Chapter 78 Karaoke & Karaoke KO
Since Zhou Chongwen left first, Qin Huai and Li Rusong did not join them, so Su Luo and Su Jiang went to find Su Hong and went out of the Su Mansion together, and happened to meet Su Tong who was also going out. Su Tong did not dare to see Su Luo after the last incident, and when he saw her, he could no longer show his fatherly dignity and gave way to Su Luo, looking so ashamed that it was heartbreaking to see him.
Seeing that Su Luo ignored Su Tong, Su Jiang hesitated for a moment, but Su Hong said first: "Sister Luo, please don't be angry with Third Uncle. After all, we are father and daughter, and it took many years to cultivate our fate."
Su Jiang also said: "Yes, Third Uncle is sometimes helpless, but he is actually a good person. Brother Hong and I were closest to Third Uncle when we were young."
Su Hong immediately nodded in agreement. The two's words made Su Tong, who was standing beside them, seem to see the light of day. He looked at Su Luo with hope. Su Luo also stopped and looked back, but said, "Who you get close to is your business. What does it have to do with me?"
Su Jiang could tell that Su Luo was in a bad mood, so she didn't want to continue the discussion. She reached out to pull her away, but Su Hong frowned. "Sister Luo, since you came back to our house, everyone has been very affectionate to you. You get along well with us, but why can't you get along with Third Uncle?"
Su Luo always greeted them with a smile. Today, he lowered his voice because he didn't want to spend too much time with Su Tong. Unexpectedly, he was questioned by Su Hong. His face darkened and he said in a cold voice: "If your uncle also kicked you and your son out of the house and let you and your son suffer without doing anything, can you still regard this man as your father?"
If Su Luo said this in private, Su Hong probably wouldn't say anything based on her personality. But today, Su Tong was present, looking embarrassed. Su Hong felt that as a male of the Su family, he had to speak up for Third Uncle, so he said anxiously, "It was Third Aunt who drove you away. Now you can talk to Third Aunt, but why can't you talk to Third Uncle? And you even put up a sign like that in front of the courtyard gate. Is that what children should do?"
Su Luo sneered when she heard this, "I am talking to Auntie and even willing to call her Auntie because it is my understanding of her as a woman. It is not wrong for a woman to drive away the women around her husband. Now she has brought us back for her son's future, which is even more not wrong."
Su Hong was dumbfounded by Su Luo's words. After a long while, she said, "Since you said so, then...what was Third Uncle's fault?"
Although Su Luo was talking to Su Hong, his eyes were on Su Tong. "Su Tong's fault is that he is not a man! Not only has he lost his position as the head of the family, but he can't even protect his concubines. If he was more straightforward and drove her out and pretended that she didn't exist, it would also show that he is still like a man. Who knew that he is not good at other things, but he is good at giving birth to children secretly!"
Seeing Su Tong's face turn red, white, and red, and finally turn to a bloodless pale, Su Luo walked up to him with a cold face, "What were you doing when my mother was a servant in someone else's house, earning a hundred copper coins a month? What were you doing when I worked as an embroiderer day and night for a living and couldn't find a good husband? Su Yi was too young to afford to go to school, and his hands were covered with scars from carving on the slab every day. What were you doing then? Now that our situation is better and we have some value to use, you take us back. What if we have been used enough? What do you want? Are you still letting Aunt kick us out of the house?"
Su Tong's face was almost pale. He opened his eyes wide, and his lips kept moving, but he couldn't speak. Su Luo looked at him with contempt, "You are not a man at all, and you are not worthy of being a father. I feel sick just thinking about asking you to call me dad."
After Su Luo finished speaking, he turned around expressionlessly, ignored Su Hong and Su Jiang, and walked away.
Although Su Luo is not the Su Luo who has really suffered countless hardships, but now Su Shi is her mother and Su Yi is her brother, so she is naturally Su Luo. She had endured those words just now for a long time. She had planned to give it to Su Tong after selling the money box and taking Su Shi and Su Yi away. She didn't expect to act impulsively today.
Although the karaoke competition was held in the afternoon, admission was free, so some audiences were afraid that they would not be able to get good seats, so they rushed to reserve seats early in the morning. When Su Luo arrived at the cash box, the flower cabinet opposite was already crowded with guests.
Bao Zixing was busy directing the servants to clean the lobby and the boxes, while Zhou Chongwen occupied a table and wrote some big characters. Su Luo went to take a look and saw that he was writing some slogans in support of the Qiangui singing representatives. He looked up and saw Su Luo, and put down his pen, "I have already made an appointment with the shopkeeper of the Wengui for you. As expected, Boss Xue came to inquire about it. I did everything you said."
Su Luo nodded, not thinking anything. Zhou Chongwen asked her again, and she said, "I said something to Su Tong on impulse before I left today. I was afraid that he would take his anger out on my mother."
Zhou Chongwen quickly asked what happened, frowned slightly, but comforted Su Luo, "It's okay, he shouldn't have the courage to do that."
