Chapter 31: Still Laughing? Who Was This All For?! I Am The Xi Family’s Future…
The raw jadeite stone Xi Yun bought was a full half-person tall.
Le Can only glanced briefly at the seven-figure sum. He didn’t see the exact amount clearly, but the starting digit was much larger than the one-million-plus he spent on the Glass Species Imperial Green material he picked up.
The surface of this rough stone looked neither good nor bad.
It wasn’t as thrilling as the “Big Rice Ball” 2817, which had tinea and cracks leaving one unsure where to start. Nor was it like Gu Xinxue’s Ice Species Floating Flower semi-open material, which had clear manifestations and was almost a sure bet.
Yet Xi Yun dared to stake the Wei Yuan Jing Spring Auction on it, and Le Can also moved it to the final round to use as a trump card.
The onlookers didn’t know the inside story, but both Le Can and Xi Yun knew very well how shocking the inside of this material was!
“Shall we open it?”
Le Can asked, knowing the answer.
Xi Yun looked sideways and said indifferently, “Your congratulations can’t be for nothing, why not open it?”
Although the outcome of the bet was already decided, the remaining stones still had to be opened. Le Can nodded slightly. Besides, he had stolen the limelight in the first two rounds; it was time to bring the topic back to this big guy…
Thinking this, Le Can turned to the stone-cutting master, his tone very polite: “I’ll have to trouble Master to continue. I’ll definitely give you a big red envelope later!”
From the Peach Blossom Spring onwards, the smile on the old master’s face hadn’t faded. After cutting out two pieces of Glass Species Imperial Green, he was so excited his face was red and his neck thick; the wrinkles on his face seemed to smooth out, making him look younger.
“Hahaha, no trouble, no trouble!”
The stone-cutting master simply couldn’t ask for a better task—getting money and gaining a good reputation.
“This big guy, and this one…” Le Can weighed the five-kilogram rust-skinned Mo Wan Ji rough stone he had bought on a whim.
He chuckled, speaking half-truthfully and half-falsely: “The Glass Species Imperial Green was really too big of a surprise. Master, you’d better open this small one first, let me catch my breath and cool down my overheated head.”
He looked for all the world like an impulsive young man almost swept away by excitement.
Hearing this, Yuan Cheng and the others all looked as if they deeply agreed. Only Xi Yun, who was carefully pondering how many secrets the person beside him still held, stopped his finger from tapping the wheelchair armrest, his chest vibrating slightly.
Le Can sharply caught that soft chuckle and quickly swept a glance at Xi Yun.
Exposed by the male lead in a second, Le Can didn’t feel guilty or short of breath at all. He walked straight and sat upright; his happiness wasn’t fake, it had just undergone a little artistic processing.
You know, a person’s emotional capacity is limited, and accepting external shocks requires a balance of tension and relaxation.
If they went directly from 2817 to that even more incredible material, people might find it suspicious. More likely, a few people in the crowd who were already overly excited might pass out on the spot from the extreme joy and sorrow.
If a bunch of ambulances had to come woo-woo-woo… then his and Xi Yun’s fame would be too great!
Can’t handle that blessing, can’t handle it.
For the two-hundred-million-dollar deal to be achieved, Le Can could be said to have taken great pains and put in painstaking effort. Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but glare at a certain man who had laughed out loud.
【Still laughing? Who was this all for?!】
Xi Yun, who was leaning slightly back against the wheelchair, slowly rolled his Adam’s apple and silently sat up straight.
Le Can knew what was inside that half-person-tall raw stone.
Although the original work of 100,000 words was short, the pace was fast, and the content wasn’t lacking.
But precisely because he knew, the uncertainty and mystery that made gambling stones most attractive were gone, so he wasn’t actually in a rush to open it first.
Instead, Le Can was more interested in the small black-skinned stone he picked up casually.
The “Winter Melon Candy” opening up an Ice Species Peach Blossom Spring was an absolute accidental surprise. Because that stone was, in the true sense, Le Can’s first time gambling on stones.
In the stone gambling industry, many people pay money to learn lessons.
This industry is like collecting antiques; you need to reserve a sufficient amount of professional knowledge, and the threshold for entry is high. Usually, people who delusionally want to become fat in one bite end up losing everything but their underwear.
Le Can knew that for someone like him to open an Ice Species Jadeite on the first try, it was likely treatment reserved for important characters in novels.
