Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 27
[Chapter 27 Threats]
The golden hairpin given by the imperial concubine was still taken away by Lingyin.
Lin Xiu and her sister had never met before. She gave her the hairpin just to repay her kindness. As for how she dealt with it, that was her business.
After walking with Lingyin for half an hour again, she returned to the Lin family. Lin Xiu secretly decided to let Dali go to buy a carriage tomorrow. The time spent on the road every day was too long. In half an hour, too many things could be done.
At noon the next day, after lunch, Lin Xiu and Sun Dali went out together.
Sun Dali took the silver to the car dealership, and Lin Xiu came to the Zhaiyue Tower.
Now the strength of his internal energy is no longer comparable to a few days ago. After making fifty buckets of ice, he can already face and breathe without blushing, even if he makes another fifty buckets. It is not difficult. However,
Lin Xiu also knows that things are rare and valuable. If he makes more ice every day, he can’t sell it at the current price. The shopkeeper of Zhaiyue Tower understands this principle better than Lin Xiu. In these few short days, I don’t know how much silver he has earned.
There is no doubt that their profit is much more than Lin Xiu’s 300 taels. The hot weather this time is rare in decades. The big restaurants in the royal capital are no longer open. All the customers are concentrated here. Lin Xiu has never seen the smile on the face of the shopkeeper of Zhaiyue Tower disappear. After
a busy period, another 300 taels came in. Lin Xiu himself felt that he was robbing money.
Walking out of Zhaiyue Tower with the reward, Lin Xiu suddenly felt that his eyes were dark.
It was not because it was dark, but because two sturdy figures blocked him. The two sturdy men were at least two meters tall, and their exposed muscles were bulging, giving people a full sense of oppression.
Facing the two sturdy men blocking his way, Lin Xiu was not panicked at all.
After all, although his strength was not as abnormal as Sun Dali, it also exceeded the limit that ordinary people could reach. If he was serious, he could only punch one of these scary-looking big guys.
One of the two strong men looked down at Lin Xiu and said, “Our young master invites you.”
Lin Xiu asked, “Who is your young master?”
The strong man said, “You will know when you go there.”
Lin Xiu shrugged and said indifferently, “Lead the way.”
In broad daylight, he was not afraid of anything. If he found out that the place he was going to was not right, he would not go with them. Lin Xiu wanted to leave, but these two big guys could not stop him.
There was still no clue about the culprit who assassinated him last time. Lin Xiu was very curious about where the people who came to find him this time came from.
He thought the two would take him somewhere, but he didn’t expect that the two would take less than a hundred steps and take Lin Xiu to a restaurant on the same street.
When he walked into the restaurant, Lin Xiu looked up and saw that it was a restaurant called “Tianxianglou”. The decoration was no worse than that of Zhaiyuelou. It was obviously a high-standard restaurant.
The difference is that the private rooms of Zhaiyuelou are full now, and the hall can’t even add a table, but there is no guest in Tianxianglou.
After entering here, the two were much more polite to Lin Xiu. They took him to a private room on the second floor and extended their hands and said, “My young master is inside, please.”
Lin Xiu pushed the door open and saw a table full of wine and food.
Every dish on the table was a delicacy. I’m afraid the price of any one of them could allow Lin Xiu to eat wontons for several years, and eat it every day until he was full.
Across the table, sat a young man.
The weather outside was hot, and the room was extremely hot. The young man was sweating profusely just by sitting. His clothes were wet and stuck to his body. He wiped the sweat from his forehead from time to time.
The moment Lin Xiu walked in, there was a burst of coolness.
The young man’s hair stood up all over his body, and he couldn’t help shivering. He felt a sense of comfort from the inside out.
He stood up suddenly, staring at Lin Xiu, and said, “It’s you, you’re the one who provided ice for Zhaiyue Tower these days, right?”
Lin Xiu did not deny it, and asked straight to the point, “Who are you and what do you want from me?”
The young man smiled, stretched out his hand to Lin Xiu, and said, “Sit down and talk, I specially set up a banquet here today just to make friends with you.”
Lin Xiu did not sit down, and asked directly, “What’s the matter, just say it.”
“That’s great!”
The young man did not beat around the bush, and said, “I want you to provide ice for our Tianxiang Tower. I will give you double the amount that Zhaiyue Tower gives you.”
Lin Xiu had expected what happened today.
Every summer, selling ice is a highly profitable industry. This year, due to special reasons, he is the only one in the entire capital who can provide ice sources. Because of his cooperative relationship with Zhaiyue Tower, Zhaiyue Tower has a monopoly on all the ice in the entire capital, except for the palace.
