Chapter 1205 Basking in the glory
Village Head Gu was speechless, seeing her look at the mer with a blank look on her face her husband rolled his eyes before heading out of the house.
" Hello, how can we help you?" Old Master Gu asked as he bumped his wife to the side while looking at the elegant and rich mer. If not for the fact he was aware of his wife's worth he would have worried about this mer suddenly knocking on his door.
" Ah I am here to look for Miss Yu," the mer replied with an embarrassed smile. This time around Old Master Gu felt a bit alarmed was this mer here to look for Yu Dong? What could be the reason, was he here to woo Yu Dong? That could be possible given that she was now rich and influential herself.
However, if this mer caused trouble in the Yu family then it wouldn't be just the Yu family who would suffer. It would be the entire village!
Because of his suspicions, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the mer in front of him and then asked in a cold voice, "For what reason are you looking for our Village Owner?" In the past Old Master Gu was bent on going against Yu Dong but after he saw the amount of money his daughters and wife were making he decided to become the number one fan of Yu Dong.
He wouldn't allow anyone to cause trouble for Yu Dong and her family!
If Yu Dong and her family were bothered then the entire village would be bothered.
The mer seemed to have understood what Old Master Gu was thinking. He waved his hand and then said in a flustered manner, " No… No.. don't misunderstand. My name is Chu Yuanzi, I am the husband of the Minister of Finance in the county government. I actually came here because I want to buy meat and vegetables from Miss Yu's family."
" You … came all the way from the town to buy meat and vegetables ?" Old Master Gu looked at the mer in front of him as if he was looking at a fool. Why was this mer here didn't Yu Dong increase the stock of low-grade vegetables?
Was two thousand catties of each vegetable not enough for these rich people?
Old Master Gu felt like he was seeing the world for the first time. If he was not wrong when his daughters used to bring ten catties of each vegetable they would return with two or three catties of leftover vegetables. Yet Yu Dong was selling off two thousand catties of each vegetable as if it meant nothing!
And meat! He did not even want to start on meat.
His sister was a butcher in another town and she hardly earned more than a tael every month now that the weather was so hot no one was even buying meat in her town, his sister told him that it was impossible to even earn more than a hundred copper coins these days as people would feel hot and sweat a lot after eating meat thus in such a hot weather they were avoiding to buy meat.
Yet Yu Dong sold two pigs! Ten or more chickens along with four goats in just a day? What kind of magical livestock was she raising?
' It looks like I will have to invite my sister to my village,' Old Master Yu thought in his head.
Chu Yuanzi smiled at Old Master Gu who seemed bewildered by the fact that he came to the village just to buy vegetables and meat from Yu Dong.
" You have no idea, brother. But it's really hard to get hands on the vegetables and meat sold by Madam Yu. As for the bread and jam, it's better if I don't even start on it. They are novel things for the officials and they buy them before those things are even placed on the shelves, even the rice sacks would have been sold at once if not for their high price," Chu Yuanzi sighed.
" I have three daughters and they all are sitting at the scholar exams. One of them is actually giving exams for high officials, if she passes then she will become an official in the Imperial court."
" I want to make sure that my daughters are well-fed and energetic instead of feeling drowsy. Miss Yu's stock is the right choice for this, which is why I came to the village as the mall is too busy."
Chu Yuanzi knew that he was being a bit too shameless but what could he do? His eldest daughter was this close to becoming a second-rank official from the fifth rank. He could not make a mistake at this point!
Thus he could only thicken his skin and come to the village in the hope that he would be able to buy some good stuff for his eldest daughter at least as she was the most talented and had more chances of passing the exams.
It was a bit of biased of him but there was no other choice.
Old Master Gu was aware of the fact that Yu Dong's stuff was selling at a fast pace but he did not know that the money that his family was earning was this easy to earn!
He was very happy after listening to Chu Yuanzi's words and nodded, " The Yu family lives at the opposite end of the village right next to the mountains. Don't worry I will take you with me."
With that, he asked Chu Yuanzi to follow him.
When the two of them were walking past the village, some of the villagers paused and looked at Chu Yuanzi who was dressed very differently than them.
" OId Master Gu who is this? Where are you taking this lord?" One of the villagers asked. Was someone in trouble? If not why would someone as rich and elegant as Chu Yuanzi come to their village?
" This gentleman is here to buy Yu Dong's stock," Old Master Gu said with an arrogant expression. He was quite happy that his family was close to Yu Dong and thus he too could bask in some of her light.