The priceless Tsubaki stone was cut, and it was such a large piece, yet Bai Lixin did not show any arrogance or impatience.
He smiled lightly and looked at the stone cutting master, “Master, don’t stop; move on to the next one.”
Tsubaki stones have a different colour from ordinary stones, and the weathered layers are different from ordinary white jade and jadeite. That is why this Tsubaki stone is hidden among many small stones but has never been identified.
It was probably the most expensive stone the master cutter had ever cut in his long career.
Hearing Bai Lixin’s indifference, the stone cutter’s hand began to shiver.
The penultimate stone was a priceless Tsubaki jade, so what kind of stone would the finale be?
The crowd held their breath, their hearts beating wildly as they stared unblinkingly at the last stone.
They were holding their hearts, wishing they could have a quick-acting heart pill right now.
Why were they feeling more nervous than if they had cut the stone themselves?
The crowd was dumbfounded after the inside of the last stone leaked out.
“Eh, it’s…a stone?”
“Okay, it looks like it’s a stone all right.”
“How can it be a stone? There must be something good hidden inside.”
“Yes, cut further in, cut further in!”
Amidst the uproar of the crowd, the stone-cutter looked at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin nodded, “Then let’s cut a little further in, Master.”
The master cutter picked up the cutter once more and cut a little deeper. It was still a stone, indistinguishable from the weathered layer.
“Go on! Go on!”
“Yes, go on, go on!”
Finally, after a dozen cuts, the master cutter put down the cutter and sighed, “It seems to be just a stone.”
Bai Lixin smiled, “Many thanks.”
He took out two pieces of silver from his pocket and handed them to the stone cutter, smiling, “Thank you for your hard work, Master.”
The stonecutter was not polite and hurriedly took them, smiling as he did so, “Young Master Wen is worthy of being from a scholarly family; he is very polite and talented. You’re welcome. ”
Of fourteen stones, four were waste, and ten were good stones. It was already a very good profit.
Bai Lixin left the waste stones and took only the good.
The stones were not light, and as they were all expensive jade and jadeite, they needed to be carried lightly. The Wang family provided a one-stop service, there were carriages prepared for the buyers of the stones. The servants carefully helped Bai Lixin carry the stones onto the carriage. He nodded to the crowd and left with Huang Hongyuan.
Liao Sufan then circled the garden and also left.
At night, Liao Sufan received a call from the Wen family.
At first, he did not know who it was. Then he recognised Huang Hongyuan’s voice and was slightly stunned and asked, “Whose phone are you using?”
Huang Hongyuan didn’t think anything of it and replied, “It’s the phone of the Wen family home.”
“What’s the phone number? I’ll write it down. ” Liao Sufan paused and said in a cold voice, “That way we can communicate easily when there are cases in the future.”
Huang Hongyuan didn’t doubt it, so he gave a string of dial keys.
So Liao Sufan memorised it before asking, “So did you find anything?”
“Xian Zhi is asking you to come to the Wen house, saying that it’s not possible to say over the phone and that we need to talk in person.”
“Okay! I’m on my way. ”
Liao Sufan quickly put down the phone. He put on a black fur-collared coat and rode his horse to the old mansion of the Wen family.
After waiting for so long, he finally got the “face-to-face” meeting he was eagerly waiting for!
When Liao Sufan arrived at the Wen residence, Wenbo welcomed him. Although the latter did not like Liao Sufan, he still took his horse and tied it in the stable. On the other hand, Liao Sufan made his way to Bai Lixin’s room with ease.
When he entered the room, Bai Lixin was alone, observing the neatly arranged stones on the floor.
Bai Lixin said, without looking up, “Governor Liao, please come here for a moment.”
Liao Sufan raised his eyebrows, took off his jacket and hung it on the clothes rack before striding over, “What is it?”
Bai Lixin pointed to the valuable Tsubaki jade that he had cut up today and said, “Feel it with your hands.”
Liao Sufan was confused, but he still stretched out his hand and touched the stone as he was told.
