Chapter 4021 — A Grudge Is Born
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Hmph. Once this is over, I simply must dig up every last detail about this country bumpkin's background. Right in front of me, no less, he thought he could win Junior Sister Tianchan's attention by flinging spirit jade around. A toad dreaming of swan meat—as if the likes of you deserve it!" Zheng Tianjie, all the while basking in the stunned gazes of the crowd, hurled his curses at Wei Zhao from afar.
What had suddenly changed his mind was none other than Tianchan herself. He had been flinging all that spirit jade for the sole purpose of pleasing her, and now she had gone and fixed her eyes on another man—how could he possibly tolerate that?
Even if it cost him every last piece of spirit jade he had, today he was determined to grind Wei Zhao beneath his heel, to teach this nameless bumpkin who had crawled out of nowhere just what it meant to cross a somebody from Middle Island!
This ghostly twist of events left Wei Zhao dumbstruck for a good long while. But that was not the end of it. Wei Zhao quickly steadied himself and continued, "Since you are in such high spirits, my lord, I shall keep you company to the end. Three hundred thousand spirit jade."
"Hmph! You think you can contend with me? You have no idea how high the heavens are or how deep the earth is. Today I shall bury you under spirit jade—five hundred thousand spirit jade!" Zheng Tianjie declared with insolent bluster. To shine in front of Tianchan, he had worked himself into a frenzy and cared nothing for the cost.
"Five hundred thousand spirit jade?" Wei Zhao lifted his eyelids. Just when everyone expected this madman to keep trading blows with that fool Zheng Tianjie, he suddenly changed tack: "I merely wanted to see how deep your pockets really are. I never intended to buy this ten-piece set in the first place. Since you want it so sincerely, I would hate to rob a man of what he loves. Five hundred thousand spirit jade—very well, I yield it to you."
With that, Wei Zhao sat back down at his ease, as though the whole affair had nothing whatsoever to do with him.
Huh? All that spectacle, just to see how deep the other man's pockets were? This peerless logic left the entire hall utterly dumbfounded, and as for Zheng Tianjie, the man at the center of it all, he stood frozen for the longest time, unable to react.
Only after a good while, under the peculiar stares of everyone around him, did Zheng Tianjie slowly come back to his senses. Even with as little brain as he had, he now understood that he had been played from start to finish!
"You cunning little bumpkin! Today I shall hack you into ten thousand pieces!" Zheng Tianjie was on the verge of exploding on the spot. Even back on Middle Island he had always run roughshod over everyone, and now that he had come to a backwater like the Far North Island, he was naturally even less restrained. To be toyed with and provoked like this by a nobody like Wei Zhao, in full view of the crowd—this was beyond all bearing!
Yet before Zheng Tianjie could erupt, Steward Song's gaze upon the platform had already turned cold, and countless fully armed Northern Guardians around him were poised to strike.
However special Zheng Tianjie's status might be, this was, after all, the Far North Island, and it had only one master: Steward Song, who wielded the authority of the Island Lord in his stead. To let Zheng Tianjie run wild here would be no different from slapping him across the face in public.
In both standing and strength, the Far North Island was a uniquely special power among the Cloud Terrace Islands, an existence that stood apart from the five great islands. Though they treated visitors from Middle Island with courtesy, they never shielded them or yielded to them. For Zheng Tianjie to try to make trouble here was nothing short of courting death.
In an instant, the atmosphere turned knife-edge tense. The crowd held its breath as one, and a clash seemed about to unfold before their eyes.