Chapter 93 The Courtyard Wall "That can't be real either."

Chapter 93 The Courtyard Wall "That can't be real either."

The photos Grandma sent were of the market she went to this morning, but it had been raining there since last night, and by this morning it had turned into a thunderstorm. How could Grandma have seen a market under blue skies and white clouds?

Ye Hantao scrolled through several photos in the chat box, and a guess in her mind was confirmed.

My maternal grandparents don't live in Haicheng at all.

This thought puzzled Ye Hantao greatly.

If Grandma and Grandpa don't want to be filmed by the TV crew, they can just tell her directly. Why lie?

Ye Hantao turned around and looked at the empty corner of the wall through the green plants in the yard.

There were originally two large piles of stones there, which were clearly always there, but my grandparents lied and said they had been used, and then immediately sent someone to move them all away.

Grandma and Grandpa don't want to appear on camera, fine, but even the stone can't appear on camera?

Suddenly, there was a knock on the courtyard gate.

Ye Hantao looked up from her phone screen and saw the young man she had seen on the show before.

He directed the workers to move the three large rough stones and the oil-cutting machine and other equipment from the truck into the yard.

Ye Hantao couldn't help with the moving, but she took the cameraman to film the raw stone. "The one at my grandma's house is similar to this one in terms of its surface, but it's about twice the size."

Before seeing the stones clearly, the audience did not think they could distinguish the differences between them.

Until a rock the size of two basketballs appeared in the live stream.

[Huh? This is the stone that was priced at 600,000?!]

How could you recognize that?

Those who have been watching Ye Hantao's live stream should recognize her, right? After all, we've been listening to her talk with a powerful flashlight for so long (bitter smile).

This rock has a unique shape, and I just saw it a few days ago, so I can't forget it.

It is indeed peculiar; the stone is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with small balls piled up to resemble a snowman.

If the audience recognized this stone, then they would naturally recognize the stone that was transported with it as well.

All three stones were the prized pieces from the shop where Ye Hantao and Cheng Zhao selected their raw stones.

The total price adds up to several million.

The question is, why are these three stones here?!

Did Cheng Zhao buy it from the other party afterwards?

Is it possible that the person who bought the stone was sent by Cheng Zhao?

[Someone quickly rewound and watched it! Look at the slow motion, Ye Hantao kept glancing at those three rough stones while choosing them, and then! Cheng Zhao glanced towards the door, and two or three seconds later, the person buying the stones appeared!!!]

[Help!!! You guys are Sherlock Holmes!!!]

While the audience was enthusiastically discussing the raw stones, Ye Hantao went into the room to pour some water for them.

Before she could even look for a cup, she turned her head and saw her older brother come in.

"I left the disposable cups in the kitchen, I'll come get them." Zhou Mingsheng didn't mention that Cheng Zhao also wanted to come over, but he stopped him outside to watch over the staff in the yard.

Four workers, plus Guan Sen and the stone-cutting master, came in a total of six people.

Ye Hantao is getting water from the water dispenser.

Upon arriving, they first poured themselves some warm water to drink inside the house before returning to the yard to wait for the raw stones to be transported over.

Zhou Mingsheng found a tray and placed six and a half cups of water on it.

[Oh my god, Maze personally brought me water! Flash, aren't you jealous?!]

[Hahahaha, I doubt anyone in the base will get to drink water personally poured by Maze.]

[Maze seems to be waiting for others to pour water for him at the base (laughs while covering mouth.jpg)]

While everyone was drinking water, Ye Hantao found the stone-cutting master who had accompanied them.

The master looked to be around fifty years old, with a square face, a round and stocky build, and slightly sparse hair on the top of his head.

"Master, what is your surname?"

My surname is Bao.

Ye Hantao immediately called out "Master Bao," glanced at the camera lens, and raised her chin slightly, striking a confident pose.

"After the rough stones at my maternal grandmother's house were cut open, they were all high-quality jadeite, such as icy jadeite, high-icy jadeite, and glassy jadeite."

Zhou Shuqiong and Xie Bairong exchanged glances, and almost simultaneously asked, "Did you let it slip in front of Tao Tao?"

"..."

"..."

