Chapter 50 The Road to Wealth
"General Manager Zhang, I'm afraid there's no bargain for you to pick up today!"
Watching at Zhang Jingshan's dim-witted expression, Ye Chen lowered his voice and said.
"What? The remaining eighteenth and nineteenth raw stones..."
Zhang Jingshan came over this time for the nineteenth raw stone because he also heard the windowed raw stone will have a good chance for Zheng Yang Green to come out.
"My intuition tells me there will be nothing inside!" Ye Chen exclaimed.
Then, he added, "But we can troll the young master of Four Seas Group!"
"Alright! Got it!"
The once disappointed Zhang Jingshan immediately regained his strength after hearing his remark.
Soon, the stone gambling for the eighteenth raw stone has begun.
Since the next two stones were the highlight of this stone gambling, the crowd gathered around to study them.
Within seconds, it was called up for sale for 3 million dollars.
"I'll get it!" Zhang Jingshan shouted.
"3.1 million dollars!" Immediately, someone else followed.
"3.2 million dollars!"
"3.3 million dollars!"
Realizing that Zhang Jingshan was in Ye Chen's gang, many wealthy merchants who were wavering also gritted their teeth and followed along. It turned the scene into an auction.
"4 million dollars!" Zhang Jingshan pretended to act tense.
Although he acted this mainly for Li Mu to take the bait, his heart was thumping hard.
If Li Mu didn't take his bait, he believed he will come to grief. Since there'll be nothing for the next two stones, according to Ye Chen.
"4.2 million dollars!" After a moment of hesitation, Li Mu couldn't resist and ended up following him.
Like everyone else, he felt it was impossible for the lucky star, Ye Chen, to troll Zhang Jingshan.
Not to mention, Ye Chen has already got something good. It's impossible for him not to leave something good behind to Jingshan.
Plus, when he studied and examined the eighteenth stone earlier, he knew there was a chance for it to be a quality one.
The situation was uncontrollable because of the price bargaining.
"4.5 million dollars!" Zhang Jingshan uttered.
"5 million dollars!" Li Mu smiled and added- as if he did not care about this small amount of money.
"5.5 million dollars!" Zhang Jingshan stared at Li Mu with anger in his eyes.
Zhang Jingshan's glare let Li Mu feel the possibility of the eighteenth stone being a quality one was high.
He sneered, "6 million dollars!"
This time, there was a heavy silence.
Were these two crazy?!
"For a mere stone which originally cost 3 million dollars, they've fought the price to 6 million dollars?"
Out of the blue, Ye Chen broke the silence. "7 million dollars!"
Thump-!
The crowd's hearts skipped a beat upon hearing his statement.
First, it was the old blue-water type jadeite.
Next, it was the full flesh vitreous type.
Could it be that this eighteenth stone will be more valuable and precious than the previous jadeites?
"8 million dollars!" Li Mu exclaimed without thinking twice after Ye Chen ended his words.
"9 million dollars!" Ye Chen added on.
"10 million dollars!" As soon as Li Mu chanted this price, the entire room immediately went into a deafening silence.
Just when everyone, even Li Mu, thought that Ye Chen would continue to bid-
The latter stopped.
As soon as Zhang Jingshan unconsciously wanted to continue raising its price, Ye Chen hurriedly jabbed him with his elbow.
"Stop when you can. Li Mu will not follow you to the end. In case he doesn't follow, you will completely waste the 10 million dollars."
"Ahem! Just forget about it!" The latter quickly swallowed back his words and blurted.
Somehow, noticing there wasn't annoyance on Zhang Jingshan's appearance, Li Mu had a bad feeling about it.
Could it be that Zhang Jingshan and that gambler were trolling him?
Didn't even need for him to think, Zhang Jingshan laughed and said, "Congratulations, Young Master Li! How was your feeling after the bet? I'm certain it won't pay off the 10 million dollars you spent on it!"
"Zhang Jingshan, you-!" Realizing that they tricked him, Li Mu lost his head and roared in anger.
"What? You don't want to bet anymore?" Zhang Jingshan teased.
"Zhang Jingshan, you son of a bitch!" Repressing his anger, Li Mu sneered and replied coldly.
