Chapter 146 The luggage was thrown away by the princess
They had dinner in the inn, and after the meal, the "waste prince" Zhou Shaoyu suggested going to the salt market immediately.
They are all young people. After a busy day, they eat a meal and their energy comes back again.
The situation at the inn is fine, most people who should be staying there are already there, and it's relatively quiet. But the area across the street is extremely lively.
Various brothels open for business at night, with beautiful girls chatting and calling them "uncle" and "master" all the time. When they wave their handkerchiefs, the air is filled with the sweet scent of cosmetics.
Several people walked eastward along the street. At a gate, several clerks blocked the door and still asked for a pass. Ordinary people were persuaded to leave.
Zhou Tu led them in with a swagger.
Following them were more than 30 strong men pulling silver carts. The clerks only charged the salt carts and let them go directly when they were pulling silver to buy salt.
Xie Yanyan then realized that Zhou Tu had brought people to purchase salt.
There is no charge for silver carts, but there is a charge for salt carts entering the market.
It is equivalent to trading here, looting one level at the city gate and another level in the trading market.
"If you don't trade in the salt market, your salt cart will be confiscated if you are caught, and you will be fined double," Zhou Tu explained to them.
So although the streets are bustling, all the salt trucks come to the salt market on their own initiative to trade.
After entering, Xie Yanyan discovered that the salt market was much larger than he had imagined. The entire trading market was filled with trees, gardens, and horse tethering grounds, and trading stalls were available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Zhou Tu ordered people to pull the silver cart, and there were more than thirty strong men following him, and no one dared to rob it.
Xie Yanyan followed Xu Wenrong and Xie Anfeng to watch the grand transaction and also touched the salt from several companies.
The salt was completely different from the salt she had always known. Not only was it rough, but its color was not white at all. It was a yellowish and grayish color. She tasted it and found it bitter.
She tasted the salt slowly in her mouth, then spat it out.
"How much is the salt?" she asked the stall owner.
The stall owner saw that they were dressed in low-key and luxurious clothes and had a good temperament, so he knew that they were rich people, and immediately said enthusiastically: "800 coins per stone, my salt..."
800 coins is more than 3 taels of silver. She didn't know whether this price was expensive or cheap.
Xu Wenrong explained to her: "Official salt is now 800 coins per stone."
Does that mean the price of private salt here is the same as the official salt price?
Aren’t private transactions supposed to be cheap?
"Official salt is often hard to find." Xu Wenrong explained again, "Official salt is sold out as soon as it is released. In the end, ordinary people buy it from private salt dealers for about 4,000 coins per stone, which is 16 taels per stone. However, ordinary people generally cannot buy that much. If they buy one pound to eat for a year, they won't feel the price is a little higher."
To explain, the price that salt farmers actually sell for is only ten or dozens of coins per stone, while the cost of transporting salt is much higher than the wholesale cost.
The man saw that they were only discussing but not saying whether they would buy or not, so he ignored them. Immediately, another buyer started to trade, and cartloads of salt were sold immediately, one hand for silver and the other for salt, and the transaction was very fast.
Zhou Tu and his men quickly turned several carts of silver into salt.
These salts have different qualities, there are rock salts and sea salts. Rock salts are more expensive, while sea salts are rough and bitter, and cheaper than rock salts.
After a round of investigation, Xie Yanyan gained a comprehensive understanding of the salt market conditions and the quality of salt.
After being busy in the salt market for several hours, it was already three o'clock in the morning. Xie Yanyan was tired, so they returned to Keyue Inn.
It was also much quieter in front of the flower building, with only the silver cart and salt cart passing by on the bluestone road, making a "thump thump" sound.
Xie Yanyan originally wanted to wash up and go to bed immediately, but unexpectedly, before he entered the inn, the inn waiter said to Zhou Tu in a panic: "Princess Xiyue is here..."
Zhou Tu took a few quick steps and frowned, "What happened?"
"She threw out all of Third Young Master's things."
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"The shopkeeper and I wanted to pick it up, but Princess Xiyue told us not to." The waiter said with a bitter face, "Those things were picked up by people on the street."
Zhou Tu frowned and hurried back to the guest house. The yard was brightly lit and the shopkeeper was also there.
Huang Han, Zhou Tu's subordinate, came up respectfully and said to Zhou Shaoyu and Xie Yanyan: "Princess Xiyue is here. She insisted on staying in East 1 on the second floor. The brothers couldn't stop her. She accidentally broke the Third Young Master's things."
Zhou Tu already knew the situation, so he politely walked up to Xie Yanyan and said, "Princess Xiyue is the apple of the eye of the King of Nanzhong. She is proficient in salt making and is a great help to us. Third Young Master, can you change rooms?"
Zhou Shaoyu glanced at Zhou Tu and asked calmly, "Did you break Third Young Master's things? How did you break them?"
Zhou Tu's scalp began to tighten.
Huang Han did not dare to hide it and said, "The princess threw him into the street."
"Why did she throw away the Third Young Master's package?"
"She said she liked that room and it was prepared for her from the beginning." Huang Han said truthfully, "She not only threw away the Third Young Master's package, but also threw away all the things that the Third Young Master had used."
"Heh!" Zhou Shaoyu looked at Zhou Tu, "Is this how you manage affairs here?"
Zhou Tu said earnestly: "I didn't know she would come today."
"You told her that Dongyi was her room?"
"The prince said that it should be made into a women's room..."
"So what?"
Zhou Tu was speechless. He really thought that was the room prepared for Princess Xiyue.
Zhou Shaoyu suddenly raised his foot and Zhou Tu flew backwards. Huang Han hurried to support him. Zhou Shaoyu looked at him, and Huang Han paused again, not daring to say anything.
Zhou Tu struggled to get up, walked up to Zhou Shaoyu, and said, "I was wrong, but, Master, we can't live without her."
"Zhou Tu, you are very powerful now and can be my master!"
"Master, I was wrong!" Zhou Tu covered his ribs, sweating profusely, and said to Huang Han, "Go, drive Princess Xiyue out."
"Princess Xiyue has already gone to bed."
"Throw them out with the bed."
Huang Han went to do it.
Xie Anfeng and Xu Wenrong both had ugly expressions on their faces. They were the guests, but they were already giving Zhou Shaoyu face by not getting angry at Yan'er for being bullied like that.
Xie Yanyan still looked at Zhou Shaoyu indifferently.
Zhou Shaoyu forced a smile, pointed to a circle of chairs in the hall, and said to her, Xie Anfeng, and Xu Wenrong: "Sit down, let's have a cup of tea."
After a moment, a scream came from outside: "Asshole, how dare you enter this princess's room? Ah~Asshole..."
With a thud, McDull was thrown out onto the street.
Qinglian burst into tears and knelt down begging for mercy.
Xie Yanyan said: "Don't be in a hurry to ask her to leave, ask her to compensate for my things."
Zhou Tu only saw her carrying a backpack and a small bundle from the car at that time, thinking that there wouldn't be too many valuable things, he said earnestly: "Third Young Master, please speak."
"1,000 sheets of fine white paper, 5 bottles of beef chili sauce, and 2 sweet water melons."
In order to let him know what fine white paper is, she asked Xu Wenrong to go to the carriage and get a stack of the fine white paper she was using. Zhou Shaoyu had seen the beef chili sauce, including the bottle, so she didn't mention it. She also brought a sweet water melon to let them see what a sweet water melon is.
Her things are so plain and simple, just compensate her as they are.
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