Mu Jin nodded to Su Yi, then looked at Zhao Yefan, who seemed quite angry about something, and said, "What are you two talking about? Why does Boss Zhao look so grim, like someone owes him hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?"
Zhao Yefan gritted his teeth and said, "Miss Mu has a good eye. What I have encountered is indeed more serious than others owing hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and not paying it back."
Mu Jin was surprised: "What happened? Is it that serious?"
Zhao Yefan sneered, "It's just that I, the young master, have met the wrong person. Let's not talk about it."
Su Yi brought Mu Jin a cup of tea: "Here, A Jin, have some tea. Don't worry about him. Boss Zhao is very capable. How could anyone be stumped by him?"
After Su Yi finished speaking, he glanced at Zhao Yefan with a smile on his face, but his slightly narrowed eyes seemed to say, "Know when to stop, or your life will be in danger."
Zhao Yefan knew that once Su Yi made a decision, no amount of persuasion would change it. He used a great deal of effort to suppress his anger, forced a smile at Mu Jin, and forced a smirk at the corner of his mouth.
Looking at Zhao Yefan's forced smile, Mu Jin couldn't help but say, "If Boss Zhao is unhappy, then don't smile. Your smile is less attractive than your tears."
Hearing Mu Jin say this, Zhao Yefan was so angry at the couple in front of him that he had no temper left. He looked at Su Yi and Mu Jin with a bitter face, as if he had resigned himself to his fate.
"You two, stop making me angry. Shall we get back to the main topic?"
Mu Jin nodded and put down her teacup: "To be honest, the grain I'm buying this time is not for the General's Mansion's daily use. Rather, it's because the world is in such bad shape this year, and I'm afraid the court can't take care of the soldiers on the border. That's why I'd like to trouble Boss Zhao to help me buy a batch of grain to send to the border for my father's military use."
Zhao Yefan said, "Miss Mu, are you saying that you consider us one of your own?"
Su Yi said, "Ah Jin only considers me one of her own, so you don't need to take it personally. But if you dare to leak this out, you won't get your head."
"You! Yes, yes, yes, it was this young master who was presumptuous. In this world, only King Yi and Miss Mu are our own people," Zhao Yefan replied sarcastically.
Mu Jin glared at Su Yi, signaling him to shut up. Seeing Mu Jin glaring at him, Su Yi put his finger to his lips, making a gesture to shut up immediately.
"I can't bear to watch anymore, I really can't bear to watch anymore! May God gouge out my eyes!" Zhao Yefan thought to himself as he watched Mu Jin and Su Yi's little antics.
Mu Jin said, "King Yi told me that Boss Zhao has a way to buy grain from the Southern Shu Kingdom. I wonder if that's true."
Zhao Yefan glanced at Su Yi before slowly saying, "King Yi said I have it, how could I dare not have it?"
Hearing Zhao Yefan say this, Mu Jin couldn't help but be happy: "Then I wonder how long it will take to raise 30,000 shi of grain?"
"From purchase to delivery to the border, it takes at least a month."
"It will take this long?" Mu Jin asked, somewhat surprised.
"Of course. To ensure the safety of the grain and prevent losses during transport, we must first take it by water and then by land to guarantee the safety of this batch of grain being transported to the border."
Mu Jin nodded after hearing Zhao Yefan's words: "Then how much silver would 30,000 shi of grain cost?"
Zhao Yefan said, "At least two hundred thousand taels of silver."
Mu Jin frowned: "It really costs that much?"
Mu Jin had calculated that even after selling her dowry, the jewelry given by Su Yi, and Li Yansong's thumb ring, she would only have a maximum of 180,000 taels of silver.
Mu Jin glanced at Su Yi, coughed somewhat awkwardly, and whispered to Zhao Yefan, "I wonder if the jewelry my maid brought yesterday is worth 200,000 taels of silver?"
Seeing Mu Jin's guilty look, Su Yi said to her with some ill intent, "What kind of jewelry is A-Jin selling that's worth so much silver?"
Mu Jin touched her nose and smiled awkwardly at Su Yi.
“Didn’t I divorce Su Yuntian? I got back a lot of my dowry, and it’s a waste to just leave it here. I was thinking that I might as well sell it and use the money to buy some military rations for my father.”
Upon hearing Mu Jin's words, Zhao Yefan lifted a cloth covering the table next to him and pointed to the exposed jewelry, asking, "Is this what Miss Mu meant?"
To be honest, the moment Zhao Yefan lifted the tablecloth, Mu Jin really wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground.
She had just said that the jewelry she was selling was part of her dowry from the Yun Prince's Mansion, but it turned out to be jewelry given to her by Su Yi. This slap in the face was something she had never encountered before, either in her previous life or in this Dongyue Kingdom.
"Eh~ Aside from this jade thumb ring, weren't these jewels a gift from me to Ajin as an apology? When did they become Ajin's dowry? Or has Ajin always considered these jewels I gave her as her future dowry?"
Su Yi took the jade ring that Li Yan had given him and asked Mu Jin with a sly smile.
Mu Jin hurriedly said, "No! Absolutely not! I asked Qing'er to bring all my unwanted jewelry to Shuyu Tower to sell. I thought she was bringing back the dowry from the Yun Prince's Mansion."
Su Yi looked at Mu Jin with a smile: "Oh~ really? But if you say so, then it is. Why are you blushing? It's not like I said I didn't believe you."
"Who's blushing? I was just in a hurry today, and Qing'er dressed me in too many layers. It's hot," Mu Jin replied anxiously to Su Yi.
Su Yi replied with an "Oh~" which implied that he believed Mu Jin, but his tone clearly said, "Do you think I'm easy to fool? Do you even believe what you say yourself?"
Mu Jin picked up the tea beside her and took a sip to cover her embarrassment. She kept turning her eyes around, thinking of a way to make amends. She thought for a while before speaking.
"However, Qing'er is not wrong to bring these jewels. It is true that these jewels that I have been keeping idle were given to me by King Yi as an apology. But what is given to me is mine, and I can do with it as I please. No one can say a word about it. King Yi, don't you think so?"
Su Yi looked at Mu Jin glaring at him, as if he would be in trouble if he dared to say a single wrong word.
Su Yi couldn't help but chuckle: "Nobody said you weren't. They just asked you casually, and look how anxious you are."
After Su Yi finished speaking, he licked some hot tea for Mu Jin: "You must be thirsty after talking so much. Quickly drink some tea to moisten your throat."
Then she turned to Zhao Yefan and said, "Ah Jin just asked you how much silver these jewels are worth. Tell me quickly."
Seeing Su Yi's worthless attitude in front of Mu Jin, Zhao Yefan couldn't bear to watch anymore. He closed his eyes and resignedly said, "Miss Mu, these jewels together are enough to buy 30,000 shi of grain."
Mu Jin asked happily, "Really?" Before she could finish speaking, Su Yi suddenly interrupted her.
Su Yi looked at Zhao Yefan and lazily asked, "How much do you think it's worth?"
Zhao Yefan looked down at his nose and said, "Worth 30,000 shi of grain."
Su Yi sneered: "Thirty thousand shi of grain is only two hundred thousand taels of silver. Didn't Boss Zhao just tell me that Ah Jin's jewelry has appreciated rapidly recently and is worth five hundred thousand taels of silver?"
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