When Zhao Huan heard that they were leaving, he couldn't help but panic. To be honest, the location of this room was good, but it was too small, making it difficult to do anything. He had finally found a few suckers, and he couldn't let them get away so easily.
"Hey, hey, hey, it's not like there's no room for negotiation. How about this, ninety-five taels?"
Honeysuckle looked at him and said in a deep voice, "Fifty taels!"
Zhao Huan jumped up in anger, pointing at the honeysuckle's nose and saying:
Fifty taels? You must be dreaming! Fifty taels?
Honeysuckle naturally knew that fifty taels was impossible, but wasn't this bargaining just a way of testing the bottom line step by step?
Sixty taels.
Zhang Huan snorted: "Ninety-five, not a penny less."
Su Yunyan was getting anxious: "Let's go, Xiaohua, this place is too expensive. We're not doing any big business. Let's look somewhere else."
Zhao Huan sneered upon hearing this: "Using this trick again? I already used it, it doesn't work anymore!"
Jin Yinhua turned to look at Su Yunyan, patted her hand to reassure her, and said, "It's alright, let's go look somewhere else."
With that, he led the group to leave. Zhao Huan was a little flustered, but he didn't show it.
Seeing that Jin Yinhua's toes had already stepped over the threshold but she still showed no sign of turning back, Zhao Huan panicked completely.
"Hey, wait, wait, eighty taels."
Honeysuckle turned to look at him, her expression resolute and unwavering: "Seventy taels, this is the last time."
The implication is that if you really disagree, then we're really leaving.
Zhao Huan waved his hand, his face not looking too good: "Alright, alright, seventy taels it is." The notice for this house has been posted for half a year, and they can't agree on anything every time. Seventy taels it is, it's better than leaving it there to gather dust.
Upon hearing this, the group exchanged smiles, but dared not show it too obviously.
"However, these seventy taels must be paid in full now."
Honeysuckle frowned slightly: "Now?"
She only intended to look at the shops today, not to rent them directly, so she only brought thirty taels of silver with her. Where was she going to get so much money all of a sudden?
Lanxi hurriedly reached into her wallet: "I have ten taels here, here you go."
As he spoke, he stuffed it into Honeysuckle's hand.
Yan Mufeng always only carries his sword when he goes out; he doesn't carry much money.
"I only have five or six taels of loose silver here..."
Yan Mufeng got a little embarrassed after saying only half of his sentence. With the astronomical figure of seventy taels on the table, the remaining five or six taels seemed like a joke.
Honeysuckle took the silver: "It's alright, whatever amount you ask for."
An Ning suddenly remembered that when she left, Mu Ange insisted on giving her money. She refused, but he still stuffed it into her arms and told her to just throw it away and not give it back to him if she didn't want it.
Thinking of this, An Ning hurriedly took out her money bag from her bosom, poured out all the silver inside, and carefully counted it: "Only twenty-three taels."
Honeysuckle pursed her lips tightly: "Including my thirty taels, I'm still two taels short."
Su Yunyan hurriedly rummaged through her purse, only to find it completely empty, containing only a few copper coins.
"sorry."
She looked at them with red eyes, tears welling up in her eyes.
With the crown prince deposed, all valuables were confiscated, leaving her with nothing but her savings. She had spent most of it on rent and food in the past few days.
With a click, two taels of silver suddenly rolled in through the door...
The group of people stood there dumbfounded, staring at the gleaming silver coins, exchanging bewildered glances.
Lanxi rushed to the door to look, but found no one there.
"What happened?"
An Ning quickly picked it up and said, "That's enough!"
Su Yunyan asked, "But where did this money come from?"
Lanxi took her arm and comforted her, "Who cares where it came from? It's right under our noses, so it's ours. Maybe God suddenly discovered you, poor little thing, and thought of helping you. That's how we found two taels of silver."
Although the conversation was a bit far-fetched, everyone was amused.
"Yes, Lanxi is right. This is God helping us. So now, we can sign the papers and officially start renting the place!"
Jin Yinhua spread the silver out in front of Zhao Huan: "Count it, and then we'll sign."
Zhao Huan spent ten minutes carefully counting twice: "Enough, enough, we'll sign."
An Ning stepped forward, signed her name, and affixed her fingerprint.
"Alright, this house is yours now. I'm leaving now."
Zhao Huan happily went home with a big bag of money.
Inside the room, Su Yunyan looked at the honeysuckle, then at her sisters who had selflessly helped her, and tears welled up in her eyes again.
Lanxi reached out and wiped away the tears clinging to her cheeks: "Alright, alright, you really are made of water, aren't you?"
Su Yunyan chuckled, "I will definitely work hard and try to pay you back as soon as possible—thirty taels for Sister Xiaohua, twenty-five taels for Xiaoningzi..."
Yan Mufeng interrupted her with a smile: "Alright, alright, we'll definitely remember our own money better than you do."
Jin Yinhua said, "Now that we've rented the shop, we need to go and buy some things we need to open the shop. First, we need to decide on the signboard. Oh, right, we haven't named the shop yet."
Xiao Ningzi looked at Su Yunyan and said, "Sister Yunyan's name is very nice. Why don't we use Sister Yunyan's name?"
"Okay, okay."
"I think it's good too."
"No, no, this store was able to open thanks to everyone's help. It's not enough to just put my name on it."
Lanxi chuckled: "So what do you want? To put all our names on it, so that customers walk into the shop and see such a long plaque before they even see it?"
"Ha ha ha ha."
Upon hearing this, everyone burst into laughter again.
"Look, we've all come to Daqi from all over the world, so we're practically from all corners of the land. Otherwise, why don't we call ourselves the 'Number One Embroidery of the Four Seas'?"
Yan Mufeng looked at everyone very seriously, which only drew more laughter.
"Haha, 'Four Seas' sounds alright, but isn't 'First Embroidery' a bit too arrogant?"
Yan Mufeng said proudly, "What's wrong? I think Yunyan Embroidery is the best in the world."
Su Yunyan's mind was in a mess from their chatter: "Four Seas is fine, but how about we drop the first one and make it Four Seas Embroidery?"
"Hey, I think this is good."
"Great, great, I'll vote for you."
"I'll cast my vote too."
Honeysuckle nodded: "This one will do. I'll go find a shop to make a signboard. You two go with Yunyan to the street to buy some necessities for opening a shop: display cases, tables, chairs, and an abacus. Got it?"
None of them had experience running a shop, so they just memorized whatever Xiaohua told them.
"Got it? Shall we split up?"
Okay~
The warm, gentle light shone on their bright and radiant faces, and their light laughter mingled with it—it was the happiest moment in the world.
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