Chapter 0817 – Diamond Mine (I)

After returning to the hotel, Zhuang Rui didn’t tell the crew about this, anyway, he would leave tomorrow, so as not to cause them to worry for nothing.

Zhuang Rui didn’t go out of the hotel for the whole afternoon, and at night he ate at the restaurant inside the hotel, and then rested very early.

According to George’s arrangement, tomorrow morning he would first visit George’s company’s diamond mine, and then at three o’clock in the afternoon when the exchange opened the bidding, Zhuang Rui would directly rush to the airport from the exchange and leave Johannesburg.

“Mr. Zhuang, it’s time to go.”

Early the next morning, Zhuang Rui was knocked on the door and shouted up by George, and after having some breakfast, the group met together, checked out of the hotel room, and then sat in the armored personnel carrier car in front of the hotel.

The two stewardesses for Zhuang Rui travel row, obviously some surprise, but was a soldier He Shuang some excitement, get on the car after the machine gun on the armored personnel carrier, that yellow each foot small finger thick bullets, and the golden yellow more than one meter long metal bullet chain, can be all real.

In Johannesburg city driving an armored car, is definitely a rare thing, the hotel door of the waiter at this time to look at Zhuang Rui’s eyes, especially wonderful, he did not expect their own day before yesterday offended people, in South Africa will have such a deep background.

Don’t look at the armored car body thick and heavy, running speed is not slow, in the unoccupied open highway, can run to seventy kilometers per hour, more than two hours later, the fleet of vehicles from the asphalt highway turned to a dirt road, the speed of the car also slowed down.

“Mr. Zhuang, we’ve reached the place.”

After another half an hour or so, Zhuang Rui, who was sitting in what was like a sealed can, felt the car stop, and George’s voice rang out from outside.

“This …… this is the …… diamond mine?”

Zhuang Rui looked at an empty field in front of him and couldn’t help but be a little disappointed, in his imagination, there should be a lot of black people laboring here, and his ears should be ringing with the sound of roaring machinery, rather than what he saw.

The empty field was just fenced off very simply with wire, and every two to three hundred meters away, there was a security guard with a submachine gun.

In the distance from the car more than ten meters away, there is a simple small building, the upper and lower two floors of a total of more than thirty rooms, think it should be the miners and security guards live in the place.

However, no one will come here to make trouble, the security guard who is very close to Zhuang Rui, is sitting on a big rock, leisurely smoking a cigarette.

It was hard for Zhuang Rui to imagine that the mine of a rather powerful diamond company would actually be so humble.

To know, in Qin Haoran’s introduction, this diamond company could be ranked among the top three in South Africa, and there were at least tens of thousands of crushed diamonds every year that flowed from here to the rest of the world.

“Mr. Zhuang, welcome to my diamond mine.”

A white man in his forties, with three gun-toting security guards, walked out from the only house at this wilderness and greeted Zhuang Rui and the others.

Looking at the guy wearing jeans and a sun hat on his head, Zhuang Rui’s mind immediately recalled the American westerns that he had seen a long time ago, and if this guy had a revolver hanging on the back of his ass, the whole thing would be an American western cowboy.

“You are Mr. Kenneth Wayne, right?”

Although the visitor was dressed casually, Zhuang Rui did not dare to underestimate the entire American in front of him.

Wayne this person in South Africa and even all over the world, can be called a legend, in eleven or twelve years old, Wayne crazy interest in the United States and Canada eighteen nineteenth century gold rush, at that time he made a wild statement, to become the world’s largest gold miner.

However, Wayne’s ideal, and the reality of a little deviation, in the mid-eighties, in order to their own dreams, Wayne came to South Africa, at that time is just a young man in his early twenties, the body with only a few hundred dollars only.

Initially, Wayne was a diamond broker, helping clients from all over the world to select diamonds. In the process, Wayne not only gained a deep understanding of diamonds, but also accumulated his first bucket of money.

Later, Wayne spent more than 200,000 U.S. dollars to circle a piece of land that was considered by experts to be impossible to produce diamonds, but Wayne in this land, three consecutive diamonds weighing more than 100 carats, a sensation in the whole world.

Subsequently, Wayne used more than ten whole years to create assets worth more than one billion dollars, becoming a world famous diamond tycoon, completely a modern version of the 18th and 19th century gold rush to get rich.

“Mr. Wayne, I didn’t expect to see you here.”

“Haha, Zhuang, does it seem like this place is very humble? This is one of my newly developed mines, and I recently had to trade diamonds in Johannesburg, so I’m staying here for the time being.”

Wayne smiled at this, he knew Zhuang Rui would be disappointed when he saw this, and continued, “My biggest dream is to be a western cowboy, to go on adventures like a cowboy, to pan for gold, and of course, what I’m panning for now is diamonds.”

“Oh, Mr. Wayne, I think, you have already achieved your dream, where there are diamonds in the world, there is your legend.”

