The night sky is dotted with stars.
Liu Yingying was still resting her chin on her hand and leaning against the window when suddenly a brilliant idea struck her!
"Got it!"
She can earn points by completing the task of punishing evil, so she'll have to work harder these next few days and beat up more people.
Collecting 10,000 points isn't difficult at all!
The next day, after eating a bowl of vegetarian noodles at the inn, Liu Yingying went to the Ye family's dye shop.
Ye Qingyuan and Bai Mudan arrived shortly after.
Liu Yingying handed a small bottle to Ye Qingyuan; "This is alum. Have someone try it first. If they are satisfied, I will bring you the rest in a few days!"
"good!"
"Thank you for your trouble, Lord Lihe Township!"
Although Ye Qingyuan didn't understand why the remaining alum would take several more days to arrive, he still handed the sample bottle to the tenth steward.
Liu Yingying was worried they wouldn't know how to use it, so she followed them over to personally guide them...
Two hours later...
The tenth steward excitedly came to the front yard and invited Ye Qingyuan over to see the newly dyed fabric.
"Master, it's done! It's done!"
Ye Qingyuan's eyes lit up. He put down his teacup, stood up, and strode towards the backyard...
The worker stretched out the dyed fabric to show him.
Those pieces of fabric, a clear, deep blue, shimmered in the sunlight like the ocean, creating a visually appealing, rippling effect...
Purple gives people a gentle, spring-like feeling.
Sure enough, the fabric dyed with alum had a better coloring effect than the previous fabrics!
"Lord..." Ye Qingyuan turned around excitedly, his gaze fixed intently on Liu Yingying.
"This...this has far exceeded my expectations!"
"Could you please bring me the remaining alum as soon as possible?"
Ye Qingyuan is a businessman, and he is extremely familiar with the market.
Currently, among all the cloth merchants in the entire Great Xia Kingdom, none can achieve this effect by dyeing purple and blue, the two most difficult colors to dye.
If his competitors were to discover the secret behind this, Liu Yingying's alum would definitely be in short supply!
He must have all of this in his own hands!
Liu Yingying feigned difficulty; "Master Ye, you know these things aren't easy to obtain. I only got some by chance from a Western Regions caravan..."
Her feigned distress led Ye Qingyuan to misunderstand that she felt the money was too little.
"My lord, how about this?"
“Since you have a source of alum, we can cooperate long-term. I can add 3,000 taels to the original 5,000 taels.”
"But I have a request, which is that all the alum in the hands of the village head should be supplied to my Ye family first. What do you say?"
Ye Qingyuan is a very shrewd person.
The Ye family's fabric business occupies at least 50% of the market in the Great Xia Kingdom, producing at least a million bolts of fabric every year.
He figured that if Liu Yingying agreed to prioritize supplying him with the alum, there would probably be very little left for others...
“Okay!” Liu Yingying agreed readily. “However, please wait for me for three days, Mr. Ye. I will deliver the remaining goods here in three days.”
"Also... I actually have a request..."
Ye Qingyuan quickly asked, "What are your requirements, Lord Xiang?"
Liu Yingying: "I need you to give me two thousand taels of silver as an advance payment!"
Upon hearing this, even Bai Mudan, who was standing to the side, was slightly surprised and looked at her with an incredulous expression.
This is unheard of to do business like this; demanding payment before even delivering the goods...
If it were anyone else, Ye Qingyuan would definitely not agree to such a risky deal, but the person on the other end was Liu Yingying.
Ye Qingyuan, however, felt that he could trust her.
He immediately sent a servant back to the mansion to fetch two thousand taels of silver notes for Liu Yingying.
Overjoyed to receive the silver notes, Liu Yingying hired a carriage to travel to Baotian Town...
They found Zheng Lizheng again and placed the silver notes in front of him.
"Here is two thousand taels. Please take a look. If there are no problems, I need to get the land transfer deed today!"
Zheng Lizheng was extremely excited at this moment; his eyes were practically glued to the silver note...
Hearing Liu Yingying's words, he looked up at her.
I can't help but wonder, why is she in such a hurry?
But in the end, not a single unnecessary word was said.
"Yes, that's no problem!"
Why did he have to be so talkative?
Those thousands of acres of farmland were a hot potato in his hands, and Liu Yingying was the perfect sucker he could have gotten his hands on!
After receiving the silver notes, Zheng Lizheng took Liu Yingying to complete the transfer of ownership. By the time the entire process was finished, it was already afternoon.
Liu Yingying grabbed a quick bowl of wontons in town to tide her over before heading back to the county seat, only to unexpectedly run into Pandi and her family of three...
However, they did not notice Liu Yingying sitting in the wonton shop.
The couple stood with Pandi at the entrance of the wonton shop, craning their necks to look towards the intersection from time to time, seemingly waiting for someone.
The little girl, Pandi, still had bandages wrapped around her head, but today she was wearing a floral dress with fewer patches. Her parents were holding her hands tightly, as if afraid she would run away...
Liu Yingying found the scene strange, but she didn't go out immediately. Instead, she decided to see what would happen next.
In short, she had a bad feeling...
As expected.
Soon a man in his thirties with an extremely sleazy appearance walked towards the family of three.
Wang Yougang greeted the man obsequiously, "Brother Li, you've arrived!"
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