Chapter 340: Short Life
"Didn't they say their sons were all gone?" Hua Qing slapped his head and said, "These people are used to lying. If he really wanted to hide something, he would definitely hide it!"
"I really brought shame to the Hua people!" Hua Qing rushed back into the house and started calculating.
Xiao Jiuyue stood at the door. It was a rainy day and the room was dimly lit, but she could clearly see Hou Jian lying on the ground in the room. His body stiffened!
The person who would even die for Hou Jian to protect is either Lady Luo or his closest person!
"Let me calculate." Hua Qing grabbed Hou Jian's hand and read his palm first, muttering to himself, "Sure enough, there is another son!"
Hua Qing kept chattering away, saying some professional words, and measuring with茭貝. Hou Jian's heart was in his throat, staring at the movements of Hua Qing's hands. She must be cheating him!
Hou Jian felt much more relieved after thinking about it.
But soon, Hou Jian realized that he was overthinking.
"Miss, I calculated it. His son is in the direction of Shengjing." Hua Qing pointed on the map and finally confirmed the location and said, "It's in Shengjing."
"My son is dead, you liar, charlatan." Hou Jian stared at Hua Qing and said, as if only by repeating this over and over again could he save his son!
Hua Qing said seriously, looking at him and said, "So you are not afraid of death, but are just thinking about your son's prosperity and wealth? Let me tell you, although your son is not dead now, he is not far from death."
"Liar, do you think you can fool me like this?" Seeing her confident words, Hou Jian said, "Kill me, I won't tell you anything anyway."
"Stupid, what's the point of me lying to you?" Hua Qing took the calculation result and said it to Hou Jian, but Hou Jian didn't believe a word of it!
"You, you are as stupid as a pig. You don't even know how to count the money after being sold, and you still think that people will treat your son well. You are really a hopeless case!" Hua Qing was so angry that sparks were about to come out of his saliva. When he stared at Hou Jian, he felt powerless as if hitting cotton!
Hou Jian was determined to believe that the other party would protect his son. She had said it so clearly, but he still didn't believe a word of it.
"Miss, it's no use. This guy has lost his mind. I don't know what kind of magic potion the other party gave him to make him so devoted." Hua Qing returned to the living room, drank a large pot of water, and then spoke to Xiao Jiuyue.
Hua Qing was so angry!
"You said, his son is dying, is there any way to save him?" Xiao Jiuyue asked.
"I calculated that he will die young, so I'm not sure if he can be saved." Hua Qing said uncertainly, "Miss, unless we rescue him, Hou Jian will probably never speak!"
"Some people have committed countless evil deeds and killed countless people, but when it comes to themselves, their own sons and their own mothers, they care about them very much. For someone like Hou Jian, he probably even considers his son's life important!"
Hua Qing has seen all kinds of people, and she is also familiar with people like Hou Jian.
"Since the person is in Shengjing, we will definitely find him!" Xiao Jiuyue's eyes flashed slightly. It's time to show the role of partners.
"But, we can't go to Shengjing to look for it, right?" Hua Qing said doubtfully.
Xiao Jiuyue said, "Of course someone will go find it." After that, Xiao Jiuyue went straight to the kitchen to get busy. Hua Qing and Dong Gui followed quickly, one was responsible for lighting the fire and the other was responsible for washing the ingredients.
"Miss, are you going to make jujube flower pastry?" Dong Gui looked at the ingredients and immediately understood Xiao Jiuyue's idea.
"Yes, I haven't made it for a long time, and I don't know if it's good." When Xiao Jiuyue was at home, whenever she wanted to eat jujube flower pastry, her beautiful mother would make it for her. She has been away for such a long time, and she doesn't know if her beautiful mother misses her?
Xiao Jiuyue took a deep breath. Once the feeling of missing someone came out, she couldn't stop it.
Hua Qing wanted to rush to do it, but Dong Gui stopped her and said, "Young lady, perhaps you want to do it yourself?"
Dong Gui's eyes sparkled as she watched Xiao Jiuyue busy in the kitchen. An idea came to her mind, and she whispered, "Hua Qing, are you saying that to find Hou Jian's son, we have to go to Shengjing."
"Yes, he's in Shengjing." Hua Qing nodded. Noticing the change in Dong Gui's eyes, she pressed on, "Why, do you know how the young lady is going to find him in Shengjing?"
"Young Miss will tell us when she wants to." Dong Gui dealt with it vaguely. Hua Qing wanted to say something, but Xiao Jiuyue said, "Hua Qing, go and see how Shang Yifan and the others are doing when they went to contact the bandits. Did you bring Luo Sanniang with you?"
After Shang Yifan arrived in Donglin County, he and her split up into two groups. One group sold cloth while the other contacted bandits and learned some of their movements.
"Okay." Hua Qing responded and went out. Not long after, Hua Qing came back with Shang Yifan: "Sister Yue, Luo Sanniang has been captured and is on the way to be brought back. It took some time to get rid of those bandits."
"By the way, fortunately Jin Wu brought the bandits to help me, otherwise, we might not be able to get rid of those bandits." Shang Yifan's hair was wet, and as soon as he entered the house, he told the most important thing.
"Very good, thank you for your hard work." Xiao Jiuyue was very happy to hear the good news.
Shang Yifan continued, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince recently mobilized nearby soldiers to suppress the bandits. Now the bandits are hiding in the mountain stronghold and rarely go out. Even if they do go out, they often fight. It's very chaotic outside now!"
"Those people dared to assassinate the prince. If His Royal Highness the Prince did not react, wouldn't it mean that the court was afraid of the bandits?" Xiao Jiuyue could foresee this outcome.
"Sister Yue, I have some good news. We've already secured the fabric. It's from a local cloth merchant in Donglin County. He saw our fabric and really liked it. He's already signed the agreement and paid the deposit. Once the goods arrive, this deal will be done!"
This was the first time Shang Yifan negotiated a deal on his own. In order to avoid being cheated, he specially brought Uncle Zhou Lin and Uncle Zhao Sheng along.
They have always been following their father in business talks, so they are much more alert than he is to whether he will be cheated.
Shang Yifan said as he handed the agreement to Xiao Jiuyue and said, "Sister Yue, take a look. Is this agreement okay?"
There was a hint of nervousness in Shang Yifan's words. The situation was urgent at the time, so he signed directly.
Xiao Jiuyue took the agreement and looked over it carefully. She had avoided all the pitfalls she had warned about before. She said, "Congratulations! If the business in Donglin County takes off, your cloth business will have a place in Xiangcheng in the future!"
"It's all thanks to Sister Yue. Shopkeeper Tong likes our cloth very much because the color is special and unique." Shang Yifan knew very well that if Xiao Jiuyue had not improved the method of dyeing cloth, Shang Yi's cloth would probably still be trampled upon by people in Yizhou!
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