Chapter 115 If Others Antagonize Me (2/2)
Hans said immediately, ”Five thousand dollars is fine.”
”Someone is taking it for 5,000 dollars. How about 5,100 dollars? Anyone for 5,100 dollars?”
”Yes!”
”Five thousand five hundred dollars, five thousand five hundred dollars?”
”Six thousand dollars!”
”Eight thousand dollars!”
”Ten thousand dollars!”
The value of this storage unit was obvious. Without needing the auctioneer to name the price, the treasure hunters kept raising this unit’s pricing, and soon it had reached 15,000 dollars.
Hans gave Li Du a questioning look, and Li Du nodded.
There were a total of 25 sewing machines in the unit. Only 20 of them could be seen from the outside; the other five were in a corner. If the storage unit could be bought for less than 20,000 dollars, a profit could be made.
Hans said readily, ”Twenty thousand dollars.”
The price caused many treasure hunters to shake their head.
”It’s meaningless to offer 20,000—there’s hardly any profit here, and possibly a loss.”
”The country bumpkins are really loaded! This unit is theirs.”
”Could there be something we did not see? Other than these machines, there is nothing valuable in the unit.”
Hans asked Lucas, ”Weren’t you not going to let us take any of Phoenix’s storage?”
Lucas smiled coldly. ”I will not let you guys take the most valuable storage! This junk? Ha! If you are willing to lose money, then that’s your prerogative!”
”This is junk? There were dozens of people fighting for it earlier—are you saying these people were fighting over junk?” Hans immediately pushed him into the position of being the treasure hunters’ public enemy.
Lucas was smart; he smiled coldly, but did not speak. He folded his arm and whistled as he walked toward the next storage.
They won unit 47. The door of the storage unit 48 was opened. What was heard were sighs of disappointment. The treasure hunters all shook their heads.
”This is a junk unit.”
The auctioneer gave it a low bidding price: ”One thousand dollars, one thousand dollars, one thousand dollars. Look, there is so much denim material in there. It is definitely worth at least one thousand dollars.”
Hans was the first to bid: ”Yes, me!”
On seeing how fast he had accepted the bid price, those who had thought it was a junk unit started to get suspicious. They went toward the entrance and peered inside, using their flashlights to illuminate the interior of the unit.
Of course, they could not see anything and, in the end, they turned away feeling bewildered.
Lucas laughed, ”There is nothing inside. Friends, this is a junk unit. Country bumpkins like to collect junk.”
”Then let him have it. Let him help clear Phoenix of junk. The Chinese like to do such work—I have seen many Chinese people working as cleaners.”
”They are born to do this kind of work. I heard many Chinese smuggle themselves into America to be cleaners. Ha!” Lucas’s laugh was evil.
Li Du was also smiling, but his smile was getting icier.
He let the little bug into storage unit 31, to enter the LED advertising screen. It started to absorb the light in the light-emitting diode (the LED), causing it to be worthless. Earlier, he was not extreme enough in his action, and the LED display screen could still be repaired. This time, no amount of repair could give it any worth.
As a Chinese man under the influence of Confucianism, he had always followed the principle of repaying any favor someone did him many times over, and trying his best to help others.
But having been in America for a year, he discovered that being a good person in the violence-favoring and barbarism-advocating North American area did not pay off.
Especially when conducting business in America, the people here were in favor of the law of the jungle; strong over the weak and survival of the fittest.
Under such a culture, it would be too foolish to insist on the principle of repaying an evil action with a good action.
Li Du would not do evil, but, if anyone were to intimidate him, then he could certainly be the more vicious and ruthless one!
I would live and let live if not antagonized. If I am antagonized, punishment will be dealt, regardless of the distance!