<h4>Chapter 85: Premium Imperial Jade</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Armstrong looked in the direction rence was pointing in andughed instantly.


    It was because the stone rence was pointing at was First Pavilion’s famous ‘ghost crack stone’.


    “rence, do you know anything about jade?


    “Did you just say that this was a nice stone?


    “Did you just follow your gut?” Armstrong sneered unkindly.


    “Dad...”


    rence opened his mouth to exin that he knew nothing about jade, but that there was arge chunk of jade inside that raw stone. It was a pure green crystal, and it was crystal clear.


    It should be worth something if they were to cut it open.


    “Shut up!” Armstrong interrupted abruptly, “The raw jade stone industry isplicated. They have divided stones into ‘old pit’ raw stones and ‘new pit’ raw stones.


    “Old pit produces a lot of raw stones, and the quality is outstanding.


    “New pit produces an ordinary amount of raw stones, and most of them are of average quality.


    “This ghost crack stone from the new pit variety!


    “It has been here for more than a year. No one asked about it when it was five million at the start. Then, it got reduced to three million, one million, five hundred thousand, three hundred thousand... Still, no one asked for it.


    “Do you think there’s something in this stone?


    “If so, why can’t so many stone gambling experts see it?


    “Who do you think you are? Howe only you can tell that there’s something inside the stone?” Armstrong scoffed. He did not believe rence at all.


    “rence, stop. Don’t interrupt Dad if you don’t understand.” Miranda frowned.


    To be honest, she hated rence for always pretending to know something he did not know nowadays. That was not the way he used to be.


    rence used to be a wimp, but he had also been down-to-earth.


    That was why Miranda had been able to have a contract marriage with rence for three years.


    Ever since meeting Cecilia, Miranda thought rence had begun to be full of crap and had started getting full of himself.


    “Dear, that’s not true...” rence was almost speechless. “Why don’t I buy it myself?”


    “What are you buying?


    “Isn’t it better to spend three hundred thousand on other stones?


    “Why waste it?” Armstrong nced at rence coldly.


    Miranda said coldly, “You don’t understand this industry. It’splicated. Take my word for it!”


    “Oh,” rence sighed helplessly.


    He watched Armstrong spend all of rence’s five million dors, cutting open more than ten pieces of gambling stones. They ended up with jade only worth dozens of thousands of dors. It did not even total up to one hundred thousand.


    “Ahem ahem.”


    After losing all five million dors, Armstrong coughed drily. “I’ve made a mistake. I had high hopes for these rocks, but they contained nothing.”


    Carrie walked over. “Mr. Howard, you’ve finished your fifteen million.


    “Ten million dors in the check was paid aspensation for the warring states jade pendant with a cross.


    “Thest five million was used to pick out gambling stones!”


    “Let’s go home.” Armstrong was ready to flee, dragging Miranda away.


    rence also followed.


    Carrie smiled faintly. “Wait!”


    “What’s the matter? Ms. Houston, we’ve already paid you ten million. You’re not going back on your word, are you?” Armstrong looked at Carrie nervously.


    Carrie chuckled. “Of course I’m not going back on my word. It’s just that Mr. Howard has spent fifteen million at First Pavilion today.


    “Thus, I’m going to give Mr. Howard a free gambling stone.”


    “Free? What do you mean?” Armstrong’s eyes lit up.


    rence also looked at Carrie hesitantly.


    Carrie had adylike air about her. “Mr. Howard is free to pick out any gambling stone from this garden that is worth less than half a million dors.”


    Armstrong was eager to try again. He rushed to rence’s side and pointed to one of the gambling stones that was worth five hundred thousand dors. “rence, take this one!


    “I’ve had my eye on it for a long time.


    “It will be a good choice to cut it!”


    rence looked at that stone, which was beneath an orchid, with his X-ray vision. There was only a thinyer of jade inside.


    It was worthless!


    “Dad, I still like that one.”


    rence frowned and pointed at the ghost crack stone he had also pointed at earlier.


    Armstrong was instantly furious. “I told you, that’s a ghost crack stone. Don’t you get it?”


    Miranda pulled Armstrong back. “Forget it, Dad. You’ve picked out five million dors’ worth of stones. Let rence pick this time.”


    “Let him pick? Fine! Let him pick, then.


    “If there’s really something in this ghost crack stone, I’ll eat the stone’s outeryer,” Armstrong sneered, looking disdainful. He was looking down his nose at rence.


    “Are you sure about this ghost crack stone?” Carrie asked lightly.


    “Yes.” rence nodded.


    Carrie waved her hand swiftly and decisively. “Cut it, sir.”


    First Pavilion’s stonecutter walked over and started cutting the ghost crack stone.


    The customers nearby looked like they were enjoying the show.


    They also wanted to find out whether there was truly any jade in the ghost crack stone.


    Armstrong looked at the ghost crack stone and sneered, “He’s a loser and has trashy taste. What good cane of this...”


    Armstrong was not able to finish speaking.


    “There’s something green...”


    The stonecutter was pleasantly surprised.


    “What?” Armstrong’s eyes widened, his face full of disbelief. “Even if there’s something green, it’ll just be a small piece...”


    He did not finish this other sentence, either.


    “Hiss! What a big green...” The stonecutter continued to exim.


    Many people leaned over, their eyes almost popping out.


    Armstrong’s face was ghastly pale. “Okay, so what if there’s something big and green inside? It must be defective...”


    He did not finish his sentence again this time.


    “It’s... it’s... premium imperial jade!” The stonecutter was shaking with excitement as he held the ghost crack stone like a treasure, tears in his muddy eyes.


    “Boohoo... I’ve been cutting stones all my life, but this is the first time I’ve ever cut out such arge premium imperial jade!”


    “Premium imperial jade?


    “How can that be?”


    Armstrong shuddered and nearly fell to the ground, dumbfounded.


    ‘Is rence really that lucky?’


    A son-inw who knew nothing about stone gambling had found a premium imperial jade the first time he had gambled on stones.


    “Holy crap! It’s really premium imperial jade!”


    “Look at the color and texture! Look at the quality! Tsk tsk...”


    “F*ck! I regret it. I’ve had my eye on this ghost crack stone for a long time, but never did anything about it. Damn it!”


    Several customers were beating their chests in anger, looking like they were exasperated for failing to have selected the stone first.


    Carrie looked at rence in surprise. Then, she walked over to the ghost crack stone, took it from the stonecutter, and looked at it. “It’s indeed premium imperial jade, and it’s good material.


    “The color is pure.


    “It’s premium ice jade.


    “There’s not a single w.


    “The light transmittance is 100%.


    “It’s premium quality!


    “ording to the current market price, it should be worth thirty million dors,” Carrie said reasonably.


    “Thirty million?” Armstrong’s gaze was burning.


    Miranda was dumbfounded, feeling dizzy.


    ‘Premium imperial jade?


    ‘It’s worth thirty million?


    ‘rence is so lucky!’


    Armstrong stepped forward. “rence, give me the premium imperial jade!”