Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 1773: Chapter 1772

”What are you muttering about?” Wei Hu glared at Lin Dong and asked.

Lin Dong grinned cheekily and replied, ”I was saying you’re really handsome.”

”Heh... At least you’ve got some sense, kid.” Wei Hu said, choosing not to argue with Lin Dong anymore. Instead, he looked over at Qin Yitian, who was standing nearby.

At this moment, Qin Yitian was inspecting a piece of rough jade, seemingly interested in trying her hand at stone gambling.

Seeing this, Wei Hu quickly said with a smile, ”Miss Yitian, if you want to gamble on stones, you can come to me! I’m really good at this, and my family is in the jade business as well.”

Qin Yitian nodded slightly, aware that the Wei family controlled the largest jade mines in Southborne and had a major jade business.

Due to being constantly surrounded by jade, Wei Hu probably did have some expertise in stone gambling.

”Wei Hu, what do you think about this piece of jade?” Qin Yitian pointed to a piece of jade in front of her and asked Wei Hu.

Wei Hu glanced at it and chuckled, ”Miss Yitian, this rough stone won’t do; it’s seed jade, and it’s hooded material. There’s a 90% chance it won’t produce any green.”

Rough jadeite is categorized into two types: mountain materials and seed materials.

Mountain materials are directly extracted from jadeite mountains without any outer skin. These stones are rarely used for stone gambling.

Seed materials, on the other hand, are formed when jadeite rolls down from mountain slopes after weathering and gets carried by floodwaters into ravines or rivers. Due to a weathering shell on the surface, the internal condition is not visible. People judge based on the shell’s characteristics or by examining windows cut into the stone.

Stone gambling primarily revolves around seed materials.

The piece in front of them was seed material covered entirely by a weathering shell, entirely void of visible green. Experts generally wouldn’t buy such hooded materials.

At this moment, Qin Yitian, unwilling to accept defeat, directly bought the hooded material.

She then said to the staff, ”I’ll take this piece—cut it open for me.”

Wei Hu shook his head and said, ”Miss Yitian, if you don’t believe me, just watch. This piece is guaranteed not to reveal any green.”

The staff picked up the cutting tool and sliced into the rough jade.

As expected, just like Wei Hu said, the hooded material didn’t produce any green.

Seeing this, Wei Hu smugly said, ”Miss Yitian, didn’t I tell you so?”

Qin Yitian looked at the result and remarked, ”Wei Hu, it seems you really do know a thing or two about stone gambling.”

Wei Hu boasted, ”Of course! Miss Yitian, take a look at this stone. There’s a high chance it will produce green.” He pointed at a piece with noticeable large cracks and said to Qin Yitian.

Qin Yitian hesitated. ”This stone has such large cracks—can it really produce jade?”

”Miss Yitian, there’s a saying in the stone gambling world: ’Don’t fear big cracks, fear small threads.’

”Cracks and threads can greatly impact jadeite by diminishing its value and appearance. Large cracks are easy to spot and gauge for damage, but threads, on the other hand, are subtle and unpredictable—sometimes large, sometimes small, deep, or shallow. That’s why people say, ’Don’t fear big cracks, fear small threads.’”

Qin Yitian saw how confidently Wei Hu spoke, so she decided to listen to him and bought the rough stone.

She then quickly asked the staff to cut it open.

”Ssssshhh~~~”

As the stone was cut open, a bright green light immediately shone through.

”It really has jade in it! Wei Hu, it seems you really do understand stone gambling!” At this moment, Qin Yitian was completely convinced of Wei Hu’s expertise.

Wei Hu felt overjoyed in his heart. Gaining the trust of Qin Yitian was an unparalleled triumph for him.

In his moment of elation, Wei Hu continued to show off in front of Qin Yitian.

Just then, Qin Yitian pointed to a large piece of jade with visible green on the surface and asked Wei Hu, ”Wei Hu, this piece has plenty of visible green on the surface. Surely, it will produce jade, right?”

However, Wei Hu shook his head and said, ”Not so, not so! Miss Yitian, just because a rough stone shows green on the surface doesn’t mean it will produce jade.”

”This type of green is called ’scraping green’ or ’visible green material.’ If there really were high-quality jade inside, it would have been bought at the source long ago.”

”The fact that it ended up in a shop at the gambling field means all the experts didn’t think highly of it.”

”It’s just surface green—the inside is likely empty.”

”Moreover, the surface of this stone has thick ’fog’ and lacks transparency, which further indicates that it won’t produce green.”

”’Fog’? What fog?” Qin Yitian felt utterly baffled. She couldn’t see any fog on the surface of the stone.

Wei Hu explained:

”Miss Yitian, generally speaking, between the outer layer of the rough stone and the inner base material lies a transition layer of varying thickness—this is what we call ’fog.’ It has a certain relationship with the jade’s quality and water content. Thin, transparent fog typically indicates higher quality jade.”

”This piece, however, has thick, opaque fog. So, I’m sure it won’t produce jade.”

Hearing this, Qin Yitian nodded and decided not to buy the stone based on Wei Hu’s advice.

But at this moment, another voice chimed in.

”How much for this stone?”

The voice belonged to none other than Lin Dong.

Hearing this, Qin Yitian rolled her eyes and said to Lin Dong, ”Hey, are you deaf? Didn’t you hear Wei Hu say that this rough stone won’t produce any green? And you still want to buy it?”

Lin Dong replied nonchalantly, ”If you’re not buying it, step aside. Don’t get in my way.”

”You...!” Qin Yitian was livid. She was merely trying to help, and yet this kid seemed utterly ungrateful.

What’s more, he even told her to step aside. The audacity!

Beside them, Wei Hu laughed. ”Miss Yitian, don’t mind him. If he wants to waste his money, let him.”

Qin Yitian nodded. ”Exactly. If he wants to throw away his money, let him.”

Lin Dong ignored the two and once again asked the staff, ”How much is this rough stone? I’ll take it.”

The staff responded, ”Ten thousand.”

”Ten thousand.” Lin Dong frowned. Though he had some cash on him, it wasn’t nearly enough.

”Haha, kid, you can’t even cough up ten thousand, and you’re still trying to act cool?” Wei Hu couldn’t help but laugh mockingly.

He then said to Lin Dong, ”Kid, how about this? I’ll give you ten thousand. If the stone doesn’t produce green, you don’t have to pay it back. All I ask is that you call me ’Brother Hu’ and get the hell out of here. Deal?”

Lin Dong glanced at him and said, ”Fine. If it produces green, I’ll repay you the ten thousand.”

”Hahaha! If you manage to cut green out of this waste material, not only will I waive the repayment, but I’ll even call you ’Brother!’” Wei Hu laughed hysterically, clearly convinced the stone wouldn’t yield anything.

Lin Dong then turned to the staff and said, ”I’ll take this rough stone. Open it up.”

The staff nodded, picked up the cutting tool, and made the first cut into the rough stone...