Although Lu Ningshuang was shocked, because her strength was already small, she was not harmed, but it was inevitable to be coquettish. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Hongchen was on the side, and she couldn't let go of her coquettishness, she felt a little aggrieved, one hand held Li Yi and blew gently, and the other hand wrapped around his waist, gently pinching a piece of soft meat around his waist.

"It's all because of you, you say, how are you going to compensate me?"

Li Yi's eyes rolled,

"You can choose any diamonds and gemstones found here, and you can choose whichever one you like!"

Lu Ningshuang glanced at him,

"Am I that money-addicted? I don't want diamonds, I want you...... Ah, diamonds! ”

As soon as he was halfway through the words, Hongchen dug out the stone inlaid with more than a dozen diamonds and threw it to the ground, so Lu Ningshuang, who had just said that he was not obsessed with wealth and did not want diamonds, threw off Li Yi at once, like a big tiger that saw a little rabbit, and pounced suddenly......

Simply ate some dry food, because of the stimulation of the blue garnet and this stone inlaid with more than a dozen diamonds, Lu Ningshuang, who was already a little tired, was full of enthusiasm again, but this time, she didn't choose the river beach again, she wanted to follow Li Yi and dig diamonds.

"There must be diamonds here!"

It didn't take long for Li Yi to find another rough diamond weighing about a dozen carats, and this diamond was still very shallow, only more than 30 centimeters from the ground at most, and it was sandy soil, which was very easy to dig.

"Here? There are also associated mines here? ”

"Uh...... Associated ores do not always exist in granular form, in fact, just like iron ore and copper ore, the color of ore containing associated ore will also show different characteristics from other places......"

Li Yi's reason for the associated mine was originally made up, but since he had already made it up, he didn't mind making it even more outrageous, because Lu Ningshuang shouldn't be able to check this information specifically, and even if she wanted to read it, she didn't know what book to read, so he simply let go of the fool, anyway, as long as he could dig out the diamonds.

"Okay, okay, I understand, leave it to me here, you can quickly look for it again, and see how many diamonds can be dug up here."

Nodding and explaining that Hongchen was taking care of it on the side, Li Yi hooked his head and continued to look forward silently.

But this time, his luck was not so good, he searched for more than two hours, and he didn't find a single diamond worth starting, and even some small diamonds found very little.

"It's okay, if the diamond is so easy to find, it won't be so precious, we'll come back tomorrow, it's just ......"

Lu Ningshuang had already sifted out the diamond, and when she saw that Li Yi had nothing to gain, she comforted him a few words, and then pointed to the big stone inlaid with blue garnet and frowned.

"This stone is so big, if we take it out, people will definitely find it, what should we do?"

Li Yi also frowned, although the hardness of garnet is not as good as diamond, it is about the same as jadeite, and it has also reached 7. However, high hardness does not mean high strength, even if it is a diamond, it will probably fall apart if you hit it with a hammer, let alone these garnets.

Of course, if it weren't for the big blue garnet, they could have smashed the stone into small pieces, but now, he didn't dare to take the risk, although it was unlikely that the stone would hurt the garnet, but the garnet was so precious that even a little bit of it would be a great loss.

"Well, let's find a place to hide it first, and remember to bring a hand-held cutter when we come back......"

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't find any good way, so I could only hide the stone first, as for the stone inlaid with diamonds, because it was relatively small, it could be taken out directly in the backpack.

After cleaning up, the three of them returned to the winery, and after dinner, Hongchen drove straight to Sydney, because the flight taken by Gu Feng and Fat Elephant would arrive at more than 7 o'clock in the morning, and it would be more difficult to rush over here in the morning, so it would be better to stay in Sydney for a night.

The next day, Gu Feng and Fat Elephant were both taken to the winery, and Li Yi led them to stay in the canyon for three more days, and after digging out all the large diamonds that could be dug up, several people returned to Sydney.