"I'm not afraid of him, I'm afraid of Auntie ." Su Luo picked up the pen on the table and wrote a few words, "Su Tong is her husband after all. She needs my help now. I'm afraid I won't be able to get it back with interest when she turns over one day."
Zhou Chongwen looked at Su Luo's random words and frowned unconsciously, "What are you going to do?"
"I don't want to wait any longer." Su Luo threw the pen away and breathed a sigh of relief as if he had figured something out. "I'll go negotiate with Fatty Xue right away. The sooner we talk, the sooner we can sell it. After I sell the money cabinet, I'll immediately take my mother and Xiao Yi away from here and completely sever ties with the Su family."
Zhou Chongwen was stunned for a long time, then a warm smile slowly appeared on his handsome face. He nodded gently and firmly towards Su Luo to show his support.
Su Luo was not too surprised, she knew Zhou Chongwen would support her. Compared to how much money he could make from selling the money box, this guy cared more about the feelings of the Su family. One thousand taels more or less was not a big deal to him. So this guy was not a good businessman, although he boasted that he wanted to be the richest man in Ming Dynasty, and then help more people in need, and eventually become the most kind person in Ming Dynasty - Su Luo never knew where his weird ideas came from, and admired his blind self-confidence.
Some people agreed, some disagreed. Bao Zixing disagreed and even strongly opposed it, saying that as long as we hold on a little longer, we can at least cheat the fat man out of another thousand taels... five hundred taels would be fine too.
Su Luo said, "One thousand taels? I don't want it. There are countless thousand taels waiting for me in the future. Facing mountains of gold and silver, I must bring my family together, take my mother and my brother, and drive the carriage...
Zhou Si showed his head at the right time and said shyly in a low voice: "I'll go too..."
Su Luo wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and said to Bao Zixing, "Old Bao, come with me to find Fatty Xue now."
Bao Zixing sighed deeply and for a long time, but still responded to the leader's call and followed Su Luo out of the cash box.
When I found Fatty Xue, he was directing the servants to hang a large banner above the stage to promote the flower cabinet. When he saw Su Luo coming, his face was immediately full of smiles, "You are so cunning, you made some exchange coupons and jingles, and now everyone knows the name of your money cabinet."
Su Luo counted and found that the blisters on Fatty Xue's mouth had disappeared. It seemed that he had figured out some things, so he was no longer in a hurry.
Su Luo looked at the stage, then turned back to Fatty Xue and said, "Make two small banners and have the contestants hang them on their bodies, and have the ladies and servants at the door hang them on their bodies, and have them walk around the world so that everyone can see them wherever they go. It will definitely be more effective than sticking them on the stage."
Fatty Xue was initially doubtful, fearing that Su Luo would do something bad to him, but after thinking it over, he made a prompt decision and immediately had people start making small banners. As a result, the inside and outside of the flower cabinet were filled with male and female greeters wearing red ribbons across their shoulders. It seemed fresh to everyone and the effect was quite good.
Seeing the "flower cabinet ribbons" flying red all over the place, Fatty Xue nodded repeatedly with satisfaction, his eyes wandering everywhere except Su Luo. Su Luo tugged at his clothes and said, "Don't worry, these are my gifts, I'm not asking for a favor from you."
Fat Xue smiled so hard that his eyes were invisible, and said, "I'm not afraid that you will ask me for a favor. How about this? I'll treat you to dinner tonight."
Su Luo looked at Fatty Xue for a long time and said with a smile, "What's the matter? You know I have a dinner party tonight, so you want to treat me to a meal?"
Fatty Xue quickly said he didn't know, and then asked casually, "Who are you having dinner with?"
" Don't you know who he is with better than me?" Su Luo raised his head and pointed at the private room on the second floor with his chin, "Go upstairs, I have something to tell you."
The smile on Fatty Xue's face immediately faded a little. He motioned Su Luo to go first, and then he pretended to be busy downstairs for a while before going upstairs to the box.
Su Luo was visiting in the box. When he saw him come in, he smiled and said, "Fatty, you are really good. You have learned everything from our Qiangui."
"You're welcome, let's learn from each other, learn from each other." Fatty Xue smiled, "After learning this, I have also improved a lot of things. Look here..." He opened a small door in the room, "The backing singers in your place have independent access, but I can come directly into the room here. If the guests are interested, they can sing with the backing singers, and there is also this... "
Fatty Xue talked about this and that, but he didn't ask why Su Luo asked him to come up. Su Luo smiled and waved his hand, "Alright, Fatty, don't play any psychological tactics with me. Have you guessed why I called you up?"
Fatty Xue laughed and wanted to talk about something else, but Su Luo suppressed his smile and said seriously, "Five thousand taels, together with the sign of our cash box. If you agree, I don't have to eat with others tonight."
Bao Zixing behind Su Luo trembled a little, but he tried not to show any strange expression on his face. Su Luo glanced behind him and smiled faintly, "You can think about it. Feel free to find me before the end of today's game."