It was just like the stone he had touched before, cold to the bone.
The room had a burning charcoal stove, so it should not have been so cold.
Liao Chen Fan frowned and looked at Bai Lixin, “Is there something wrong with this stone?”
Bai Lixin nodded as he bit his finger and said to Liao Sufan, “Close your eyes.”
Liao Sufan closed his eyes decisively, not asking why.
Bai Lixin smiled gently and then dabbed some blood on each of Liao Changfan’s eyelids.
Liao Sufan felt a moist feeling on each eye, and then he heard Bai Lixin’s intoning voice: “When fighting in battle, all arrays should be in front of each other! As a matter of urgency, ying-yang eyes, open! ”
As soon as the words fell, Liao Sufan, who could only see a blurred light through his eyelids, suddenly saw darkness before a bright golden light took over.
Bai Lixin’s voice rang out in his ears, “You can open them now.”
Liao Sufan blinked slightly before opening his eyes completely. Upon seeing the scene before him, he was stunned and looked at Bai Lixin in surprise.
There was a dazzling golden glow wrapped around Bai Lixin. It turned out that the bright golden light he had just seen behind his eyelids was emitted from Bai Lixin’s body.
“I helped you open the yin-yang eyes. You can now see things you normally couldn’t.”
Bai Lixin smiled and pointed to the stones placed on the ground, “See the mass of black qi on this stone? It’s filthy Qi, left on by long-term erosion from evil spirits. ”
Liao Sufan glanced at the stone and then turned back to Bai Lixin. “Then what’s the golden light on your body?”
Bai Lixin was puzzled for a moment, then pointed at himself with a smile, “Me?” You’re probably seeing my Dao qi or soul qi. So it’s golden? I can’t see this Qi myself, but I can see yours. It’s also a circle of gold; it’s very dazzling.”
Liao Sufan smiled and looked down at his hands, but found that there was no light. “So one can’t see their qi?”
“Well, just like a diviner cannot divine his own destiny, a Taoist priest cannot see his own soul qi either. Don’t look at me, look at the stone. Do you see the stone without the black qi? ”
Liao Sufan cast his eyes on the stones again. Just as Bai Lixin had said, there was a stone with a faint white glow around it and it had no black qi.
“Is this the stone that I just touched?” Liao Sufan frowned.
“Yes, you are endowed with the Heavenly Yang Qi, so evil spirits do not dare approach you. And your Heavenly Yang Qi can also purify evil. ” Bai Lixin said, and then grabbed another stone.
Because of the heavenly eyes, Liao Sufan could already visually see the movement of the black qi on the stone. When the black gas came into contact with Bai Lixin, it seemed to suddenly come alive and move everywhere. It even tried to climb up his arm.
On seeing this, Liao Sufan hurriedly went over and grabbed the stone.
With a hiss, the black qi that was still flailing around instantly dissipated into white qi when it came into contact with Liao Sufan.
Bai Lixin smiled, “You see, it’s just like that.”
Liao Sufan threw away the stone with a frown and pulled Bai Lixin’s arm for a closer look, making sure that it was not injured before asking, “What was that black qi just now?”
“That is evil Qi, which likes the breath of the living the most. If you are exposed to it for a long time, you will be haunted by it, blinded by it, and your personality will change. Worse still, you will turn into a vessel for the evil spirits and become their puppet. ”
“Are all the stones in the garden like this?” Liao Sufan asked as he recalled the crazy black Qi just now.
“Yes, the resentment in the qi is not something that ordinary resentful ghosts can produce.”
Liao Sufan remained silent, his deep eyes fixed on the stones imbued with black Qi. He thought of the gambling convention that was held every half month, imagining how many people had been corrupted by this resentment Qi and had a personality change.
If there was a murderer, he could have taken action to catch the culprit, but there was nothing he could do about these “ghosts and gods.”
When he became governor, he had vowed to protect the people, but he was now enveloped by a sense of powerlessness.
