Chapter 59: Earning Seven Hundred Million in a Frenzy, the Murong Family Regrets It to Their Very Bones!

Murong Shan wore a wide, ingratiating smile as he looked at Chu Yanran, probing cautiously, "Yanran, my dear! I wonder who was on the other end of the phone just now?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Huang Chenye instantly perked up. His gaze toward Chu Yanran turned complex, and both men eagerly awaited her reply.

Chu Yanran blinked. "Did I? Was I on the phone just now? How come I don't remember?"

Murong Shan's brows knitted tightly together.

Everyone present was far from deaf; did they or did they not know whether Chu Yanran had made a call?

Chu Yanran's answer was wonderfully ambiguous!

It was as if she had said nothing at all, yet somehow implied everything!

However, since Chu Yanran refused to elaborate, Murong Shan naturally could not press the matter further.

Just as he was about to say something else, he saw Chu Yanran turn to Jiang Cheng with a bright smile. "Mr. Jiang, I wonder if you would be willing to let me have the rough stone you just cut open?"

Jiang Cheng smiled and nodded. "Of course. I am a businessman, and after cutting open such fine raw material, I naturally want to sell it for a good price! If Miss Chu is interested, I'll let you have it!"

If Chu Yanran hadn't helped him today, even if he had called the police, his stones would have ended up in the hands of the Murong family!

He had worked so hard to participate in the auction, matching wits against everyone, only to have the Murong family try to steal the fruits of his labor at the very end. How could anyone feel comfortable with that?

He had already stated that his cooperation with the Murong family was terminated.

From now on, the Murong family need not even dream of getting a single piece of raw stone from Jiang Cheng.

If not for Murong Xue's sake, he would never have spoken up to mediate when Wang Fuchuan tried to drag Ye Rong away!

Chu Yanran's lips curved up slightly as she extended a delicate hand toward Jiang Cheng. "Pleasure doing business with you!"

"Pleasure doing business with you!"

Watching Jiang Cheng and Chu Yanran shake hands warmly, Murong Xue felt as though her heart had suffered a devastating blow!

Her throat felt choked, heavy and suffocatingly tight.

Things had reached such a pass that she no longer had the face to demand anything from Jiang Cheng.

If not for her mother's selfish greed, trying to secretly swallow this stone...

This top-tier Imperial Green raw jade, worth half a billion, would have been hers!

All she needed to do was a bit of publicity, turn the jade into finished jewelry, and with some proper marketing, making another five or six hundred million would not have been difficult at all!

But now, the supreme treasure meant to anchor their store in a month was gone. Her capital to establish her jewelry brand's reputation had completely vanished!

And those things that rightfully belonged to her would now fall, piece by piece, into the hands of her rival, Chu Yanran!

Most crucially, she had completely lost Jiang Cheng's trust!

Seeming to sense the desolation in Murong Xue's eyes, Huang Chenye smiled and stepped closer.

He offered comfort, "Xiaoxue, don't worry. Isn't it just an Imperial Green? What fine stones does the Huang family lack? I will definitely find you a top-tier piece!"

He was the happiest person to see Jiang Cheng and the Murong family have a falling out.

Murong Xue's eyes were red-rimmed. She glared fiercely at Huang Chenye, uttered not a single word, and turned straight away.

"Xiaoxue, Xiaoxue! Where are you going? Wait for me!"

Huang Chenye hurriedly gave chase, while the middle-aged Daoist priest cast a deeply meaningful glance at Jiang Cheng before following them as well.

In a short while, all three vanished from sight.

Murong Shan watched as the top-tier Imperial Green that should have belonged to the Murong family ended up in Chu Yanran's hands, his heart bleeding.

Just like that, they had suffered a direct loss of at least four to five hundred million!

Losing some money wasn't a massive issue, but this direct escalation of their competitor, the Chu family, was fatal!

It was truly trying to steal a chicken only to lose the bait used to lure it!

The look he cast at his wife, Ye Rong, was sharp enough to kill.

Chu Yanran said, "Mr. Jiang, you still have three uncut stones left. Why don't we cut them all today? If there are any good materials, I, Chu Yanran, will take them all!"

Jiang Cheng smiled and nodded.

He had just been worrying that, after breaking ties with the Murong family, nobody would have the capacity to buy the stones in his hands.

He was well aware of the value of these raw stones; every single one was worth a fortune.

Even across the entire Qingzhou, there were very few who could swallow them all in one bite!

Yet Chu Yanran happened to be the exception.

Would a woman who could casually spend one hundred and eighty million to buy the auction's top lot ever lack money?

Instead of painfully searching for other buyers, he might as well sell the whole lot as a package to Chu Yanran.

After all, she had helped him.

It could be considered returning a favor.

"No problem!"

