Hearing Armand's words, Pagio smiled slightly: "I wonder if your ancestor would have been angry with your descendants if he had knowledge under the spring?"

"Huh, what do you think I'm going to do?" Armand was stunned for a moment, but then waved his hand: "My ancestor will only praise me if he knows this, Peggy, wait for the stock price to skyrocket!"

"What are you talking about?" Miu Miao asked, not knowing what was going on, curiously.

Padgio laughed, "Look at these diamonds now and see if they can give you some inspiration." Xiao will come back later. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xiao Peng walking back, and two Scottish wolfhounds ran to his side and rubbed around affectionately.

"How's it going, what do you see?" Armand asked him.

Xiao Peng pouted: "I didn't like anything, is there something wrong with my aesthetics?"

Armand nodded: "There must be something wrong with your aesthetics! What is Van Cleef & Arpels' positioning? The top jewelry brand! Together with Heathen Winston, it is the same as Patek Philippe in a watch and a Rolls-Royce in a car! Who is embarrassed to say that he is an aristocrat without Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry?"

Pagio nodded: "Shaw, it's not that Armand is boasting, Van Cleef & Arpels does have this capital, what Duchess of Windsor, Princess Kelly of Monaco, Princess of Egypt, Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady of the Stars and Stripes Country, Elizabeth Taylor, Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, and so on are all fans of Van Cleef & Arpels." It is the High Jewellery that embodies the setting and design craftsmanship that is the source of its value. ”

Xiao Peng's head shook like a rattle: "You are embarrassed to say that I have always carried a watch from Van Cleef & Arpels, saying that it is a million-dollar watch, but everywhere I go, people say that I carry a cartoon watch." ”

"You can't punish yourself for the ignorance of others," said Pagio. When you meet someone who understands, you will naturally know that your watch is worth a lot of money. Van Cleef & Arpels watches have always been the first choice for people of taste. ”

Rebecca interjected: "Hey, Xiao, aren't you wearing a cartoon watch?"

"Look! Look! Even Rebecca said that!" Xiao Peng was depressed: "You said that I am also a shareholder of Van Cleef & Arpels, and it doesn't look like that if I don't wear a Van Cleef & Arpels watch, but I went out to take a look, those low-grade 'Pierre' series watches are like high-end watches in the eyes of ordinary people, and this high-end 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' series of watches looks like watches for coaxing children." ”

Armand picked up a palm-sized black diamond on the table, and suddenly grinned: "Okay! Since you say so, we at Van Cleef & Arpels have specially made you a watch that fools know is worth a lot when they see it, OK?"

"Why, this black diamond?" Xiao Peng looked at Armand with a look of disgust.

This black diamond has always existed as an inferior diamond in the past, that is, an industrial diamond, and has always been used as a drill bit and scrub. But now it's the new darling of fashion jewelry, but it's only black diamonds that sparkle and sparkle that are popular.

There are several black diamonds in the world that are the most famous, one is 'Black Ollov', legend has it that it used to be called 'Founder's Eye', weighing 195 carats, inlaid in the eyes of a 'Brahma' statue in the area of the ancient Indian Sanpundicheli, and was later cut into three pieces, circulated all over the world, one of which came to Tsarist Russia in the eighteenth century and became the collection of Princess Ollov, so it is called 'Black Ollov', weighing 67.50 carats, and is now the collection of another top jeweler, Herrun Winston.

The other is called the 'Spirit of Grisugonau', which weighs 312.2 carats, making it the world's largest black diamond ever cut and by far the fifth-largest diamond in the world. The diamond is now set in a Birkin setting, which is also set with 702 white diamonds.

There are also 'Gruossi', 'Barcia', 'Amsterdam' and other black diamonds are also more famous, and each one is worth a lot of money. However, compared with other colored diamonds, the price of black diamonds is still low, after all, this is the new upstart in colored diamonds, and the price may rise in the future, but now compared with traditional colored diamonds, the price is still a bit different.

"Xiao, I want to ask you, are you in a hurry to use the money?" replied Armand.

"What do you mean, I'm not in a hurry!" Xiao Peng replied.

"That's easy, it's not difficult to wash this batch of diamonds, but you may not get the money in the first place, but trust me, you will get better returns. Armand picked up the humidor and took the cigars out of it and distributed them to the crowd.

Xiao Peng lit a cigar: "Tell me, what are you going to do?

