Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 164: Chapter 161: Incorrect News?

“What’s the deal with that guy? He looks like he carries some weight around here.”

Su Qingqing didn’t recognize Liang Jinhong. Seeing him take the stage and immediately start directing, and noticing that Zhou Zhen seemed to be listening to him, she couldn’t help frowning and asked in a low voice, curious.

Su Jinyuan hadn’t even opened his mouth when Qin Tian glanced towards the center of the stage and curled his lip:

“That guy’s name is Liang Jinhong, the Imperial Capital Liang Family’s eldest grandson. How formidable he is, I can’t say, but there have been several scandals in the capital recently, all related to the Liang Family. He’s opportunistic, always loves to flatter and trample others, and claims to be the Crown Prince of Jingdu wherever he goes—what a joke. The Liang Family is just a merchant family of no consequence, yet he goes around acting like a young master, thinking he’s so important!”

Su Qingqing was stunned by these words and instinctively looked towards Huo Sining.

Huo Sining knew what she meant, smiled, and didn’t take it to heart.

Having lived once more, she had already made it clear to herself that she had little to do with the Imperial Capital Liang Family; besides, her grandmother and father had established themselves independently a long time ago. She didn’t care about the Liang Family’s affairs at all. Even if she did know, she’d just treat it as a joke.

Meanwhile, the master craftsman had started cutting stone. The grating noise of the machine against the stone could be heard, and Huo Sining’s attention was immediately drawn to it.

When the master craftsman was cutting, his hand was precise, but this time he dared not cut the side with the cracks. Instead, he focused on cutting the side with the sand hole.

Following Liang Jinhong’s instructions, since there were already cracks on one side, they ignored it for the time being and focused on removing the sand hole to see how deep the green went.

Indeed, just as Liang Jinhong had predicted, after the fourth cut on the sand hole side, it gradually disappeared. Seeing this, everyone felt the stone’s value was increasing. Both Zhou Zhen and Liang Jinhong believed deeply in this and stared at the rough stone, not daring to blink.

Soon, the entire stone was unlocked by the master craftsman except for the cracked side. Dozens of kilograms of glistening green jade emerged, its vibrant color full of luster, dripping with greenery, and in the refracted sunlight, the whole jade was enshrouded in a faint glow.

Such bright colors, with just one glance, were enough to deeply intoxicate the observer, making it impossible to extricate oneself.

This was just the raw, newly-unveiled stone. One could hardly imagine the splendor it would present after being polished and finished.

“Oh my God, such a beautiful piece of jadeite!” Seeing that the piece was about thirty or forty kilograms, Ye Zixin was completely stunned.

Wu Linger was equally envious: “Such a large piece of Ice-type jadeite must be worth at least a hundred million, Zhou Zhen is going to make a fortune this time!”

“Of course, didn’t you see whose man he is!”

Ye Zixin’s eyes and brows couldn’t hide her triumph. She glanced at Liang Jinhong, who was pretending to be calm, and snorted, feeling pleased at his misfortune: “That Jin Pangzi is really stupid, to hand over such good material to someone else. Now look, such a large piece of jadeite is out—it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s hiding in some corner crying right now!”

Wu Linger nodded in agreement: “To let such a big bargain go to someone else, I would be so mad I’d spit blood.”

While those on stage were overcome with excitement, those below had their own thoughts.

“What’s going on? Could Xu Zi’s information have been wrong?”

Ouyang Jun was both puzzled and anxious. Had it not been for Gu Xu saying that the rough stone had problems, he and Qin Tian wouldn’t have given up on it so easily. Now, seeing such a large piece of jadeite, he didn’t doubt Gu Xu had deceived him on purpose; he just thought the information was incorrect and began to mutter to himself.

On the other side, Su Jinyuan also frowned tightly, and Su Qingqing and Bai Yishan were shocked beyond measure.

Only Huo Sining calmly waited. She firmly believed that Azure Pearl’s appraisal couldn’t be wrong.

Only the last face marred by the crack remained, and the master handling the stone cutting machine hesitated, not starting his work.

Liang Jinhong was also aware that the master was wary of the crack, but now that they’d come to this point, the raw stone still had to be cut open. He glanced at Zhou Zhen and said to the master, “Continue.”

One cut, two cuts, three cuts… The master cut very carefully, maneuvering the raw material at the blade. It didn’t take long for the master’s expression to turn strange. He quickly turned off the saw blade, his face turning deathly pale.

With the roaring noise of the machine gone, the venue suddenly became quiet.

Everyone looked at the stage, puzzled by what had happened.

“Strange, why did it stop again?”

“Did it hit a rise?”

“Not sure, but it seems like something is off…”

Zhou Zhen was still unable to extricate himself from the immense joy, while Liang Jinhong saw the master’s odd complexion and felt a sudden sink in his heart.

“What happened?” Liang Jinhong asked.

A thin layer of stone skin remained on the newly cut face, and the green flesh of jade loomed through the mist, faintly visible.

It was truly a good omen, yet when the stone cutting machine touched the crack, a tiny fissure appeared on the jadeite.

The master had not forgotten the strange sizzling sound when cutting the stone skin earlier; he had informed Jin Pangzi about it, which had scared the latter into fleeing from the scene.

“I deliberately avoided the crack while cutting to prevent meeting fine vein fractures, but it still happened. A crack has appeared here now, and it seems things are not too good,” the master said.

The master knit his brows tightly, his eyes glued to the raw material in front of him.

Liang Jinhong looked towards where the master was pointing; however, the cut face was covered by white frosted stone dust, and he could not see the crack the master mentioned clearly.

Liang Jinhong’s brows twisted into knots. After a moment of thought, he took a basin of clear water from a staff member beside him and poured it over the giant jadeite without hesitation.

“Whoosh—”

The master’s face changed drastically upon seeing this, but before he could stop him, Liang Jinhong had already splashed the clean water down.

As the water flowed down, that brightly colored piece of jadeite, which had looked lush and compelling, seemed to suffer a severe impact. Starting from that inconspicuous crack, tiny fissures rapidly spread.

With a series of crackling sounds, a chunk of jadeite weighing dozens of kilograms completely disintegrated before Liang Jinhong’s eyes.

Before the audience could react, they saw that giant piece of Ice Seed Jadeite instantly fall apart. The gleaming translucent fragments shattered into thousands of pieces, splintering into thin and fine slivers that scattered everywhere. Under the setting sun’s glow, they shimmered even more, their beauty akin to a fairytale dream.

Everyone was stunned, and Liang Jinhong, who watched the jadeite break into pieces on the ground, was dumbfounded. With his mouth wide open, he stared blankly at the fragments on the ground, taking a long time to come back to his senses.