“Governor Liao, Wang Baiqian is the key.” As Bai Lixin recalled, “I saw a superimposed shadow of a soul in Wang Baiqian’s body.”
“Superimposed shadow of a soul? Do you mean he has two souls? ”
A look of appreciation appeared in Bai Lixin’s eyes. “Yes, two souls. I’m afraid that guy did something that he shouldn’t have and got possessed. ”
Lu Sufan carefully looked at Bai Lixin. He swept his gaze over Bai Lixin’s face and the overflowing golden soul energy. Somehow, as if in a trance, he seemed to see a shadowy face in the golden light gazing at him tenderly.
The feeling was so familiar, so gentle that it made his heart twitch. Liao Chenfan’s eyes felt so hot that he was about to shed tears.
He pretended to look up at the roof, pressed the inexplicable tears back into his eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice, “So it’s true Feng Xuelin used ghostly magic to suck away the luck and aura of your Wen family, right?”
“Probably so. You can believe it or not. I can’t force you to believe it. ” Bai Lixin shrugged his shoulders.
‘I believe!’ Liao Sufan roared in his heart, ‘I do believe, but so what if I do? How do I make up for the harm I have done to you?’
Liao Sufan looked at Bai Lixin, wanting to say something but not doing so.
The two stared at each other, and although they did not speak, there was an identical sentiment slowly rising.
The atmosphere in the room gradually became stranger. Liao Sufan swallowed his saliva and looked at Bai Lixin’s open features, which tugged at his heartstrings more and more.
Liao Sufan’s Adam’s apple rolled a little, and he was about to say something when the door to the room was opened haughtily. Cold air came over him at once, knocking the pink aura that had brewed in the room into thin air.
Huang Hongyuan came in with a bowl of wonton noodles and said smilingly, “Lord Liao, you’re here. Xian Zhi, I just made these wonton noodles. Come and eat them while they’re hot! ”
Liao Sufan: “……” This Huang Hongyuan is more of an eyesore than even before!
The priceless Tsubaki stone was cut, and it was such a large piece, yet Bai Lixin did not show any arrogance or impatience.
He smiled lightly and looked at the stone cutting master, “Master, don’t stop; move on to the next one.”
Tsubaki stones have a different colour from ordinary stones, and the weathered layers are different from ordinary white jade and jadeite. That is why this Tsubaki stone is hidden among many small stones but has never been identified.
It was probably the most expensive stone the master cutter had ever cut in his long career.
Hearing Bai Lixin’s indifference, the stone cutter’s hand began to shiver.
The penultimate stone was a priceless Tsubaki jade, so what kind of stone would the finale be?
The crowd held their breath, their hearts beating wildly as they stared unblinkingly at the last stone.
They were holding their hearts, wishing they could have a quick-acting heart pill right now.
Why were they feeling more nervous than if they had cut the stone themselves?
The crowd was dumbfounded after the inside of the last stone leaked out.
“Eh, it’s…a stone?”
“Okay, it looks like it’s a stone all right.”
“How can it be a stone? There must be something good hidden inside.”
“Yes, cut further in, cut further in!”
Amidst the uproar of the crowd, the stone-cutter looked at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin nodded, “Then let’s cut a little further in, Master.”
The master cutter picked up the cutter once more and cut a little deeper. It was still a stone, indistinguishable from the weathered layer.
“Go on! Go on!”
“Yes, go on, go on!”
Finally, after a dozen cuts, the master cutter put down the cutter and sighed, “It seems to be just a stone.”
Bai Lixin smiled, “Many thanks.”
He took out two pieces of silver from his pocket and handed them to the stone cutter, smiling, “Thank you for your hard work, Master.”
The stonecutter was not polite and hurriedly took them, smiling as he did so, “Young Master Wen is worthy of being from a scholarly family; he is very polite and talented. You’re welcome. ”
Of fourteen stones, four were waste, and ten were good stones. It was already a very good profit.
Bai Lixin left the waste stones and took only the good.