Lu Ningshuang's vacation was not long, originally she wanted to have a good time in Sydney with Li Yi, but now because of mining, she didn't even have time to stay in Sydney, so she had to fly back to Bordeaux with Li Yi and them.

Bordeaux in autumn is very beautiful, the whole city seems to be wafting with the smell of ripe grapes, and it is almost time to pick the grapes at Château Liyi.

In Li Yi's opinion, the process of making wine does not seem to be very complicated, it is nothing more than juice extraction and fermentation, but Lu Ningshuang is like a great enemy, this is the first time that she can make so many grapes.

After the grapes are picked, they must be juiced and fermented as soon as possible, counting on the original manpower of the winery, even if they add a few of them, it is definitely not enough, and this season, Bordeaux is full of vineyards that need to be picked, and if you don't make an appointment in advance, you can't find anyone to find it.

But it's hard to **** Yi, the general price can't hire people, and the extra money is, anyway, they don't have many grapes, and they don't point to this to make money. Unexpectedly, as soon as his price came out, the first to be moved were Lu Ningshuang's classmates!

A group of people tossed and turned for a few days, and finally poured all the grape juice into the fermentation vats, I heard that this batch of wine should be stored for at least 5 years, Li Yi pondered for a while, and secretly added a small bottle of He Shou Wu water to it, a few years later, who will know what happened in the brewing process?

After all this, Li Yi took advantage of the weekend break to rush to Paris with Lu Ningshuang, he wanted to find Shi Qiba to help him process the diamonds dug up from the canyon this time, and at the same time, he also had to sell a batch of rubies and rough diamonds to him.

Before, there were only two relatively large rubies dug out of the agarwood tree, and Li Yi hadn't thought about selling them yet, but on this trip to Myanmar, he got three more excellent rough stones, and he decided to sell one to Shi Qiba.

"Oh Maiga, did you rob someone else's mine?"

When Li Yi put more than a dozen rough diamonds and some rough rubies in front of Shi Qiba, sure enough, he heard the familiar Oh Maiga again.

"Hehe, such a thing, can you rob it? Mr. Shi, you can make a price, if you can get by, I won't ask for a price from another store. ”

"Li, you are really interesting, don't worry, I will definitely give you the fairest price!"

Li Yi took out the rough diamonds this time, two of them weighed more than 20 carats, and the rest were basically more than 5 carats, among the rubies, half of the pigeon's blood ruby and ordinary rubies, and the weight was also more than 5 carats, so although the number was not much, the value was not low.

When the designer took these gems away, Li Yi took out a rough diamond from his pocket. The rough weighed only 17 carats, but it was of the best quality of any of the diamonds they had dug out of the canyon, and Li Yi was going to have Van Cleef & Arpels process it and give it to Lu Ningshuang.

"Oh Maiga, you kid really ambushed ......"

Shi Qiba took the diamond and looked at it for a long time, and after finally confirming that the quality of this diamond was better than the ones he had just taken out, he shook his head with a wry smile,

"What are you going to do? Is it all about cutting, designing, and manufacturing to us, or ......?"

"I'll leave it all to you, it's just this diamond, Xiaolu hopes to cut out a heart, so I have to trouble you to bother more and help find a powerful cutting master."

Shi Qiba nodded, the shape of this rough stone, cut into a heart shape will be more wasteful, but the 17-carat rough stone, even if the quality is good, the shape is suitable, it can't cut a diamond that is too big, and it doesn't matter if it's wasted.

"Okay, it should take a little time for them to estimate it, so I'll show you around? What do you want to see? ”

Shi Qiba looked at the time and decided to take Li Yi to visit, and by the way, to strengthen this guy's confidence, so that if he still has a treasure in the future, he should not run to another house.

Li Yi glanced at Lu Ningshuang, if he wanted to see these things, he could see them, so he didn't have much interest, and the valuation of those gems hadn't come out yet, so he didn't want to take out the largest rough ruby now.

