Chapter 118: Luck (1/2)

Chapter 118: Luck

That evening, once they went back to the hotel, under Zhang Bing’s repeated requests, Yang Ming brought the two rocks that he had gambled with to Zhang Jiefang’s room so that Zhang Jiefang could assess whose were more valuable.

“Definitely mine!” Zhang Bing pointed at his the moment after he finished polishing the rock. “The volume of my jades are double yours!”

“That may not be the case. If it was an imperial jade, the size of a palm would have been worth up to a million!” Zhang Jiefang shook his hand. “Between a piece of gold and a piece of silver that’s twice the size, which one do you think is worth more? It’s the same reasoning!”

“It’s impossible to get an imperial jade!” Zhang Bing was feeling a bit reluctant.

“Nothing is impossible. It’s hard to predict luck!” Zhang Jiefang shook his head. “Let’s talk about me. During those years I went to sea with a few friends, I am the only one who got rich. Everyone else was still busy making their living selling small objects.”

Zhang Bing didn’t dare to say much more. He also knew that his dad had some strong superstitious beliefs. Therefore, he said obediently, “Yeah, I just don’t have good luck.”

“Son, you don’t need luck. Your strongest advantage is that you have a good father! Even though your dad is not a billionaire, my net worth is at least in the millions. As long as you don’t ruin it, and run your business honestly, you wouldn’t have any problems throughout your life! I don’t expect you to expand things that much either. As long as you can guard our business, it’s fine!” said Zhang Jiefang.

“Dad, your words make me sound as if I am a prodigal son!” Zhang Bing felt a bit embarrassed. “In the future, as long as Yang Ming and I take care of one another, we are sure we would expand your business well!”

“En, I was just waiting for your words!” Zhang Jiefang laughed. His words just now were to avoid pressuring his son. However, he didn’t think that his son would be able to mature enough to put his heart at ease!

Yang Ming continued to sand the low-quality jade quietly. It started to show the basic nature of the jade. Then he pretended to be disappointed and sighed, “It is nothing even when compared to the worst jade that you have!”

Zhang Jiefang came over and had a look. He also shook his head. “This jade would only be worth ten yuan even if you sold it to the Hand Crafting Workshop. However, nevermind, we still have one more piece. Maybe it could be an imperial jade!” Zhang Jiefang comforted him.

“We shall ride on your lucky words then!” Yang Ming smiled. He purposely came up with this sentence because he wanted to turn the topic into luck. He never thought that Zhang Jiefang would have said it first. It saved him some thinking and words.

Yeah, luck is a strange and interesting thing! At least now there were many scientists from different countries who had started studying “luck” as a field of study! Even though this may sound a bit obscure, you can’t deny that in all the darkness, there seems to be the presence of luck!

For example, when people buy the lottery, someone would continuously win whereas someone else would not win a single prize. Yet the person who won the lottery wouldn’t know why he won the lottery!

The same applies to a table of poker players. Some of the poker players would always have some smooth cards, and their luck from start to finish was incredible!

Science cannot explain all these things. Therefore, Yang Ming wanted to tackle this perspective and have his special ability be due to luck. This way, no one would want to do anything to him.

“Hehe, Yang Ming, how is it? You lost, right? I told you. What could you have gotten out of that bunch of scrap material? There were so many professionals before you. How would it be you!” Zhang Bing criticized.

“I shall look down on you. Are you worried that I may get an imperial jade and your car would be gone?” Yang Ming threw a look of contempt at him.

“En? Why is it so green?” Yang Ming pretended to be curious while he pointed at the corner of the jade that had been chipped off.

“Let me have a look!” Zhang Jiefang was stunned. He took the jade in Yang Ming’s hand and took a look at it. His facial expression became emotional. “Yang Ming, this is an imperial jade! You surely picked up an imperial jade!”

“What? imperial jade?” Yang Ming pretended to be surprised as he stood up. “Uncle Zhang, are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?”

“It can’t be. How would I make a mistake?” Even though your Uncle Zhang is not a professional when it comes to assessing jades, but I am someone who had been in the line for a while. I know how to distinguish a normal jade from an imperial jade! This was absolutely an imperial jade! Yang Ming, we didn’t see it, but you have remarkably good luck. Today there was the traveling merchant who opened an imperial jade, and I thought he was lucky already. I didn’t think that with only two rocks, one of them would be an imperial jade!” Zhang Jiefang took the sandpaper in Yang Ming’s hand and started to sand it.

“Dad, this is an imperial jade?” Zhang Bing also felt that it was very unbelievable.

“Go to the side. Why would your dad cheat you?” Zhang Jiefang felt a bit unhappy. “Let me tell you. This time, Yang Ming has won. Your car is gone!”

“Ah? Please, don’t dad. Isn’t this like making me sit on a roller coaster? It’s just that I’m still in the sky, and after a split moment later I’m at the bottom.” Zhang Bing felt a bit sad.