Chapter 3567 — Not Even Cave Dwelling Number Fourteen Would I Give You
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He was no fool, and he had already guessed why Wei Zhao was doing this. True, doing so would likely offend Meng Zhou completely, and even draw in the senior brother Meng Jueming behind him—but Qiao Hongcai was not afraid. Whether he offended them or not, the fact was that these people would never accept him; otherwise they would not have assigned him Cave Dwelling Number Fifteen without a word of discussion.
And now Wei Zhao had extended him goodwill—to trade Number Fifteen for Number Fourteen was a pie dropped straight from the heavens, enough to change the entire course of his future life. How could he not be wild with joy!
"Of course it's all right. Senior Brother Meng said just now that we may exchange cave dwellings privately among ourselves." Wei Zhao glanced at Meng Jueming's dark, glowering face and spoke calmly.
To Qiao Hongcai this was a matter momentous enough to alter the trajectory of his life, but to Wei Zhao it was no more than a small thing done in passing. He had only just met Qiao Hongcai, but from the man's earlier conduct it was clear that though his strength was hardly remarkable, he had hot blood in his veins—a rare thing in a cultivation world grown cold to human feeling. Wei Zhao's impression of him was rather good, and he was hardly going to begrudge so small a favor, one he could do with a mere turn of his hand.
"Then I thank you, Brother Lin!" Qiao Hongcai did not look at Meng Jueming's or Meng Zhou's faces again, but joyfully accepted on the spot and took his place behind Wei Zhao.
After today's affair, Meng Zhou and his lot would surely hate him all the more; if he wanted to go on staying here, he could only band together with Wei Zhao and the others. Wei Zhao might have come up from the mortal realm, but the impression he gave was a very good one—he was worth befriending.
Wei Zhao then looked at Meng Zhou and said, "So now Cave Dwelling Number Fifteen at the foot of the mountain is mine. Meng Zhou, according to the rules Senior Brother Meng laid down earlier, I want to use it to trade for your Cave Dwelling Number One at the foot of the mountain. You won't go back on your word, I trust?"
"What? You actually want me to live in that worst cave dwelling in history?" Meng Zhou had been puzzling over why Wei Zhao, having won, did not trade cave dwellings with him but instead went to trade with Qiao Hongcai—what sort of thinking was that? Could it be that he was putting on airs and simply did not want his own cave dwelling?
So he had actually been rather pleased, until this moment, when it finally dawned on him what Wei Zhao intended. It struck him like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and it was a long while before he recovered. His venomous gaze ranged back and forth between Wei Zhao and Qiao Hongcai, as though he wished he could swallow the two of them alive.
Mind you, even trading his Cave Dwelling Number One at the foot of the mountain for Number Fourteen had already set his teeth on edge—and now, to his astonishment, Wei Zhao was playing an even crueler game, demanding that he go live in Number Fifteen, the worst cave dwelling in history!
This was a feud beyond all hope of reconciliation! At the thought of spending the coming month in the worst cave dwelling in history and becoming the laughingstock of every newcomer from then on, Meng Zhou felt he was on the verge of a mental breakdown!