Chapter 30

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The man finally negotiated the price with the boss. The boss promised that if the painting was really sold, he will divide the profit into thirty to seventy.

Of course, it was the boss who will get the seventy percent.

The man left with a grateful expression. Yin Yin pulled Ling Long’s clothes. “Let’s go.”

Ling Long stared at Yin Yin for a few moments, then followed her out without saying anything.

Yin Yin pulled Ling Long out of the shop. At the corner, she jumped onto the roof of the shop with Ling Long following suit.

“I thought you would follow that man.”

Yin Yin raised her eyebrows. “Why follow? You can watch the play here.” With that she carefully uncovered a tile, and through the gap, the situation in the shop could be clearly seen.

“Watching a play? If this play is not good, you have to compensate me.”

Ling Long’s words made Yin Yin shiver a little. “Rest assured, it’s guaranteed to be worth the fare.”

After waiting on the roof for a while, they saw a tall young man walk into the shop. He was wearing a fine bright yellow brocade clothes and holding a fan with gold rim in his hand. There was a cynical smile on his face.

At first glance, he looks like a stupid young master with a lot of money.

So the boss actively welcomed him. “Oh, is sir looking for calligraphy and painting? We are a century-old brand here, guaranteed quality products.”

Yin Yin: “……” Is it also free shipping?

The young master walked around the room. There seems to be nothing to see, and he appeared to be lacking in interest. Just as he was about to leave and the boss was secretly anxious, the young master’s eyes stopped before a painting that hadn’t been hung in time.

It is the authentic work of the legendary Fan Daxian, the beauty under the moon.

“This……” The young master threw himself in front of the painting with excitement and was even finding it hard to speak clearly. “B-boss! How much are you selling this painting?”

The boss looked at the young master in surprise. “You……really want to buy this one?”

“Of course!” The young master replied excitedly. “This is Fan Daxian’s masterpiece that was not passed out to the outside world – Beauty under the moon! I have been looking for this painting for a long time!”

The boss is confused. Is this really Fan Daxian’s painting?

The young master grabbed the painting and refused to let go. “Boss, please make a price. How about five thousand taels? If it is not enough, you can decide again, no matter how much it is I will give it to you!”

The boss swallowed his saliva. This broken painting is worth five thousand taels?

“Boss, you should say it ah!”

The boss’s voice trembled a little. He was really lucky today. “Sir, seeing as you like it so much, I won’t give a higher price. If you say five thousand taels, then it’s five thousand taels!”

The young master delightedly nodded. “Boss, you’re a real man! I don’t have so much money with me now, I will go back and get it. You keep the painting for me. I’ll be right back!”

The boss’s face was wrinkled with smile. “Sure. Sure. I’ll keep it for you! Go and come back soon ah.”

The young master responded and left like a gust of wind.

Watching this scene on the roof, Ling Long raised his eyebrows. Yin Yin smiled and said, “Don’t worry, it’s not over yet.”

Sure enough, the young master had just left for a while, and the man who had just been selling his painting came back.

“Boss! Boss! You haven’t sold my painting yet?” The man’s expression looked a little alarmed.

“Not yet. What’s the matter?” The boss looked at the man and felt a little unsure. Does he want to change his mind?

“It’s fine if you haven’t sold it! Return that painting to me, I won’t sell it anymore!”

The boss’s face suddenly collapsed. “What’s the matter with you? You’ve just begged me to sell it for you. Why did you suddenly change your mind?”

The man wiped the sweat from his head and said to the boss, “You don’t know! I just went home and saw all the ancestral tablets in our family fell down! The incense also went out. It almost scared me to death! The ancestors must have been angry because they knew I had sold the painting!”

The boss didn’t expect the five thousand taels on his hands to fly like this. He hurriedly explained, “Oh, I said, aren’t you superstitious! That memorial tablet was blown down by the wind, right?”

“Where did such a strong wind came from to blow it down?! It’s all my fault. Even if I couldn’t eat, I shouldn’t sell the treasured object left by my ancestors!”

The boss was a little anxious. “Look, such a big man as yourself – you can’t starve to death, can you? You cannot eat by just guarding the painting! I said you ah, don’t be so superstitious.” The boss said and paused for a moment. “In this case, I’ll buy your painting and give you one hundred taels. What do you think?”

“One hundred taels? Boss, are you kidding me?”

“Isn’t it because I think you are pitiful? To be honest, no one here really wants your broken painting, but I can’t watch you die, can I? I’m not that kind of person ah!” The boss took out a hundred and twenty taels of silver notes and handed them to the man.

The man held the silver note in his hand, still hesitating. “This……I……”

“Don’t you, -ah –I -ah, me. You can’t die with that painting, right?”

“Ai! Never mind, never mind!” The man walked out of the calligraphy and painting shop with the banknote.

“This is the play you are talking about?” Ling Long looked at Yin Yin, seemingly dissatisfied.

“Uh……” It’s obviously wonderful ah. “Those two men are in the same group. They are liars!”

“How did you know?”

Based on my many years of swindling experience.