The stones were not light, and as they were all expensive jade and jadeite, they needed to be carried lightly. The Wang family provided a one-stop service, there were carriages prepared for the buyers of the stones. The servants carefully helped Bai Lixin carry the stones onto the carriage. He nodded to the crowd and left with Huang Hongyuan.
Liao Sufan then circled the garden and also left.
At night, Liao Sufan received a call from the Wen family.
At first, he did not know who it was. Then he recognised Huang Hongyuan’s voice and was slightly stunned and asked, “Whose phone are you using?”
Huang Hongyuan didn’t think anything of it and replied, “It’s the phone of the Wen family home.”
“What’s the phone number? I’ll write it down. ” Liao Sufan paused and said in a cold voice, “That way we can communicate easily when there are cases in the future.”
Huang Hongyuan didn’t doubt it, so he gave a string of dial keys.
So Liao Sufan memorised it before asking, “So did you find anything?”
“Xian Zhi is asking you to come to the Wen house, saying that it’s not possible to say over the phone and that we need to talk in person.”
“Okay! I’m on my way. ”
Liao Sufan quickly put down the phone. He put on a black fur-collared coat and rode his horse to the old mansion of the Wen family.
After waiting for so long, he finally got the “face-to-face” meeting he was eagerly waiting for!
When Liao Sufan arrived at the Wen residence, Wenbo welcomed him. Although the latter did not like Liao Sufan, he still took his horse and tied it in the stable. On the other hand, Liao Sufan made his way to Bai Lixin’s room with ease.
When he entered the room, Bai Lixin was alone, observing the neatly arranged stones on the floor.
Bai Lixin said, without looking up, “Governor Liao, please come here for a moment.”
Liao Sufan raised his eyebrows, took off his jacket and hung it on the clothes rack before striding over, “What is it?”
Bai Lixin pointed to the valuable Tsubaki jade that he had cut up today and said, “Feel it with your hands.”
Liao Sufan was confused, but he still stretched out his hand and touched the stone as he was told.
It was just like the stone he had touched before, cold to the bone.
The room had a burning charcoal stove, so it should not have been so cold.
Liao Chen Fan frowned and looked at Bai Lixin, “Is there something wrong with this stone?”
Bai Lixin nodded as he bit his finger and said to Liao Sufan, “Close your eyes.”
Liao Sufan closed his eyes decisively, not asking why.
Bai Lixin smiled gently and then dabbed some blood on each of Liao Changfan’s eyelids.
Liao Sufan felt a moist feeling on each eye, and then he heard Bai Lixin’s intoning voice: “When fighting in battle, all arrays should be in front of each other! As a matter of urgency, ying-yang eyes, open! ”
As soon as the words fell, Liao Sufan, who could only see a blurred light through his eyelids, suddenly saw darkness before a bright golden light took over.
Bai Lixin’s voice rang out in his ears, “You can open them now.”
Liao Sufan blinked slightly before opening his eyes completely. Upon seeing the scene before him, he was stunned and looked at Bai Lixin in surprise.
There was a dazzling golden glow wrapped around Bai Lixin. It turned out that the bright golden light he had just seen behind his eyelids was emitted from Bai Lixin’s body.
“I helped you open the yin-yang eyes. You can now see things you normally couldn’t.”
Bai Lixin smiled and pointed to the stones placed on the ground, “See the mass of black qi on this stone? It’s filthy Qi, left on by long-term erosion from evil spirits. ”
Liao Sufan glanced at the stone and then turned back to Bai Lixin. “Then what’s the golden light on your body?”
Bai Lixin was puzzled for a moment, then pointed at himself with a smile, “Me?” You’re probably seeing my Dao qi or soul qi. So it’s golden? I can’t see this Qi myself, but I can see yours. It’s also a circle of gold; it’s very dazzling.”
Liao Sufan smiled and looked down at his hands, but found that there was no light. “So one can’t see their qi?”
