Chapter 49 Chapter 49 (Thanks for 8000 nutrient solution) ...

Charles was blond and blue-eyed. He took off his bowler hat and held it in front of him, bowing and saying, "Dear Miss Lin, hello. I haven't seen you on the ship these days. I even thought you got off the ship early."

After Cheng Wanting got on board, he never let the British and French men get close to Lin Keying again.

Lin Keying smiled politely but not awkwardly: "I am with my husband."

Hearing that the beautiful lady in front of him already had a husband, Charles was surprised and a little regretful, but being a gentleman made him show his grace: "Oh, that's great, congratulations on your reunion!"

Leo, a Frenchman, arrived a little later. After hearing what Charles said, he curiously asked, "Hey, Charles, who are you congratulating?"

"Ms. Lin and her husband."

This sentence was like a bucket of cold water poured over Leo's head, extinguishing the smile on his face.

Cheng Wanting placed one hand on the roof of the car, protecting Lin Keying as she sat down. He turned to the British and French people who had no tact at all and said sternly, "Why, are you two planning to join us?"

Charles and Leo heard the tall oriental man in front of them speaking fluent English, with undisguised indifference beneath his tough appearance.

The two men maintained their gentlemanly demeanor and raised their hands to make a please-in gesture. After the Mercedes-Benz left, they couldn't help but complain at the same time.

"Ms. Lin's husband looks too cold."

"Will Miss Lin really be happy if she marries him?"

"Is he some wealthy businessman in Hong Kong? I have seen countless wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong, but I don't seem to have any impression of this man."

"It should not be too mainstream."

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Mercedes-Benz sped all the way from the northwest port of South Africa to Kimberley, a city later known as the world's diamond capital.

The vast land, plateaus, oceans and the occasional mines make up the unique landscape of this city.

Lin Keying sat by the window, with the Northern Cape capital located on the plateau in her sight. The endless fields were covered with reddish-brown soil, with short vegetation and bare ground crisscrossing each other. Occasionally, wild animals that were rarely seen in the port city ran freely, as if they were on a car racetrack.

"That rabbit is so big!" Lin Keying saw the Cape hare that she had seen on TV. Each hare weighed four or five kilograms.

Zhao Fengzhen had been to Africa a long time ago, and had not seen such primitive wild animals nearby for many years. He was inevitably a little surprised, and turned around to talk to his goddaughter about the many ferocious animals he had seen.

The Mercedes slowly stopped at Kimberley's most upscale hotel, a two-story complex of red brick buildings.

It is not as luxurious as the five-star hotels in Hong Kong, but it is already the most outstanding residence here.

Yang Minghui made arrangements in advance and the group checked in smoothly. Not long after, wealthy businessmen who were invited to participate in the mining area auction also arrived one after another.

The interior decoration of the hotel is quite good, the rooms are clean and tidy, and the facilities are complete.

When Lin Keying heard Secretary Yang mention that Cheng Wanting also invested in this hotel, she was already numb.

Looking slowly at the man with eyes full of admiration, Lin Keying wondered if one day when she went to Antarctica, maybe one of the penguins there was adopted by Cheng Wanting, whose surname was Cheng.

However, when booking a room, Cheng Wanting was quite polite. When Yang Minghui talked about booking a room for Guo Changda and his wife and Cheng Wanting and Lin Keying respectively, he dissuaded them by saying, "Ask your wife if she needs to book an extra room?"

After that, Cheng Wanting looked at Lin Keying and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Mrs. Cheng, do you want to live separately?"

Surrounded by wealthy businessmen who had spent almost a month together on the boat, Lin Keying suspected that the man was doing it on purpose. Living separately at this time in front of everyone's eyes, wasn't it a clear announcement that there was discord between them and her husband?

She looked at Yang Minghui: "No need."

Cheng Wanting took the room card and asked Yang Minghui to go back to his room to pack up. He walked beside Lin Keying and thanked her in a deep voice, "Thank you, Mrs. Cheng, for being willing to give me some face outside."

Lin Keying glared at him gently.

It was almost evening when we arrived at the Mosanto Hotel. After putting down our luggage, we rested and went downstairs for dinner.

The organizers were important officials from the Kimberley government, and they prepared a sumptuous meal for the distinguished guests.

South Africa is rich in various animal species, and meat is indispensable on the table. The roasted meat is firm and crispy, paired with local South African spices and the spicy vegetable condiment karaka, which has a good taste and unique flavor.

