Chapter 689 Betting
Qing Yuanhu glanced at the sundial in the cave: "One quarter past three o'clock."
Ye Xiaoman: "Do you have your Water Spirit Pearl with you?"
Qing Yuanhu: "Yes."
In order to catch the big fish Ye Xiaoman, Qing Yuanhu showed his sincerity.
He took out a treasure bag from his belt and poured out a dazzling bead.
The original Water Spirit Pearl was similar to the impression Ye Xiaoman had when she first saw it in the treasure house. After seeing the pirated version, it was easy to tell that the original one was indeed the real thing.
Ye Xiaoman thought about it.
"Give me the Water Spirit Pearl."
"I'll give you the Taotie beast and the Xiyi treasure."
Qing Yuanhu quickly raised one corner of his mouth.
Seeing his expression about to laugh, Ye Xiaoman quickly pointed her finger at him and pulled the corner of his mouth downwards. "I'm not sending you off. I'm not stupid. Just listen to me first."
Qing Yuanhu struggled to hold back his laughter, pretending to pull down the corners of his mouth. "Go ahead."
He made so much money that he felt guilty.
Ye Xiaoman, who was sitting opposite him, was still carefully explaining the rules of the bet. Perhaps she felt that she was extremely clever, and there was a hint of pride in her eyes.
"We each put our treasure on the other."
"Whoever can find a way to take the treasure back from the other person by the hour of You will be the winner."
Qing Yuanhu and Ye Xiaoman agreed on the rules: "During the betting period, can the treasure leave the body?"
Ye Xiaoman said: "Sure, you can hide wherever you want."
Qing Yuanhu: "Can you use external help?"
Ye Xiaoman didn't think twice: "Of course."
Qing Yuanhu looked at her head sympathetically. He was the boss of Huantian Chamber of Commerce and could mobilize helpers from all over the world. How could she have never thought of this?
Qing Yuanhu: "If I can find the Water Spirit Pearl you hid before the hour of You, I will win."
Ye Xiaoman looked as if she was about to be confused by him. "That's right, you can hide it or give it to someone else for safekeeping, but just don't let me get it."
"You can't just rob him in front of me."
After she finished speaking, she placed the vase containing the Xiyi treasure in front of Qing Yuanhu, and then took out a heavy storage bag from her arms and placed it next to the Xiyi treasure.
She touched both treasures with affection.
"If I win, you must return the Xiyi treasure and the Taotie beast to me, and also give me the Water Spirit Pearl."
"Oh, and you have to delete my video too."
"If I lose," she gritted her teeth and pushed the two treasures in front of Qing Yuanhu, "they will all be yours."
"At the same time, you have to delete my video."
When faced with an important decision, Qing Yuanhu subconsciously wanted to take off the golden abacus from his waist.
Ye Xiaoman immediately reached out and held him down. She hurriedly said, "You can't use the prediction magic weapon!"
"Did Wu Shisanniang and the others tell you all this secret?"
Ye Xiaoman: "When will I be as shameless as you, who can change the subject immediately after being caught cheating?"
Qing Yuanhu: "Don't attack me. Although I appear strong, I can cry too."
Ye Xiaoman: "Ugh."
Qing Yuanhu: "One last question, are we going to stay together today, or hide our things separately?"
Ye Xiaoman looked like she had a limited brain capacity and didn't know how to answer. She glanced at Qing Yuanhu, wanting to make a random choice but also afraid that there was something hidden in his words.
"It's all right."
Qing Yuanhu said, "Since we're playing a gambling game, why not increase the difficulty? We'll stay together for the rest of the time and hide the treasure right under each other's noses."
"This way, it will be more difficult to hide things," Ye Xiaoman agreed. "Okay then."
Qing Yuanhu smiled and stretched out his little finger, wanting to pinky promise with her as if to coax a fool.
Ye Xiaoman glanced at his fingers with disdain, took out a soul contract from her storage bag, concentrated her mind, silently recited a mantra, and lines of bloody words appeared on the black paper.
Once a soul contract is established, the fate of the two people will be automatically bound together. Anyone who violates the contract will be punished by heaven. This is the most suitable way to prevent two people from breaking a contract when making a bet.
Ye Xiaoman signed her name and handed it to Qing Yuanhu.
Qing Yuanhu was a little surprised that Ye Xiaoman could still think of signing a formal contract with him.
He looked at the contents of the contract and found that they were consistent with the terms they had just agreed upon, so he simply signed it.
A white light emerged from the soul contract, indicating that the contract was established. The two of them simultaneously felt the restraint of the power of the contract.
After Qing Yuanhu signed the contract, he realized that because of his trust in Ye Xiaoman's intelligence, he forgot to check the treasure in advance before signing the contract.
The contract written by Ye Xiaoman originally used "the 'Taotie Beast', 'Xiyi Treasure' and 'Shuiling Pearl' in front of him" as bargaining chips. He had just deceived Ye Xiaoman with a sleight of hand, and he couldn't help but wonder if she would play a word trap with him.
“The Xiyi treasure in front of you” does not mean “the real Xiyi treasure”.
Ye Xiaoman bit a red rope in her mouth and lay on the ground, clumsily rolling up the soul contract.
Qing Yuanhu glanced at her calmly and picked up the vase and storage bag.
He used his fingertips to guide a wisp of spiritual energy towards the surface of the two treasures. He used the methods of experts within the Chamber of Commerce to test them and found no signs of any deception, so he let down most of his guard.
The Taotie beast and the Xiyi treasure are too precious. Even a big boss of Qing Yuanhu's level has never seen the real thing, and can only make judgments based on his rich experience in treasure appraisal.
Xiyi Bao's incredible power of creation is difficult to forge, so he determined it to be authentic.
Then he opened the storage bag. A monster that was thousands of years old must be very huge. Qing Yuanhu really saw an entire storage bag...
He frowned: "Why is it meat paste?"
Ye Xiaoman pressed the rolled-up soul book with her knees and busily tied the rope around it with both hands. It was an easy task, but she made a big fuss about it.
She raised her head and looked him directly in the eyes. The honest man's eyes were full of stupidity. Even a cunning fox like Qing Yuanhu was inclined to believe that there were people who had never lied in their lives.
"It was a chaotic scene when we killed the Taotie beast," she said. "The beast was hacked to death by random swords, so it was like this. It took me a long time to collect the body parts."
Qing Yuanhu did detect the majestic aura of the thousand-year-old monster. Although he was not satisfied with the appearance, he did not care for the sake of Xiyi Bao.
Ye Xiaoman held the rolled-up contract and regretted her decision again, "Should I ask Senior Brother Xiao for his opinion before making a bet with you?"
Qing Yuanhu immediately stopped checking and took the brocade bag and the vase into his arms. "We've already signed the contract. You can't go back on your word."
The deed was made in two copies, and Ye Xiaoman gave one to Qing Yuanhu.
Then she opened her storage bag.
Qing Yuanhu personally threw the absolutely authentic Water Spirit Pearl into her bag.
When the pearl fell into the bag, Ye Xiaoman showed unprecedented agility and immediately tightened the bag rope.
She broke into a brilliant smile, her expression too clever, completely different from the dazed look she had just displayed.
Qing Yuanhu felt strange and couldn't help but look at her again.
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