Chapter 1561 gentle and dignified
"Uncle, could you tell me exactly where you got this stone?" Su Qingyue pulled out a piece of broken silver from her sleeve pocket, "Here’s the thing, I think this stone looks very sturdy. My grandmother’s birthday is coming up soon, and I’d like to get a large block of this stone, polish it, and make a stone statue for my grandmother."
The strong man suspected nothing and pointed to a path ahead, "Go straight for two miles, turn left, and after another mile you’ll see a three-way fork—turn right into the mountain..." He specified the location then waved his hand, "I won’t take your money. It’s quite filial of you, young master, to think of giving your grandmother a birthday gift."
Su Qingyue picked out the reddish-brown stones from the carrying pole, "I can’t just take your stones for free, please accept the silver."
"No, no..." The strong man pretended to refuse twice. Although he felt a bit guilty, enticed by the two or three taels of broken silver given by Su Qingyue, he eventually accepted it.
As he went off with a pole of stones, he thought to himself that the noblemen’s sons really had some strange quirks, even wanting to buy worthless stones with money.
Su Qingyue ordered Yinzhu to collect a few pieces of the reddish-brown stones and put them in the carriage.
Once they were in the carriage and the driver set off towards the capital city, Su Qingyue stared at the stones gleaming in her eyes from within the carriage.
Yinzhu asked, puzzled, "Young master, where do you have a grandmother? How come I’ve never heard of her?"
"I made it up on the spot."
"Are you spending silver on these stones because you find money too heavy to carry?" Yinzhu wholly disapproved, "Young lady, this isn’t the way to spend money... Besides, when have we ever needed stones to crack nuts?"
Su Qingyue smiled and said nothing. These were no ordinary stones; they were iron ore!