Chapter 57: CH 57

Chapter 57

Since he was a child, Lu Bo Ting had never accepted a gift from a woman other than his mother, his aunt, and his grandmother. Let alone small crafts, none of the three could even make one.

Shi Nian looked at him and then at Xue Chi, “Hey Lieutenant, have any beautiful women ever given him small gifts?”

“Yes, they have.” Adjutant Xue said honestly, “But the Marshal never accepts them.”

Shi Nian gave a long-toned ‘oh’, “That’s normal. After all, he has a face without worldly desires at first glance.”

“And to him, people and birds are different.”

Shi Nianyi pointed to his own body, and he was squatting on another chair at the moment. The distance from Lu Bo Ting was roughly the same as the distance the latter kept from the phoenix.”Men and women are different, birds are different, and everyone is different in his world.”

Adjutant Xue couldn’t answer that, and pretended not to hear it.

But in his heart, he agreed. It was true that their marshal never seemed to be particularly close to anyone.

He had seen Shi Nian and Yan Huaxin sitting there whispering to each other today, but he hadn’t seen such a scene in all the years he had been with the marshal.

Marshal Lu: “……”

Lu Bo Ting changed the subject: “Are you going to tomorrow’s auction?”

This auction was already known to Shi Nian, and some of the lots in the middle were the superb soothing liquids made by the small research institute under Lu Bo Ting’s hand. That is, the batch that used the juice of Qianbau flowers, refined by Shi Nian.

Lu Bo Ting had long said that he would sell some of them, and they were all going to go to auction.

This way, the price would be higher.

The last auction was a month ago, and this one is tomorrow.

The last time he couldn’t go was because of school, but this time, Shi Nian was ready to go and see what went on.

After all, he had been to auctions in the cultivation world, but he didn’t know what the interplanetary ones were like yet.

But while he had decided to go, he didn’t show it on his face, and asked, “What, I can finally go out?”

“When have you ever been restricted from going out?” Lu Bo Ting asked rhetorically, “It’s just that you’re only supposed to bring a few people with you.”

Shi Nian just didn’t want to take people with him, it was troublesome.

Not to mention being a human now, when he was a bird, he used to sneak out on his own to play. For this reason, he had met many people who wanted to capture the phoenix, but, of course, they all ended up being burned by him to the point of crying and calling him grandpa.

However, because he was going to the auction tomorrow, he didn’t bother to announce that he was a guide on Starnet in the evening. Instead, he slept beautifully and refreshed himself.

The main issue was getting up early.

The auction wasn’t on the main star, so they had to take the airship first. The good thing was that the two planets were not far apart, and they could leave in the morning and be there in the afternoon.

When they got off the airship, they were surprised to see Bai Zihan.

It must be said that there was some appearance in terms of looks alone.

But in the case of a young phoenix like Shi Nian, or someone from the cultivation world, it was more about the bones and the heart of the talent, so he took one look and pursed his lips.

He was so far behind him that it was a bit of an insult to compare him with him.

Shi Nian did not care about this man, but Bai Zihan did. After all, his own mother had just been sent to prison, and although the verdict had not yet been handed down, it was conceivable that nothing good would come of it. At best, he would have to stay inside.

So as soon as he saw Shi Nian, he glared at him angrily. He then saw Lu Bo Ting next to Shi Nian, and Xue Chi was contacting the flying machine to come over.

As soon as the craft arrived, he opened the door and invited Lu Bo Ting inside.

Of course, it was definitely the little ancestor, Shi Nian, who was the first to board the craft. Lu Bo Ting stood there and waited for him to go up before following him into the aircraft.

Seeing this scene, Bai Zihan’s face turned even greener, and he gritted his teeth in anger, “Shi Nian!”

When Shi Nian looked back at him, he saw that he was being held by a man on his shoulder, who seemed to be telling him to calm down.

The man was not bad-looking; he was human and svelte……

“Who is he?” Shi Nian asked.

Xue Chi glanced back and immediately said, “Wu Chao Yi.”

Oh, Shi Nian knew. It was Bai Zihan’s cousin, the grandson of Councillor Wu, who was the most promising child of the Wu family in this generation.

“No wonder.” He muttered, “He looks a bit smarter than that idiot Bai Zihan.”

