Damn, How could my family be so wealthy?!-Chapter 476 - 475: Reap What You Sow

"Grandpa, that’s awesome!"

Even though the outcome was already within Su Mu’s expectations.

But now that he was actually seeing it unfold, Su Mu couldn’t help but give Elder Su a thumbs up.

Su Mu felt that his grandfather really had a good grasp of the human heart.

Seeing Old Man Gu’s self-inflicted misfortune play out today was thoroughly satisfying for Su Mu.

If, because of Old Man Gu’s unreasonable entanglement, his grandfather had really spent so much money to win this last auction item.

Su Mu would have felt it wasn’t worth it.

It wasn’t that Su Mu was heartbroken about the money; a hundred million or two hundred million really wasn’t much to him now.

Not to mention Elder Su, who of course wouldn’t even bat an eye at it.

But Old Man Gu’s behavior disgusted Su Mu.

Because of a disgusting person, let alone spend an extra hundred million or two, even spending an extra cent would’ve felt unworthy to Su Mu.

That would only please the disgusting person.

Naturally, Su Mu was unwilling to do something that would please a despicable person by spending more money.

Now, the result was the exact opposite.

Elder Su’s maneuver had caused the despicable person to reap what he had sown.

Did you, Old Man Gu, not want to desperately raise the price, to make Su Junqiang spend more money?

Now Su Junqiang will oblige you, if you, Old Man Gu, really like this Tang Bohu’s "Thoughts of Returning Home on a Donkey" so much.

Su Junqiang would be "doing you a favor."

Seeing his grandson’s undisguised smile, Elder Su also wore a smile on his face.

Elder Su had indeed come for this authentic piece by Tang Bohu today.

But frankly, at most it was just a painting worthy of collection.

For Su Junqiang, if fate would have it, he would bid for it.

If there was no such destiny, Su Junqiang would never force it.

Not to mention Su Junqiang, who has now stepped back from the front line, even the Su Junqiang who used to control the entire Su Family conglomerate, was not one to be forceful.

Therefore, Old Man Gu’s belief that he understood Su Junqiang very well was truly presumptuous nonsense.

In contrast to the relaxed and joyful mood of Su Mu and Elder Su,

Old Man Gu and Young Master Gu, grandson and grandfather, were not in good spirits.

Seeing that the matter had reached a conclusion, the bidding paddle that Young Master Gu had been gripping tightly in his hand was now utterly useless.

He threw it back to the old man and immediately stood up.

"You bid, bid as many times as you want."

Before Old Man Gu could react, Young Master Gu snatched his phone from the old man’s hand and walked out of the auction hall without looking back, heading towards the entrance of the villa.

Young Master Gu wasn’t thinking about how he was going to get back, considering he had come in the same car as the old man and was now leaving by himself.

Young Master Gu didn’t want to think about how the old man would punish him for his actions once they were back.

However, it was likely that by then the old man would have no time to deal with his grandson, who had publicly defied him.

Old Man Gu would probably be preoccupied with the auction item he had "wholeheartedly" wanted to win and now finally had to figure out how to conclude the situation.

Of course, Young Master Gu felt that these procedural matters had nothing to do with him anymore.

After all, it wasn’t him who had raised the paddle.

Young Master Gu couldn’t make decisions on his own anyway. freēwēbnovel.com

So, what Young Master Gu wanted now was to keep his distance from Old Man Gu.

Young Master Gu felt that his attendance at the auction today was a self-inflicted humiliation.

Although Old Man Gu did snatch the genuine Tang Bohu painting from Elder Su’s hands in the end.

But anyone with clear eyes could see that it wasn’t because Su Junqiang lacked the ability or financial strength to compete with Old Man Gu.

Quite the contrary, just how wealthy the Su Family was, probably no one present had a clear idea.

In any case, they were extremely, extremely wealthy.

But in the end, Elder Su stopped raising his paddle, which was obviously an intentional "handover" to Old Man Gu.

As for why he would "hand it over" to Old Man Gu, everyone understood after seeing the smile that the young master Su turned to give Elder Su just now.

Old Man Gu and Young Master Gu must have understood it very clearly as well.

"Heh heh, Old Man Gu must have learned his lesson today, right? To think he tried to bid against Old Master Su, even maliciously at that, he’s really too sly."

