Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!
Chapter 331 - 317 It’s gone up!

Chapter 331: 317 It’s gone up!

"I don’t really understand all this; I just randomly picked these stones," Yueqing said.

Du Manchang hastily explained to her the difference between rubbing and cutting.

Feigning innocence, Yan Yueqing said, "Rubbing seems like a waste of time. Since I don’t have much hope for them anyway, let’s just cut~"

As soon as Master Chen heard her, his brows furrowed tightly.

This little girl doesn’t understand anything...

"Miss Yan, if—"

"Old Master Chen, no need to cut from the middle. Just start a quarter of the way in for each one~"

Yueqing followed the vein map provided by the system and drew a couple of simple lines.

She declared with bravado, "Yeah! Cut from here!"

Chen Luo could tell from where she marked that Yan Yueqing truly didn’t understand...

He couldn’t help but feel a bit sorry for Du Manchang...

Your boss is really... making a laughingstock out of the professionals.

Du Manchang also wanted to persuade Yueqing to start with rubbing, but seeing how resolute she was, realizing she wouldn’t be swayed by him, he could only let her have her way...

After all... it’s said this batch of stones cost over two million yuan...

For the Yan Family, that must be pocket change, right?

Old Master Chen had no choice; gentle persuasion doesn’t work on the wilfully deaf. Besides, whatever came out of the stones, it was the owner’s responsibility, and his objections were futile.

So he took a deep breath and started cutting the stone!

The first one, as expected, was nothing more than a cold, hard stone.

Yueqing glanced at it and feigned surprise, "Oh, it’s a stone? Then let’s cut it in the middle and see if there’s still a chance to save it; if not, next one."

Old Master Chen did as instructed.

He sliced open a gray slab.

He offered consolation, "This is just a stone, Miss Yan. The good luck might be in the next one."

"No hurry," Yueqing was not the least bit flustered!

After all, she had been knocked back by the system more than fifty times before!

This was nothing!

"Let’s cut the second one."

Old Master Chen moistened the blade and soon cut open the second stone, "Still a stone, no signs of jade structure."

Yueqing boldly said, "Old Master Chen, just do as I said. If the first cut reveals nothing, cut it in half right away. If there’s still nothing, move on to the next one!"

Old Master Chen complied.

The second stone was also just a stone.

And so was the third.

After three consecutive failures, many bystanders began to whisper among themselves.

"The girl looks pretty, but she seems to be just a pretty face—nice to look at, but not practical..."

"Right, she couldn’t possibly think that jade is something you can get wholesale like groceries, right? Buy enough and you’re sure to find some? Even if she does find some, can she break even?"

"Some say this young lady is Boss Du’s business partner. I thought she had some special skills, but it seems she’s just here to have fun and try her luck..."

"She spent 2.75 million on that pile of stones! They’re piled up like a little mountain. I wonder if she can carve out anything worthwhile from it, or just end up crying at her loss!"

To be honest, no one had much faith in Yan Yueqing.

After all, some onlookers had noticed how she chose the stones—she neither used a light nor examined them closely, simply tossing together those that caught her eye.

She didn’t hold onto a stone for more than ten seconds. What kind of treasure could she possibly pick out?!

With gambling stones, although luck plays a significant part, people still rely on some experience for an initial selection.

Yueqing’s wholesale-like picking attitude had already puzzled everyone, let alone earn their agreement.

The fourth stone was cut.

Master Chen made a cut, and finally some jade color showed inside.

"Eh?! Did we get something out of it?!"

"Let me see! Alas... it’s just ordinary glutinous variety, the meat quality isn’t good either, and it’s such a small piece. Even if it’s completely cut out, it won’t make anything good; the price would be at most several thousand yuan,"

Old Master Chen paused, "Miss Yan, we’ve got jade flesh. Do you need to shine a light to see where to rub off the skin?"

"No need, just cut it in half."

Yueqing had looked over the vein map; this small piece of glutinous variety had only a quarter of it penetrated. The first cut revealed the flesh, and the second cut, made through the middle, would neatly finish it off, acquiring a whole small piece of glutinous jade. Why bother slowly rubbing off the skin layer by layer, slowly washing inward?

Who knew, upon hearing her words, Old Master Chen’s hands trembled twice, "Miss Yan, doing this, I’m afraid it might—"

"It’s fine, trust me, cut it in half!"

Trust...

How can one trust this thing, huh?!

It’s hard to believe, right?!

Half-cut, what if the most complete jade flesh is right inside? Couldn’t it be ruined directly?

The stone was small to begin with; if the glutinous area is large, one could barely get out an egg surface. What’s left to make when cut from the middle?!

Old Master Chen wanted to persuade her but seeing her uncompromising attitude, he reluctantly watered the blade, "Okay, you’re the boss; what you say goes!"

"This lady hahaha... she’s driving Old Master Chen insane, isn’t she?"

"Old Master Chen is famous for loving jade. He switched from appraiser to cutter just to gently reveal the best cut of the jade with his own experience. Who expected that he would be sabotaged by someone with the surname Yan today?"

"What can be done though; the customer is king. You can’t just do as you please, against the king’s wish! If I were Old Master Chen, I would have been driven mad; how could I calmly cut then?"

As the machine whirred, the stone split in the middle.

The part that was initially connected to the glutinous variety still had some white areas in the penetrating position, while the remaining piece only had a little bit of jade flesh left.

"Damn, such good luck! The glutinous part grew horizontally and just happened to be in this one-quarter portion. How could the two vertical cuts have perfectly sliced it out?"

"Hard to say, what if there are still parts hidden in the remainder?"

"What’s left, huh? The stone is only this big! Cutting out this piece is already amazing, isn’t it?"

"Tsk, tsk, the lady’s bold and she’s right to be; her luck is extraordinary..."

Picking up the stone, Old Master Chen passed it to Yueqing with some suspicion, "Miss Yan, do you seem to understand this stone very well?"

So confident in making a cut and just perfectly extracting the complete jade flesh?!

Who could believe that if told?!

Yueqing pretended not to understand and happily accepted, "Old Master Chen, do you also think I’m very lucky?"

Said like this, coupled with that innocent and pure expression.

Okay...

Old Master Chen believed her, did she really just rely on luck?

Upon cutting the fifth piece, the first cut was still gray stone.

To follow Yueqing’s instructions to half-cut from the middle again, in the second that the stone split, jade color appeared once more.

"We’ve got color! It’s going up, it’s increasing, yeah!"

"My god, really cut out again? What’s this piece? It looks like the glutinous variety too."

"Even if it’s a cheap variety, it’s better than stone! This young lady really has good fortune."

Old Master Chen paused, "Miss Yan, the cut’s a winner."

Yueqing confidently said, "Then cut it down the middle again, but this time let’s cut it horizontally."

Old Master Chen: ???

The crowd: ???

No way! She can’t really believe her luck is so good that she could make two consecutive perfect cuts to extract the flesh, can she?!

Where does one find such coincidentally perfect stones, one piece with a horizontal quarter of jade flesh and another with a vertical quarter of jade flesh?

And she would happen to come across both?!