After tasting the barbecue, Lin Keying also tried the farmer's sausage, which is highly praised locally.

A sausage is spiraled into shape, red all over, and you can vaguely see the sizzling tender meat inside through the casing.

Lin Keying cut a piece with a knife and fork and put the sausage into her mouth. The unique flavor of spices mixed with the aroma of meat, and the taste was spicy and satisfying. Every time she chewed it, she could feel the fat overflowing, and she felt very full.

However, the plate of sausages was quite filling. Lin Keying cut a few bites to taste and then concentrated on drinking the corn porridge.

The soft and glutinous corn porridge was a good way to relieve the greasiness of the meat. Just as Lin Keying was drinking it sip by sip, she heard a little girl screaming at the table next to her.

Seeing a little girl, about eight or nine years old, shouting in Chinese that she didn't want sausages, I quickly pushed the plate away.

The American businessman at the side puffed his beard and laughed, quite unruly: "Hey, little girl, snake sausage is delicious."

"No!" The little girl was most afraid of snakes. Her face wrinkled when she heard this. Her mother was busy trying to comfort her, while her father shouted at her to stop her.

"Sir, please leave."

The fat American businessman shrugged: "It's just a joke."

The little girl was so frightened that she kept crying, and the ladies nearby couldn't eat and frowned after hearing what they heard.

Lin Keying cut off another small piece of sausage and raised the fork to her mouth: "Hey, kid, this sausage is made of beef and pork, not other meat. He lied to you."

The tearful little girl looked at her sister on the other side, still hesitant: "Really?"

"Of course." Lin Keying put the sausage into her mouth. "Look, I've eaten it. It's delicious."

Lin Keying had heard people mention before that local South Africans liked to use sausages as a joke to scare people, but she never expected that the American businessman would use them to scare the little girl.

After that, Lin Keying greeted the other Eastern and Western ladies: "This is beef filling, please feel free to eat it, right?"

The last sentence was said while looking at the local waiter beside him.

The waiter nodded and everyone could continue eating.

Cheng Wanting saw Lin Keying continuing to eat, and tapped his finger on the table: "In that case, serve this gentleman a plate of snake meat sausages."

Cheng Wanting smiled and said politely, "It's my treat."

The fat American businessman's expression froze. He felt uncomfortable at the thought of the strange smell. Just as he was about to speak, he heard several ladies and their husbands next to him speak one after another.

"I will also treat this gentleman to a plate of snake sausages."

"I'll also like..."

The American businessman, who was treated to several plates of snake sausages, had to flee in a hurry.

When the little girl saw her beautiful sister eat the sausage and the annoying bad uncle ran away again, she finally believed it a little. Her tears stopped and her mother fed her a few mouthfuls of corn porridge.

After the child's emotions stabilized, the family of three came over to express their gratitude. After several exchanges, Lin Keying learned that the three were Chinese Singaporeans and were also here to bid for the mining area.

It was a rare opportunity to communicate in Mandarin again. Lin Keying was almost moved to tears. It was hard to find her hometown accent.

The little girl named Zhenzhu shyly called Lin Keying, "Beautiful sister." Lin Keying smiled brightly upon hearing that.

Zhenzhu continued to call people, calling Guo Changda and his wife grandpa and grandma, and when it was finally Cheng Wanting's turn, Lin Keying introduced him as her husband.

Pearl said obediently: "Hello, uncle."

Lin Keying almost couldn't hold back her laughter and quickly turned sideways to glance at the man. Cheng Wanting was less than 30 years old, but he was mature and had a strong aura. In addition, he always had a blank expression on his face, so it was understandable for the child to call him uncle.

She whispered to comfort him: "Children's words are not to be feared~"

Cheng Wanting did not comment: "You seem to be having fun."

The unexpected incident did not affect everyone's good mood. At eight o'clock in the evening, the local organizer sent maps of the mining area to the homes of wealthy businessmen from various countries. Bidders were required to submit the name of the mining area and the amount to be auctioned before noon tomorrow.

Lin Keying had seen this map in the hands of a French wealthy businessman a long time ago, which shows that wealthy businessmen in some countries can really get some benefits in advance.

However, the advantage of being in advance is that when they are faced with unmined mining areas, they need to gamble and they only need to remember the name of the mining area.

One closed book, the other open book.

There are as many as hundreds of mining areas participating in the auction. Without any information, a blind bidding strategy was adopted, and the starting price was one million US dollars per mining area.

