Chapter 205 Deception
The old bustard's smile was charming and charming, "There are many people who want to redeem peonies. Peonies are not cheap. You know, I have spent a lot of effort cultivating peonies. She hasn't even started to make money for Xinghualou yet." Well, she’s leaving. Who will I rely on to earn money from Xinghualou?”
In a word, if you want to redeem yourself, you have to count the future losses of Xinghua Tower as the redemption money of Peony.
This is a lot of money.
You must know that it is immeasurable how much benefit an oiran who is half the world-famous, and who has not yet reached the hairpin level, will bring to Xinghua House.
Song Huai also heard the meaning of the old bustard's words, his face turned dark immediately, and he said angrily, "After all, it's just silver, you just name it."
Huh, a poor fool who insists on pretending to be rich, I don't know why the master suddenly asked Peony to seduce him.
Peony is the number one she has trained for five years. If she seduces such a childish idiot, isn't it easy to catch her?
The old bustard was silent in his heart, but he felt much more happy when he spoke this time, "Okay, I'm happy for you, so I won't bother you anymore. If you want Mudan to go with you, give me 50,000 taels of silver, and I'll let you go."< br>
"What...50,000 taels of silver?" Did he hear it right? It costs 50,000 taels of silver to redeem a person.
The Anyang Marquis Mansion is not worth the price.
Song Huai hesitated.
Shu Zhen jumped angrily on the sidelines, pointed at the old bustard and started to curse, "You want to kill people? Why do you need so much money to redeem a person? Don't think I don't know. It took only three years for the top star in front of Xinghua Tower to be ransomed." A thousand taels of silver, you are obviously bullying my father.”
The old madam laughed, "When the previous number one was ransomed, he was already twenty-two years old. He accepted customers at the age of fifteen. In seven years, he earned millions of taels of silver for my Xinghua House. I want fifty thousand taels from you now." Two pieces of silver, go and find out, do I want more?”
That's really not expensive.
Peony is the top card of Xinghua Building and the money tree of Xinghua Building. How much money can it earn for Xinghua Building? Song Huai and Shu Zhen are not fools, so they naturally have a ledger in their hearts.
But...
Fifty thousand taels of silver.
Seeing that both Song Huai and Shu Zhen were stunned, the Madam sneered disdainfully, "To be honest, I have spent more than this amount of money cultivating Peony over the years. I grew up watching Peony and treated her as my biological daughter." I love you all the same. Seeing that the young master really cares about my peonies, I don’t want more.”
"If you don't believe me, go and ask. The guest who opened the peony tonight offered me 20,000 taels of silver. I only need 50,000 taels of silver from you to redeem the peony, but I don't want much at all."
"What, Peony is so young and hasn't even reached hairpin yet, so you're going to let her pick up guests?"
Song Huai became anxious as soon as he heard that the madam asked Peony to pick up the guests. He felt that his things were about to become someone else's, which made him lose his mind.
"Do you still have human nature? You still said that you treat Peony as your daughter. I think you said it nicely. You just want to put Peony into a pit of fire."
He wanted to rush forward and snatch Peony back.
But when more than a dozen thugs from Xinghua Tower saw him yelling at the madam, they all surrounded him.
Song Huai wanted to be a love saint and a hero to save beauties, but he was also afraid of death.
He has been afraid of death since he was a child. When he saw a dozen big and thick men surrounding him, he suddenly fell silent and trembled all over, "You... what are you going to do?"
"Young Master, I should be the one asking you what you want to do, right?" The Madam sneered, "You keep saying that you want to redeem yourself for Peony, and I agreed, but you think it's too expensive, and you still get involved in the affairs of our Xinghua Tower."
"Peony is the star of my Xinghua Building. I want her to pick up guests. That is our Xinghua Building's business. You have nothing to do with it. If you have money, just redeem Peony."
Humph, if the master hadn't given orders to whet his appetite, she wouldn't have had the time to play with him here.
I still want to redeem myself for Peony, bah...
Peony is Xinghualou's money tree, and she won't be redeemed for any amount of money.
"If I don't have any money, I'll ask you to go out." When the game was almost done, the old madam became rude and said, "I can't get any money, so I came here to play with my peonies. Let me tell you, if I keep the peonies, I can make more money." How much silver is there? Wait. After she opened the "Bao", she received three customers a night, and one customer was six hundred times. Excluding the days of menstruation, she could earn five to sixty thousand taels of silver in a month, which is much better than if you ransom her. .”
What, three customers a day?
In Song Huai's mind, a picture of Peony's delicate body being pressed by a fat old man appeared.
Song Huai's heart ached.
She looked at Mudan behind the Madam, her eyes full of pity and reluctance, and seeing the Madam's face that she only cares about money, she became even more worried about having such a charming and charming girl like Mudan staying in Xinghua Tower, but...< br>
He hesitated, "Can it be cheaper, I..." He blushed, "I don't have that much money."
"No, a penny is a lot." The madam refused flatly.
