Chapter 506 - 300: Paving a Heaven-Reaching Great Dao
Chapter 506: Chapter 300: Paving a Heaven-Reaching Great Dao
"Bastard! Go to hell!"
Right then, the door to the Quiet Chamber opened.
Seeing her state, Cui Qingwu couldn’t help but ask with a smile, "Who upset our Lord Lady Tiger?
"A bastard? Was it Liu Wu?"
Lou Yuxue paused, a hint of displeasure appearing on her face as she turned to look at her. "What are you doing here?
"Aren’t you following that Young Master Chen? How do you have the free time to come here?"
The smile on Cui Qingwu’s face mostly dissipated. She tossed a stack of contracts onto the table and said, "As previously discussed, I’ve obtained the contracts for several major grain stores, including Lin’s Grain Store.
"Guess how much silver we made this time?"
Lou Yuxue’s expression shifted slightly as she picked up the contracts and began to read them.
After flipping through a few pages, a look of surprise crossed her face. "Fourteen taels of silver per stone? They agreed to this?"
Cui Qingwu snorted. "Did they really think they could take advantage of the Cui Family?
"Buying and selling as they please—how could there be such a good deal in this world?"
"I remember you bought it for ten taels of silver and then sold it for fourteen, which equals a profit of four taels per stone of grain. A million stones...
"Four million silver coins!?"
Lou Yuxue couldn’t help but be shocked. It was simply because this was too much money, and it had been earned far too easily.
In just a single day, Lin Zhenghong and the others had lost four million taels of silver for nothing.
Even with the Ji State Trading Company behind them, this was still a very considerable amount of silver.
If something were to go wrong...
There were no "ifs." Lou Yuxue was almost certain that Liu Wu had backup plans prepared.
Cui Qingwu sat down at the table, casually picking up a teacup and pouring herself a cup of tea before speaking. "Why are you so surprised? After hearing Liu Wu’s plan the day before yesterday, I already figured out what would happen to those grain stores.
"If I hadn’t been worried about scaring them off by raising the price too high, I wouldn’t have even sold it to them for twenty taels of silver."
Pausing for a moment, a cold sneer appeared on Cui Qingwu’s face. "I reckon they’re calling me a fool right now.
"But there will come a time for them to cry. Just wait and enjoy the show."
Although she didn’t know what Liu Wu was going to do next, she was well aware that after setting up such a massive scheme, he would never let Lin Zhenghong and the others off easily.
Perhaps this time, they could really make the Ji State Trading Company suffer a massive fall.
Hearing this, Lou Yuxue steadied her Heart Spirit. Gripping the contracts, she asked, "With such a large sum of silver, how much do you plan to give Liu Wu?"
"Give it to him?"
Cui Qingwu snorted. "Of course, we’re going to split it between the two of us. I’m not giving him a single penny."
"Not giving him any?
"Did you forget how he treated you earlier?"
"But... but once that bastard finds out, I’m afraid he won’t just let it go..."
"Then let him come find me. Now that it’s in this lady’s hands, I’d like to see how he plans to take it back."
Lou Yuxue watched as she drank the tea in one gulp. Sizing her up, she asked, "Are you in a bad mood?"
Cui Qingwu shot her a sidelong glance and turned her head away. "No."
"...Does it have something to do with Young Master Chen?"
"No..."
In truth, Cui Qingwu was indeed in a bad mood.
Originally, after following Chen Yunfan back to Tingyu Pavilion, she had wanted to take the opportunity to mention the matter regarding Commander-in-Chief Zhu Hao to him, so he could make some preparations.
But before she could even enter the middle courtyard, she was stopped by Chun Ying, who was guarding the door.
She even said, "My young master specifically instructed that he is going into secluded Cultivation and will not be seeing guests for the time being."
Was she, Cui Qingwu, just a guest?
Besides, she had clearly heard Chen Yunfan talking with someone; he wasn’t practicing Cultivation at all.
By saying that, Chun Ying was obviously brushing her off.
Seeing this, Lou Yuxue naturally realized that she was indeed in a bad mood, so she reined in her temper and offered a few words of comfort.
Unexpectedly, Cui Qingwu retorted, "You’re trying so hard to persuade me to give Liu Wu a share of the silver. Do you really consider yourself his fiancée who hasn’t even crossed the threshold yet?"
"You... you’re talking nonsense..."
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Inside Tingyu Pavilion.
Chen Yunfan sat behind the desk, looking at the corpse on the floor in the center of the hall.
Standing to the side was impressively the middle-aged man in short clothes who had met with Chun Ying.
At this moment, he had taken off his bamboo hat. His messy hair was tied behind his head with a straw rope, and Fang Zheng’s face was covered in a full beard, leaving a large portion of his chest exposed through his open robes.
"Eldest Young Master, I wouldn’t dare disobey the orders of the Master and the Second Master. Please don’t make things difficult for me."
Chen Yunfan remained silent for a moment before frowning. "Uncle Zhong, what exactly are my father and Second Uncle trying to do?
"When the Holy Emperor previously appointed me as the Assistant Governor of the Governor’s Office in Shu State, I found it strange. I suppose... that was Second Uncle’s idea?
"Coupled with the fact that you’ve come looking for me with Lv Jiunan’s corpse this time, it’s hard not to overthink things.
"Are they planning to pave a heaven-reaching Dao for me?"