Chapter 38
Hailey didn’t know much about the good and bad types or the quality of emeralds, but looking at the cut
of the stone, the watery greenness looked particrly pleasing to the eyes!
Manuel’s eyes lit up. He just wanted to jump toward the raw stone with his arms wide open and hug it.
Manuel had seen many different types of emeralds in his life, yet the brilliant green that he could see
from the cut was unlike any other emeralds he had seen in his whole life. This jadeite seemed like one
of the greatest treasures and was almost impossible to find!
“Well… Oliver!” Suddenly, Manuel grabbed Oliver’s hand and said, “Look, um… Why don’t you give me
this stone? You can name your price, but you must give it to me. We’ll… We’ll be best friends
from here on out!”
Oliver shook his head and said to Manuel, “Mr. Camden, I’m sorry, but I can’t decide on the sale of this
stone. The trip we made this time was a business trip, so all the stones belonged to the store. It is up to
Ms. Fox to decide whether to sell them!”
Manuel immediately turned to Hailey and said, “Hailey, I have a good rtionship with your Dad and
Mom…”
“Mr. Camden!” Hailey interrupted him and said, “My Grandma is going to have her 80th birthday next
month. I was looking for a nice gift for her, so…”
Manuel immediately replied, “That doesn’t matter. What does your grandma like? Bracelets, pendants,
or ornaments? I will arrange for the most experienced worker in carving to make it for you right now.
The jade core in this stone seems to be at least 11 pounds. ording to this mass, we can make at
least eight to ten bracelets without problems. This kind of top-level emerald bracelet can be sold for
millions of dors, and the remaining leftover material can be used to make ten or twenty pendants.
Even just one pendant can be sold for a few million dors
An optimistic estimation for the raw stones, if they were sold as finished products, would be at least
worth 300 million dors or even more than 400 million dors if Manuel pulled some strings.
An emerald of this level was a great treasure and was priceless. The number of this level of emeralds
would only be less and less as more of them were dug up. It was no exaggeration to say that the
finished products could be heirlooms handed down from generation to generation.
Hailey pondered for a while before she said, “Mr. Camden, I can see your point and can agree to it. I
want to make a Virgin Mary sculpture for my grandma. Anything that is left, I will sell it to you.”
Manuel immediately called and asked a wrinkled old man in his fifties toe over. Manual pointed out
the raw stone to him and said, “Mr. Harrison, take a look at this stone. How much will it take to make a
Virgin Mary sculpture? How much of the stone will be left after that?”
Frank Harrison looked at it and said, “I can’t say anything just by looking at this cut. I have to make
another cut from the other side. I need to see the emerald’s full size and shape to estimate.”
Manuel turned to look at Oliver. Oliver decided not to be pretentious about it. He said directly to the
worker, “Sir, you can make another cut.”
Oliver had mentioned to Manuel before that he didn’t want either of them to suffer any loss, so it was
pertinent to make another cut to see the stone clearly.
The worker examined the stone for a while, then drew a line. He then fixed the stone on the machine,
closed the lid, and started the machine. There was another harsh sound of rattling as the stone was
cut.
A few minutester, the worker turned off the machine, opened the lid, and loosened the incision to
clean the cut on the
stone.
Everyone stared at the cut and couldn’t help eximing.
This cut revealed a color as attractive as the previous cut. It was still the dazzling bright green!
“This is a true imperial jadeite and is known as the best emerald!” said Frank, who was an expert at
carvings. Even he couldn’t help but tremble in excitement!
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Even experienced master carvers like them couldn’t help but be excited when they saw the genuine
top-ss emerald!
Frank looked at the thickness of the raw stone, which already had its front and back cut open. The
thickness of this….
Frank looked at it for a while before he said, “Judging from this thickness and angle, it will only take
about a quarter of the stone to make a Virgin Mary sculpture. The rest of the stone can be made into
seven bracelets and at least twenty pendants. These emerald bracelets can be sold for at least 24
million dors per piece, whereas the pendant can be sold for at least 8 million dors per pendant…”
Frank’s opinion was professional. He could make a solid judgment on the number of things that can be
made just by using
his eyes. He was known to be more urate than using any other instruments.
Manuel immediately turned to Oliver and Hailey and said, “I’ll make the Virgin Mary sculpture for you
free of charge. You don’t have to pay for thebor costs. If you sell me the rest of the stone, I will give
you 180 million dors, which is more than half of 340 million dors – the amount you could get from
the finished products. How about that?”
Hailey was satisfied as she had got what she wanted, so she nodded in agreement.
Oliver was the one who bought these emerald stones. Without Oliver’s keen eyesight, she probably
wouldn’t have won even one of these stones.
Although Oliver sold them all as part of in-store businesses, Hailey wasn’t stingy about it. She knew
very well that there would be no such emeralds without Oliver, and she wouldn’t have gotten the top-
ss jadeite she had always wanted!
“All right. I’ll sell them to you!” said Hailey.
Manuel was overjoyed. He immediately called the secretary to prepare the contract and said to Hailey,
“I have estimated and calcted the value of these emeralds. There are more than 20 stones of
average quality, with a total value of about 3.8 million dors, but I will round it off to 4 million dors for
you. There are five good-quality stones, each worth 4 million dors, so the total value is 20 million
dors. Plus, another 180 million dors for this stone. So that will be 204 million dors in total. I’ll ask
thepany’s finance department to transfer 124 million dors to you first. I’ll transfer to you the
remaining 80 million dors within three days. Thepany doesn’t have that much cash now, so I
need time to raise the money!”
Hailey nodded and said, “All right.”
Manuel wasn’t worried. This time, he managed to get so many high-quality emeralds. He just needed to
gather the dealers from all his connections and friends from his circle to show them the stone and have
them ce orders. Wealthy people wanted such great quality stones. The more expensive something
was, the more someone wanted it. Within three days, he could get at least 200 million dors as
deposit money!
He was not afraid ofcking money while doing his business. What he was afraid about was ack of
good quality things. There were too many wealthy people in the world. So, as long as you have good
quality things, you shouldn’t be worried about making money from them.
After leaving Manuel’s ce, Hailey transferred 1 million dors to Fabian and said this was a token of
thanks to him.
Then, she transferred 120 million dors to Oliver.
Oliver was stunned by Hailey’s move and asked, “Ms. Fox, what are you ying at? Why did you give
me 120 million dors?”
“If it was ording to the forty-sixty percentage she had set earlier, it should only be 80 million dors,”
thought Oliver.
Hailey said, “This is all thanks to you. I wouldn’t have been able to earn so much if it hadn’t been for
you. Another important thing is that you have helped me find what I wanted the most. Oliver, I think our
rules need to be changed. With your potential, it doesn’t matter whether you have a basic sry, but I
still want to follow the new rules. Your basic sry will be 200 thousand dors, and our profits will be a
fifty-fifty split, which means we each get half.
Oliver was dumbfounded and asked her in confusion, “Even if you say it is a fifty-fifty split, I should only
get 100 million dors. How do you exin these 120 million dors then?”
Hailey shook her head and said, “You did not include my grandmother’s Virgin Mary sculpture, and that
would be at least 60 million dors if we calcted ording to the market price. Speaking of which, I
still took advantage of you!”