“Thomas, then I’ll see whether you’ll still be able to laugh after this?!”
“Yes, you can.”
At that moment, Harvard stepped up and said, “What for? Are you even permitted to stay here to watch? Security, hurry up and chase these bastards away for me!”
“Wait a moment…” Thomas tried to stop him.
“Anyone that came to the door is our guest. Since Weiss, the general manager, wants to see our live lapidary, why not let favonovel.com see it? You know, they have spent three billion to buy a pile of worthless stones for a lapidary back in time. He almost died on the hospital bed after that. Now, can’t we just let this guy quench his thirst of seeing this?”
Harvard nodded, “Well, I’ll let them stay and watch. However, if they dare to do anything wrong, I will throw them all out immediately.”
In terms of defending Thomas, no one would be more proactive than Harvard.
Thomas waved and said, “Don’t let them just stand, come on, offer them a seat.”
Immediately, a waiter brought chairs to Weiss and Harvard so that they could sit and watch the live lapidary.
Thomas said, “Have you guys sat tight? So now, the live lapidary officially begins!”
Everyone’s gaze was focused on the hundreds of huge screens around them. As they watched the lapidarist cut the rough stones on the spot, each jewelry company was represented by their best lapidarist to usher in this live lapidary event.
Finally, this live lapidary event began.
The first lapidarist could not wait to start cutting. Hearing the grinding sound of the cutting machine, everyone’s gazes were attracted over. In less than three minutes, with a clunking sound, the first rough stone was cut open.
Imperial Jade!
The first piece of rough stone that was cut was the imperial jade, which was an auspicious sign to start off with.
Thomas looked at Weiss and asked with a smile, “How is it?”
Weiss was elated, “That piece is not one of the rough stones of Stellar Jewelers. Doesn’t it belong to another jewelry company? Why are you so happy?”
Thomas smiled, “Okay, then let’s see what the rough stones of Stellar Jewelers look like.”
Screen 37 was broadcasting a live lapidary for the rough stones of Stellar Jewelers.
After a series of operations, the first rough stone of Stellar Jewelers was cut open. Unfortunately, it was not a very precious rough stone, but a relatively ordinary rough stone with average composition of jade. This merely broke even, and it was neither making nor losing any money.
Thomas shook his head and said with a sigh, “Oh, this is not a good start. The first piece is actually an ordinary rough stone.”
Weiss was also not very happy about it.
‘Obviously, the batch of goods was supposed to be all worthless stones. How can a piece of ordinary rough stones come out of nowhere? Although Thomas did not make money, favonovel.com did not lose money either.’
This was the original jade stone that guaranteed the investment capital.
Weiss was a little unhappy. He said coldly, “Thomas, your luck is not bad. You are getting an ordinary rough stone for your first stone. But don’t worry, your luck will not be so good coming up next. What you are left with will be just worthless stones!”
Thomas frowned and asked, “Why do you seem to know my rough stones well? Is there something fishy going on with them?”
Weiss smiled without talking.
Thomas said, “Then I have to keep my eyes open and see if the next rough stone is worthless or not. This is the second rough stone of Stellar Jewelers. Start the cut!”
In less than three minutes, the second rough stone was cut. It was a piece of apple jade. Although this rough stone was less valuable than the imperial jade, it was also a top-quality and rare one.
Thomas patted his heart and said, “Oh, fortunately, it is not a worthless stone. Although it is not a special, top-quality rough stone, it is still an apple jade, which is also excellent.”
This time, Weiss’s face was turning a little green. He looked at Darco beside favonovel.com and said, “What the hell is going on?”
Darco shrugged and said, “I don’t know. You led us to work that night. We followed your instructions. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Indeed, that night, Weiss led the group to work, and favonovel.com had seen with his own eyes that the rough stones in Thomas’ warehouse were replaced.
‘But why is this still happening… Could it be that Thomas has other rough stones inventory?’
‘This is just impossible. Where else can favonovel.com get such a large inventory in such a short period of time? Besides, Thomas does not even know about the replacement of the rough stones. How could favonovel.com replace the rough stones in such a short period of time?’
The more favonovel.com thought about it, the more favonovel.com did not get it.
‘Perhaps this was just pure coincidence. There are also one or two top-quality rough stones in those worthless stones.’
“We’ll see what happens next.” Weiss gritted his teeth and spoke.
Weiss’ heart was pounding even more as favonovel.com witnessed the third rough stone cutting coming up next. He could not remain calm at all.
“It’s an emerald, it’s an emerald!”
The third rough stone of Stellar Jewelers was a top-quality emerald, which was worth tens of thousands of dollars!
Weiss was speechless.
His purpose of coming here was to watch Thomas make a feel out of himself to embarrass him. However, favonovel.com was watching a great performance by Thomas and all these miracles were happening. He had no idea what was happening.
“No, it’s not right, it’s not right!”