Wu Chao Yi stopped Bai Zihan, who wanted to go forward, “Calm down.”

Bai Zihan said, “How can I calm down after what he did to my mother?”

“Are you like this because your mother was done in, or because Lu Bo Ting is close to him?” Wu Chao Yi said immediately.

Bai Zihan: “I…”

Wu Chao Yi looked at him with disdain. Who didn’t know that this matter could not be done by one person at that time, and the behind-the-scenes were not even considered to be behind-the-scenes? The Lu family was clearly involved.

But this cousin of his is still full of men only.

Really, this generation of the Bai family has no one left.

If it weren’t for his little aunt, he wouldn’t have had to bring Bai Zihan out. His father had told him to teach him well. But he couldn’t help but think that this man was no diamond in the rough, and he didn’t know how to carve it.

However, Wu Chao Yi turned to some unknown thought and suddenly said, “If you really like him, it’s not impossible. As long as you can make Lu Bo Ting agree to this matter, like your mother did when she asked the one from the Yue family not to marry Qing, “

At this point, the flying machine started up, and the’spectator’, Shi Nian, looked at Lu Bo Ting with a complicated expression, “Boss, no wonder you practise that everyone is different all day long. Look, everyone is interested in you. “

This can’t be helped. Even Bai Zihan has this in mind, as it turns out.

And now that Bai Zihan’s own mother has been tossed in, he hates Shi Nian even more. But Lu Bo Ting escaped his hate because of his handsomeness?

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Lu Bo Ting, who didn’t know the inside story, said, “There are a lot of good things at the auction, so you can see if there’s anything you’re interested in ahead of time.”

Save yourself the trouble of obsessing all day about how everyone is different.

There were many things at this auction, naturally, not only soothing potions. The soothing potions were not even in the top three of the finale.

“The new super extreme soothing potion is more effective than the previous one, but in the end, it is only soothing, not a complete cure for the problems in the spiritual sea.” Seeing him looking at this, Lu Bo Ting couldn’t help but explain, “That’s why the price can’t be too high.”

Shi Nian nodded. He was in the pharmaceutical business, so he naturally knew this.

After all, they just alleviated the problem, and some people didn’t even use such good ones at all. Even if they did need it, some of them were perfectly capable of settling for the cheaper ones. There were certainly bigwigs who were willing to spend money, but it was unlikely that they would break their heads over it.

Then he went on to look at the other lots and found a wide variety of items, ranging from antiques to gems to jade etc, all of which were value-added items that could be sold again.

When he saw the last item, he looked at it and said, “A space stone?”

He looked at it. The darkness in it looked a bit like ink jade, but it should not be. But even though the light brain could project the item, it was not a physical object in the end, so he could not tell.

When Lu Bo Ting saw his interest, he explained: “Space stones contain different sizes of space inside, but most of them can hold at least one mecha. They are very expensive because of their small number and sometimes their usefulness.“

Shi Nian nodded, “That’s what they call a space button on the internet.”

Lu Bo Ting nodded. It was a thing.

Nowadays, interstellar technology is already quite advanced, but there hasn’t been much of a breakthrough in space technology. The biggest thing that could be done was to widen the space a bit, but to a very small extent, and it was very complicated to use, so it could not be used everywhere.

Nowadays, it is only used in a very small number of the empire’s best flying machines, or in mechas and space ships.

“Of course, there are some people who do it in gadgets.” Adjutant Xue suddenly answered, “Mr. Shi, like the one you hid inside the small embroidery bag, you can use it to hold things, but at most two pounds of melon seeds. Any more than that won’t fit.”

Shi Nian huffed and looked at Xue Chi with sympathy. If you don’t know, don’t talk nonsense. Now look at this…how embarrassing.

It also seems that you are short-sighted and very stupid.

But he now knew why when he took the melon seeds from the small bag, the classmates in the school and the two military officials at home, who should have been very cautious, did not notice anything wrong.

It turned out that they thought he could only fit two pounds of melon seeds in the bag.

When the flight arrived at the place, Shi Nian and the others started to enter.

Those who could come here were either rich, powerful, or both. Most of them knew each other and had to say hello as they walked along.

A wealthy businessman walked over, and Shi Nian felt that he looked a bit familiar.  He had seen him at Yan Huaxin’s birthday party that day.

