The shopkeeper looked up at the Shen brothers in disbelief. "What did she say?"
Shen Zhangyu was also incredulous, "Young Master, what did you say?"
Jiang Youchen stared at her sister in shock. "What did you say?"
Xiao Youran tugged at her brother's sleeve and whispered, "Go back to the inn and get some jewelry from Mother. Go to the pawnshop and pawn it for five hundred taels. Hurry! Just say it was me who said it."
Jiang Youchen picked at her ear, hardly believing what she was hearing. "Are you crazy?"
Xiao Youran shook her head firmly, "I'm not crazy. Didn't you hear the shopkeeper say that his antiques and paintings are worth at least a thousand taels? If the shops in this market area are worth 1,500 taels, wouldn't that add up to 2,500 taels?"
The four people downstairs were also stunned.
Is this little girl so easily fooled?
Shen Zhangyu clenched his fist. "Young master, we only need to rent it; we don't need to buy it."
He gritted his teeth, turned to the old man, and said, "The rent will be as you said, three hundred and eighty taels a year!"
The innkeeper raised his hand to stop him, "No, no, someone wants to buy my restaurant for two thousand five hundred taels. Do you think I'm stupid?"
Shen Zhangyu grew anxious and urged the upstairs neighbor, "Young master, when we do business, we need to test the waters first. If the location isn't good, we'll have to move to another place. Renting a shop is the right thing to do; there's really no need to buy it."
Xiao Youran then grabbed her brother and ran downstairs, then pushed him towards the door, saying, "Just do as I said, hurry up!"
Jiang Youchen was pushed out the door, staggered to her feet, and stood there bewildered in the wind.
No, what did you just say?
Didn't you say you were going out to buy some food?
Why are you buying another restaurant?
Moreover... how come this younger sister knew that all those antique paintings and calligraphy were fakes, yet she still wanted to buy the entire restaurant?
Are you going to make yourself take the blame again?
Will her mother beat her to death?
But before she left, her mother said that she would buy whatever her younger sister wanted and not to be stingy!
Mother, could you have imagined that my sister would suddenly want to buy a restaurant after just one trip? And if she doesn't have enough money, she'd even pawn your jewelry?
Good heavens, you might as well just drop a pot on me and kill me!
Seeing his sister standing at the door, waving at him with a smile, he didn't know how to refuse.
Alright... Mother said not to be stingy, and to buy whatever my little sister likes!
So he walked back to Fuyue Inn dejectedly.
Xiao Youran watched her brother's departing figure with a smile, then turned around and sat down again at the eight-immortal table with a smile.
At this moment, the old man's angry expression, which he had shown when facing the little brat, vanished. His wrinkled face broke into a wide smile as he said to Xiao Youran, "Young master, you said you wanted to buy this restaurant, is that true?"
Xiao Youran looked up at him, then at Shen Zhangyu, and asked with some confusion, "Aren't you afraid that this little brat is just teasing you?"
The old man, recalling his earlier words, felt as if he wanted to slap himself. He chuckled and said, "Young master, you know your stuff. Wouldn't it be foolish of me to turn down a business opportunity?"
But his eyes clearly conveyed the message, "You're a fool."
Shen Zhangyu grew anxious, "Young Master..."
Xiao Youran raised her hand, "Didn't you call us 'Big Boss' before?"
Shen Zhangyu: ...
Is this the key point?
"It's true that Miss and Young Master are the big bosses of our business, but you and Young Master also need to distinguish between the two, right? So we've taken the liberty of calling you the Junior Boss and the Young Master the Big Boss?"
Xiao Youran said "Oh," and then suddenly realized, "Then how about... you call me 'One Hundred Million'!"
Shen Zhangyu and the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Shen family: ? ? ?
The old shopkeeper's response: ? ? ?
Xiao Youran was a little embarrassed. That's right, in ancient times, there was no unit called "hundred million".
"Fine," she sighed, "Just call me—"
Well, the title "Master Jiang" seems a bit too easy to cause misunderstandings.
Forget it, I'll just choose one that suits me.
"Little Ranbao! Yes, that's Little Ranbao!" Although it sounds a bit like... that kind of fuel additive... but...
This one is fine!
Shen Zhangyu: ...
Miss, aren't you taking this topic a bit too far off track?
The old manager was getting impatient. "Young master, you just said you wanted to buy my restaurant for two thousand five hundred taels of silver. Is that true?"
Xiao Youran nodded and said, "Of course it's true. Two thousand five hundred taels, and this restaurant and everything inside it will belong to me?"
The old shopkeeper was overjoyed, "Deal!"
Xiao Youran looked at Shen Zhangyu, "Brother Octopus, then I'll trouble you to write a contract."
Shen Zhangyu's face turned deathly pale. "But...but I only have two thousand taels of silver notes on me..."
"It's alright, you can write it first." Xiao Youran chuckled. "Give him two thousand taels first, and my brother can pay another five hundred taels when he comes back later. I borrowed that from my mother."
“But…” Sister-in-law Shen was also anxious, “This…this money was all used to buy a restaurant, and these tables, chairs and benches in the back…and hiring people to prepare ingredients, all of these require money.”
Xiao Youran shook her head and said, "Sister-in-law Shen, don't worry, the money will be delivered soon. Could you please go to the kitchen and see if you have any suitable ingredients to make me a bowl of wontons? I'm hungry."
Sister-in-law Shen: ...
Miss, do you remember that you are buying a large restaurant worth 2,500 taels of silver?
Why do you still want me to make a bowl of wontons at this time?
Xiao Youran then said to the eldest brother of the Shen family, "Brother Shen, I heard from Zhang Yu that you started your formal education at the age of three. Could you please go up to the second and third floors and write down all the antiques, old objects, calligraphy and paintings on the floors, and make a list?"
After Xiao Youran finished speaking, she noticed that none of the three of them had moved, so she said anxiously, "Hurry up and go!"
Sister-in-law Shen hesitated for a moment, then stood up and glanced at her husband and brother-in-law. Seeing that they didn't object, she reluctantly walked towards the kitchen.
Brother Shen also hesitated before looking at his younger brother.
Shen Zhangyu asked uncertainly, "Miss Jiang, young master, are you sure you want to buy this entire restaurant?"
Xiao Youran nodded firmly, "Absolutely, definitely, and without a doubt!"
The old shopkeeper's eyes were narrowed into slits with a smile. He quickly pushed the pen and ink in front of him toward the two men and urged them, "This young lady is a kind-hearted person! She knows my wife is seriously ill and needs money to buy medicine! Young man, hurry up and write down the contract. And you, Mr. Shen, hurry up too and go upstairs to make a list of all those things."
The Shen brothers exchanged a glance, looking at the determined four-year-old girl, and had no choice but to split up.
The eldest brother of the Shen family took a pen and a piece of paper and went upstairs to register in detail.
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