Volume 1 Initial Exposure Chapter 68 You Support Me?

  News of the mid-grade artifact turning into a scrap spread like wildfire, and within half an hour, it had reached every corner of the antique market. Almost everyone wore a schadenfreude expression, ridiculing the greedy Xu Jingkai.

  You know, at first someone offered a price of one million, but he was not willing to sell. As a result, after two geomancers re-examined it, they found that it was a fake ritual object, let alone a medium-grade ritual object. This is simply a huge joke!

  When Xu Jingkai, who looked as if he had just lost his father, followed his father, who was still alive but on the verge of being suffocated to death, back to their family store, there were already many people gathered outside the store. Everyone was standing at the door, discussing and gossiping without entering the store:

  "They all say that the son of a hero is also a good fellow, but Xu Jingkai is a greedy little brat. His father probably isn't anything to brag about either. Tsk tsk, he's not even willing to sell that fake thing for a million, what an idiot." Someone laughed mockingly and said.

  "Yes! He's still treating it like a treasure, how embarrassing. I think that kid's character is really not good. When everyone was praising him at first, his smug face now makes me feel sick when I think about it. And wasn't he also mocking someone who practices Falun Gong? Ha! The other person was holding a Dafa chair, but he isn't even a practitioner, what right does he have to mock?"

  "I really want to hear the sound of 'slap, slap' in the face, ah, it's so painful! This time not only did I lose my own person, but also lost the ancestor's person. What was that thing called? Ah, yes, that stupid thing called Xu Jingkai, this has become the biggest joke in our antique trading market, the heart is not enough to swallow the elephant!"

  "Who was it that just said that? That kid is so greedy, I'm sure his father and he are of the same kind. This store does business by scamming people, don't know how many have been cheated. Everyone spread the word, from now on never come here again, all of them are greedy scams."

  “……”

  Xu Shichang, with a dark face, returned to his store, his heart filled with flames of anger. Even though his son had picked up an antique worth 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, the surging fire in his heart still raged like a volcano, on the verge of erupting at any moment.

  Losing money is like being cheated out of 150,000 yuan by his own son. His anger wasn't as intense back then, but the damage to his reputation was done. Money can be earned again with hard work and brains, but a ruined reputation means no one will come to do business with him anymore.

  "Lock up the store for me."

  Suppressing his anger, Xu Shichang walked four or five meters into the room before shouting in a low voice.

  Xu Jingkai, who was following closely behind his father with a nervous heart, heard his father's low growl and immediately trembled, hastily turning around to close the door.

  "Hey, hey, don't close the door! I heard that what you picked up isn't a ritual object, but it's still a pretty good antique! Let's talk about it, 40,000 yuan, and I'll buy that antique from you."

  A loud and hoarse cry came over, and then those big hands were pushed onto the door, not allowing Xu Jingkai to close the door.

  "Right! Rong Lao did say that, it's an antique worth 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. I also want to buy it! Even if a mosquito is small, it's still meat!" Another voice quickly followed.

  Hahaha...

  The crowd outside the house burst into loud laughter.

  Xu Shichang's face turned black, his body stiffened as he walked towards the stairs, then suddenly turned around in anger and shouted: "Close the door."

  Xu Jingkai felt his face burning at this moment, as if he had been slapped in the face by countless invisible palms, and the shame made him want to find a seam in the ground to drill into.

  The anger that had been building up inside him also erupted at this moment. Looking at the faces outside with schadenfreude, his mouth twitched violently a few times before he shouted loudly: "What are you buying? That thing is not for sale."

  Everyone outside the door burst out laughing as soon as they heard Xu Jingkai's furious and embarrassed words.

  One middle-aged man laughed and shook his head, saying: "Forget it, forget it! Since they don't want to sell, we can't force them to buy or sell! Let's go, let's go! If the item he picked up isn't a mid-grade artifact, there should still be mid-grade artifacts in the antique market. Everyone can go look again, maybe someone will have good luck and find a real mid-grade artifact!"

  As the middle-aged man spoke, the crowd that had gathered around quickly dispersed.

  Returning to his residence, Wang Ke discovered that Li Ruoxi had not returned yet. The feeling of being on the verge of a breakthrough he had earlier also disappeared. Since it was still afternoon, Wang Ke did not immediately start cultivating and instead picked up the "Terra Geography" book Zhao Menfeng gave him two days ago to recite from memory. By now, he had already memorized more than half of the "Terra Geography". He was confident that if he recited some more tomorrow morning, he would be able to memorize the entire book's contents.

  "Ding dong......"

  The doorbell rang, interrupting Wang Ke's recitation of the "Geography Classic". He put down the book in his hand and walked quickly to the door. Through the peephole on the anti-theft door, he found that it was Li Ruoxi standing outside.

  As Wang Ke opened the door, he was slightly stunned to see Li Ruoxi holding many things in her hands, big and small bags, and even at her feet, pots, bowls, and ladles were all complete.

  "How did you bring so many things back?" Wang Ke asked in puzzlement.

  Li Ruoxi smiled and said: "The staff in the mall helped send it back."