"Who’s to say it isn’t so, hence it’s clear that Old Master Su’s move was truly clever, simply exposing Old Man Gu’s true colors in a stroke."

"I think Old Man Gu was deliberate from the start, could his Gu Family really afford to spend so much to acquire that genuine Tang Bohu painting?"

"Right, right, definitely deliberate. Didn’t the grandson of Old Man Gu say that the Gu Family couldn’t come up with that much cash?"

"So, from the beginning, Old Man Gu intended to set a trap for Old Master Su, to make Su spend more money."

"Fortunately, Old Master Su has a discerning eye and saw through Old Man Gu’s ruse at once. He even turned the tables, leading Old Man Gu to fall into his own trap."

"You’ve summed it all up, you really are a Monday morning quarterback, aren’t you?"

"Being a Monday morning quarterback isn’t bad. If I had seen it from the start, wouldn’t I be on the same level as Old Master Su?"

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Speaking of which, the bootlicking skills of these big shots are much stronger than those of the auctioneer.

They even not hesitate to belittle themselves to elevate Elder Su.

If this were a normal day, you try calling any one of the big shots present a Monday morning quarterback and see?

Isn’t that blatantly calling someone dumb?

You’d see if they wouldn’t get furious with you.

But here, no one felt there was anything wrong with that.

Comparing oneself to a primary school student next to Elder Su was no concern to anyone present.

Being compared with Elder Su would feel like an honor rather than cause any displeasure.

"Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend our auction today, and in particular, I’d like to thank Old Master Su and Xiao Mu for gracing our auction with their presence."

"It’s a great pity that today, for some reason, Old Master Su did not acquire the item he desired. Next time, when there is a suitable item, I hope Old Master Su and Xiao Mu will honor us with their presence again."

The auction was drawing to a close, and the auctioneer gave a formal thank you to Elder Su and Su Mu.

It was apparent that even though Elder Su had not secured any auction items today, the auctioneer’s respect for Elder Su and Su Mu was sincere.

The auctioneer of course knew that Elder Su’s failure to secure the last Tang Bohu original was entirely due to Old Man Gu’s infuriating antics.

The auctioneer laid all the blame squarely on Old Man Gu.

Of course, the reason the auctioneer could maintain his attitude toward Old Man Gu was because the worries in his mind had not actually come true.

"The auction will now come to an end. I’d like to ask the eight final winners of today to stay behind and sign the contracts."

Having thanked the most important people already, the auctioneer naturally cut to the chase.

Wasn’t all the efforts before targeted at finalizing the sales of the last eight auction items?

So, the last thing to do was naturally to sign the contract and pay the deposit.

Then, it was just a matter of waiting to collect the final payments.

Once the auction proceeds from all eight auction items had been fully collected, the auctioneer could finally calculate how much commission they had earned from this auction.

Generally speaking, by this point, those who hadn’t won any bids could leave.

After all, there were only eight auction items today, so there were naturally only eight winners.

But everyone’s behavior this time was very different.

It was as if they hadn’t heard the auctioneer at all; they were all still sitting firmly in their seats.

They were sitting, yes, but their eyes were fixed on Elder Su.

It turned out that everyone was waiting for Elder Su to show his stance.

If Elder Su wasn’t going to stay any longer, everyone would certainly leave together.

But if Elder Su wanted to see how Old Man Gu would wrap things up in the end, the others would definitely be willing to stay and accompany Elder Su for the excitement.

Seeing that Elder Su didn’t stand up right away, everyone was already prepared to wait and enjoy Old Man Gu’s misfortune together.

"Xiao Mu, let’s go," Elder Su said.

Contrary to everyone’s assumptions, Elder Su wasn’t interested in whatever joke Old Man Gu would end up being.

For Elder Su, Old Man Gu was just a minor character.

Now that Elder Su had ensured Old Man Gu received the punishment he deserved, Elder Su of course wouldn’t bother with such trivialities anymore.

No matter whether Old Man Gu scrambled to pay the full two billion in the end,

or defaulted and paid a large sum as a penalty, none of that concerned Elder Su anymore.

"Alright, Grandfather."

Since Grandfather had spoken, Su Mu was also not interested in seeing Old Man Gu’s final plight anymore.

Ah Fook stood up as soon as he heard the conversation between the old master and the young master.

