Chapter 4020 — A Complicated Look
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At these words the whole hall erupted again. For the sake of a single material in a ten-piece set, he had called out fifty thousand spirit jade—and bought it merely to refine a Beauty Serum Pill that was utterly useless for cultivation, all to please a woman. This Zheng Tianjie of the Pill Hall truly lived up to his name as a gullible, prodigal wastrel!
Watching the man's arrogant, self-important air, Wei Zhao was struck speechless. At this critical moment he had run into this fool of a country bumpkin who did not lack for spirit jade—his luck really could not get any worse.
But Wei Zhao was determined to have these rare forging materials on this trip, no matter how much spirit jade it cost. He refused to yield an inch: "Sixty thousand spirit jade!"
Unexpectedly, Zheng Tianjie did not so much as blink before striking back: "Eighty thousand spirit jade!"
"One hundred thousand spirit jade!" Wei Zhao hesitated not a whit either, calling out again.
"Oh, you are ruthless!" Zheng Tianjie was instantly choked off.
By this point, nearly everyone in the hall had been stunned senseless by the two of them. For an item with a base price of a mere ten thousand spirit jade—rare as these forging materials might be, they were still far from world-shaking—the bidding had now climbed effortlessly to the astronomical sum of one hundred thousand spirit jade. It was simply inconceivable!
Such an astronomical price was no small sum for any power whatsoever. However much spirit jade Zheng Tianjie's family might have, he too had to weigh whether it was worth it.
After all, he was bidding on this thing merely to please a woman. To call it neglecting his proper duties was already giving him far too much credit. If he kept butting heads with Wei Zhao like this and his grandfather got wind of it, he might well be confined for a month—and that would be no fun at all.
Fool that he was, Zheng Tianjie was no complete idiot, and at a moment like this he could still tell what mattered. He began to entertain thoughts of retreat; there was no need at all to pick such a baffling quarrel with a total stranger.
Seeing the shift in Zheng Tianjie's expression, Wei Zhao rejoiced inwardly. So long as this fool backed down, no other sane person would possibly compete with him over this paltry ten-piece forging set.
One hundred thousand spirit jade—that price already far exceeded the set's true value. No one would be foolish enough to keep bidding higher.
Sure enough, once Zheng Tianjie fell silent, everyone else in the hall wore the look of detached spectators, with no intention of joining the bidding. Seeing this, Steward Song hesitated no longer and was about to bring down the hammer.
A single ten-piece forging set fetching the astronomical price of one hundred thousand spirit jade—this Four Islands Auction Exposition truly was a case of fools aplenty and spirit jade to spare. A surefire profit, through and through.
Yet just as Wei Zhao was about to relax, Zheng Tianjie—who had clearly been on the verge of retreating—suddenly called out again, his face twisted with savage arrogance: "Hold on! Two hundred thousand spirit jade!"
One sentence, and the whole hall instantly boiled over. Two hundred thousand spirit jade? Damn it, what on earth had happened to this world?
"Has this country bumpkin taken leave of his senses?" Wei Zhao was astonished beyond measure. He gave the swaggering Zheng Tianjie a long, deep look, and for a good while could make no sense of it.
Only when he noticed the strange look in Tian Chan's eyes did understanding finally dawn on him.
At this very moment, the way Tian Chan looked at Wei Zhao was no longer the utterly unruffled gaze of before; it now clearly held a complicated meaning within it. From this it was plain that Tian Chan had not failed to recognize Wei Zhao earlier—she simply did not wish to recognize him!