Chapter 16 (2/2)

Elder Su realised that that he had gotten too friendly, and immediately straightened his posture to seem more formal. “I’m really curious how you’re going to turn these fruits into one thousand gold taels.” he said. Lu Feng turned towards Bai Yao and chuckled “Young Master Bai, didn’t you say that each of these fruits could be sold for two gold taels?”

“Yes.”

Lu Feng made a weird laugh, “Then that’s great, we can publicly set the price as three gold taels for two. Those who would want to buy can come here while I wait, so we don’t have to bring the baskets along.”

Originally Lu Feng wanted to bring the fruits down to sell but Elder Su and the rest were here. He was naturally expected to earn the thousand gold taels in front of them. Proving the old b.a.s.t.a.r.ds of his ability.

When Bai Yao heard this he immediately understood, and hurriedly left. While Elder Su coldly smiled, “Brat, do you think you can fool everyone?” Lu Feng unexpectedly smiled, “Whether it’s a trick or not, you will know soon enough.”

Elder Su glared daggers at Lu Feng, and then said to a shopkeeper, “When a customer comes, tell them that these fruits were grown in a single night. If they were to consume it. They would be poisoned to death, If anything happened to them we can say the Bai Family has already tried to warn them beforehand.”

That shopkeeper wordlessly nodded his head. Lu Feng could not believe Elder Su was so crafty, except he did not really mind. As for Ye Gu who angrily muttered, “How could you shopkeepers act like this. Then wouldn’t everyone not buy the fruits out of fear.”

Elder Su laughed icily and mocked “This has nothing to do with me. Besides, what if the fruits really were poisonous? I’m doing this to protect the Bai Family’s reputation, so whatever that Lu Feng does, is not connected to our Bai Family.”

Ye Gu’s soldiers were all enraged, Lu Feng tried to calm them down, “It’s fine, just wait patiently.” Ye Gu looked at the smiling Lu Feng and perplexedly asked, “Young Master, how can you be fine when they are treating you like this?”

Lu Feng sat down on a rock and smiled confidently “I’m not dead yet, nor am I wounded. So what’s there to worry about?”

Bai Yao smiled back, “It’s settled, the whole town now knows. Soon there should be people arriving.” Lu Feng beamed, “En.” Whilst Ye Gu and the rest of the guards all had troubled faces.

Bai Yao was confused. “What’s the matter with all of you? You weren’t acting like this a moment ago.” Ye Gu couldn’t hold in his anger and blurted out “These store managers said…” “Said what?” Bai Yao asked. Ye Gu told Bai Yao about the spat that happened between Lu Feng and Elder Su. This greatly upset Bai Yao and he could not hold back anymore. “Elder Su, how could you say those words” he said.

Elder Su’s leaned forward and smiled innocently. “I’m just trying to protect family’s reputation. If these fruits turn out to be harmful, it could possibly kill our customers. When that happens our reputation would surely be tarnished wouldn’t it?”

Bai Yao was about to blow up in front of Elder Su, but was held back by Lu Feng. “Young Master Bai, come, let’s go talk about something else.” Lu Feng said as he tried to change the subject. Making Bai Yao to wonder how was Lu Feng still in the mood to chat. However, Lu Feng just kept tugging at Bai Yao, so he had no choice but to sit down. It was then, Lu Feng whispered something to Bai Yao which made his frown disappear. Bai Yao then grinned and said “Okay.”

Ye Gu and the rest of the servants could not understand Bai Yao went from a murderous rage to smiling in such a short moment of time. In fact, this also made Elder Su and the shopkeepers curious. However, their main priority was to dissuade the people from buying the fruits. As soon as people started to stop by, the shopkeepers tried to convince the crowd not to buy the fruits. “Everyone, this is fruit was grown in a single night. Hence there might be some dangers in consuming it. If harm ever comes to you for eating the fruit, the Bai Family will not take responsibility. You are not encouraged to buy the fruit.” Elder Su began ranting.

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