However, he glanced at Ye Chen with his raging eyes.
Just wait and you'll see!
He couldn't lay his hand on Zhang Jingshan as he's fearful of his old secretary grandfather.
However, how could he be afraid of Ye Chen, who's just a mere lowly gambler?
"Young Master Li, do you want to cut it now?"
The middle-aged man, who presided over the stone gambling hall, smiled at Li Mu and asked.
"Later!" Adjusting his facial expression, Li Mu shook his head and replied.
"Alright!" the middle-aged man exclaimed.
"I'll take that last nineteenth stone, 20 million dollars. Open them now!" Li Mu ordered.
"Young Master Li, this..." The middle-aged man was stunned.
If it was usual, he would have agreed without hesitation.
But now, it was once in a blue moon to meet this kind of 'earning' opportunity.
Who knows if the 20-million-dollars-stone could be sold with 30 million dollars, or even at a price higher than that?
Hesitantly, he could not help but subconsciously glance towards Zhang Jingshan.
"Since Young Master Li wants it so much, then I'll let it to him! It's not really it will appear to be the Zheng Yang Green, anyway! I will not take away what others want!" Zhang Jingshan cackled teasingly.
"Alright! Young Master Li, they are all yours. The eighteenth and the nineteenth raw stones. 30 million dollars in total!" The middle-aged man remarked with his smily face.
Then he added, "Do you want to cut them now, or later?"
Li Mu interjected, "Open them now!"
The latter replied, "Roger!"
Being observed by hundreds of eyes, the gem-cutter carefully cut the stones with the best skill of his life.
Under his exquisite cutting technique, the nineteenth stone was cut. However, Li Mu's face drained from its color.
"How is this possible?!" Except for the green color coming out of the open window, it was all rock inside.
His 20 million dollars was totally wasted on these stones!
"Young Master Li, don't worry. This is only one side. We need to cut a few more sides to confirm its quality!" The gem-cutter was busy comforting Li Mu.
"Jingshan, Mr. Ye, let's go!" After watching Li Mu's 20 million dollars went down the drain, Li Changfeng, who had barely spoken, suddenly whispered.
He considered that later Li Mu will be furious and fume his anger at Ye Chen.
Although Li Mu did not dare to do anything to Zhang Jingshan, there was no guarantee he wouldn't do the same to Ye Chen.
Li Changfeng, who has a delicate mind, has already predicted Li Mu's future actions.
Well, in order to avoid this madman, it was better for them to withdraw first!
Zhang Jingshan nodded in agreement with a light smile.
Then, the three of them silently retreated into this clamor.
It was night.
A Land Rover sped up in the western suburbs.
In the car-
"General Manager Zhang, it's the first time I could get to the gambling stone hall. I'm sorry that I couldn't let you earn!" Ye Chen said.
"Mr. Ye, if you did not come along today, I'm sure I would have fought with that fool Li Mu for the nineteenth stone! I also heard that the nineteenth stone is likely to be a Zheng Yang Green, so I came. If I really spend 20 million dollars to buy that stone, wouldn't it be a tragedy? Also, didn't I win the 4 million dollars? Don't look at how Li Mu hates me to his core. He still needs to return that 4 million dollars to me!"
Zhang Jingshan grinned as he drove.
Didn't even wait for Ye Chen to continue, he added on. "Mr. Ye, don't be so formal to us! Since you're older than us, just directly call out our names in the future! We still need to call you Brother Ye!"
"That's right! Jingshan has a point!" Li Changfeng followed up and laughed.
Their change of view did not surprise Ye Chen.
"Brother Ye, you don't need to hurry to go home. There's a new restaurant in the city center, named Jiangnan Water Town. Let's have a meal there before you go home!"
"Sure, there's a road to wealth, anyway! It'll be the compensation from me for not helping you guys to earn today!"
Ye Chen's thoughts drifted a bit, said.
"What's the is the road to wealth you meant?" Upon listening to his words, they both shouted excitedly in unison.
"Well, it's related to the Four Seas Group. Calm down, we'll talk about it at the dinner table later!" Ye Chen's uttered, while his eyes glistened mysteriously.