Free Web NovelChapter 1659: Chapter 1661: Loaded!
Hearing what Xiaorou said, Lu Xiaobu just smiled and didn’t comment.
Would he give up just like that?
Bullshit!
Even though he’d taken Xiaorou in by a freak accident.
But once he took her, she was his. He absolutely wouldn’t allow a situation where his people’s Life and death were controlled by someone else.
They were still walking along.
A group of people came straight toward them, looking exactly the same as those big fellows who had already disappeared.
"People from Yiji Mansion." Wan Jian’s Flying Sword was already out of its sheath.
Xiaorou was even more terrified; she directly hid behind Lu Xiaobu and didn’t even dare raise her head.
"Easy." Lu Xiaobu waved his hand, calmly watching that aggressive-looking group walk over.
"You’re the ones who snatched my slaves?"
A man who looked like a merchant stepped out, squinting at Lu Xiaobu and Wan Jian in front of him.
He might have phrased it like a question, but his tone was full of certainty!
"That’s right." Lu Xiaobu took the lead and didn’t deny it: "And I killed a few of your people. I forgot exactly how many."
"You really have guts, huh! Daring to meddle in my Yiji Mansion’s business?" The merchant said icily, "So what now, draw a line?"
"Name your price." Lu Xiaobu said flatly, "I’ll just buy them all."
"Tch!" The merchant suddenly laughed. He shook his head and looked at Lu Xiaobu. "Are you really stupid, or just pretending?"
As he spoke, he pointed at the token on Lu Xiaobu’s waist, the one given by the City Guard Army: "That Golden Core Early Stage from poor-as-hell Nanshan City wants to buy slaves?! And more than a dozen of them?! You could sell yourself and still not afford them!"
The onlookers around them all burst out laughing when they heard the merchant’s words.
"Is it that the prices in Nanshan City are too low? Makes him think with two Spirit Stones he can buy anything?!"
"Don’t say buy, renting a dozen slaves for a day, he probably can’t even afford that, let alone buying them!"
"He might really be a bit dumb!"
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous!"
"Let’s see how he gets out of this! Hope he doesn’t get so embarrassed he starts fighting, that’d be losing both wife and soldiers!"
"..."
Nanshan City wasn’t unfamiliar in these people’s minds.
But the words that came with it were—poor and backward.
So when someone from Nanshan City, which they all looked down on, said he wanted to buy slaves that they themselves couldn’t afford, they all wanted to laugh.
The louder they laughed, the more embarrassed Lu Xiaobu’s side would be, and the more excited and pleased they would feel.
"Name your price, aren’t you a merchant?"
Lu Xiaobu said blandly.
"Fine! Since you said so, I won’t rip you off!" The merchant opened his mouth: "There are twelve Golden Core Early Stage slaves in total, all premium stock, but I’ll give you a discount—buy ten, get two free, total three thousand Spirit Stones! How’s that? Pay up!"
As he spoke, he looked at Lu Xiaobu with mocking eyes.
He was deliberately using his "generosity" to highlight the other side’s pettiness. Three thousand Spirit Stones—go on, buy them, I bet you’ve never even seen that many Spirit Stones in your life.
The crowd around them burst into hearty laughter again.
"Pay up! This guy rarely has such a charitable moment!"
"Buy ten get two free! I remember even the City Lord didn’t get that kind of discount last time!"
"Three hundred Spirit Stones each, that’s really not expensive!"
"Old Wang, how about I buy them? I’ll give you three thousand five!"
"..."
"Roll, roll, roll! All of you are trying to take advantage of me!" the merchant snapped.
Then he looked back at Lu Xiaobu again: "Well? Pay up!"
"Mm, okay."
Lu Xiaobu nodded calmly, then stretched his hand out to Wan Jian.
Wan Jian immediately handed over a bundle.
Open, shake!
"Clatter! Clatter!"
With the sound, everyone saw Spirit Stone after Spirit Stone spill out of that bundle, dazzling to the eye and enough to make mouths water!
Very quickly, a little hill rose up on the ground.
The people around them were all stunned.
"My god! He really has them?!"
"So many Spirit Stones?! That many?!"
"Since when were people from Nanshan City this rich?!"
"Is that three thousand?"
"At least five thousand!"
"Filthy rich!"
"..."
The voices of the crowd grew smaller and smaller.
They all felt a bit embarrassed.
They’d just been saying this guy had probably never even seen that many, and he’d just dumped them out right in front of them!
This slap stung like hell!
The merchant, especially, stared fixedly at the pile of Spirit Stones on the ground, his eyes going glassy!
He actually has them!?
This guy actually has that many Spirit Stones?!
And what followed immediately was heartache!
Damn it! Why the hell did I act so generous!
If he’d known earlier that this guy had that much money, he’d rather die than say something like three hundred each and buy ten get two free!
Now it was great—words out are like Water spilled, no taking them back. He’d lost face and money both!
No, even if that money’s gone, he absolutely can’t let him take back this extra pile on the ground!
Then his expression instantly changed; he put on a fawning smile and looked at Lu Xiaobu: "Young Master, I was blind not to recognize Mount Tai! I was wrong, I was wrong!"
Right after, he hurriedly added: "How about this, to make up for it, I’ll sell you a few more at a cheaper price. Look, these few behind me, all good seedlings! I’ll give you a discount, sell them cheap to you, how about it?! Not expensive at all, just use the extra you took out!"
Hearing him, the people around all looked a bit contemptuous.
This guy’s trying to scam an out-of-towner again!
The earlier batch—the ones who’d been killed—were absolutely premium goods, otherwise they wouldn’t have been used as enforcers.
So three hundred Spirit Stones really wasn’t expensive!
But this batch behind him right now were all the lowest level, only good for manual labor, yet he still had the gall to pat his chest and call them premium!
And that "extra" Spirit Stones he was talking about—those extra ones were almost two thousand!
That’s enough to buy several top-grade slaves, and now he wanted him to use that to buy a few defective ones!
Truly fucking black-hearted!
But even though that’s what they were thinking, not a single person stood up to say it.
Everyone knew this merchant was famous for bearing grudges. If they messed up his business now, the trouble would all fall on them!
"Sure." Lu Xiaobu listened to the merchant and answered blandly.
Hearing him agree, the merchant was instantly overjoyed. He took out a Jade Scroll and handed it to Lu Xiaobu, then turned around and said, "This is your new master. I’ll go handle the paperwork right away. Move it! Go to your new master!"
He wanted to lock this in as a done deal, in case Lu Xiaobu regretted it.
Those slaves looked numbly at the merchant, then at Lu Xiaobu, said nothing, and walked over with their heads lowered.
The merchant, on the other hand, stared at the pile of Spirit Stones on the ground with boundless greed—Hahaha, this idiot, all of this is mine now!
And at that moment—
"Alright, your first order: beat him. Beat him to death if you can." Lu Xiaobu casually pointed at the merchant and said to those slaves who had just become his people.
The moment these words came out, the entire street fell silent; everyone stared at this scene in disbelief.
But the eyes of those slaves turned slightly red!
They were excited. Today, blood was going to spill—and it would be the blood of the one who used to casually beat and curse them!
