I Want a Divorce by Abigail Quinn

Chapter 123

The real value of the two stones was more than 280 million dollars!

Oliver looked up at the disappointed Gregory and said with a smile, “I’d like to buy the two raw stones

for 20 times your starting bid. What do you think, Gregory?”

“20 times?”

Gregory was stunned. 20 times 110 thousand dollars was 2.2 million dollars, and 20 times 200

thousand dollars was 4 million dollars, which meant that the total price of these two raw stones was 6.2

million dollars!

Gregory smiled immediately. He laughed, took Oliver’s hand, and shook it vigorously. “You always

made me impressed, Mr. Eastwood!”

According to the current situation of the official auction, these two raw stones could be auctioned for up

to four times their original price.

A total of more than 120 high-quality raw stones could be auctioned for more than 60 million dollars. In

a word, they couldn’t make much profit through backroom deals because these raw stones could hardly

be auctioned off at high prices

now.

Gregory and his superiors could make up to 2 million dollars in an official auction.

There were too many stakeholders involved in the official auction, and Gregory was just a small one of

them. Besides, he had a lot of big names behind him that he didn’t dare offend.

However, Oliver offered him 6.2 million dollars without hesitation and he only picked two raw stones.

Therefore, Gregory and his superiors were able to pocket the profits of the two raw stones. After all, it

was only a small amount of money, so he could just make up an excuse or replace them with two low-

quality

tv raw stones.

Scams happened at official auctions, and they were usually dealt with perfunctorily if the money

involved was not much. After all, everyone knew the tricks at every stage of the official auction.

The two raw stones were sold for 6.2 million dollars, and Gregory still could make a profit of 2 million

dollars from the remaining stones in the official auction, which meant he got 6.2 million dollars f

nothing.

However, what Gregory didn’t know was that the total value of these stones selected by Oliver was 310

million dollars yet the cost of them was only 6.4 million dollars, so the net profit amounted to at least

303.6 million dollars!

Importantly, this was a preliminary profit estimate. If the auction went well, the final profit would

increase.

Gregory thought Oliver had bought too few raw stones, but now Oliver had bought the two high-quality

raw stones for 6.2 million dollars and had brought him a huge windfall if he could get away with it, so he

suddenly thought that Oliver bought too many.

After all, the more money involved, the harder it was to play tricks.

Since it was great news for Gregory, he asked his subordinates to prepare a big meal and invited Oliver

to drink with him.

The next morning, Oliver took the stones back to Taffledale. Fabian found a van to load more than 200

stones and rented two luxury cars with drivers to escort them home.

Two days later, they returned to Jeahron. This trip took them a total of five days.

Oliver put the raw stones in his warehouse and invited the experienced workers in Manuel’s jade

factory to cut them.

Manuel had been impressed by Oliver ever since he made tens of millions of dollars with the jadeite

Oliver gave him, so when he heard that Oliver had bought a lot of raw stones from Manchernius, he

was excited to come and see them with other experienced workers.

Seeing more than 200 raw stones in Oliver’s warehouse, he smiled and said, “You must let me take a

careful look at them, Oliver.”

Oliver also nodded with a smile. “Sure, Manuel. Since you have been so kind to me, I will surely repay

you. I’ll start cutting these stones right away, and if you like what’s inside, you can take as many as you

want. Then I’ll sell the rest to others.”

Manuel laughed and said, “Come on, Oliver, you have more than 200 raw stones here. I don’t believe

there’s precious stuff in every one of them. You know what? I’m pretty flush these days and tens of

millions of dollars are a piece of cake for me. I’m afraid that these stones…”

Oliver nodded and said with a smile, “Fine, Manuel, just tell the workers to cut them first.”

Manuel took eleven experienced workers and stone cutting machines from the jade factory with him.

The machines worked together until it was dark, and more than seventy raw stones had been cut.

Oliver only watched for two hours and then left because he found the process of cutting stones boring.

However, Manuel was shocked!

Every raw stone that was cut contained jadeite worth at least 100 thousand dollars, and many of them

were worth/about 200 thousand dollars and even several million dollars.

Oliver deliberately placed the jadeite worth several million dollars with the two most expensive ones.

It took the eleven workers three days to cut all the raw stones, and Manuel stayed with them until his

eyes were red with exhaustion.

He felt both surprised and excited when he saw the last eight raw stones being cut!

He thought, “Did Oliver buy all the most valuable raw stones in Manchernius? Otherwise, why is there a

valuable jadeite in every raw stone?”

What was more, there were two pieces of top-quality jadeite here. When Manuel saw the last eight raw

stones, he immediately began to think about how many products these materials could be used for and

how much profit they could bring him.

However, he failed to calculate it. There were more than 200 pieces of jadeite here, and it was hard for

him to calculate with them. Of these last eight raw stones, the six of lesser quality could bring him a

profit of 60 million dollars.

He measured the volume and size of the two best jadeite pieces and found that they were worth

between 320 million dollars and 340 million dollars.

If the two top-quality jadeite pieces were made into a finished product, they would be worth at least 600

million dollars!

Manuel was dumbfounded!

He overestimated himself. Now he only had 100 million dollars in liquidity, and even if he borrowed

money from others, he could only raise 140 million dollars at most, but the over two hundred jadeite

pieces brought by Oliver were worth more than 400 million dollars!

It was impossible for him to buy them all!

However, Manuel didn’t want to give them to others. Because if he didn’t buy them, his opponents

would, and that did nothing good for him.

After thinking for a while, Manuel invited Oliver to the private room of a restaurant for dinner,

After sitting down, Manuel poured Oliver a cup of coffee and said sincerely, “Actually, I’m not here to

have dinner with you, Oliver. There’s something I’d like to discuss with you.”

Oliver smiled and took a sip of coffee. Then he stared at Manuel and said, “Go ahead!”

Manuel said earnestly, “I’d like to buy all your stuff, Oliver, but the problem is I can’t afford it right now. I

have made a rough estimate. All your stones are worth about 400 million dollars to 480 million dollars

according to the price of semi-finished products. And when they are finished, they can be sold for 700

million dollars to 800 million dollars, which means that the profit is about 300 million dollars. Now only

have about 140 million dollars in cash, and I can make several ́ ́ of my top-quality jadeite pieces into

finished products and sell them to my old customers for about 100 million dollars. So I can pay you 240

million dollars in one go. How about this, Oliver? I’ll buy the jadeite pieces for 480 million dollars at

most, and then I’ll give you a third of the 300 million dollars I get from selling them. In other words, I

have to pay you a total of 580 million dollars, but I may need to pay you in installments. I will pay you

240 million dollars in three days, 40 million dollars in the next month, and then 30 million dollars each

month for the next 10 months. What do you think?”