The asking price of 50,000 taels of silver seemed too low to her, and she was really worried that he would be able to come up with the money. Otherwise, if the peony was really redeemed by him, she would lose more than she gained.
"If you don't have 50,000 taels of silver, don't even think about Peony going with you."
The old bustard was very determined and had a lot of money.
But Song Huai couldn't take it out.
Let alone fifty thousand taels of silver, he couldn't even get out ten thousand taels of silver.
He originally thought that the redemption for Peony would only cost two to three thousand taels of silver at most. He had one thousand taels of silver himself, which was the New Year's money given by his parents, grandparents, uncles during the Chinese New Year. If he didn't think enough, he would ask his mother for one. One or two thousand taels is not enough. I'm asking for some from my father and scraping it together will be enough.
Unexpectedly, the peony was worth fifty thousand taels of silver. To him, that was a huge sum of money. Before, she swore in front of the beauty that he would take care of everything, but now... she couldn't come up with any money to redeem her life, so she was really embarrassed.
Song Huai suddenly couldn't get off the stage.
I want to redeem Peony, but I have no money.
He wanted to leave and leave Peony alone, but when he thought of Peony's soft and fragrant body in his arms, he was extremely reluctant to let go.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and discussed with the old madam, "Can you not let Mudan pick up the guests yet? When she is old enough, I will come and redeem Mudan's life."
Mudan was only thirteen years old, and there were still two years left before she could have hair extensions. He swore that he would definitely earn this money.
Even if he couldn't earn it, he would borrow it.
"That won't work. The guests tonight have paid the opening fee of 20,000 taels of silver. I don't dare to offend the guests. Peony must accept the guests tonight."
The old bustard refused Song Huai's request, and stabbed Song Huai in the heart, "Also, my cheap young master Peony can't take advantage of it in vain. Don't forget to give the thousand taels of silver when you leave."
He gave Xinghualou a thousand taels of private money, and he was left without a penny.
But if he didn't give it, he was worried that the madam wouldn't let him go. When things got serious, it was spread that he came to Xinghua Tower to take advantage of Peony, but he didn't give any money. He couldn't afford to lose face.
Song Huai looked decadent and asked Shu Zhen to give him the money first.
When the matter reached this point, Song Huai knew that he had no money and the redemption of the peony was in vain. He could not even stop the madam from opening the buds for the peony. He had the intention but was powerless.
Song Huai looked at Mudan with an apologetic look, and softly uttered three words, "I'm sorry."
Then, under Mudan's tearful gaze, she gritted her teeth and left in embarrassment with Shuzhen.
But when Song Huai returned home, he couldn't sleep at all. His mind was filled with Peony's tearful and pitiful little face.
He tossed and turned for a long time. Suddenly, he got up, dressed and rushed to Pei's yard.
"Mom, I...my friend wants me to do business with him. I need money. Can you give me some."
Song Huai, who had never lied in front of Mr. Pei, stuttered out an excuse to ask for money.
Mrs. Pei asked, "What kind of business is that? Is that person stable? I can't be deceived."
"Yes... it's an antique business." Song Huai specifically found a business with high capital and said, "He has been doing this business for a long time, and he made a lot of money before, but... this batch of goods he is interested in is quite large. Yes, you didn’t have enough money, so you found me as a partner.”
Once you have a start, the weaving becomes smoother.
"Then how much silver do you want? Mom doesn't have much silver here, so she can only give you three thousand taels."
Three thousand taels seems not enough for antique business.
"How about I ask your dad how many he has?"
Ms. Pei didn't doubt Song Huai at all. In her heart, Song Huai was not only good-looking, talented, gentle and graceful, but also well-behaved and sensible. He was an almost perfect son.
So even if he beat her to death, she wouldn't believe that such a good son would come to defraud her of her money to redeem a brothel girl.
Song Huai broke out in a cold sweat.
Three thousand taels of silver, a drop in the bucket, is simply not enough.
Not even close.
"Okay, okay, mother, go and tell dad quickly, I...I need it urgently." Song Huai said urgently.
Pei had no choice but to find Song Baiqing, who was on leave today.
Song Baiqing could only get two thousand taels of silver, which was far from fifty thousand taels of silver.
Song Huai couldn't sit still at the thought of Mudan lying in another man's arms at night, pleasing him and pleasing him.
But after much thought, he didn't know where he could get such a large amount of money at once.
His friend would have no problem borrowing three to five hundred taels of silver, but if he could borrow tens of thousands of taels of silver, it seemed...don't even think about it.
After thinking about it, Song Huai thought of Xia Zihan.
Yes, Chu Yu must have so much money.
His mother said that when Zeng was young, she was very smart in business. None of the Zhuangzi shops under her name suffered losses, and all of them made huge profits.
Before Chu Jiahui's death, it was rumored that Zeng had earned hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Later, Chu Jiahui died, and her white hair gave way to a black-haired woman. Zeng was so disheartened that she no longer wanted to do business.
(End of chapter)