Chapter 655 Raising Money
Sure enough, a sinister smile flashed across Chu Jingqi's face, "There is no need for us to punish arrogant corrupt officials. Ayu, we came to Sun City to have fun, not to rid the emperor of corrupt officials. This kind of good thing to eliminate harm for the people, of course, must be done by the emperor himself.
Xia Zihan understood.
The boy Qing didn't like to meddle in other people's business, but he didn't want to let the Zhang family go so easily, so he wanted to report this matter to the emperor and ask the emperor to send someone down to investigate Zhang Wenzu.
After a group of people had dinner, they went to the Dongfang family's shop. By coincidence, the senior brother of Dongfang Wing had just returned from purchasing goods.
As soon as I entered the shop, before I could rest, they came.
This time, the senior brother brought back a lot of good things, a total of more than a dozen carriages of goods. The goods were being unloaded in the backyard. Qi Mei happily dragged Xia Zihan to the backyard, muttering, "Big Senior brother, as usual, I will choose something first.”
The old rule is that Qi Mei picks out the things she likes first and then settles the accounts. As for the price, it is naturally much cheaper than buying it from others. The senior brother sells it to Qi Mei at the purchase price plus 20%.
And the 20%, to be honest, is just enough for the round-trip shipping cost, so the Dongfang family can't make much money.
When they arrived in the backyard, Qi Mei was not polite. She opened all the unloaded boxes one by one and moved the ones she liked to one side.
The Dongfang steward who was directing a group of attendants to unload the goods saw Qi Mei opening all the boxes. He felt a headache and said in a grumpy voice, "Young lady, these goods are extremely valuable. Please be gentler. Ouch! You, this box of glass balls, please cover it quickly. There are many young men coming and going here to move goods. What if one of them is stolen..."
Qi Mei waved her hand, like waving a fly, with an impatient look on her face, "I know, I won't lose it. If I lose it, it's mine, okay."
Chu Jingqi and Dongfang Yi were in the shop, drinking tea with their senior brother, but Shengdi followed them. He watched from the side without making a move.
With him watching from the side, if he can still lose something, then he will have to throw his face to the ground and stomp on it a few times.
Shameful.
Manager Dongfang looked helpless to his young mistress, and he was worried about instructing people to move the goods.
Qi Mei looked at the box of glazed balls. They were sparkling, round and translucent. They were just the right size to hold with one hand. She liked them very much.
"It's a pity that we don't have any glass balls in our shop." Qi Mei picked it up, played with it, and put it down reluctantly.
Xia Zihan picked up a few and said, "If you like it, buy two and play with it yourself."
Qi Mei's eyes lit up, "Yeah, I'll ask someone to bring an empty box. If we like anything, put it in the box."
She called a boy, "Go and find an empty big wooden box."
"Young lady, some goods need to be packed in packaging boxes. If you pack them naked like this, they will get damaged."
One hundred glass balls are packed in a box. If they are full, they will not roll around and will not be broken. However, if they are packed in a box, they will roll easily and break.
After their precious goods arrive at the shop, they will make a batch of wooden boxes and boxes specifically to contain these goods.
"Go, go, go get it when I ask you to do it. Where did all this nonsense come from?" Qi Mei waved her hand impatiently, but then changed the subject and said, "Since you said it, then by the way Find some more empty boxes for me.”
"Okay, young mistress, the shopkeeper just made a batch of jade boxes. Do you want some, ten taels of silver each."
The young man knew that Qi Mei was buying goods for Cuiyuxuan and Yushage. The goods did not earn her any money, but the jade boxes had to be counted as money. There was no reason for them to lose money and give her a few jade boxes. If it is a wooden box that is not worth silver, forget it, but for a jade box, the cost is only twenty taels of silver each.
"You damn ghost, you still want to make money from young mistress, take the wooden box instead of the jade box." Qi Mei scolded with a smile.
Xia Zihan opened a few more wooden boxes. When he saw some good things, he moved them aside. If there were any toys he liked, he put them aside first.
After she picked three large boxes of gems, a small box of small toys and jade ornaments, she suddenly thought that all her money was spent on warm jade, and she only had less than ten thousand taels of silver left with her. After picking so many goods, There is definitely not enough money to pay the bill.
"Sister Qi Mei." Xia Zihan shouted and expressed her worries. Hearing this, Qi Mei laughed and said, "What do I mean? Master, don't worry. During the meal, Dongfang Wing So he whispered to me secretly, we have no money, he has it, use his money first, if his money is not enough, he will find a way for us.”
Qi Mei is not worried about money at all.
Xia Zihan breathed a sigh of relief.
Dongfang Yi had 60,000 taels of private money, and she knew it. Now that Dongfang Yi had spoken, she wouldn't be polite.
When Xia Zihan saw someone he liked, he stayed. It was not worth the money anyway.
As a result, after finishing the selection, I looked back and saw that there were thirty or forty boxes of things, and 20% of what my senior brother had brought in this time was empty.
Xia Zihan's forehead was covered with black lines, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "Isn't it too much?" With so many goods, it seems that 60,000 taels of silver are not enough to pay the bill.
Xia Zihan turned around and picked through each item one by one. He found that there were five large boxes of small toys, seven or eight boxes of jade ornaments, and high-quality tea sets.
This is too much.
She picked and picked, and finally left two boxes of small toys, four boxes of jade ornaments, and three sets of tea sets.
The rest are all top-quality and top-quality gems, which are for Cuiyuxuan, and no one can be missing.
When Qi Mei saw that she had finished picking, she called the steward Dongfang, counted the goods, and calculated the silver. The total was 153,628 taels of silver.
"More than 150,000 taels of silver?" Qi Mei exclaimed, "Steward Dongfang, did you calculate correctly?"
"Young lady, the shopkeeper is lucky this time. He got a lot of good things. There are six boxes of top-grade gems, sixteen boxes of fine gems, and three boxes of fine pearls. You picked them all. These 153,000 One thousand six hundred and twenty-eight taels of silver. I just added 20% of the shipping fee and didn’t charge you a penny more. How about you do the calculation again?”
Uh...
Qi Mei looked embarrassed and said, "No need, I trust Dongfang to take care of things."
But, there is still one hundred thousand taels of silver left, where can I get it?
Qi Mei looked at Xia Zihan, who also looked embarrassed. She had already streamlined the more than thirty boxes of things and could no longer reduce them.
"I'll go to Aqi to discuss it, and you also go to Dongfang Yi to discuss it. This thing... just put it here for a few days, and we'll raise money first." Xia Zihan was too embarrassed to ask for credit, so she took it. Qi Mei, study how to raise money.
(End of chapter)