"Didn't I tell you to be gentle? Why did you knock him unconscious?"
Fatty Liu frowned in displeasure, and the two burly men hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Sir, we were holding back!"
"Wake him up!"
Fatty Liu waved his hand irritably, splashed a basin of cold water on it, and Little Stone trembled for a moment before starting to move again.
Fatty Liu stood up, walked over to Little Stone, squatted down, and ripped off the hood from his face. Little Stone's face was normal now; when he was being beaten, the two burly men had deliberately avoided looking at his face.
Fatty Liu stretched out his chubby hand and gently patted Little Stone's face twice, then laughed and asked, "How does it feel?"
This is the first time Little Stone has ever been hit in his life. Now he is in pain all over his body, and even the slightest movement causes him excruciating pain.
"You, you actually dared to hit me?"
He didn't expect Fatty Liu to be so bold. He hadn't done anything to harm him, so why was this guy locking him up and beating him?
"Would you like to come and help me?"
"Pooh!"
Little Stone spat directly at him, and the mouthful of bloody water landed on Fatty Liu's face, which looked somewhat comical.
Fatty Liu's smile froze:
"They really are asking for trouble!"
He raised his hand, and a burly man hurriedly handed him a clean handkerchief. Fatty Liu roughly wiped his face and said, "Keep going, just leave me alive!"
Little Stone didn't know how he woke up again. His whole body ached and he was cold. He curled up tightly, his teeth chattering.
When I opened my eyes again, the hateful Fatty Liu was no longer there, but there was a girl who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old.
The girl held a handkerchief in her hand and gently wiped the cold water from his face, sighing, "Why are you so stubborn? He'll beat you to death!"
When Little Stone suddenly saw a woman, he thought he was dreaming.
He turned his head and looked around. It was still the same place where he had been beaten, but Fatty Liu and the two burly men were no longer there.
"Who are you……"
Thinking about how he had been beaten twice for no reason, Xiao Shitou became more wary of the girl in front of him.
"Little Stone, I am a maid of the Liu family. Don't worry, I have no ill intentions towards you. Let me tell you, don't be so stubborn in the future. Just go along with our master for now, and we can think of other ways after we get out, okay?"
Little Stone smiled bitterly. He had been missing for some time now, and he wondered when Old Man Li would find out he was missing.
"I...I didn't expect that..."
Little Stone blushed when he was so close to a girl for the first time.
The maid chuckled, "Then you'll remember that later. Otherwise, Master really will beat you to death. You should know our Master's temper..."
Little Stone nodded. After the girl finished wiping her face, she said with a troubled expression, "Your body..."
"I have some ointment here, would you like me to apply it to your body as well?"
Little Stone blushed; no girl had ever been so attentive to him before.
A faint fragrance wafted from the room, and looking at the girl in front of him, Xiao Shitou felt a surge of desire.
He grabbed the girl in front of him and kissed her on the lips. The girl didn't resist and nestled gently in his arms.
...
"Oh dear, you're so badly injured, yet you still have the leisure to do so!"
A mocking voice startled Little Stone awake. He opened his eyes abruptly and found himself lying naked on the ground, with a similarly naked woman beside him.
Little Stone was startled and quickly grabbed a piece of clothing from the side and draped it over the girl's shoulders.
The girl also woke up, covered her private parts with her clothes, and clung tightly to the little stone.
"Hehe, Little Stone, Little Stone, you certainly know how to enjoy yourself. I was only gone for a short while, and you've already slept with one of my maids. Really..."
"What you did constitutes rape, and coincidentally, the county magistrate is my brother-in-law. I'm going to go and ask him what kind of punishment you should receive?"
Little Stone's face turned pale. He didn't understand what had just happened. The girl was clearly helping him apply medicine, but inexplicably, the two of them ended up sleeping together.
"Guards, drag this girl out! Since she's so eager for a man, send her to Ruyi Tower and let her have men to serve her every day!"
"No, no!"
The girl screamed in terror when she heard the words "Ruyi Building".
Little Stone's face also turned pale. Although he didn't know this woman before, she had just become his woman.
She's practically his wife, how could he let his woman go to a place like Ruyi Tower?
That's a brothel!
"No, don't send her there!"
Little Stone hugged the girl tightly, and Fatty Liu chuckled: "She's a maid in my household, and we've signed a contract that's binding on her. Let alone just sending her to Ruyi Tower, even if I beat her to death, it's just a matter of my word!"
The girl's face turned even paler, and she gripped the small stone tightly with her hands.
"No, I don't want to go!"
"If I were to be sent to Ruyi Tower, I'd rather just smash my head against a wall and die!"
Little Stone felt bad after hearing this. He glared at Fatty Liu and said, "What do you want! Let her go!"
"You help me out, and I'll double your commission! I can even give you this woman; you can be her maid or marry her!"
This time, Little Stone hesitated.
He didn't want to betray Old Man Li, after all, Old Man Li had saved his life before.
But the girl in front of him was his woman, who had given him her most precious first time. How could he bear to abandon her?
"Double the price won't do! Fatty Liu, you want Fu'an Hall's latest ointment formula, right? I want 10% of the profits from Fu'an Ointment!"
Hearing this, Fatty Liu was shocked by Little Stone's ambition. He hadn't expected this kid to be so ambitious, actually wanting 10% of the profits.
He stared intently at Little Stone. Little Stone wasn't afraid at this moment. Since he had decided to work with Fatty Liu, he would definitely choose a way that was more friendly to him: "You should know the market for Fu'an Ointment. And I've heard Old Man Li say that if you slightly increase the dosage of the two medicines, you can make it into a frostbite ointment. Fatty Liu, you should know the market for frostbite ointment, right?"
Fatty Liu's pupils contracted sharply; he hadn't expected that Old Man Li and Madam Han had such a deep scheme.
While he was only focused on the Yancheng market, others were actually eyeing the whole country, and even other countries.
Is this really true?
Fatty Liu still couldn't quite believe it.
“Old Li never hid from me before. You should know that I’ve been with him for so long, and I didn’t leave him when he was going through the toughest time. He’s long considered me his closest confidant. After all, he doesn’t have any descendants.”
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