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“The agreed price will be reduced by 20%. Give me the ship with the blue bricks. How can I get the goods out without alerting the officials? You don’t have to worry about it anymore.”
“Just take your money and live quietly. Go back to your ancestral house to rest. If anyone asks where you have been these past few days, I can vouch for you and just say that you were busy discussing business on the boat…”
Before he could finish his words, Ye Fu Liu raised her hand brought back all the water chestnuts to her side and said, “I can’t agree.”
She stood up and directly shouted, “Su Qiu, see the guests off!”
The door curtain was drawn, and Su Qiu, who was originally guarding the door, came in, bowed, and politely invited Shen Li out.
Ye Fu Liu raised the bamboo curtain and watched Shen Li disembark.
With empty words and selfish thoughts, he only said, “I’ll vouch for you, go and have a rest.”
Not only did he ask for a 20% discount on the price, but he also wanted a boat from her, what a black-hearted bastard.
When Su Qiu came back to the cabin, Ye Fu Liu was leaning on the table and fidgeting with an extremely fine Pisces white jade pendant on her fingertips.
She had just picked it up from Master Shen while seeing off guests.
“Remember Shen Li’s face. Next time when he dares to come and discuss business, just call him out.”
Su Qiu had been following Ye Fu Liu for two years. He was steady and knowledgeable.
Hearing his master’s instructions, he responded without hesitation, “I will remember it.”
The Ye family’s fleet was parked at the dock in the northeast of the town. A large number of workers hired by the Ye family quickly began to unload the goods.
Thousands of firecrackers were hung outside the door of Ye’s ancestral mansion, with endless crackling sound and red ground they welcomed the safe return of the owner’s caravan.
The chief steward of the Ye family who stayed in Ye’s house opened the door and greeted them.
Ye Fu Liu saw that the chief steward had a strange look on his face, so she asked, “What happened while I was away from home these days?”
“Nothing big happened. Just a few minor things.”
“Tell me about it?”
“We caught a burglar.”
Hearing this, Ye Fu Liu felt relieved and walked toward the door with red burned-out firecrackers all over the floor.
“What do you think? Since we moved here, the whole town knows that the Ye family has a lot of money and there are not less than ten thieves who break into the house in the dark. Right?”
“This thief is different.” Manager Ye said with a straight face, “The person who committed the robbery last night was nicknamed Hu Mazi. He is local. A famous libertine.”
“He met master somewhere and never forgot about it. He planned to sneak into the house at midnight and rob you of your wealth first and then have sex.”
Ye Fu Liu suddenly laughed, “He’s a courageous person.”
She didn’t take the matter too seriously, so the topic was quickly shifted, “By the way, I brought back a boatload of bricks that were towed away a few nights ago.”
“Go and keep an eye on the unloading, and don’t let anyone take away a few pieces. Pull it back and see where it fits in the room.”
The chief steward of the Ye family followed the master’s words and said, “There is a shortage of bricks and tiles at home. Can we reinforce the front yard wall? We can tie up the thief, and let him build a wall for us?!”
Ye Fu Liu gave him a surprised look, and said, “No, no, we are serious a businessman, we won’t do such a deadly business.”
Just as she walked to the door, the door next door suddenly opened with a creak and a burly servant walked out of the door.
The neighbor next door was named Wei, and only two people lived there, the master and the servant. The servant’s name was very easy to remember, Wei Da.
Perhaps the person was alerted by thousands of firecrackers and heard the loud noise of the Ye family’s return.
When Wei Da was throwing the medicine residue outside the door, he glanced in the direction of the Ye family house.
The Ye family moved here not long ago, and the doors on both sides were right next to each other. The two neighbors who live closest to each other on a big street, nodding and greetings were indispensable when meeting.