Chapter 527 — Deliberate Sabotage
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There was no need to sour relations over something so trivial, a mere worldly possession one could take or leave.
"These people are seriously rich!" Feng Xiaoxiao's tongue clicked as she listened to the closing bids that routinely ran into the tens of millions. "Give me just a tiny piece of that, and I could buy myself a Ferrari!"
"And how much did you swindle out of Wu Chengtian yesterday?" Wei Zhao put in, rather amused.
"Heh heh... well, who told him to provoke me?" Feng Xiaoxiao said, as though it were the most natural thing in the world. "Swindling him a little is nothing! He's lucky I didn't teach him a proper lesson! Say—Wei Zhao, what are you doing at the auction too? You and them..."
Feng Xiaoxiao had not given it much thought before, but recalling how Fatty Lai had called Wei Zhao "boss" a moment ago, her eyes went wide with astonishment. "You're that fatty's boss?"
Several dark lines materialized on Wei Zhao's forehead, and he was left momentarily speechless. He had overlooked the fact that Feng Xiaoxiao was right there beside him and had forgotten to warn Fatty Lai to mind his tongue—and now Feng Xiaoxiao had caught a whiff of it.
"That fatty is the president of a pharmaceutical company. He saw how skilled I am and wanted to be my lackey," Wei Zhao explained, in a way that was not quite a lie and not quite the truth.
"Oh, I see... That fatty looks pretty loaded?" Feng Xiaoxiao squinted over at Fatty Lai. "Hey, fatty—I'm your boss's woman. Aren't you going to give me a little welcome gift?"
"Ga?" Fatty Lai's eyes bulged, and he looked at Wei Zhao with a face full of questions.
"Pay her no mind. She's not right in the head," Wei Zhao said, waving a hand to signal that Fatty Lai should ignore Feng Xiaoxiao.
Fatty Lai gave a dry laugh and turned away, though inwardly he was puzzling it over: did this girl actually have something going with the boss or not?
"Is that really all there is to it? He seems to obey you awfully well. That pharmaceutical company—you don't have a stake in it too, do you?" Feng Xiaoxiao was no fool, and she certainly did not buy Wei Zhao's story. Just being highly skilled in martial arts was enough to make that fatty so obedient? That did not seem very likely, did it?
Wei Zhao ignored her and turned his gaze to the auction stage, for the next lot was the thousand-year snow lotus—though his real target was the box the snow lotus was kept in.
"Hmph! Fine, keep your secrets!" Seeing that Wei Zhao was ignoring her again, Feng Xiaoxiao grew a little piqued. Just how poorly did he think of her? In what way was she any less than Tang Zhi?
"The next lot is a thousand-year snow lotus!" The auctioneer slowly set an exquisite wooden box down upon the auction block and said in a measured voice, "I'm sure everyone knows what a thousand-year snow lotus is good for, so I won't waste time introducing it! You are all also well aware that snow lotuses are hard to come by these days—not to mention thousand-year ones, even hundred-year ones! This thousand-year snow lotus was discovered inside a cave and is of great antiquity; when it was found, it was already stored in this very box. It has been appraised by experts, and the snow lotus is at least a thousand years old..."
The auctioneer rattled on, recounting the whole history of the thousand-year snow lotus. In truth, all of this was noted in the auction catalogue; the auctioneer was merely repeating it in his own words.
"The reserve price for the thousand-year snow lotus is five million. Bidding begins now!" With that, the auctioneer waited for the bids to come in.
The thousand-year snow lotus did, for a moment, bring about a lull—because although most people had heard of such a thing, they had no idea how to use it. They were not in the pharmaceutical line; spending five million to take it home would, in all likelihood, be money down the drain.
So most of them simply watched and waited. But at that moment, someone made a bid.