Then Su Mu also got up.

Elder Su was the last to stand up.

Seeing this, everyone else immediately realized their mistake: The Su Family patriarch didn’t even deem Old Man Gu’s humiliation worth watching.

They all mentally scolded themselves: "Too narrow-minded to even consider Old Man Gu as a worthy opponent."

As soon as everyone saw Elder Su and the other two standing, they also did not dare to be negligent and quickly stood up in turn.

Even the few who had won the seven auction items in front of them also stood up.

If Old Master Su wasn’t sitting, who else would dare to stay seated?

Of course, there was indeed one person in the hall who dared to remain seated.

That was Old Man Gu, who was now completely dumbfounded.

Old Man Gu just couldn’t understand why Su Junqiang suddenly decided not to bid anymore.

Old Man Gu felt that two billion was nothing to Su Junqiang.

Why wouldn’t Su Junqiang continue to "play" with him?

Moreover, Old Man Gu had already prepared himself; that two billion was his last bid.

That meant, even if Su Junqiang had raised the bid by just one million in the end, Old Man Gu definitely wouldn’t have followed through.

But Su Junqiang just didn’t make a move.

The last auction item thus honorably fell into Old Man Gu’s hands.

Of course, this honor was anything but fortunate in Old Man Gu’s opinion.

Two billion in cash, Old Man Gu pondered for a moment, he really couldn’t come up with that amount.

Though Old Man Gu had controlled the Gu Family’s financial power in recent years and seemed very glorious,

Old Man Gu knew that the Gu Family’s income had long been not as good as before.

Old Man Gu’s son wasn’t cut out for business at all; the fact that he hadn’t bankrupted the company after taking over for a few years was already quite remarkable.

As for making money, that really hadn’t happened.

This was also why the real power of the Gu Family remained tightly in Old Man Gu’s hands.

It was simply because Old Man Gu’s son didn’t push himself and didn’t have the talent.

One could say that in recent years, the Gu Family was akin to living off their past savings.

Coupled with the fact that three generations of Gu men liked to indulge in pleasures, those savings were diminishing quite quickly.

Now if you asked Old Man Gu to come up with two billion in cash, unless he sold all the Gu Family’s fixed assets, he wouldn’t even know if he could scrape it together.

These fixed assets of course included the large villa where the entire Gu Family was living.

Old Man Gu knew that this was unrealistic; for the sake of a painting with no practical use, would he let his whole family sleep on the streets?

Old Man Gu knew that not only would he be unwilling to do this,

even if he agreed, his family members definitely wouldn’t consent.

When it came to issues that affected their personal interests, even if Old Man Gu was the patriarch, he couldn’t oppose everyone.

If you make people homeless, who would still consider you a leader?

Old Man Gu was very clear about all these aspects in his mind.

However, if Old Man Gu couldn’t come up with those two billion, he would have to pay a large sum as a breach of contract penalty.

In Old Man Gu’s view, that was an undeserved disaster.

It must be understood, Old Man Gu wanted to make Su Junqiang spend more money, not bankrupt himself.

Besides, the penalty wasn’t a small amount; it would be several tens of millions.

For Old Man Gu and the Gu Family, this truly was very bad news.

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"Old Master Su, young master, are you preparing to leave?"

"Old Master Su, young master, may I escort you both?"

"Sorry, Old Master Su, young master, I have to stay here a bit longer to sign a contract, so I won’t be able to see you off."

"Old Master Su, young master, it’s truly a great honor for me to witness the young master’s prowess today. Let me also see you off."

...

Seeing that Elder Su and Su Mu were ready to leave, everyone grabbed this last opportunity to flatter them.

Of course, a few who had to stay back to sign contracts could only bid farewell to Elder Su and Young Master Su in advance.

"Young master, what do you think of the ring I won? If possible, I’d like to bring it to your residence and have you appraise it when you’re available," said Wu Wanli, who felt he spent a lot of money on the second auction item and hadn’t had the chance to express his intentions to the young master of the Su Family.

Because afterwards, the young master was either on his phone or focused on the final auction item with Elder Su.

Wu Wanli really didn’t find an opportunity to strike up a conversation with the Su Family’s young master.

Now, seeing that Elder Su and the young master were about to leave, Wu Wanli felt that if he didn’t express his thoughts properly now, he might really miss his chance.