Marcus strutted into the room arrogantly with a heavily tanned man next to him who was named Ned.
The two entered the room and their eyes immediately fell on Jasper.
Seeing how calm Jasper looked while sitting, Marcus snickered and walked over to him. Marcus raised his hand to knock on the table before Jasper as he spoke, “I heard that you paid a big amount just to have this bidding meeting here with me, Mr. Laine? Is there even a point to this?
“If I want you to have it, it’ll easily be yours. But if I don’t want you to have it, you can spend as much money as you want and all you’ll be getting is trash.”
Jasper looked at Marcus and spoke, “Oh? Now I’m curious how exactly you consider 1,500 acres of land trash, Mr. Coine.”
Ned scoffed beside him. “Are you actually stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid, outsider?”
“Without Mr. Coine giving the red light, it doesn’t matter if you’ve bought it or not. There’ll be people troubling you every day and you’ll have no other choice but to leave it empty in the end.”
“Oh right, let me introduce myself. I’m Ned, the owner of Ned’s Pawn Shop. If you think that you can’t take it anymore and want to pawn the land off, I promise I’ll give you a good price. Haha.”
Ned was tall and broad, and his loud laughs resonated around the room deafeningly.
Jasper furrowed his brows slightly. “Could you laugh softer? You’re a little noisy.”
Ned glared at Jasper fiercely. “Did you just say that I’m noisy? Do you want to die?”
At that moment, Julian, who had been standing behind Jasper all this while, stepped forward. From his stance, it was evident that he would forcefully hold down the 190cm-tall Ned if he even showed a sign of starting a fight.
Ned scoffed. “What’s this? You think because you have a bodyguard following you around that it makes you better than all of us? How dare you pick a fight with me?”
Seeing how the scene was beginning to get out of hand, Chad quickly stood up and smiled apologetically. “Mr. Adkins, Mr. Coine, please calm down. This is the city hall’s meeting room, after all. The bid will begin soon. It’ll look bad on all of us if someone were to get hurt now.”
Marcus gave a carefree smile and replied, “Fine. So you’re not completely stupid, Wright. I’ll let him go since you asked.”
With that, Marcus raised his hand to point at Jasper and spoke slowly, “You wanted this bid, so you have no one to blame when you regret it later. You’re not the first to fight me for something in Reed City, so let’s just take a look at who’s more capable, hmm?”
With that, Marcus patted Ned and turned to the designated seats of the representatives from Reed City State Funds Co., Ltd.
Ned stared at Jasper threateningly and grinned wretchedly. He used his hand and gestured the slicing of his throat before he followed Marcus.
After all this trouble, it was finally 8:00 a.m.
Chad was the host of the bid, but he could not take the stage since Mr. Powers had not returned from reporting to the higher-ups.
News from Mr. Powers would relay the stance the city government was taking and therefore, how the bid would end. That was why Chad did not dare to start the bid when he still did not know the city government’s intentions.
Thankfully, Mr, Powers did not make him wait too long for he hastily returned around five minutes past eight.
He first turned to Chad. “It’s time, Mr. Wright. Please begin the bid.”
Chad knew that this was Mr. Powers trying to usher him away so that he would not hear the conversation between him and Jasper.
