Making you a son-in-law is not about making you conquer the world.

Han Jiji had prepared five taels of silver, but Meng Qingge offered five hundred coins.

The two stared at each other for a long time, and the atmosphere became somewhat awkward.

Meng Qingge naturally thought the price was too high and regretted listening to Lin Ping, thinking she should have just quoted fifty coins.

Han Jiji thought Meng Qingge was testing him, and he dared not buy wine from the proprietress at such a low price.

Seeing that his expression was somewhat unpleasant, Meng Qingge took the initiative to lower the price, "How about one hundred coins per jar?"

Her bottom line was forty coins per jar, but she wanted to negotiate for more.

Han Jiji was terrified and immediately knelt on the ground: "If I have done anything wrong, Miss Meng must tell me to my face. You can't sell it at such a low price, it could kill someone."

Kneeling down to lower the price?

That's some crazy move!

Meng Qingge hurriedly lowered the price to fifty coins, while Han Jiji immediately lay down on the ground.

It was a comical scene: Meng Qingge, the seller, kept lowering the price, while Han Jiji, the buyer, kept raising it.

Meng Qingge finally offered a break-even price of forty copper coins, while Han Jiji offered an exorbitant price of five taels of silver.

The two were deadlocked and finally had to take the average, then round it off, and settled on a price of three taels of silver.

What does this mean to Meng Qingge?

The cost of one jar of wine is thirty coins, and the cost of one hundred thousand jars of wine is three thousand taels of silver.

The seller of one jar of wine was three taels of silver, so one hundred thousand jars would be three hundred thousand taels, and the Meng family could make a net profit of two hundred and ninety-seven thousand taels of silver.

It's equivalent to five years' worth of the Meng family's profits, or even ten years' worth.

After the business deal was finalized, Meng Qingge still felt it was unrealistic and hadn't fully accepted it yet.

“These days, buyers will also raise prices on their own initiative?” Meng Qingge was a little confused. “No wonder Qingfeng Tower is so popular. It turns out that its code of conduct is different from that of ordinary people.”

This explanation... is a bit forced.

After seeing the giant Buddha off, Han Jiji broke out in a cold sweat.

He wasn't afraid of high prices, he was only afraid of being retaliated against by Lin Ping.

At three taels of silver per jar, Qingfenglou was guaranteed to make a profit, even more than the Meng family.

"Come on, let's drink some more. We won't leave until we're drunk tonight!" Lin Ping raised his glass high, swaying from side to side, completely drunk.

"Young Master Lin, you're drunk," Meng Qingge said with a look of disgust.

"I'm not drunk, I can still drink." Lin Ping swayed unsteadily, but didn't forget to snuggle into Meng Qingge's arms.

Watching him hunched over in her arms, snoring, Meng Qingge felt nothing but disdain, yet she couldn't bear to abandon him.

"Please continue drinking, everyone. I'll take Young Master Lin back to his residence first," Meng Qingge said with a smile, reluctantly carrying the lifeless Lin Ping out of the house.

"Come on, cheers." Lin Ping babbled drunkenly in Meng Qingge's arms.

She struggled to drag Lin Ping onto the carriage, then sat down opposite him with a look of disgust.

"With such a low alcohol tolerance, you still dare to drink?" Meng Qingge pouted and couldn't help but glance at Lin Ping a few more times.

"This guy is quite good-looking when he's quiet." Meng Qingge blushed, feeling shy even though no one else was around.

"Meng Qingge, what's wrong with you? Why is your heart racing because of some stinky man?"

vomit……

That's right, Lin Ping vomited. All the undigested food was vomited inside the carriage, and even stained Meng Qingge's clothes.

Yeah!

The romantic atmosphere was shattered by Lin Ping, and Meng Qingge just wanted to kick him off the stage.

Thinking of the strong wind outside and Lin Ping's unconscious drunkenness, which might cause him to freeze to death, Meng Qingge's heart softened.

As a young lady from a wealthy family, she certainly didn't know how to serve others, so she could only wait until she returned to the mansion to find someone to help her tidy up.

She had to hold her nose and endure the nauseating smell of alcohol.

"Driver, go faster!" Meng Qingge kept urging.

Giddy up! Giddy up!

The coachman waved the reins, and the carriage sped up wildly.

When people are feeling depressed, they feel like each day is an eternity.

Just like Meng Qingge at this moment, she felt that the carriage had been traveling for half an hour, but they still hadn't arrived at the Meng residence.

"How much longer do we have to walk?" Meng Qingge asked impatiently.

However, no one answered outside the carriage, and the carriage itself gradually slowed down and eventually came to a complete stop.

vomit……

Lin Ping made a vomiting gesture again, and then mercilessly touched the slender waist of the landlord Meng Qingge, forcing her to lower her head.

"Lin Wuqing, what do you want to do?" Meng Qingge shouted angrily. Although she had developed feelings for Lin Ping, she was not yet ready to show herself.

call out!

Just as she was getting angry, a crossbow bolt pierced the carriage, right where Meng Qingge had just been standing.

In other words, if Lin Ping hadn't put his arm around her waist, that arrow could very well have killed her.

Meng Qingge broke out in a cold sweat. She carefully lifted the carriage curtain and found that the carriage was in an empty alley, without a single light.

"Driver, where is this?" Meng Qingge asked softly, not daring to break the silence around her.

Clearly, no one answered her question; the driver had long since vanished without a trace.

In the vast alley, besides her and Lin Ping, there was only a dwarf horse.

The pitch-black night was frightening, and even though Meng Qingge often walked at night, she still felt somewhat scared.

The coachmen wouldn't refuse to disappear innocently, and the women wouldn't appear here for no reason.

Meng Qingge had already sensed something unusual.

"Young Master Lin, let's get off the car," Meng Qingge said softly, pulling his arm and dragging him out.

thump!

Lin Ping, lying like a dead pig, landed right on top of Meng Qingge, and at the same time, another crossbow bolt grazed Meng Qingge's body.

Under the bright moonlight, the arrowheads gleamed with a cold light.

This time, Meng Qingge saw the shape of the crossbow bolt clearly and was so frightened that she sat down on the ground.

She knew that crossbows were used to kill, far more treacherous and cunning than the cutthroat competition in the marketplace.

"Who? Who's in the shadows?" Meng Qingge asked, mustering her courage. Her delicate hand unconsciously gripped Lin Ping's, as if she felt a sense of security.

Her voice shattered the silence of the night, and two men in black swooped down from under the eaves like bats hunting their prey.

"Assassin! Assassin! Young Master Lin, let's run!" Meng Qingge's hair stood on end as she tried to drag Lin Ping away, but he was too heavy to move at all.

Just as the two men in black approached, Lin Ping once again grabbed Meng Qingge's slender waist, rolled to the side, and ended up falling under the carriage.

He was the one on the ground, and Meng Qingge was on top of him.

First, I felt the hardness of the ground on my back, and then I felt the softness of the sponge on my chest.

That fall was worth it!

puff!

The two men in black failed to sheathe their swords in time, stabbing each other through the chest, and fell to the ground in terror.

Meng Qingge was originally about to blush and even slap Lin Ping, but the death of the man in black shocked her greatly.

"They died already? That's so unprofessional." Meng Qingge even sighed, wondering who sent these two idiots.

"Damn it, how dare you kill someone from my Nightshade Palace, brat, I think you don't want to live anymore." Two more men in black descended from the sky, their skills clearly much stronger.