The other man smiled and said, “I was afraid that the auction of the soothing agent would be postponed after the incident a while ago, but fortunately it was resolved smoothly.”

When he said that something had happened, Shi Nian almost didn’t laugh out loud. After all, it’s not strictly appropriate to use these words for them, it should be used to describe the Bai family and the Wu family.

Wu Chao Yi and Bai Zi Han, who were walking behind them, heard this, and their faces were predictably pale.

For a moment, Shi Nian didn’t know whether it was a coincidence that this person wasn’t very good at talking or whether he had done it on purpose.

Bai Zihan’s face was already unreadable, but it was Wu Chao Yi who was worthy of being the leader of the younger generation of the Wu family, still looking like a scumbag.

He took two steps forward and smiled, “Marshal Lu should also be here for the spatial stones. Not coincidentally, so am I.”

It was clear that the two families had fought to the death earlier, but in his eyes it was as if nothing had happened and he was smiling quite ‘sincerely‘.

Shi Nian sighed with emotion. Worthy of being the person who advised Bai Zihan to try it out and hook up with Lu Bo Ting.

Very thick-skinned.

Shi Nian smiled and watched him come over to finish his greeting, then took Bai Zihan and walked away.

The latter stared at him indignantly, as if he wanted to say something. But Wu Chao Yi said, “Bai Zihan.” He didn’t dare to say anything and just followed him.

This scene made Shi Nian laugh, and he was never one to worry about anyone, so he just laughed out loud when he wanted to.

Bai Zihan was almost angry enough to turn around again, but was eventually dragged away.

Lu Bo Ting patted him helplessly on the head and said, “Come on, we should go in too.”

“Don’t pat my head.” Shi Nian said discontentedly, “I’m not that kid Bai Zihan, following his cousin’s lead and being a wimp like that.”

“That’s because…” Xue Chi said: “You always want to spray people. Who can hold you back?“

Adjutant Xue had now seen the light. He even knew that when Shi Nian was at school, he had read a review in front of thousands of teachers and students, but turned it into a crusade.

He was even present at the Yan family’s birthday party, watching him splash wine and throw people out.

Granted, no one was there to stop it, but he was sure that no one could stop it either.

The auction was held upstairs, and they were positioned relatively close to the front. Most of the people around them looked familiar, including Wu Chao Yi and Bai Zihan.

Xue Chi pulled out a chair and let Shi Nian sit down first, before pulling another for Lu Bo Ting.

The three of them had changed their order of precedence, and they didn’t know when, but the one who shouts “boss” was living as the big boss himself.

They were used to it, but the others looking at it couldn’t help but be amazed, not knowing what they were pondering.

Bai Zihan’s eyes were even red.

“Just because you can make refined flower juice of 100% purity, you now think of yourself as a big character.” He couldn’t help saying.

Wu Chao Yi gave him a look and said, “If you can do it too, I will pull out a chair for you personally.”

Bai Zihan: “……“

Is that something that can be easily done? Not even one of the many potion masters in the empire today could pull it off.

The organisers served tea and snacks to each table, and the stage was still warming up.

When Shi Nian looked around, he said, “So this is what the auction looks like.”

Bai Zihan immediately said, as if he had caught something: “A country bumpkin from the Edge Star, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Shi Nian couldn’t help laughing.

Xue Chi thought he was about to spout off, but then he heard his own marshal already say, “Insulting someone in public at will. Bai Gongzi’s parenting is not good, is it?“

Scolded by his favourite person, Bai Zihan instantly turned pale.

However, no one bothered with him. Even Wu Chao Yi glared at him and pushed a cup of tea towards him, telling him to drink more tea and talk less, so as not to embarrass himself.

Then he said a few more polite words to divert the matter.

After all, if Bai Zihan’s tutelage was bad, wouldn’t it also reflect badly on their Wu family?

However, Shi Nian no longer cared. Next to him, Lu Bo Ting was explaining the auction to him.

“This is a relatively high-end auction. Those who come are people with certain strengths and not many. That’s why it’s in hall mode. For normal auctions, there are boxes… “

And this side seemed to have no private boxes. One, because there are fewer people, and two, because they are all in the inner circle, so it is convenient to communicate.

