Chapter 491: What a huge sum of money is eighty-eight taels!
As Wei Changtian's woman, Comrade Xiao Xu's status in Shuzhou is basically equivalent to that of a concubine in the imperial palace.
It would be fine if such a noble "princess" had to pay for her stay in the hotel, but why was she so fussy?
The key point is that she is the big shopkeeper of Yingfengsheng, with a net worth of tens of millions, and she is not short of money at all! The shopkeeper of Jinyi didn't know what to say for a while, and just felt that he was hallucinating.
But when he saw that Xu Qingwan had a serious face and didn't seem to be joking, he finally swallowed his saliva, hurriedly asked the waiter to get nine taels and four cents of silver, and then respectfully handed it to Xu Qingwan.
"Husband, Madam, here's the silver for you."
"Um."
Xu Qingwan nodded, pinched a few pieces of silver, and after making sure they were all "real money", she put them into her small bag with satisfaction.
“.”
Good fellow! Let's say you are too cautious. Even if I have ten times the courage, I wouldn't dare to give you fake money! Countless question marks suddenly appeared in the shopkeeper's mind, but he had to maintain an extremely stiff smile on his face.
At this moment, as a breeze blew through the hall, Wei Changtian just walked into the front hall of the inn.
"Wan'er, have you packed everything?"
He walked straight to Xu Qingwan and said with a smile: "Okay, let's go straight away."
"Okay, that's it."
Xu Qingwan pointed to the packages on the table and said, "I have also put away your clothes."
"OK."
Wei Changtian waved his hand, and immediately a guard came forward, picked up the package and walked out of the house.
"Then let's go. The earlier we leave, the earlier we can return."
"good."
Comrade Xiao Xu nodded slightly, then picked up his small bag and was about to follow Wei Changtian into the car back to Shuzhou City.
However, after the two of them walked a few steps away, Wei Changtian seemed to remember something, and suddenly turned around and walked back to the innkeeper who was still standing there, and casually took out a silver note from his pocket.
"Boss, I'm sorry to have delayed your business these two days."
"Please accept this banknote. The extra money will be your reward."
“.”
"Gurgle."
The innkeeper stared blankly at the words "one hundred taels of silver" on the banknote with his Adam's apple moving. He then looked up at Xu Qingwan, who was standing behind Wei Changtian with a very "kind" look. "Ah! Master Wei! I can't take this money!"
A wailing sound suddenly rang out. In front of Wei Changtian's puzzled eyes, the shopkeeper didn't even have time to wipe the dense beads of sweat on his forehead. He just waved his hands frantically.
"Husband, Madam has already paid the room fee!"
"Really?"
Wei Changtian looked back at Xu Qingwan and wondered why the shopkeeper's reaction was so strange.
However, after seeing Comrade Xiao Xu's affirmative look, he was too lazy to think about these trivial matters anymore.
"Okay."
He shook his head and put the banknotes back into his chest.
With the shopkeeper's trembling farewell voice of "Goodbye, young master and madam", the two of them quickly got into the carriage.
“.”
"Why does the innkeeper look a little timid?"
After the carriage started moving slowly, Wei Changtian casually asked Xu Qingwan: "How much silver did you give him?"
"Six cents."
Comrade Xiao Xu replied seriously: "We stayed for two days, three coins a day, a total of six coins."
“This is hahahaha!”
Wei Changtian immediately understood why the shopkeeper had just reacted like that, and couldn't help but laugh: "You have calculated it clearly."
"Of course."
Xu Qingwan nodded seriously, not feeling ashamed but proud, saying: "Mrs. Wei said that businessmen have to haggle over every penny."
“Don’t spend a penny that shouldn’t be spent, and don’t save a penny that should be spent.”
"Haha, are you so obedient to Wei Yanyu now?"
Wei Changtian smiled and joked: "Whatever she says is true?"
"What Madam Wei said makes sense."
Xu Qingwan argued softly: "If what she said doesn't make sense, then I won't listen."
"Really? What about me?"
Wei Changtian suddenly became interested and leaned forward to ask again: "If I asked you to do something that you thought was wrong, would you do it?"
"Yes, I will."
Comrade Xiao Xu gave the answer without any hesitation, and then saw Wei Changtian suddenly stretch out his hand in front of him.
"Give me one thousand taels."