Lin Keying vaguely remembered that there were good mines and bad mines in such blind auctions. If you came across a bad mine, you would end up wasting your money if you bought it. Of course, if you are lucky enough, you may even find a top hidden mining area and make a fortune.

Such blind auctions will not be a loss for the South African organizers, because many of the mines are garbage mines of poor quality. In addition, even if good mines are mined, it can be regarded as borrowing the investment of wealthy businessmen around the world to help them mine, alleviating the embarrassment of having no funds to mine the mines due to economic difficulties. They will also collect a 10% commission from the annual performance of each mine.

This is also the reason why local South Africans are happy to invite wealthy businessmen to participate in auctions.

There are hundreds of mining sites, and mineral resources of all kinds of qualities may appear, but the top mining areas can only depend on luck, fate and fortune. In the past decade or so of auctions, only one top-level mining area has been opened.

What a coincidence, there will be three of them in this auction!

The mining area that had a residual name in her mind needed to be matched with several place names on the map. Lin Keying whispered the names of various mining areas, and indeed found three mining areas that were very similar in pronunciation.

One of the Amisombur mining areas is located in the marginal area, and there is no large-scale mining nearby. One of the Sotoria mining areas is in the core circle of Kimberley's current high-yield mining areas. The last Kimberley mining areas have three, Kimberley One, Kimberley Two, and Kimberley Three.

As far as Lin Keying can remember, there was no number at the end of Kimberley's top mining area. Perhaps this was overlooked in the media's subsequent summaries.

After memorizing the locations of several mining areas, Lin Keying was thinking about how to successfully win the top mining area from more than thirty bidders when she heard the man next to her speak.

"Are there any you like?" Cheng Wanting obviously had little interest in diamond mines. According to his personality, he would rather spend 100 million to buy an exquisite and dazzling finished diamond directly in Paris.

“A little bit.” Lin Keying circled the four garbage mining areas that she had revealed to the British and French businessmen, and filled in the starting price, one million US dollars for each mining area.

Cheng Wanting glanced at the mining area the woman had chosen: "Just take pictures of these four?"

Lin Keying nodded and teased the man deliberately: "What if all the mines I photographed are very bad and the four million dollars is wasted?"

For the first time, Cheng Wanting had a bit of dry humor: "It's good to be able to hear a sound."

"Then I'll take the photo with my godfather and godmother." Lin Keying gave Cheng Wanting a difficult task, "You go take the photo..."

Cheng Wanting bluntly interrupted his wife's plan: "We'll do it together. What you really want to shoot will be left to Mr. and Mrs. Guo. Mrs. Cheng, what wife doesn't stand with her husband?"

Lin Keying: "..."

The next morning, Lin Keying used Cheng Wanting's invitation to circle four mining areas, which were all garbage mining areas that were a waste of money.

Guo Changda and Zhao Fengzhen submitted 16 mining areas as invitational sites. The distribution was very scattered and random, and anyone looking at it would look like they were randomly selected on a map. Among them were two top mining areas and Kimberly 1, 2 and 3 mining areas, which were suspected to be the third top mining area.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the auction was held in the hotel auditorium. The not-so-large area was decorated as luxuriously as possible.

The auditorium is surrounded by glass display cabinets displaying South Africa's top diamonds, Fancy intense Blue and Fancy intense Pink. The color grade of the top blue diamonds and colored diamonds is the second-tier intense color level, second only to the highest-grade Fancy vivid color level, and the diamond clarity is the highest level FL.

The 11-carat top-grade pink diamond is sparkling, pure, transparent and dazzling; the 7-carat top-grade blue diamond is a light blue hue from any angle, like the spotless heart of the ocean.

The sparkling diamonds illuminated the auction hall, and the priceless exhibits aroused the strong desires of wealthy businessmen from all over the world.

After entering, everyone visited the top-quality diamonds, admiring their luxury and beauty. After more than ten minutes, wealthy businessmen from all over the world took their seats.

Guo Changda and Zhao Fengzhen sat in the corner of the fourth row, while Lin Keying, wearing a silver long skirt, and Cheng Wanting, dressed in a suit, were preparing to sit in the first row.

Next to them were British businessman Charles, French businessman Leo and others, and in the middle was the American businessman who had played a prank yesterday.

"Let's go." Lin Keying looked at the man beside her, her almond eyes slightly curved, "Secretary Cheng."

Cheng Wanting sat down with the woman and leaned forward to agree: "Everything is under the command of General Lin."