Chapter 1033: The Concubine Suffers All Wrongs
After finishing the meal in a noisy atmosphere, Zhuo Chuideng took away the bowls, and Sanqi rushed to cut a watermelon and brought it over.
The four of them sat down again, and Qing Yuanhu began to observe which man Ye Xiaoman would give the sweetest piece of melon in the middle to.
If she gave it to him, he would forgive her the crime of letting Zhu Chuideng pluck two hundred prawns from him.
Ye Xiaoman really reached out and picked up the sweetest piece of watermelon.
Qing Yuanhu pretended to be nonchalant and wiped the golden abacus on his waist with his sleeve to hide his concern. Sanqi clenched his hand on the table into a fist.
Zhu Chuideng placed the small plate with watermelon peels in front of Ye Xiaoman - Qing Yuanhu felt that Zhu Chuideng was cheating and using this little trick to make his presence felt in front of Ye Xiaoman.
Ye Xiaoman carefully used a small spoon to scrape off the seeds on the watermelon. Qing Yuanhu thought that although Ye Xiaoman was irritating most of the time, she was essentially a careful and gentle person.
Ye Xiaoman patiently picked out the watermelon seeds.
Which man will she hand the watermelon to now?
As the men waited with bated breath, Ye Xiaoman took a big bite of the melon into her mouth.
Qing Yuanhu was so angry that he slammed the table and stood up. You are just like me, Ye Xiaoman. I expect you to have a conscience, but I am a clown.
Happiness must be fought for with one's own hands. Qing Yuanhu went to get the second sweetest piece of watermelon himself. Ye Xiaoman slapped his hand away without even raising her eyes, picked it up and handed it to Zhu Chuideng.
Qing Yuanhu swallowed his anger and went to get the third sweet one, but the back of his hand hurt again, so Ye Xiaoman gave it to Sanqi.
Qing Yuanhu sneered. It’s okay if he doesn’t eat it.
Ye Xiaoman kicked Qing Yuanhu's foot under the table. Qing Yuanhu glanced at Ye Xiaoman unhappily and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ye Xiaoman reminded him while chewing a watermelon, "Investigate."
Qing Yuanhu then remembered the purpose of Ye Xiaoman bringing him home this time.
He exhaled two streams of air from his nose and said to Zhu Chuideng unwillingly, "I have a method that may help Master Ghost find his homeland."
Zhu Chuideng had his own way, but this was the connection that Ye Xiaoman had worked hard to find for him. He looked at Ye Xiaoman's dark whorl of hair, and his heart softened again, and even his cool facial features softened.
"Master Qing, please speak."
Qing Yuanhu explained carefully, "In order to control the supply and demand of goods in various regions, our Huantian Chamber of Commerce sends a record-keeping officer to each branch every three years to survey the local area's harvests of grains, fruits, spiritual plants, and other products."
"The Grand Court will conduct on-site inspections of every village and farmer."
Zhu Chuideng nodded. He remembered that every few years, a group of merchants would come to the village to inquire about the crop harvest and selling prices.
"The entire process will be archived with documents, maps and videos."
"Your village once experienced a major disaster, and relevant intelligence must have been submitted to headquarters back then," Qing Yuanhu said. "As long as we retrieve the relevant maps and follow the instructions, we'll be able to find the place you're looking for."
Zhu Chuideng was delighted to hear this and wanted to reward Qing Yuanhu.
Qing Yuanhu's throat felt sour and he was in a sarcastic mood.
"I wouldn't dare accept your reward. This is something our Nameless Sword Master personally entrusted me with... There are thousands of years of records, and it will take time to extract the information. I've already instructed you to respond within seven days."
Qing Yuanhu began to have that feeling that Ye Xiaoman and Zhu Chuideng had joined forces to seize the resources of his mistress.
Ye Xiaoman slept with him, spent his money, exploited him, and drove him away after she had squeezed out all his value.
After dinner, eating the melon, and chatting, it was night again and time to take a shower and go to bed.
The men's attention focused on Ye Xiaoman again.
Now Lian Zhu Chuideng also looked at Ye Xiaoman expectantly.
