"Yuanyuan, what do you think of this pair of rings? They're just the right size..."
"These are too expensive. Let's look at some others..."
"What about these?"
"Still too expensive..."
The young man supported the girl as they browsed one counter after another.
Meanwhile, Li Yichen was examining the other rough stones.
He started with the most expensive and worked his way through them one by one. His reasoning was simple: the more expensive they were, the better they ought to be.
To his disappointment, however, half of them contained nothing at all, and most of the rest only contained glutinous-grade jadeite.
The largest stone, priced at a whopping fifty thousand, contained only an egg-sized piece of jadeite, and even that was merely melted-glutinous grade. It was a guaranteed money loser.
Resigned, he picked up the last rough stone, which was about the size of an egg. It was also the cheapest, priced at three hundred.
Li Yichen glanced at it and couldn't help curling his lip. "The odds of finding jadeite in these stones are way too low. I'd be better off spending this time looking at pretty girls..."
Then he concentrated his spiritual energy between his brows again. A second later, he nearly jumped. Beneath its thin stone shell, this egg-sized rough stone was actually packed solid with jadeite.
"Holy shit... Holy fucking shit..."
"Judging by its appearance, the jadeite inside should be true ice grade," Li Yichen said, examining it closely. "Too bad it's so small. It's only good for making rings and pendants."
He was just about to ask Ouyang Hai to cut the stone open when he looked up and spotted a familiar figure supporting a girl who had difficulty walking as they approached the Ouyang Family's counter.
"Miss, could you take this ring out