The Beautiful Boss's Personal Bodyguard
Chapter 142

Chapter 142: Chapter 142

"How much are you offering me?"

The boss’s eyes lit up with joy, "Master Zhang just said this piece could be worth forty or fifty million, I’ll give you sixty million, how about that?"

Ye Tian shook his head, "No deal. I’m not selling either of these two stones."

Everyone around was taken aback, but then they all came to accept it. Such high ice species material is rare to come by, and in any shop, it would be considered a treasure. Moreover, with just a little craftsmanship, it could fetch a high price and greatly enhance the reputation of the store. A jewelry store without high-quality jewels as its flagship is not a good look.

They guessed that this crew-cut guy wanted to work on it himself.

Hearing Ye Tian’s response, the boss immediately turned around and went back into the crowd, waving his hand as he walked, "Forget it, everyone. This kid is not selling."

Looks like it was all arranged among this group.

Ignoring everyone’s stares, Ye Tian casually pocketed the egg-sized green jade into his jacket, while feeling the continuous flow of warmth transferring to his right wrist as he walked over to the grinding wheel. People saw that this time, Ye Tian had chosen that notoriously worthless rock that had sat in the stone yard for over a year.

Could this stone really yield jade? Bullshit!

No one present believed that Ye Tian had chosen the stone based on his own judgment; it was merely a show to match Master Zhang’s reputation. If jade really came out of it, it would be purely out of luck, even worse than dog shit luck. But then again, this kid’s luck was really something. How did he just happen to pick the stone that had jade in it, especially when its size was merely the size of a palm, with such a low chance of being chosen? Apart from good luck, there seemed to be no other explanation.

But gambling stone business isn’t just about luck; if it were, the number of millionaires in this world would be growing exponentially.

Waste is waste. No matter how good the luck is, jade will not come out of it.

"Ssssss..." The sound of the grinding wheel started, with dust flying everywhere. Even though no one believed anything would come out of this waste stone, people still stopped and didn’t leave. They wanted to see if this crew-cut kid truly had such good luck to keep striking treasure with two worthless stones.

This time around, Ye Tian was much more careful when grinding the stone and didn’t proceed as roughly as before. He touched the grinding wheel little by little, some parts just barely making contact before quickly retracting. After repeating this process several times, he would switch hands and start polishing again. Everyone thought that Ye Tian had become more cautious after the unexpected joy of finding jade, but in truth, he already had a clear understanding of the stone’s internal structure from the sensations in his wrist; his approach was simply to avoid damaging the jade inside.

"Miss Chen, your friend here is quite the expert!"

Chen Xing frowned, "What kind of expert is he?"

Seeing Chen Xing’s dismissive attitude, Master Zhang just smiled and shook his head. Although she was Chen Pingrui’s daughter, she knew nothing about the appraisal and appreciation of antiques. She only knew how to buy with money and nothing else.

Ye Tian had almost completely cleaned up that ugly stone in the arena, leaving only the last raised part. Yet even so, people had already noticed the extraordinary aspect of this stone—it was red, yes, red. Even without washing it with water, the red color was unmistakably revealed. What did red signify? Everyone knew very well in their hearts.

Finally, Ye Tian approached the grinding wheel again, and when the dust settled, an irregular polygon emerged before everyone’s eyes, about the size of a palm, which meant the whole stone hadn’t changed much; it was merely wrapped in a thin layer of stone skin. When Ye Tian rinsed it with water, a stone flashing with a red light was revealed to all.

Red and green jade, both held in Ye Tian’s hands.

The crowd boiled over with excitement, Master Zhang was so thrilled that his hands trembled, wanting to take the stone in his hands and play with it, but he couldn’t move his feet.

Huaxia had no jade, let alone top-tier jade to show off. Only in places like Vietnam or Myanmar was there a chance to discover such top-tier jade. The red jade in Ye Tian’s hands had a bright color and a fine texture, it was of the highest quality, rare and sought after, having reached the level of Chicken Crown Red.

Having acquired two pieces of excellent stones in a row, everyone felt jealous of Ye Tian’s fortune. Why was this young man so lucky? I’ve been playing with stones for decades, and the money I’ve made is not even enough to buy a bottle of soy sauce.

After Master Zhang declared it to be "Chicken Crown Red," everyone grew even more envious of Ye Tian. Such a priceless and superb piece of Chicken Crown Red had entered Ye Tian’s hands in such an odd way. Of course, the vendor who sold the stone to Ye Tian for two hundred yuan was squatting by the side, watching the crowd forlornly, and was almost about to cry.

Holding two pieces of jade in his hands, Ye Tian soon felt that something was amiss. The warmth that he initially felt when holding one of the jade pieces was gone when he shifted it to his right hand. It could be said, aside from a slight difference in color, there was no other distinction from an ordinary stone. It seemed that the Spiritual Energy of the stone had been completely absorbed by the Nine Emperor Bell in his wrist, otherwise, the red jade stone that he got later would not be so warm.

"Young man, do you really not want to sell these two stones?"

"I’ll offer eighty million, how about that?"

"I’ll add ten million to that, ninety million, and you just give me that green one."

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The people around who wanted to buy the stones crowded forward again, Ye Tian remained indifferent and passed the green jade to Chen Xing, "This is yours, I’m giving it back to you. And, I won’t give back that sixty-nine thousand yuan from earlier."

"Hmm. Let’s go." Chen Xing unapologetically took the stone and put it in her pocket, then turned and left.

In her view, Ye Tian was just a security guard. To put it bluntly, he was just her subordinate. His belongings were naturally hers, as it was proper for a master to claim the belongings of a servant.

"Ye Tian, let’s go."

People gradually dispersed, and the stones scattered on the ground lay there lonely, leaving behind the stones and Ye Tian. The fiery Chen Xing did not explode this time, because she saw that where Ye Tian was looking, there stood a girl.

Gu Dao—the first time Ye Tian heard this name, he felt something strange. Gu is a rather rare surname, originating from Shanxi, and mostly found in the south. It’s already rare in the north, so when he heard the name Gu Dao, his first thought was of Old Master Gu in Huaizhou City, that old General.