72 Jade. A Second Assassination Attemp (1/2)

Young Master Qin’s gaze towards the mighty Yun Yang was full of admiration.

He had never seen something like this; the stunned man had experienced something new today.

Yun Yang felt that he was incredibly fierce… and a little cheap. If he had never met Dong Tianleng, he would never have thought to use such a cheap reason and method! It was too violent, there was no way to put his wits and elegance on display.

“I must steer clear of that cheap fellow in the future! I have been unduly influenced.” Yun Yang made a solemn resolution in his heart.

“What are you looking at me for? Is there a flower on my face?” Yun Yang glared at Young Master Qin.

“No… Young Master Yun, you are terribly fierce today!” Young Master Qin was babbling with nervous flattery, bootlicking to the point that Yun Yang was all smiles again.

“Grovel all you will, you’ll still have to give me the best jade.” Yun Yang asked after relishing in the praises, “Where is the warehouse?”

Young Master Qin rolled his eyes and said, “Here… I knew you wouldn’t forget your jade.”

“I can forget it, I can leave now too.” Yun Yang was unfazed.

“Lord… Big brother…” Young Master Qin was frightened as his face was drained of blood. “Don’t…”

After opening seventeen or eighteen locks, they had finally entered the small warehouse. Boxes containing high-grade jade filled the large space as they were placed neatly all around.

Once they entered, Emmie was twitching even more vigorously in agitation.

“This is marvelous!” Yun Yang’s eyes gleamed. “I want them all!”

With a plop, Young Master Qin fell to the floor. “Have mercy, big brother. These are all the treasured collection of my family for some three hundred years. I’ve only brought you here to show my sincerity but father has reminded repeatedly that Young Master Yun can only, at most, take ten pieces! Please, don’t put me in a tough spot… if you take them all, our family…”

“No!” Yun Yang rejected without hesitation. Should I believe you just because mention ten pieces? Your bottom line must at least be twenty items if you can mention ten pieces right away!

There are several hundred boxes here! You let me in once and allow me to take only ten of them? What sincerity is this?

“At least one hundred!” Yun Yang said decisively, his demand exorbitant.

“Oh my God…” Young Master Qin cried in despair. “Why not take my life straightaway? I can give you, at most, eleven pieces!”

“At least ninety?!”

“No! Absolutely not! At most, twelve!”

“At least eighty!”

“No, at most 13.”

“I don’t wish to bargain anymore.” Yun Yang had lost his patience. “I don’t care what your bottom line is. I’ll give a number, I’ll take them and pay you if it’s a deal; if not, I’ll leave right away and not pester you anymore. What say you?”

Young Master Qin asked anxiously, “Then how many do you wish for?”

“Fifty!!” Yun Yang said coldly, “Forget it if you can’ meet my demands.]! I don’t want yours anymore.”

Young Master Qin’s face was as bitter as a gourd.

Fifty?

The bottom line his father had given him was no more than twenty-five pieces. This lord was simply being generous by doubling the amount directly.

These treasured jades here were not from an ordinary jade; each piece was a priceless gem that could be turned into the highly treasured revival jade.

“Is it so hard to decide?” Yun Yang gave him a sidelong glance. “Actually, even if I said I want them all, you have to give them to me too. I only want fifty now, and I’m paying for them.”

“Deal!” Young Master Qin said through gritted teeth.

“How much? In gold?”

“They would cost at least five million gold taels.” Young Master Qin held his bleeding heart and gave his cost price.

“No problem!”

Yun Yang agreed easily. “If it’s only five million gold taels, you’ve got yourself a deal.”

“How about the payment?”

“Put it on my tab.”

Young Master Qin had no tears to cry even if he felt like weeping.

“I’ll pick them then,” Yun Yang said.

“It’s easy to damage them while moving them about. Besides, all the jades here have a similar quality. Young Master Yun can simply take any fifty boxes,” Young Master Qin reminded him kindly.

“Don’t worry, I shall then choose fifty boxes at random.”

Yun Yang laughed, “I’ll depend on my luck then.”

Emmie was all prepared to strike in his subconscious. It was already clear which box was would be the most useful to it.

In a short time, Yun Yang had picked out fifty boxes. The process took less than half the amount of time taken to burn a joss stick.

“I’ll take these.” Yun Yang said, “If I pick and choose carefully, it would be hard for you to explain to your family too.”

Young Master Qin was greatly touched. “Young Master Yun is sensible!”

…

Finding the traitor from the Four Seasons Tower was only one of the objectives for Yun Yang’s visit. The other goal was to find nourishment for Emmie. Since he discovered that Emmie was especially needy of jade, Yun Yang had targeted the Qin Family.

There was only Qin Family that could have such a large jade reservoir in the entire Tiantang City. He had rushed to come over when everyone else was also going. It was so he could enter this secret chamber.

However, he would not go over the line. Their deal was only fifty boxes so he would only take fifty boxes; nothing more, none of those in the dark tactics as well.

he Qin family had no choice but to transact with Treasure Pavilion then and committed disloyalty to the emperor. Although Yun Yang held this as blackmail, he knew that the Qin Family was compelled to at that time.

After using this as a form of coercion for a few times, Yun Yang would naturally return the favor. He would never really drive someone’s family to a corner.

Young Master Qin could vaguely tell this too, which was why he had allowed Yun Yang to blackmail him without a care and even allow him to take advantage in giving him the lowest price.

He knew that Yun Yang had never mentioned it but he would never really take advantage of those without the means for repayment.