Or, was it some magical and fantastical “Beginner’s Halo”? To be honest, Le Can had watched plenty of funny videos about “Veterans vs. Beginner Protection Level 1 Smurfs.”
He was rarely this curious—
Curious if such good luck could last until the second piece of rough material.
The five-kilogram material wasn’t big, about the size of the lunch box Le Can used to take to work. If thrown fiercely into water, it would probably just make a muffled plop.
But, just such a brick-sized black stone cost him an amount he couldn’t save in a year when he first entered society: twenty-three thousand.
If it really just made a sound, even though he had money now, Le Can would still feel distressed for several days. Twenty-three thousand—before transmigration, if he scraped it together, it was enough to buy a fifty-gram gold bar.
“Once the machine rings, ten thousand taels of gold,” the familiar machine sound rang out again.
While everyone squeezed forward to look, Le Can pulled the handle of Xi Yun’s wheelchair and retreated to a less crowded place.
Gu Xinxue, after losing the bet, had been secretly locking his gloomy gaze on his little brother Xi Ziyu, and at some point, had left the scene.
Missing that uncomfortable stare, Le Can felt relaxed for a moment.
Just at this time, Yuan Cheng, Xie Jun, and the others who were originally surrounding them—some guarding the jadeite with the security personnel, and some loving the excitement—had already squeezed to the very front.
Le Can avoided the crowd, leaned over, and whispered into Xi Yun’s ear, “Xi Yun, who do you think that ‘Yu’ is among the people around us?”
Xi Yun wasn’t nervous at all about being suddenly pulled away.
Hearing the deliberately lowered voice, without turning on his X-ray vision, the image of the youth lowering his brow and vigilantly observing his surroundings flashed in his mind.
Strong vigilance, yet hard to conceal his pride, like the cat Xie Jun once enthusiastically wanted to raise.
Xi Yun thought for a moment and knew what Le Can really wanted to ask. He said calmly, “Are you trying to say Xi Ziyu?”
Le Can’s expression was a bit sheepish, “I can’t be sure, but currently, the possibility of it being him isn’t nonexistent.”
Of the two people he currently knew with “Yu” in their names, one was the bodyguard Yin Wuyu whose nature was even colder than Xi Yun’s, and the other was Xi Ziyu, whose personality was moody and who was suspected of having a brother complex.
No matter how you look at it, the possibility of the latter is not just ‘there or not,’ but extremely suspicious!
“If it really is Xi Ziyu,” Xi Yun paused for two seconds, then turned to face Le Can, “shouldn’t you be concerned about your own safety?”
He asked this, but Xi Yun didn’t think the possibility of Xi Ziyu being the one hurting Yuan Cheng was high.
This disbelief wasn’t due to any blood-relation filter.
As Le Can said, the possibility of Xi Ziyu wasn’t nonexistent. But if it really was him, Yuan Cheng and Xie Jun had been by his side for years; why had he never laid a hand on them even once?
Arguments, friction, shoving, but never any substantial harm. Both sides were intangibly restrained by him and had never stepped into the true danger zone.
“My safety…”
Le Can suddenly chuckled.
The hand in his pocket gently flicked the sharp tip of the bamboo-leaf file. A trace of anticipation unconsciously flashed through his beautiful and rippling peach blossom eyes.
Compared to those Western utensils he didn’t use often, whether it was a dinner fork or a table knife, or the various files commonly used in metalworking, Le Can found the latter handier.
Forks were too short, table knives were too thin; files, which had weight and could puncture many things, were much more convenient and useful at certain times.
When he crippled Lu Zhangping back then, Le Can greatly regretted not having a file on hand.
Whether it was a half-round file, triangular file, bamboo-leaf file, round file… as long as he had one in his hand, he wouldn’t have bled so much or dirtied his hands like he did with the glass shards.
So, after fleecing the Le family and having both money and leisure, Le Can made up for his past regrets.
Right now, he had a complete set of these files on him.
Le Can didn’t fear anyone targeting his life; after all, it was unknown whose life would be lost in the end. He was just afraid that if he lost control, he’d spend the rest of his life locked up, which wasn’t worth it.
So, this youth, whom Xi Yun saw as somewhat like a feline, slowly stretched his waist and asked back in a leisurely tone:
“If it really is… as Xi Ziyu’s older brother and my partner for the next two years, don’t you plan to manage my safety? Hus, band.”
