Chapter 255: Amber Again
Lu Qiaoge’s gaze fell on the stone at the very top.
The basement light was poor, so she couldn’t see what color the stone was, but it definitely wasn’t an ordinary large rock.
Lu Qiaoge shone the flashlight on it. The surface of the stone gave off a layer of eerie, muted glow. Lu Qiaoge reached out to touch it, and the moment her palm made contact, she felt an indescribable warm current slowly flowing from the stone into her palm.
Lu Qiaoge suddenly pulled her hand back.
Looking closely again, it was clearly an uncut jade with sandy skin.
She shone the flashlight closer, and the yellowish-white beam suddenly refracted a pinpoint of bright green at one spot.
Lu Qiaoge’s fingertips twitched slightly. This piece was jade that had already been windowed?
She was certain it was one hundred percent real, because she could feel it.
Lu Qiaoge slowly straightened up. This was the first time since coming to this world that she had felt energy from something other than gold. She touched the gold again, and felt nothing. It seemed only jade worked.
That wasn’t right. She had five jade bracelets and six jade pendants at home, all jade, like pools of green waves.
But when she touched them, she felt nothing.
Could it be because they were too small?
She had indeed touched them one by one back then.
So, the stones here should all be uncut jade?
Lu Qiaoge took out the stone she had just seen. Holding it gave no feeling, but Lu Qiaoge thought for a moment and pressed her palm down again.
In an instant, the feeling from before returned.
Lu Qiaoge remained very calm. She had experienced this feeling in the apocalypse.
Even if it was almost useless in this era, since it was there, she would keep it.
As for the value of this jade, Lu Qiaoge didn’t even consider it.
But after just about a minute, Lu Qiaoge pulled her hand back. In the darkness, her beautiful eyebrows flashed with a hint of surprise—this was something she hadn’t expected.
Lu Qiaoge looked at the stone again. The fist-sized stone had crumbled into powder.
In this box, the large stones were football-sized, the small ones about the size of a man’s fist.
Lu Qiaoge clenched her hand. In the darkness, she carefully sensed her body and mental power.
There was an indescribable silky smoothness.
Yes, both strength and speed had increased.
Lu Qiaoge felt that if she ran now to the foot of Yuanbao Mountain—the place where she had picnicked with Comrade Qin Hengzhi last time—from the North City Gate, it would probably take less than three minutes.
That could be called supersonic speed.
Lu Qiaoge didn’t delay any further. Anyway, the strength and speed were hers, and she could check them anytime.
But if she didn’t open all these boxes, she probably wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
Lu Qiaoge opened the remaining nineteen boxes.
It really was like opening blind boxes.
That long-lost excitement surged in her heart again.
There were eight boxes full of gold sand.
Five boxes filled with large and small uncut jade.
Two boxes of gold nuggets and gold lumps mixed with stones.
And four more boxes. After Lu Qiaoge opened one, her pupils contracted—it was actually a box full of amber.
After a moment of stunned silence, Lu Qiaoge understood, because the place with the most amber was in Fushun in the Northeast.
The Japanese invaders who had stolen from the old gold mine had gone to Fushun and ransacked it, but he didn’t turn it over; instead, he secretly transported it back to Jiangcheng, planning to ship it back to his family through special channels.
Like gold, amber with vibrant colors gave off a delicate, warm, and bright luster the moment the box was opened.
This time, Lu Qiaoge was very patient and examined them one by one.
Basically two types: gemstone-grade amber and insect amber.
Various colors and shapes.
Each one, even covered in dust, was brilliantly beautiful and dazzling.
They were really too beautiful.
Lu Qiaoge’s gaze fell on the remaining three boxes.
She shone the flashlight on them one by one.
All amber, a dazzling array filling her vision.
Among them, the most common insects were ants. Lu Qiaoge also saw a small fish in amber, and more unknown substances.
Grandpa had a few, bought at great expense, extremely rare.
But here she had four full boxes.
Fushun had been heavily mined by the Japanese invaders back then, so there was no doubt this was another of their strongholds.
Fortunately, it hadn’t been opened to the outside. If they came back in a few years, their descendants would probably have found it.
Damn robbers!
Lu Qiaoge thought of the two pieces of amber that Diandian had given her. Now she realized they were probably from the same batch, ones they had played with. They weren’t in a hurry, thinking they could occupy it for a hundred years, but they lost, so some got lost on the way transporting the gold sand, and then Diandian found them…
These had too much research value; she couldn’t keep them all.
But since the things were in her hands now, there was no rush.
When the right opportunity came, she would donate them.
For now, she couldn’t move them. The basement environment was pretty good—not too humid, but not dry either; otherwise, the amber wouldn’t have been preserved so well.
She placed the four boxes full of amber back in their original positions.
Lu Qiaoge then arranged the others back as they were.
Twenty-nine boxes: fifteen of gold sand, four of gold nuggets, six of uncut jade, and the last four of amber.
At this time, Xiao Cangcang, who had been guarding the wellhead, flew in, but very sensibly didn’t fly inside. It just hovered at the landslide spot and said to Lu Qiaoge: 【Little Master, someone is knocking at the door. It’s Aunt Bai from next door. She says the water in your water well is good to drink and wants to fetch a bucket…】
The calico cat crouched on top of the wall, a bit regretful that it couldn’t go in. Although it was very powerful now and no cat could match it, it worried it might not grab the rope and fall into the water.
It was most afraid of water.
So it could only arrange for Xiao Cangcang to notify the little master.
Actually, Rat Big and Rat Two could have done it too.
But this was a water well. The shrewd Rat Big wouldn’t go down without the little master’s permission.
The most suitable was Xiao Cangcang.
Lu Qiaoge swept the flashlight around once, then said to Xiao Cangcang, “You and Rat Big and the others stop looking for the entrance for now. Maintain the status quo and don’t move.”
Xiao Cangcang: 【Got it, Little Master.】
Lu Qiaoge took the flashlight and led Xiao Cangcang out of the basement.
Lu Qiaoge grabbed the rope with one hand and closed the door in the well wall with the other.
It had to be said, the design was ingenious. Once closed, nothing was visible.
But on the other hand, without a certain amount of strength, rusted shut for so many years, it really couldn’t be opened.
Lu Qiaoge restored the wellhead to its original state and tidied herself up.
Then she quickly headed to the main door.
Aunt Bai was carrying two buckets, her face full of smiles. “Comrade Lu, sorry to bother you. Mainly, your family’s water is really good to drink. It’s the famous sweet water well in our area. We used to come here often to fetch water.”
The calico cat meowed a few times.
【Little Master, she’s lying. The original female owner of this house had a bad personality and didn’t like them coming to fetch water. She didn’t associate much with the left and right neighbors either.】
【The main reason was that their house was big, all bricks and tiles, so the jealous neighbors reported them many times. That’s why they didn’t interact on normal days.】
【But I heard old lady Qian say that the water in our water well is indeed very good to drink, just like mountain spring water, sweet and delicious.】
