Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 140: Chapter 137: The Great Deceiver

Those two men naturally noticed the waste material on the ground and, hearing what Huo Sining had to say, secretly smacked their lips in pity, feeling sorry for themselves, “It’s not easy to come across the albumen type, you guys are really out of luck, if it weren’t for the black moss, a piece of albumen type material could be worth millions!”

“I know, right.” Bai Yishan also frowned, her face a picture of agony, putting on a very convincing act.

Those two men were simple and rough by nature, and never suspected that Huo Sining and her companion were lying, taking their words for the truth immediately.

“Little sister, take care to handle your grief, nobody who gambles on stones has never been completely ruined; you’ll get used to it. If you’re down on your luck this time, maybe next time you’ll hit it big, don’t be too heartbroken now, haha.”

Seeing that Huo Sining and Bai Yishan were both pretty girls, one of the men immediately felt a surge of sympathy and quickly spoke up to comfort them.

“It’s all collapsed now, even if we’re heartbroken or depressed, it’s no use. We can only blame our bad luck.” Huo Sining shrugged helplessly and smiled at the man, “Let’s take the good words from this brother here; hopefully, our luck will be better tomorrow.”

With that, Huo Sining gave Bai Yishan a significant look and without any further entanglement with the two men, turned and walked out of the yard.

Suppressing their excitement, the two left the stone gambling shop and quickly returned to their hotel. Huo Sining was still okay, but Bai Yishan’s entire face was flushed red, she was barely able to stop herself from dancing with joy.

“Quick, take out that piece of material for me to see! Oh my god, I almost couldn’t help but shout out loud!”

Bai Yishan could no longer control her excitement, she looked at Huo Sining with an eager face, impatiently urging her to quickly take out the cut stone.

Huo Sining laughed and opened her backpack, taking out the piece of stone, which was still wet. The entire piece of jadeite was a fresh and sunny green, tender like the new leaves that had just sprouted in early spring, filled with a sense of newborn vivacity.

Bai Yishan, who studied jewelry design, was naturally familiar with jadeite’s types and textures. As soon as she saw this piece of jadeite, she couldn’t help but exclaim, “This is High Ice Type Apple Green! Both fluorescent and natural light look perfect, it has great translucency, fresh and sunny color, pure and divine—it’s definitely High Ice Type Apple Green without a doubt!”

Huo Sining didn’t understand apple green or Yang Green, nor did she comprehend the difficult professional jargon that Bai Yishan was using, but she did understand the three words Bai Yishan mentioned about High Ice Type.

Bai Yishan had chopped out a piece of High Ice Type Red Fei during the day, and although the High Ice Type Red Fei was only the size of a goose egg, Su Jinyuan had offered a high price of eight hundred thousand for it.

With this price as a reference, Huo Sining felt confident about the piece of Apple Green jadeite in her hand, which was the size of six or seven goose eggs.

Even if the price of Apple Green was not as high as that of Red Fei, this piece should be worth at least three to four million. Her fifteen thousand investment was well spent!

Huo Sining praised herself a million times in her heart for her impulsive decision earlier in the day.

Bai Yishan held the piece in her hands, feeling the jadeite’s cool, moist, delicate surface, which was very satisfying to touch.

Bai Yishan was so smitten she couldn’t bear to let go; such jade color truly intoxicates, and she believed that no woman could resist its allure.

After admiring it for a long time, Bai Yishan finally started to calm down.

She had previously suspected Huo Sining was spouting nonsense, but now she had to admit she was impressed.

If she could explain away the Chicken Blood Stone that Huo Sining had bought on Jade Street that day as a matter of luck, then the fact this worthless piece of moss-eaten green material had increased in value, even if Huo Sining used luck as an excuse again, Bai Yishan would not believe it.

Especially since before this piece of rough was even cut, Huo Sining had sworn with such certainty that she knew the stone would definitely make a profit, it was clear she really knew it would increase in value.

Remembering how after Zhou Zhen had crashed and burned that day, and the waste material was ignored by everyone, only Huo Sining, under the gaze of everyone watching her like she was a fool, spoke up to say she wanted to buy this “waste”, Bai Yishan felt a mix of amazement, confusion, and doubt.

On what basis did Huo Sining believe that this jadeite would increase in value? Keep in mind that next to Zhou Zhen at the time was a highly experienced purchasing master, who failed to spot any potential, how did she discover it?

It seemed that Huo Sining noticed the confusion in Bai Yishan’s eyes as she smiled and said, “I won’t hide it from you. Although I am related to the Su Family by blood, I am actually a distant relative. I’m an orphan, with my parents both having passed away, and I used to live with my uncle’s family in the Shu region.”

“When I was a child, I met a strange old beggar. Despite the risk of being severely beaten by my aunt, I often stole leftover food from home to feed the old beggar.”

“Later on, that old beggar taught me some things, such as inexplicable Qigong Massage, a peculiar way of raising fish, and even gave me a book full of random content.”

“At the time, I was young and didn’t think an old beggar could teach me anything useful. I looked through that book once but didn’t really understand it and later on, I lost it.”

“Not until this trip to Pingzhou, upon seeing those raw materials did I vaguely recall that the book seemed to talk about gambling on stones, and I could still faintly remember some of the mantras and techniques. So, I decided to try my luck and bought two pieces of rough, not expecting them to actually be useful.”

“I didn’t come to you about this before because I wasn’t sure if those methods were real, but this morning’s rough stone made a profit, and even yielded Chicken Oil Yellow. That’s when I felt confident,” she continued.

Huo Sining’s explanation felt like a trope from a martial arts tale, drawing directly from a famous novel by the great writer Jin Yong.

The story seemed a bit ridiculous. If it hadn’t been for the previous incident where Huo Sining treated Huang Chengyi’s illness, Bai Yishan might have just laughed it off as a joke.

But the Qigong Massage did indeed happen, and Bai Yishan had heard about it inadvertently from Su Qingqing.

People often lie, but why are some lies easily exposed, while others are believed to be true? That’s because the liar sprinkles some truths into their lies; with a mix of thirty percent truths and seventy percent falsehoods, it becomes hard to distinguish between the two.

Huo Sining was an orphan who had indeed lived a dependent life in the Shu region, and she had indeed treated Huang Chengyi. With these bits of truth and lies, Bai Yishan was immediately puzzled.

With the earnest look on Huo Sining’s face, Bai Yishan had no reason to doubt the truth of her words.

Especially since Huo Sining had also cut High Ice Type Apple Green out of a piece of waste, something ordinary people couldn’t achieve. This fact shook Bai Yishan’s scientific upbringing.

She felt sure that Huo Sining must have encountered a reclusive master. The old beggar, in order to repay Huo Sining for a meal, had imparted knowledge to her when she was young, aiming to teach her survival skills so she could have multiple ways to make a living after growing up.

The more Bai Yishan thought about it, the closer she felt to the truth of the matter, not knowing that the woman sitting opposite her was actually a grand charlatan.