A woman with a rich net worth, an independent personality, a good face, and a hot body is undoubtedly full of charm.

In Cape Town, Mrs. Capet was known as the "courtesan", and in Johannesburg, this "courtesan" is still a delicate rose with thorns, and although Roque is the only lucky person to be confirmed to be the guest of Mrs. Capet's guest so far, this does not prevent the foxes who cannot enter the vineyard from splashing dirty water on Ida.

This is a testament to how popular Ida is in Johannesburg.

In other words, how popular Ida is, how jealous Roque is.

This guy not only occupies Ada's beautiful red rose, but also wants to possess Phyllis's budding white rose.

It's unreasonable!

The person who caused the anger didn't realize this, and originally planned to go to Ida at night, but it seemed too scumbag, so he decided to stay in the police station for the night.

But I didn't expect Ida to come to the door.

At this time, it was actually past eight o'clock in the evening, and it was still raining outside, and although Ida had come in a carriage, she still looked much more embarrassed than usual.

"It's so late—" Roque was still distressed, mixed with guilt and a faint sadness.

"Is it late?" Ada stood in front of Roque prettyly, unable to see her joy or anger.

"It's not too late—" Roque immediately instigated.

Back in the office, after closing the door, Roque felt a little weak again.

In the past, now that Roque has gone up to make a fuss, today Roque is very gentlemanly, and he actually went to make coffee for Ada.

This is too unusual, since Roque and Ida had that kind of relationship, Roque has rarely done this kind of thing, so Roque didn't see the gloom in Ada's eyes when he turned around.

"You can really rest assured, you will go to Nyasaland for half a month, and you are not afraid that I will sell the gold mine?" Ida was half-joking, half-complaining.

"If you want to sell, you can sell, and if you sell, then there must be a reason to sell." Roque is generous, and he can't give Ida a perfect family, so he gives Ida full trust.

This is actually not good, women's hearts are fickle, and women like Ida can't be lovers, and most of them don't even have to be friends, so if Ida hates because of love, the result is really hard to say.

Of course, it is not so easy for Ida to sell the rock gold mine, everyone in Johannesburg knows that the rock gold mine belongs to Roque, and if Ida does this, the city government will not be able to pass the level.

"You're a baron now, and the matter with your little girlfriend is going to be determined—" Ida sighed faintly, a woman's sixth sense is really accurate sometimes.

"Maybe a few days—" Roque's hand shaking as he poured his coffee, but fortunately he didn't spill it.

Don't look at the fact that Roque doesn't even ask for marriage now, but Roque has never worried that things will change between him and Phyllis, to put it mildly, as far as the relationship between Roque and Matilda's family is concerned, if Phyllis doesn't want to marry Roque, then Philip Matilda may tie up Fellis and send her to the cave room.

Not exactly, but definitely.

"Congratulations—" Ada's voice was unmistakable.

"Thanks—" Roque handed the coffee to Ada.

Ida gently raised her hand to take it, and the two looked at each other, and the air suddenly became ambiguous.

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Early in the morning, Ida left before Roque got up, and Roque wanted to get some sleep, but was blocked by Henry.

"Hurry up, are you ready for your ring?" Henry yelled as soon as he entered, then his nose twitched, his brow furrowed, and then he returned to normal.

This kind of thing is really normal in this era, Henry himself has become accustomed to it, and even after Roque and Phyllis get married, as long as Roque does not abuse Phyllis, Roque will pretend not to know what to mess around outside.

"That's it-" Roque didn't know that he had met such an enlightened brother, and he only felt a little sore in his waist.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I only received a telegram from Owen in the middle of the night last night, and came back overnight, and I just went to Purple Town to pick up Phyllis, and you guy is sleeping-" Henry babbled, not like a complaint, but like a gesture of merit.

Roque didn't talk nonsense and washed up as fast as he could, and when Ada didn't go to Pretoria with Roque in the first place, Roque had already accepted the result.

Although the marriage between Roque and Phyllis is already a certainty, there should still be a procedure, which is Roque's respect for Phyllis, and it is also the dignity that the Matilda family needs.

