971 Fools are Rich (1/2)
They knew nothing!
Chen Xiaobei had already told them that! But they were had looked at Chen Xiaobei as if he was mad!
They kept insisting that they were antiquarians, reminding him that they were far more experienced than him!
They would never, in a million years, thought that Chen Xiaobei would be able to present a woodcarving ten times bigger and better than Umekawa Shichijiro's!
Fortunately, Chen Xiaobei had shown up with the Hundred Birds Worship Phoenix. It was superior in size, age, built, craftmanship—everything!
To say that it was a hundred time better than Umekawa Shichijiro would not have been ridiculous!
In the end, Chen Xiaobei managed to prove everyone wrong by presenting a better wood sculpture! That was a big slap on their faces! The title, frog in the well was given to every single one of them. The group of so-called experts had been very confident, but now they were sheepish with shame, their face reddened, too humiliated to look at Chen Xiaobei.
Of course, the person who was most dismayed was Umekawa Shichijiro!
He had broken his back to find a woodcarving to please Amasa Hito.
Initially, it had nothing to with Chen Xiaobei. But Umekawa Shichijiro had jumped at the chance to act tough then cause Amasa Hito to distrust Chen Xiaobei. After that, he had wanted to use the bet to get rid of Chen Xiaobei.
He had harbored evil intentions, how could Chen Xiaobei possibly forgive him?
At the appearance of the 'Hundred Birds Worship Phoenix', Umekawa Shichijiro's woodcarving was eclipsed! Amasa Hito merely stared at the Hundred Birds Worship Phoenix, not even sparing a glance at Umekawa Shichijiro's woodcarving!
His hope of using the gift to gratify the idealist Amasa Hito went up in smoke.
Not only was he humiliated, but he had also lost the chance to win Amasa Hito's favor!
This is a classic case of being slapped for acting tough.
”I didn't think that Mr. Chen was telling the truth. I was wrong…”
Asama Yuki dropped her head and gritted her teeth, guilt flooding him.
She had not believed Chen Xiaobei and even said that he did not know what he was doing. Only now did she realize that it was not Chen Xiaobei who was clueless, but that she had misunderstood Chen Xiaobei.
She suddenly felt apologetic.
”Everybody! Look at your faces! Do you admit defeat?” Chen Xiaobei gave them an innocent smile and said, ”Then, hand over the Spiritual Stones as we have agreed. There are eighteen people here. Is Mr. Amasa going to pay for everyone?”
Everyone else was petrified.
One Spiritual Stone was equivalent to 1 billion RMB which amounts to 160 billion Japanese Yen.
To Amasa Hito, that was nothing. But to the others, it was a cutthroat amount!
This was especially true for the idiot Umekawa Shichijiro! He would have to cut off an arm and leg to be able to come up with a sum that big!
The Umekawa Family's heir was actually Umekawa Neiku. Umekawa Shichijiro was only had just replaced him; the resources and power available to him were limited. There was no way his family would help him pay it off. He would have to do it himself. He would have to sacrifice everything he had!