Chapter 34: It’s Just A Buyer Withdrawing Temporarily – A Vulgar Person, Really Can’t Bear It…
When Le Can sat back in the rear seat, Xi Yun had just hung up the phone, ending the impromptu communication.
In the front row, Yuan Cheng and Xie Jun had calmed down a lot, both in expression and the restless atmosphere around them. Only from the corners of their brows and eyes could one still catch a trace of lingering resentment and disgust.
A slight movement came from the side. Xi Yun darkened his phone screen and looked up.
In the central rearview mirror of the car, the youth sat properly with inquiring eyes, but didn’t open his mouth directly to break the subtle calm in the car.
Didn’t go to buy Stinky Tofu?
Xi Yun glanced at the person whose hands were empty.
The next second, his gaze involuntarily converged, landing on Le Can’s full, rosy lips.
Le Can’s skin was white and fine. His outstanding features appeared even more heavily colorful on skin as translucent as white jade. Usually, the most stunning and prominent feature was those smiling peach blossom eyes.
Long in shape, upturned at the tails, giving two completely different feelings when smiling and not smiling. Either way, they often made it hard for people to look away.
But now, the lips, red and swollen, were full and translucent like perfectly ripe pomegranate seeds. The surface was lustrous and plump, seeming as if a slight force could squeeze out abundant juice.
Is this from the spice?
Xi Yun withdrew his gaze.
The guess had just risen from his heart when a slight but unignorable smell drifted into his nose.
A little subtle smell of Stinky Tofu, but more of the unique and domineering spicy aroma of chili peppers. It should be that the smell was too strong and soaked into the clothes, then slowly emanated.
It seems the Stinky Tofu was eaten.
Just don’t know what level of spiciness was chosen…
“So, did something happen?”
Curiosity could be temporarily suppressed, but this thing rebounds harder the more you suppress it. Seeing that the situation seemed temporarily resolved, Le Can couldn’t help but ask again.
Xi Yun pulled back his wandering thoughts. The fingers resting on his knees tightened, then slowly relaxed. Lately, this kind of unnecessary zoning out seemed to happen a bit more…
“It’s just a buyer temporarily withdrawing from the auction.”
After gathering his mind, Xi Yun concisely explained the reason for the phone call.
A consignor withdrawing an auction item before the auction and paying part of the penalty fee—this wasn’t an uncommon occurrence for an auction house.
This explanation, at first hearing, had no problem.
But if there really was no problem, Le Can knew Yuan Cheng and Xie Jun wouldn’t have been in that emotionally out-of-control state earlier.
Although they hadn’t spent much time together, he could see that these two never hid their emotions in front of acquaintances, but they wouldn’t lose their sense of right and wrong just because they favored someone close.
“Don’t we need to go back and get the household register? Keep going.”
Xi Yun had no intention of dragging Le Can into the current vortex of Wei Yuan Jing. After saying this, he called Yuan Cheng’s name in a flat tone.
The car, which had stopped by the road for a long time, started up again.
Xie Jun held it in for a while, but before the car passed the corner, she finally couldn’t hold it back anymore.
She took a deep breath, turned her body to clutch the seat back, and looked stubbornly at the man with a frozen expression diagonally behind her.
“I’m just saying, what consignor withdraws an auction object as if they discussed it, calling almost at the same time?”
“Xie Jun.”
Xi Yun looked up, his cold voice carrying a warning.
No one can remain indifferent when their full name is called in a cold voice.
Xie Jun reflexively shrank her neck, but meeting the fresh and tender Le Can beside Xi Yun, Xie Jun, who felt Xi Yun now had someone to manage him, secretly cheered herself up.
Xi Yun didn’t want to discuss these people he considered irrelevant, but she, Xie Jun, was just a vulgar person; she really couldn’t swallow this bad breath!
She stiffened her neck, “Right after our Wei Yuan Jing’s most important auction item was confirmed, they couldn’t wait to pull these petty tricks.”
“If no one is making trouble from the shadows, I, Xie Jun, will personally twist my head off!”
With someone taking the lead, Yuan Cheng, who was driving sullenly, also shouted violently: “Right! Count me in!”
One after another filled with righteous indignation, making him, the boss of Wei Yuan Jing, look inactive. Xi Yun laughed out of extreme anger.
After a short laugh, the man sitting boldly in the back seat slowly raised his eyes to look at the front of the car.
“So, will clarifying these things help find the person behind the scenes, or solve the trouble in front of us?”
Xi Yun never minded individuals having any emotions, but spreading unnecessary emotions to surrounding people, increasing trouble and panic—he politely begged to differ.
Le Can watched as the two people, swept away by anger, instantly slumped against their seat backs like punctured balloons.
Obviously, apart from making themselves angrier, neither could be achieved.
Stopping at the right point, seeing the two people blinded by anger had figured it out, Xi Yun lowered his eyes. His gaze, emotions unclear, fell on the pitch-black phone screen.
“Things have priorities. After the Spring Auction ends…”
【At that time, whatever needs to be settled, not a single one will be missed.】
Le Can listened quietly while silently completing the unspoken words beneath Xi Yun’s calm speech.
You know, some fatal dangers aren’t the loud ones on the surface. Because usually, these dangers written on the surface will be guarded against.
Only those unexpected crises under the seemingly calm waves will quietly, endlessly swallow one fresh life after another.
Knowing what the matter was, Le Can relaxed his body, leaning lazily against the car door, lifting his eyelids to glance at Xi Yun, who had seen things clearest from start to finish.
So, he liked smart people.
