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Chapter 184 - 184 184 She Can Wait
Chapter 184 - 184 184 She Can Wait
?Chapter 184: Chapter 184 She Can Wait Chapter 184: Chapter 184 She Can Wait Luo Ning’s head throbbed with dark lines as Feng Yuxiao made his comment.
She snapped back with a cold face, “Are you sick? The rule of the auction is that the highest bidder wins. If you think it’s too expensive, then don’t bid.”
Originally, she hadn’t planned on playing any tricks here, but Feng Yuxiao was really making things difficult.
He must think he is some kind of delicate princess.
After speaking, she triggered the spell hidden in her dagger, and wisps of it drilled toward Feng Yuxiao.
This woman raised little ghosts, mainly for identifying the authenticity and quality of jade, and for gambling stone purposes.
In that case, she might as well stop using it altogether.
Feng Yuxiao only felt an inexplicable chill, but she didn’t think much of it.
“Are you sure you want to offend me?” she asked Luo Ning in a low voice.
Clearly, she didn’t want Lu Xun and Ji Xinghang to hear.
Luo Ning raised an eyebrow, “Are you overestimating yourself?”
“I think you should do like your brother, take a good look at yourself in the mirror, and please be somewhat self-aware.” When it came to confrontation, she never lost.
Feng Yuxiao was choked, her face turning an ashen hue with anger, “Alright, just you wait.”
Just a minor celebrity, she didn’t believe she couldn’t handle her.
Thus, the two continued bidding, finally escalating to three million, which Luo Ning won.
Feng Yuxiao did want to continue bidding, but the Feng Family’s gambling stone master advised against it, and Feng Yanbai thought it was beyond their budget, so he asked her to stop.
Feng Yuxiao then stopped the bidding begrudgingly.
She thought that even if top-grade jade emerged from the inside, with the rough stone priced at three million, Luo Ning couldn’t make much from it.
But she didn’t know, the rough stone wasn’t very large, but it was indeed full of jade, several times greater than she had guessed, so Luo Ning still made a considerable profit.
For the next lots, number seven and ten, Feng Yuxiao let Feng Yanbai bid.
This time Luo Ning didn’t compete, yet Yu Zihang jumped in, outbidding Feng Yanbai with deeper pockets.
Losing three times, the faces of the Feng father and daughter did not look too good.
“Dad, next time I’ll let you bid, but please don’t let it go anymore,” Feng Yuxiao felt her father lacked assertiveness.
Feng Yanbai could see her point, “Understood, I’ll try my best next time.”
“You also know, although I’m in control of the company, your second and third uncles also own quite a few shares, and they’re always looking to catch my mistakes.”
He helplessly continued, “If we spend too high a price on rough jade, they’ll definitely make an issue of it at the board meeting again.”
Feng Yuxiao knew the character of her uncles all too well, “As long as we can unearth jade from it, they’ll likely have nothing to say.”
She was overconfident in her abilities.
Feng Yanbai thought it made sense, “Alright, I’ll listen to you later.”
After all, we’ve only bid on ten stones, and there are several hundred more to go. It’s not possible for Yu Zihang to jump out and compete every time.
Seeing his agreement finally brought a satisfied smile to Feng Yuxiao’s face.
Then she suddenly felt a severe pain in her head, and the small wooden barrel charm at her waist kept shaking violently.
She almost couldn’t resist screaming out loud, but fortunately, she managed to hold back.
Immediately, she recited a spell taught by a master rapidly under her breath, and then she took out a black pill the size of a grain of rice from her handbag and threw it into the small wooden barrel.
Gradually, the wooden barrel quieted down, and her headache slowly subsided.
Feng Yuxiao felt incredibly vexed inside; she didn’t know what the little ghost was causing.
She suddenly felt a twitch in her eyelid, then a sense of panic.
Soon, the auction house delivered the second batch of rough stones, again ten in total.
Everyone eagerly came forward to inspect them.
