As the seconds ticked by, the members of the geological survey team focused on research in the cave went from whispering quietly at first to becoming increasingly distracted, to blankly gazing outside the cave, and finally abandoning their work altogether, rushing out en masse.
In just two hours, An Yiqing not only fulfilled her wager with Professor Zhang, but also helped Peng Shaohe uncover five pieces of jade, each considerably large with superior quality.
The survey team members were thoroughly stunned; they stood outside the cave, dumbly watching as Peng Shaohe's people carefully loaded over twenty pieces of uncut jade onto a truck. Even after the truck disappeared in a cloud of dust, they had not come to their senses.
"This, this this..." The stubborn old scholar Professor Zhang mumbled, unable to utter a complete sentence.