Su Luo walked out after saying this. When he reached the door, Fatty Xue couldn't help but raised his hand, "What's going on? Over there in the cabinet..."
Su Luo smiled slightly and answered the question irrelevantly: "In fact, the three thousand taels of silver awarded by the court should be divided equally among the three of us. Although you are not a very loyal person, without your help, I can't transport my grain to Shandong."
After saying this, Su Luo walked out the door without looking back. Fatty Xue turned around and blocked Bao Zixing's way. "Why did I hear that you only opened 3,500 taels for the cabinet?"
Bao Zixing bowed, as if he was not in the mood to talk, "Boss Xue, you're joking. Let alone three thousand five hundred taels, even for the five thousand taels, I don't agree. If you delay it any longer..." Having said this, Bao Zixing realized that he had said something wrong and stopped with a long sigh, "I don't know what the boss's wife said to the boss, and they changed their minds so early in the morning..." Bao Zixing shook his head and left the box.
When he entered the door of Qiangui, he found Su Luo hiding by the door and greeted him. She asked him what Fatty Xue had said. Bao Zixing repeated it. Su Luo patted Bao Zixing's shoulder with great satisfaction. Zhou Chongwen couldn't say such words, so she took Bao Zixing with her.
Bao Zixing was also very excited, "Boss, the news you told us to spread earlier was four thousand taels, I thought you wanted to sell the cash box at this price."
"That's not what I originally thought. Qiangui invested more than 1,000 taels in the early stage, plus the operating expenses in the past few months, minus the profit, I think it would be okay to sell it at about three times the price. But you said that Fatty Xue, I would feel bad if I didn't rip him off, so didn't I say, 'including the Qiangui sign', 5,000 taels." After that, she smiled at Bao Zixing and said, "Your shivering reaction just now was good, maybe Fatty Xue will think that you really don't want to sell Qiangui."
In fact, Bao Zixing was not reluctant at all, he was just scared by Su Luo's asking price.
"Well." Su Luo stroked his chin and thought for a while, "You go prepare a sales contract, and take it to Qin Huai when you meet him. The price on the contract... just write 4,500 taels, and write it in large letters so that people can read it clearly from a distance."
Bao Zixing was stunned for a moment, then he reacted, responded happily, and hurriedly prepared the contract.
Zhou Chongwen, who had been listening, was confused. He only heard that he wanted to sell at a high price, but he didn't hear that he lowered the price. Su Luo told him that he should just watch more and talk less today.
After hearing this, Zhou Chongwen nodded and went back to continue writing big characters.
In the afternoon, when the competition was just halfway started, Fatty Xue found Su Luo. As soon as they met, he sullenly accused Su Luo of not following the business rules. He went to find another company right after telling him the price. What kind of person was he trying to marry one woman to multiple men?
Su Luo had no choice but to smile. "Fatty, you are really well-informed. I don't want to do that either, but I'm not sure about you. What if you can't eat the money box? I have to find a way out for myself first. To tell you the truth, my mother is so anxious that she threatened to sell me if I don't sell the money box."
Fatty Xue's expression relaxed then, and he said that with my current strength, it would be a bit difficult to take over Qiangui, and you are interested in cooperating with Boss Qin, so I feel embarrassed to argue with you, so forget it.
Su Luo curled her lips, asked the waiter to see the guests off, and then followed Fatty Xue back to the competition site of the flower cabinet, sitting next to Qin Huai, the chief judge. Others watched her and Qin Huai talking happily, and there was a young man sitting next to them that no one had ever seen. Su Luo took a few pieces of paper from Bao Zixing, first handed them to Qin Huai, and then Qin Huai handed them to the young man next to him. The young man, who looked lazy, flipped through the paper, then nodded, and returned the paper to Qin Huai.
That evening, just after the competition ended, Su Luo received a small box. When he opened it, he found a pile of small silver ingots, at least 1,800 taels.
The shopkeeper who came to deliver the silver handed over another sales contract. The transaction price was four thousand seven hundred taels. The signature area for Party A was left blank, and the signature for Party B was written by Xue Hongtao.
Su Luo thought for a long time before he remembered that this was Fatty Xue's name. The shopkeeper of the flower shop said, "This one thousand taels is a deposit. If Boss Su agrees, the other three thousand seven hundred taels will be delivered to your house tomorrow morning."
Su Luo patted the box containing the silver, signed the contract with a sigh, then asked Bao Zixing and Zhou Chongwen to carry the box and went home happily.
Halfway through the journey, they met Qin Huai and Li Rusong. Qin Huai said, "Is the menu you showed us today real? We have even turned down the invitation from the Chamber of Commerce and are only waiting for this meal from you."
Su Luo chuckled and pretended not to hear. Qin Huai stepped forward and opened the lid of the box to take a look. He turned back and said to Li Rusong, "Come on, we've been taken advantage of."
Li Rusong was still in his lazy and leisurely manner, and said indifferently: "Don't pretend to be wronged. You are obviously having a lot of fun acting."
