Chapter 1376 Chapter 1376 - Watermelon Battle (2/2)
The manager said, ”Do you know how many watermelons we have in stock?”
Li Du snapped his fingers, and Sophie knew what he wanted. She pulled out the JP Morgan card from her purse. ”It can buy all the watermelons in the United States.”
Cleveland was a small place, and the manager was ignorant and did not know the worth of the JP Morgan card. He said disdainfully, ”Keep on lying.”
Someone told him, ”This is a top bank card issued by JP Morgan. Every owner is a billionaire. They are not lying.”
Hearing this, the manager was taken aback and eyed Li Du carefully.
Li Du said impatiently, ”Do you agree? How about this, if I lose, I'll buy all the watermelons in your supermarket at ten times the market price, and if you lose you give me ten times the value of all the watermelons. So?”
The staff around the manager encouraged him to agree to the bet. They said:
”You don't really believe they can evaluate watermelons by tapping on them, do you?”
”Don't be a coward, be firm with them.”
”This sign is too insulting, so apologize directly!”
Li Du said, ”Look, there is somebody else asking you to apologize directly.”
The manager was even more reluctant to do so, and simply said, ”Then let's bet, and if you win I'll apologize…”
”No, it's not your private apology we want,” Li Du said, waving his fingers and smiling again. ”It's your supermarket that is going to apologize to us.”
Sophie, who knew Li Du well, saw his trademark smile and quickly reminded the manager, ”You had better apologize directly, or the consequences may be worse.”
The manager, however, did not appreciate Sophie's good intentions. He thought she was trying to goad him and said, ”Let's bet, and if you win, the supermarket will apologize, but... I set the rules,” he added with a cunning smile.
”Whatever you want,” Li Du said calmly.
The manager took a deep breath and said, ”I'll pick out five watermelons. You rank them according to their ripeness.”
”How is that possible?” cried a Chinese girl. ”Five watermelons may not be different in ripeness. Besides, there is no standard!”
The manager gave an evil smile. ”Don't you Chinese think you have special skills in evaluating watermelons? How come there are no standards? You can tell by the color!”
Li Du said, ”Your conditions are not fair, because the sample is too small, so let me pick five watermelons from here and rank them by their ripeness, ok?”
The manager looked at the watermelon heap with some hesitation. He saw Li Du looked confident so he was afraid of losing the bet.
However, the customers, who were watching the spectacle, were not pleased and began to put pressure on him:
”This condition is very reasonable, why not agree to it?”
”Yes, come on, it can't be done anyway.”
”All the watermelons here have about the same degree of ripeness.”