Chapter 51 - Elly is Filthy Rich (2/2)

Elly looks at the sarcastic and resentful crowd… Lin Luoran is standing beside Liu Zheng and watching her with a smile. Elly is uncomfortable about the scene. She ignores Li Anping and says with a smile,

“Thank you for letting me have the stone today. In this case, I shall have the stone cut open right away.”

w.a.n.g Miao’e claps her hands, “Good for you, Miss. Elly! No wonder you can be the successor of Mr. Ai. We are all looking forward to seeing the stone.” She winks at Lin Luoran while saying, which makes Lin laugh secretly.

Sister w.a.n.g is such a careful person under her forthright appearance! She must have realized that there is something wrong with Lin Luoran’s showing off today, then she chooses to go along with Lin’s plan and raise the bidding price.

Elly at least spends twice of the price of the stone today, whether there is jade in it— This is enough for Lin Luoran for now, but she doesn’t forget that Li Anping still owes her.

The raw stone is huge, which makes the cutting a problem.

The large cutting machine can’t get into the door. The host has to ask workers to roll the stone out of the yard after taking down part of the wall.

The information that the huge stone is about to be cut open spreads all over the village. People of all ages and both s.e.xes come to see the event.

It has been a long time since the afternoon. The sun is still hanging in the sky because the daytime is long in Ruili, but the night is coming. They need to hurry up and cut the stone open.

It doesn’t matter whether Elly draws lines to decide how to cut open a stone of this size. Although they skip the incense-burning part, the Burmese host finds a red cloth to cover the stone and sets off firecrackers as the blessing ceremony.

“Miss, shall we bring the stone back and cut it open under the advice of the masters?”

Let alone outsiders, members of Elly’s purchasing team are feeling diffident about this expensive raw stone. They recommend Elly to bring the stone back to S Province and seek advice from the masters before cutting it open.

Elly has secret intentions by bringing people here this time. Masters in the jade industry consider reputation more important than their lives and they don’t want to disgrace themselves together with their new boss. Therefore, Elly is actually dissatisfied with them, and she stops hesitating while hearing that her team wanting to seek advice from those masters.

“Cut the stone! Now!”

Since the owner insists, the host has no choice but commanding his men to start cutting.

w.a.n.g Miao’e walks to Lin Luoran secretly and laughs, “Luoran, is this the plan you made with Mr. Liu?”

Lin Luoran doesn’t dare to make such an evil plan with Liu Zheng. She just uses the trust of Liu Zheng who let her bid on behalf of the company.

Hearing the question of w.a.n.g Miao’e, Lin Luoran switches the topic, “What plan? All I know is that if I am Miss. Elly, I won’t cut the stone open in front of all the people.”

w.a.n.g Miao’e pats her, “Elly is filthy rich. 150 million means nothing to her. Cutting the stone is just a game.” w.a.n.g Miao’e is clearly being ironic. She doesn’t want Elly’s stone to contain any jade. She asks, “Luoran, what do you think about the stone?”

Lin Luoran’s eyesight starts to wander and she is thinking that making a fuss for a mortal like Elly with her cultivator’s ability is not challenging at all. She only hears the question of w.a.n.g Miao’e after a while. Looking at the humming cutting machine, everybody is curious about the result even they refuse to admit. Lin Luoran says in a voice that can only be heard by herself, which settles the ending of Elly’s stone-cutting—

A shame.