"Don't they all say that diamonds are the hardest thing in the world? So I wanted to see how they cut the diamonds......"

Lu Ningshuang whispered in Li Yi's ear, Li Yi shook his head with a smile, and after telling Shi Qiba her request, Shi Qiba shrugged his shoulders,

"No problem, although our diamond cutting studio is in the Netherlands, there are also some ordinary cutting tasks here, so come with me."

"When cutting a diamond, you first have to mark the surface of the diamond, and this step is the most important step to create the largest, cleanest, and most perfect diamond, so no matter how small the rough is, each diamond will be examined in the most detail to make the most correct judgment."

Shi Qiba led the two of them to stop in front of a workbench, and the main instrument on the workbench was a magnifying glass.

"A normal diamond can be done in a few minutes, but if it's a large diamond, it can take months. Lee, do you remember the last time I bought that rough ruby in Hong Kong? We haven't decided on the marking scheme yet, and several masters are about to fight, which is really troublesome! ”

"Uh......"

Li Yi's footsteps paused, and the corners of his mouth provoked a smile, if you give a fair price, soon, you will have a second trouble.

This time, he brought a total of two large pieces of rough pigeon's blood, one from Vietnam weighing 112 carats, and the other from Myanmar weighing only 33 carats.

Although the weight of these two rough stones is very different, because of the different quality, the weight of the gemstone after cutting should be almost the same, and the reason why he brought them with him is not that they will be sold to Van Cleef & Arpels, but that he is afraid that the big one will not be able to sell for a price.

The situation of the big guys is more complicated, and they can't judge the internal situation through perspective, so Li Yi is prepared, if they bid too low, he will simply take it back, cut it twice first, and then throw it at the auction to be auctioned.

"After the line is drawn, it is divided, and this piece includes splitting and sawing. Because diamonds are the hardest thing in the world, only diamonds can be divided, and when splitting, you need to use diamonds to cut a dent on the diamond to be split, and you need diamond powder ...... for sawing."

"Oh......"

Lu Ningshuang finally figured out the method of diamond cutting, and then after looking at how to make the petals and polish them for a while, the three of them returned to the office.

"Lee, this is Dennis, our company's chief jewelry designer, and this is Homer, the master diamond cutter, and your valuation of these diamonds and rubies is made by the two of them, so I believe that this should be a fair price."

Dennis was a little old man in his fifties with a very delicate short beard, and Homer was a slender middle-aged man, Li Yi deliberately paid attention to his fingers and found that this guy was too condescending not to play the piano.

"Mr. Li, we have all seen these gems of yours, and the quality is very good, this diamond ......"

After a brief introduction, Dennis began to offer one by one, and in the end, all the diamonds and rubies added up, and the price exceeded 20 million euros!

This price was a bit unexpected by Li Yi, because it was slightly higher than he estimated. However, Gao is a good thing, and he naturally has no position to refuse.

"It's just...... Lee, there is one thing I have to explain beforehand, that is, although you are not a resident of France, as a non-resident, your income in France is also taxed according to the French tax rate, and I don't think you will like this tax rate. ”

"Oh? How much? ”

"Although the personal income tax rate in France is a progressive rate, 20 million euros must be the highest tax rate, 60%!"

"Poof!"

Hearing this number, Li Yi almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood, when he traded with Wang Haoqing and them in China before, no one mentioned tax payment to him at first, and no one asked him to pay taxes, and then Wang Haoqing helped him avoid taxes, and in the end, on average, he only needed to pay about 15% of the personal income tax.

It's just that the tax rate he thinks is a bit high, but he didn't expect that the mouth here is 60%, and his sister still sells a hair!

"Forget it, I'm not selling, if you want to, let's go to Huaxia to find me."

After Li Yi finished speaking, he was about to take back those gems, but he didn't expect Shi Qiba to stop him with a smile,

"What if I had a way to help you avoid your taxes? If I can make you legally not have to pay a penny of income tax, how many points can you give me? (To be continued.) )