Chapter 58: Daddy, I Can’t Carry You
Both were digging for stones, yet they were in two completely different states.
Qin Wanwan was curious, her large eyes looking everywhere.
They were brought into a wooden house, inside which were piled up stones of various sizes.
In another room, one could faintly see people who seemed to be working on something.
The middle-aged man went to that room for a trip and quickly came out again, still holding a stone in his hand.
Qin Wanwan stretched her little neck to look: “What a beautiful stone!”
The middle-aged man smiled: “This is not a stone, it’s jade.”
What he was holding was a stone as big as two adult men’s fists, which had already been cut open.
The not-so-flat surface had been washed with water, revealing a particularly deep red.
Red like chicken blood.
“City Lord, this is a top-grade blood jade cut today. Both its texture and color are top-grade. Please take a look.”
He knew Shang Wuyang liked red. He was delighted when this jade was cut, and he originally planned to present himself for merit after the surface was polished and take it to the City Lord’s Mansion. He never expected the City Lord to come in person.
“Among this batch of goods, not only this blood jade was cut, but also a relatively large blue-purple high-ice jade stone. That piece of jade is quite large, would you like to move to take a look?”
Shang Wuyang held that blood-red jade, and he indeed liked it quite a lot.
Then he handed it to Qin Wanwan.
“Take it.”
The middle-aged man couldn’t help but glance at Qin Wanwan again.
Qin Wanwan held the beautiful stone, her eyes curved into a smile, and she was beaming.
She quite liked those shiny beautiful stones.
When she was in the Heavenly Court, Qin Wanwan used to like to take her beautiful mother’s many shiny jewelry stones and carry them to her little nest to play.
The blue-purple stone was also very beautiful, and it was large.
Following Daddy into that room, Qin Wanwan finally saw clearly that the people were using ropes to rub back and forth on the stones to cut them, and from time to time they would wet the rope and place it in a pile of sand, then continue cutting the stones.
After those stones were cut open, particularly beautiful colors were revealed inside.
Coming to a large purple stone propped up by a frame, Qin Wanwan gasped, her eyes sparkling.
This color was also super beautiful!
The middle-aged man said: “Many noble families and rich young ladies of royal nobles in the Central Plains like jade hair ornaments. If a set of hair ornaments is made from this blue-purple jade, a bracelet will definitely be very popular, and a set of hair ornaments can sell for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.”
Qin Wanwan, who had been eavesdropping, exclaimed: “!!!”
Now her little mouth was wide open.
These stones are so valuable!
Shang Wuyang: “Make a complete set of large hair ornaments, and for the blood jade, make a bracelet according to her hand size, and a peace buckle from the purple jade.”
The middle-aged man stared at Qin Wanwan.
He: …
This is too wasteful.
Such top-grade blood jade, to make a child’s bracelet, she’ll outgrow it in a few years.
But he didn’t dare to refute the City Lord’s words: “Yes!”
“Do you like it?”
Seeing Qin Wanwan’s sparkling eyes, Shang Wuyang pinched her face and asked.
Qin Wanwan nodded vigorously.
Beautiful stones, she liked them.
“Go pick out a few stones yourself.”
Qin Wanwan looked at the uncut stones and happily asked: “If I pick them, will they be Wanwan’s?”
“Mm, they’re yours.”
Qin Wanwan was not polite at all. Daddy had so many stones, he was super, super rich.
She trotted over to the pile of stones and, relying on her intuition, chose three stones.
“Daddy, I can’t carry them.”
These stones were quite heavy. The little waste, Qin Wanwan, couldn’t carry even one.
The smallest one she chose was already the size of her head.
With all her might, her little buttocks sticking up to the sky, the heavy, head-sized stone was moved a tiny distance.
Because her posture was too funny, Shang Wuyang couldn’t help but curve the corner of his mouth and laugh out loud.
Qin Wanwan, who was being mocked: …
Excessive, if you’re not helping, at least don’t mock Wanwan!
The middle-aged man also laughed, baring his teeth, this child was quite amusing.
Wait, Daddy!!!
The middle-aged man, only realizing it later, was utterly dumbfounded.
When did their City Lord get such a big child!
Then came the joy.
No wonder, no wonder the City Lord was willing to give his favorite blood jade to the little one to make a bracelet.
So it was his daughter!
It’s just… I haven’t heard that the City Lord has a wife.
The middle-aged man was perplexed beyond measure.
“Miss, let me, I’ll carry it.”
Since he knew this was the City Lord’s daughter, the middle-aged man became particularly solicitous.
“The rough jade you’ve chosen will be kept here. Once it’s cut, I’ll send it to the City Lord’s Mansion.”
Cutting jade is a bit slow, it’s estimated to take several days.
And it’s not even known if the stones will be good or bad after cutting.
There’s stone gambling in the jade industry, where wealth or poverty depends entirely on luck.
This jade mine belongs to their City Lord, so the City Lord doesn’t have to worry about whether the stones are good or not. If one isn’t good, he can just get another.
Money makes people willful.
When leaving, Qin Wanwan also took away a pebble-shaped stone.
She didn’t leave this one to be cut; she planned to take it back to play with.
Going out of the room and towards the mine, it was just time for the miners who were digging for stones to eat.
Qin Wanwan saw that although the food they were eating wasn’t very varied, it was very filling.
Coarse baozi, thick porridge, and two dishes.
Qin Wanwan’s mouth watered too. It was time to eat now, her belly was hungry.
Shang Wuyang walked a few steps forward and looked back, finding the little girl with big eyes staring at the food the miners were eating, almost drooling.
Shang Wuyang: …
He pinched Qin Wanwan’s ear.
Qin Wanwan, with great shamelessness, took the opportunity to press her milky-white face onto his hand.
“It’s cool, so comfortable Daddy~”
On this hot day, being with Daddy Shang was super cool.
“Daddy, are you cold again? Holding Wanwan’s face won’t be cold anymore, my face is warm.”
She also pawed at Shang Wuyang’s other hand and pressed it to her face.
The adult’s two hands completely covered her delicate little face.
“Hungry?”
Qin Wanwan patted her little belly: “It’s empty and rumbling.”
This was being hungry.
It would take a long time to go back.
Qin Wanwan looked up at him with a pitiful expression.
“Daddy, when we go back, Wanwan will be so hungry that her chest will touch her back.”
Shang Wuyang sneered: “Little illiterate, that’s not how you use ‘chest to back’.”
Qin Wanwan giggled foolishly.
“Let’s go, let’s eat.”
They wouldn’t eat with the miners, naturally.
Qin Wanwan’s little legs trembled immediately, and the great lion carrying her quickly followed.
They went to another clean and tidy house.
The dishes were quickly served.
There was meat too.
It was lamb.
“Daddy, next time can you make braised pork, Dongpo pork, and braised pork knuckle?”
Eating from her bowl, Qin Wanwan was already ordering dishes.
Shang Wuyang: “Haven’t heard of it.”
Keke: “Kid, those are made with pork.”
“Pork?”
Shang Wuyang’s eyes showed disdain.
Could pork, with its strong gamey smell, be delicious? How could this child be so unrefined in her eating.