The tea and snacks on the table were also all made by a specially hired senior chef.

Shi Nian replaced the tea with freshly squeezed juice and tried another piece of dim sum. It was really good. It was just that the foreplay of the auction was too long, and it was still too late to get to the main event.

He hadn’t gone to the washroom on the airship earlier, and now that he was drinking the juice, he was a bit anxious.

“I’m going to the bathroom.” Shi Nian said and got up.

There was a navigation system here, so it wasn’t like he would go the wrong way on his first visit. After putting the water in and washing his hands, he ran into Wu Chao Yi, who was waiting there.

He deliberately glanced back, “Waiting for your cousin?”

Wu Chao Yi said, “No, I’m waiting for you.”

Shi Nian nodded in consideration, “I say, even if he’s still a kid at twenty, he doesn’t need to be watched when he goes to the bathroom.”

Wu Chao Yi: “……“

The incident that he had mentioned earlier in the hall, with the fact that Bai Zihan was young and did not know any better, was almost like a deliberate mockery when it was brought up by Shi Nian.

However, he had a smile on his face, without any hint of hostility.

“Mr. Wu, what do you want from me?” Shi Nian said.

Wu Chao Yi said, ” When we met for the first time, I found that you are quite different from what I thought…“

“With your intelligence, you should not be able to be fooled by just a few words from anyone.” Wu Chao Yi said, “So I am very confused as to why you would side with Lu Bo Ting. By following him, you would at most be a relatively important person under him, but if you returned to the Bai family, with your intelligence and wisdom, and the current situation where the Bai family has a bunch of incapable people, you could even take over the Bai family after your grandfather. “

Shi Nian looked at him with a strange expression.

Wu Chao Yi: “You don’t believe me?”

“That I believe.” Shi Nia said, “After all, Bai Bingyan was so angry with me, but he still managed to make trips to come see me. But I believe it’s the intention of Senator Bai behind the scenes.“

“He’s too stupid to see it himself, and he’s still biting each other  with his own brother. But the senator clearly saw that the two of them were fighting like wolves, and that none of his grandchildren had any success. Which is why he wanted me to return to the Bai family. “

Wu Chao Yi said, “So why do you have this look on your face?”

“I am not mocking you for your words, but I am thinking that you opened your mouth and said that I am smarter than you think, but you speak as if you think I am a fool. And as soon as I saw you, I thought you were different from that fool Bai Zihan, and you were not a fuel-efficient lamp, but I didn’t think you would do a foolish thing. “

Wu Chao Yi’s relaxed expression finally changed at this point.

Shi Nian said, “You and I clearly know that you wouldn’t want me to go back to the Bai family.”

Now that Madam Bai had gone in, Bai Zihan had not returned to the Wu family but remained in the Bai family. Wu Chao Yi was already taking Bai Zihan around to teach him. It was clear that the latter wanted to cultivate Bai Zihan.

If Shi Nian went back, Bai Zihan’s foolishness would not be able to do anything.

“If I decide to go back, you’ll be worried about what to do with me?” Shi Nian laughed, “So by saying this now, are you trying to plant a seed of revolt in my heart, or do you want to see me regret it?”

“Master Wu, I think if you have this kind of skill, why don’t you go back and watch Bai Zihan? Or teach him more. ” Shi Nian sighed as he walked outside, “You know, he’s so stupid that not only does it bother you guys, but even those who are enemies sometimes have a headache.”

After saying this, he had already reached the end of the corridor, and when he stepped out, there was the auction hall.

Wu Chao Yi stood at the back and did not move for the time being, but the expression on his face was not the same as the smiling and peaceful one in front of people, but a bit gloomy.

“Shi Nian! You’re good! “

No wonder Bai Bingyan couldn’t get anything after begging on several occasions. Shi Nian is so perceptive. How would that silly aunt of his ever get a good deal in her sentence?

Seeing that the auction was about to start, Wu Chak Yi also walked back and saw Bai Zihan sitting next to him with a resigned look on his face. He couldn’t help but think to himself.

They were both born to the same father, so why is there such a disparity? He didn’t need this. He didn’t need the headache of teaching someone with 30% of a brain.

With the intelligent brains of his young aunt, how could she have a son who is so useless?