  Wang Ke was stunned and curiously asked: "Will the staff in the mall help deliver goods home? I've never heard of it..."

  His voice trailed off as he thought of a possibility, that the staff in the mall should be men, and the reason why they would help Li Ruoxi send it back was completely because of Li Ruoxi's stunning beauty.

  "She's pretty, but she's also cheap!"

  Wang Ke secretly sighed in his heart.

  Helping Li Ruoxi move all the things back into the house, Wang Ke saw Li Ruoxi quickly tie up her apron.

  "Wang Ke, you go ahead and busy yourself! Tonight I'll cook dinner myself, just wait for your supper!" Li Ruoxi said with a smile.

  Wang Ke nodded, although he found it hard to believe that Li Ruoxi could cook, his curiosity was piqued and he wanted to know what kind of dish Li Ruoxi would come up with.

  Half an hour later, the aroma of food wafting from the kitchen made Wang Ke's expression become extremely strange.

  "Wang Ke, dinner is almost ready, hurry up and wash your hands to help me serve the dishes." Li Ruoxi shouted loudly from the kitchen.

  Wang Ke quickly put down the "Geography Classic" in his hand, and rushed to the kitchen. When he saw Li Ruoxi wearing an apron and stirring the sour and spicy potato shreds, he couldn't help but nod secretly. On the side table, two dishes of stir-fried vegetables were already placed on top.

  The dishes look good!

  After a short while, Wang Ke and Li Ruoxi, who had already untied her apron, sat down at the dinner table.

  "How's the taste? I haven't cooked for a long time, I don't know if my cooking skills have regressed." Li Ruoxi said with a smile, her absolutely beautiful face still carrying a hint of expectation.

  He picked up a piece of braised pork ribs and only after finishing it did he say in surprise: "Not bad, the color, smell and taste are all there. I didn't expect your cooking to be so delicious, almost comparable to that of a five-star hotel chef. Not bad, not bad, you're indeed a virtuous wife and good mother type."

  Li Ruoxi was somewhat excited by Wang Ke's praise, and the bright smile on her face added a few points of pride. She smiled and said: "Of course, my culinary skills have been practiced for two years. When I first entered university, I rented a house with a good sister outside, and we rarely ate in the school cafeteria. Almost all the meals were made by ourselves."

  Wang Ke suddenly enlightened, nodded and smiled: "Very powerful, then the glorious and great task of cooking in the future will be handed over to you."

  Li Ruoxi's expression froze for a moment, and then she gave Wang Ke a white eye. She said in a bad tone: "No wonder you're so eloquent today, it turns out that you're setting me up! You want me to speak directly when I cook in the future? How hypocritical. However, in the future, I can cook, but you can't give me less than one cent of living expenses. How about this, from now on, you'll give me 5,000 yuan every month, and I guarantee that you'll eat well and drink well."

  Wang Ke bitterly smiled: "Five thousand yuan? My living expenses?"

  Li Ruoxi said matter-of-factly: "Don't our two people's cooking labor costs count?"

  Wang Ke was speechless and smiled bitterly: "So you're saying I've been supporting you?"

  "Of course you'll support me, otherwise I'd be doing all the household chores for nothing..."

  Her voice trailed off as she keenly sensed the ambiguity and inappropriateness of the conversation.

  Wang Ke suddenly reacted and his face, which had been smiling wryly, instantly became stiff.

  The ambiguous atmosphere lingered between the two, and they both felt quite embarrassed. Neither of them spoke again, instead focusing on silently clearing the fragrant food from the table. It wasn't until five or six minutes had passed that Li Ruoxi quickly put down her chopsticks, looked down, and said, "I'm full, I'll go rest for a bit. You finish eating, and I'll clean up the bowls and chopsticks later." Then she hastily walked towards her room.

  It wasn't until Li Ruoxi's back disappeared from view at the door that Wang Ke finally let out a silent sigh of relief.

  Li Ruoxi quickly returned to her bedroom, feeling that her cheeks were burning fiercely. Just now, the ambiguous atmosphere between her and Wang Ke had caused her heart to beat faster, making her feel restless and uncomfortable all over.

  She doesn't understand what's wrong with herself. She never had such emotions before, but why did one sentence make her so agitated today?

  She slowly covered her scorching face with both hands, locked the door behind her, and then let out a weak moan before quickly collapsing onto the bed.

  Wang Ke put down the chopsticks in his hand, turned his head to look at Li Ruoxi's door, and silently shook his head. Romance was still too early for him, even if there was some ambiguity between them, he wouldn't take it seriously. He thought: A man should have a career before talking about family.

  After finishing dinner, he took the remaining dishes to the kitchen, washed the bowls and chopsticks clean, looked at the time, now it was already 6:30 in the evening, so he turned around and left his residence. Because he had promised Tiezi, the boy who kowtowed to him yesterday, that he would teach him martial arts today, so he couldn't go back on his word.

  As for Tiezi, he felt a little curious about the boy with a strong and stubborn gaze in his eyes. Since he was an orphan, how did he live by himself?