Chapter 1210: Ye Liu’s half brother
Da Qiao looked at the contract before turning to look at Elder Qiao who pursed her lips and carefully thought about the contract. Though Yu Dong had set some restraints on them, the offer that she had put forward was delectable.
Elder Qiao thought carefully and asked Da Qiao to read the contract more than once when she was sure that there was no pit trap waiting for them to jump in it, she nodded and asked, " Miss Yu, please don't think bad of me but what if…someone tries to break the contract. I mean I am not doubting my villagers but there are always bad eggs mixed with good ones."
" Then you need to make sure that those bad eggs," Yu Dong trailed off as she flicked the dirt on her clothes with her finger, " remain aside. Elder Qiao, you might have already heard that most of the customers of my mall are officials.
I do not dare to offend them, so you need to make sure that no one will do anything that could cause harm to my mall because if they do then you will have to pay twice the compensation than you earned."
Yu Dong smiled with a deadly glint in her eyes as she added, " And let me tell you one thing, if you make me angry then I will make you spit everything out. You can rest assured of that."
Elder Qiao did not dare to think that Yu Dong was lying about this as she knew that Yu Dong was not someone whom they could offend. However the temptation of selling a jar of pickle for more than five hundred copper coins and one tael.
Thus even though there were risks attached to this matter Elder Qiao agreed as she signed the contract took the rest of the copies with her and said to Yu Dong, " I will talk with the villagers about this ." Though Elder Qiao said this she had already decided whom she was going to choose as the worker of the factory.
She could not let people like Ying Tuanzi and Old Madam Ying sneak inside the factory as they would definitely try to steal the vegetable and meat pickles made from Yu Dong's homegrown vegetables and livestock meat and then sell it to others at higher prices.
Yu Dong nodded before sending the two off.
Once they were gone Yu Dong turned to look at the rest of the family members who were staring at her in awe.
"Whats the matter?" Yu Dong asked causing Ye Liu to roll his eyes. He looked at her and then said, " You don't know, do you? The Big Mountain Villagers never sell their pickles to anyone else to sell. They only sell the pickles to the customers, it's a surprise that they are willing to sell the pickles to us."
"Money talks," Xiao Hua who was staring at his nails that he had dyed red spoke up from the side with a smile on his lips. He was quite satisfied with the rouge that Yu Dong had brought for him. The colour and intensity of this rouge was really good. " If you had thrown another tael or two that woman would have called the entire village and signed the contract right here and now."
He clenched his fingers and then studied the colour of rouge settling on his nails before nodding and then stating, " You might not know this other than everyone else in the town has increased the price of water. Now a glass of water is sold at a hundred copper coins and a bucket of water is sold at three hundred taels.
For them, this is a huge opportunity not only for earning money but also making up for the lost savings."
As Xiao Hua was quite an extrovert he knew what was going on in the town when the others had no idea. Continue your adventure with empire
" Three hundred copper coins for a bucket of water?" Shen Li was shocked when he heard that someone was actually selling water for three hundred copper coins in the town.
" Thats right. And that is the lowest price for the ones who have deep wells in officials' street they are selling a bucket of water for five to six hundred copper coins," Xiao Hua had some mers who were the husbands' of officials and thus he knew what was going on the street where the officials lived.
He then paused and continued, " This is not the least surprising thing, the situation is so bad that even the teams that dig wells are so busy that they cannot even get the time to breathe."
" Worst of all the teams who dig wells have also raised their prices as they wanted to earn as much money as possible. Thus many commoners cannot even hire them to dig wells."
When everyone heard the price of water they were thankful to Yu Dong who was wise enough to set up two to three teams ahead of summer and then dug wells all over the village or else they would be one of the families who would have to rely on the deep wells at town.
Who would pay five hundred copper coins for just a bucket of water?
Yu Dong also thought that she did the right thing. They could not buy water which was set at such a high price and even if they could the other villagers couldn't have possibly bought it.
" By the way, Liu have you arranged the oranges and raw mangoes supplies?" Yu Dong had yet to hear anything from Gu Ke Jin and did not know how the purchase of the Big Stone Village went.
Ye Liu nodded as he replied, " I have sent word to my brother. He promised that he would come to the village with his wife and discuss the matter with you."
When Yu Dong asked if someone knew anyone who had fruit orchids Ye Liu was the only one who said that his half-brother who was sold off just like him married a man who owned a fruit farm.
Though Yu Dong did not know who that man was, she was willing to take a look at what kind of deal that man would bring.
" When are they coming?"
" Tomorrow. He said in his letter that he will come tomorrow."