InvincibleConnoisseur

Chapter 68 You Gonna Raise Me?

The news of the magic weapon transforming from the middle level into waste, like having wings, spread throughout the antique trading market in just half an hour. Almost everyone mocked the greedy Xu Jingkai with a look of schadenfreude.

Someone had bid to one million before, but he was not willing to sell. Consequently, two Yinyang Masters identified it again and found it was a fake magic weapon, let alone the middle-level one. This was a big joke!

While Xu Jingkai with an extremely gloomy look followed his father who almost died of anger back to their shop, there were a lot of people gathering and discussing outside the shop instead of stepping into it.

"It is said that 'like father, like son'. Xu Jingkai is so greedy that his father is probably not a good guy either. He wouldn't sell that fake thing for one million yuan. What a stupid fool!" Someone gloated to laugh.

"Yes! It's such a shame that he regarded it as a treasure. I don't think he has a good character. The smug look on his face when everyone praised him now disgusts me. By the way, he seemed to satirize one of the clerks of Self House. The chair the clerk held was a magic weapon, but his was not even a magic one. Why should he satirize that clerk?"

"I want to hear a slap on his face. Ouch, that hurts! Not only did he lose his face this time, but he also lost the face of his ancestors. That i***t, Xu Jingkai, is now the biggest joke in the antique trading market. Greed has no limits!"

"Someone just called him greedy. In that case, I believe his father is the same. This shop must have cheated many people. Let's spread the word about how bad this place is, and don't ever come here again."

"..."

With a ghastly expression, Xu Shichang forced himself to return to the shop and his heart was full of anger. Even if his son found an undervalued antique worth forty thousand or so, his anger was still surging, and, like a crater, had the trend of the outbreak at any time.

The loss of a little money, like the one hundred and fifty thousand his son lost for nothing, wouldn't have made him as angry as he was now, but a bad reputation would have cost him more than money. He, after all, had hands, feet, a brain, and the shop, so he could make it again when his money was gone. But with a bad reputation, who would come to his shop to do business?

"Shut the shop door."

Suppressing his anger, Xu Shichang hissed just after walking into the door four or five meters away.

Xu Jingkai was terrified and followed his father. After hearing his father's low voice, he suddenly shivered and turned around to close the door.

"Oh, oh, don't close the door! I heard that what you found is not a magic weapon, but it is a good antique! Let's talk! Forty thousand, I'll take it."

A wild cry came and then his big hands pushed on the door, not letting Xu Jingkai close the door.

"Yes! Mr. Rong said that the antique is worth forty or fifty thousand yuan, and I also want to buy it! No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!" Another voice came quickly.

"Haha."

The crowd outside the door burst into laughter.

Xu Shichang lowered his head and walked toward the stairs with his body suddenly stiff, angrily turning around and snapping, "Close the door."

At that moment, Xu Jingkai felt his face burning, as if countless invisible slaps mercilessly pumping on his face. He was so ashamed that he wanted to crawl under the ground.

The anger in his heart also erupted. Looking at the gloating faces outside, he twitched the corners of his mouth and rapped out, "Buy what? It's not for sale."

Listening to Xu Jingkai's wrathful words, the crowd outside the door immediately burst into laughter.

"Forget it. Since they don't want to sell, we can't force them," one of the middle-aged men smiled and shook his head, "Let's go! Since the item he found is not a middle-level magic weapon, there should still be middle-level ones in the antique trading market. We should look for them again. Someone may be lucky enough to find the real middle-level magic weapon!"

The crowd quickly dispersed after hearing the man's words.

Returning to the residence, Wang Ke found that Li Ruoxi had not returned, and the vague feeling that he had been about to break through before also vanished now. Just in the afternoon, Wang Ke didn't immediately cultivate but recited the Book of Geography that Zhao Menfeng had given him two days before. Now he had recited more than half of the book, and he was confident that he would be able to recite the whole book tomorrow morning.

"Ding dong..."

With the doorbell interrupting Wang Ke's train of thought, he put down the book and strode to the door. Through the peephole on the security door, he found that Li Ruoxi was standing outside.

After opening the door, Wang Ke was slightly shocked, because at this time Li Ruoxi was carrying a lot of things even with all kinds of pots and pans at her feet.

"How did you get all this stuff back?" Wang Ke wondered.

Li Ruoxi smiled and said, "The staff in the mall helped to bring them back."

