I Have 10 Trillion Dollars only Usable For Simping
Chapter 278 - 273 Zhou Taifu

Chapter 278: 273 Zhou Taifu

"Rui Rui, how about we look at the safes first?"

"Sis, what’s the rush with the safes? Your diamond processing will take some time, and there will be plenty of chances to buy a safe."

Zou Luoxia advised.

A fake, needing a safe?

Isn’t that a waste of money?

The group entered Yintai Department Store.

On the first floor of the department store were several jewelry shops, all leading domestic brands.

Around three in the afternoon, the store was fairly bustling with a good number of shoppers.

"Sister Zou."

As soon as they stepped into Zhou Taifu, a middle-aged woman in a black suit greeted them warmly, presumably the manager of the store.

"Yan, this is my daughter, this is my sister, and this is my niece..."

Zou Luoxia quickly made the introductions.

"Sister Zou, your two daughters are so beautiful. And these two handsome gentlemen are...?"

"This is my daughter’s boyfriend, and this is my niece’s boyfriend."

"What a match of talent and beauty."

People in this line of work, naturally, know how to handle such situations, and the manager said her pleasantries with a considerable charm, coupled with a sincere enough smile to make Zou Luoxia beam with joy.

"Isn’t it New Year’s? The kids have come home for a rare visit, so I brought them out for a stroll. Thought we’d drop by and have a look. After all, when it comes time for marriage or whatnot, we’ll still need to pick out the wedding trousseau from your place."

Manager Huang Yan nodded repeatedly and quickly welcomed them into the store, instructing the clerks to serve water and was very enthusiastic.

"Sister Zou, feel free to look around."

"Yan, I asked you about it on my phone this morning; you mentioned that your place could process diamonds and gold, is that true?"

Zou Luoxia asked.

"It is true, but there is a certain service charge, and of course, our store itself can’t do it, it has to be sent to our company’s processing factory."

Huang Yan subconsciously asked, "What’s the matter, Sister Zou, you have some jewelry you want to adjust?"

She knew the other party through a mutual friend and had played mahjong together a few times. Zou Luoxia had bought a gold necklace from her before and had also introduced her to some business.

"Not me. It’s my aunt."

Zou Luoxia gestured toward Xue Mingqin at her side, "The young people these days, they are so filial. You see, it’s Jiang Chen’s first visit to our home, and he brought a diamond for my aunt. But my aunt felt that she couldn’t use it, so she wanted to turn the diamond into some jewelry as part of my niece’s future wedding dowry."

Huang Yan understood but was still a bit surprised.

Indeed, there were not a few customers with similar requests, but most were for gold. It was quite rare for someone to want to process diamonds; in fact, she had never encountered it before.

After all, unlike gold, which is easy to remold—melt a necklace, and you can make a bracelet.

But diamonds are different.

Ordinary people who buy diamonds nearly always receive them finished; the cost of reprocessing is too high, and fundamentally pointless.

After all, with such tiny diamonds, what’s the need for processing?

Huang Yan couldn’t help but glance at Xue Mingqin.

Xue Mingqin smiled back at her.

Huang Yan was at a loss for words.

"Yan, why not take a look at my sister’s diamond first?"

Zou Luoxia suggested.

She was already eager.

"Sure."

Huang Yan smiled and nodded.

Even though she felt it was unnecessary, she still had to inspect the items first to show respect.

She led the group to a quiet counter.

"Sis."

Zou Luoxia called out.

Xue Mingqin, holding a bag, took out a pearwood box and placed it on the bulletproof glass countertop.

Seeing such a large box, Huang Yan was somewhat surprised.

After setting the pearwood box down, Xue Mingqin slowly opened it.

"This is..."

Huang Yan’s eyes involuntarily widened, and she gasped.

"A blood diamond?!"

As expected of a jewelry store manager, she certainly knew her stuff.

Zhou Taifu was already one of the top jewelers in the country, but just now, Zou Luoxia had deliberately made a round in the store, and let alone blood diamonds, she had hardly seen any other colored diamonds.

From this, she was even more convinced that this blood diamond was definitely a fake.

However, she still patiently refrained from rashly exposing it herself,

"Yan, what do you think, can it be processed?"

She wanted to use someone else’s words to burst this bubble!

Huang Yan was a bit stunned.

Even as a jewelry store manager, she had never had the fortune to see a jewel of this caliber.

Not to mention one as large as a pigeon’s egg, there were probably very few people in this world who had ever seen a blood diamond.

"Sister Zou, this diamond... is it real?"

She couldn’t help but ask, her gaze still attracted to the blood diamond, unable to look away.

You’re the expert, yet now you’re asking me.

I want to know if it’s real too!

Zou Luoxia’s expression darkened slightly, feigning displeasure, "What are you implying? Surely we wouldn’t try to deceive you with a fake?"

Huang Yan knew her question was somewhat inappropriate.

However, she truly harbored strong doubts.

"Sister Zou, I’m sorry, I’ve really never seen a diamond of this level..."

"You’ve never seen one?"

Huang Yan struggled to lift her gaze from the miraculously gifted blood diamond.

"Sister Zou, not to mention a common retail store like ours, such a level of jewelry is probably rarely seen even at our headquarters. If I’ve never seen one, this should be a rough diamond, one that’s extremely rare and serendipitous."

"What do you mean by ’rough diamond’?"

This touched on Zou Luoxia’s area of ignorance.

"Mom, it means a diamond that hasn’t been processed yet, retaining its most primitive state from when it was mined, so it can be cut according to personal preference, which might make it even more precious,"

Xue Yali explained.

"Sister Zou, your daughter is absolutely right. Such rough stones almost never appear on the ordinary market..."

In order not to offend, Huang Yan was already speaking as diplomatically as possible.

She wasn’t unaware of Zou Luoxia’s family background, which was just an average household, far from being immensely wealthy or noble. Following that logic, her cousin couldn’t be much better off.

And this diamond...

"Sister Zou, I remember that our headquarters once sold a yellow diamond necklace, which was probably a bit smaller than this blood diamond. That necklace sold for thirty million, setting the highest sales record for Zhou Taifu to date."

The Xue family were not fools; they could read between the lines.

Which meant.

This blood diamond was potentially worth far more than the tens of millions Liu Hongzhi had estimated yesterday but upwards of thirty million!

Zou Luoxia involuntarily swallowed.

What did thirty million represent?

Given the current housing prices on Qin Island.

It was enough to buy twenty 100-square-meter houses!

If calculated based on the average salary on Qin Island.

An average person from Qin Island would have to work and save for three hundred years without eating or drinking to amass such a sum!

Including Liu Hongzhi, the entire Xue Gui family instinctively turned their eyes to Jiang Chen.

Even if they thought no young man would be foolish enough to mix the false with the genuine regarding something so valuable, at this moment, Xue Gui still couldn’t help but feel skeptical.

After all.

The blood diamond was just too valuable.

Even for a second-generation rich kid, wasn’t this level of extravagance a bit much?

If this was indeed a joke, then the joke was a little too grand.