Chapter Thirty-Six: Every Shot Hits the Mark-Filho biológico não é tão bom quanto o filho adotado? Se você se arrepender, não me procure!(O sonho solitário do garoto de rua)

"Kid, what kind of nonsense are you spouting! A bumpkin like you managed to unearth jade of this quality? Stop bragging; it's laughable!"

Tang Rumeng was taken aback at first, then spoke with fury. After all, having grown up as she had, no one besides her own elders had ever dared to toy with her like this.

"Hey, can't you just believe what I'm saying?" Lin Tian spread his hands, looking speechless. "Seeing as you're in such a rush, I'll say it one more time: if you want me to compensate you with an intact piece, I have to go and pick out two more for you. If I’m bluffing, or if I can’t find stones of this quality, then you can hit me or scold me—I won't even bat an eye."

Seeing him so resolute and confident, Tang Rumeng found herself inexplicably believing him a little.

"Fine, I'll trust you for now!"

Tang Rumeng turned and headed back to the car, calling out impatiently, "What are you standing there for? Get in!"

Lin Tian sat in the back of the car. As soon as he got in, he keenly sensed that the seat cushions were quite extraordinary. However, his long-standing poverty limited his imagination, and he couldn't even guess their value.

Observing this, Tang Rumeng, sitting in the front passenger seat, sneered, "Don't look at it with that country-bumpkin expression. It’s very expensive!"

Lin Tian let out a cold snort, turned his head away as if throwing a tantrum, and remained silent.

"Hmph, hick," Tang Rumeng said, her eyes filled with disdain. She urged impatiently, "Drive!"

The middle-aged man in the driver's seat nodded submissively and started the car.

The market square was just as they had left it. The stall owner was lying on a bench covered with a bear skin, hands behind his head, eyes closed in comfort, enjoying the sun.

Suddenly, a series of harsh, incessant car horns blared.

"Who is that? So rude!"

The stall owner jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on. When he saw who was getting out of the car, his face shifted instantly.

"What the hell! Why is this kid back?"

He squinted, and his jaw dropped. "Damn it, he brought two helpers. Looks like trouble."

Lin Tian’s gaze was sharp. After verifying the spot, he pointed at the stall owner. "This is the shop. I bought three pieces of jade here this morning, and the two in your hands came from here as well."

Tang Rumeng narrowed her eyes and inspected the stall, but after a long while, she couldn't see anything unusual.

"Stop looking; you won't be able to tell." Lin Tian gave her a perfectly timed look of contempt.

Tang Rumeng sneered, "Stop talking and start doing. I'll just watch here to see how you find good jade!"

Lin Tian shrugged indifferently and extended his right hand. "There are four price tiers. I’ve already picked through the first two—the hundred-dollar ones and the thousand-dollar ones—so there’s nothing good left there. As for which of the remaining two you choose, that depends on whether you're willing to spend the money."

"Is that really so?" Tang Rumeng asked skeptically.

Lin Tian scoffed, "If you don't believe me, the stall owner is right there. Feel free to ask him yourself!"

The middle-aged man took a look and whispered to Tang Rumeng, "Miss, I've been here too; the prices are indeed correct."

Tang Rumeng glared at him irritably. "Did I ask for your opinion?"

The middle-aged man lowered his head and retreated into silence.

Since the pricing was correct, Tang Rumeng nodded. "Fine, let's see if you're actually bluffing."

She walked straight up to the stall owner, took out her phone, and scanned the QR code. "I'll pay fifty thousand for the ten-thousand-per-pick tier."

Without waiting for the stall owner to react, she turned and urged, "You’d better hurry. My patience is limited."

Lin Tian ignored her and walked toward the section where those stones were displayed.

The next moment, his "Heavenly Eyes" activated. Everything inside the stones became completely transparent to him, even more effective than an X-ray.

He deliberately put on a show of thinking for a while before reaching out for a ten-centimeter-long, jagged stone.

Tang Rumeng took one look and frowned, "This thing is hideous. How could it possibly contain beautiful jade?"

However, the expressions of the stall owner and the middle-aged man were quite intriguing. If nothing else, both were seasoned veterans who had lived for decades, and their judgment was sharper than hers. Judging by Lin Tian's movements and facial expression just now, this was no random choice.

The stall owner, in particular, had truly witnessed Lin Tian's unusual "luck."

*It's over, it's over. I'm going to lose again.* At that moment, he only prayed that the jade produced from this stone wouldn't exceed the blue grade, or he feared he might actually vomit blood.

"Stall owner, we meet again. Why don't you open it, just like this morning?" Lin Tian handed the stone to him with a smile.

The stall owner took the stone and began working with a grim expression. As expected, the jade revealed was of the blue grade.

Seeing that Lin Tian had truly unearthed jade of a quality no lower than the previous two pieces, Tang Rumeng was so surprised she couldn't speak for a moment.

*Could this kid actually have a talent for this?*

Before she could think further, she saw the stall owner's legs go soft, and he collapsed to the ground, muttering, "Hell, this is hell!"

"Hey, I've secured the first one for you." Lin Tian handed the jade to Tang Rumeng and turned back to continue picking stones.

Before long, he found another one, called the stunned stall owner up from the ground, handed it to him just as before, and said, "Sorry to trouble you."

To the stall owner, this sentence was like twisting a knife in his heart. However, out of fear of the group, he swallowed his anger and held his tongue.

Once again, unsurprisingly, a blue-grade gemstone was revealed.

Seeing this, the stall owner sat back on his chair, looking as if he had been cursed.

Lin Tian handed the jade to Tang Rumeng, whose pretty face was filled with shock, and said leisurely, "Done. There are three picks left; you can keep them for yourself."

Hearing his voice, Tang Rumeng snapped out of her trance and looked at him with complex eyes.

*This guy... he’s actually quite interesting.*

The middle-aged man, emboldened, interjected, "Miss, let me try, too. Since he can open two blue-grade jades in a row, it proves there must be plenty of jade here. I have a fair amount of insight into this field; I might not be any worse than him."

"Are you sure?" Tang Rumeng asked coldly.

In order to please her, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and made a grand promise: "I certainly won't let you down, Miss."