Wang Ke stayed and asked curiously, "Will the mall staff help deliver things home? I haven't heard of..."

His voice stopped abruptly as he thought of the possibility that the worker in the mall should be a man and it was totally due to Li Ruoxi's beautiful face that he would help her send things back.

"To be pretty is to take advantage!"

Wang Ke secretly sighed.

As he helped Li Ruoxi carry everything back into the room, Wang Ke watched Li quickly put on an apron.

"Wang Ke, go and do your work! I'll cook tonight, and you just wait for dinner!" Li Ruoxi said with a smile.

Wang Ke nodded. Although he couldn't believe that Li could cook, he was intrigued to know what the food she made tasted like.

Half an hour later, the food fragrance that floated from the kitchen made Wang Ke's look become unusually odd.

"Wang Ke, the meal is almost ready. Wash your hands and help me carry food." Li Ruoxi shouted from the kitchen.

Wang Ke instantly put down the Book of Geography and strode to the kitchen. Li Ruoxi, wearing the apron, was frying vinegar-pepper shredded potatoes. He could not help but secretly nod and there had been two dishes done on the next table.

The dishes looked delicious!

After a while, Wang Ke and Li Ruoxi who had unfastened the apron sat down at the table.

"How about the taste? I haven't cooked for a long time, so I don't know if I've regressed." Li Ruoxi said with a smile and a trace of expectation on that beautiful face.

Wang Ke picked up a piece of braised spareribs in brown sauce and was surprised to say after eating, "Nice, delicious! I didn't expect your food to be almost as good as a chef in a five-star hotel. You'll be a good wife and good mother."

Li Ruoxi was a little excited due to Wang Ke's praise and there was a touch of triumph in her broad smile, "Of course. It took me two years of practice to develop my cooking skill. When I first entered the university, I rented a house with a good friend. I did not eat in the canteen at ordinary times, and almost all the food was cooked by ourselves."

Wang Ke was suddenly enlightened, nodded, and smiled, "That's really something. From now on, the glorious and great task of cooking will be entrusted to you."

Li Ruoxi stayed, immediately gave Wang Ke a stare, and said petulantly, "No wonder you are so talkative today. Are you setting a trap for me? If you want me to cook from now on, just say so! You hypocrite. But I can cook for you, and you can't give me a penny less for living expenses. Let's do it this way. You give me five thousand yuan a month, and I promise to make you eat delicious food."

Wang Ke smiled bitterly, "Five thousand? My living expenses?"

Li Ruoxi said deservedly, "It's for both of us. The 'thank-you' rewards for my cooking, don't they count?"

Wang Ke was lost for words and said with a bitter smile, "So say, am I gonna raise you?"

Without thinking, Li Ruoxi said, "Of course you are the one who's gonna raise me, otherwise I have worked so hard at housework..."

She stopped all of a sudden, on account of that she was keenly aware of the ambiguity and inappropriateness of her words.

Wang Ke also suddenly caught on, his face with a bitter smile instantly becoming dull.

An ambiguous atmosphere haunted both of them. They were so embarrassed that they did not speak again but quietly enjoyed the delicious food on the table. After five or six minutes, Li quickly put down her chopsticks, lowered her head, and said, "I'm full and want to have a rest first. I'll clean up after you finish eating." Then she strode quickly toward her room.

Wang Ke was not secretly relieved until Li Ruoxi disappeared in the door.

Fleetly returning to her bedroom, Li Ruoxi felt her cheek burning. The previous ambiguous atmosphere between her and Wang Ke made her heart-racing, restless and uncomfortable.

She couldn't understand what was wrong with her. She had never been in such a mood before. But why did one word make her uncontrolled today?

With her hands slowly covering her blushed face, she reached out and locked the door. With a feeble groan, she flung herself down on the bed.

Wang Ke put down his chopsticks, turned to look at Li Ruoxi's door, and silently shook his head. It was still too early for him to have a romantic relationship with a woman. Even if there was a bit of an affair between them, he would not take it seriously. He thought: How could a man talk about family without a career?

After finishing the meal, he took what was left to the kitchen, washed the dishes, and then looked at the clock. It was already 6:30 p.m., so he turned and left the house. Because he made a pact with the boy, Tiezi, who kowtowed to him yesterday, that he would teach him martial arts today, he could not break his words.

He felt a little curious about Tiezi, the boy with a stubborn and strong look in his eyes. Since he was just an orphan, how did he live?