Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 920 - 922 Awkward (2)

Chapter 920: Chapter 922 Awkward (2)

Cai Wei picked up a tassel phoenix hairpin with a carved lotus and examined it, and she couldn’t help but be impressed by the craftsmanship of the jade carver.

"Was this set of jewelry also carved by a master from our Zhenbao Pavilion?"

"In response to the young lady, indeed, we have three such master craftsmen in Masterpiece Building who can do such fine carvings!"

Huo Yuan’s eyes fell on the five jade combs in a row and he said in a deep voice, "When it comes to craftsmanship, indeed it’s slightly superior to that of Masterpiece Building!"

Cai Wei teased with a smile, "What, jealous? Thinking of poaching someone?"

Huo Yuan said seriously, "Indeed, I want to poach, but the new boss of Zhenbao Pavilion is too awesome, I don’t dare!"

Manager Feng of Zhenbao Building said with a smile, "Young Master Huo is really joking. The craftsmen of your Masterpiece Building are who knows how many times stronger than ours at Zhenbao Pavilion, so how could you take an interest in our people, hehe..."

Zhenbao Pavilion relied entirely on these master craftsmen’s ingeniously crafted skills to have today’s status. If the Masters were poached by others, could Zhenbao Pavilion still continue to operate? If it couldn’t, he, as the esteemed and respectable shopkeeper, would naturally have to get out and go home to eat his own cooking. So even if Huo Yuan jokingly mentioned poaching someone, Manager Feng was as nervous as if facing a great enemy, even more fearful than Cai Wei.

After seeing the jewelry on the second floor and meeting the master craftsmen of Zhenbao Pavilion, Cai Wei felt very satisfied and began to discuss the specifics of acquiring Zhenbao Pavilion with Manager Dong.

Manager Dong was very cautious, as his master needed a favor, so he didn’t dare to be arrogant. Moreover, his master had already ordered that, as long as they could make this young lady happy and prevent her from spreading yesterday’s incident to the Emperor, it was acceptable to let the price be more generous.

"Hehe, miss, look, just the storefront is worth more than 20,000 taels, and together with the items on both floors, a total of 70,000 taels is more than enough. However, our young master said that as long as the miss agrees to yesterday’s matter, it is permissible to give you a better price," Manager Dong said.

Cai Wei said, "Yesterday’s incident was witnessed by more than just me. Even if I don’t tell, I can’t guarantee others won’t speak out."

Manager Dong said, "Those people, Young Master Ji and the other young masters will take care of it themselves, miss need not bother about that. As long as the miss agrees, we can discuss the price."

At this moment, Manager Dong’s heart was trembling, fearing that Cai Wei would propose an absurdly low price. Although no matter what price she proposed, he had to accept it, if the selling price was too low, the young master might take his anger out on him.

Therefore, seeing Cai Wei looking down in contemplation, Manager Dong silently prayed in his heart, almost unable to keep his composure.

"70,000 taels!"

Cai Wei raised her head and made the final decision.

Manager Dong was overjoyed. He had thought Cai Wei might propose a price of 50,000 or 60,000 taels. 70,000, albeit slightly less profitable, was overall a reasonable price, and the young master would definitely be satisfied.

"Hehe, let’s go with what the miss has said, 70,000 taels, just 70,000, hehe..."

As if afraid that Cai Wei would change her mind, Manager Dong quickly took out the house deed, the land deed, and commanded the accounting room to write up the sales document, busily engaged in various tasks.

Huo Yuan smiled at Cai Wei and said, "This price is very appropriate!"

Last night, he had already found out the reason why Young Master Li was transferring the Zhenbao Pavilion.

Yesterday was Young Master Ji’s birthday, and several close aristocratic youngsters had agreed to celebrate for him, but soon after they arrived at Jufude, news of Empress Dowager Jin Qianqiu’s death came. The young masters, being offspring of a noble family, had intended to go back to observe the national mourning, but they were stopped by Young Master Ji.

Latter, there was the incident where that bitch Chun Tao provoked Cai Wei. Everyone was annoyed with Young Master Ji but dared not do anything to him, so they vented all their anger on Chun Tao. Because Chun Tao had been afflicted with itchy medicine by Cai Wei and had already scratched herself raw, and then, at the behest of several young masters, someone soaked her in chili water for the entire night. When he came to Zhenbao Pavilion, he heard that Chun Tao was already gone!