The Domineering King of the Netherworld and His Sweetheart

263. Buying A Hand Fan

Translator: 飞弹

Feng Xi had been a scholar in his previous life, so he was actually an articulate person.

Only after a while, lots of words had burst from Feng Xi in a rush. Although the middle-aged man wanted to retort, he didn’t know how to refute Feng Xi’s words at all. It wasn’t until he heard everyone’s laughter that he gave Feng Xi a sullen glare, and his face turned scarlet with rage.

Feng Xi saw that the middle-aged man dared to stare at him and he was about to say, ‘It’s useless for you to stare at me anyway. That’s just the truth.’ when the young man suddenly started to say something.

“Uncle Lin, he is right. He should not take the responsibility. Speaking of which, I was also wrong. So you don’t have to talk about it anymore.” The young man smiled gently, and then looked at Feng Xi with a hint of apology in his eyes, “I am truly sorry, sir. Uncle Lin has an impatient disposition and therefore he can’t help but speak impetuously sometimes. Please excuse him!”

Feng Xi felt a little ashamed by his words. He had no choice but to wave his hand and say, “In that case, I can let it go at that.”

Since the middle-aged man’s master apologized so gently, Feng Xi was also ashamed to continue talking about it. Besides, if he continued to pester him for it, it would seem that he himself was making trouble for no reason. Since the other party wanted to effect a reconciliation, it didn’t matter to him either. But he always felt that something was strange.

The young man then walked into the restaurant with the middle-aged man named Uncle Lin onto the second floor. Such a polite young master instantly made the customers in the restaurant gasp with admiration. It was well known that some fops had great ambition but little talent and liked to domineer over others relying on their identities as the sons from a privileged and wealthy family, and there were very few young masters who would be gentle and polite like him.

The young man only said a few words but everyone had a better impression of him.

Feng Xi walked out of the building, feeling a little depressed. His good mood just now had disappeared. He only felt a sense of discomfort lingering in his heart.

“Xiao Xi, are you still thinking about what happened just now?” King of the Netherworld looked at his sweetheart puffing out his cheeks beside him and smiled faintly.

“Boss, I always feel that the young man is a bit strange.” Feng Xi thought it over and over again but couldn’t figure it out, so he could only tell King of the Netherworld his query, otherwise he would bottle it up inside to death.

“What’s strange?” King of the Netherworld slowly curled his lips up.

“I always feel that his words seem to have another meaning, but I can’t guess it after I think it over and over again. Am I wrong in thinking that?” Feng Xi turned to look at King of the Netherworld and walked backwards, frowning hard.

“This is not your illusion. That person is very scheming. What he said just now was actually for the people in the restaurant but not you,” King of the Netherworld was so intelligent that how could he not hear the real meaning hidden in the young man’s words? Since the young man said such words, something unusual would happen soon.

“Why did he said those words for the people in the restaurant?” Feng Xi still couldn’t understand.

King of the Netherworld knocked on Feng Xi’s head. He had just been so clever to refute the middle-aged man’s words, but now he couldn’t figure it out, “When people in the restaurant compared you, who was overbearing from the beginning, and the young man, who was modest and gentle, which one do you think they would prefer?”

Feng Xi’s face darkened, “I know. Others must think that he is a broad-minded and good guy. On the contrary, I am more narrow-minded and in one of my aggressive moods, right? He is too devious, but why would he have done that?”

“He probably has some purpose,” King of the Netherworld said, then he smiled, “Xiao Xi, you don’t have to pay attention to him. He’s just a passer-by. Let a such unpleasant thing be bygones. There’s still some time before the ocean beasts attack Iron Fence. Since we have come here, let’s stroll around.”

“Alright, I won’t think of him anymore,” Feng Xi removed the uncomfortable feeling from his mind. He held King of the Netherworld’s hand and walked into the crowd, “Boss, there are some vendors selling hand fans over there. Let’s go to take a look and buy you a hand fan. It must be cool.”

There were so many people on the street that the figures of Feng Xi and King of the Netherworld quickly disappeared in the crowd.

On the top floor of the restaurant they had left, a window was suddenly pushed open, revealing a familiar face. It was just the middle-aged man named Uncle Lin. He looked at the figure of Feng Xi who just disappeared, turned around and said to the young man, “Master, they have left.”

The young man nodded and picked up a cup with an insidious smile, “Uncle Lin, do you feel it strange why I stopped you at that time?”

Uncle Lin couldn’t figure it out, but he knew that his young master must have other ideas that he just couldn’t guess, “To be honest, I really feel it very strange. Please let me know.”

“I can feel that the man beside the young boy is not ordinary. Do you know that he was just standing there while I couldn’t feel his aura at all? It seemed that what was standing in front of me was just a wisp of air, but I felt very uneasy. This is why I stopped you at that time,” the young man said solemnly.