The next second, Tao Tao's voice rang out crisply again through the screen, "It's a pity that the audience didn't have the chance to see it, sigh."

Audience: [?]

[6666 Ye Hantao is getting more and more vain.]

[I believe it! I really believe it! @YeHantao, how about wearing the jade your grandparents found in the next episode?]

[Ye Hantao: They're all large pieces of jade, made into decorative items.]

[Hahaha, you understand Ye Hantao's vanity.]

[Disease progression: 20%]

Ye Hantao was surprised to hear that there was an unexpected bonus.

It's been so long since my condition last improved and hasn't dropped to the critical level!

However, this time the threshold warning is different from the previous ones.

In addition to the requirement of 48 hours of absolute health, there is another reminder following it.

[Due to a system bug, the host has been implicated by an unknown entity (currently being detected). Enhanced protection and rebound measures have been implemented. If implicated again, any recurrence of the illness will 100% rebound to the unknown target.]

Ye Hantao: "?!!"

Ye Hantao: "!!!"

If only I hadn't let my gratitude points drop so quickly! Ren Lang wouldn't have made the last-minute decision to choose the binding party either.

Since it had already happened, Ye Hantao could only quickly adjust her mood and look at Master Bao again.

Master Bao was still unaware of why Ye Hantao had approached him with these words.

"Master Bao, could you come and take a look?" Ye Hantao led Master Bao to the left side of the courtyard wall, pointed to the broken stones used to build the wall, and said, "These are the scraps left over from mining high-quality jadeite."

Master Bao's gaze fell on one of the pieces of broken stone, and his eyes suddenly widened.

"This looks like peeled skin!" Master Bao stepped forward, his eyes almost pressed against the courtyard wall to examine it, his calloused hands stroking the rough surface. "Rough but not prickly, and the texture is clearly knife-cut."

Master Bao admits that he is not as good as the two big shots invited by the program when it comes to gambling on stones, but he has been cutting stones for decades.

During this period, Master Bao saw many high-quality jadeite and was naturally able to recognize some stones with particularly outstanding features.

Ye Hantao was not surprised at all.

The things my maternal grandparents did were too strange.

"What kind of jade can it cut out?"

Master Bao said, "There's a 70% chance it will be a glassy jadeite."

Ye Hantao blinked slowly.

She suspected that the pebbles on the courtyard wall were all raw jadeite stones, but the fact that one of them was classified as glassy jadeite still exceeded her expectations.

Master Bao carefully examined the rubble in front of him.

He actually wanted to say that it could be an old mine glass-type jadeite, as the rough stone looked like it came from the Moxi Sha old mine.

However, in front of the camera, Master Bao didn't want to make any definitive statements that might damage his reputation.

After regaining her senses, Ye Hantao turned her head to look at the cameraman carrying the lens on his shoulder, her eyebrows raised and her eyes sparkling with pride, clearly showing off.

"Did you hear that? Master Bao said that the leftover scraps from my grandma's house were all used to make glass-type jadeite!"

Zhou Shuqiong & Xie Bairong: "..."

Seeing that his parents were so nervous they couldn't even drink water, Zhou Yi said helplessly, "Look at Tao Tao, her face is all red. She obviously doesn't believe what Master Bao said."

After recognizing one piece, Master Bao suddenly became addicted and continued to identify it along the courtyard wall.

Ye Hantao followed closely in his footsteps.

Not far away, Cheng Zhao looked at Tao Tao's rosy profile, his expression becoming increasingly tense.

He did hear Tao Tao mention on the show that her maternal grandmother's house had two large piles of raw stones, and he never questioned the veracity of that statement.

But he later heard from Tao Tao that the two piles of raw stones had been used, so he decided to give the three raw stones he bought as a gift to Tao Tao as planned.

Cheng Zhao never expected that the courtyard wall would be built with raw stone...

He can only pray now that the fragments similar to the three rough stones aren't in the wall.

Xie Bairong felt dizzy and thought, "I should have had the whole wall moved along with it."

"..." Zhou Shuqiong didn't want to discourage him.

They originally said that the two piles of raw stones were already too rigid, and if the courtyard wall were to disappear, Tao Tao would insist on asking questions no matter what.

