I Spy With My Secret Eyes

Chapter 37

Although Fabian was a crafty money-minded fellow, he knew how to get things done if given enough money.

In the evening, he called his friends in Radford and asked them to come over and pick them up.

In the morning, Gregory accompanied Oliver and Hailey to the border with a group of soldiers. They watched Oliver and Hailey cross the border before returning home.

Oliver and Hailey were uneasy after the last incident, but luckily, nothing unfortunate happened.

Fabian found five friends who drove two cars. After taking them, all three vehicles followed the route preset by Fabian.

Fabian was also afraid that something might happen, so he didn’t take the expressway like usual. Instead, he circled in the opposite direction of the neighboring county and took a detour. Then, he went around on the national highway and country road for two days before finally taking the expressway from another city.

There was no incident as they were going back. They had a safe journey for two days before returning to Jeahron.

Hailey didn’t reveal her presence when she reached Jeahron. She had Oliver reserve rooms in the hotel for Fabian’s five friends to stay in and then let Fabian drive them to Manuel’s place.

Oliver and Manuel became friends after Oliver sold the emerald to Manuel at Willie’s place. At this time, Oliver and Hailey thought it was almost impossible for those who attacked them in Manchernius to collude with Manuel, who was far away in Jeahron.

Oliver called Manuel first and informed Manuel he had some raw stones that would need to be cut at Manuel’s place. Oliver also said that if he cut out emeralds, he could sell them to Manuel preferentially.

Of course, Manuel welcomed him with arms wide open. He had opened jewelry chains in first-tier and second-tier cities in Jeahron. For the past two years, he had plans to develop his business to push into third-tier, fourth-tier, and fifth-tier cities. However, as of now, Manuel faces a lack of good stones to work with.

Jeahron was Manuel’s base. It was where he started this business. He also had factories in Jeahron, where they cut and carved stones, doing all-in-one jobs. In addition, he also had jewelry processing lines there.

After arriving at Manuel’s factory, the employees he had arranged drove forklifts over to transport the raw stones.

This time, Oliver had bought about 30 raw stones. More than 20 raw stones were picked up from the scraps at Radford’s wholesalers.

The remaining six pieces of old mine material were all taken from Gregory.

When Manuel saw so many raw stones, he immediately ordered five experienced workers to cut them. All five machines started their operations at the same time.

Fabian was responsible and dedicated all the way here, but now, he suddenly became nervous.

The money Oliver had given to Fabian alone was more than hundreds of thousands of dollars. Plus, he spent about 4 million dollars in Moulmore and another 3 million dollars to buy raw stones from Gregory’s official auction. There were also a few hundred thousand dollars paid for security fees.

If Oliver had bought the raw stones according to Fabian’s arrangement, the original 4 million dollars would have only cost about eight or nine million dollars at most.

Inwardly, Fabian was more nervous than Oliver and Hailey. He secretly prayed to the Almighty that the stones Oliver bought would be lucky bets.

If Oliver made a losing bet and lost money, Fabian could be sure that Oliver would definitely not want to continue their relationship in the future. Fabian still wanted to be friends with Oliver for a long time to come. He tried to make money, but that didn’t prevent him from making friends worth making.

On the way, Hailey didn’t have a chance to ask Oliver. It was also inconvenient for her to ask him in front of Fabian.

“Is there any emerald of good quality in the raw stones?” wondered Hailey.

When the five raw stones were cut open, the five workers stopped the operation of the machine and opened the lids. After wiping off the dust, they all said, “There are stones in them, and they look to be good-quality stones as well!”

After coming to Manuel’s place, Oliver didn’t want to bet with Manuel anymore. He wanted to sell Manuel genuine emeralds at half the price so that Manuel could make twice as much money without any doubts. It would result in everyone being happy about this.

After cutting the stone for a second time, the value of these five stones was seen. They were all worth about 140 to 160 thousand dollars each.

Then Oliver let the workers cut the rest of the raw stones, which were scrap stones that he had picked up in Radford.

