Shocking Discovery

Once Xu Youhai finished speaking, the others also stepped forward to examine the piece of "rough" stone.

Wanqi Jun withdrew his gaze and said with a smile, "This jadeite really is poor-quality. It's actually the Horse's Tooth Variety."

Horse Tooth Variety jadeite was a low-grade type of jadeite with little value. Strictly speaking, it was a relatively uncommon variety, and most people knew little about this jadeite with its strange name.

Although its texture was fairly fine, it was opaque. In industry terms, it lacked moisture or had a short water head, making it look much like porcelain. Its color was based on white or grayish-white, with green making up most of it. The tones were simple, though light green, brown, and other colors might also be mixed in. It was opaque.

This kind of jadeite looked decent at first glance, but it had color without quality and could never produce top-grade jadeite. On close inspection, one could see extremely fine white streaks running through the green. It was generally made into simple jadeite ornaments. When buying thumb rings, cigarette holders, or snuff bottles, one would often hear merchants say that they were made from Horse Tooth Variety jadeite.

Yi Hongguo naturally knew about Horse Tooth Variety jadeite as well. He smiled at Xu Youhai and said, "Since there's jadeite here, there's a good chance there's an ore vein too. Doesn't that solve your urgent problem?"

"That's where you're wrong. Rough jadeite like this didn't appear on a large scale, so how could it prove there's an ore vein here?"

Xu Youhai continued, "Besides, even if there is an ore vein here, if all the material is of about the same quality as the Horse Tooth Variety, it definitely wouldn't even cover the mining costs. I might as well declare