"Brother Dong, drink tea, drink tea."
"Okay, okay, let's drink together."
Liu Mingzhi put down the teacup in his hand, picked up the teapot and filled in two more cups of tea.
"Brother, if something like this happens, will the officials at the Anxi Protectorate just ignore it?"
"Brother, you are new here and you don't know something. It's not that the Protectorate doesn't want to take care of it, but it's that it can't."
When Young Master Liu heard this, his pupils shrank slightly, and he took a puff of dry cigarette with a puzzled look on his face.
"Oh? Why is this?
Could it be that those big caravans are secretly colluding with the officials of the Protectorate?"
Hearing this very sensitive question from Young Master Liu, Dong Fuyuan's expression tightened and he waved his hand hurriedly.
"No, no, of course that's not the case."
Young Master Liu frowned slightly, turned his eyes slightly and blew out a puff of smoke.
"Well, brother, I don't quite understand. If it's not because of this situation, then why can't the Protectorate take care of it?
Is it because those big caravans have a strong background and the officials of the Protectorate are afraid of the power behind them, so they dare not take care of them?"
When Dong Fuyuan saw Mr. Liu raising two such sensitive questions in succession, he immediately looked around nervously.
He saw that the guests around him did not notice the situation between him and Young Master Liu, and he breathed a sigh of relief quietly.
Immediately, he pulled the chair behind him with his backhand and walked towards Young Master Liu with a depressed expression.
"No, no, none of that.
"Brother, you can't talk nonsense like this. You have to be careful that walls have ears.
Brother, I see that you are also a smart person. Don’t you understand that trouble comes from your mouth?
If what you just said accidentally reaches the ears of someone who cares, it will definitely cause trouble.
Be careful what you say! Be careful what you say!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the nervous and depressed expression on Dong Fuyuan's face, smiled lightly, picked up the tea cup and gestured.
“Brother Dong, it’s my brother’s fault.
Come on, brother, let me offer you a cup of tea instead of wine.
It will be served later and we will have three drinks together."
"Okay, okay, cheers."
As soon as they put down their teacups, Liu Song immediately picked up the pot and filled it with water.
Liu Mingzhi moved the tea cup in front of him, pretended to observe the situation in the restaurant cautiously, and then took a slight test of his body.
"Brother Dong, I don't know the rules when it comes to going out, but I like to ask questions.
But, brother, this is really a helpless move for me.
As I told you just now, this is my first time doing business in the Western Regions, and I have no idea about the situation in the Western Regions.
I asked so many questions at once, hoping to learn more about the situation and rules here.
So as not to accidentally violate other people's taboos and make some unpleasant actions."
As Young Master Liu spoke, he turned to Qi Yun and the other sisters, as well as Song Qing, Du Yu and others and pursed his lips.
"Besides, brother, you've seen it too.
Brother, we are just a small caravan of about a hundred people.
A small caravan like ours, with only about a hundred people, will inevitably be bullied by those big caravans and receive some unfair treatment.
Brother, after I understand the details from you, I can deal with some troubles in advance.
If we can’t afford to offend him, why can’t we hide him?
If it weren't for my helplessness, brother, I wouldn't want to meet you for the first time and keep asking questions like this.
Therefore, I ask you, brother, to give me some pointers so that I can be less bullied."
Seeing Mr. Liu's sincere look and his sincere words, Dong Fuyuan smiled bitterly and nodded.
"Brother, you are also an honest person.
Brother, let me put it bluntly, it is really not a good choice for an honest person like you to come to do business in the Western Region!"
While they were sipping tea, the three princesses, the queen and the other sisters, when they heard that Dong Fuyuan actually said that their husband was an honest man, their expressions changed slightly and they couldn't help but coughed a few times in laughter.
"Pfft..."
"Hmph, cough, cough, cough."
"Ahem, uh huh."
When Young Master Liu heard the sound, he immediately looked at the beauties angrily.
"What's wrong with you all?"
Qi Yun, the queen sisters, and several others noticed their husband's unhappy eyes, and they all suppressed their smiles, and their expressions became serious.
"To tell you what the young master is saying, the little one is acclimatized and choked."
"Master, please calm down. I'm new here, so I'm not used to the tea here."
"We are all the same. Please calm down, young master."
Mr. Liu turned slightly sideways, stared at a group of beauties who were suppressing smiles, and rolled his eyes helplessly.
"Then drink slowly."
"Yes, yes, I know I was wrong."
Young Master Liu quickly regained his composure and turned around with a faint smile.
"Brother Dong, I made you laugh. This group of servants have never seen the world."
Listening to Young Master Liu's slightly helpless tone, Dong Fuyuan waved his hand indifferently.
"Hahaha, it's normal, it's normal. It's really easy to get acclimated when you first come to the Western Region."
Young Master Liu took a long puff of dry cigarette and exhaled a puff of light smoke with a melancholy expression.
"Oh, brother, there's nothing we can do about it. Things are going well at home, but business is getting harder and harder.
I have no choice but to come to the Western Regions and give it a try.
After all, it’s all about making a living!”
"Understand, understand."
"Brother Dong, please enlighten me. What you are saying is not that the Protectorate does not want to take care of it, but that it cannot take care of it. What exactly is going on?
Now that I have figured out the specific situation, I can take precautions in advance."
Dong Fuyuan raised his hand to fan the smoke in front of him, and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Brother, how can the small caravans be willing to accept unfair treatment?
However, no matter how unwilling they are, what can they do?
They can't afford to go to court with those huge caravans."
Liu Mingzhi's brows furrowed slightly, and he thought quickly, vaguely guessing what was going on.
However, there was a look of pretentious confusion on his face.
"Can't afford it?"
"That's right, the main reason is that we can't afford it.
Those large caravans have sufficient goods and resources, and it is not a problem for them to stay as long as they want among the countries in the Western Region and the countries in the Far West.
However, those small caravans cannot do that.
The small caravan has limited goods and limited manpower. It is not easy to travel from Dalong to the Western Region.
Therefore, after they came to the Western Region, the first thing they wanted to do was to sell the goods in their hands as soon as possible.
To be continued...