Chapter 138

Chapter 138: Kind of Not Proper

In this village, the roads were blocked and there were not many chances to earn extra money, so the Village Chief took these walking moneybags who had come to his door very seriously.

As soon as they finished eating, the Village Chief came back with good news.

“It worked, it worked. I just went to ask my nephew for you, and he agreed.”

“Your nephew?”

“Yes. My brother-in-law and his wife are working outside. Right now only my nephew is at home there. As long as he agrees, there’s no problem.”

Du An Rao touched her chin, half smiling.

[This family is really something. The lord went out to work and left one young man at home to watch the place. Looks like my feeling was right. He is just a lazy bum who only wants to lie flat and do nothing. Even if they left him here to watch Miss Qin, he probably would not care much. That is how he ignored someone being sick, dragged things out, and let her die.]

Du De Sheng clenched his back teeth, and even the muscles in his face twitched twice.

[But this is also good. If he can take one payment, he can take a second payment. As long as we give enough money, we can openly walk right in. Then when he is not paying attention, we can steal Miss Qin out.]

After thinking this, even Du An Rao felt something was off.

[Huh, why did I use the word “steal”? It sounds like stealing a person. That is so not proper.]

Xi Jing Yue burst out: “Pfft…”

Du Jun Yan: “…”

Du De Sheng’s old face turned even redder. In his heart he thought: [This little girl actually knows her words are not proper? Seriously!]

“Then great. Since the host family has already agreed, it’s getting late. Can we go over now to take a look and then bring our old man to soak in the hot spring tomorrow?”

To avoid arousing the Village Chief’s suspicion, Du An Rao always kept their true purpose in mind.

“By the way, is the hot spring far from their house?”

“Not far, not far. There’s a pool two or three hundred meters behind their house.”

“Good. Grandfather, then shall we go over now… and take a look?”

“Alright. You arranged this well. We’ll listen to you. Let’s go now.”

A large group of them headed grandly toward the Qin Family House. From a distance they saw a freestanding two story western style house. It was clearly quite old, with moss and green plants climbing all around it, all the way up to the roof.

In a place where almost everyone lived in tile-roofed houses, it really stood out like a crane among chickens.

As they came closer, they saw that under the slightly dim yellow light stood a young man in his early twenties, dressed in casual clothes, a cigarette hanging from his mouth, looking very carefree and sloppy.

When he saw Du An Rao and the others coming, his eyes lit up. Before they even came near, he was already blatantly sizing them up from head to toe.

“Are you the ones who want to stay in my house?”

“Yes. We may need to stay here for three or four nights.”

“Sure. Eight hundred per person per night, no, make it one thousand. Besides that, you have to pay me an extra two days as a deposit.”

As soon as Qin Shou Ye said this, before Du An Rao and the others reacted, the Village Chief’s face had already changed.

“Shou Ye, what nonsense are you talking? Didn’t we agree just now that charging two or three hundred a night to show some goodwill was enough? This is not a hotel. Charging one thousand a night for just one person, are you robbing them?”

“Ah, Uncle-in-law, look at where we are. There’s no village in front and no shop behind. I’m already being so kind by agreeing to take in strangers from outside like them. What’s wrong with asking them for a bit more money? Hotels out there are nice, sure, but they’re not here, are they? Can you do some magic and move them over here?”

As he spoke, Qin Shou Ye even tugged on the Village Chief and muttered in a low voice: “Besides, Uncle-in-law, look at their clothes. Do they look poor to you? I already heard about what happened this afternoon. You don’t leave the village much and haven’t seen the world, so you can’t see what they’re really like. I at least stayed for a while with my parents at my uncle’s place before. I know those cars they drive are called Porsche. Each one costs at least this much.”

Qin Shou Ye made a hand gesture. The Village Chief froze for a moment and carefully said: “Two hundred thousand?”

“More than two million.”

The Village Chief sucked in a sharp breath: “This…”

“So these little thousand or so, to them it’s nothing. It’s just money that leaks out from between their fingers.”

The uncle and nephew muttered quietly. The look on Du An Rao’s face was odd; it was really hard to describe.

[Is it popular now to whisper right in front of the people involved, loudly plotting in a low voice? Do they not know sound only travels so far? We’re only a few steps away. Do they really think we’re all deaf and can’t hear them?]

Du Jun Yan and the others: “…” Maybe, in their eyes, they thought the group came with their own noise blocking skill.

[But is this guy taking us for fat sheep to be slaughtered? Forget it. With his bony cheeks and upturned nostrils, his face practically says he can’t keep money. After we rescue Miss Qin, however he managed to swallow this money, we’ll make him spit it back out the same way.]

Completely unaware that the rest of his life had already been planned out for him, Qin Shou Ye finished whispering with the Village Chief and did not forget to keep bragging about his old house.

“There’s a saying, right? The rarer something is, the more precious it is. Our house is the rarest thing around here. Since you want to live in my house, you have to show some sincerity, right?”

As he spoke, Qin Shou Ye rubbed his fingers together in a not so subtle hint. Du Jun Yan turned and met his sister’s eyes, then understood and said: “Alright, we’ll do as you said. We’ll first book four nights and pay you an extra two days as deposit, for a total of six nights. That’s thirty thousand.”

“Thirty thousand!” The Village Chief finally snapped out of Qin Shou Ye’s little lesson and looked at the thirty thousand yuan that had immediately gone into Qin Shou Ye’s hands. His eyes almost popped out.

Qin Shou Ye was also extremely excited and secretly regretted it in his heart. If he had known these people were so easy to talk to, he should have asked for an even higher price just now.

“You people know value, I’ll give you that. In a radius of ten miles, our house has the best conditions, no doubt about it. At this price you won’t regret it. If you sleep well, come again next time.” After he finished speaking, Qin Shou Ye still could not hold down his joy. As he led everyone inside, he kept letting out little laughs.

The Village Chief followed behind and kept apologizing to Du An Rao and the others. He said the child did not understand things and had opened his mouth like a lion. He himself had not known beforehand that he would do this, or he would definitely have stopped him.

But Du An Rao and the others already saw right through him. The uncle and nephew were the same kind of goods.

The only difference was that Qin Shou Ye only wanted to use this chance to grab a big sum, while the Village Chief wanted Du An Rao and the others to come back a few more times and bring them money again and again.

“Your rooms are downstairs. There are exactly three rooms, you can divide them yourselves. You can use everything in the rooms, but if you break anything you have to pay for it. Oh, and you have to take care of your own three meals a day. I can’t cook, and what you paid doesn’t include that.”

“You brat…” The Village Chief was so angry at his shameless, rogue behavior that he did not know what to say.

But Du An Rao twitched her nose, and her eyes lit up.

[There is a smell of medicine!]