I Start with a Mysterious Island

Chapter 382: Chapter 285: Man Proposes, God Disposes

"Twenty thousand."

The last time, Lin Li had sold twenty thousand pearls. He figured he would do the same this time and sell another twenty thousand.

Even though he had eighty thousand pearls on the Mysterious Small Island, he was afraid Zhang Yuxi wouldn’t be able to buy them all at once, so he had decided to sell them in batches.

Zhang Yuxi mulled it over for a few seconds before getting straight to the point. "Mr. Lin, forgive my bluntness, but I assume you have more than just twenty thousand pearls on hand right now?"

Lin Li was taken aback for a second by her directness. After a moment of thought, he answered frankly, "Yes, I do."

"Would you mind telling me how many pearls you have in total? If it’s not convenient for you to say, that’s fine too..."

"Boss Zhang, you’re just asking how many pearls I have. It’s not a big secret... I have a total of eighty thousand pearls on hand right now."

"That many?" Zhang Yuxi had assumed Lin Li had forty or fifty thousand pearls at most. She never expected him to have nearly double that amount. Her rosy lips parted in astonishment.

Seeing Zhang Yuxi’s shocked expression, Lin Li just smiled without saying a word. ’If I weren’t worried about disrupting the market price,’ he thought, ’I could go to the Spirit Realm and get even more.’

AHEM. Zhang Yuxi cleared her throat, composing herself after her accidental show of shock.

Then, she smiled at Lin Li and asked, "Mr. Lin, you’re offering twenty thousand pearls this time. Are the remaining ones already reserved for other clients?"

Lin Li immediately shook his head. Their past two dealings had shown him that Zhang Yuxi was a straightforward person and a good business partner.

He hadn’t considered finding other channels to sell his pearls.

Of course, part of it was simply that he found the idea of looking for other buyers to be a hassle.

Now that Zhang Yuxi had asked, Lin Li decided to be direct about his intentions.

"You’re my only buyer at the moment. The only reason I’m selling them in batches instead of all at once is that I was worried about putting you under financial pressure.

"If you can take my entire stock in one go, I’d be more than happy to sell it all to you. It would save me the trouble of having to come back every so often to sell you a batch."

Zhang Yuxi hadn’t expected this to be Lin Li’s reasoning. His words showed that they had built a good level of trust; otherwise, he wouldn’t be so open with her about such matters.

"Mr. Lin, thank you for being so considerate..." Zhang Yuxi began with a grateful smile before continuing.

"Business has been quite good recently, so my cash flow is very strong.

"Why don’t you sell me all eighty thousand pearls at once, Mr. Lin? It’ll save you from having to make any more trips."

"Huh?!!!" Lin Li was surprised that Zhang Yuxi offered to buy all of his remaining pearls at once. ’She has that much cash on hand?’ he thought, slightly astonished.

But on second thought, Jiabao Pearl had an excellent reputation in Rongcheng’s jewelry industry and collaborated with several large corporations. It wasn’t entirely unimaginable that she would have enough cash to buy all eighty thousand pearls at once.

Since she was willing to buy his entire remaining stock at once, Lin Li naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Alright." Lin Li nodded. He then glanced around Zhang Yuxi’s office. Eighty thousand pearls were packed into forty large bamboo baskets.

Although Zhang Yuxi’s office was spacious, there was no way it could hold all of them if he brought them out right there. He obviously couldn’t just materialize all forty large bamboo baskets in her office.

Zhang Yuxi was thrilled that Lin Li had agreed to sell her the entire lot.

With this huge shipment of top-quality goods, she could accelerate her campaign to crush the competitors who had been maliciously undercutting her.

Just then, she saw Lin Li glancing around her office. Recalling their previous two transactions, she instantly understood what he was thinking.

"Mr. Lin, let’s go up to the third floor. There’s more space up there. You can bring out the pearls and put them there."

"Okay."

Just as Lin Li and Zhang Yuxi were finalizing the deal, Liu Lan walked into the office. She was the one the clerk, Xiaoyun, had gone to fetch from the finance department.

Seeing that Liu Lan had arrived, Zhang Yuxi stood up. "Alright, we can go to the third floor now."

Lin Li then followed Zhang Yuxi and Liu Lan to the third floor of the jewelry store.

When the three of them reached the third floor, Lin Li saw it was filled with merchandise and immediately realized it was the jewelry store’s warehouse.

Zhang Yuxi opened the door to a room on the third floor. It was completely empty and over a hundred square meters in size. "Mr. Lin," she said, "you can put the pearls in here."

Lin Li nodded. As he walked into the room, he began pulling the large bamboo baskets, each one filled with pearls, from the Mysterious Small Island and arranging them neatly on the floor.

Although Zhang Yuxi and Liu Lan already knew that this Mr. Lin had awakened a Storage Space Superpower, seeing him so effortlessly produce dozens of large, pearl-filled bamboo baskets still left them with expressions of utter astonishment.

One could only imagine how vast the capacity of a Storage Space that could hold dozens of large bamboo baskets must be.