Chapter 3626 — I'll Fight You!
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
But Wei Zhao, that good-for-nothing, simply couldn't be propped up. Relying on the Third Pavilion Master's backing, he not only failed to show any gratitude to Senior Brother Meng, but once he reached Mining Zone Seven he badmouthed Senior Brother Meng at every turn and managed to outrage everyone in less than two days. Senior Brother Meng, in a fit of rage, kicked Wei Zhao back to Mining Zone Ten, and now he had called everyone here precisely to watch Wei Zhao's misery on his first day back in the dead mining zone—to see whether this insolent fool still had his old dog-shit luck!
The newcomers who had climbed to the Heaven tier and beyond were naturally all shrewd operators. Never mind how much of the rumor was actually credible—they at least knew that Wei Zhao really had been shuffled back and forth between mining zones these past two days, and that Meng Jueming really was the one pulling the strings from behind the scenes. That was enough for them to draw a very important conclusion: this managing senior brother, Meng Jueming, truly had the power to turn clouds into rain and rain into clouds. Those who went along with him would prosper; those who crossed him might not necessarily perish, but their ends would certainly be wretched!
So even if some newcomers still harbored the worry that Wei Zhao might slap them all down again as he had at the beginning, in terms of stance they clung tightly to Meng Jueming. Since Senior Brother Meng wanted them to watch Wei Zhao, then they would watch him obediently—it wasn't as if they were the ones who'd be losing out.
A short while later, beneath everyone's expectant gaze, Wei Zhao's figure finally appeared on the long, shadowy Mining Zone Ten tunnel. As for the crowd gathered there, Wei Zhao showed not the slightest surprise; as always, he calmly went about the weighing and quality inspection.
"Wei Zhao: sixteen pieces of waste jade, twenty pieces of garbage jade."
The moment the quality inspection results were announced, Meng Jueming and the others couldn't help but curl their lips into mocking arcs, and the whole crowd erupted in an uproar. Even the other newcomers looked at Wei Zhao with undisguised schadenfreude. Envying those who had and mocking those who hadn't—that was the vile nature these people were born with.
Wei Zhao watched the crowd without betraying a thing. He hadn't hidden any spirit jade today, so naturally he hadn't charged the waste jade he dug up. After all, Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou had toiled in Mining Zone Ten for two days and dug up nothing, yet the moment he returned he'd unearth good jade—that would be far too suspicious. So to avoid raising doubts, he decided to play dumb for a couple of days first.
And there was another purpose behind his doing so.
"Hey, you posturing newcomer, aren't you supposed to be the legendary child of fortune? How come you don't have your dog-shit luck this time?" Meng Zhou hopped out to jeer, having waited a long time for this day. Feigning sudden realization, he cried, "Oh, I get it—you must not have stepped in dog shit on your way out this morning, that's why your dog-shit luck ran out! How pitiful! Bwahahaha!"
Hearing this, the newcomers burst into even more unrestrained laughter. Meng Zhou might not usually seem all that bright, but when it came to running his mouth and cutting people down, he really had a knack for it!
But instead of flying into a humiliated rage as everyone expected, Wei Zhao looked at Meng Zhou with a placid expression and said thoughtfully, "You know, you've actually reminded me of something. On my first day here I kicked you in the face, and my luck's been pretty good ever since. Could that be the dog-shit luck you're talking about?"
"Huh?" Meng Zhou froze, utterly bewildered. "What the hell are you talking about! What does kicking me in the face have to do with dog-shit luck?"