Naturally, since it was more likely for someone to get jadeite when choosing the stones from the half gamble area, the cost of buying these ores were much higher too. A stone that was about the size of a medium-sized ball was actually around ten thousand taels. Of course, if more than half of this type of raw ore was occupied by jadeite within, it could be sold for at least twice the previous buying price. Thus, getting rich overnight wasn’t an uncommon thing at the gambling stone hall. 

Dong Ming noticed that Long Tianba was hesitating and proposed an idea, “We don’t know much about this, so how about we first go outside and take a look?” 

Long Tianba had gotten his father’s permission this time before he came here. Thus, he had around fifty thousand taels in banknotes on him. However, even with that much money on hand, there weren’t a lot of options for him to pick from, especially in the half gamble array of stones. Any one of those partly opened ores commanded a price in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.  

Long Tianba was well aware of the sky-high price of jadeite. He had given Young Master Dong a hanging ornament made out of bright green jadeite that was of glass quality. It was only about the size of half a palm’s length but cost him over thirty thousand taels. As for the piece...