Chapter 15 - Pushing the Slutty Female and Dishonorable Male Into the Limelight (2/2)

Luo Qing Luan assumed an appearance of wanting to leave. As expected, the owner called her to stop. “Visitor, wait a moment, do you want to make some money?”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m very interested in this little book of yours. Is it possible for you to sell it to me? I’ll pay ten taels of silver, how about it?” The owner spoke with a mischievous chuckle. Afraid that Luo Qing Luan would truly leave, he rushed outside to block her exit.

Luo Qing Yue smiled. How could she not understand the owner’s intention. “Boss, you’re taking me for a fool. Only ten taels and you want to buy my highest quality book?”

The owner’s face turned red as he reasoned. “Ten taels is already a high price. The most expensive book in my store is only five taels of silver! I just happened to have a younger brother who also likes to read this kind of book, that’s why I thought……”

“Boss, don’t try to hoodwink me. Don’t tell me that it’s not because this book came all the way from Vietnam and there’s none in our state of Western Chu. That’s why you wanted to buy it and put it into print, selling a huge batch and eating up all of the profits yourself? This is the real reason why you want to buy my book, have I guessed correctly?”

“Uh……heh heh, since you already know, then I won’t hide it from you. How about I give you fifty taels?” Luo Qing Luan smiled levelly, then raised the booklet in her hand. “I can sell it to you, but I want five hundred taels!”

“What, five hundred taels?” The owner opened his eyes wide in surprise. “Impossible!”

“Five hundred taels is already considered giving it to you cheap. Boss, come, let me help you calculate.”

After Luo Qing Luan clearly and logically explained to him everything about how to market the book, and when she explained how each book can sell for five taels, the owner had no choice but to concede.

As someone who had been in business for so many years, how could he not know the facts of the matter? An ordinary title was already two taels each book. This book from Vietnam is of the highest quality. To sell it for five taels is indeed not expensive.

Moreover, as for the kinds of customers who buys this kind of book, who among them wasn’t the son of a rich family, or scholars who lacked neither clothes, nor food? Was it possible that they couldn’t spare an insignificant five taels?

Just when the owner intended to close the deal, Luo Qing Luan opened her mouth again. “Besides this book in my hand, I also have an illustrated version at home. Now reading that is what I’d call exciting. I guarantee that you’ll feel like you’re there!”

“What?”

The owner was so excited that his voice cracked. “There’s also an illustrated version? That’s terrific! Come, let us have a proper chat about the price……”

After Luo Qing Luan left ‘Hundred Taste Study’, her footstep became increasingly light and quick.

[Heh heh……soon, no more than several days, Luo Qing Shuang and Nangong Chen will fire up the entire state of Western Chu.]