<h4>Chapter 84: Stone Gambling</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    “Yes.”


    rence nodded to Carrie.


    Carrie was about to have the check cashed in, but Miranda suddenly roared, “No, I refuse.”


    “Miranda? What’se over you?” Armstrong looked at Miranda in surprise.


    Miranda felt nauseous. “Dad, we can’t take the money.”


    “Why?” Armstrong was a little panicked.


    Miranda’s eyes were full of disappointment. “It’s money that Cecilia gave rence!


    “Last time, Cecilia gave rence a Ferrari worth ten million. This time, it’s a check for ten million.


    “rence, what on earth do you take me for?


    “We’re not even divorced, and you’re already taking money from another woman.


    “Do you enjoy having someone else keep you as a lover?”


    Miranda firmly believed it was Cecilia’s check.


    rence must have made up that thing about some Wright family giving it to him.


    Carrie looked at rence in surprise.


    ‘Lover?


    ‘What’s going on here?


    ‘What the hell is going on?’


    Many of the customers in First Pavilion looked like they were enjoying the show.


    “Dear, it’s not Cecilia’s check. It’s from the Wright family. Leanne gave me fifteen million because I saved Thompson Wright, the Wright family’s patriarch.” rence could only attempt to exin himself.


    “The Wright family? Thompson?”


    Miranda was even angrier. “Can’t you at least make up a good excuse if you’re lying?


    “With your status, who are you to approach Thompson?


    “Do you know who Thompson is?


    “Besides, why would Thompson need you to save him, even if he had actually been in danger?


    “Don’t you know what you’re capable of?


    “You saved Joshuast time, and now you’ve saved Thompson?


    “Are you going to save Timothy Larson, so you’ll have saved all three old masters of the top three families in Mediterranean City?”


    Miranda was utterly disappointed.


    In her opinion, rence was still the same liar.


    Carrie shook the check in her hand. “Ms. Murphy, I think you’ve got the wrong idea. The name on this check is indeed Leanne Wright.”


    “What?”


    Miranda paused and immediately hurried over to take a look. Sure enough, there was Leanne’s name at the bottom of the check.


    Miranda was a little embarrassed, realizing now that she had misunderstood rence.


    However, she refused to admit that she had misunderstood rence. “Even if it’s Leanne’s check, you can’t use it.


    “Return it to her.


    “Do you think it’s not an issue to take the Wright family’s money?


    “Aren’t you afraid that it’ll bring you trouble?”


    Armstrong pulled Miranda aside and lowered his voice. “Don’t be silly, my daughter.


    “If rence took the check back, do you think he’d really return it to Leanne?


    “Besides, men turn bad once they have money. Your mom doesn’t even allow me to manage that much money.


    “If rence had fifteen million, would he ever listen to you again? Would he still listen to the Murphy family?


    “You can’t let him have any money!


    “Three thousand a month is enough for him. As long as he doesn’t starve, it’s fine!


    “Pay First Pavilion ten million, then take away his remaining five million.


    “I’ll take it if you don’t!”


    Miranda looked at Armstrong in surprise. “Dad, why would you...”


    “Listen to me. It won’t go wrong.” Armstrong whispered. His voice was quiet, but many nearby customers heard him.


    Many of them had a look of disdain on their faces.


    ‘He’s just called him a loser son-inw, yet the next moment, he’s interested in the son-inw’s fifteen million?’


    ‘How shameless!’


    Carrie looked at rence with a smile. “What do you think, Mr. Howard?


    “The check is yours. It’s up to you.


    “Are you going to help your father-inw pay the ten million?”


    “Yes! Of course. Cash it in right away,” shouted Armstrong as he stepped forward.


    Carrie did not speak. She simply waited for rence’s answer.


    rence nodded. “Yes.”


    “Okay! Then I’ll take the check.”


    Carrie casually took rence’s check.


    Armstrong was thinking of an excuse to take the remaining five million dors when Carrie asked again, “Mr. Howard, do you want me to transfer the remaining five million to you, or do you want to y a few games in First Pavilion?”


    “y a few games, of course!” Armstrong’s eyes lit up.


    “Dad!”


    Miranda’s expression changed slightly. She remembered that First Pavilion not only sold jade but also conducted stone gambling.


    What could be the game that Armstrong had mentioned earlier, if not stone gambling?


    Miranda grabbed Armstrong. “Didn’t you promise to stop gambling on stones?


    “Have you forgotten about the lesson you learned before?


    “You lost two hundred million in one breath and almost broke our capital chain.


    “You also promised Mom that you’d never touch stone gambling again.”


    Armstrong whispered, “My silly daughter! How can you be so silly?


    “It’s not like I’m stone gambling with my own money. I’ll use rence’s five million.


    “Think about it! Wouldn’t rence spend it all too, if you gave him five million?


    “Just let me y a few games!


    “This way, the profit is mine if we find a jade.


    “Even if we lose, it’s rence’s money!”


    Hearing Armstrong’s series of theories, Miranda frowned. “That’s not a good idea.”


    “Why not? Do you want him to be with Cecilia?” reminded Armstrong.


    Cecilia’s figure reappeared in Miranda’s mind.


    She did not like rence, but she did not want him to hook up with Cecilia.


    Miranda felt strange whenever she saw rence and Cecilia together.


    Miranda said nothing. She simply acquiesced.


    “We’ll choose to y a few games at First Pavilion.” Armstrong pped his chest.


    Carrie looked at rence, waiting for his answer. Once again, the money was rence’s, not Armstrong’s.


    rence sighed helplessly. “Do whatever my dad says.”


    “Okay.”


    Carrie said nothing else, leading rence and the others out to First Pavilion’s backyard.


    It was built like a Victorian courtyard, and it was decorated with chirping birds and fragrant flowers. It was sophistically Victorian.


    There were arge number of raw jade stones on the ground. You could get jades, or nothing at all, from those raw jade stones.


    There were price tags underneath the raw jade stones.


    The cheapest one was priced at three thousand dors, while the most expensive one was up to neen million dors. It was First Pavilion’s ‘stone king’.


    Armstrong’s hands were already itchy. After he got to the backyard, he picked up two raw stones he had previously been eyeing but had not had the chance to cut open.


    “Cut this one and this one open.”


    Not having to pay with his own money, Armstrong was acting very generous with money.


    The two raw stones added up to two million dors.


    The First Pavilion’s qualified staff member cut open the raw stones that Armstrong had chosen in public, finding only jade the size of a fingernail.


    It was worth nothing, only adding up to a few thousand dors.


    Two million had gone down the drain!


    “Dad, forget it! Stop gambling.” Miranda quickly advised. Two million dors had been lost in fewer than ten minutes.


    It was not her money, but her heart still ached.


    It was two million. That was more than half herpany’s monthly profit.


    Armstrong did not listen. “Gosh! I’m just out of luck this time around. You must believe me, Miranda.


    “I’ll find an ice jade next time!” Armstrong assured solemnly.


    rence’s eyes fell on a raw jade stone worth three hundred thousand. A sh of surprise twinkled in his eyes.


    rence was surprised to discover that his eyes could see through not only human bodies, but also raw jade stones.


    “Dad, this is a good one!”