Chapter 270 Midnight
After hearing the woman's offer, the smile on Tao Heru's face began to solidify slowly. He originally thought that 200,000 taels of silver was a sky-high price, but he didn't expect that the old woman was so greedy and reported 500,000 in just one mouth. 200,000 taels of silver was already an astronomical figure. Most people didn't even dare to think about it. Unexpectedly, the mistress of the Shao family had more than doubled.
Speaking of which, Tao Heru was too confident and gave him a price of 200,000 taels as soon as he exported it. If he only gave 20,000 taels of silver just now, the mistress of the Shao family would have to be at most 50,000 taels. Then he bargained for falsely, and he would take it down at most 35,000.
Moreover, 200,000 taels of silver is also Tao Heru's limit. This is all the income they have had since the establishment of the Ghost Taoism. Not to mention adding 300,000 taels, even if they add 300,000 taels, they can't get it even if they add 300,000 to 5,000 silver.
Tao Heru tried hard to remember a smile and said to the woman: "Madam, except for the emperor and the rich man from Sishui, how many people in the world can take out the 500,000 taels of silver? To be honest, 200,000 taels of silver is also the income from the sale of our homes and ancestral property. We really can't get the extra money..."
"Then I don't care about our Shao family." The woman snorted softly, then continued to Tao Heru: "I don't hide it from you. I just went to the shop in Nanjing of Sishui. They also took a fancy to the jade statue you mentioned. When they opened their mouths, they would be 500,000 yuan. If they can't stand their wealth, I have sold the jade statue to them just now. Mr. Tao, you have to think clearly. After a while, the people from Sishui will come and increase the price. Maybe if you want it again, you can only go to Sishui and spend a million taels of silver to buy..."
When the woman heard the Sishui number, Tao Heru's muscles trembled. After pausing, he stood up from the chair, saluted the woman, and said, "Since the Sishui number also took a fancy to this jade statue, Tao believed that he could not compete with them. He could only give up this matter..."
After saying that, Tao Heru turned around and left, and under the gaze of the woman's family of three, hesitated and watched Tao Heru walk out with his own eyes. He muttered, "I don't believe you won't come back, you'll buy and sell ghosts... Why can't you sell the goods for 200,000 taels of silver be sold for one million taels? Do you think I'm a woman, so you don't know anything?"
After seeing the woman named Tao leave, the woman's daughter and son-in-law hurriedly came over. The daughter said first: "Mom, is Sishui really going to buy our baby? That's all. We don't have to sell our ancestral property anymore. We give Su Ru a dowry of 100,000 taels of silver, and we keep the rest for retirement..."
"That's what I said to the Tao. They are all business words. How can I buy Sishui No.? It made me angry..." Then the woman said to her daughter what she had just encountered in Sishui No. 1. Finally, she continued: "They just saw that we were bullied by our orphans and widows. They thought I didn't know anything, so how could I share dividends if I didn't give stocks?"
When the mother-in-law talked about the orphan and widowed mother, her son-in-law felt a little uncomfortable. He immediately said with a smile: "Mom, Lao Taishan and I are still alive. You orphan and widowed mother are not suitable for use..."
"Stop it! Then you two should be of some use? Now I show up in public. Is this different from an orphan and widowed mother?" When he said this, the woman glared at her son-in-law, which scared him so much that he didn't dare to talk nonsense again."
Originally, the woman's essence was not bad, but after getting married to Jia Shifang, she was spoiled by his man. As a result, the yin was strong and the yang was weak in the house, and she had to make a decision on everything. In addition, no matter what happened, the Sishuihao secretly got things done. After a while, the woman thought she really had the ability to manage the family, so she became more and more arrogant.
"You two are waiting. The man named Tao was just waiting for me to call him. Whoever speaks first in the situation just now will lose." When the woman said this, she smiled confidently. Then she continued to look at her daughter and son-in-law, "Look at it. In less than two days, he will have to come back and beg me to sell him the jade statue. Then, 500,000 taels of silver or a copper coin will not be reduced... How many years can my father and I live? Isn't this money all your money from you and Su Ru?"
After hearing this, my daughter hurriedly pulled her man to thank her mother. But after pausing for a moment, she continued to say to her mother with some hesitation: "But that is our family heirloom. My father told me that this treasure must not be lost. This is related to the thousands of years of inheritance of our Shao family. Once my father knows that you have sold the heirloom..."
"He knows nothing! This is not a family heirloom that has been passed down by our Shao family for hundreds of years. When my father and I got married, he had already transferred the bag..." Thinking of this, a hint of anger appeared on the woman's face. She scared her son-in-law to hide backwards with conditioned reflex.
Looking at his son-in-law's timid appearance, the woman snorted disdainfully, and then said to her daughter: "Originally, our family heirloom was a jade portrait with a girl's appearance. Later, after it was taken away by your father, she became the current man..."
When she said this, the woman suddenly thought of something. Then she said to herself: "Hmm? That white-haired little white face is really similar to the stone statue... No, you go and take the jade statue over. Why is the matter so strange today..."
After a while, the son-in-law took back the jade portrait. After seeing the appearance of the portrait, the woman took a deep breath and said, "No wonder since I saw this person for the first time in the capital, I feel so familiar... it looks so similar..."
Jia Shifang took away the jade portrait of the face of the Shao family heirloom woman, but replaced it with a jade portrait of the man. For so many years, the woman thought that he had embezzled the treasure of the Shao family, but now it seems that it may be that he was wrongly blamed his husband.
"When I see that old guy again, he must explain this matter clearly." While speaking, the woman put the jade portrait back into the box. However, after hesitating, she did not return it to her son-in-law. Instead, she kept it in person...
The Shao family had just returned, and the woman was tired for a long time. At this time, it was already dark and she had no intention of going back to the house for a banquet. She just asked the chef to set up a bowl of silver noodles. After eating only a few bites, she felt sleepy and went back to her dormitory to rest.
I don’t know if it’s because of my fatigue, but as soon as I touched the pillow, the woman fell asleep deeply. I don’t know how long I had been sleeping, but there seemed to be some sticky foreign object in her mouth, flowing into the woman’s trachea, causing a violent cough...
The woman woke up with a cough and saw that it was still dark. She coughed like this and must have alarmed the maid who was resting in the outer room. At this time, the warm tea had been brought. Unexpectedly, after she coughed for a long time, she still didn't see the maid. At that moment, the woman's son could get up by himself and walked to the outer room to find water to drink.
Unexpectedly, when I opened the door, I didn't see the maid who was supposed to be lying on the couch. The woman only thought she had gone to the cottage. She found the teapot in the dark and took a few sips of herbal tea, which suppressed her cough.
However, after this trouble, the woman was no longer sleepy and began to feel hungry. She sat on the chair in the outer room, waiting for the little maid to come back and asked her to find two snacks for herself to satisfy her hunger.
After waiting for a long time, the maid never came back. The woman was so hungry that she turned black... Did this child have diarrhea? She has not come back for so long. The woman couldn't wait, so she opened the door and went to find something to eat.
The Shao family looked a little gloomy at midnight. The woman had a chill as soon as she opened the door. She looked at the rockery in the yard with some guilt, and felt that there was something bad about it.
Chapter completed!