Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2298: Stealing chicken but losing rice

"Whether the house is demolished or not is not really important, right? All we have to do is find out everything on it, and that'll be a victory. If we have to demolish the whole street, that's fine, right? If these things can be sold, let alone rebuilding a street, we can even renovate the entire border. That's more than enough."

"Brother Xiaotian, this is a twisted logic. The quieter the noise we make, the safer we will be and the less likely we will attract attention, right? If we make such a big noise, Master Falian's spies hiding in the city might come out to rob us. Although we are not afraid of them, it is better to have less trouble than more, right?"

"Okay, okay, you're right. I was just describing it in a way. I didn't really want to demolish the house in a big way." Xue Ruitian smiled helplessly and looked at Shen Haolin who was sitting on the side watching the fun without saying a word. "Look, you don't even try to persuade them."

"What do you want to persuade?" Shen Haolin spread his hands. "Aren't we having a good chat? You don't need my persuasion. Let's put these things that haven't been found aside for the time being. The boxes in the front yard have been checked and they are all genuine. We have to figure out what to do with them."

"How should we deal with them?" Shen Cha tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "The store owner signed a contract with them. According to the contract, the goods should be given to them. Of course, this must be done after they have proven that they have no connection with the Qinglian Sect. If they do, then I'm sorry, their goods will be confiscated."

"Even if they have nothing to do with the business, this batch of goods must be confiscated." Xue Ruitian pulled out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Shen Cha, "This is the contract they signed with the caravan. Take a look and see if there is any problem."

Shen Cha took it, opened it and read it quickly, then looked up at Shen Haolin, then at Xue Ruitian, and shook the contract.

"How dare you sign such a contract? And you still say it has nothing to do with the Qinglian Sect?"

"It doesn't necessarily have to be related to the Qinglian Sect, but they really have the intention. They wanted to take advantage of the situation but were tricked by others."

"Picking up a bargain?" Shen Cha thought for a moment, looked at Xue Ruitian, and said, "Could it be that all these families are like this?"

"Yes, these companies are all like this." Xue Ruitian sneered, "I asked them, and they said that the people in the caravan judged that they were laymen after contacting them. They had no idea what goods they had and what these goods were. So, they came up with this idea and wanted to trick them into giving them these things at the lowest price. Therefore, the price they signed was much lower than the market price, even less than 30% of the market price."

"Less than 30% of the market price?" Shen Cha looked at the price agreed upon in the contract again. "What's the difference between this and getting something for nothing?"

"There is no difference. That's what they planned." Xue Ruitian spread his hands helplessly. "They said the caravan used fake goods to fool them and wanted to cheat them out of money. They didn't think about whether they were doing what people should do. Putting aside those external factors, even if they were doing business, were they really treating others with integrity?"

"That's what I mean. The caravan should have realized it, so we used fake goods to fool them?"

"Yes!" Xue Ruitian nodded. "I took this contract to ask the people in the caravan, and they said that the order they received was just to sell the goods, and they were not told the price. Later, after signing this, they felt something was wrong, and asked someone else, only then did they realize that they were cheated. When they came, they actually brought a lot of boxes of fake goods, saying that they would use them to fool robbers in case they encountered robbers. In the end, they didn't encounter any robbers, but they encountered this kind of profiteer, so they took them out to teach them a lesson."

"Well, this is a trick that those people who travel around often use." Shen Cha nodded, "These people in the shop really shot themselves in the foot. They wanted to cheat people but failed, and ended up getting themselves into trouble."

"Anyway, the people on both sides are not good people, especially the people in the shop. Let's detain them first. When they know how to repent, we can think of how to deal with them! As for the boxes in the front yard, just detain them as evidence. Anyway, we can't hand them over to either side, right?"

"Brother Xiaotian is right. Let's just give it all to Brother Xiaojue and let him worry about it." "That's fine!" Xue Ruitian nodded and said cheerfully, "If he really has no connections, he can give it to His Majesty the Eagle King. They also have a shop doing this kind of business in Jiangnan. As for the money, it depends on His Majesty's conscience and how much he can give us."

Song Jue, who was far away in Xijing City, sneezed several times in a row at this time. Song Yaojia, who was playing chess with him, quickly covered his mouth and nose with his arms and looked at Song Jue with disgust.

"Your Majesty, are you suffering from a cold?"

"It's definitely not that." Song Jue rolled his eyes, "It must be someone scolding me!"

Song Yaojia raised his eyebrows slightly and picked up the chess piece at hand, "Eat, Your Majesty, you lose again!"

"Lost?" Song Jue looked at the black pieces on the chessboard that had been killed without a single piece left, and waved his hand, "This game doesn't count, let's play again!"

Song Yaojia was not angry either. She happily picked up her white piece and waved at Song Jue.

"bring it on!"

At the Duke's Mansion, Shen Cha wanted to defend Song Jue, saying that he was not a money-loving person, but before he could say anything, he saw the door of the flower hall being pushed open again, and Jin Miaomiao and Hongye walked in unsteadily.

"Oh, are you all here?" Jin Miaomiao waved at the three people. Before she could finish her words, she felt a figure flash past her. She subconsciously said, "Oh my god, what is this?"

When she looked carefully, she saw Hongye had already hugged Shen Cha, and the two of them were twisting and turning.

"That's enough, you two!" She rolled her eyes. "At most we haven't seen each other for two days. Do you have to act like you haven't seen each other for decades?"

"Miaomiao, that's wrong. A day without seeing you feels like three autumns. Xiaocha and I haven't seen each other for two days, which means six autumns, so it's a long time." Hongye hugged Shencha and groaned for a long time before saying, "It's really uncomfortable to be sick. How much suffering have you endured over the years? How did you endure it?"

"Just bear with it and it will pass. Am I not doing well now?" Shen Cha patted Hongye's back and consoled her, "Aren't you doing well too? It's all over!"

"Illness comes like a mountain falling, and goes away like pulling a thread. This time I have experienced it firsthand." Hongye let go of Shen Cha and smiled apologetically at Shen Haolin, "Duke, long time no see!"