Chapter 3623 — What a Great Guy
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"Waste jade? What use could anyone possibly have for waste jade? And trading good jade full of spirit energy for waste jade—what, is he going to eat the stuff? Someone must have kicked him in the head!" Kang Jingming was baffled, and even Zhong Yongliang looked a little dazed.
The spirit energy inside waste jade was far too thin—nothing compared to the cultivation caves Yingxin Pavilion allotted to newcomers. Even the worthless newcomers of Qingyun Pavilion would never stoop to the little bit of spirit energy in waste jade!
Meng Jueming smirked with satisfaction. "Heh heh, don't look so shocked, you two. When I handed over that spirit jade, he had no idea it was waste jade—he thought all twenty-five pieces were good jade. One small spirit jade for twenty-five pieces of good jade? A pie falling out of the sky like that knocked him senseless on the spot, so I talked him into signing the contract right then and there. Even if he discovers afterward that it's all waste jade, there's no backing out!"
"So that's how it is! Turns out Senior Brother Meng pulled one over on Wei Zhao!" Kang Jingming finally understood, chuckling gleefully. Anything that made Wei Zhao eat dirt was a spectacle he delighted in.
But Zhong Yongliang did not see it that way. Of everyone present, he had known Wei Zhao the longest and understood him best. In his view, the miracles led by Wei Zhao had been proven time and again back in the mortal world—this was absolutely not someone who could be easily conned. If Wei Zhao wasn't conning others, that was already a mercy; how could anyone con him? Zhong Yongliang himself had suffered bitterly from that particular brand of self-inflicted foot-shooting! He'd been conned so hard he lost a kidney!
So someone tricking him into trading good jade for waste jade—an act of such spectacular stupidity—was the last thing that would ever happen to Wei Zhao. Unless he actually wanted that waste jade and was willing to be cheated!
Though he had no idea what Wei Zhao could possibly want with waste jade, Zhong Yongliang already had a faint feeling that once those pieces reached Leader Wei Zhao's hands, they would be put to great use. Meng Jueming and the others thought they had pulled one over on Leader Wei Zhao—but they might well be playing right into his hands.
The group gloated for a moment, then Kang Jingming pressed on. "So how do we kick Wei Zhao back to Mining Zone Ten? Has Senior Brother Meng thought of any good plan? We can't just let him loaf around in Zone Seven forever, can we?"
"That's exactly what's giving me a headache. Just now Meng Zhou said we should trick Wei Zhao into coming back with another twenty-five pieces of waste jade, and I said Wei Zhao isn't an idiot—how could he fall for the same trick twice? You two are sharp men. What do you think?" Meng Jueming looked hopefully at Kang Jingming and Zhong Yongliang.
"Exactly. Barely two days have passed, and you want Wei Zhao to fall for the same stupid trick again? Does that make Wei Zhao the fool, or you?" Kang Jingming shot Meng Zhou a scoffing glance, his contempt plain for all to see, and Meng Zhou's face flushed crimson at the remark.
At that moment, Zhong Yongliang suddenly chimed in. "Actually, I rather think Junior Brother Meng Zhou's suggestion isn't necessarily doomed to fail!"
"Oh? What makes you say that, Junior Brother Zhong?" Meng Jueming and Kang Jingming asked in surprise at the same time, while Meng Zhou cast Zhong Yongliang a grateful look for bailing him out.
What a great guy. Senior Brother Zhong is such a good man—I should get closer to him in the future, and consult him whenever something comes up!
Zhong Yongliang was not like Meng Zhou. He, like Kang Jingming, was one of the subordinates Xu Lingchong had personally recruited into Chongtian Pavilion—and no fool. The same words coming from Meng Zhou's mouth would only earn ridicule, but spoken by Zhong Yongliang, they made Meng Jueming and Kang Jingming think long and hard.