Chapter 12

Translator: Zayn_

Su Weixuan took out a box from his pocket and said, “This is the ancient jade I bought for you at the port of Antwerp. I heard that this thing was snatched away by Italy from our country. I spent 20,000 dollars to buy it. You wear it on your neck and give it to my grandson in the future. It can be a family heirloom.”

“Twenty thousand dollars?” Su Xiaofan’s eyes widened. “I almost broke the rules of the village to raise money for my sister’s school fees, and you spent 20000 dollars to buy this for me? Dad, do you know what ancient jade is?” He asked. “Family heirloom? Don’t bring back plastic.”

Holding the exquisitely wrapped box in his hand, Su Xiaofan wanted to cry but had no tears. He had been in the antique market for two years, and the things he had seen the most were naturally the so-called “ancient” items, but in fact, nine out of ten items, there was usually not one that was real, especially jade, porcelain, and bronze. The real antiques had already been sent to the auction house, so how could they appear in the antique market?

“You don’t have to worry about Xiaoxiao’s tuition. I’ll settle it.” Su Weixuan took out a bank card and handed it to Su Xiaofan. “Dad’s annual salary is very high. I was afraid that you wouldn’t know how to control your spending, so I didn’t dare to let you keep any money. There’s one million in this card; you can use it first.”

“A million?” Su Xiaofan looked at his father in shock. He remembered his father’s bitter face when he left him 50,000 Yuan last time. He almost said that the 50,000 Yuan was his life savings.

“If you had given it to me earlier, I wouldn’t have had this unexpected disaster.” Su Xiaofan complained to his father, but he didn’t slow down at all when he took the card. It would be irresponsible of him to be polite to his father, who had set up his son.

“Let’s not talk about this. In the future, you’ll definitely have a good ending after all your suffering. Hurry up and open the box. See if you like this jade. Your father has good taste.” Su Weixuan glanced at his son’s neck and said casually, “I seem to have given you a piece of jade before, are you wearing it?”

“You’ve given me jade?” Su Xiaofan was taken aback.

“It happened after your car accident. I asked you to wear it as an amulet.” Su Weixuan said.

“You mean the jade Buddha?”

Su Xiaofan remembered and pointed at Su Xiaoxiao. “Dad, why don’t you say you don’t know how to do it? As the saying goes, men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha. If you give me a jade Buddha pendant and I really wear it around my neck, I’ll be laughed at by my peers in the antique market. I was wearing the meteorite you gave me, but I lost it after being electrocuted. I don’t know where it went.”

Before Su Xiaofan went to the antique market to set up a stall, he had worn the jade Buddha for two days. However, after meeting Zheng Dagang at the antique market, he learned that men generally wore Guanyin, and only women wore Buddha. So Su Xiaofan gave the pendant to his sister, and it was still hanging on her neck.

“Where did this rule come from? I went to great lengths to get that jade Buddha for you.” Su Weixuan’s mouth twitched when he heard his son’s words, but he didn’t say anything after glancing at his daughter.

“Dad, since you’re back, can you talk to the doctor and ask if we can be discharged today?”

Su Xiaofan said as he unwrapped the box. He really couldn’t stay a day longer in this hospital, especially when he saw the fat nurse every day. Su Xiaofan felt like he was naked and was seen through.

“Alright, I’ll tell them later. It’s indeed useless to stay here.”

Su Weixuan thought for a moment and said, “Our crew at sea often get sunburns. Sunburns are similar to burns. I have some ointment for this. I’ll give it to you later. It should be better than the medicine in the hospital and you can recover faster.”

“Dad, is your medicine reliable?” Su Xiaofan wasn’t very confident in his father, so he opened the box and took out the jade pendant.

“Eh, dad, you really have good taste this time. This thing looks like a good piece of jade based on the carving and shape.”

Looking at the jade pendant in his hand, Su Xiaofan was surprised. Although he had only been in the antique market for two or three years, he learned things very quickly, especially since he came into contact with some experienced masters every day, so he had a certain level of antique appreciation.

“This is a dragon and phoenix jade pendant from the Warring States period. There are many similar ones from the Han Dynasty. When they were unearthed, they were usually in pairs, one dragon and one phoenix. But dad, the jade pendant you’re holding doesn’t have any color. It doesn’t look like it’s an item that was unearthed. It might be fake.”

Su Xiaofan looked at the jade pendant in his hand carefully and was a little suspicious. He had only said that it was a good jade and not an ancient jade because ancient jade was most likely stolen from tombs. Even the so-called orderly ancient jade in history had only been unearthed a little earlier and had been toyed with by several generations before becoming an inheritance. But if one were to trace it back to the source, it was still an item unearthed from tombs.

As the old saying goes, “without color, no jade can be made.” The color of the jade was one of the standards for the appraisal of ancient jade. The color of ancient jade was due to the jade being buried in the soil for a long time. The color change was formed by the interaction of the trace elements in the jade and the substances in the soil.

Due to the different substances contained in the soil of different places and the different periods of time that they were buried, the color of the jade pieces would be different. However, as long as it was a real ancient jade, it would usually be stained with some color. There were even many counterfeit antique merchants who would make a new color to sell it as an ancient jade.

However, the piece of jade in Su Xiaofan’s hand was crystal white and smooth, like the fat of a lamb that had just been cut open. Its luster was like condensed oil, and there was no skin color or color at all.

In terms of material, this was an excellent piece of sheep-fat white jade, but it was a little ambiguous to call it ancient jade. In Su Xiaofan’s opinion, this should have been carved from a high-quality white jade material.

However, in terms of price, such a top-quality white jade would already have a sky-high price. Moreover, the dragon-shaped jade was carved and shaped like an antique. Even if it was a modern jade carving, his father had bought it for 20,000 dollars. It was definitely a huge steal. If this thing were to be auctioned, it was possible to get three to five hundred thousand Yuan.

“Eh? This… What’s the meaning of this?”

Just as Su Xiaofan was admiring the jade in his hand, a few words suddenly appeared in his mind:

[ Han Dynasty dragon-shaped jade pendant, incomplete mid-grade magical artifact. Repairable. Requires 50 repair points. Do you wish to repair it? ]