Chapter 2836: A Dramatic Reencounter (5)
Di Fuyi listened to her quietly and waited for her to finish the whole story. "What do you have to say for yourself?" He then questioned Gu Xijiu.
Irritated, Fan Qianshi explained, "My master saw the bracelet first for about two months ago. We even paid a deposit for it so that we could keep it until the day when I could finally afford it. We were only a couple of hours late, and yet the owner had already displayed the bracelet for other buyers."
"A couple of hours? If you are late, you are late. Even if it has only been 15 minutes," Di Fuyi interrupted him with his point of view about punctuality. "Haven’t you told your disciple that an agreement is a contract?" He continued to question Gu Xijiu.
The way he made his point sounded like he was giving Gu Xijiu a lesson, which she did not appreciate. "When we arrived, the payment was not yet made, so the owner suggested that we bid for it."
"Bid? How much did you bid for it?" Di Fuyi asked in a tone of mockery.
He did not even wait for Gu Xijiu to answer before offering a full chain of precious white pearls from his pocket. He placed the pearls on the table, blinding everyone there with the pearls’ eye-catching brilliance. Each pearl alone was worth ten times more than the bracelet. There were a 108 of such pearls, and the total value of it all was impossible to be measured precisely.
"I will use this chain of pearls to bid for it," Di Fuyi proudly announced.
The owner could not be happier for his sheer luck of fortune. He then turned to Gu Xijiu, patiently waiting for an answer.
Gu Xijiu took a look at the chain of pearls, and then to the bracelet, and became convinced that Di Fuyi must have lost his mind. She wanted to buy the bracelet at first because she could easily afford it, but Fan Qianshi insisted on earning her one. He had been working non-stop for two months in order to meet the amount of money required, so she could not let his hard work go to waste, thence she agreed to enter a bidding war.