Chapter 3632 — Where Are You Rushing Off To?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
That exploration expert, Senior Brother Ma, had sworn up and down that dead Mine No. 10 could produce thirty or forty pieces of good jade at the absolute most, and that it would take at least two or three months to dig them all out!
In other words, under normal circumstances, Wei Zhao digging up even one piece of good jade in a day would have counted as good luck. As for three pieces in a day—that was simply impossible!
Otherwise, Meng Jueming would never have dared to open his mouth and offer three-to-ten odds right off the bat, and then go on to propose a five-for-fifteen wager. He had bet so boldly precisely because he was certain Wei Zhao could not dig up three pieces of good jade!
And now look how it had turned out—the man had pulled out twelve in one go, stunning everyone into silence!
Twelve pieces of good jade in a single day—what kind of concept was that?
It not only crushed every one of Qingyun Pavilion's Mines No. 7, 8, and 9, it even eclipsed Xuanji Pavilion's Mines No. 5 and No. 6 outright. Mine No. 4 might compare, but that was already Xuanji Pavilion's finest, highest-quality mine of all!
Taking in the stunned, at-a-loss expressions on every face, Wei Zhao could not help but let a mocking curve play at the corner of his mouth. To make good on what he had told Meng Jueming that morning, he had deliberately hidden three spirit jades on himself today, so that he could legitimately bring out twelve pieces of good jade and blind every last one of them with his brilliance!
With his earlier run of coming up empty-handed day after day as a foundation, Wei Zhao had calculated that even if he suddenly exploded with results today, it would not plant any undue suspicions in the others' minds. At most, they would simply think he had gotten as lucky as ever—except that this time his luck had been especially explosive.
Compared with the others' shock and consternation, the long-suffering senior brother, Xiao Che, and Qiao Hongcai were beside themselves with joy. All three had assumed they were certain to lose; the long-suffering senior brother had even been ready to pull out the five spirit jades in his bosom. Who would have thought that Wei Zhao, without a word, would hand them such an incomparable, enormous surprise!
And so, not only did the long-suffering senior brother not have to pay out five spirit jades, but by the terms of the earlier wager, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai could actually win fifteen spirit jades off Meng Jueming! For men who had long since resigned themselves to losing, this was utterly unexpected windfall—even winning a ten-million jackpot in the mortal world's lottery could hardly compare!
Looking at these few beside themselves with delight, Meng Jueming's face turned incomparably ugly in an instant. At this moment he could have happily given himself two hearty slaps. Why had he opened his wretched mouth and made a bet? Wouldn't it have been perfectly fine to just stand back and watch Wei Zhao make a fool of himself? Even if he hadn't watched, he wouldn't have eaten such a huge, silent loss!
Fifteen spirit jades—even for someone as smooth and well-connected as Meng Jueming, that counted as a huge sum. To actually have to lose it to Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai, two creatures he had always found disagreeable, would probably leave him sick with rage for a whole month.
"Let's go!" Meng Jueming quietly shot Meng Zhou a look. He meant to slip away through the crowd while everyone was still too stunned to react. As long as he was not caught and made to pay up on the spot, he could rely on his convenient status as managing senior brother and find some excuse to wriggle out of this gambling debt later.
However, Wei Zhao had been watching him all along and clearly had no intention of letting him have his way. He at once called out in a loud, clear voice: "Senior Brother Meng, where are you rushing off to in such a hurry?"