After being reborn, I took my childhood sweetheart to cultivate immortality.

"Xiao Chen, how about we buy a few kilograms of feed to play with?"

"Yes, Brother Zhang, I don't know anything about jade gambling. I just brought my girlfriend here to have some fun."

“Alright, let’s do it together. Xiao Xu, you can also grab a couple of coins and try your luck. It’s nice to play with these occasionally; they’re good for relieving stress,” Zhang Keqin said to the two of them with a smile.

"What does 'kilogram material' mean?" Xu Qingman asked, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes wide with curiosity.

"Kilogram material, as the name suggests, is raw material that is priced by the kilogram. This shop's kilogram material is 200 yuan per kilogram, which doesn't seem cheap, but it's much cheaper than other materials."

"You need to know that the value of raw jade has no upper limit, only higher. Some good pieces can easily cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions."

After Yu Jinchen finished speaking, he led Xu Qingman to a pile of stones in the corner. "Take your time and look. This pile is full of stones. Pick a few at random, and we'll call someone to weigh them later."

"Okay, I know." Xu Qingman was quite excited about this for the first time, and she enthusiastically followed others, picking up one stone after another to examine them.

At first, everything was fine, but when she picked out a stone about the size of two fists, Xu Qingman noticed something unusual. When she held the stone in her hand, it had a cool and comfortable feel, just like the feeling she had when she first came into contact with spiritual energy during her cultivation.

Thinking back to my past life when I had nothing to do, I read some novels about cultivating immortality. Some of these books said that jade actually contains a certain amount of spiritual energy, and that spirit stones are jade that has evolved into spirit energy over millions of years.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingman was very excited. To satisfy her guess, she first put the rough stone in her hand at her feet and then started rummaging through the pile of rough stones.

She touched more than ten more stones before finding another one that felt similar to the previous ones. She held it in her hand and felt it carefully; this one felt even more comfortable than the previous ones.

Fearing that her guess would be confirmed and arouse suspicion from others, Xu Qingman casually picked up three more pieces and put them together before squatting down to watch how Yu Jinchen and the others were choosing.

It seemed that the guy called Brother Zhang was more professional; at least he had a powerful flashlight shining on him. Yu Jinchen, on the other hand, was just rummaging through the pile of raw stones, just like Xu Qingman had done before.

Sensing Xu Qingman looking at her, Yu Jinchen put the stone in her hand down beside her feet and asked softly, "Manman, have you made your choice?"

“Yes, I chose these.” Xu Qingman nodded with a smile and pointed to a few stones at her feet.

"Okay, then let's take it over and weigh it."

After saying that, Yu Jinchen turned to Zhang Keqin and said, "Brother Zhang, have you made your selection? Let's go weigh them first."

"Okay, you guys go ahead. I'll pick something else. It's not like we're buying groceries, we can't be so casual about it." Zhang Keqin said, waving his hand at them.

After weighing the selected rough stones, they totaled 102 jin (approximately 50 kg). The shop owner didn't charge the extra two jin (approximately 1 kg) but still charged 20,000 yuan.

After paying, the shop owner asked, "Mr. Yu, do you want these materials cut?"

Yu Jinchen nodded, "Yes, we'll cut it."

The shop owner beckoned a young man over and said to him, "Ah Hao, help Mr. Yu cut these pieces of material."

"Okay, boss."

The young man named Ahao responded and moved all the stones to an empty cutting machine. He looked at Yu Jinchen and asked, "Mr. Yu, which piece would you like to cut first, and how?"

Yu Jinchen didn't answer him first, but instead smiled and asked Xu Qingman, "Manman, how do you think we should cut it? You decide everything today."

Xu Qingman wanted to see if her feeling was correct, and when she heard him say that, she smiled.

He bent down and picked up the first piece, saying to Ahao, "I don't know much about it either. You have more experience cutting stones than we do, so just cut it according to your own experience."

Ah Hao encounters this kind of customer every day in the shop. He takes the stone, examines it carefully under the light, and first cuts off the thinnest corner of the stone.

After taking another look, I cut thin slices off several sides of the stone, rinsed them with water, and then examined them closely.

"Mr. Yu, this piece of jade has developed a fog-like appearance; the chances of a good gamble on it are quite high," Ah Hao said, pointing to one side of the stone for Yu Jinchen to see.

Yu Jinchen leaned closer to take a look and nodded with a smile. He remembered clearly that this piece was picked slowly; it seemed the little girl had good luck, managing to find something on her first try.

Xu Qingman also leaned over and stared at the stone carefully, but unfortunately, apart from being smoother after being cut, she couldn't see any difference.

After Ah Hao and the other two examined it, they took it back and continued cutting the stone. However, this time they were more careful, and gently made another cut with the back of the knife against the spot where the fog had appeared.

After that, she made a few more cuts around the corner and rinsed it clean with water again. Now, even Xu Qingman, a complete novice, could see the difference.

The side that was cut the most earlier was already showing a light green color.

After the piece of jade was completely cut, Xu Qingman happily took it in her hand and looked at it. She then looked at Yu Jinchen and asked, "Jinchen, is this jade? How much do you think this is worth?"

"Hmm, it's alright, it should be icy jadeite, but the color isn't quite right, it's a bit yellowish. But this piece of jadeite is quite large, at least enough to make a bracelet, it should be worth tens of thousands of yuan, that's a big increase."

"Really? Does this mean I've hit the jackpot? This is the first piece of jade I've ever found. I'm going to have it made into jewelry as a keepsake."

Xu Qingman's lips slowly curved upwards, and she couldn't suppress her smile.

She has roughly determined that using the ability to sense spiritual energy to determine whether a rough stone contains jade is the correct method. Now she just needs to open another one to verify this.

She gave Yu Jinchen a sweet smile, put the jade away, and gestured for Ahao to continue cutting the stone.

This time, they cut the smallest piece of the rough stones that Yu Jinchen had chosen. After cutting it several times, down to the size of an egg, they still found nothing.

After cutting several more pieces, they finally saw a faint purple hue. Yu Jinchen was unsure now, but Ahao told them that it was a glutinous rice variety of violet, and that it was small, worth at most two or three thousand yuan.

By this time, all the stones Yu Jinchen had chosen had been cut. Looking at it this way, it seemed he had failed this time.

After all, with a total cost of 20,000 yuan and two pieces weighing roughly half each, the cost of 10,000 yuan was only enough to produce jade worth two or three thousand yuan. That's why there's a saying that one cut can make you poor, and another can make you rich.

Next, they cut the rough stones that Xu Qingman had chosen. The first few pieces she cut were the ones she hadn't sensed any spiritual energy in, and she had just put them in there to make up the numbers. Sure enough, there was nothing inside; they were just a few real stones.

Now there's only one piece left. When she first held this stone, she could feel the surging spiritual energy within it.

Although he had already cut several pieces of waste rock, Ah Hao carefully placed the stone on the cutting rack, chose what he thought was the best spot, and gently cut it down.