Happy Little Scholar

The strangely dressed man casually took out a green transparent irregular object and said: "These glass materials are all real. You can inspect them. Just ask someone to process them. It doesn't take much effort, and it will be a good piece of glass." If we were not in urgent need of money, we would definitely process it ourselves and not sell it to you. "

The shop assistant looked at him with confusion and asked, "That's not what you said just now..."

The Fanbang businessman was stunned and asked: "Then I am, why, talking?"

"That's what I said." The shop clerk twitched the corner of his mouth, and after saying that, he immediately closed his mouth.

He was worried that if he continued to talk to him, he would end up talking like that in the future.

Shopkeeper Ma didn't pay attention to the conversation between the two, all his attention was on the piece of colored glass in his hand. After a moment, he looked away, took a deep breath, and asked: "How valuable is this piece of colored glass in your hand?" geometry?"

The man weighed the glass in his hand and said, "Three thousand taels."

"Three thousand taels?" Shopkeeper Ma smiled and said, "If what you are holding is a real piece of glassware, three thousand taels is not expensive, but this is just a blank. How can it be worth three thousand taels?"

"You are in this business, so you should know that it doesn't cost much money to make a glassware." The Fanbang merchant said, paused, looked at the man next to him, and then said: "The important thing is the raw materials. ..., three thousand taels, not expensive.”

"I'm in the blank material business, so I naturally know the rules of this industry." Boss Ma smiled and said, "You have to take risks when carving ingredients into utensils and jewelry. The fixed price is two thousand taels, how about it?"

"We have a lot of colored glaze, and we wanted to find someone worthy of cooperation." The man shook his head, took the colored glaze in his hand, turned around and left. When he reached the door, he turned back and said: "Since you are not sincere, , let’s find someone else.”

At the door, a middle-aged man stopped him and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, our Xu family is also in this business. Three thousand taels is three thousand taels. The price is negotiable. Can I give you this piece of colored glaze first?" have a look?"

Shopkeeper Ma walked out quickly and happened to see the middle-aged man looking up and down with the piece of glass in his hand. His heart sank and he immediately stepped forward and said: "Brother Xu, you can do this kind of thing to steal business. This is a bit... Don’t you understand the rules?”

The man looked up at him and said with a smile: "Brother Ma, what are you talking about? This is obviously a business that you don't do, don't you allow others to do it?"

"Aren't I discussing any business that I don't do?" Shopkeeper Ma walked over to the businessman with a smile on his face and said with a smile: "Come on, brother, it was my fault just now. Come in for a cup of tea and let’s talk slowly.”

The man surnamed Xu said: "Okay, I happen to be thirsty, let's talk inside."

Shopkeeper Ma looked back and said, "What does it say, I'm discussing business with this brother, why are you coming in?"

The man surnamed Xu said solemnly, "Brother Ma, this is a bit too much. Can your Ma family handle such a big business?"

The young man named Bai next to him immediately stepped forward to smooth things over: "Two shopkeepers, we have been friends for so many years. Don't let these trivial matters hurt our friendship. Shopkeeper Xu, shopkeeper Ma took over this business first. We might as well let them talk first." There have to be some rules when it comes to talking, right?”

After saying that, he looked at the foreign merchant and asked, "Did you just say that you have a lot of colored glaze?"

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"The damn Xu family and the Ma family have been cooperating for so many years. They raise the price just when they say it will. They are really despicable people..."

In the yard, Lin Yong squatted on the ground, humming and eating noodles while complaining angrily.

"Businessmen are all pursuing interests. Don't take any friendship seriously. Money is their friend. Don't look at the three of them wearing the same pair of pants now. If there is a real conflict of interests, they will fall out faster than anyone else." Li Yi fanned the fire with a small fan, boiled medicine for Miss Liu Er, and said casually.

Lin Yong interrupted: "My young lady is not like this."

"Okay, okay, I know your lady is a good person, and her kindness is rewarded. It's not that she won't repay it, the time has not yet come..."

Li Yi added more firewood to the pot and said, "You don't have to be too angry. No matter what you do, you must have a bottom line. Otherwise, you will be punished. Those who cheat others will always cheat them. This has been true since ancient times." That’s the truth, maybe those families will be punished soon.”

Lin Yong hummed and finished eating the noodles, put down the bowl, and said gloomily: "Why have I never seen evil being punished? Good people don't live long, and disasters are left for thousands of years. In this world, evil people live more comfortably."

Li Yi saw a window opening in a room in the nearby inn. He stood up, handed the fan to Lin Yong's hand, patted his shoulder and said, "Believe me, retribution will happen sooner or later." That's all... I'll go out and watch the fire for a while."

Lin Yong squatted down and fanned the fire. Li Yi walked out of the yard, walked into the inn next to him, went straight to the second floor, and knocked on a door three times.

After three clicks, the door opened in response.

In the room, a man stood up and said: "We have just reached an agreement with those three families. We will give them all the blanks. It is inconvenient for us to use the silver notes, so let them trade directly with gold."

Unlike other things, colored glaze is not valuable only after it is made into colored glazeware. Even if it is just a ball, it is auspicious and treasure in people's eyes. A large number of that thing can be burned every day. Who has time to carve it piece by piece? Just burn it and sell it for money. It doesn't take time and effort. It is extremely convenient.

The Bai family, Xu family and Ma family obviously joined hands to force Lin Wanru to submit this time. It happened that there was no place to sell these things. They ate and lived with others before, so they helped whenever they could.

The man smiled and asked tentatively: "Sir, look, this time, can we get more points?"

Li Yi looked at them and smiled: "You have worked hard these days. After returning, each of you will get 50 more points."

Several people showed joy on their faces and clasped their fists and said: "Thank you, sir!"

After Li Yi left, one of them closed the door, and the joy on their faces did not fade.

A young man showed an expectant look on his face and said, "Fifty points, plus the previous points, can let Senior Liu teach me martial arts once."

"I plan to exchange five hundred taels of silver to buy a house in Kyoto and bring my mother back." Another middle-aged man smiled and said, "Xiao Wu, what about you?"

A young man sitting in the corner smiled and said, "I also plan to buy a house next to yours, and then go back to propose marriage. Xiuxiu has been waiting for me for three years. The old guy didn't agree back then. This time I'll go back and smash him to death with silver..."

"Haha, ambitious..."

The conversation in the room was limited to this small space. In another place in the city, Bai Yu and two other middle-aged men gathered together and talked in a low voice.

Bai Yu looked at the two and said, "This big business can only be taken by the three of us together, so don't fight over it."

"They only want gold, where can we get it?"

"Gold is easy to get, just go to the bank to exchange it, but we don't have that much silver on hand, unless we sell the goods to the Lin family..."

"If we do this, it will be a bit unfair to my nephew Bai."

Bai Yu smiled and waved his hand, saying, "It doesn't matter, this business is important..."

Both nodded. Faced with such a big business, they were in urgent need of money, so they naturally wouldn't go against such a huge profit for a promise.

Opportunities are rare, and they will never come back next time. Next time, we won't meet such stupid foreign merchants.

In the shop ahead, a clerk scratched his head in confusion and muttered, "Foreigners, do you always talk like this?"