So after Roque got up, he went to the Rock Gold Mine with Henry to pick out the ring.

After the establishment of the Mining Alliance, the quota of the Rock Gold Mine could not meet the output of the Rock Gold Mine at all, so Roque found another way to carry out deep processing of gold in the Rock Gold Mine, selling the gold in disguise, and at the same time pursuing higher profits.

The level of gold processing at the Rock Gold Mine is now very high, and Roque not only hires experienced goldsmiths from Cape Town, but also from Europe to recruit craftsmen who are willing to come to Johannesburg, and now there are more than 40 people in the gold processing department of the Rock Gold Mine, which can make more than 10,000 pieces of jewelry every month, and rings are of course also essential.

"Don't you take a piece of raw ore to propose, that would be a shame for the dead, shouldn't the ring be prepared in advance? Otherwise, let's go to Pretoria, Itno's ring is not bad, and the ring I gave to Lacey was bought from Itno. "Henry doesn't know what Roque is doing in the gold mines, if Roque does move a piece of gold to propose, it will be precious, but the new Baron of Nyasaland and the Matilda family will become a laughing stock among the nobility.

Even with Henry, Baron Favart, he was disgraced.

"Don't talk nonsense, Itno is mine—" Roque's horse galloped, thinking for a long time before he remembered that there was such a thing.

Since the production of gold jewelry on a large scale requires a sales channel.

In these years, there are almost no competitors in the jewelry industry, and the famous Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels are still in the processing stage of incoming materials, although the style can be freely selected, but the processing is time-consuming and laborious, and the price is expensive, and there is almost no market share.

The gold in the Locke gold mine was almost inexhaustible, and the raw materials were simply inexhaustible, so the production of jewelry was so fast that a specialty store specializing in jewelry was born.

The meaning of "Itno" is eternal, and the name was even casually determined by Roque at the beginning, and it has no special meaning.

After opening its first store in Pretoria, Itno did a good job because of the low prices, the original designs, and even the fact that people came to Itno from Cape Town to buy jewelry.

Before Ida took over the Rock Gold Mine, Itno was in charge of Buck, so although the business was not bad, it was not good.

With Ida taking over, Itno will finally explode, opening its first store outside the Transvaal in Cape Town next month, and then it will expand into London and Paris as the world's first luxury brand for the masses.

There is no need to doubt, just think about this blue ocean, and you will understand the future of the Etno brand.

"Itno is yours?" Henry was simply surprised, but then followed by more anger: "Why didn't you say earlier, I went to buy a ring for Lacey, and I didn't even get a discount, I thought that Itno had a big backstage, and he didn't even give me face as a police chief, but I didn't expect it to be you, a bastard, who gave me back the money I paid for the ring!" ”

"I don't know if you went to buy a ring, wasn't the ring made to order last time?" When Henry got married, Roque accompanied him throughout the whole process, and the ring was made to order at that time, and Roque did not know how much Henry spent on the ring in Itno.

"Hehe, Phyllis must be miserable in the future, because her husband thinks that giving her a ring for the rest of his life is enough." Henry immediately put the little money he had spent on the ring, and instead worried about his sister's future.

In fact, there are many elements of schadenfreude.

"Hehe, after Phyllis gets married, the whole of Itno is Phyllis's, she can change one set of jewelry every day, and it's no problem to change ten sets a day." Roque didn't worry about this problem, with Itno as a base, if you count the number of jewelry alone, Phyllis will definitely be happier than Lacey.

"Damn, no, Locke, you have to keep this matter a secret, you can't tell Phyllis, you can't tell Lacey—" Henry immediately thought of the consequences of Phyllis possessing Itno, and immediately sweated profusely.

As far as the relationship between Phyllis and Lacey is concerned, what Phyllis knows, and almost Lacey also knows, when the time comes, Henry will probably not have a good life.

"Stupid, you also have a gold mine, you won't make a brand yourself." Roque pointed out the way, and he was not worried that Henry would grab the market of Itno if he came up with a brand, the volume of this market was beyond everyone's imagination, not to mention two brands, ten or twenty could not be filled.

