Chapter 20: Only the East Wind is Lacked
"What method?" Zhou Chongwen quickly turned his eyes away before Su Luo looked at him, his action a little unnatural.
"Just say it's done, and I guarantee that the old man will use all his belongings as a dowry to send his daughter to you."
Zhou Chongwen knew that he would not get any good ideas from Su Luo, "What kind of good idea is this!"
"Why is it not good?" Su Luo was unconvinced, "It saves time, effort and money."
"By then, Miss Xie's reputation will be ruined. How will you let her cope with it?"
"It's your fault that it was destroyed. What does it have to do with her future husband's family?" Su Luo disagreed. "Besides, why would her father spread this matter? He's already too late to cover up the shame."
" What was ruined in my hands!" Zhou Chongwen blushed a little, but still straightened his back and spoke loudly, "Miss Xie and I have always treated each other with courtesy, and we have never done anything wrong."
"Yes, yes, you are a gentleman." Su Luo raised his hands in surrender, stopping him from continuing, "Okay, just say something, I make millions a day, do you think I always have time to meddle in your business?"
"What millions?" Zhou Chongwen was frightened.
"Not yet, but sooner or later." Su Luo was proud of this. "Just wait and see, I will soon realize my ambitions and soar high. When we look back on history, we will not care if this year is called the fifteenth year of Wanli, but the starting year of Su Luo! Zhuxian Town will be changed to Su Luo Town, Baolai Village will be changed to Su Luo Village, and even the old site of my home will be roped off and written with Su Luo's former residence, and it will be set up as a paid tourist attraction."
Zhou Chongwen looked at Su Luo as if she were a madman, and kindly comforted her, "Yes, the bun shop has great potential."
Su Luo laughed twice, sympathizing with his strong peasant consciousness and the difficulty in achieving great things. He approached him with ill intentions, "Honestly, you really didn't touch Miss Xie? Not even your hands?"
When Zhou Chongwen was about to confess himself, Su Luo waved his hand, "Alright, alright, you're a gentleman, I understand." Although he said he understood, he actually didn't understand, "How did you two fall in love with each other?"
"A beautiful lady is a good choice for a gentleman."
Su Luo pursed her lips speechlessly, "I'm asking you what you like about her, how you got in touch with her, and why are you reciting poems!" After saying that, she found that Zhou Si was looking at her with a pale face, and his face was full of helplessness that they couldn't communicate.
Su Luo was helpless and raised his hand to wipe the water drops from his chin, "You really don't understand humor. So you don't plan to use my idea?"
Zhou Chongwen wanted to say something, but she had the nerve to say it, even though she had all these bad ideas. After thinking for a while, he didn't say it out loud, and stood up straight, "A gentleman is open and honest..."
"Frank?" Su Luo's ears were almost callused from hearing this. "Not necessarily?"
The rest of Zhou Chongwen's words got stuck in his throat and he looked at Su Luo in confusion.
Su Luo smiled sinisterly, "What if you ruin my reputation?"
Zhou Chongwen nearly choked to death. He coughed for a long time, his face turned red, and he couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Su Luo stood in front of him with her arms folded across her chest, and said leisurely: "What? Forgot? A month ago you took a look at my body, and this morning you sneaked into my bedroom with bad intentions. Are you honest?"
Zhou Chongwen coughed even harder, and stuttered for a long time before he managed to squeeze out a sentence, "I didn't, I didn't see much at that time, I..." After thinking about it, he gave up this explanation and still managed to squeeze out a sentence after a long time, "I didn't see it this morning either... No, it wasn't me, the silver... I asked Xiaoyi to put it in..."
The guy's helpless look made Su Luo laugh so hard that his heart hurt. He took out the silver bar from his waist and threw it to him, "You want to preserve your reputation and get married at the same time. How can all good things fall on your head?"
Zhou Chongwen held the silver with a complicated expression. In fact, he was thinking about other things and didn't consider the money issue. Who would have thought that Su Luo's next sentence almost made him sprain his waist.
"I'll lend it to you, with 3% interest per year."
Zhou Chongwen was speechless. Even if he didn't eat or drink for a year and worked hard to write letters for others, he wouldn't be able to earn any interest.
Looking at Zhou Si's dazed, stunned and indescribable expression, Su Luo pinched her forehead and walked out. She was afraid that she would be angry to death if she left too late.
In the end, Su Luo didn't hear when Zhou Chongwen planned to propose marriage, and she didn't have time to care about it because Wang Han had received news and was leaving for home that same day.
Su Luo immediately felt like he had taken stimulants. He first urged Qin Ji to empty the granary every day, then asked Bao Zixing to contact workers at the dock. Finally, he found time to go to Li Fuhu's house to look for Su.
After much thought, she felt that Su Shi was reluctant to leave because her stepfather was also in the town, and she stayed here to express her beautiful sentiment of "I miss you every day but I can't see you, and I drink the water of the Yangtze River with you." Then the matter was simple, why did she only give Zhou Chongwen ten taels of money? Because she gave the other ten taels in the budget to Su Shi, and gave her a task to buy a house in the town and bring Su Yi to live together.
The Su family had no room for refusal, because Su Luo was about to start his journey to the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't leave Su Yi alone in a small village.
At this point, everything was ready, except for the east wind. Su Luo went to the dock every day to watch, sitting there all day without feeling bored. Zhou Chongwen finally sensed something was wrong, and one evening he came to the dock to find Su Luo, "You don't want to open a bun shop, do you?"
"What do you think?" Su Luo half-lay on the cargo bags piled up at the dock, half-squinting his eyes and looking up at the sky, "Why don't you go and ask for marriage?"
Zhou Chongwen did not answer, but continued to ask his question, "What exactly do you want to do?"
"Stock up on grain." Su Luo told the truth. The grain ship would arrive soon and it would be impossible to hide it.
"Stockpile food?" Zhou Chongwen didn't understand Su Luo's intention at all.
Su Luo thought about it and felt that it would be okay to tell him now. "Do you remember the information I provided to the government office?"
Zhou Chongwen thought for a moment, and his expression changed immediately , "You... you really have wild ideas!"
It was definitely a reprimanding tone. Su Luo smiled and shrugged, making himself lie more comfortably. "Spring drought in Shandong, that's for sure."
"Shandong is adjacent to Henan. If there is a spring drought in Shandong, Henan should also be affected," Zhou Chongwen said in person, "but there has been no sign of drought since the beginning of spring."
Su Luo snorted, "What's so strange about that? Nanjing is still flooded, who can you complain to? Just because we don't feel it doesn't mean Shandong doesn't feel it either. The profiteers with sharp noses should have smelled it by now, and the money of the Shandong people won't stay in their pockets for long."
Zhou Chongwen was a little anxious, "Is everything you said true?"
Su Luo glanced at him to show his affirmative answer, and Zhou Chongwen said, "I disagree."
"I don't need your consent." Su Luo wanted to say a few more words, but suddenly he sat up straight, then jumped up, stood on the pile of goods and looked into the distance. The corners of his mouth curved wider and wider, and he looked at Zhou Chongwen complacently, "Brother Yanzhang, the power of an individual is insignificant, but the power of the golden finger is invincible. The Su Luo era is about to begin!"
