Chapter 66

  Huang San Yuan soon brought Liao Jia and Liao Yi, the two brothers, to the room.

  "What's going on, master?"

  "How much cash do we have in our mountain stronghold now?"

  "There is one hundred and twenty-two taels of silver now."

  Silver is in short supply, and there are counterfeit copper coins, but the silver is only over a hundred taels, still the same as last time when they cheated Xue Banjiang. However, Huang San Yuan is indeed the leader of the mountain stronghold, he has an account in his belly, and the number of goods and wealth he can recite at will.

  "Take one hundred taels and give it to Little Butterfly."

  "It's enough, it can't be used up so quickly." Xiaodie was suddenly startled, actually with one or two taels of silver, they could make a living.

  "Take it." Cheng Dalai said: "You follow Huang Zongguan to the warehouse to pick up, there are satin and silk fabrics inside, choose two pieces that look good, and bring them back to your young lady's home."

  The two left, and Cheng Dairen's gaze fell on Liao Jia brothers.

  "Second Master, there isn't a price on your heads, is there?"

  Liao Jia felt a bit embarrassed: "This... sorry, my brother and I haven't had a chance to commit a crime yet, but don't worry, next time we'll definitely do one or two earth-shattering cases."

  Cheng Dali was speechless, and you guys think this is a good thing?

  His intention was to let the two brothers protect Su Ying, although they were not very capable, but they had strength and could deal with a few small thugs.

  They were allowed to go because the few people in Hama Village originally had a price on their heads, and the Liu family's people, Cheng Dairen currently still didn't trust them.

  "I'm giving you a task now, go to Fallen Leaf City and protect someone."

  "Who is it?"

  Cheng Dali took a deep breath and said seriously: "A certain future wife of the bandit chief."

  Upon hearing this, the two brothers immediately patted their chest and said: "Don't worry, big brother, with us around, we will never let sister-in-law get into trouble."

  "So, if someone bullies your future sister-in-law, what would you do?" Cheng Dairen said slowly, and suddenly a thick murderous aura burst out from the corners of his eyes: "Give me a good beating!"

  "Uh... isn't it just a direct kill?" asked Liao Jia and Liao Yi simultaneously.

  Cheng Dali

  While Xiao Die hadn't returned yet, Cheng Dairen asked Liu Zhi to prepare pen and ink, ready to write down the experience of running a hotel that he had seen in his previous life, and have Xiao Die take it back to give to Su Qing.

  However, Cheng Dalai's ghostly calligraphy was really unbearable. In the end, it became his oral dictation, with Liu Zhi acting as his scribe.

  Liu Zhi is not good at serving people, pouring tea and water, making beds and folding quilts are all unfamiliar to her. However, in playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, embroidery, and needlework, she has a very deep foundation. This is also to be expected, as she was raised from childhood to adulthood as a young lady of a wealthy family, not to be someone's servant or maid.

  Each tiny character fell onto the paper, truly incomparably beautiful and elegant, to the point that even a master calligrapher from a past life would be envious.

  Before long, the little butterfly came back. Cheng Dairen's original intention was to let her stay here for a night and arrange for her to return tomorrow. But she said that Su Qing was alone, and she wasn't very reassured, so she had to rush back today.

  Helpless, Cheng Dairen could only arrange a horse-drawn carriage to take her back with silk and silver, as well as chili peppers. The road was not very safe, so in the end, Cheng Dairen personally escorted her for a while until he saw the gate of Luoye City before returning alone.

  ……

  At dusk, Su Qing was in the main hall of the wine building, letting Xiao Er beat the board and close up shop.

  In fact, in this era, a woman's bare face is a very shameful thing. Although Su Qian often covers her face with a black veil, she can't avoid gossip and rumors. Only those older women don't mind these things.

  The abnormality of this era lies in the fact that, on the one hand, chastity is valued above all else, to the point where a young woman would be expected to take her own life if she were touched by a man's arm. On the other hand, for some married women, it is extremely casual, with cases of husbands having affairs with their wives' sisters or brothers-in-law being quite common.

  But for Su Ying, she didn't care about losing face either, and her body wasn't inferior in this regard.

  This is said to be a wine building, but it's actually very dilapidated, years of disrepair, the white ants have eaten away at the stairs, which creak and groan. Business is also poor to the extreme, Su Qing doesn't even remember that his own family has such a wine building, but in the end, this wine building became his own, it was the only thing he got after being kicked out of the house.

  The only advantage is probably that the geographical location is still okay. The opposite side is Su's Four Seas Building, which is often crowded with guests and visitors coming and going constantly.

  The owner of the Four Seas Building is surnamed Li, nicknamed Big Head Li. He's the elder brother of Su Qian's stepmother and also Su Qian's uncle. Of course, don't expect them to have any feelings for each other.

  He stood at the entrance of the Four Seas Building, slapping his clothes with a towel and revealing an evil smile on his face as he looked this way.

  Su Si Hai's body was heavily afflicted with illness, and he wouldn't live for much longer. As long as he could get this little girl to leave Luo Ye City, the Su family would from then on be surnamed Li. What he didn't expect was that this little girl actually had the nerve to lower her face, cover it with a black cloth, and open the door to do business.

  "Hmph, unfortunately you're just a daughter after all, let's see how long you can hold on before getting kicked out."

  His eyes saw several big men walking into the opposite building, he smiled and turned around to enter the Four Seas Building.

  Four burly men who entered Su Qing's wine house were obviously ill-intentioned, with thick facial features and eyes that roamed around Su Qing's body.

  "Madam boss, how's your consideration going? When will this restaurant be sold?"

  "The matter has been made clear, I will not sell this wine shop to you."

  It turned out that these four people were not the first time they came here, and they would come over in three days to make trouble. The purpose was to take down this wine building at a very low price and drive Su Qing out of Luoye City.

  "Boss lady, I advise you not to be too proud of yourself. This is a man's world and it's not a place where a small woman like you can survive."

  "Fourth watch, go back, we are closing up."

  "Time to close up! Didn't you see that we four came here to drink? You're doing business, but you also have the nerve to shoo away customers!"

  Su Qian's eyebrows furrowed, and she gave Xia'er a signal to pour wine to get rid of these people.

  The little servant brought wine over, and the big man swung his hand, slapping the little servant to the ground.

  "Damn, what kind of thing are you? Even the wine you've touched can be served to me." The big man's gaze fell on Su Qing, becoming even more arrogant: "I want the boss's wife to pour me a drink!"

  "I've heard you hide your face behind a veil and don't let people see it. Today I'm going to take a look at what you're capable of!"

  "All of you women who have been raped by bandits are pretending to be pure!"

  Su Ying has already left in anger, but she is only 17 years old this year. Although she was born into a merchant family, she has seen more and done less. She doesn't know how to deal with the situation in front of her, and her mind is already confused.

  A horse carriage stopped at the gate, and Xiao Die and Liao Jia Liao Yi, two brothers, walked in from outside the door.

  Liao Jia's eyes swept around in a circle, grabbed a wine jar from the doorway, and swung it to smash onto this person's head.

  Bang!

  The sound is loud, wine and blood flow together, broken ceramic pieces fall to the ground, wet and messy.