Chu Yanran turned to Murong Shan. "Uncle Murong, mind if I borrow your stone-cutting machines to open a few pieces?"

"No problem, no problem!"

Although Murong Shan wore an amiable expression on his face, inside he was cursing profanely.

Chu Yanran waved to the back, and several men dressed as workers walked over to the stone-cutting machines, immediately beginning to cut Jiang Cheng's remaining four stones!

Based on the characteristics of the stones revealed through his X-ray vision, Jiang Cheng instructed them on the cutting methods one by one.

Some stones just needed their rinds polished off to excavate the jade entirely, while others required the blade.

Before long, all three stone-cutting machines were roaring simultaneously.

Forty-something minutes later, when the top-grade raw jade pieces were finally presented before everyone's eyes, the entire crowd was shocked beyond measure.

Because every single stone yielded jade, and all of them were top-tier materials of immense value.

Though none matched the astronomical value of the Imperial Green, they were all in the tens of millions tier.

Jiang Cheng's luck was simply off the charts!

At that moment, Chu Yanran could no longer suppress her inner excitement; she was smiling from ear to ear!

She never expected that this Jiang Cheng would bring her so many surprises!

Chu Yanran's gaze burned with intensity, her body beginning to tremble slightly.

Could Jiang Cheng's luck really be this heaven-defying?

No!

Upon closer reflection, Jiang Cheng was clearly the biggest and sole winner of that auction!

Because he had successfully purchased every single good piece of raw stone!

This could no longer be called mere good luck; she was beginning to suspect that Jiang Cheng's abilities surpassed those of her own master!

The resentment of losing nearly two hundred million earlier vanished into thin air.

With these four stones, she would make at least five or six hundred million.

If she managed things even better, seven or eight hundred million wouldn't be out of the question!

She truly had the Murong family's backfiring scheme to thank for this!

Otherwise, Chu Yanran would never have been able to pick up such a massive windfall!

Shortly after, an elderly man walked up to Chu Yanran and whispered, "Miss, I've roughly estimated that the total value of these four stones should be no less than seven hundred million!"

Hearing the figure of seven hundred million, Murong Shan felt a sharp, agonizing stab in his chest, driving him to utter despair.

After deducting the seven hundred million cost, Chu Yanran would still walk away with a minimum profit of seven to eight hundred million from this single trip!

If not for his own greed, wouldn't those seven or eight hundred million be going into his own pocket?

Yet now, purely due to a moment of greed, he had pointlessly lost seven to eight hundred million. Who could possibly stomach such a blow?

Ye Rong's face had turned the color of a bruised liver, her intestines twisted in agonizing regret!

It was all because of her own greed—wanting to secretly pocket the Imperial Green—that her clever scheme had backfired. Not only was the Imperial Green gone, but they had suffered a direct loss of seven to eight hundred million!

Ye Rong felt as nauseous as if she had swallowed a housefly.

What was most fatal of all was that these precious stones had all fallen into the hands of her rival, Chu Yanran!

With this surge of top-tier jade, the gap between the Chu family and the Murong family in the jewelry and jade industry had narrowed by yet another massive leap!

Looking at Jiang Cheng with deep affection, Chu Yanran said, "Mr. Jiang, seven hundred million is truly too much for me to produce all at once. How about this? I can pay you three hundred million first, and pay off the remaining four hundred million over the course of a year! Naturally, interest will be calculated separately."

"That works!"

Jiang Cheng wasn't one to stand on ceremony, and he nodded.

There were barely a handful of people in the entire Qingzhou who could casually pull out seven hundred million in liquid cash!

Being able to sell them smoothly already exceeded Jiang Cheng's expectations.

Unable to hide her inner excitement, Chu Yanran asked Jiang Cheng for a bank account card and made a phone call.

Moments later, three hundred million was deposited directly into Jiang Cheng's mobile banking account!

"Mr. Jiang, I've already spoken with the bank. You can go pick up a new card whenever you have time!"

"Th—Thank you!"

Gazing at the text message confirming the arrival of three hundred million on his phone, Jiang Cheng was overwhelmed with emotion. He wanted to say more, but ultimately could only squeeze out those two words: "Thank you!"

If Chu Yanran hadn't suddenly appeared and spoken up for him, this fortune probably would have ended up straight in the pockets of the Murong family!

Without Chu Yanran, how could a nobody like him have fought against the combined forces of the Murong and Huang families?

Regardless of whether Chu Yanran had ulterior motives in helping him, Jiang Cheng would forever keep this monumental debt of gratitude locked in his heart!

With a gentle, warm smile, Chu Yanran said, "Then, Mr. Jiang, might I invite you to dinner? Coincidentally, I'll have my subordinates prepare the contracts!"

"Alright!"