In the courtyard, Ye Hantao was pressing Master Bao for an answer, "Master Bao, what kind of jade can be found in this piece?"

Master Bao: "It looks like icy jade or high-grade icy jade."

Master Bao was quite satisfied.

Because Ye Hantao only asked questions about watches with distinctive features, he was able to answer them all.

Furthermore, there's no need to cut the stone; without any results to verify his answer, he becomes even more unrestrained.

Ye Hantao was unaware of what Master Bao was thinking.

The stones she asked Master Bao about were examples that appeared in the stone-cutting manual previously released by the program team.

What about this one?

"Look at these remaining bits and pieces, they're probably from the icy jadeite variety with spring colors."

Ye Hantao asked about seven pieces of jadeite from the wall, and Master Bao said that none of them were lower than the icy type.

The audience went from being skeptical at first to gradually becoming numb to it.

[Disease progression: 19%]

I'm truly speechless.

[Why didn't you get an industry expert to authenticate it? You actually let Cheng Zhao pay someone to lie for you.]

[At first, I actually believed them when they said it was a glass-type jadeite, but now... hahahahahahaha.]

[Ye Hantao, listen to me, know when to stop!]

Just when I've decided to trust her, Ye Hantao always pulls a fast one on me (smiling.jpg)

Although viewers believed Ye Hantao came from a well-off family after meeting Maze and Zhou Shumiao, her family members' professions had been revealed before.

Paparazzi have even captured images of Ye Weizheng entering and leaving the sales center.

Some even claimed that houses were bought and sold through Ye Weizheng.

This is just an ordinary real estate salesperson; even a manager couldn't achieve this level.

Ye Hantao's constant boasting about her family as if they were billionaires was seen as vain by some viewers.

The rest are fans with thick filters, and a group of viewers who don't really care whether Ye Hantao is lying or not, or whether she's vain or not.

Don't be too quick to mock it; maybe this really is just scraps from a jadeite mine.

[Heh, you fans are pretty good at deceiving yourselves.]

Cheng Zhao and Zhou Mingsheng both agreed that they couldn't let Tao Tao ask any more questions, since the three raw stones were just waiting to be cut.

Bringing Peach back under the pretext of cutting raw stones wouldn't arouse much suspicion.

"Peach—"

At this moment, Ye Hantao also asked about the piece that looked very similar to the one priced at 600,000.

"Master Bao, what do you think this piece of land might yield?"

"This piece can yield..."

Halfway through his sentence, Master Bao suddenly stopped, "The case of this watch looks a bit like the largest of the three we moved here."

Ye Hantao affirmed, "It does resemble it, but it has patterns on it, which should be pine flower patterns."

After checking it again and finding it very similar, Master Bao hesitated to conclude what kind of jade it could be.

There's a similar rough stone over there, and we'll have to cut it open soon. If it doesn't turn green, then all that talk he's been giving away will be laughed at by his acquaintances.

A look of hesitation was evident on Master Bao's face. He said hesitantly, "I can't say for sure what kind of jadeite this piece will yield."

Hahahahahahaha

[Didn't Ye Hantao communicate with him beforehand? If you're going to ask, just ask, but don't ask about something as similar as the watch case and the rough stone they're about to open!]

[So even you haters admit that these stones used to build the wall are similar to raw jadeite?]

Haters: "..."

[Perhaps Ye Hantao was reminded by the fake jadeite rough stone that Ren Lang picked out after she finished lying, and deliberately bought these fake scraps!]

[If it weren't for the fact that they happened to find a small stone similar to the one priced at 600,000 yuan, and Master Bao wasn't sure if it would contain jadeite, the fans would probably already be boasting that Ye Hantao's family is so rich they could buy two huge piles of jadeite rough stones and keep them at home, right?]

Unexpectedly, Cheng Zhao was the first to raise questions.

"They don't look alike to me." Cheng Zhao approached Ye Hantao and Master Bao, casually commenting before turning to Zhou Mingsheng and asking, "Brother, what do you think?"

Zhou Mingsheng kept a cold face, wanting to complain about who his older brother was, but he held back.

He said calmly, "Even if the stones used to build this wall look like raw jade, they can't possibly be real."

The audience: "???"

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Author's Note: Dear readers: Something's not right [question mark]