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Somewhere in a small grove
Lu Songli wrapped her hands around the slender waist of Qin Sheng, leaning against his chest to calm her breathing. In her heart, she cursed silently, amazed by his strong learning ability and impressive lung capacity. Once he learned how to control his breathing, he could easily make someone faint with a kiss.
On the other hand, Qin Sheng’s eyes sparkled. So, this is how a kiss feels?
Qin Sheng lowered his head, wanting another kiss, but Lu Songli firmly refused, pushing his face away with her hand, determined not to be tempted again.
Qin Sheng grabbed her small hand and placed it on his eight-pack abs, gazing at her without blinking, full of implication.
Lu Songli: …Who can resist this?
A quarter of an hour later, they emerged from the grove. Lu Songli covered her mouth, muttering to herself about how men were like animals, even a little puppy could be fierce when kissing. But his abs did feel really good…
As they neared their camp, Lu Songli stopped in her tracks and looked at the young man beside her, who was smiling foolishly like a husky.
Lu Songli couldn’t help but pinch his waist in annoyance.
Pinch him again? Qin Sheng endured the tingling sensation in his waist and looked at her in confusion, wondering what was wrong.
“Don’t smile like that. Your smile is so suggestive, anyone can tell what we’ve been up to,” Lu Songli hinted.
“What’s wrong with my smile?” Qin Sheng asked.
Lu Songli gestured for him to lower his head.
Although Qin Sheng obediently complied, he thought to himself that if she wanted to look him in the eye, he could easily lift her up like before.
Lu Songli reached out and pinched his cheek.
After a few pinches, she heard Qin Sheng call out behind her, “Mom!”
Lu Songli froze, retracting her hand, slowly turning around and reluctantly calling out, “Mom.”
Old Madam Qin smiled warmly, “A Li, A Sheng, you’re back?”
“Hehe, we ate too much for dinner, so we went out for a walk to aid digestion,” Lu Songli explained, making up an excuse before slipping away without taking a bath.
Outside, only Old Madam Qin and son remained.
Old Madam Qin sighed in admiration of the good relationship between her son and daughter-in-law. Then she turned to her son and advised, “A Sheng, be more considerate to your wife.”
Qin Sheng: ??? Wasn’t he already considerate enough? He didn’t retaliate when she scolded him, and even when she left him behind, he didn’t say anything. Well, one was his mother, and the other was his wife, he couldn’t afford to offend either of them, so what could he do?
The sale of medicinal herbs proceeded smoothly.
Firstly, the quality of the medicinal herbs purchased by Lu Songli and the others was excellent. Secondly, the buyer they found, Li Jue, may not have a strong background, but he was skilled in business and most importantly, a clever person.
Li Jue was indeed a clever person. He noticed that there were experts in the team led by Lu Songli, making it difficult to deceive them. He also found that their combat power was very high, with no possibility of internal conflict.
As for Li Jue, he truly wanted this batch of medicinal materials and could only trade honestly in the end.
On this day, the buyer Li Jue personally went to their camp to make the trade.
Lu Songli led Qin Heng and Qin Zhao to receive them.
Yang Wei had a strong presence in the martial world, and Xu Zheng was the sheriff after all, so he couldn’t leave any obvious handles. In the business world, Wu Ren was still growing and couldn’t stand alone. Most importantly, the Qin family was currently in the identity of exiles, and this matter could not be exposed.
Therefore, facing a cunning person like Li Jue, Lu Songli had to personally handle the situation.
At this moment, Li Jue was indeed full of doubts. He came with doubts, mainly because Lu Songli’s merchant group appeared too suddenly in Jizhou, and he had to probe into it.
However, when he arrived, Li Jue found out that the one receiving him was the so-called Mrs. Qin, along with two young men. This really surprised him.
Then Li Jue noticed that these people spoke with an accent from Chang’an? Subsequently, several attempts to probe were countered by the young Mrs. Qin. This made him unable to figure out the intentions of these people. But he understood that the other party only wanted to quietly complete this transaction without any further complications.
Then Li Jue knew what to do. There was naturally no problem with the medicinal materials. In the end, both sides exchanged money and goods, completing the transaction.
The 70,000 taels of silver were all exchanged for gold by Lu Songli, and Li Jue agreed readily. Otherwise, with so much silver, they would need ten carriages to transport it. Wasn’t that asking for trouble?
In fact, if they didn’t need to travel quickly, the 70,000 taels of silver didn’t have to be all converted to gold. They could have piled it up into a mountain of silver and distributed it together, which would have been more exciting. It would have been like the end-of-year bonuses in some companies in the future, creating a lively atmosphere.
Lu Songli thought to herself, there would be opportunities.
After Li Jue had the gold brought over, they took away the dozen carriages of medicinal materials and left without a trace.
The entire camp was left with Lu Songli and her team.
7,000 taels of gold, weighing eight to nine hundred catties, were piled up in boxes on the open ground, shining brightly and dazzling.
Was all this gold earned by them during this period? Every person present couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Xue Xu: Mother, so much money can be made from trading!
No wonder his friends always said that if he had nowhere to go when he got old, he could stay at their place for retirement.
Wait a minute, his friend must have hidden something from him! He must have made more than just the obvious money! Wait until he writes a letter back, he’ll see how he can scold him!
He used to think that the money he earned before was hard-earned and didn’t want to burden his friend. Now, he felt justified in thinking that he could afford to support one more person with his earnings.
Although he was now a wealthy man, he must find an opportunity to spend the money he had saved for his friend before! Hmph!
At this moment, Lu Songli clapped her hands three times, attracting everyone’s attention to her, and said, “Everyone, you’ve all worked hard during this time. This gold was all earned through our efforts over the past half month. Now, without further ado, let’s start splitting the money!”
After working hard for over half a month, Lu Songli believed that there was nothing more satisfying and stimulating than these words.
As Lu Songli’s voice fell, there was a moment of silence on the scene. Everyone was momentarily stunned. Split the money? Is it really time to split the money?!
Immediately, cheers erupted, filling the camp with shouts of approval.
“Good!”
“Sixth Madam is generous!”
“Sixth Madam is magnanimous!”
Seeing the enthusiastic crowd, Qin Sheng whispered a few words to Hu Guangcong, who nodded in agreement and led a few brothers away on horseback to Youzhou.
Lu Songli noticed this, but she didn’t know what he had instructed Hu Guangcong to do. However, she trusted him, so after saying those words, she handed the stage over to Qin Heng, Qin Zhao, and Xue Xu.
The three of them were sitting there, calculating with paper and pen.
In fact, how to divide the money and how much to give each person had already been decided. It was based on the five tiers they had previously set, and each member of the same tier would receive the same amount of gold and silver. However, the total amount each tier would receive needed further discussion.
This was equivalent to the calculation of military merit.
Immediately, cheers erupted, filling the camp with shouts of approval.