Chapter 92: Die!
"Come on, come on, I really despise it. Actually, I brought money, I really did. If I hadn't brought money, I wouldn't have dared to shout the price like that. This is Sheng Bao Tang we're talking about! Can't even tell true from false, and still has the face to live? If I had hung myself from a crooked neck tree earlier, his family would be at peace with him going out, and they'd casually give him such a large sum of money. The whole family is just contemptible."
In the end, Meng Haizhou still managed to get his hands on that piece of jade coral he had set his heart on, but at a price more than ten times higher than its true value. This scene would have been utterly contemptible in anyone's eyes.
Spending 5 million taels of silver to buy a piece of jade coral that is worth at most 500,000 taels of silver can no longer be considered as being wasteful. This kind of behavior has already risen to the level of being utterly depraved!
Moreover, it doesn't evoke the slightest sympathy from others; in the eyes of ordinary "clear-sighted people", this piece of jade clearly belongs to Tang Yuanzhi, after all, Tang Baozi made the first offer and started with a price of "one million taels" which far exceeded the value of the jade itself, while the two young masters of the Li and Meng families are obviously colluding to drive up the price.
But I didn't expect that after hyping it up, the price was raised, but the other party recognized the trick and refused to buy, and instead ended up hurting themselves, which is equivalent to lifting a stone and hitting their own foot.
Evil will be repaid with evil!
Everyone looked at Tang Yuan: Kid, you're too impatient. If you hadn't been in such a hurry and had slowly bid, they would have raised the price for a while and you could have bought it.
But looking at Meng Haizhou and Li Zhen's eyes, they were the same as when they looked at Tang Yuan, with the same schadenfreude: You little rascal, let you get into trouble again! Smash it yourself! It serves you right!
Tang Yuan cooperated exceptionally, putting on an expression of being wronged, bitter face, but his heart was blooming with joy. Looking at Li Zhen and Meng Haizhou's disheartened appearance, he felt extremely relieved, this time he had avenged all his grievances, with interest! Comfortable, exhilarating, refreshing!
At this time, the servant of Sheng Baotang had already brought over the jade coral covered with red velvet. Li Zhen and Meng Haizhou gritted their teeth, their hearts aching to the point of bleeding, yet they still forced out a smile.
They would have been fine if they had just kept crying and looking sad, but the feeling of relief that came with the pain caught Jun Moxie's attention. He didn't know much about the jade coral, and after asking Tang Yuan without getting a response, he became even more suspicious.
This thing is definitely useful for them! Yes, what's useful to the enemy must be detrimental to oneself! No way, it has to be destroyed! No matter what use they have, in short, only when King Moe becomes useless will he feel at ease.
"Wow! This is the jade coral worth five million taels of silver! Indeed, it's a divine fart, not ordinary at all." Jun Mo Xie watched with an expressionless face as Li Zhen carefully took over the jade coral, puckered his lips and blew a loud whistle, and lightly tapped Tang Yuan's toe.
Tang Yuan nodded in agreement, and immediately made a straight face, looking at the jade coral with a series of sighs, his face full of grievances: "Third Young Master, what can be done? The old man had given a death order to auction this thing back home before I came, but now... you see, brother, I'm really going to die."
The voice of this sentence was not small, Li Zhen and others naturally heard it, and the depressed mood decreased a lot. It turned out that this was also something that Tang Lao must get, no wonder this fat man was so desperate. Thinking about it, he felt a little proud of himself.
Who would have thought that we brothers unintentionally defeated Old Master Tang? It's... awesome!
"You're so arrogant, just because of a coral statue? Look at you two families, fighting with red faces and thick necks! My family has several of these, I'm not interested."
"What?" Li Zhenjing's face turned red with rage: "Don't be ridiculous, stop bragging! With your family's poverty-stricken situation, how could you have such good things? And several jars at that? Aren't you afraid of the wind blowing away your tongue?"
