Before Zhao Shuyan could even react, Shen Nanyi somehow found a bag and quickly stuffed all the stones from the flowerpot into it.
Zhao Shuyan had no idea what Shen Nanyi was up to. But out of trust in her, she still helped to put the stones into the bag.
Each stone wasn't very big, but there were quite a few of them. They filled more than half of the bag before they finally finished.
Looking at the half - filled bag, Shen Nanyi was in a dilemma again. The problem was, how could she carry it to the stone - gambling shop?
At this moment, she seemed to need a coolie, but Ji Beichuan was still at work.
Fortunately, Shen Nanyi had always been lucky. There was a knock on the door. She happily went to open it and saw Zhao Qishan standing there.
It had to be said that Zhao Qishan came at just the right time. He showed up when Shen Nanyi needed help the most.
"Help me out," Shen Nanyi said, pulling him over to be a coolie before he could even say a word.
If she remembered correctly, the system had told her before that good stuff could probably be found in these gambling stones. But time was tight, so she had to get these stones to the shop quickly to have them cut.
Zhao Qishan never refused Shen Nanyi's requests. Without saying a word, he started to carry the sack for her.
Zhao Shuyan still had no idea what was going on, and before she knew it, she was sitting in the car.
"I've checked these. They're just ordinary stones. Don't tell me they're valuable?" Zhao Qishan asked curiously while driving.
When he was carrying the stones just now, he had taken a close look and found nothing unusual. But based on his understanding of Shen Nanyi, she never did anything without a good reason.
"Maybe they are," Shen Nanyi said, not feeling very confident. Although the system's predictions were rarely wrong, she couldn't be 100% sure until she actually saw the good stuff.
It didn't take long for them to reach the stone - gambling shop. Looking at the words "Stone Gambling" on the sign, Zhao Qishan fell into deep thought. It couldn't be what he was thinking, could it?
Don't tell him that Shen Nanyi not only had an extraordinary eye for antiques but also had amazing talent in stone gambling.
The owner of the stone - gambling shop naturally remembered Shen Nanyi and quickly invited her to a private room. After hearing Shen Nanyi's intention, the boss's wife didn't hesitate and invited the master to the private room. Everything was carried out very secretly.
The stone - cutting master was an old hand and had worked in the shop for a long time. Looking at the stones Shen Nanyi brought, he recognized them as scraps at a glance and was a bit uninterested.
To put it bluntly, these scraps had already been screened once, and there was hardly anything good in them.
"Please, this is a little token of my appreciation. Please be careful," Shen Nanyi said. Although the master wasn't in a high - spirited mood, he couldn't resist Shen Nanyi's money.
Before the master even started, Shen Nanyi stuffed a thick red envelope into his hand. Feeling the thickness of the envelope, the master's face instantly lit up.
"I still have to remind you that these don't seem like they'll yield anything good," the master said. Since he had taken Shen Nanyi's money, he was kind enough to give her a friendly reminder not to have too high hopes.
Shen Nanyi nodded, indicating that she understood, and the master began to carefully polish the stones.
Zhao Shuyan was new to the stone - gambling industry and didn't know much about it before. She just looked at the master's nervous and careful expression with a puzzled look on her face.
They were just a few stones. Why was he acting so nervously?
After cutting a few stones, there was no sign of anything good. Not only was there no high - quality jade, but they didn't even see a single piece of jade. The master's movements involuntarily sped up as he wanted to finish the job quickly.
As the number of stones decreased and she still didn't see what she was looking for, Shen Nanyi gradually became impatient. Had the system made a mistake?
Time passed by second by second. After all the scraps on one side were cut open, there was nothing but a few pieces of low - quality jade.
Shen Nanyi slumped on the sofa, feeling a bit disappointed. She had thought that what the system had hinted at would be worth at least hundreds of millions. But she hadn't even seen anything worth over 100,000.
"I just remembered that there are a few more stones in the storage room at home. How about we go and get them?" Zhao Shuyan didn't understand why Shen Nanyi was so nervous about cutting the stones, but she just didn't want to see Shen Nanyi unhappy.
Thinking of the pile of shabby stones in the warehouse, Zhao Shuyan thought that if they could make Shen Nanyi happy, those stones would have served their purpose.
The originally disappointed Shen Nanyi instantly bounced up from the sofa. She gave the old master another red envelope and invited him to go to her home.
Having been in this industry for so long, the stone - cutting master was a seasoned person. He knew that some people kept good stuff at home to increase confidentiality.
Although Shen Nanyi hadn't found anything good in the previous stones, that didn't matter. Maybe there was something good at her home.
After the group rushed back home, Shen Nanyi hurried to the storage room and carried out the few remaining stones. These stones seemed no different from the ones they had taken before.
The stone - cutting master had thought Shen Nanyi would bring out something good, but after seeing what she had, he was a bit disappointed.
He recognized these stones. They were still from the same batch of scraps, and they were even of lower quality than the previous ones.
The master set up his tools and started to cut the stones.
To everyone's surprise, there was a hint of green after the first cut. He slowed down. Looking at the green patch, the master felt that his worldview was being challenged.
Having cut so many stones, the master naturally knew which ones were valuable. Although the stone in front of him hadn't been fully polished, just looking at the luster of the green, he knew it was a good thing.
He carefully polished the stone bit by bit. As the green light became more and more visible, Shen Nanyi's heart was trembling.
Whether she could complete the task quickly in a short period of time depended on this.
Zhao Qishan felt jealous again. It seemed that the unwanted stuff in Shen Nanyi's warehouse was so valuable.
It took more than ten minutes for the master to almost finish polishing the gambling stone, revealing its outline. It was a piece of jade about the size of a baby's fist.
"This should be worth over ten million," the master said, stating the price as soon as he saw the general outline based on his years of experience.
This price was an unattainable sky - high price for ordinary people, but for Shen Nanyi, who needed hundreds of millions of funds, it was still far from enough.
Shen Nanyi was in a very complicated mood at this moment. She instantly went from heaven to hell. So it was all for nothing?