The next day, before dawn, Li Yichen and Ouyang Xuanxuan flew out through the hotel window.
As for the room charge... of course they hadn't paid... After all, it had already been one in the morning when they arrived. Surely it was reasonable not to check in so they wouldn't disturb the young woman at the front desk while she rested?
Zhang Yong and the other two didn't return until noon. Then, looking utterly pained, the three of them placed three pieces of Hetian seed jade on the desk.
"We're giving these back. We can't accept them." Yang Weifeng gave the stones a reluctant look, then forced himself to look away.
He was afraid that if he kept looking, he wouldn't be able to resist taking them back.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Li Yichen asked, puzzled. "Why don't you want my gifts?"
"They're real... The Hetian seed jade you gave us is real," Zhang Yong suddenly blurted out.
"Of course it's real. What's the problem?" Li Yichen rolled his eyes at him. He had dug it up himself. How could it possibly be fake?
"That's exactly the problem," Sun Kai couldn't help saying. "Do you know how much that... whatever jade you gave us is worth?"
"It's Hetian jade..." Li Yichen rolled his eyes and asked nonchalantly, "How much?"
"We took it to Zhang Yong's dad last night. Guess what happened..." Sun Kai continued. "His dad nearly had a heart attack when he saw it..."
"And then?" Li Yichen asked nervously. "Is Uncle Zhang all right?"
"My dad's fine. It was mostly the shock," Zhang Yong cut in. "He examined it carefully and looked up some information online. Each piece is worth at least two million, and it'd fetch even more at auction."
"Do you have any idea?" Yang