Chapter 75 - 74 How to Resolve

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Chapter 75: Chapter 74 How to Resolve "Miss, I have good news: Elder Zhou will visit the Xiao Family after lunch. Should we go back and get ready?" Lin Tian looked at the time, and it was about right. "Really?" Xiao Manxue’s eyes lit up with surprise when she heard this. She had worried a lot about the news Lin Tian brought last night. Although Lin Tian also gambled on stones and had even revealed a piece of glass-type Imperial Green Jade, he was just too young. Xiao Manxue wasn’t at all comfortable letting Lin Tian appraise it alone. But with Elder Zhou, she would be one hundred percent at ease. "Of course it’s true. Hey, Botong, say something. Didn’t you just call your grandfather?" Lin Tian vigorously patted his shoulder, pulling him back to reality—this guy just had too low an immunity to beauties. "Oh, yes, right..." Zhou Botong snapped out of it and sat up straight, his response was somewhat incoherent. Getting an affirmative answer, Xiao Manxue also let out a slight sigh of relief, but the outcome still made people anxious. She looked earnestly at Lin Tian and said, "Thank you, Lin Tian." He knew that if it weren’t for Lin Tian’s invitation, Elder Zhou would never have come. This showed just how much Elder Zhou liked this young man. "Ah, it’s really not easy to get a sincere thank you from the miss, huh?" Lin Tian joked. "Lin Tian, I have good news for you. If you help sister out with this problem, Sister Zi Yan says she can offer you her services personally. She’s very skilled and rarely offers, but this is what that little girl Xiao Manxuan said." Who knows how it was actually phrased, but that’s how the young girl said it. Imagining a flirtatious proprietress offering personal services held quite a lot of fantasies—Lin Tian wasn’t being lewd, it was just her words that intrigued. Zhou Botong on the sofa had already widened his eyes in envy, looking at Lin Tian. Seeing that look, Lin Tian knew he had thought of something crooked too. "Proprietress, what kind of service are we talking about?" Lin Tian swallowed and asked expectantly. "Guess!" Zi Yan gave a mysterious smile and walked away with Xiao Manxue. After the two had gone away, Xiao Manxuan suddenly leaned in and said to Lin Tian, "You scoundrel, thank you for helping my sister, I..." The young girl wanted to say something but was too embarrassed to say it out loud. She suddenly gave a charming smile, blew a kiss to Lin Tian, and then ran off like a startled little rabbit. "That’s your reward." Xiao Manxuan’s voice, slightly embarrassed, drifted from a distance. The little girl actually launched a surprise attack; that won’t do, too big of a loss. He had to sneak one back in the future—Lin Tian thought very sleazily. "Brother Lin, two words, respect!" Zhou Botong didn’t say much more, genuinely impressed—he gave Lin Tian a thumbs up. "Stop kidding around, you keep waiting for your girlfriend. I’m leaving." Lin Tian ignored his sleazy smile and left the sixth floor. Driving back, the two sisters were silent, both with heads bowed, seemingly deep in thought. After the trio returned to the Xiao Mansion, tidied things up, and had lunch, Elder Zhou arrived not long after. "Elder Zhou, welcome!" The Xiao sisters personally went out to greet him. "Haha, Miss, there’s no need to be so polite. Xiao Tian doesn’t come to visit this old man, so I had to come and see him instead," Elder Zhou’s words made Lin Tian feel somewhat embarrassed. Originally, the Miss had wanted to ask Elder Zhou to the living room for some tea, but Elder Zhou was not one for such formalities and instead asked to be taken straight to the basement. That was his usual style. The basement where the raw jade stones were stored was right beneath that Chinese-style villa. The area here was even larger than Zhou’s house. Under the bright lights, piles of stones of various shapes crowded the space, their number too great for Lin Tian to count at a glance. In fact, Lin Tian could just activate his X-ray vision and carefully scan the room to know the situation, but that would be too shocking for the world. Even if he did that, he couldn’t say it out loud and would still have to pretend to check each stone one by one. Elder Zhou entered the basement and immediately got to work appraising the stones. He was quick at appraising, and when he saw typical ones, he would discuss them with Lin Tian. However, after looking at over a dozen, Elder Zhou shook his head in disappointment. Lin Tian also used his X-ray vision to inspect those rough stones, and shockingly, not one of the dozen had any high-quality jade. The best only reached the dry green type, and they were all at the stage where gambling on the outcome was necessary. Xiao Manxue followed the two men, frowning deeply as she watched. Skipping the full-gamble stones, Elder Zhou went straight to the half-gamble stones that had one window already opened. Lin Tian quietly switched on his X-ray vision and scanned the half-gamble stones in that area. Not expecting anything amiss, he was startled to find that although there were good jades, like several pieces reaching the ice type, many of the other rough stones turned out to be fakes. "Damn it, there are fakes!" Lin Tian exclaimed angrily as he picked up a football-sized rough stone. Hearing Bai Zhengchu say it was one thing, but witnessing it personally was a completely different matter. The Bai Family was too ruthless, even resorting to such deceitful means. Upon hearing this, Elder Zhou took the stone and examined it carefully, pulling out a strong flashlight he always carried. It took him about ten minutes of observation before he sighed and said, "Such an exquisite forgery. If it weren’t for Xiao Tian’s reminder, I might have overlooked it among so many rough stones." Xiao Manxue’s eyes were filled with even greater worry, as the worst possible scenario she envisioned was unfolding step by step. Xiao Manxuan, the little girl, clutched her sister’s hand tightly, the sisters giving each other strength. By now, Lin Tian realized there was no need to look any further; Bai Zhengchu’s actions were even more decisive than he had imagined. Bai Zhengchu’s long-planned scheme struck right at the Xiao Family’s vulnerability. He suddenly felt a sense of sympathy for Xiao Manxue. The mother and daughter had worked so hard, and yet they might still end up as Bai Zhengchu had described. Even if the Xiao Family wouldn’t collapse from this, it looked like they might not be able to save their jewelry business. Once this began, there could be an avalanche-like decline because the Xiao Family’s piece of the pie was so large that everyone wanted to take a bite. The Xiao Family was once a strong lion surrounded by hungry wolves. At that time, those wolves would be intimidated by the lion’s formidable strength, but once the lion showed signs of weakness, the stronger wolves would come and take a bite. Lin Tian decided to fully activate his Heavenly Eye and scanned every piece of jade in the basement. The more he saw, the heavier his heart became. It was impossible for Elder Zhou to appraise so many jade stones in one afternoon, but he didn’t need to finish to come to a conclusion. "Xiao Tian, what do you think?" Elder Zhou asked gravely. "There might be problems with eighty percent of the raw jade stones. I can’t exactly say ’problems’ since aside from those fakes, many other jade stones are of very low quality, even worse than the ones sold at roadside stalls," Lin Tian shared the results he had seen. "You have a good eye, Xiao Tian. Your conclusion is not much different from mine." He had wanted to compliment Lin Tian on his good eye, but given the situation, he decided against it. Xiao Manxue’s face turned ugly. The Xiao Family’s jewelry business primarily focused on jade and if that was compromised, the consequences would be dire, especially with competitors squeezing into other jewelry categories. How would they resolve this crisis? New novel chapters are published on fre(e)webnov(l).com

Chapter 75 - 74 How to Resolve

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