"Senior Brother Yan, are you here?" Huang Yougui stood in the col and shouted.
Immediately afterwards, a man came out from a cave not far away, and he responded, "Here we come."
"Senior Brother Yan, we have to bring back some more stone bricks today." Huang Yougui said, "I'm afraid our master will become suspicious by then."
"Okay, you can pull as much as you want. Anyway, just give me twenty cents for a brick. I don't care about anything else. Remember, you have to handle it better and don't get me involved." The man who came out of the cave said.
"Don't worry, senior brother, don't you worry about me doing the work?" Huang Yougui said, and then he started to have people load the truck and haul bricks back.
Ye Chuqiu watched their transactions and listened to their words, thinking to himself that it seemed like there was something fishy about them.
But she didn't say anything, she just took Lin Dahu home.
"Mom, didn't you say you wanted to catch them on the spot?" Lin Dahu asked.
"What benefits can I get from catching them?" Ye Chuqiu asked.
"The stone bricks they sold us were priced at fifty cents each."
Lin Dahu said: "If we catch them, we can buy these bricks ourselves for twenty cents each."
"If you don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, you have to let others earn some money."
Ye Chuqiu said, "For the sake of brother Tiesheng, we can't do this. This Huang Yougui is the person in charge of our house construction. If he wants to do something fishy in it, even if we are supervising the construction, we can't do it."
You’ll definitely find it.”
"Then let's just let him go and don't care about anything?" Lin Dahu asked again.
"Mom, I'll test him tomorrow and see if he's willing to tell the truth." Ye Chuqiu thought for a while and said.
"All right."
Lin Dahu also nodded, and the mother and son quietly returned to their wooden house without disturbing anyone.
On the second day, before Ye Chuqiu had time to have a showdown with Huang Yougui, Huang Tiesheng came over with good news.
"Brother Tiesheng, you are back." Seeing Huang Tiesheng, Ye Chuqiu was also surprised and happy, "Did your trip go smoothly?"
"It went very smoothly." Huang Tiesheng said with a smile on his face, "Let's go over there and talk."
"Okay." Ye Chuqiu took him to the wooden house. Huang Tiesheng took off the backpack on his body and handed it to Ye Chuqiu. "Fortunately, the aquamarine bead was sold for five hundred taels of silver."
"Sold for so much money."
Ye Chuqiu took some vegetables covered in the basket aside and saw a large bag of silver wrapped in cloth. She opened it and saw that it was full of silver.
"I was lucky this time. I happened to meet a rich man who was preparing to marry his daughter. This aquamarine pearl was sold to this rich man. He was generous and bought it as a dowry for his daughter." Huang Tiesheng explained simply.
"very good."
Ye Chuqiu nodded, stood up and took a pair of large pliers from the basket on the side. Huang Tiesheng asked what she wanted to do, but she picked up the large pliers in one hand and the silver in the other. There was a muffled sound, and she actually
A silver ingot was cut in half.
"As we agreed before, as long as the selling price exceeds four hundred taels of silver, we will give it 50-50."
Ye Chuqiu raised his head and said something, then continued to cut silver.
"Well……"
Huang Tiesheng has never seen this 50-50 split method. Didn't they just divide the silver ingot? Is there any other way to divide it into two halves?
But Ye Chuqiu's move seems to be right.
The silver these days is not without fakes, and Ye Chuqiu cannot verify the authenticity of the silver in front of Huang Tiesheng, so he can only use this method.
She cut all the silver into pieces, and she could see at a glance whether they were fake or not.
Of course, for others, it would take some effort to cut such a large ingot of silver, but to Ye Chuqiu, this was nothing.
After cutting out all the silver, Ye Chuqiu felt relieved. The silver was all genuine, and the inside was much whiter than the outside. Ye Chuqiu brought the balancing rod to weigh the silver.
Her technique of cutting silver was quite accurate. The two sides of the silver were about the same. After the two sides of the balance pole were roughly balanced, Ye Chuqiu poured out the excess silver, wrapped it in a cloth and handed it to Huang Tiesheng, "Brother Tiesheng, this is
It’s your share.”
"Thank you."
Huang Tiesheng took the silver and couldn't help laughing when he opened it and saw all the silver ingots cut in half by Ye Chuqiu.
He took out two and a half ingots and handed them to Ye Chuqiu, "Aunt Lin, these two pieces of silver are my congratulations to you in advance. Congratulations on moving to your new home."
Ye Chuqiu took the silver, put it in front of him, and took out two pieces of silver from his pile of silver. "Take these two ingots of silver. You must have spent a lot of effort to find a buyer."
.”
"Ms. Lin, I can't take this money. You have already given me enough remuneration." Huang Tiesheng quickly refused.
"Take it, there will be many opportunities for us to cooperate in the future." Ye Chuqiu raised an eyebrow at him.
Huang Tiesheng's heart moved, "Mrs. Lin, do you still have a family heirloom?"
"That's natural."
Ye Chuqiu did not shy away from him. Firstly, the two had a transaction and their trust was much deeper than before. Secondly, Ye Chuqiu had just cut the money, which could be regarded as indirectly showing his muscles to him.
Others may not be able to see anything, but Huang Tiesheng must be able to see it.
How could an ordinary person cut apart such a large silver ingot so effortlessly?
"That……"
Huang Tiesheng's heart was beating fast. He was just an escort in the escort agency. He used to travel around with the escorts and lived a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife. But as an ordinary escort, he actually couldn't make much money.
If you work hard for a year, you can earn about twenty taels of silver. After a year of eating and drinking, you won't have much left. Unless you are injured, the escort agency will give you more money.
Their profession, that is, young people who are ignorant, think it is just glamorous. Good families will not marry their daughters to them, for fear that they will encounter bandits that day and lose their lives, leaving their daughters as widows.
Now, he just helped Ye Chuqiu sell a treasure and got more than two hundred taels of silver. This was a harvest that he would have never dared to imagine before.
If he helps her make a few more trips and saves a sum of money, can he retire and return to his hometown, buy dozens of acres of land at home, and live a peaceful life from now on?
"Next time you go out as a escort, tell me again."
Ye Chuqiu said: "The world is not stable these days, and people's hearts are impetuous. Let's change the city and sell it again."
"Okay." Huang Tiesheng nodded. This time, his feelings about Ye Chuqiu were completely different.
The relationship between the two families has become closer because of the same interests.
"By the way, Brother Tiesheng, I have one more thing to trouble you. Your second uncle has shipped me a batch of stone bricks, but these stone bricks are a bit weird. I asked him, but he refused.
He said, help me ask him where he came from and whether he will cause trouble."
"Okay." Huang Tiesheng nodded.
Ye Chuqiu took him to see the stone bricks outside again. When he saw the stone bricks, Huang Tiesheng's eyes narrowed. Others didn't know the origin of the stone bricks, but he knew it.