A lucky cat fell from the sky.

Chapter 26 I Owe You an Apology

Old Master Gu was undecided. After Gu Qiushuang finished expressing her doubts, she retreated to the inner room.

Actually, she came out to say those words because of Lu Dongxuan's request.

Lu Dongxuan was her best friend. They were both students at Linzhou Martial Arts University and talked about everything. She naturally knew that Lu Dongxuan had a good-for-nothing brother. Today, at the treasure-hunting competition, Young Master Lu was tricked by Wu Cheng in a series of schemes, which angered Lu Dongxuan.

As the saying goes, even a bald man's son is the best. Although Young Master Lu is useless, he is still Lu Dongxuan's brother.

Although Lu Dongxuan disliked Young Master Lu, she wouldn't tolerate anyone trying to harm him, which is why she asked Gu Qiushuang to step in and help.

Seeing that Old Master Gu hesitated, Wu Cheng said again, "Old Master, please return the inkstone to me."

Grandpa Gu handed the inkstone back to Wu Cheng, but he didn't intend to let Wu Cheng leave so easily: "Young man, who is this friend you mentioned, and where does he live?"

He clearly didn't believe that anyone other than himself would offer a high price to buy back the brick inkstone.

Of course, Wu Cheng couldn't say that he possessed a system and that Jin Wanliang would use 666 gold coins to buy back his brick inkstone.

He cursed inwardly at Old Master Gu for being so meddlesome.

But if you put yourself in his shoes, you'd probably think that Grandpa Gu was planning to run away with the inkstone.

Not only did Grandpa Gu think this way, but at this moment Young Master Lu suddenly jumped out and said, "That's right, we can't let him leave. He must have taken fake goods to cheat Grandpa."

Lu Shao had already chickened out, but now that Gu Qiushuang had come out and questioned Wu Cheng, it gave him a signal, so he became excited again, as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

Wu Cheng realized that things were not going to end well today.

He originally intended to keep the inkstone until after the upgrade and hand it over to Jin Wanliang for recycling, but now that this has happened, the upgrade will not be possible for another three months, and the current hurdle is not easy to overcome.

"Do you want to see if my treasure is real or fake now?" Wu Cheng said.

"It would be even better if it could be proven," said Grandpa Gu.

His words represented the opinions of almost everyone. Only Bai Xiaochen wanted to speak up for Wu Cheng, but she was stopped by a look from her father. She pouted and sullenly stood aside.

Wu Cheng gritted his teeth. He had initially thought the Gu family quite well, but now it seemed that these rich and powerful families were all the same, with no difference between them.

Since that's the case, I don't need to think about maintaining a good relationship with them anymore.

“I can prove it,” Wu Cheng said, “but I have two requirements. First, if I prove that this thing is real, I need you to apologize to me and swear that you will not hold it against me after the apology.”

"Young man, what kind of people do you take us for..." Old Master Gu said somewhat awkwardly.

"Grandpa, I can trust your character, but I don't trust the character of others, including your beautiful granddaughter. Please forgive me, I come from a humble family, I can't afford to fight you, and I can't win against you."

"Okay, I agree to this request."

"My second requirement is that you provide a deposit of 15 million yuan to me first. Otherwise, even if I prove that it is true, there is nothing I can do if you do not acknowledge it."

No sooner had this request been made than someone shouted, "How dare you! Are you implying that the Gu family is untrustworthy?"

The speaker was Hao Xiajian.

He finally seized the opportunity to stir up trouble here.

Old Master Gu glared at him fiercely, annoyed that he was meddling: "Young man, are you looking down on the Gu family?"

"No, Mr. Gu, I'm giving your Gu family too much credit. I know I can't afford to offend you. I have to do whatever you say, so let's be cautious from the start."

"Okay, I agree."

Grandpa Gu immediately wrote out a check and handed it to Wu Cheng: "Young man, although I've given you the check, if you can't prove that the inkstone you brought out is genuine, then don't blame me for being impolite. I can cancel both this check and the one from last time."

Wu Cheng put the check in his pocket: "Don't worry, but you should be prepared that my method of proof is a bit special."

After saying that, he picked up the inkstone from beside Grandpa Gu.

After showing it around, he suddenly smashed the brick inkstone on the ground.

With a snap, the brick inkstone shattered in full view of everyone.

"You..." Old Master Gu jumped up from his chair.

The others remained motionless, like wooden or clay sculptures, never expecting that Wu Cheng would actually smash the inkstone.

In fact, Wu Cheng himself hadn't expected this.

This is a brick inkstone worth thirteen million! I've always heard people talk about throwing money around, but this is the real deal!

After smashing the brick inkstone, Wu Cheng was stunned for a moment. He didn't know how to prove that the brick inkstone was real.

At this moment, Old Master Gu arrived, grabbed Wu Cheng by the collar, and lifted him into the air: "Young man, how dare you play me for fools."

He was about to throw Wu Cheng away when he said that.

Just then, Bai Xiaochen's voice suddenly rang out: "Uncle Gu, stop."

Grandpa Gu stopped what he was doing, but still held Wu Cheng up, looking like he was about to throw him at the slightest provocation.

“Uncle Gu, Brother Wu Cheng has already proven that this inkstone is genuine,” Bai Xiaochen said, holding up a small bamboo tube.

"Oh?" Grandpa Gu switched to holding Wu Cheng with one hand and took the small bamboo tube from Bai Xiaochen's hand. "What is this?"

"It fell out of the inkstone. Uncle Gu, take a look first."

Grandpa Gu took the small bamboo tube, which was sealed with wax at both ends. He handed it to Bai Li and said, "Brother Bai, could you please open it for me?"

Bai Li opened the bamboo tube and pulled out a roll of white cloth. Inside the cloth was a piece of paper, yellowed Xuan paper, on which some words were written in tiny regular script.

Bai Li first read the small characters on the paper: "I, Gu Bingzhang, have been wandering in the Northern Kingdom for three years. I was granted the grace of the two emperors, who bestowed upon me a blood-written edict to return to the court. However, the world has changed. The emperor has no intention of launching a northern expedition, and sycophants hold power. I can only hide in the wilderness, preserving my life and waiting for the two emperors to return south. At the age of fifty-three, I remarried to a woman surnamed Zhong from Lingtang. Like an old pearl, we had a son..."

Bai Li's hands trembled with excitement as he read this.

Grandpa Gu had already put Wu Cheng down. He straightened Wu Cheng's clothes and suddenly knelt down before him with a thud.

Wu Cheng was so frightened that he didn't know what to do and quickly helped Old Master Gu up: "What are you doing?"

The old man sighed deeply: "Young man, my Gu family has wronged you. You are the benefactor of the Gu family, yet we regarded you as a fraud, almost causing the things that our ancestors could use to prove themselves to be lost to the common people and forever buried in obscurity. I apologize to you."

"Qiu Shuang, and everyone in the Gu family, come out. We owe our benefactor an apology."