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Chapter 122
Chapter 122
Chapter 122
Chapter 122
Sienna sighed and looked at Oliver with affection in her eyes.
She didn’t say anything more. After all, those people were Oliver’s relatives and it was his choice to make.
When Oliver finished freshening up and went downstairs early the next morning, he saw Frederick, Candice, Tony, and Joseph again. They greeted him with a smile.
Oliver ignored them. He was not in the mood for breakfast. “Drive me to the airport right away,” he said to Wayne.
Wayne took the order and hurried out to start the Rolls-Royce.
Fabian, Wayne, and Simon would go to Yrinas with Oliver together this time. At least, Yrinas was Fabian’s turf and he was familiar with it, so the journey wouldn’t be as dangerous as the journey to the Enchanting Hollow.
Oliver didn’t want to see the faces of his relatives anymore, but Tony and Frederick wanted to go to Yrinas with him. They both wanted to have a larger share of the profit without investing any money. They believed they would make a fortune on this journey.
Simon opened the car door and let Oliver in. Tony attempted to get into the car as Simon was about to close the door, but the latter quickly stopped him.
“What the hell are you doing? I’m Oliver’s uncle. I’ll go help him to take care of his business. You’re nothing other than a bodyguard. I am also your boss, too!” Tony said angrily.
Oliver snorted. Without saying a word, Simon grabbed Tony’s clothes and threw him a few feet away. Tony was forced to roll on the ground white with dust. “Simon, you son of a bitch!” he scolded, scrambling to his feet.
Frederick was not that stupid. He pointed to Simon and threatened, “Stay away from me. I am Oliver’s uncle and you have to respect me! How dare you! Argh!”
Simon didn’t care what Frederick said at all. He grabbed his shoulders, lifted him, and slapped him on his back. Even if Frederick was on guard, he was too painful to speak.
Wayne drove out of the villa. Fabian in the passenger seat held up a middle finger towards Frederick and Tony.
The two of them were beyond shameless.
If it were someone else, they wouldn’t be so shameless as to bug Oliver and his family again after receiving the cold shoulder:
Oliver was very annoyed. His mood didn’t improve until they were on the highway to the airport.
They arrived in Taffledale first. The official auction of Manchernius was one day away, so Oliver went to the wholesale raw jadeite markets in Taffledale and chose about 40 raw stones, the majority of which were worth a few thousand dollars and one valued over 400 thousand dollars. There were no particularly top-notch stones.
Fabian was very familiar with the area, so they drove to Radford. The raw jadeite wholesaler over there monopolized at least half of Manchernius’ private mines.
Oliver got lucky and picked up some bargains in Radford. He bought four high-quality raw jadeite stones worth more than 10 million dollars and 100 raw jadeite stones worth 100 thousand to 120
thousand dollars.
Oliver obtained nearly 60 million dollars of raw jadeite stones in less than one day.
Fabian didn’t have talent or such good eyes as Oliver’s, so he couldn’t tell whether the raw jadeite stones were good or bad.
But he knew the raw jadeité stones Oliver had chosen would be of high grade, and they would make a fortune from them.
Raw jadeite stones for wholesale were often measured by the ton. But because Oliver chose some of them, they couldn’t be measured by the ton.
Raw jadeite stones for wholesale were not allowed to be selected. For Fabian’s sake, Oliver paid the wholesaler 4,000 dollars to allow them to pick freely.
The “high quality” raw jadeite stones stored by the wholesalers were all priced at more than 20,000 dollars, with some excellent ones even worth several millions of dollars. However, Oliver decided not to buy them after examining them. First, most of them are good in appearance but of poor quality and value. A few had higher values, but their worth was nearly equal to the wholesalers’ agreed-upon price. There was no profit margin even if he bought them. That was why he didn’t buy them.
Oliver and his companions crossed the border to Manchernius the next morning. Fabian had called Gregory earlier to inform him that Oliver was on his way.
Gregory grinned and told them that he would let Oliver choose the raw jadeite stones held in the barracks for official auction first.
When Oliver and his companions arrived, Gregory was already waiting for them at the border. After giving Oliver a big
hug, they got into the car. Five military cars were on their way to the barracks.
There were about five hundred pieces of raw jadeite for the official auction, including more than 120 from old mine material, the greatest quantity in years.
After arriving at the barracks, Oliver asked Gregory to take him to the warehouse instead of taking a rest.
The warehouse was guarded by soldiers and was ablaze with light when Gregory’s men turned on the lights.
Oliver examined them one by one. He picked out sixty-six of the three hundred and eighty low-value raw jadeite stones.
They ranged in price from a few hundred dollars to ten thousand dollars. Most of them selected by Oliver were worth more than 200 thousand dollars, with seven of them worth 1 million dollars.
Oliver doubled Gregory’s asking price. The total amount of sixty-six raw jadeite stones was 172 thousand dollars. He simply rounded it up and paid Gregory 200 thousand dollars!
Gregory was overjoyed.
Those sixty-six raw jadeite stones could only bid a maximum of 120 thousand dollars at the official auction. Merchants were smart enough today not to bid on low-value ones.
Oliver spent 200 thousand dollars, but his profit was 20 million dollars!
Next, Oliver was going to check more than 120 high-quality raw jadeite stones.
Gregory stared at Oliver expectantly, hoping that he could pick and buy more of them.
Prices at Manchernius’ official auction have been falling year after year as fewer merchants bet on raw jadeite stones and fewer high-quality raw jadeite stones were mined.
If merchants who gambled on raw jadeite stones won, they would bet greater money the next time. Otherwise, they would stop gambling if they continued to lose.
However, Gregory was a little disappointed because Oliver only picked two of the 120 raw jadeite stones.
The starting bid of one stone was 110 thousand dollars while that of the other one was 200 thousand dollars.
The two stones are top-grade raw jadeite stones, especially the one with a starting bidding price of 200 thousand dollars. Oliver’s identification message showed as follows.
[It’s Pillere old mine material, formed 130 million years ago and unearthed on February 1, 2021, with an overall weight of 66 kg and a 13 kg jade core weight. It’s ice jade with a transparency index of 4.9, high emerald quality, and excellent clarity.]
[Here is a 360-degree high-definition graphic of the jade core.]
[Craftsmanship: unprocessed]
[Value assessment: 220,000,000 dollars]
Oliver counted the zeros carefully and found that it was 220 million dollars.
And the other one was a little cheaper but still worth 70 million dollars.
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