“What? Would there be such a thing?”

Uncle Lin’s expression changed. At that time, his attention was focused on the young boy and he didn’t notice the man’s existence at all. Now that he thought about it, he couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat. The man had clearly been standing in front of him, but he didn’t feel that man’s existence at all. Even the head of their family could not do something like this.

“It’s a very urgent period now. Let sleeping dogs lie. I don’t want something unexpected to happen, understand?”

It would the best if the two men were not his enemies, or…

“I get it.”

In the hand fan shop, Feng Xi was pulling King of the Netherworld and choosing a hand fan.

The hand fans in the shop were not ordinary ones. It was said that the frames of the fans were made of the bones of the ocean beasts, and the coverings are made of the skin of the ocean serpents. The fans could even be used as weapons. The bones of different ocean beasts were different in hardness. The higher-level ocean beasts were more powerful, and their bones were also much harder. The bones of special species of the ocean beasts could even give the users some buffs.

The shop was the only one where the hand fans were sold in Iron Fence, so there were many customers coming in and out of it every day.

By the time Feng Xi and King of the Netherworld entered it, there were already quite a few people inside the shop. Everyone was looking at the hand fans placed on the shelves with all kinds of types. The higher-quality materials the fan was made of, the more expensive it would be. In order to make it easier for customers to choose, the shopkeeper in the shop had made about ten shelves, which were neatly arranged from left to right in the shop. And the hand fans on the shelves near the right side were more expensive. Besides, there were various fans for men and women in the shop.

This kind of arrangement showed that the shopkeeper of the shop was indeed very business-minded.

The main reason was that the customers in the shop were usually young masters and ladies who were rich. Those people would easily keep up with the Joneses. When they saw other people walking towards the shelves with more expensive fans, they would go to buy the expensive ones for the sake of vanity. Sometimes, they would buy the fans regardless of the prices on a whim, and it was finally the shopkeeper who got the benefits.

Feng Xi naturally needed to buy the best fan. When the two of them entered the shop at first, they didn’t attract the attention of others. It wasn’t until they stopped in front of the tenth shelf where the fans were the most expensive that the customers noticed the two of them.

The reason why they noticed them was just that there were only two fans on the tenth shelf, which were so ridiculously expensive that very few people would go to look at them.

The shopkeeper also noticed them. When he saw where they were standing, he was astounded at it and quickly asked his clerks to greet the customers beside him. Then the shopkeeper walked towards the two of them.

“Both of you are really men of discernment, with an eye for quality. The hand fans on this shelf are the best and most expensive ones in our store. Their frames are made of the bones of the strongest ocean beast in the Ocean World called Flood Dragon. As for the covering of the fans, they are made of the skins from the king of ocean serpents. These two kinds of ocean beasts are not easy to catch, but the reputation of them is absolutely unquestionable, especially the Flood Dragon, which is one of the strongest beasts in the Ocean World. It’s said that there has been a lot of effort and money going into killing the Flood Dragon. As for the fans themselves, they are absolutely the spiritual weapon of top quality.”

Because of this, many people were immediately disheartened when they heard their prices, and the remaining two fans couldn’t be sold until now.

Seeing that the two of them were dressed in splendid clothes, the shopkeeper didn’t think that they seemed to be ordinary people, so he tried his best to introduce the fans to them, hoping that he could convince them to buy it lest himself be criticized by the superior for being unable to sell them. Although the price of the fans was ridiculously high, it was absolutely reasonable. In order to sell them, the shopkeeper even deliberately adjusted the price.

Feng Xi didn’t seem to hear the words of the shopkeeper. When he picked up one of the fans and unfolded it ,he was instantly greeted by a gorgeous landscape painting on the fan like a wonderland, as if it was showing the real scene in front of them. The wonderland seemed to come alive on the covering of the fan, as if he could hear the sound of the spring water tinkling. Before long, the painting on the fan changed into another one, which was one of the effects that the skin of the king of ocean serpents had. In order to reflect its value, the craftsman had put a lot of effort into making the fan.

Feng Xi stared at the hand fan with his eyes shining and a shadow of a smile touching his mouth. He was clearly satisfied.

King of the Netherworld looked at the other fan and was about to grab it when someone beside him suddenly reached out a hand, whose target was also the fan. However, the fan suddenly disappeared as that person almost got it. The next second, the fan appeared in King of the Netherworld’s hand. The person obviously did not expect that the fan would vanish into thin air and stood his ground in a daze.

The hand of that man was very fair and clean. He was a seventeen-or-eighteen-year-old boy. He looked very beautiful and his eyes were alight like gemstones. He was staring at King of the Netherworld in shock. When he saw King of the Netherworld’s appearance, his eyes shone with different emotions.

The young boy quickly came back to his senses and naturally reached out his hand in front of King of the Netherworld to signal him to give the fan back.