Luo Ning sensed there was no top-grade jade inside, but there was a Middle to High-Grade one.
This time she didn’t bid, and gave Lu Xun a look, signaling him to inform Yu Zihang.
Lu Xun tacitly made eye contact with her, then nodded slightly.
On the other side, Feng Yuxiao placed her hands on the rough stones as usual, but this time the “little ghost” in the barrel did not give her any hints.
She kept calling to the other side in her mind, but the only response she got was “uncomfortable,” after which there was no more contact.
This dumbfounded Feng Yuxiao. What was this little ghost doing? Why did it fail at a critical moment?
She then touched the other rough stones, but it was of no use.
When the last five minutes were up, she was forced to sit back in her original place with an unpleasant expression.
Feng Yanbai asked, “Yuxiao, which stones should we bid on this time?”
He had been thinking, as they hadn’t bought much jade in the trading area before, but Yu Zihang had offered quite a lot. If they didn’t bid on more items in the auction, they would truly be outdone by their opponent.
Therefore, he clenched his teeth and prepared to spend big.
Hearing him ask this, Feng Yuxiao looked even worse.
She said somewhat guiltily, “There aren’t any good stones in this batch, let the gambling stone master decide on his own.”
Feng Baiyan took her word for it, so they didn’t bid much in this round.
Yu Zihang ended up with the stones that Lu Xun had instructed him to bid on.
Afterward, another round of auctions began, and Luo Ning bid on five more rough stones before she stopped.
It wasn’t that she ran out of money, but she felt it was about time to stop while ahead.
She never liked to take all the benefits; being reasonable was good enough, and it was also important to leave something for others.
Moreover, she used the evil spirit to torment Feng Yuxiao’s little ghost, making it impossible for the latter to help in stone gambling anymore.
Otherwise, with Feng Yuxiao’s nature, as long as she had the financial capability, she would definitely bid on all the rough stones that revealed jade without restraint.
It was the same for Lu Xun; he only helped Yu Zihang with a one-in-ten chance thereafter.
Even so, that was enough for Yu Zihang to return fully loaded this time.
As for Feng Yuxiao, her face completely changed.
No matter how she threatened or tempted, the little ghost in the small barrel would not come out to help.
When she talked too much, it even caused her a backlash headache.
Although she was a clever person, she had guessed by then that something was wrong with the little ghost.
She didn’t think much about other possibilities; she just couldn’t understand why the problem had suddenly emerged, and planned to seek help from that master in the Imperial Capital after returning.
What most frustrated and upset her was that the problem occurred during the auction, completely breaking her planned strategy.
Hearing Feng Yanbai urging her from the side, Feng Yuxiao felt somewhat panicked.
She could not let her father know that she had lost her ability in stone gambling.
So she held her breath, letting the little ghost use some evil spirit on her, turning her complexion deathly pale in an instant.
“Dad, I feel dizzy and sick,” she said and then actually fainted on the spot.
This way, she wouldn’t have to participate in the remaining auction for stone gambling.
Seeing his daughter suddenly faint, Feng Yanbai panicked as well and immediately contacted the people on the auction side to have his son take her to the hospital.
He stayed behind with the gambling stone master to continue the auction, but he was somewhat distracted.
Luo Ning, seeing Feng Yuxiao faint, knew what she had done.
It had to be said, this woman was ruthless to others and to herself.
Meanwhile, Bo Xiangxiang had “borrowed” several million from two big fish in her pond and then started bidding on rough stones based on her feelings.
Luo Ning also tried using the evil spirit on her.
However, she discovered that once the evil spirit reached Bo Xiangxiang, it was actively neutralized by the Luck emanating from her.
This was expected, so she wasn’t disappointed.
After all, the heroine is the heroine; if she were so easy to deal with, Luo Ning wouldn’t have ended up the way she did in her past life.
But just wait until half of Bo Xiangxiang’s Luck was eroded away; the outcome would be completely different.
She could afford to wait!