The two words slowly bitten between his lips were so clear that it was impossible for Xi Yun to pretend he didn’t hear them.
The pair of eyes under the white silk closed tightly.
Waiting for a long time without a response, Le Can folded his arms, his voice carrying banter: “So shall we go back and get the certificate? Husband?”
Not expecting Xi Yun to answer, he continued on his own: “Although getting the certificate only requires an ID card now, without retrieving the household register, I always feel like something is missing.”
“Last time I came and went in a hurry, I didn’t expect to miss such an important thing. If Husband isn’t in a rush, I’ll have to go back again.”
“Oh right,” Le Can seemed to suddenly think of something, “Do I need to transfer my household registration after marriage?”
However, the next second he quickly followed up: “Forget it, better not transfer it.”
【After all, we’re divorcing in two years, it’s a hassle.】
Xi Yun listened to the whole paragraph, silent as a sculpture. He pursed his thin, pale lips, slowly frowned, and then relaxed.
Subsequently, he only spat out two words: “Suit yourself.”
Feeling he had won a round, Le Can smiled with squinted eyes in a good mood, pursuing the victory: “Is that so? Hus…”
Before the remaining word could be spat out, a cool, low voice sounded: “Pocket money will be calculated starting from the first day after receiving the certificate.”
Le Can instantly retracted his playful expression and glared grumpily at a certain someone who had already grasped his weakness.
The other party sat there composedly, blindfolded, pretending to see nothing. For a moment, Le Can was so angry his teeth itched, and his reason immediately left home.
When he came back to his senses, he didn’t know when he had pressed his entire body weight onto Xi Yun’s back.
If not for the good quality of the wheelchair and Xi Yun’s quick reaction to scoop Le Can to his front, two adult men stacked on top would have performed a public “falling over” act.
Before Le Can could reach out to pinch the person’s face or use the white silk to threaten the male lead, the noisy surroundings suddenly quieted down.
Le Can’s hand touching the side of Xi Yun’s face paused. Following an inexplicable bad feeling in his heart, he slowly turned his head to look to the side.
“…”
A group of familiar and strange faces, wearing expressions of shock, astonishment, and disbelief they hadn’t had time to put away, stared intently at him and Xi Yun.
The slender young man sat diagonally in the arms of the man dressed all in black. Agility and steadiness collided, and silent ambiguity fermented rapidly in the air…
Le Can realized belatedly how terrible his and Xi Yun’s posture was.
He stiffened his body, slowly raised his eyes to look at the vast white ceiling, and closed his eyes with a painful expression.
At this moment, getting up wasn’t right, and not getting up wasn’t right either.
The extreme embarrassment and social death prompted Le Can’s brain to spin rapidly.
Feeling some movement from the “cushion” beneath him, he quickly reached out a hand to cover Xi Yun’s mouth and asked Yuan Cheng, who had squeezed back in at some unknown time.
“What came out of the jadeites?”
Apart from this point, Le Can really couldn’t think of anything else that could make such a group of people mobilize to look at him and Xi Yun.
Yuan Cheng, red-faced and panting, stammered for a while, “Sticky Rice Oil Green Jadeite, and… Glass Species Fu Lu Shou Tri-Color Jadeite.”
Sticky Rice Oil Green Jadeite?
Glass Species Fu Lu Shou Tri-Color Jadeite!
Alright, Le Can now knew exactly what it was about.
Since he had already lost face, he ground his teeth, looked straight at the crowd with flickering gazes, and loudly advertised.
“Everyone, all the jadeite raw stones opened today will be auctioned at my Wei Yuan Jing.”
“Those interested might as well leave contact information. Soon we will send the latest auction catalog to the hands of every distinguished guest. Thank you all for your support!”
Not expecting to be hit in the face with an ad, the silent crowd suddenly turned back into a noisy market.
There were a few who didn’t mind watching the drama unfold, hiding inside the crowd and shouting loudly: “I know Wei Yuan Jing, didn’t it recently go to the Xi family’s eldest son? May I ask who you are?”
Hearing this, Le Can smiled sinisterly, “Who am I?”
The youth’s hands suddenly clapped the head near his hand, palms against the man’s head, lifting it up.
“I am the Xi family’s future son-in-law, Xi Yun’s lover!”
Translator’s note: “Who am I?” So smug. hahaha.
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