Chapter 191: Auctioned the Wrong Item
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After saying this, Mo Zhu did not look at Lu Zheng anymore and turned around to return to the private room.
Lu Zheng stared at Mo Zhu’s back view as she left calmly. He pondered for a moment and a bad feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.
The host holding the microphone on the stage saw that no one was bidding with Lu Zheng anymore and quickly shouted, “850 billion going once, 850 billion going twice, 850 billion going thrice. Deal.”
The third hammer sounded. A staff member automatically went on stage and kept the spirit herb in the gift box. He jogged all the way to the Lu family’s private room and took out the Gao family’s special payment machine as he delivered the auction item to Lu Zheng.
Under the gaze of everyone in the private room, Lu Zheng signaled his subordinate in black behind him to pay with his card. The subordinate in black obediently followed his instructions and a hint of difficulty appeared on his face.
“Young Master, is this spirit herb really the Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb? We spent so much money to auction it and transferred so much money over at the last minute. The entire corporation was almost implicated. We’ll be very busy these next two days.”
When Lu Zheng heard this, after the staff left the private room, he frowned and waved his hand for the subordinate in black to come close to him. “I think that this matter is not so simple. Send someone to secretly investigate the background of the spirit herbs we have won and think of a way to find out the names of the spirit herbs that were won by the Huo family.”
The subordinate in black nodded and was about to leave when Elder Fei, who was sitting quietly at the side, suddenly thought of something. He slammed the table with a regretful expression. “There’s no need to spend so much effort to investigate this spirit herb. It’s not the Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb.”
After a pause, Elder Fei continued, “That girl from the Huo family had provoked you deliberately during the last round of bidding. I’m afraid she had already won the true Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb!”
Lu Zheng’s eyebrows twitched as he shouted in disbelief, “What? That’s impossible! How could she have won the bid for the Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb? She just said that the herb she bid for previously was wrong and it’s not the Pine Snow Herb. Besides that, our herb cost 85 billion yuan. How can such an expensive herb not be the Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb?”
Seeing that the white-bearded old man was sitting in his chair in deep thought without any movement, Lu Zheng did not give up and continued asking, “Elder Fei, did you really see it clearly? Is this spirit herb really not the Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb?”
The old man shook his head and replied helplessly, “Just now, when we were bidding in the first round, I had already advised Young Master to start the auction cautiously. I didn’t expect that we would still be schemed against by that girl from the Huo family. I’m afraid we have been played by her in the auction today.”
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Previously, when Elder Fei persuaded Lu Zheng kindly, he had already expected such a situation to happen. It was a pity that Lu Zheng did not listen to a single word at that time. After the last round of bidding, he did not bother to persuade him again, knowing that it would be to no avail.
He did not expect that he would really fall into someone else’s trap and let such a young girl succeed in tricking him.
When Lu Zheng heard this, his eyes also darkened as he calmed down and pondered for a moment. “It’s indeed difficult to tell the spirit herbs apart in the auction tonight. In Elder Fei’s opinion, which family do you think has the highest possibility of having won the true Ten Thousand Aged Pine Snow Herb?”
Elder Fei rubbed his palms, unable to be certain. “I didn’t look closely at the other herbs on the stage. I’m really not sure which family had won them. However, if I’m not wrong, it shouldn’t be the two that the Huo family had won.”
“The two?” Lu Zheng raised his eyebrows in confusion. “When did the Huo family win two herbs?”
Upon hearing Lu Zheng’s question, the subordinate in black who had been standing quietly behind him quickly leaned close and answered, “Young Master, in the auction after you fought for the herb with the Huo family for the first time, Mo Zhu used five billion to win another spirit herb.”
