Chapter 109 (1/2)
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Chapter 109
Another Plan
Li Chengfeng had not expected the smoke from burning gra.s.s to be this suffocating. Both of them could not escape the smoke, wetting their clothes and covering their faces to catch their breath.
Both of them looked at each other to see ash streaks on each other's faces, then laughed.
“Aiyo, looks like you're in a good mood today!” An Tong teased when he appeared near Li Chengfeng. “And you're putting in effort to clear the land too! But I'm afraid clearing the land today is too late!”
As if he did not hear anything, Chengfeng turned to Qiu Chuqiu. “Senior Brother Qiu, how will you calculate the tax in terms of Rainbow Sickle Senna flower?”
Qiu Chuqiu explained lazily, “You can plant a maximum of two hundred Senna plants per acre but considering your pitiful state, I'll just make it a hundred and fifty. So forty percent of that is sixty Senna plants. However, you must be aware how frighteningly expensive sixty Senna plants are in the market. I think you should just stop dragging for time. Just pack up and leave.”
Li Chengfeng smiled and walked into his house. An Tong said impatiently, “Hey, hurry up! Don't waste Senior Brother Qiu's time! Do you know how precious his time is? He had to come twice too, and you made him go back empty-handed…”
As he spoke, his eyes widened. Qiu Chuqiu was equally flabbergasted, his open mouth so wide it could fit a fist.
Li Chengfeng held out sixty Senna flowers. “Senior Brother Qiu, here are sixty Senna plants. You want to count them?”
Qiu Chuqiu was speechless.”This… this is impossible!”
An Tong's face turned purple. “You… you… you're cheating!”
Li Chengfeng pretended not to understand. “What do you mean? Aren't these Senna flowers? Could you please verify them?”
Su Yuehan next to him said, “Verify? Any person who is not blind can see the multi-coloured petals. Surely they can recognise it?”
Qiu Chuqiu glared at him viciously, his face turning from green to pale. “We'll take it! Let's go!”
An Tong was stunned, gasping, “Senior Brother Qiu?”
Qiu Chuqiu glared and roared, “Are you deaf? Just take it, let's go!”
An Tong swallowed his words, took the bunch of flowers and turned. Li Chengfeng suddenly said, “Wait!”
An Tong raged, “What now?!”
Li Chengfeng plastered a fake smile on his face. “I'd like to ask, based on the precept book, how often do we pay taxes?”
Qiu Chuqiu's expression turned sour, huffing as he wrung his sleeve. “Once a year!”
“So that means, within this year, no matter what I plant, I don't have to pay anything else?”
“Of course!” Then, unwilling to linger a second longer, they both turned to leave.
Chengfeng and Yuehan looked at each other, then burst out in laughter. He held out a palm and they high-fived, laughing.
Qiu Chuqiu and An Tong, who had already left, were only acting on orders but this incident genuinely enraged them. Their blood boiled but they had nowhere to vent.
An Tong thought for a moment. “Senior Brother Qiu, that punk went into the house to get the Rainbow Sickle Senna flowers, do you think there's more inside? What if we…”
Qiu Chuqiu paused, then they both looked at each other greedily. At least Qiu Chuqiu still had his logic intact. “No! This punk is no idiot if he could get so many flowers in a night! Looks like Senior Brother Qin was right, he must be a spy from Cangjin Court!”
“Who else would be able to produce so many Senna flowers overnight? This is a pity, a pity!” An Tong nodded regretfully.
They went to report to Qin Mieqin, who was shocked. “They actually paid up?”
Qin Miewin scrutinised every plant and found them to be healthy and complete, so fresh they looked like they had been harvested just moments before!
“I…can't believe Cangjin Court is willing to spend so much money on this. What they want from us?” Qin Mieqin was now a hundred percent sure Chengfeng was Cangjin Court's spy now. But why would this spy have such a high profile? And why would he be so easily suspected? What did all this mean?
Qin Mieqin paced back and forth with hands behind his back. He already had a naturally melancholic expression but with his brows tightly furrowed, he looked extra depressed.