Just as Little Fairy had been successfully brainwashed by Li Yichen and was ready to turn over a new leaf and contribute to modernization, Ouyang Hai and Atamu crawled in from outside.
Little Fairy darted into Li Yichen's clothes with a whoosh and hid.
Li Yichen showed Ouyang Hai the stone he had just picked up. "Uncle Ouyang, is this the Hetian Jade you were looking for?"
"Where did you find this?" Ouyang Hai took it in delighted surprise, glanced at it, and said happily, "That's right. This is a piece of Seed Jade with a jujube-red skin."
He pointed at the red portion of the stone. "Look here. Doesn't it have the color of a ripe red date?"
As he spoke, he handed the stone to Atamu.
Atamu took one look and nodded. "That's right. This is indeed a piece with a jujube-red skin."
He continued, "Aside from jujube-red skin, other common classifications based on the surface include gold-flecked skin, autumn-pear skin, black-oil skin, and heaven-and-earth skin."
After all, Atamu had once mined jade. He still had the basic eye needed to examine stones and identify jade.
"Where did you find it?" Ouyang Hai asked, pleasantly surprised.
"I just picked it up off the ground." Li Yichen glanced around, then pointed a short distance ahead. "Look, isn't there more over there?"
"Where?" Ouyang Hai hurried over, turned aside a stone, and pulled out another stone covered in golden flecks.
"Gold-flecked skin and white flesh!" Ouyang Hai exclaimed in delight. "I never imagined we could pick up Seed Jade of such quality right off the surface. This must be a rich deposit."
He turned to Li Yichen and asked expectantly, "Yichen, can we start digging?"
"I'll go fetch the tools from below." Hearing that they were about to start digging,