“Well, just like a diviner cannot divine his own destiny, a Taoist priest cannot see his own soul qi either. Don’t look at me, look at the stone. Do you see the stone without the black qi? ”
Liao Sufan cast his eyes on the stones again. Just as Bai Lixin had said, there was a stone with a faint white glow around it and it had no black qi.
“Is this the stone that I just touched?” Liao Sufan frowned.
“Yes, you are endowed with the Heavenly Yang Qi, so evil spirits do not dare approach you. And your Heavenly Yang Qi can also purify evil. ” Bai Lixin said, and then grabbed another stone.
Because of the heavenly eyes, Liao Sufan could already visually see the movement of the black qi on the stone. When the black gas came into contact with Bai Lixin, it seemed to suddenly come alive and move everywhere. It even tried to climb up his arm.
On seeing this, Liao Sufan hurriedly went over and grabbed the stone.
With a hiss, the black qi that was still flailing around instantly dissipated into white qi when it came into contact with Liao Sufan.
Bai Lixin smiled, “You see, it’s just like that.”
Liao Sufan threw away the stone with a frown and pulled Bai Lixin’s arm for a closer look, making sure that it was not injured before asking, “What was that black qi just now?”
“That is evil Qi, which likes the breath of the living the most. If you are exposed to it for a long time, you will be haunted by it, blinded by it, and your personality will change. Worse still, you will turn into a vessel for the evil spirits and become their puppet. ”
“Are all the stones in the garden like this?” Liao Sufan asked as he recalled the crazy black Qi just now.
“Yes, the resentment in the qi is not something that ordinary resentful ghosts can produce.”
Liao Sufan remained silent, his deep eyes fixed on the stones imbued with black Qi. He thought of the gambling convention that was held every half month, imagining how many people had been corrupted by this resentment Qi and had a personality change.
If there was a murderer, he could have taken action to catch the culprit, but there was nothing he could do about these “ghosts and gods.”
When he became governor, he had vowed to protect the people, but he was now enveloped by a sense of powerlessness.
“Governor Liao, Wang Baiqian is the key.” As Bai Lixin recalled, “I saw a superimposed shadow of a soul in Wang Baiqian’s body.”
“Superimposed shadow of a soul? Do you mean he has two souls? ”
A look of appreciation appeared in Bai Lixin’s eyes. “Yes, two souls. I’m afraid that guy did something that he shouldn’t have and got possessed. ”
Lu Sufan carefully looked at Bai Lixin. He swept his gaze over Bai Lixin’s face and the overflowing golden soul energy. Somehow, as if in a trance, he seemed to see a shadowy face in the golden light gazing at him tenderly.
The feeling was so familiar, so gentle that it made his heart twitch. Liao Chenfan’s eyes felt so hot that he was about to shed tears.
He pretended to look up at the roof, pressed the inexplicable tears back into his eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice, “So it’s true Feng Xuelin used ghostly magic to suck away the luck and aura of your Wen family, right?”
“Probably so. You can believe it or not. I can’t force you to believe it. ” Bai Lixin shrugged his shoulders.
‘I believe!’ Liao Sufan roared in his heart, ‘I do believe, but so what if I do? How do I make up for the harm I have done to you?’
Liao Sufan looked at Bai Lixin, wanting to say something but not doing so.
The two stared at each other, and although they did not speak, there was an identical sentiment slowly rising.
The atmosphere in the room gradually became stranger. Liao Sufan swallowed his saliva and looked at Bai Lixin’s open features, which tugged at his heartstrings more and more.
Liao Sufan’s Adam’s apple rolled a little, and he was about to say something when the door to the room was opened haughtily. Cold air came over him at once, knocking the pink aura that had brewed in the room into thin air.
Huang Hongyuan came in with a bowl of wonton noodles and said smilingly, “Lord Liao, you’re here. Xian Zhi, I just made these wonton noodles. Come and eat them while they’re hot! ”
Liao Sufan: “……” This Huang Hongyuan is more of an eyesore than even before!