"That's a good idea, I'm going to go back and talk to Lacey, Lacey has a baby now, and there's a lot going on every day—" Henry looked happy, clearly a father-to-be.

"Lacey pregnant? Congratulations, I'm going to be the godfather of my children. "Roque is going to book right away, and that kind of opportunity doesn't happen very often.

"Hehe, okay, no problem." Henry promised that in fact, the relationship between him and Roque did not need to be strengthened in this way.

When he came to the Rock Gold Mine, Roque unexpectedly met Dr. Kay Mallory who was about to leave, Dr. Kay Mallory saw Roque and his expression was not very good-looking, but Roque didn't take it to heart, casually said hello to Dr. Kay Mallory, and went straight to the storage room with Henry.

At the beginning of each month, the gold mine guards will send the gold to the store in Pretoria, where the sales of the store and the production of the jewelry are not related to each other, and the management is actually very simple.

The person in charge of jewelry production is called Isabella Cotton, who was born in an old family of craftsmen in Paris, because she is a woman, Isabella Cottonn is not valued by the family, so Roque hired Isabella Cottonn to the Rock Gold Mine at a high price.

With her exquisite craftsmanship and keen sense, Isabella Callon soon became a leader in jewelry making, so Roque appointed Isabella Callon as the person in charge of gold processing.

"Need a ring, or a set of jewelry?" Isabella Cotton, who is small and has a dull expression, looks like a standard technical talent, and is not very good at dealing with people.

But if you enter her own professional field, Isabella Kirton's professional skills are not to say, and several of Itno's best-selling jewelry are designed by Isabella Kirton.

"It doesn't matter if it's a ring or a set of jewelry, bring out the best of the best." Roque spared no expense, and the jewelry he gave his wife must be the best.

"Each one is outstanding." Isabella Cotton's expression is serious, for her, the work is like her child, each piece is the best.

"Then take out all of them." Roque is not angry, it is necessary to have such self-confidence in order to create excellent works, and in areas that do not belong to him, Roque will not be jealous of people who are better than himself.

Then take everything out.

In fact, Isabella Callon still has a choice, and there are only four rings that she takes out, and there is only one set of jewelry.

Without a doubt, this set of jewelry is the most conspicuous, because the diamond underneath the necklace is a rare pink diamond, and compared to ordinary diamonds, there are very few colored diamonds, and they are generally small enough to be set in rings.

"I bought it from the De Beers Unified Mining Company for £10,000 and cut it so that the largest diamond weighed 65.2 carats, so I made this set of 'Dream' jewellery with a total of 11 pink diamonds, and if it were sold, I would price it at 150,000 pounds." Isabella Cottonn was very calm, as if she were recounting an inconsequential matter.

The 65.2-carat pink diamond was worth immeasurable, the original weight of the "Heart of the Ocean" was only 69 carats, and then after several polishing, the weight became 45.52 carats, and in 1908, the "Heart of the Sea", which was still called "Hope", was bought by Sultan Hamid II of Turkey for 400,000 US dollars, which was almost 100,000 pounds.

"Dream" is a complete set of jewelry, using a full eleven pink diamonds, so the price of 150,000 pounds is not outrageous, Roque even thinks that this price is set low, a pink diamond weighing 65.2 carats is rare in the world, it is not too much to say that it is priceless, if Roque is asked to set the price, Roque will set the price at 500,000 pounds.

It doesn't matter if you can't sell it, it's a treasure of Itno's town store.

Now that it is no longer necessary, "Dream" will become Phyllis's private collection, and only when Phyllis wears it will have the opportunity to show the world.

"Locke, no, you'll have to get me a set of jewelry that's similar to 'Dream', or Lacey will kill me." Henry gritted his teeth, a woman's jealousy was unreasonable, and Lacey was still pregnant, and Henry shuddered when he thought about it.

"Hehe, you think diamonds like 'Dream' are everywhere?" No matter how Henry curries over Lacey, the "dream" must belong to Phyllis, and no one can take it away.

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