"oh"
Xu Qingwan nodded blankly, untied the small bag obediently, counted out one thousand taels of silver and handed it to Wei Changtian.
She originally didn't intend to ask Wei Changtian what he was going to do, but when she saw the latter's smirk, she couldn't help but whispered, "What do you want so much money for?"
"hey-hey."
Wei Changtian did not answer directly, but smiled and lifted the carriage curtain, and said to a guard who was riding outside the carriage: "Take this banknote to the owner of Fuyun Inn and tell him that it was a reward from me."
"yes!"
The guard immediately responded, took the banknote, turned his horse around and galloped back the way he came.
Comrade Xiao Xu in the carriage was dumbfounded at this moment.
She opened her mouth wide and stretched her little hand in the air, as if trying to "recover" the banknote that had already gone away.
What's more important is that, perhaps because he was too anxious, tears suddenly welled up in his wide eyes.
Uh. Wei Changtian, who originally wanted to make a joke, was stunned when he saw this and hurriedly raised the stack of banknotes in his hand.
"Well, the banknote is still here with me."
"I was just kidding you, why are you crying?"
"ah?"
Xu Qingwan took the banknotes in a daze, wiped her tears and counted them carefully, then looked up and asked in a low voice: "Why, why is there one missing?"
"Well, I just gave out a hundred taels."
Wei Changtian touched his nose, feeling a little guilty for some reason: "We have stayed in the inn for two days, and they haven't done any business in these two days. A hundred taels is not too much, right?"
“.”
After glancing at Wei Changtian, Comrade Xiao Xu put the remaining nine hundred taels back into the small bag and began to count on his fingers.
"That inn only has twenty rooms in total."
"Each room costs three taels per day, so even if it's fully booked it's only six taels, and for two days it's only twelve taels."
"You are so good that you gave me eighty-eight taels more all at once."
"Do you know how much you can buy with so much silver?"
“.”
With red eyes as she calculated the accounts, Xu Qingwan now looked like a wronged young wife.
She wanted to blame her husband for spending money recklessly, but she couldn't bear to do so, so she could only try to reason with Wei Changtian to make him understand how much money eighty-eight taels of silver was.
And Wei Changtian actually felt more and more guilty the more he listened, and he even came up with the idea of sending someone to get the 100 taels of silver back.
The only son of the Wei family and the "behind-the-scenes emperor" of the Shu Kingdom.
A daughter-in-law of the Wei family and the head manager of Yingfengsheng.
These two big shots, who are worth at least tens of millions, are now regretting their decision over a mere 88 taels of silver. This scene is so weird no matter how you look at it.
Fortunately, Comrade Xiao Xu was not really stingy, and he relaxed when he saw that the "educational purpose" had been achieved.
"Let's just forget about the one hundred taels this time."
"But next time you are not allowed to spend money like this, okay?"
"good!"
Seeing Xu Qingwan's pitiful and aggrieved look, Wei Changtian had no intention of refusing. He quickly assured her, "Don't worry! I will be very careful with my money in the future! I will never waste a penny again!"
"Um"
Comrade Xiao Xu first breathed a sigh of satisfaction, and then added: "I just don't allow you to spend money recklessly. You still have to spend the money you should spend."
"I know"
Wei Changtian nodded and was about to say something else.
But at this moment, the carriage that was originally speeding suddenly began to slow down and soon stopped completely.
Hmm? Wei Changtian frowned, lifted the curtain and asked the driver.
"What's wrong? Why did you stop the car?"
"Young Master."
The driver pointed to a figure walking hurriedly in front of him and said, "It's Master Chu."
Chu Xianping? Why did he suddenly stop the car? Wei Changtian immediately realized that something extremely important must have happened, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
“Brother Chu!”
After getting off the carriage, he simply took the initiative to go over and asked with a frown, "What happened?"
"Sir, I just received news from the Freemasons."
Chu Xianping's expression was not ugly, but he spoke very quickly.
"The Kuilong jade tablet you deposited with the Freemasons suddenly became hot a quarter of an hour ago, and a line of small words appeared on the surface of the tablet."
"What?"
Wei Changtian was stunned when he heard this: "Are there any words?"
"yes."
Chu Xianping nodded, and then whispered the contents of the line of small words.
"On October 18th, at midnight, there is an important matter to discuss."
(End of this chapter)
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