Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 550: Chapter 547: The Ultimate Blood Beauty

”If it weren’t for the news that the Gambling King had returned, I doubt Uncle Jiang would have agreed to the Jade Association’s request to bring out these two pieces of raw jade. Sister Huo, you must take a look and see what’s the deal with these two pieces of raw jade. Can they really produce Jadeite?”

Excitement and expectation shone in Jiang Xiaoqin’s eyes. She had been fascinated by these two pieces of raw jade for many years and was eager to discover what kind of Jadeite lay hidden inside.

But Uncle Jiang was too stingy; he wouldn’t even let people look at the raw jade, let alone cut it open. He kept it locked in the storeroom, totally unwilling to bring it out.

Seeing the young girl’s anxious expression, Huo Sining couldn’t help but want to laugh and did not refuse Jiang Xiaoqin’s request. She first went to the dark bidder at number forty-nine.

However, upon seeing that piece of raw jade, she couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise.

It was a cut and chopped piece with a gray-brown shell about four or five kilograms in size. The gravel on it looked very rough.

Raw jade of this old pit’s cut and chop style is already quite rare, and such materials often produce the fiery red ”Red Fei,” which is quite valuable.

But nowadays, it’s rare to see raw jade of this style, and if there were any, it generally wouldn’t come from an old pit, with a very high chance of cutting collapse.

However, the gray-white Python Band on this piece of cut raw jade wrapped around the entire gambling stone like mucus was quite remarkable. The chance of cutting high-quality ”Red Fei” from inside seemed quite high.

Upon seeing this, Huo Sining couldn’t help but reach out to touch this piece of cut and chopped raw jade, placing her right hand along the gray-white Python Band on the stone.

As soon as Huo Sining’s right hand touched the raw jade, she was stunned by what she saw.

The vivid red, full as the evening sun’s remaining snow, filled her mind. It was flawlessly clear and translucent, with a color as fluid as water, unmistakably indicating that there was a noble piece of Jadeite hidden within this chopped piece of raw jade.

”Beauty” is a term used throughout history to refer to beautiful women. The most famous beauties of history each had distinct traits, and not just anyone could be called a beauty—it was only those women deeply favored by the emperor who could earn such an honor.

In the gambling stone circle, there is a legend about the supreme ”Blood Beauty.”

It is said that when Yu Ji, the wife of the Overlord, killed herself at Wu River, her blood splashed onto the stones of the riverbank, tinging them red. Because of their vibrant and beautiful color, those stones were later carved into objects for appreciation and called ”Blood Beauty.”

Made by blood, these beauties carried a hint of sorrow and desperation, yet were deeply stirring, provoking a myriad of thoughts akin to a tragic love story that evoked pity.

Because the color of the red Jadeite resembles the red stones of Wu River, many people also refer to red Jadeite as ”Blood Beauty.”

However, not all red Jadeites earn such vanity. A true ”Blood Beauty” is at the same level as the top-quality ”Purple Eye,” ”Imperial Green,” and ”Chicken Oil Yellow.”

In other words, even glass-type red Fei cannot be called ”Blood Beauty” unless it also has the color and clarity. The color must be bright but not evil, brilliant but not ostentatious. The stone must be highly translucent and fine, with superior quality, free of any flaws. All these qualities must meet the highest standards to earn the title of ”Blood Beauty.”

If it falls short in any aspect, it is not perfect, and cannot be called a ”Blood Beauty.”

In the short few hundred years of jadeite’s history, truly full-red Blood Beauties have been so rare that they could be counted on one’s fingers. However, once such jadeite emerged, it caused a sensation that was even more shocking and maddening than the appearance of a genuine beauty.

So, when Huo Sining looked through the Heavenly Eye and saw the internal situation of the rough piece she was grinding, she couldn’t help but be somewhat stunned.

Although she had cut high-grade Red Fei several times, those jadeites, whether in terms of texture or color, were still far from the ultimate standard of a Blood Beauty.

But the piece of jadeite in front of her was different. The Blood Beauty within this rough stone was only slightly larger than a chicken egg, and might not even yield a single bracelet, but its top-grade quality was comparable to the Emerald Heavenly Bead she had previously cut.

”Sister Huo, how is it? Is this rough piece good?”

Jiang Xiaoqin saw Huo Sining staring blankly, not speaking for a long time, and couldn’t help asking anxiously.

Huo Sining was pulled back to her senses by Jiang Xiaoqin and sighed in relief.

Ouyang Jun cleared his throat noticeably and gave Huo Sining a meaningful glance.

Huo Sining was startled and turned her head to look around, then realized she had been careless.

With so many people around watching her reaction openly or secretly, staring at the jadeite and losing herself in thought was plainly telling others that she thought highly of this rough stone, wasn’t it?

”Let’s look at it some more. I’m not very sure myself. I do think that in such an old mine, there should still be jadeite, but the starting price is just too high.”

Huo Sining’s ambiguous response indeed made the ears of several people standing around twitch, clearly taking in her words, as they looked at the price tag thoughtfully.

Huo Sining’s eyes flickered, and without a trace, she winked at Jiang Xiaoqin, who was more quick-witted than most girls, and she immediately got the hint, smiling and saying, ”Since that’s the case, let’s go look at others.”

Huo Sining’s words were indeed not false; because this rough piece exhibited outstanding characteristics, Jiang Sibo’s opening price was also very high—a starting bid of two million yuan. Typically, on the Jade Public Plate, the prices of ordinary lots would multiply several-fold, let alone well-performing rough stones.

On the jade gambling plate, many wealthy individuals willing to risk large sums of money might not care about tens of millions. If they won their bet, their assets could double, and they were willing to bear such high risk for the potential high returns.

In other words, although this rough stone had an opening price of only two million, to win this rough stone, one might need to bid ten million or even twenty million yuan.

Nonetheless, Huo Sining still remembered the number of this gambling rough stone and slowly moved on to other places.

She estimated the value of the Blood Beauty in her mind and decided to wait and see at the end of the bidding process.

If the price was too high, she had to consider whether it was worthwhile. Although she liked this piece of jadeite and knew how rare a Blood Beauty was, the current situation was not clear enough. Whether she could win the auction for this rough stone was something she had to go back and plan carefully.

Jiang Sibo’s second rough stone was Longtang white fish skin, with a rough shell and not a very impressive appearance. However, it was a semi-gambling rough stone. A palm-sized window that was cut open revealed the jade flesh with good translucency, and the green inside was pure apple green—a High Ice Type Jadeite color, very formal, and the water head was also sufficient, with a large size of the rough stone.

The price of this rough stone was not low either, with a starting price of one million and five hundred thousand yuan.