Zhuang Rui complimented Wayne a few times, said this diamond tycoon was extremely happy, waved his big hand and said, “Zhuang, I am very happy to see you, I decided to open the mine to you for one hour, if you can dig out diamonds within this hour, the diamonds that are dug out will belong to you.”

Zhuang Rui and this Mr. Cowboy were very much in tune with each other and immediately said, “No way? Mr. Wayne, it will take two hours anyway! One hour is simply not enough.”

“No …… no, Zhuang, this new mine of mine was a volcanic river in the time before the ancient times, that is to say, it’s an open pit mine, and it’s still a rich mine, you guys can totally dig diamonds if you’re lucky.”

Wayne corrected Zhuang Rui’s statement, in fact, even if it is an open-air mine, I’m afraid that the place where the ore comes out is about one meter deep, Wayne is not at all worried about Zhuang Rui and their ability to dig up any ore, he is just taking this opportunity to draw closer to Zhuang Rui.

Now China’s diamond jewelry market is getting bigger and bigger, and customers from China is also more and more, Wayne is very concerned about the interaction with Chinese customers, with such a little means, can increase the friendship between each other, Wayne why not do it?

Of course, if Zhuang Rui really lucky, then Wayne also do not mind the diamonds they dug up, as a gift to them, as long as Zhuang Rui is not dug up huge diamonds, Wayne this point of loss or can afford.

In South Africa, there are a lot of abandoned mines that have been dug and mined, have been converted into ore parks, tourists as long as the payment of very little money, you can enter the ground Taobao, if you are lucky, you may also be able to get a few missing diamonds.

Inspired by South Africa, in the United States of America, some volcanic points, there are also the same diamond theme parks, but the people who go there, basically are mainly to play, it is difficult to hear that someone can dig into the diamonds.

“All right! Gentlemen, ladies, the generous Mr. Wayne is ready to give away diamonds, so everyone go and try your luck!”

Zhuang Rui turned back and said to the crew with a smile, he knew that diamonds could be formed at high temperatures and pressures, and if there used to be a volcanic river here, then where it originally belonged to the riverbed, it should be a primary diamond mine.

“Fantastic.”

“Wow, diamonds, here we come.”

“You two with thin arms and legs, can you dig?”

Behind the crowd heard Zhuang Rui’s words, they couldn’t help but all shouted happily, especially the two girls, the attraction of diamonds to them, is not generally big, at the same time in the security office received an iron pickaxe and sieve after, gleefully toward the mining area.

The pickaxe was used to plow the earth, while the sieve was used to sift the diamonds, which was a very delicate word, because many diamonds were extremely small, and would be missed if they were not careful.

“Mr. Wayne, can I do the same?”

Seeing the excitement of Liuli and the others, Zhuang Rui also became interested, he just used the aura in his eyes to make a rough observation, this is really a rich mine, because just a dozen or so meters around Zhuang Rui, there are faint aura fluctuations.

“Of course, my friend, it’s just that you’ve got nothing, I’ll still send you a diamond.”

The reason why Wayne was so generous was because in his conversation with Zhuang Rui yesterday, he learned that Zhuang Rui had quoted a very suitable price for his batch of loose diamonds.

“Alright! Mr. Wayne, I hope you don’t regret it, my luck, it’s always been very …… en, very good!”

Zhuang Rui used one more very, aggravated his tone a bit, he was afraid that he would find a good diamond in a while, and Wayne couldn’t give it to himself.

“Oh, then I can lose too much money.”

Wayne laughed out loud, the place he designated for Zhuang Rui and the others to dig diamonds, but he had shoveled the ground with a shovel a few times, almost combed one side, Wayne didn’t believe that Zhuang Rui could really dig any good goods from it?

“Peng Fei, I’ll dig, I’ll leave the job of sifting the diamonds to you.”

Zhuang Rui saw that Liuli and the others had already started working, he hurriedly picked up a shovel from the ground, threw a sieve to Peng Fei in his hand, and ran towards the circled place.

“By what right? I still want to dig!”

Peng Fei was very dissatisfied with Zhuang Rui’s way of distributing this, and also copied a shovel to follow him.

“Wow, Sister Liuli, we dug a diamond.”

Zhuang Rui just walked to the place where the bulldozer had made the ditches and moats, he heard Tengya’s excited shouts, dare to say that these two siblings also had a division of labor, Liuli took the shovel to dig, while Tengya was sifting.

Tianya’s words attracted He Shuang and Ding Hao who were working hard, these two brothers are not smart enough, only digging without sifting, it is very difficult to use the naked eye to area out the diamonds.

“Mr. Zhuang, take a look, this is the raw diamond, right?”

Tianya happily put the diamond that is only the size of green bean grain, the surface is a bit like hairy glass, put it into Zhuang Rui’s hand, on the surface of the diamond, there are still some dirt.