Chapter 64: Chapter 64: The Shallow Appearance of Being Greedy for Money Chapter 64: Chapter 64: The Shallow Appearance of Being Greedy for Money Jinrong listened as Ye Xinyan miraculously began to speak, looking at her with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “Oh? Does the young miss have any instructions for ?”
Ever since this woman had seen him, she had wrapped herself up tightly, acting as if she didn’t recognize him as Prince Yu. Now, she was actually speaking up to stop him from buying this children’s carriage in front of so many people. Was she not afraid of revealing her identity?
Upon hearing Jinrong’s use of ‘young miss,’ Ye Xinyan’s face imdiately darkened. The esteed Prince Yu, for a child’s trinket, intended to use this to threaten her?
However, what was frustrating was that she really had to acknowledge this threat.
Ye Xinyan smoothed out her expression, reluctantly forced a smile, and said, “This Sixth Master, as a person of high status, surely wouldn’t compete with a child over a toy.” Her aning was, aren’t you ashad, as a dignified prince and no longer young, to be fighting with a child for a trifle?
“I simply wish to tell Sixth Master that my grandfather is not a carpenter by trade, and this carriage has many defects and is indeed rough. It’s fine for the rough play of village boys like us, but if you were to take it, I’m afraid it would not be presentable, nor would it be of any use. How about this? You don’t need to pay a high price for the carriage, my grandfather made this carriage with a set of drawings, and these blueprints are of no use to us. Why don’t you take the blueprints, with your capabilities, surely you can find a skilled craftsman who can produce a more delicate and perfect pedal car. What do you think?”
Ye Xinyan’s words were clear; she ant to give Jinrong the blueprints for free. But in her heart, she prayed to all immortals to bless Prince Yu with an open and understanding nature and not to be misled by the implications in her words so that he truly wouldn’t offer her a substantial amount of silver.
While Jinrong agreed with Ye Xinyan’s suggestion, he remained expressionless and silent, dragging out the ti to respond amidst the increasingly tense atmosphere in the courtyard. When Qi Younian, Nanny Jin, and several others started to sweat on their backs, he finally spoke slowly, “First bring the blueprints to examine.”
Damn, this was outright bullying by power. It was only a matter of showing the blueprints; he hadn’t decided whether to exchange the blueprints for the carriage. Did he need to think for such a long ti?
Ye Xinyan inwardly resented Jinrong’s unscrupulousness but dared not show it on her face. Struggling to maintain a humble attitude, she handed Qi Jia over to Nanny Jin and went inside to retrieve the blueprints.
Speaking of these two blueprints, Qi Younian carried them with him when he set up his stall days ago, but since Jinrong hadn’t visited for several days, he had put them away at ho.
Ye Xinyan handed the outline and detail drawings of the pedal car to Jinrong.
Jinrong carefully examined the blueprints and then handed them to Jiang Yifan.
Since Jinrong didn’t focus his attention on the struggle for the throne, it was necessary for others to see what he was doing daily and what interested him. Among Jinrong’s various interests were chanisms and structures. Although his understanding was superficial, by combining the existing pedal car with the diagrams, he could grasp the details depicted in them.
Jiang Yifan couldn’t quite asure up to Jinrong in this aspect, but he could get the gist of it. Besides, Jinrong wasn’t asking him to verify the authenticity of the drawings, so after a brief look, he handed them back to Jinrong.
Jinrong folded the blueprints carefully along their original creases, tapping his fingers on them a few tis before rising. Without a glance at the mbers of the second branch of the Qi family, he said to Hongzhi, “Give Father-in-law Qi thirty taels of silver.”
Thirty taels of silver wasn’t a lot, especially for such a novelty, it was quite little. But if people saw her younger brother’s carriage, her novel invention would beco worthless.
So, thirty taels of silver was already quite generous.
Ye Xinyan certainly thought so as well; the bicycle and the design of the bicycle truly weren’t worth that much silver.
Thirty taels of silver! Her eyes suddenly lit up, and any forced courtesy vanished from her expression, replaced entirely with sincere gratitude towards Jinrong. This caused Jiang Yifan and Shi Yu to witness once again the superficiality of the Miss Ye Family when faced with silver.
As she watched the ten riders disappear into the distance and then looked at her younger brother, who had gone from tears to laughter, Ye Xinyan felt that these thirty taels of silver were truly well earned.
Nanny Jin, who hadn’t seen much of the world in over half a year, held the six large silver ingots, scarcely believing her own eyes.
Was that all there was to it? The forr husband of the Miss and Prince Yu had co together just for a child’s toy, not to harm the Miss?
The key point was that they left thirty taels of silver behind when they left!
No wonder the Miss Ye Family had never really worried about silver; it turned out earning money could be this easy?
Ye Xinyan turned back and, seeing Nanny Jin so excited she lost all her usual shrewdness, reminded her, “Nanny, you’d better put away these silver ingots, and be careful not to attract thieves if soone sees.”
With the distinguished group led by Jinrong and Jiang Yifan appearing in Clear Water Village, it would only take a mont before everyone knew. Just now, the villagers dared not co over because those people were still in their yard. Wait until they’re gone, and you’ll see—the villagers will swarm into our ho, asking questions from all directions.
Ye Xinyan’s prediction was correct; hardly had Nanny Jin stepped into the house with the silver when soone peeked in through the entrance.
Soon after, it was Yourong who entered. As soon as Yourong stepped inside, villagers who were familiar with the second branch of the Qi family, as well as those less acquainted or not at all, all followed in.
Ye Xinyan watched these villagers in surprise; the number of people coming to her ho this ti far exceeded those who ca after Hongzhi’s departure. It turned out that our simple country folks judged others not just by their clothes but also by their deanor, discerning the status of a person.
Surprised as she was, Ye Xinyan and Nanny Jin still had to help Qi Younian receive these people, politely exchanging greetings.
With over a dozen people suddenly pouring in, there naturally weren’t enough seats, so so had to stand while talking.
Qi Yourong, with a carefree attitude, sat in the chair Jinrong had occupied, surrounded by a dozen villagers, feeling quite smug about it.
He asked Qi Younian, “Second Brother, who were the people who just visited your ho? They must be nobles from the county, right? The people who ca this ti look much more distinguished than the young man who ca last ti.”
As he spoke, he kept exclaiming in admiration, “Look at the clothes of the two leading n; they seem to flow like water, soft and light, not like ordinary fabrics. Even the followers’ attire is not common. We could wait in the county town our whole lives and not see so many wealthy people. Second Brother, your family must be on the rise, right? We’re related by blood; you can’t just leave your brothers behind and enjoy wealth all by yourself.”
While Yourong asked these questions, he couldn’t help but wonder. The Second Branch family rely set up a small roadside stall in the county town, although in Clear Water Village, it was considered rather prominent. But if placed in the county town, where there were so many larger establishnts, any of those would look classier than the humble stall of the second brother. How could it be that only the second brother caught the eye of such a noble, and that he even followed him to this remote village?
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