Sure enough, after hearing Xi Yun’s words, Xie Jun and Yuan Cheng were instantly soothed, and light returned to their eyes.
“Yes, yes,” Xie Jun muttered, “now is not the time to worry about these things!”
Yuan Cheng also calmed down a bit. He quickly chimed in: “Brother Yun, then about your phone call just now? The one causing trouble, could it be Xi…”
Yuan Cheng didn’t say the name after “Xi,” because the names that could follow this surname were not limited to one.
But in his heart, he still felt Xi Ziyu was the most likely. Because they had done things like having ideas about the auction before, and Xi Ziyu knew about the opening of the Glass Species Jadeite.
The group withdrawal happened too fast, and the timing was too subtle.
Xi Yun wouldn’t make arbitrary judgments. “It’s still unknown who it is.”
“I’ve arranged for people to try their best to communicate and strive for it. The possibility of settling it is small; get ready to activate the backup auction items.”
“Yes!”
Yuan Cheng and Xie Jun answered in unison.
Le Can, somewhat unable to blend in, looked at the scene before him and silently clapped his hands to express his lament and agreement.
Just after the topic ended, the car slowly drove to the front of the Le family villa.
Yuan Cheng, relieved of the heavy pressure on his heart, recovered his liveliness and turned to look at Le Can, “Brother-in-law, I’ve wanted to ask you since just now, what’s in that jar you put in the trunk?”
“Is it a jar of Stinky Tofu? Is it that delicious?”
Xie Jun also stuck her head out, adding curiously.
The jar was an opaque ceramic jar, looking very much like an old-fashioned pickle jar.
Regarding pickle jars, why did the eldest Miss Xie, who never touched spring water (housework), know about them? Actually, she learned it from Aunt Liang in the kitchen.
You know, Aunt Liang not only cooked delicious food but was also superb at making various pickles and marinated vegetables. That kind of superb meant that even knowing those things weren’t healthy, Xie Jun still couldn’t resist and often asked Aunt Liang for some to take home.
A jar brought out from a Stinky Tofu shop, what else could it be?
Xie Jun and Yuan Cheng unanimously agreed that it was likely a jar of unprocessed Stinky Tofu slices. The original, authentically smelly kind.
Le Can uttered a hesitant “Um,” and shook his head, “Not exactly.”
“As for the taste of Stinky Tofu?”
Le Can narrowed his eyes, pondering the Stinky Tofu he finished alone by the roadside, his expression not very good. “Don’t recommend trying, not very tasty.”
To tease Xi Yun, Le Can specifically asked the landlady for a large portion. When he first entered Xi Yun’s villa, he had also tested Xi Yun’s taste with Aunt Liang, and additionally requested extra chili.
A large portion of explosively spicy Stinky Tofu should have been delivered to Xi Yun according to the plan, but unexpectedly, the malicious withdrawal of the auction happened.
Although Le Can wasn’t afraid of spicy food, and he could have thrown away this not-so-tasty Stinky Tofu, as someone used to being frugal since childhood, he didn’t have the habit of wasting food.
In the end, Le Can stood alone by the road, his mouth red and swollen from the spice, eyes teary, yet he ate every last piece of Stinky Tofu into his stomach.
Because he hadn’t eaten it for a long time, the moment he bit through the crisp and tough skin with the first bite, feeling the boiling salty and spicy juice explode in his mouth, that nostalgic feeling was enough to make up for the lack of taste.
However, eating a lot of unpalatable things at once… even if the nostalgic feeling was beautiful, it couldn’t support it for long.
Even now, Le Can could still feel the burning and bloating sensation in his stomach. To be honest, it wasn’t very good.
Thinking of this, the youth who had sincerely given advice now had resentment in his brow and eyes. Those hazy peach blossom eyes, seemingly containing mist, glanced at Xi Yun who had luckily escaped a disaster.
Le Can didn’t know if there was such a thing as a protagonist’s halo, but facing this man, he seemed to often suffer setbacks…
The oblivious Xi Yun: ?
“Not exactly?”
Yuan Cheng and Xie Jun were confused.
Is it or isn’t it? What situation is “not exactly”?
“En,” Le Can nodded nonchalantly, “Didn’t I say the Stinky Tofu wasn’t tasty?”
The two: Is there a cause-and-effect relationship?
Not tasty… what does that have to do with the contents of the jar?
He stepped out of the car slowly, looking up at the Le family villa not far away. In front of the familiar building, there were some additional things compared to the last time he saw it.
“Because it wasn’t tasty, I asked the landlady to fish out all the tofu, leaving only the stinky brine used to soak the tofu.”
Yuan Cheng and Xie Jun continued to be confused: ?
Le Can chuckled and turned his head sideways, “If it’s not tasty, I can’t be the only one to suffer. Might as well keep it and find a few more unlucky eggs like me.”
【Moreover, wasting food is shameful.】
And… Le Can looked at the villa which seemed to suddenly turn chaotic after discovering his figure, and the tails of his eyes slowly lifted high.
In front of him, a team of people wearing security uniforms held metal detectors and walked over aggressively.
“Who are you? Where are you from? The villa prohibits carrying dangerous items, raise your hands!”
Mouthing “who are you,” but with determined steps and flickering eyes, they obviously already knew his identity.
Under the sunlight, the smile on the youth’s face became even brighter.
【For scum, stinky brine is enough of a gift.】
Author’s Note: Da da da, Question 2 Answer Revealed. Rewarding all babies with a boji (kiss), goodnight ao [Cat Paw]
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