Qing Yuanhu coughed hard. Ye Xiaoman couldn't let him lose three games in a row.
Ye Xiaoman is very smart and would never be stumped by such a small matter.
She said with an enigmatic look on her face, "I'm going to take a shower first."
Then slip away from the Shura field in front of you.
Qing Yuanhu and Sanqi turned their heads and looked at Zhu Chuideng with sharp eyes.
Zhu Chuideng stood up calmly and said, "I'll take you two to the guest room."
Qing Yuanhu whispered to Sanqi, "Don't be fooled by his pretense of generosity. He hates us to death in his heart. Be careful when you sleep at night, or someone might pop up and strangle you!"
Zhu Chuideng arranged the house. Then the three men returned to their respective rooms, waiting for Ye Xiaoman to turn over the cards.
Ye Xiaoman knocked on Qing Yuanhu's door.
Qing Yuanhu was ecstatic, but he still pretended to be calm on the outside. He sat calmly at the table and calculated the accounts, and his fingers on the golden abacus immediately became faster.
"Coming?"
Qing Yuanhu lifted his robe coquettishly, the golden bells on his snow-white ankles jingling loudly, "Go wait for me in bed first."
Ye Xiaoman sat directly next to Qing Yuanhu.
Qing Yuanhu put one of his legs on Ye Xiaoman's knee and said angrily, "My feet are sore from standing while cooking for you today, why don't you let me massage them?"
Ye Xiaoman then massaged Qing Yuanhu's legs dishonestly, until his waist became so weak that he couldn't even hold the abacus steady.
Ye Xiaoman rang the beautiful bell on his ankle and asked him a question she had been holding back for a long time.
"Qing Yuanhu, let me give you an example. If I transfer all my property in advance and then run away from my marriage, will the contract with Yue Lao Temple still be valid? Or, even if 80% of my property is confiscated, I can ask the men to transfer the money back to me later..."
Qing Yuanhu interrupted her ruthlessly.
"Give up on that idea. If Yue Lao Temple didn't have some skills, how could it have expanded its wedding stone business all over the world?"
"No matter how you get the money back, it will disappear in the end."
Although Qing Yuanhu doesn't get along with his rivals, he stands on the side of all men on this point. How Ye Xiaoman treats her rival today is how she will treat him in the future. He hates irresponsible and bad women the most.
Ye Xiaoman did not hear a satisfactory answer, and was furious. She let go of Qing Yuanhu's long legs that were in the way and left.
Qing Yuanhu quickly called out to her, "Why don't you come sleep with me tonight?"
Ye Xiaoman slammed the door, "Did you pay? You want to sleep with me without money? You're dreaming!"
Qing Yuanhu was almost mad to death.
Ye Xiaoman came to Zhu Chuideng's residence. The window was propped up. She leaned on the window and looked at Zhu Chuideng in the house.
Zhu Chuideng stood with his back to Ye Xiaoman and his hands behind his back beside the table. On the table was a miniature piece of land from Chepan Village. Even the most carefree person would feel homesick when looking at his hometown.
Ye Xiaoman looked at Zhu Chuideng's back for a while.
"Blow out the lantern," she called.
Zhu Chuideng turned around and looked at the girl outside the window.
Ye Xiaoman has been hanging out with Qing Yuanhu and the others recently. She wears the same couple's outfit as Qing Yuanhu, with a golden ingot supporting her and a gold ingot-shaped hairpin on her head. She exudes the smell of money like a comedian.
Ye Xiaoman took off the big gold bracelet Qing Yuanhu had made for her from her wrist, took a bite, and looked at the teeth marks on it with satisfaction.
She played with her bracelet and looked at Zhu Chuideng thoughtfully: "Are you in a bad mood?"
Zhu Chuideng did not show any special expression when he heard Ye Xiaoman's somewhat abrupt question.
His eyes were as steady as a mountain, reflecting years of experience. He always looked at people with a judgment that penetrated the surface, but it was difficult for others to fully understand him.
Even someone as clever as Ye Xiaoman is sometimes hard to figure out.
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