Jun Mo Xie's face turned red with rage, and he shouted: "Li Zhen, what do you mean? This coral is nothing compared to the ones His Majesty gave my grandfather! Each of those corals was much bigger than this one! Hmph, you're really ignorant!"
Li Zhen burst out laughing and said, "How ridiculous! You don't know anything, you country bumpkin! This is jade coral! Do you understand what jade coral is? I'm too lazy to bother with you!"
"My family has one too, it's as big as... this!" Jun Mo Xie said with his hands, "Tang Bao Zi has seen it, I wouldn't dare to cheat you." After gesturing for a moment, he seemed to feel that it wasn't quite right, so he took a step forward and began to gesture in the air next to the jade coral that Li Zhen was holding.
He made a comparison, but the one he compared was more than twice as big as the jade coral Li Zhen was holding. Finally, with a snort of disdain, he said: "The one in my house is all red, much better than yours!" But in his heart, he was moved. When making the comparison, Jun Mo Xie secretly activated the Open Heaven Creation Skill, and suddenly felt a fine flow of air rolling from the jade coral, and when his original mysterious energy pathway sensed this airflow, it became clearly more active!
It turned out that this coral was actually useful for the mysterious energy! Jun Moxie hummed in his heart. However, this breath of air was somewhat similar to the spiritual energy in his own Hongjun Pagoda. Thinking of this, Jun Moxie consciously guided this flow of air into his meridians, preparing to use a clever trick to get rid of it, but suddenly felt a wave of discomfort, and the Hongjun Pagoda in his sea of consciousness spun around, with spiritual energy gushing out like a tidal wave, and actually expelled this external flow of air in an instant!
Isn't it contradictory? ! Don't be so quick to judge with a single glance.
At this time, Li Zhen had already been enraged by Jun Mo's words, and with a loud whoosh, he lifted the red brocade cloth to reveal: "Take a good look! This is jade coral! Jade coral! What you have at home is just ordinary red coral! Grass! Do you understand anything!"
"Hahahaha! No matter what coral, the quality is all the same! Li Zhen, you're really a fool! Five million taels to buy a piece of trash!"
Saying that, he casually stretched out his hand and pinched the jade coral twice, furrowed his brow, and said: "It seems to be a bit different." As he spoke, the Open Heaven Create Happiness skill was fully activated, and a thin but pure stream of air suddenly burst in like a broken bamboo, occupying a position inside!
Two opposing air currents collided, and surprisingly, the original airflow inside was driven to one side. However, as Jun Moxie withdrew his hand, the original airflow immediately rebounded, rapidly surging back, and layer by layer, enveloping the airflow of the "Opening Heaven and Earth" technique.
Don't secretly use your spiritual sense to detect, under the stimulation of the two qi flows, at this moment, the jade coral inside has become a ball of violent gas! The belly can't help but laugh sinisterly, it seems... can't be used anymore, hahaha.
"How's that? Not like the trash coral at your house, huh? Hahaha......" Li Zhen rarely had the upper hand, and seeing Junmo's disheveled appearance made him feel infinitely pleased.
"It's really different after all." Jun Mo Xie's face turned somewhat pale, he withdrew his hand, rubbed his nose, and looked puzzled: "How can coral be different when they're the same?"
Tang Yuan was also amazed, and he too reached out to touch it, marveling at its quality. Meng Li's vanity suddenly inflated, feeling proud and pleased with himself, bursting into loud laughter. After a long while, with an expression of satisfaction and pride, he glared fiercely at Jun Mo Xie and Tang Yuan, saying: "Have you had enough?! You don't have one, do you?! Are you jealous?! Ah, fatty, haha..." He slowly wrapped it up, all the while casting sideways glances at Tang Yuan, with a hint of schadenfreude.
Hmph, you didn't capture Yu Shanzhu, go back and see how your old man will deal with this goods! However, since it's the doing of Tang family's old master, well, this reason can be used to offset those silvers, maybe there's still hope for reimbursement...
Don't be embarrassed by your awkward face, but in his heart, he said fiercely: "I'm not dead yet, that's what's weird!"