This also allowed them to attract all the customers in the capital, which involved a huge chain of interest delivery. How could other restaurants, brothels and other shops that compete with them just sit there and watch?
Obviously, someone was jealous.
Lin Xiu smiled slightly and said, “Five taels of silver for a bucket of ice.”
He had a contract with Zhaiyue Tower. Zhaiyue Tower agreed to a price of five taels of silver for a bucket of ice, provided that Lin Xiu could not make ice for shops that compete with them unless the other party was willing to pay a higher price.
“Five taels, twice is ten taels?” The young man widened his eyes and blurted out, “Why don’t you go and rob it!”
Lin Xiu looked at him and said, “You said double the price. You can go and ask. The price Zhaiyue Tower gave me is five taels of silver for a bucket.”
The young man frowned. In previous years, the price of a bucket of ice was only one tael. He originally thought that two or three taels would be enough, but he didn’t expect it to be so expensive. Although even if he was given ten taels, Tianxiang Tower would still make a lot of money, who wouldn’t want to save costs?
What’s more, he was just following orders.
Thinking of this, he smiled again and said, “Ten taels of silver is a bit expensive. How about this, I’ll give you two taels of silver for a bucket…”
Lin Xiu looked at the young man in front of him and asked seriously, “Do I look like I don’t know how to count?”
The young man said with a smile, “In previous years, a bucket of ice sold for at most one tael of silver. Giving you two taels of silver is not a small amount. Brother, you may not know that this Tianxiang Tower is the property of Yongping Marquis’s Mansion. I know you are the son of Ping’an Bo. You must know Yongping Marquis…”
Yongping Marquis Lin Xiu certainly knew that one of the three first-class marquises in the current dynasty was the Duke of the State. Lin Xiu’s future father-in-law, who had two such excellent daughters, was only a first-class marquis, and in terms of background and power, he was far from being comparable to those families that had been operating for decades.
The powerful people in the royal capital generally did not do business directly, as this would be ridiculed by others, but almost all prominent families would secretly support some industries to satisfy their extravagant lives on weekdays, so any successful store in the royal capital had nobles behind it to support it.
A shop without a background will be swallowed up by others before it can even make money.
This person even brought up the Marquis of Yongping, obviously to threaten him.
When he failed to recruit him, he immediately changed to threatening.
He said that no matter how much the Zhaiyue Tower offered, the Tianxiang Tower would pay double – why are you pretending to be so arrogant if you don’t have money?
The other party even investigated his identity clearly. It seems that he really doesn’t take a small third-class Ping’an Earl seriously. It is also true that the first-class marquis of the current dynasty is already the most powerful among the powerful. Among the powerful, only the ten dukes and the royal family have a higher status than the Marquis of Yongping. In their eyes, the third-class marquis is no different from a commoner.
But no matter how small the third-class marquis is, he is still a powerful person in Daxia. If Lin Xiu agrees to him today, the Ping’an Earl’s Mansion will lose face.
At that time, how will his parents look at him, how will Lingyin look at him, how will Sun Dali look at him, and how will Dahuang look at him?
Even Lin Xiu himself will look down on himself.
The young man looked at Lin Xiu and continued, “You probably don’t know yet that the master behind Zhaiyue Tower is the Prince Consort’s Mansion. In your opinion, which one is more important, the Prince Consort or the Marquis of Yongping?”
Although the Prince Consort of Daxia has a noble status, he has no real power and is naturally far inferior to the first-class marquis. If Tianxiang Tower is really willing to pay double the price, Lin Xiu may not be unable to cooperate with them. After all, he will not go against money.
But this person tried to use the Marquis of Yongping to pressure him and force him to surrender, but he made a wrong calculation.
If he bowed his head today, it would not only be the face of the Lin family, but also the face of the Zhao family.
Lin Xiu’s expression was calm, without any emotion, and he said lightly: “It seems that there is no need to eat this meal today.”
After that, he turned and left.
The two strong men wanted to stop him, but the young man waved his hand and said with a smile, “Let him go.”
When Lin Xiu disappeared, he showed a mocking look on his face and said, “He will come back to beg me. By then, it won’t be two taels, but two cents. No, not even two cents…”
Soon, he stood up and went to the innermost private room on the second floor. After knocking gently on the door, he pushed it open and said to a young man standing in front of the window, “Sir, he refused.”
The man didn’t look back and asked lightly, “You know what to do, right?”
The young man said, “Since he refuses to drink the toast, we can only make him drink the penalty wine…”
When the young man left the room, the young man standing in front of the window turned around and walked to the table, whispering, “I hope you won’t disappoint me like that loser Qin Cong…”
(End of this chapter)
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