The Way of Heaven Rewards Diligence in Film and Television

Chapter 74 Revisiting the Ancient City

After breakfast, the sun was warm and the wind was cool. Lin Yang accompanied Xu Hongdou, Nana, and Damai, who were dressed casually and chatting all the way, to the village entrance.

At the village entrance parking lot, seeing Lin Yang open the door of the RV, Da Mai couldn't help but say, "Lin Yang, thank you so much for being our driver today."

"I think he'd be happy to keep Hongdou company," Nana joked with a smile.

"I'm just your driver today, I won't disturb your shopping trip," Lin Yang said.

"I think you just don't want to run errands for us, do you?" Nana laughed.

"Alright, let's get in the car quickly!" Xu Hongdou urged.

Da Mai also said, "This is my first time riding in a motorhome! I'll go up and see what it's like inside."

After they got in the car and started observing and talking curiously, Lin Yang smiled and said, "Don't be shy, sit wherever you like! Be comfortable. I'm closing the car door, let's leave right away."

With that, Lin Yang closed the car door, walked around to the front, got in the car, started the engine, and drove away from Yunmiao Village.

Sitting in the RV, Xu Hongdou and the other two girls looked out the window with curiosity, and Lin Yang could hear their laughter from the front.

Soon, the car was driving smoothly on the road by Erhai Lake, and the three women tacitly took photos and videos to record the moment.

"Today I went out to play with two sisters I met here. Look, this is Erhai Lake. The morning sun shines on the water, making it sparkle. In the distance are Cangshan Mountain, how majestic and magnificent! There is still some snow on the mountain, but it is not very clear in the video. This is Nana, and here is Damai..." Xu Hongdou said while filming and narrating.

Nana, who was taking pictures nearby, couldn't help but laugh and said, "Red Bean, it sounds like you're reading from your own diary! Hey, don't take pictures of me!"

"It's like a news commentary, Red Bean, where are you going to post this? On WeChat Moments?" Damai couldn't help but laugh.

"Family group," Xu Hongdou said with a smile, having already sent the video she had just taken to her family group chat.

Xu Hongdou's older sister, Xu Hongmi, quickly sent a voice message: "Hongdou, it looks like you're in a campervan! You rent a campervan to go on vacation, how far are you planning to go?"

"It's not rented, I borrowed it from a friend on short notice..." Xu Hongdou replied.

Before she could finish speaking, Nana leaned in with a mischievous grin and said, "He's a handsome young guy!"

"Nana..." Xu Hongdou playfully reached out to hit Nana, but before she could finish, the voice message had already been sent.

Xu Hongdou couldn't help but feel a little helpless: "Oh dear, this is hard to explain."

"What's so hard to explain? Haven't you and Lin Yang officially started dating yet? Or do you just not want your family to know for the time being?"

Nana said, "Red Bean, I'm so sorry! I spoke too quickly."

"It's alright, you know now, you know now!" Xu Hongdou shook her head and smiled.

At the same time, messages kept popping up in the group chat. First, Xu Hongmi asked curiously, "Xu Hongdou, what's going on with you? Boyfriend?"

"Dou, you have a boyfriend? Where is he from? How old is he? Is he younger than you?" Xu Hongdou's mother immediately asked.

"Mom, are you checking the household registration?" Xu Hongmi replied helplessly. Before Xu Hongdou could explain, she had already started talking to Xu Hongdou's mother in the group chat.

"These things are completely hard to explain," Xu Hongdou said, shaking her head helplessly.

Damai couldn't help but say, "Red Bean, I really envy you. It's so great to have an older sister!"

"Envious that I have an older sister?" Xu Hongdou chuckled.

The three women laughed and joked, while Lin Yang, who was driving, listened silently. Soon they arrived at the ancient city.

After Lin Yang parked the car, the three women got out, each carrying their bags. Nana couldn't help but ask, "Lin Yang, are you really not coming with us?"

"I won't disturb your relaxing shopping trip. I'll go look around by myself and meet up with Teacher Hu at the bar we agreed on later," Lin Yang said.

After waving goodbye to Lin Yang, the three women ran off together, cheering and jumping for joy.

Lin Yang watched them leave with a smile, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Although they came here for tourism, they each had their own troubles, and it was rare for them to be so relaxed and happy today.

Lin Yang and Xu Hongdou had visited the ancient city together before.

However, the place Lin Yang visited this time was the antique and jade street in the ancient city, where there were various shops selling silver products and antique jade artifacts.

The shops are all antique and charming, and there are even craftsmen making silverware.

Lin Yang, who had been observing the process, was actually quite interested in the making of traditional silverware and even jade carving. These folk crafts were worth his time to learn.

"Hmm?" Suddenly, a cutting and scraping sound came from ahead. Seeing a crowd gathered in front of him, Lin Yang curiously approached and his eyes lit up: "Jade gambling? There's jade gambling here?"

"I wonder if my system can sense whether there is jade in the rough jade..." With a thought in mind, Lin Yang walked over to a stall with many stones of various sizes.

"Handsome, would you like to buy some stones?" a young woman dressed in traditional local clothing greeted him with a smile.

"Let me take a look first," Lin Yang said with a noncommittal smile.

"Take your time looking around. Since it's your first time here, I can give you a discount if you buy anything later," the girl said with a smile.

Lin Yang smiled, reached out and picked up a palm-sized piece of raw material, casually touching the smooth parts of it as if examining it.

He was a complete novice; he had only read descriptions of other people gambling on stones in novels, and later watched some stone-cutting videos, so he only had a superficial understanding and couldn't see anything at all.

However, when he picked up the rough stone, a progress bar suddenly appeared beside him, and the progress bar suddenly advanced a large distance.

"Is...there's jade inside?" Lin Yang asked, somewhat surprised and delighted. "What a coincidence? The very first piece of rough jade I picked up contained jade?"

But when Lin Yang turned the raw material over to take a closer look, he found that the progress bar had suddenly dropped to the bottom.

"What does this mean? There's nothing on the back?" Lin Yang continued to examine the fabric, touching the progress bar of the test. He found that only one smooth spot caused the progress bar to advance suddenly by a large margin, while the system progress bar did not advance or show any obvious reaction in the rest of the area.

"It seems there is indeed jade inside, but only a little bit. It might turn green when polished, but it's all stone inside," Lin Yang said thoughtfully.

"Handsome, have you decided? Do you want this one?" the girl in charge of the stall asked with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yang, realizing what was happening, smiled and asked, "How much?"

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"This one is worth three thousand five hundred. Here, you can give me three thousand," the girl said after some thought.

Three thousand? That's not expensive; it should be a reasonable price.

"Okay, I'll take it. You can cut the stone here, right?" Lin Yang nodded readily.

The young woman's smile widened: "Of course! Stone cutting is free. Perfect timing, the other one's almost finished. Brother...cut the stone!"

The girl called out to a young man next to the stone-cutting machine.

After Lin Yang scanned the code and paid, the young man came over and asked, "Should I have this stone cut? Which one?"

"Just wipe this for me," Lin Yang said, pointing to the smooth part of the wool fabric.

"Okay, just wait a moment!" the young man said, picking up the raw material and heading towards the stone-cutting machine.

Lin Yang did not follow, but instead continued to look at the raw materials with great interest, which surprised the girl running the stall.

However, after looking through them for a while, Lin Yang couldn't help but frown helplessly. What kind of material was it? It didn't seem to contain any jade!

Although a few pieces did cause the system progress bar to react slightly, the reaction was too small, suggesting that there were only a few pieces of jadeite inside, or that the quality was too poor.