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Chapter 1021: Little Suizi Pretends to be a Wild Boar Eating a Tiger

Chapter 1021: Chapter 1021: Little Suizi Pretends to be a Wild Boar Eating a Tiger

Before she left the house, Wang Cuihua had told Suizi,

her fortune-telling results showed that encountering gold was ominous, but a pair of gold was auspicious, overall her luck was excellent.

At first, Suizi was conflicted about her mother-in-law’s words, to stay away from the Gambling Stone Field.

All along the way, she couldn’t stop thinking about her Little Jade King.

"Didn’t you say you don’t believe in these things?" Yu Jingting looked at her askance, huh, women, your name should be ’Money Grubber’!"

"Of course, I’m cautious about the bad ones, but the good omens, we can still listen to them dialectically."

Yu Jingting curled his lip, looking at her with that money-grubbing expression!

"Come on, only a fool wouldn’t make easy money, my dear Jingting~" she coaxed, shaking his arm.

To get her hands on the Little Jade King, she even resorted to acting coquettishly.

And Jingting just happened to be sucker for it; when she acted coy, he wouldn’t just get her the Little Jade King, he could even poke a few stars out of the sky with a bamboo stick for her.

The gambling stone stalls closed during the day and opened at night, so heading there now was perfect timing.

The two hailed another rickshaw without bothering to change clothes, going there in their shabby attire.

The last time Suizi had visited the stall was in her past life, many years later than this time, so everything felt completely new and she stared around with wide eyes, extremely curious.

Jingting had been there a few times and skillfully led her through various stalls.

The business at the gambling stone stalls varied in size, and despite it being night, there were no street lights, no glittery scenes, it wasn’t even as bright as the night market in the city.

A simple cloth was laid on the ground, whether it be plastic or a dirty rag, with piles of stones laid out on it. Each stall had its own gas lamps, and both the owners and those betting on stones had their own strong flashlights, creating an unassuming yet big-money atmosphere.

Suizi didn’t head straight for the main event but dragged Jingting from stall to stall, looking to him whenever they found something suitable.

If Jingting nodded, she would ask the price, and if the owner gave a price, she mimicked the locals’ manner, muttering wishes for the owner’s fortune, hoping for a discount.

It was indeed frustrating, Jingting’s basic skills in stone gambling had been taught by Suizi, but after the Fourth Master returned to family life, the situation changed.

The Fourth Master passed on all his tricks to Jingting, who had a real talent, plus the raw stones at home were each of exceptional quality, so he really developed a knack for evaluating stones.

The Fourth Master once assessed that even if you threw Yu Tiegen to the Border to set up a stall, he would thrive; not only because of his outstanding business acumen but also because this guy could talk, a glib tongue, reviving the dead with his banter, a business prodigy.

Suizi followed his line of thinking and started with two small pieces, and both appreciated in value.

So that damned confidence swelled within her.

She had her eyes on a piece, and just when Jingting was about to say something, she made a "shush" gesture, "No talking!"

She wanted to do it herself.

All smiles after the purchase, exchanging blessings of wealth with the owner, she carried it to the neighboring shop to cut the stone, a single cut revealed the truth—it was worthless.

Cold, chillingly cold, under the promising outer shell, she hit the jackpot with a piece of marble.

Suizi’s face crumpled, as much pride as she possessed just moments ago, now turned into equally profound disappointment, her bloated pride shattered into pieces.

"It’s fine, marble is also pretty, isn’t it? I think the marble my wife opened looks better than others’. Hey, boss, can you carve this? Please turn the marble my wife found into an ornamental piece. We’ll take it back and display it in the study room."

The stone-cutting boss looked at Jingting as if he were a fool, then after a long pause, he said, "The material’s not worth the work, it’s worthless."

This kind of scrap material, known as "aquarium stone" in the trade, is worthless for carving, the craftsmanship costs more than the material itself.

"Hey, we’re not in it for value preservation; it’s just for carving and passing down to our descendants. Gambling, it’s harmful."

Once Yu Jingting started talking, he sounded like an old master of yin and yang, which annoyed Suizi so much her cheeks puffed up. Hmph, she thought, just ignore him.

But after a little while, she dragged Yu Jingting with great enthusiasm to other stalls to look around.

She gambled on her own, without letting Yu Jingting give any advice.

There were ups and downs, she won more than she lost and she was having a pretty good time.

"I finally understand why some people get addicted to this, taking pleasure in it," Suizi said, hugging the two small pieces of material she had won from gambling.

The moment they were cut open, the thrill of risking a little to win a lot truly stimulated the brain to release dopamine like crazy, no wonder it’s addictive.

How many people here have lost their families to ruin for this very reason?

"But my view has always been the same, gambling on stones is legal, and it has been endowed with a lot of elegant implications, and it has even developed a unique culture. However, I believe that no matter how much you beautify it, you cannot hide the darkness within it."

Suizi’s eyes swept over the people coming and going in the stalls, and she wondered, within the auspicious cries of ’getting rich’ from the bosses, how many families that should have been happy were destroyed?

Cherish life, stay far away from this stuff. Everyone enters thinking they can win big with a little; they think they’re the lucky ones. But if you ask Yu Sanye, who deals in jade, in their long careers, how many lucky ones have they seen?

Suizi could remember only a few famous Jade Kings, and wasn’t it precisely because they were so rare? It was their rarity that made them legendary and a favorite topic of conversation.

"Little Chenchen, you better throw away all these trinkets in your hands before coming to talk to me about value—don’t you feel you’re being incredibly hypocritical?"

Yu Jingting couldn’t stand it any longer.

This girl, she talked one way and acted another.

She was enjoying herself more than anyone, and now she was preaching?

Suizi, though her argument wasn’t strong, was emboldened in her retort, "Why would I throw away something I got with my own skills? Besides, I’m having fun because I know my limits. I’m confident. If we were just a working-class couple, if I didn’t have, you know, that hack, would I play?"

That was indeed true; if she didn’t have the ’hack’ of being reborn, she would never gamble with the happiness of her entire family on a tomorrow. But since fate had given her this cheat, she thought, who to enrich if not herself?

"Money not earned is a fool’s game! Let’s go!" After having her fill of fun, Suizi headed for the Zhang Family’s stall.

This whole street was the Zhang Family’s territory; they controlled the largest stall. The smaller ones all had to pay the Zhang Family an entrance fee.

Stones at the Zhang Family’s were expensive, attracting many people. Suizi and her husband, dressed as if they were begging and carrying a large silk bag, squeezed into the crowd and quickly attracted disdain.

"Who doesn’t watch where they are going—uh, as you wish." A passerby, who got a fierce glance from Yu Jingting, hastily smiled and turned aside to let Yu Jingting and Suizi through.

Clothes can be a disguise, but the eyes can’t be hidden. Someone like Yu Jingting looked like someone you shouldn’t mess with.

As the two squeezed to the front, they saw a man standing at the stall laughing heartily while the stall’s assistant ran to set off firecrackers—a sign of a big win in a gamble.

Feeling good, the man caught sight of Suizi and her husband and casually tossed a coin to Yu Jingting from his pocket.

"Here, buy yourself two buns."

"Pfft!" Suizi couldn’t hold back her laughter as she saw her husband’s face turn black.

So, were they being mistaken for beggars?