Armand shrugged: "It's very simple, my mother's surname is 'Alballe'. A descendant of Charles Albemarles, the Albemarles family is a family of jewellers with a long history, so it's no surprise that it's a bit of a treasure. ”

"By chance, I found precious gems from my family's collection, and I put them on display to the public in the spirit of not being overbearing, and Van Cleef & Arpels would make them into the best diamond jewelry for the world to see. ”

Looking at Pagio and Miu Miu and then at him, Armand shrugged: "Now Van Cleef & Arpels and Prada are partners, and of course they will provide Prada with raw materials so that Prada can design the best luxury bags." ”

"But there is also a problem here, after the jewelry design was completed, we found a problem, these jewelry turned out to be my ancestors through improper means from a Chinese person, as a good businessman, we managed to contact the descendants of the Chinese people, and negotiated a cooperation. In the end, it was decided that the right to display and sell the diamond jewelry would be handed over to Van Cleef & Arpels. ”

Xiao Peng whistled: "Well, in order to thank Van Cleef & Arpels for his integrity, the descendants of the Chinese have decided to give 20% of the sales to Prada and the Van Cleef & Arpels Group for design and display costs." ”

"You don't have to. Armand shook his head and said: "If this batch of jewels is taken out, it will greatly improve the image of our two families, and I can imagine that the stock prices of our two families will skyrocket." ”

"One yard is one yard, and I will benefit from the rise in stock prices, right? Xiao Peng smiled: "But there is still a problem." ”

"What's the problem?" asked Armand, puzzled.

"If we follow your proposal, we need time now, and I've heard that it takes at least a year to design and cut a diamond, and in some cases it takes three years to cut. Xiao Peng scratched his head.

Armand smiled: "Okay, Xiao, you may know a lot about other things, but you may be a layman in the jewelry industry, it turns out that it takes a long time for a diamond to be designed to be cut, and the tools are backward at that time." Diamonds are hard and naturally extremely difficult to cut. Not to mention the hassle and time, there will be more consumption. ”

"And now, computer technology is so advanced. By scanning the original diamond directly into the computer, it is easy to design a cut plan and minimizes the loss caused by the cut. Let me tell you this, with the support of modern technology, it takes less than a day for a diamond to be designed and cut, and even if it is made into more complex diamond jewelry, a few days is enough. ”

"If we only take out the rough stone, there will definitely be relevant institutions who want to identify the diamond age, and the soil on the rough stone is a good evidence of the time of excavation, and after processing it into jewelry, they will have no choice. ”

Xiao Peng whistled: "Otherwise, if you say that there is no traitor and no business, na, na, you two profiteers get together, you can come up with such an evil method, tsk, it's too much, I must keep my distance from you in the future, so as not to let you get into trouble." ”

Armand blew his beard and glared at Xiao Peng's words: "Do you have a conscience when you speak? Who is this for? Not for you?"

Xiao Peng touched the two dogs: "Okay, don't waste time here." Let's eat, Armand, this is your territory, and you should entertain us as well!"

Armand shook his head: "Xiao, don't want to see me for the next period of time." ”

"Huh, what do you mean?" Armand's answer left Xiao Peng scratching his head.

Armand pointed to the pile of diamonds on the table and said, "Work, I will sleep with them for the rest of my time, any one of these diamonds can shake the world." ”

Miao Miao walked to the table, picked it out, took out three pink diamonds, and waved his hand at Xiao Peng: "We took these three pink diamonds from Prada." ”

Xiao Peng waved his hand: "You guys look at it yourself! I'll go out to breathe." After saying that, he took the dog and left.

Rebecca watched Xiao Peng walk out of the room with a shocked expression, and Pagio smiled: "Rebecca, why do you have such an expression?"

Rebecca pointed at Xiao Peng and said, "Why did he leave like this? These gems are placed here? Isn't that all money?

Pagio shook his head: "Rebecca, your father and I are very good friends, so everything is not hidden from you today. So there are some things that you are not afraid of you know, just say Xiao this person, is he stupid? He is not stupid at all. I can assure you that if one of these diamonds goes wrong, our results will be ugly. You will always get more by being friends with him than by taking advantage of him. ”

Armand carefully put all the diamonds together, leaving only three pink diamonds. Hearing Pagio's words, Armand said: "Xiao once said something to me, which I think is very good, that is his motto, it is a sentence in Chinese, called 'Fool me once, its fault is you, fool me twice, its fault is me'." This means that it is your fault for lying to me once, and it is my fault for fooling me twice. To put it simply, you can't make the same mistake twice. ”

Pagio pouted: "And what the hell is this guy, you see he is not very flamboyant, but he is the most confident person I have ever met, let me say so, if Peggy does do something with these diamonds, I can guarantee that Xiao will also have a way to get these diamonds back." And you can only take more back. The most important thing is that ------ believe me, this guy must have a lot of good diamonds that he hasn't taken out, and these diamonds are all pathfinders. ”