These tricks were their usual tactics and she immediately got a whiff of the common smell coming from them. I didn’t expect to meet so many peers in ancient times. ╮(╯_╰)╭

Yin Yin thought so in her heart, but she just put the tile back again, pulled Ling Long and jumped off the roof. “Let’s check it out.”

The man walked out a few blocks and turned into a small alley.

“Sir, your method really works!”

“Eh, it’s a piece of cake, isn’t it~~” The voice of the young master from earlier came out from the alley.

“This money……”

“Take the money and hurry to have your daughter be treated ba~”

“Thank you, Benefactor. You are really a living Bodhisattva!”

Yin Yin: “……”

Using other people’s money to do good deeds, you are really a living bodhisattva.

The man and the young master came out of the alley one after another and left separately. The young master was unlucky; he just chose Yin Yin’s side.

Seeing a man and a woman suddenly standing in front of him, the smile on his face stiffened. “What can I do for the two of you?”

Yin Yin looked at the young master carefully. He was really good-looking, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned. Even when he was not smiling, he seemed to be smiling a little – he looks noble.

Yin Yin smiled at him. “I don’t know how many years you can be sentenced for abetting a crime and a huge fraud.”

The young master’s whole body stiffened. He poked his face and said with a smile, “My name is Kongkong (empty). I don’t know how to call the two of you?”

Yin Yin: “……”

Do you dare to take a more sincere pseudonym?

Yin Yin wiped the look off her face and asked, “Kongkong? Is it the kong of Aoi Sola (Cangjingkong; a Japanese actress and singer), or the kong of Monkey King (Sun Wukong)?”

Young Master: “……”

Who will tell him what the lady is talking about?

He blinked at Yin Yin and forced a smile. “The owner of that shop mostly sells fake calligraphy and paintings but charge them at the original price. A lot of people had been cheated. I’ve hated it for a long time. Old Huang just needed money to treat his daughter, so I gave him a hand. Besides, if the boss wasn’t too greedy, how could he be fooled? I offered him five thousand taels, but he only gave Old Huang one hundred and twenty taels. It should be one thousand five hundred taels from the thirty to seventy agreement!”

The young master seems to be angry again.

“How do you know that they are selling fakes?” Is it possible that you are still an expert in calligraphy and painting?

“Because the authentic works are in my house ah.”

Yin Yin: “……”

She looked at the young master and her lips twitched when she smiled. “Since you are so rich, why don’t you help Old Huang with your own money?”

Young Master Kongkong smiled embarrassedly. “To tell you the truth, I actually escaped from marriage this time. I left in a hurry and didn’t have much money with me. Besides, I’m not helping the boss accumulate hidden virtue!” After talking, he looked at Yin Yin with a guilty heart. “You won’t really catch me to see an official, right?”

Before Yin Yin could spoke this time, Ling Long said, “Of course not. You can go.”

“Thank you, thank you.” The young master smiled with joy. “I will invite you to dinner when we meet again next time~~”

Yin Yin looked at the young master’s back and asked, “Do you know him?”

Ling Long smiled and said, “Do you know who he is?”

Yin Yin couldn’t help but wrinkle her nose. “You still know him?”

“His name is Helian Kong, the second prince today.”

=口=

The second prince?!!

Ling Long continued, “Don’t I have a customer who likes to buy recipes? That’s him. Although the second prince is in a high position, he is idle all day long. Happy to partake but not prepared to do any work. His brain is not very smart and he is not favoured in the palace. But his mouth is so terribly picky that he seems to be tired eating the food in the imperial kitchen. He often sends the little eunuch next to him to ask me about recipes.”

It turns out that the legendary foodie is this second prince?

“You said he is not smart?” Yin Yin disagreed. “People who can think of that setup just now are very smart ah.”

Ling Long just gave her a deep look. “It’s better not to ask so many questions about things in the palace.”

……

Aw! I understand! A power struggle ah!! Fight for the throne!! The second prince was just pretending to be silly to protect himself!

Yin Yin was inexplicably excited.

“He just said that he ran away from marriage?” The second prince ran away from home for the reason of escaping marriage. It seems that the palace should be very lively.

Ling Long thought for a moment and said, “I heard that the eldest lady of the Chen Mansion was betrothed to him. Although the Chen family was a family of officials for three generations and was considered a prominent family in Beijing, but in fact, they have no real power in the court. It seems that the second prince is really not very favored.”

Alas, this second prince is really pitiful. He not only has to pretend to be a fool and be looked down upon by others, but now he is forced to marry to the point of running away from home.

Yin Yin looked at Ling Long and said painfully, “Life is already hard, so let’s not expose him ah.”

Ling Long: “……”

He didn’t intend to expose the second prince, otherwise he wouldn’t have let him go just now.

They strolled in the street again, and were ready to have lunch.

When they arrived at Baxian Lou, Yin Yin and Ling Long followed the waiter up to the second floor. They saw a familiar bright yellow figure, eating the drunken chicken in front of them full with emotion.

Really moved with a face covered with tears ah!

How many years have you not eaten meat?!!

Yin Yin felt that she had really learned a lot this time. This is the essence of the food industry.

Yin Yin felt that the second prince was really funny. She couldn’t help but put on a friendly smile and sat opposite Helian Kong. “Hey, local tyrant, let’s be friends ba~”

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