nashuaworldcup Chapter 550 Stop! Who said you can leave?
Chapter 550 Stop! Who said you can leave?
Wang Jingheng laughed so hard that tears came out. There was no comparison at all with this skinny and small guy.
He looked at Bai Wanwan with a smile and said, "How about this, I'll bet you another 20 taels, do you dare?"
Bai Wanwan raised her eyebrows and said, "Okay! Let's bet..."
Bai Wanwan quickly pulled out the banknotes. Wang Jingheng pulled out two yellowed land deeds from his sleeve and slammed them on the table. "The Daoxiang Manor and Yunjin Manor in the west of the city are worth two hundred thousand taels of silver to you!"
Before he finished speaking, the crowd erupted in exclamations.
An accountant wearing a melon-shaped hat rushed forward, unfolded the deed with trembling hands, and stared with wide eyes:
"Wow! These are the two most fertile plots of land in the west of the city!
Daoxiangzhuang has thousands of acres of fertile land, and the rouge rice produced every year is exclusively supplied to the royal palace.
Yunjinzhuang is connected to the mulberry garden and the weaving workshop, and the Shujin produced can be sold overseas!"
"That's right!" Another wealthy businessman dressed in silk squeezed to the front row, smacking his lips in envy.
"The rent from Daoxiang Manor alone can yield tens of thousands of dan of grain a year!
Yunjin Manor is even more amazing. I heard that even the clothes of the empresses in the palace come from there!"
Everyone gathered around the land deed and discussed it. Someone whispered, "Young Master Wang is truly wealthy. These two manors combined are probably worth three hundred thousand taels."
Others shook their heads and smacked their lips: "Tsk tsk, that's a powerful move."
"Isn't this a sure-win business?"
The crowd erupted in laughter. Someone pointed at the little cricket in Naitang's arms and shook his head, "This little thing is no bigger than a finger. Fighting against the ever-victorious General is like hitting a stone with an egg!"
Several uncles nearby also laughed: "I think this girl is just here to make up the numbers. She will cry later!"
Bai Wanwan glanced at Naitang, who was anxiously tugging at the corner of her clothes, sighed and nodded: "Alright! Let's get started!"
The referee struck the gong and two crickets were placed into a ceramic basin.
As soon as the ever-victorious general entered, he bared his teeth, shook his antennae and chirped, but the little cricket huddled in the corner, looking trembling with fear.
The onlookers laughed even harder, and someone shouted at the top of his voice: "Give up! Don't bite the little cricket to death!"
General Changsheng knocked the little cricket to the ground with one claw, and bit its wings hard with his fangs.
The little cricket was pressed to the bottom of the basin and couldn't get free even though it kicked its thin legs. The onlookers were laughing like crazy.
"Is that the end of it?" Someone laughed and slapped his thigh: "I thought he was so powerful, but it turns out he's just a delivery boy!"
"I told you this little thing is no match for me. It was bitten to pieces in one bite!" Amidst the discussion, the ever-victorious General shook his head fiercely again. A piece of the little cricket's wing was torn off with a "hiss", and it shivered in pain.
Just when everyone thought the game was about to end, the little cricket suddenly curled up, and taking advantage of the moment when the victorious general loosened his grip, he suddenly jumped onto the other's head.
General Changsheng panicked and tried to scratch upwards with his hind legs, but the little cricket bit the soft flesh on the top of his head like a nail.
What’s even more amazing is that the little guy bit while backing away, and actually lifted up the scalp of the ever-victorious general!
General Changsheng thrashed around in the basin in pain, and soon collapsed to the ground, motionless.
The whole place was dead silent, everyone stared with their eyes wide open, not even noticing that the melon seeds in their hands had fallen to the ground.
After a while, the crowd exploded: "How is this possible?!"
"How did this little cricket do it? It's incredible."
Wang Jingheng's face flushed crimson, and his fingers trembled so much that he couldn't even hold the fan steady.
"That's absolutely impossible! How can a small bug be so big?
You must have tampered with the cricket!"
Bai Wanwan held the little cricket in her palm. The little guy was nibbling on the leaves lively. "Everyone is watching me. How can I cheat? I just caught this cricket randomly in the back mountain."
The young master of the Li family, standing by, turned pale and tremblingly took out the banknotes from his arms.
The fifty silver bills were wrinkled in his hand; he had stolen them all from the accounting office without telling his mother.
He gritted his teeth and slammed the money on the table, his nails almost digging into his flesh.
Bai Wanwan neatly collected the banknotes and raised her chin: "Do you still want to play?"
Wang Jingheng slumped down on the chair, his voice hoarse:
"What are you playing for?! I've lost everything! How can I win with crickets I caught in the wild?
Are crickets fed concentrated feed every day worse? "
Bai Wanwan patted the hem of her skirt and prepared to leave when suddenly a clear voice called out to her, "Stop! Who said you can leave?"
The crowd automatically made way, and a young man in gray clothes walked out through the crowd.
He was holding an exquisite sandalwood box in his arms, and the moment he opened the lid, everyone gasped.
The moment the young man in gray opened the sandalwood box, a cold miasma rushed towards him, and the candlelight dimmed strangely.
The crickets in the box look very small, but upon closer inspection, their shells are covered with dark golden ancient patterns, and their eight legs have dense barbs at the joints.
There was a "clucking" sound similar to grinding teeth when breathing, which was so weird that it made people's scalp tingle.
"There's something wrong with this cricket!" someone in the crowd screamed.
Wang Jingheng suddenly jumped up from his chair, his expression even uglier than before: "This isn't a cricket at all! This is a poisonous insect from southern Xinjiang!"
The young man raised his lips and smiled grimly. "You have a good eye. This is a Netherworld Gu Cricket that I've been raising for ten years using thirty kinds of poisonous insects. Do you want to take it?"
He casually threw out a stack of banknotes: "I bet one million taels, do you dare to take it?"
The whole audience exploded in an instant. Some people gasped, and some were shaking with excitement.
"One million taels! He's truly wealthy!"
Amidst the discussions, the little cricket in Bai Wanwan's arms suddenly became agitated, kicking its thin legs continuously, as if it felt threatened by something.
The bottle suddenly moved, then it went straight into the little cricket's body and said, "Go..."
What else could Bai Wanwan say? She simply took out a 100 million tael silver note.
Shen Tao's forehead veins throbbed with anxiety, and he grabbed Bai Wanwan's sleeve. "Are you crazy? That Netherworld Gu Cricket can even bite a person to death. What can you use to fight it?"
Bai Wanwan raised an eyebrow and shook off his hand, the silver bells in her hair ringing as she moved: "If I lose, the worst that can happen is I can just return the money. I can't let people think I'm a coward, can I?"
The fighting spirit in her eyes was even more flamboyant than the cricket in her hand.
The crowd exploded instantly, some people counting on their fingers in amazement:
"If she wins this one million again, she will have made a net profit of two million taels today!
How many silk shops would that take to buy?"
"Whoever marries her will spend the rest of his life lying around and spending all his money!"
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Bai Wanwan, as if they were staring at a hen that lays golden eggs.
"No wonder she's so arrogant, she's Lord Baiyin's granddaughter!"
Someone in the corner suddenly lowered his voice: "Her father is General Huo..."
Another person sneered and spat on the ground:
"Bah! She is not General Huo's biological daughter at all. Her mother remarried with a child in tow.
But General Huo is kind-hearted and has treated her like the apple of his eye for so many years..."