly twenty pairs!

At two to three thousand per bracelet, that piece of jadeite was also worth a hundred thousand, perhaps even eighty thousand. This rate of making money was much faster than her exhausting work catching seafood and crabs in the Yellow River!

Bai Yishan herself did not expect that her rough jade would turn up green with the very first cut; at first, she was a little astonished, then became flustered. She subconsciously looked towards Su Jinyuan, her face a plea for help.

Su Jinyuan’s mouth twitched, and he said to the old master, “Continue cutting.”

The master had already identified Su Jinyuan as the decision-maker among the group, and upon hearing his command, his movements were swift. Soon, three more sides were cut, revealing pure Oily Green.

The entire stone now had four cut surfaces, each showing a uniformly deep green color of the Oily Green Species, and even without polishing, the surface glistened with a luster like grease.

Su Jinyuan pursed his lips, saying nothing, but inside he was on the verge of mental collapse, furiously ranting to himself.

It was unbelievable. The luck of these two women was just too good, wasn’t it? It was bad enough that High Ice Type Red Fei came out of ‘brick material’, but to also cut such a large piece of green? Was this some sort of bewitchment?

Su Jinyuan glanced sideways and his gaze fell on the piece of rough jade that Huo Sining held in her arms. His expression darkened.

This last piece, it couldn’t possibly increase in value as well, could it?