She freed up one hand to pay with her card.
“How much?”
“You’re buying so many, miss, so I’ll give you a discount. Seventeen hundred thousand in total.”
How much?
One hundred seventy thousand! And that was after a discount? What kind of discount was that? Negative one hundred sixty-five thousand?
Jiang Gan’s eyes widened as he held the stones, questioning life itself.
“Sis, when I was little, I almost got sold off. Do you know how much they priced me at?”
“Ninety thousand. Just ninety thousand.”
Jiang Gan nearly lost it. These broken rocks were more expensive than him! How was that reasonable?
Jiang Lang patted his arm. “You’ve grown up now. Just the meat you’ve gained over the years is definitely worth more than one hundred seventy thousand. You’re still very valuable.”
Jiang Gan: “……”
For some reason, even though his price had gone up, he wasn’t happy at all.
After paying—
“Miss, I’ll get someone to cut them open for you!”
The owner called someone over.
The man picked up the stones and examined them carefully before taking out his tools and beginning to work. His movements were meticulous, clearly those of an experienced craftsman.
The raw stones weren’t expensive for no reason. Some original stones really did show signs of containing jade, though the quality might not necessarily be good.
Watching a stone being cut was like the moment the dice cup was lifted at a gambling table—the instant victory or defeat was decided.
Naturally, such an exciting moment attracted countless onlookers.
Everyone crowded over, eager to see whether the buyer would go bankrupt or become rich overnight.
The first stone was opened.
“Wow! It’s green!”
A jade stone with pretty good quality appeared.
“What incredible luck! With this one alone, she’s already made a profit today!”
“I’ll pay two hundred thousand! Sell me this stone!”
Jiang Lang remained unmoved. “I’m not selling it no matter how much you offer.”
Jiang Gan rolled his eyes. As if they lacked two hundred thousand. What they lacked was jade.
The second stone was opened.
The envy in the crowd’s eyes deepened further. The second stone also contained high-quality jade, and it was even larger than the first.
What kind of ridiculous luck was this?
“I’ll offer three hundred thousand!”
Jiang Lang still did not react.
“Four hundred thousand!”
Jiang Gan lifted his chin proudly and scratched his ear lazily. Not selling meant not selling. No amount of money could change that.
“Eight hundred thousand!”
“One million!”
“Deal!” the girl answered crisply with two words.
Jiang Gan’s eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at his sister.
No way. She sold it?
Money and goods exchanged hands immediately.
Jiang Lang smiled brightly. After all, she had the system. Using one million to buy more raw stones and open even more jade—wasn’t that wonderful?
This trip was making them insanely rich!
Very quickly, all five raw stones were cut open. Not a single one was empty. The crowd’s gazes shifted from envy to burning jealousy.
This damned luck was absolutely heaven-defying.
Who could possibly imagine that she had an overpowered cheating system?
Jiang Lang stuffed the fresh jade into her bag, where the system instantly absorbed it.
Then the points changed.
【Points Balance: 340】
There had previously been three points remaining, meaning those four jade stones were worth two hundred thirty-seven points.
Worth it. Totally worth it!
Under everyone’s blazing stares, Jiang Lang left the stall.
Jiang Gan walked beside her, equally shocked, while cautiously scanning the people nearby who were paying attention to them.
He suppressed the excitement and confusion in his heart and tightly kept his mouth shut, asking nothing.
Right now, the two of them had become the center of attention. Every move they made was being watched.
As the siblings walked ahead, a whole group of people secretly followed behind them.
Wherever Jiang Lang looked, they looked too.
All five stones contained jade. That wasn’t ordinary luck. Either this girl was blessed by fortune itself, or she had some special stone-gambling technique.
Of course Jiang Lang noticed them.
The stones in this gambling yard had already passed through several hands and were basically leftover waste materials from overseas sources. She circled around once and found that the remaining stones with jade inside were all tiny, practically worthless.
She wasn’t planning to continue. Once she found that top-grade imperial jadeite, she would leave immediately.
Passing by a pile of scrap stones, the system suddenly shouted excitedly.
“Host! I found it! It’s right there!”
Jiang Lang lowered her head, picked up the piece of waste stone according to the directions, then thought of something and grabbed two nearby scraps as well.
The craftsman kindly reminded her, “Miss, these are leftover scraps that other people already cut apart. They can’t contain jade anymore.”
His eyes carried the helplessness of someone watching a complete amateur.
“Really?”
“You can ask around. Learn from other people more often so you won’t lose money.”
Jiang Lang looked toward the huge crowd of “other people” behind her.
“She can’t seriously think her luck is so good that every stone she touches contains jade, right?”
“What a joke. If these scraps can produce jade, I’ll cut off my head and let her use it as a soccer ball.”
“And there are actually people following her example? Damn idiots!”
Buying scrap stones was not only unprofitable, it was also incredibly stupid. Only people so poor they were about to lose their underwear would want this stuff.
A gentleman stepped forward. “Master, how much for all the remaining scraps? I’ll buy them all.”
His mouth said one thing, but his body was honest.
Everyone instantly regretted not speaking up first.
Now it was the craftsman’s turn to be stunned. Since when had scrap stones become so popular?
After the transaction was completed, the craftsman picked up his tools and started cutting Jiang Lang’s stones first.
The crowd stared without blinking, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.
The two smaller stones were finished first.
Nothing came out.
The crowd finally relaxed. Exactly. How could someone’s luck possibly be that monstrous?
Then came the final scrap stone.
The craftsman continued cutting.
“I see green! It’s beautiful!”
Very quickly, the entire scrap stone was cut open, revealing a crystal-clear jade inside.
Top-grade jadeite.
Beautiful.
The entire crowd erupted in shock. Their eyes looked like starving wolves staring at a piece of fresh meat, burning hot with greed.
The craftsman shook his head. He truly felt that life was unpredictable. A piece of scrap stone producing top-grade jadeite—he had never encountered something this absurd in his entire life.
But unexpectedly, the gentleman who had bought all the scrap stones also managed to cut out jade. Although it was only a small piece, compared to the original ten-thousand-yuan cost, it was still an enormous profit.
“I offer one million!”
“I offer two million!”
Jiang Lang replied, “I wouldn’t sell it for a hundred million.”
She took out her phone, scanned the craftsman’s payment code, and transferred one hundred thousand yuan.
In her previous life, she didn’t know who had been lucky enough to obtain this stone. She had most likely stolen someone else’s opportunity, and the person most likely to have gotten it was this craftsman. These one hundred thousand yuan could count as a bit of compensation.
She took the jade and placed it into her bag, though in reality it went straight into the system.
【Points Balance: 850】