Chapter 3608 — All Are Welcome to Watch
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And those who had harbored disloyal thoughts before now settled down as well, all of them having grasped the situation clearly. They did not have Wei Zhao's luck. To throw in their lot with Kusuo—would that not leave them even more miserable than Kusuo himself?
Besides, Xu Lingchong's meaning was plain enough between the lines: he would be Meng Jueming's backer. So what was there left for anyone to fear? This was a backer of the highest order!
Meng Jueming cast Xu Lingchong a look of gratitude, and at once felt the stirrings of a man who would die for the one who understood him. If Xu Lingchong said he would shelter him, would he not have an even freer rein in the future? The very thought filled him with delight beyond measure. To follow a leader of this caliber—that was simply **explosive**!
Wei Zhao, meanwhile, regarded Xu Lingchong with a thoughtful glance. This eldest young master Xu was no empty-headed fool. Arrogant and domineering he might appear, carrying himself as though he were the first man under heaven, but in truth his cunning and calculation were far from slight!
Still, Wei Zhao did not take it to heart. These people were all his enemies in any case, and there was no reconciling with them. Let them do as they pleased.
So he unhurriedly followed the handover procedure, and once the weighing was done, he gathered up his spirit jade and queued at the quality inspection office, betraying not the least sign of impatience.
Wei Zhao had the patience to wait, but Xu Lingchong, eager to see him made a laughingstock, had no such forbearance. After a word to someone, he simply had Kang Jingming cut Wei Zhao's basket straight to the front of the queue at the inspection office. Xu Lingchong's deep background was plain for all to see, after all, and everyone turned a blind eye to it, daring to seethe but not to speak.
Soon the inspection results came out, and it was still the voice of that Senior Brother Tong of the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion from the day before: "Wei Zhao—ten fine jade, seven waste jade, nineteen garbage jade!"
"T-ten! How is that possible!" Meng Zhou was so startled he nearly bit off his own tongue. He had strained every sinew today just to dig out eight fine jade, and that was in Mining Zone Seven! Yet look at Wei Zhao over in the dead Mining Zone Ten—yesterday, his first day, he had dug eight fine jade, and today he had actually outdone himself, climbing to ten!
Not only Meng Zhou—Xu Lingchong, Meng Jueming, and the rest all wore expressions as magnificent as though they had eaten shit. One by one their faces flushed crimson, each looking as if he wanted to vomit but could not. This was not merely eating shit; this was being stuffed to death with it!
Yesterday, Wei Zhao digging up eight fine jade could be chalked up to dog-shit luck. But how to account for today's ten? Could this fellow truly be a child of fortune, able to step in dog shit two days running?
"Nothing to be done—I'm just a man of excellent character. When luck comes, there's no holding it back!" Wei Zhao shrugged at the lot of them with feigned helplessness. It was enough to kill a man with sheer fury and not even answer for it.
My heavens! Dead Mining Zone Ten could not produce even a few fine jade in a whole year—how could this thing possibly dig out so many fine jade two days in a row? I damn well refuse to believe such evil!
Xu Lingchong was so enraged by Wei Zhao's expression that smoke seemed to rise from all seven orifices of his head. In a fit of fury he jabbed a finger at the inspection office and roared, "Old man Tong, get out here! Bring out this pile of his waste jade and re-inspect it right in front of me!"