Paige and Carrie both burst out laughing. Carrie couldn’t help but ask, “No, they’re both over ten years old, so how could they still think they can catch fish that are worth the same price as gems?”
Carrie looked at Rafael and examined him from top to bottom, but she couldn’t see the slightest trace of naivety in him.
“…”
Rafael regretted mentioning this topic.
“At the time, there was a rumor that there was a golden, glowing fish king in that lake, and whoever caught it would never have to worry about food or clothing for the rest of their lives. So many people went fishing in pursuit of it, but in the end, they all returned empty-handed.”
Jaden leaned against a nearby tree, “But our president was different. He firmly believed that he was the chosen one and would definitely catch the fish king.”
“…”
Oh, it wasn’t naivety, it was inexplicable confidence.
Carrie understood.
“Enrico, don’t let him take over your conglomerate. He’ll screw you over.”
Rafael, exasperated, took the fishing rod and poked Jaden, changing sides again in an instant.
“So how did it end?”
Paige asked, taking a cookie and putting it in her mouth, happily listening to the story.
“In the end, it was the boos who saved the day,”
Jaden told them the story with all his heart, “At that time, the boos really couldn’t stand the president anymore, so he took the emeralds off the other fishing rod, smashed them into pieces, and sold them cheaply on the antique street.”
The story took a slightly bizarre turn.
The leader of the Deleon family didn’t get sick from anger, but also had a healthy state of mind.
Jaden was about to continue when Rafael suddenly stopped her and looked at Paige, saying, “Paige, you and Enrico are so close, so guess what he wants to do by selling my gems?”
What else could it be? It can’t be anything good.
But Rafael wasn’t satisfied, and looking at Enrico, he said provocatively, “If she can’t guess, it means she doesn’t love you that much and doesn’t know you at all.”
On hearing this, Enrico’s deep gaze fell on Paige.
Paige suddenly felt the pressure.
Enrico sat down on the deck chair next to her and handed her a cup of fruit tea, “Take your time.”
“President Rafael is deliberately provoking us,” Paige said.
“I know,” Enrico raised his eyebrows, which did not prevent him from wanting to know what she could guess.
Seeing Paige’s face full of difficulty, Rafael was a little pleased. One by one, they were saying bad things about him, which made it easy to drive a wedge between them, didn’t it?
A perfect couple? Haha.
Rafael laughed coldly to himself, and then turned his head to see Carrie’s frosty face.
Carrie was staring at him. Did he really remember what task he had come out with today? It wasn’t to get his brother-in-law and sister-in-law Paige to fight, was it?
Rafael cleared his throat, walked over to her, and whispered as he passed her, “You have to build up to the climax to make it effective.”
“…”
Really?
Carrie was doubtful.
Rafael sat down in the deck chair to Enrico’s right and was about to call Carrie over when she was already walking quickly towards Paige.
“…”
Rafael’s heart ached. He pushed his glasses up and looked at Paige through Enrico, “What do you say? Do you want me to give you a hint?”
“No,” Enrico looked Paige straight in the eye and confidently refused, “I trust my woman.”
“…”
The pressure was intense.
Selling gems at a discount.
The emeralds of the Deleon family’s grandmother were by no means of average quality, and must be rare in the world. When they appeared on Antique Street, they were bound to cause a sensation. And since it was another young teenager selling them at a discount, someone would definitely be keeping an eye on them.
Upon thinking about this, Paige looked at Enrico sharply, “You’re not… creating a scam, are you?”
On hearing this, Enrico’s eyebrows rose in pleasure, while Rafael and Jaden looked shocked.
You really guessed it!
What kind of person are you?
Rafael was unconvinced. “What scam? Take a closer look.”
“Antique Street has always been a place of intrigue, with all kinds of people. When an exceptional gem appears, there’s bound to be more than one person secretly following the boy to see what’s going on and where the treasure came from.”
Paige observed the expressions of the three of them and was sure that this line of thinking was correct, so she ventured a guess, “If I’m not wrong, those people saw the boy sneaking off to a river in the middle of the night, and that river should lead to the lake area where the legend of the fish king originated.”
“…”
“In the middle of the night, it’s so dark you can’t see your hand in front of your face, and in the river, which can’t be seen in the light, a golden fish king with glowing light jumps out?”
“…”
The expressions on Rafael and Jaden’s faces cracked, and they looked at her with monster-staring eyes.
Carrie looked on, also with a face of disbelief, “Did you really guess it?”
“The Fish King performed some magical skills, and then spat an emerald gem at the boy, the gem on the third fishing rod.”
Paige saw that she had guessed correctly, so she continued to guess with a relieved heart, “I think that at that time, there must have been many people who secretly went down to the river to fish, but they didn’t catch anything.”
“The more clever people think, the more they think. They couldn’t catch any fish at the moment, and they were worried that the news would spread quickly and more people would come to get a share of the profits. So they wanted to seize the opportunity to dominate the river and quickly seal off the connection between the river and the lake to prevent the fish king from leaving.”
“…”
“And the river should be under the name of that boy’s family. So the boy who sold the gems is Jaden, right?”
Paige looked at Jaden.
Jaden’s family was the most ordinary and most suitable for this role. They used the money from selling the broken gems to first take possession of the river and then wait for someone to buy it.
In Country A, some small rivers can be designated for private use.
She continued, “Someone came to the door in turns to buy it, and then the highest bidder got it, and you made back the money for the emeralds.”
The reasoning was complete.
“…”
Rafael and Jaden were completely speechless.
She had guessed it just as if she had seen it with her own eyes.
Carrie found it all very unbelievable. What had she been doing when she was a teenager? She couldn’t remember. It definitely wasn’t being bold enough to pull off a scam, let alone fool a bunch of smart people on Antique Street.
“But this can’t end well, sooner or later they’ll find out that the King of Fish is fake,” she said.
“That’s easy. The river connects to the lake, and then one night, a performance of the King of Fish will be held in the lake to let people know that the King of Fish has swum back to the lake. Even if the person who bought the creek is very angry, and everyone else is after the King of Fish, he will have no heart to argue with the Jaden family.”
After all, making money is more important.
Paige thought of their follow-up plan and then took a sip of fruit tea before saying, “However, there are also risks in this. The person who bought your creek should be a wealthy person, right? The money you cheated is nothing to him, so he will not pursue it further. Otherwise, if you meet someone who has spent all their money, they will never let you off the hook.”
That person definitely has the heart to kill, so how is Jaden standing here in one piece?
“This…”
Rafael and Jaden turned around neatly and refused to answer the question.
Enrico also turned around and took a sip of his fruit tea.