CHAPTER 13- PEOPLE OF FAMILY QU

Sun Ze was obviously doing this to help his son as there were a lot of underlings behind him and also his background backing him.

Seeing the thin and weak Song Ye surrounded, the people around began discussing and worrying about her. Even with that said, due to Sun Ze's involvement with the underground business world, no one dared to offend him.

"Beat him up. If anything happens, I will take responsibility for it."

Sun Ze said so in a relaxed way, as if a person's life was only worth that much to him.

Song Ye smiled coldly in her heart. Like father, like son; the father was just as crazy as the son.

But for Song Ye, those two earlier were not enough for her as a warm up. So she slightly turned her body and prepared herself to continue practicing.

"Stop!"

A sudden shout could be heard outside the crowd. Following that, Zhao Zhen's silhouette rushed over and stood in front of Song Ye to protect her.

"Director Sun, may I know what is happening? Did my nephew offended you in any way?"

On their way during their journey, Song Ye used the reasoning that being a boy will make her work easier and thus they had discussed earlier on that they would use the relationship of a relative when they were outside.

Seeing a familiar face, Sun Ze felt shocked and sub-consciously creased his brow.

"I see that this child is a family of yours, Director Zhao of Yun Cheng?"

Even though they called each other Director, Sun Ze's attitude with his eyes looking above Zhao Zhen's head showed how little respect he had towards Zhao Zhen.

Yun Cheng was a small city and Yu Fu Jewellery Shop was not the one leading in the field, so Sun Ze naturally didn't see Zhao Zhen as an equal.

Zhao Zhen's face darkened as he knew that their positions were different, but he was still adamant on protecting Song Ye.

"If this nephew of mine did offend you in any way, I hope that Director Sun can let it go and give my nephew another chance."

"Chance?"

Hearing that, Sun Ze snorted and pointed at the two teenagers on the floor.

"Director Zhao's nephew did not even give Director Li's sons any chance. Young master Li's arm was broken by him. So if I decided, that leaving one arm of Director Zhao's nephew behind as compensation. I'm not asking for much, no?"

"What?"

Zhao Zhen blanked out after hearing that. Turning his head to look at Song Ye's arms and legs that were so thin that even wind could blow her away, how could she even break other people's arm? But in truth, upon seeing Song Ye's calm face, he began to break into cold sweat. Slightly biting his lips, he did not lecture her in the end. He then tried to compromise.

"Since he injured someone, then I, of course will apologize and compensate to Director Li on his behalf. As for Director Sun's suggestion, isn't it a little too much?"

"Hah, Director Zhao must not be someone that frequents here so you don't know much about the rules here. If one dared to cause a ruckus in my territory, then they also need to have the ability to take responsibility over it. And so, I will have to reject your offer, Director Zhao."

Sun Ze raised his hands and the bodyguards in black then surrounded her.

Song Ye was planning to train and practice now had stopped moving and calmly stood behind Zhao Zhen, acting like a spectator to the situation.

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth as his prestige was openly challenged. Anger welled up inside him with no way out.

"Sun Ze, you are being unreasonable in your demand."

Sun Ze sneered, with a face that indicates: "This was done just because you had no one backing you up, so what can you do about it".

Seeing that the bodyguards were about to move in to capture their target, the surrounding had once again went out of control. Steady footsteps that were neat, strong and fast could be heard outside the crowd. Not long after, another group of bodyguards appeared and firmly surrounded all of them. They had their hands in their pocket, as if they were about to take something out.

Sun Ze was left taken aback seeing that and before he could ask who had the audacity to interfere, the crowd parted and a man with western style clothing walked over. The man was handsome and elegant, the aura belonging to someone of high importance could be felt from him.

"Y-young master Qu!"

Sun Ze was shocked and instantly changed his face to welcomed the man.

"It is my honor having young master Qu gracing your presence here. Is there any raw stones that you had your eyes on? If you don't have any, mind if I recommend some for you?"

His actions now is the epitome of the phrase 'to curry favor with influential people'.

The man lifted the corner of his lips slightly, as if he was mocking Sun Ze and pretended to not know what had happened prior to his arrival.

"I don't need it as I'm not lacking in stuff that can be found here; but I did have my eyes on some good stock. I was waiting for it to be auctioned off but you just had to go and offend the seller, making it more difficult for me."

In between his words, although Song Ye was behind Zhao Zhen, she could feel the eyes of the man on her.

Sun Ze was trying to gain a positive reaction from the man then stiffened his face. His eyes widened and showed a disbelief expression.

"Hehe, I wonder what did Director Zhao bring to have actually entered the eyes of young master Qu?"

"Won't the people who are in charge, such as Director Sun, know about this kind of thing? If there's nothing more, then go begin the auction. I'm actually looking forward to this."

After finishing his sentence, the man just turned his body and walked into the crowd, without even giving a glance to Sun Ze.

While the latter had began to break into cold sweat, he stiffly turned his head over and showed Zhao Zhen a smile that was more of a grimace, speaking in a respectful tone.

"Director Zhao, sorry for offending you earlier. If there's nothing more to discuss here, then shall we enter the hall?"

Song Ye slightly lifted her brows; as expected, people with wealth and power were able to settle things down easily. It could be seen as to how fast he changed his attitude.

Zhao Zhen fixed his collar and had a very calm face, without any shred of anger from earlier.

And now the two sons that were protected by Director Sun were pitied and became the center of attention. Their face darkened and they were unable to do anything as the other party were from the Qu Family where no one would dared want to offend.

Upon entering the hall, Zhao Zhen lead Song Ye into a resting area. When he opened his mouth, he was not lecturing her about getting into trouble, but was worried about her well-being.

"Are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?"

From his point of view, Song Ye was not only his work partner, but also that she was just a girl. Even if she had broke the arm of others, the reason for it would surely be because of those arrogant fellas picking the fight first. Without a reason, he chose to believe in Song Ye that had a calm face.

And this trust and protection that come without any conditions caused Song Ye to be in a good mood. A smile that was extremely rare could be seen on Song Ye's face and Zhao Zhen was blinded once again upon seeing a hint of femininity appearing on that exquisite face.

"I'm fine."

She shook her head and handed over the things in her pocket.

"Since our stock this time had the attention of the mass, we might as well just hit the metal while it's still hot and create a larger momentum. Later on, release these three raw stones as well."

Zhao Zhen was still stunned by the smile earlier but when his eyes land on the three black raw stones, he had returned to his senses.

"Were these the ones that you bought at the stall earlier?"

"Yeah, extract it when you have the time."

Song Ye sat herself at one of the extracting machine and gestured Zhao Zhen to sit at another machine.

Zhao Zhen blanked out – looking at the raw stone that were low quality and bought off from the roadside stall, the chances of it having a green hue was very low.

But seeing Song Ye with a confident and steady look, Zhao Zhen couldn't bring himself to break the child's heart and began to patiently extract the raw stones.

Song Ye watched and learned the process of extracting and was able to comprehend it pretty fast. Thanks to the help of her ability, her progress was a lot faster than Zhao Zhen's. When Zhao Zhen turned his head back, two knuckle-sized, white colored, ice type marbled jade appeared in front of his eyes.

In his hands, the stone extracted also had also appeared a green hue, it was an ice type jade!

Although the level of the jades extracted was still lower than the high density ice type jade, it was still a high tier jade and could be showed to others.

Looking at the three stones, Zhao Zhen this time really believed that Song Ye had the talent that was beyond human comprehension in this field.