The five raw stones in the second round were all worth around the same. The highest was about 200 thousand dollars, while the lowest was around 140 thousand dollars.

Manuel was also secretly shocked. He thought, “This young man really has an experienced eye!”

If William had been having a good luck streak at Willie’s place last time, now that Manuel had made the correct bet and cut out something of value from ten raw stones, it could not be said as luck anymore as luck was impossible to be repeated again and again.

It was said that in stone gambling, the player would lose the bet most of the time or even all the time.

However, Oliver had won all his bets. How could anyone say it was just pure luck?

This young man was a worthy friend to have.

And Fabian was shocked and left dumbfounded!

He was secretly praying to the Almighty that Oliver would not lose money in this round of bets, but he never thought that the raw stone Oliver bought from among the scrap would cut out ten emeralds.

The cost of scrap raw stone was almost negligible, and a jadeite cut from a raw stone was worth around 140 to 160 thousand dollars. The emeralds from the ten raw stones were already worth 1.4 to 1.6 million dollars. If Oliver had bought them according to Fabian’s previous arrangement, 1.4 to 1.6 million dollars would have been enough for Oliver to break even.

Under Fabian’s dumfounded gaze, the five workers began to cut open the raw stones again.

With the first two rounds of excitement, even if they cut out another emerald in this round, it would not be much of a surprise.

And they all turned out to be emerald stones. Four of the raw stones were worth about 140 to 160 thousand dollars, but one turned out to be a red jadeite and was worth nearly 600 thousand dollars!

These five stones alone were worth 1.2 million dollars! Plus, if they added the 1.6 million dollars from the raw stones they had cut earlier, it was worth a total of 2.8 million dollars. Even if the last few raw stones did not produce anything of value, Oliver wouldn’t be losing any money on this trip.

However, Fabian and Manuel didn’t expect all ten raw stones in the last two rounds to produce jadeites. Although they were worth only 140 thousand dollars to 200 thousand dollars, the point was Oliver had won the gamble!

Fabian was shocked and thought, “What the fuck! Mr. Eastwood looks young, but he became a true expert on this!”

He had been involved in the jade stone circle of Radford and Manchernius for more than thirty years, and he had never seen any expert who was better than Oliver in this field.

Oliver had chosen more than 20 raw stones from the scrap stones of those wholesalers in Radford. All of the raw stones were emeralds after they had been cut open. The total value of these twenty stones was already worth 4 million dollars!

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Manuel could not get enough of looking at the stones. He was also shocked by Oliver’s eye-catching skills.

The emerald stones worth nearly 4 million dollars could be sold for at least 8 million dollars after being processed into finished products, and the net profit would not be less than 3 million dollars!

At this time, Oliver still had six raw stones that he had chosen from among old mine materials that he had bought from Gregory in Manchernius.

These six raw stones cost a total of 3 million dollars.

It was still the five experienced workers who did the cutting. They cut all five raw stones at the same time.

After cutting, the five workers were surprised and exclaimed, “What the fuck! These stones are not bad!”

Although Manuel was not adept at stone gambling, the abilities of his eyes could be regarded as expert-level when it came to spotting emeralds.

He was stunned after he saw this. Oliver was so fucking lucky!

The emeralds cut from these five raw stones were of high quality. They were two grades better than over 20 raw stones they had cut open before this.

Each stone was worth about 4 million dollars.

Fabian had experienced so much shock that he became numb. He couldn’t decide whether Oliver was lucky or he had true potential in this.

These five stones alone were worth 20 million dollars!

There was still one last stone left. At this time, the other four experienced workers came to watch and see if there were any surprises in this stone.

This stone was the smallest of the six old mine materials.

After cutting, the workers wiped off the stone residue, and a bright green brilliance caught everyone’s eyes.

“What…” exclaimed one of the workers.

“What the fuck!” shouted another.

“This is fucking…” said someone else.

“Oh my! This is…” cursed one more person.