Shopkeeper Zhang's face was pale, and he had obviously lost weight. "Sir, we are running low on rice recently. We can't get so much rice at once. Can you give me another day?"
Chu Chenyin raised his voice and snorted coldly, "Manager Zhang, your Bai family is the largest rice merchant in Mengru County. How is it possible that you don't even have ten dou of rice!"
"Or you don't want to sell it to me at all."
As she spoke, she grabbed a handful of rice and scooped out the white sand inside. "Or maybe you don't have any good rice at all."
Shopkeeper Zhang looked at the white sand in her palm, his face darkened instantly, and he said in a trembling voice: "Sir, what are you talking about? The rice here is all top-quality fragrant rice."
"Okay, then give me my fifty dou of rice right now." Chu Chenyin didn't allow him to argue and interrupted him neatly.
Shopkeeper Zhang gritted his teeth, feeling very embarrassed, "Sir, I really don't have fifty Doumi here."
Chu Chenyin saw that it was almost time, so he got to the point and said, "If not, then give me back my twenty taels of silver."
Manager Zhang's shop was robbed overnight. Let alone twenty taels of silver, he didn't even have twenty cents left.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Chu Chenyin knocked on the table and asked, "Why, don't you even have twenty taels?"
Zhang, the shopkeeper, was afraid that others would know that he had no money, so he quickly raised his head and said, "Yes, of course I have it, but can I give it to you in a few days?"
Chu Chenyin raised his cold eyes and sneered at him, "Manager Zhang, you still want to deceive me. Everyone knows that your Bai Mansion was robbed last night. Do you still want to give me silver with your bare hands?"
Seeing that he could no longer conceal the truth, Zhang, the shopkeeper, lowered his head and said, "Yes, our Bai family does not have any money. Sir, could you give me a few more days?"
Chu Chenyin pretended to be in deep thought, then said with a smile: "How about this, you use your house to exchange for my twenty taels."
"My house?" Shopkeeper Zhang was surprised. "Sir, you are joking. The house in the Bai Mansion can be sold for at least two hundred taels of silver."
Chu Chenyin said slowly, "But I heard that there are evil spirits in your Bai Mansion. No one in the whole Mengru County dares to buy your house. I am a foreigner and I am not afraid of these things. You should think about it carefully, otherwise you must return me twenty taels of silver tomorrow."
Zhang, the shopkeeper, was in a dilemma. He thought that he still had a house where Qing'er lived. After hesitating for a while, he replied, "Okay, I can give you this house, but I won't sell you the fifty bushels of rice." This chapter has been read (please click on the next chapter to continue reading!)
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