Chapter 3616 — You People Really Are Something
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Besides Li Zhengming, one other thing weighed on Wei Zhao's mind: a full hour had passed since work began, and yet he had not caught a glimpse of Meng Jueming or Meng Zhou. But on second thought, a knowing curve crept onto the corner of his mouth.
These two had schemed every which way to get him sent to Mining Zone Seven, yet they themselves had yet to appear. At this rate, they must have gone to Mining Zone Ten. Perhaps they were even hoping to uncover the secret of how he had dug out so much fine jade two days running!
Wei Zhao could only say to that: search away, slowly. If you two can dig out fine jade, then you really are something! Not just something—truly something!
And indeed, just as Wei Zhao expected, Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou had gone to Mining Zone Ten, the dead mining zone.
Just as Wei Zhao had told Lu Bianren and his miserable senior brother, the two of them had concluded from the past two days' events that Wei Zhao had found a high-quality ore node in the dead mining zone with an extremely high yield of jade—especially fine jade. In quality alone, this node could completely outclass Mining Zone Seven.
In truth, for a steward senior brother like Meng Jueming, digging up seven or eight pieces of fine jade a day was nothing to be astonished at, let alone something to excite him. But the problem was that this was Mining Zone Ten, the dead mining zone with its sparse guards!
Mining Zone Seven's jade yield was decent enough, but it was tightly guarded. Under so many watchful eyes, no matter how clever Meng Jueming was, it was hard to pull any tricks there. But this dead mining zone was different—with his connections in the Spirit Jade Hall, rigging things here would be utterly effortless!
The reason he had never set his sights on this place before was purely that it produced no fine jade. But if a node no inferior to Mining Zone Seven could be found here, the significance would be entirely different! With proper handling, Meng Jueming was fully confident he could turn this place into his own private spirit jade mine. And once he had jade in abundance, his future rise to glory would be just a matter of time!
Of course, the pressing matter was to confirm that a high-quality node truly existed here. So after arriving at Mining Zone Ten, Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou questioned the guards carefully, then headed straight for the node where Wei Zhao had mined before.
"What's going on here? Why has Meng Jueming, the Welcome Pavilion steward, come to our dead mining zone? Could it be that this newcomer Meng Zhou offended him so badly that he came in person to supervise? Doesn't look like it, though..."
The two guards were utterly baffled. Their only job was to provide the weighing ledger as a reference during weighing; what quality inspection later found—how many fine jade, how many worthless stones—was none of their concern. Moreover, the notion that Mining Zone Ten produced no fine jade had long been ingrained in them, so these two had no idea that Wei Zhao had already handed in a full eighteen pieces of fine jade over the past two days!
"Mm, looks like this is the spot. Start digging!" Following the two guards' directions, Meng Jueming observed carefully and confirmed the node where Wei Zhao had mined jade these past two days. Then, unable to contain his impatience, he set Meng Zhou to work.