Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 133: Chapter 130: The Exorbitant Semi-gambling Rough Stone

Is it just me or does that look incredibly familiar?

Huo Sining really wanted to say, how is Guangcheng so big yet so full of such clichés? First, she bumped into Zhou Zhen and those idiots, and now she’s run into Liu Meiling, the utmost pest?

Why are so many people leaving their own places, only to flock to Pingzhou?

Huo Sining secretly felt fortunate; it had been so many years since she last saw Liu Meiling, thus Liu did not recognize her.

With the Azure Pearl, Huo Sining’s body had been bathed in Spiritual Energy every day, and in just a few short months, her skin had become fair and translucent, and her facial features much more refined and three-dimensional.

Moreover, having upped her fashion game considerably, today’s Huo Sining looked nothing like the country bumpkin from a few months ago.

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It’s no exaggeration to say that even if Huo Sining stood in front of her aunt Xu Lian, Xu Lian might not recognize the niece she had mistreated for years, let alone Liu Meiling, a cousin who hadn’t seen Huo Sining for years and, even when they had, only briefly glanced at her.

Not being recognized was for the best. Huo Sining had long severed ties with Huo Yong’s family and certainly did not wish to get tangled up with those relatives from Rongcheng again.

Su Jinyuan had only cut halfway through the raw stone he was holding, but the onlookers were eyeing them greedily, making even the usually unconcerned Su Qingqing realize that it was time to leave.

“Let’s go.” Su Jinyuan wasn’t persistent either, as stone cutting machines were aplenty in Pingzhou and getting one wouldn’t be difficult.

The group left cheerfully and returned in high spirits. Except for Su Jinyuan, who was a bit sullen, everyone else was in a good mood.

Bai Yishan made an easy two hundred thousand, Huo Sining had purchased a jadeite-laden stone and also discovered a new use for the Azure Pearl.

As for Su Qingqing, it goes without saying that she gained the most among them, having cut out a High-Ice-Type Red Fei, winning the bet against Zhou Zhen and getting a stone worth hundreds of thousands for free—she was simply thrilled.

About Master He and Master Liu, their original trip was to accompany Su Jinyuan in purchasing jadeite raw materials, and on just the first day, they had already increased the value of several stones. They were not looking for anything else, and the auspicious start was promising, naturally putting the masters in a great mood.

Only Su Jinyuan looked conflicted; he had brought the three women to bet on stones just to pay their “tuition fees,” but now they all profited, which would surely give them the impression that betting on jadeite was easy. He anticipated they would become even more reckless and uncontrollable.

Su Jinyuan felt a wave of irritation and deeply sensed that the coming half-month would be heavy with responsibility and full of troublesome matters.

Everybody knows that a tall tree catches the wind, and Su Jinyuan always preferred to make a fortune quietly, so once he returned to the hotel, he immediately called a reliable acquaintance in Pingzhou to help him rent a private warehouse and a set of stone cutting tools.

The man handling it was very dependable, and in less than two hours, he had arranged everything. That afternoon, Su Jinyuan and the two masters went out briefly and came back quickly, taking the two pieces of raw stone to the warehouse for stone cutting.

Huo Sining had been patient for quite a while and was very curious about the rough stone in her hands. Upon seeing Su Jinyuan heading to cut the stone, she hurriedly handed her own piece over to Su Jinyuan to have him help reveal its secrets.

The three women did not follow Su Jinyuan to the warehouse, as they had heard that there were several tourist attractions around Foshan worth visiting. They decided to spend the afternoon wandering around and experiencing Guangcheng’s local customs.

Following Su Qingqing’s plan, they first went to Shunde and then planned to take a bus to Xiqiao Mountain, but they ended up staying in Shunde. Not for any other reason but because not far from the entrance of Shunde, they found a jade store where people were gambling on stones, and the shop was surrounded inside and out by three layers of onlookers.

Having been victorious in her initial foray into stone gambling, Su Qingqing was quite enthusiastic and could not be bothered with scenic spots. She dragged Huo Sining and Bai Yishan towards the crowd engaged in stone gambling, and soon the three of them squeezed into the throng.

Once inside, they learned that someone had paid eight hundred thousand for a half-gamble rough stone from the jade store. The stone, it was said, had been used by the shopkeeper as the shop’s prized piece and had not been sold for over two years. For some reason, this time he had unexpectedly agreed to sell it.

Because there were so many onlookers, Su Qingqing and the others could not see what the person cutting the stone looked like; they could only gather from the fragments of conversation around them that the buyer of the rough stone was a young man, probably no more than in his twenties.

There are generally two types of stone gambling: full-gamble rough stones and half-gamble rough stones.

The term “full-gamble” means that the exterior of the stone does not show any green, resembling a dull-colored rock, and one must rely entirely on the eye to judge;

Half-gamble rough stones, on the other hand, are those that have been cut open to create a “small window” or “small door,” revealing a glimpse of green.

Because one can directly see the jade within, the gamble with a half-gamble rough stone is much riskier than with a full-gamble rough stone, but correspondingly, the prices for half-gamble rough stones are usually much higher.

Therefore, it’s not surprising for a half-gamble rough stone with an opened “window” to be valued at eight hundred thousand. However, the fact that the store was willing to use the rough stone as its prized piece for more than two years without resolving it suggests that there might be some problems with the appearance of the half-gamble rough stone, prompting many gamblers to be wary and afraid to attempt it lightly.

“The ‘jade meat’ revealed by the window in that rough stone must be of the egg-white type, right? That’s high-quality green. How could such an excellent half-gamble rough stone sell for just eight hundred thousand?” Someone nearby, who had apparently seen the type and quality of the ‘jade meat’ revealed by the material’s window, couldn’t fathom the low price and muttered in confusion.

“You’ve only noticed the jade inside but didn’t pay attention to the fact that the ‘jade meat’ is mixed with a lot of black moss. Moreover, the skin of that rough stone is covered with patches of moldy pine flower. Do you know what the presence of moldy pine flower indicates? It means that it’s highly likely that the black moss has penetrated the stone, and the odds of gambling failure are too high. Who would dare to try it easily?” someone nearby explained with a sneer.

Upon hearing this, Huo Sining immediately understood. The so-called ‘black moss’ refers to the black spots within a jade stone. If a piece of jade were filled with black spots, it would be essentially deemed waste material, impossible to be processed into jade artifacts.

A piece of stone that’s likely to have black moss, even if the jadeite quality revealed in its “window” is excellent, can still cause apprehension.

Gambling on stones is like gambling with life. If the bet pays off, the returns could be tenfold or even a hundredfold, and overnight riches are not just a myth. But if one loses the gamble, they could end up losing everything. One cut could lead to poverty, another to wealth, and yet another to wearing shorts; this is a mental preparation one must make when entering the realm of stone gambling.

However, within the stone gambling circle, some people dare to bet on Python Bands and pine flower fractures, so there are also those who dare to bet on black moss.

Egg-white type jadeite is not common. There are always those with bold enough courage to gamble and take their chances. As long as those black moss spots don’t extend into the jade meat, anyone who bought this half-gamble rough stone for the sky-high price of eight hundred thousand stands to make a fortune.