Chapter 15: The Princess Cut
The morning sun shines through the windows of the castle and falls on the walnut table, and is reflected in Miss Rabbit's eyes by the translucent pebbles of beautiful colour.
"Ruby?!" The girl lost her voice and said, "One, two, three, four...... Seven, there are seven in total! The size is not small, and the more important thing is that the size and shape of the silk are not bad, which jeweler's masterpiece is this? ”
As we all know, gemstones are made of very hard materials and are not easy to work with.
Miss Rabbit herself also has a ruby, which is on the knife, almost exactly the original stone, which has not been treated in any way, but is simply set on the hilt.
On the continent of Brattis, the dwarves have mastered the most advanced gemstone processing techniques, and they are not only able to polish and change the shape of the stones, but also make the gems more gorgeous and pure in their hands.
Only a handful of dwarves who have reached the pinnacle of skill can hold the title of Master Jeweller.
It is said that even the gods will be fascinated and amazed by the gemstone ornaments they make, not to mention the nobles of the continent of Brattis.
Families are vying to buy masterpieces from their master jewellers, even going to war, the most famous of which is the War of the Tears of the Goddess.
Miss Donia, the only daughter of Duke Theodore and the first beauty of the Golden Valley, known as the lark, said at the age of sixteen that she wanted the last posthumous work of the dwarven jeweler Vladislaus before his death, the necklace of the tears of the goddess of the sea.
The person who finds the necklace can become her husband.
As soon as these words came out, all the single male nobles in the Golden Valley were all excited, and began to frantically search for the tears of the sea goddess.
The first to find the necklace was a knight, his family was not particularly wealthy, and there were many doubts about how he got the necklace of great value, but it didn't matter anymore, because he had only lived less than a day after getting it, and the tears of the goddess of the sea fell into the hands of the second owner.
But the guy wasn't much better, as soon as he caught it, he paid the price of an arm, so the necklace was snatched by a third person......
The Tears of the Sea Goddess was followed by a dozen or twenty, and even Miss Donia's admirers claimed that hundreds of nobles had died because of the necklace.
Let's not talk about whether this figure is exaggerated, but in fact, the real outbreak of war was half a month later, when Charles Lorraine, the best young man of the Lorraine family, was assassinated.
This appalling and vicious incident finally detonated the grievances and grievances between the three ancient families in the Golden Valley that lasted for thousands of years.
Ironically, however, in the end, the Tears of the Goddess of the Sea fell into the hands of an obscure little nobleman, and Duke Theodor did not dislike his identity, and happily married his only daughter to this lucky man.
It is said that the two got married quickly the next day, and the whole thing revealed a smell of conspiracy, but it was too late for the three major families to react.
The Tears War has devastated their vitality, and they are no longer able to shake the rule of Duke Theodor and the Campbell family behind them over the Golden Valley.
Far from it, in short, excellent gemstones are rare, and there are even fewer jewelers who can give them sublimation and new life, and every piece they leave behind will be remembered for centuries.
However, as far as Ireya knew, no matter how good a jeweler is, he does not have such a miraculous skill.
The girl carefully picked up an artificial ruby with her thumb and forefinger, looked at it in the sun, and then was startled again.
"How is that possible, how is this done?! Why does your gemstone have so many facets and look so bright and pure than the average ruby? ”
"It's a princess cut, and it's only been seen in my hometown in the last century, and it has 76 facets, which reflects the sunlight better, so it looks so shiny."
As for purity, can it be artificial?
Li Yu didn't say the latter sentence, after he got the goods sent by the manufacturer, he also did some homework on the Internet a little, and asked Miss Rabbit, "How about it, how much do you think it can be sold?" ”
Ilea was rarely lost in thought.
It wasn't until Li Yu asked again that Miss Rabbit came back to her senses, her eyes were full of fanaticism, and her ears also entered a state of high-frequency shaking.
Just like when she found out she had escaped death in the election.
"We're going to get rich!! How much? These things are priceless, seven rubies of the exact same size and shape, with ...... What you just said, it's the princess. ”
"Princess's cut."
"Yes, princess cut, the Arias family doesn't have a collection of dwarven gems, but I'm sure those dwarven jewelers don't have such a high level of skill."
"Such a peerless treasure...... It's a pity to sell it in the west, most of the nobles here are dirt buns who have never seen much of the world, rude and picky, and they like to bargain when buying things. ”
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"Sure enough, you want to find the wronged leader...... No, it is a collector of taste, and you still have to go to the royal capital, where all the great nobles, the royal dukes walk all over the land, one is richer than the other, and it is said that the noble lady there will bathe in milk and exchange all the trees in the yard for pure gold.
"As soon as I open the window early in the morning, the air is filled with the smell of money, and as far as the eye can see, it is all golden, and it must be a pleasant feeling to live in such a place all day."
"What kind of emperor's Jin Biandan literature is this, haven't you been to the royal capital, don't just imagine other people's lives." Li Yu reminded.
"You haven't been there yet, so why do you say I'm imaginary?" Miss Rabbit retorted with a straight face, "I am the nobleman on the continent of Bratis, and I should obviously have more say in the life of the nobles, and I plan to have people bring these seven rubies to the royal capital and find a chamber of commerce to cooperate."
"Hype it up for seven days and seven nights, let all the nobles in the city know that there is such a rare treasure, and then hold a grand auction, put them together and sell it for a sky-high price, and then we don't have to worry about money for the rest of our lives."
"Is it necessary to be so high-profile?" Li Yu asked.
"It's not that I want to be high-profile, it's that the things you take out are too high-profile, such treasures can't be hidden at all, even if you sell them cheaply in the west, they will still be brought to the royal capital in the end, and those big people in the royal capital also have a way to find out that these gems come from the Arias family, so this time I want to divide fifty percent."
Miss Rabbit held out five fingers.
Unexpectedly, Li Yu put away the jewelry on the table again and said to her, "Then I won't sell it." ”