Transmigration with QQ Farm

Chapter 69 part 6

 Expansion of The House; A Deal Was Made (6)

Naturally, Cheng Biyuan understood that Zhu Bo was just being polite. He didn’t let that bother him. He casted a glance at his daughter standing nearby and said softly,, “Xiao Xiao can make the decision as far as the pricing goes. You can go ahead and work with her on that.”

Cheng Xiao Xiao understood clearly that it was now the time to barter. She pulled out the pricing list that she had prepared in advanced. Pushing it over to Zhu Bo, she smiled, “Young lord, please take a look!”

“Miss Cheng was so well prepared. Let me take a look!” After taking over the pricing list, his look was much more seriously. He studied it carefully from top to bottom.

A while later, he looked up and smiled bitterly, “Miss Cheng, isn’t this price a bit high? You see, we will still need to send our people to transport all the merchandise out from here. There’s a lot of overhead on our end. With this pricing, we won’t be making any money!”

“Young lord, I am sure you understand the concept of low profit but high volume of sales. As for the transportation cost, young lord, are you trying to bully me because I am young and naïve? Everybody knows that big shots like you has all sorts of means such as dimension pouches, dimension bracelets, dimension rings, you name it. You practically has an unlimited supply of these, transportation cost is not an issue for you at all. Surely you are joking”

Cheng Xiao Xiao pointed it all out point blank and Zhu Bo smiled with slight embarrassment. After all, he was used to business negotiation,  where one naturally try to get the cost down to the lowest possible point.

“Miss Cheng, you are not wrong, but we still need capital. Especially when it comes to mystical animals, we are transporting them out in large quantities and we must have sufficient mystical water and mystical food to provide to them. And we must buy all of those from you, we’d be losing too much money!” said Zhu Bo with fake helplessness.

Cheng Xiao Xiao was unaffected by his words. Smiling, she said, “Oh, I am sure it won’t be difficult for someone like the young lord to figure out how to resolve the cost issue. Am I right, young lord?”

“Ugh, why do I feel that Miss Cheng is a better at business negotiation than I am, this is really…”

Before he finished his sentence, he looked down on the pricing list again. To be completely honest, the prices that she listed out weren’t completely unacceptable. It was merely habitual to try to barter in his line of business. He thought about it for a minute and said, “Alright, Miss Cheng. I’ll accept your prices. But any new species that you guys have in the future, we will continue to work together and remember to give us a discount on the new species, alright?”

“No problem!” She’d worry about those later on. She didn’t care about the pricing in the future. She just needed him to agree to these right now.

Cheng Biyuan, who had been listening along close by, was very pleased. He was very pleased with his incredibly smart daughter. Even though the way she negotiate was still a bit childish, but comparing to all the other shelter girls, she was surely much better.

Granted, Zhu Bo let Cheng Xiao Xiao have the upper hand in this negotiation intentionally. Otherwise, someone as experienced as he was would have easily eaten a newbie like her alive.

Cheng Biyuan had assisted in his family businesses back in the days. He wasn’t a half bad business man himself; he just never dedicated too much time into the business world.

They then spent more time nailing down the details on dates, and time flew by and it was noon before they knew it!

Mrs. Cheng, along with some hired village women and maids brought out lunch!

Cheng Biyuan asked Zhu Bo and his men to stay for lunch. It was the fanciest setting, but since all the food contain mystical chi, everybody found them delectable.

In the afternoon, the Cheng’s sold one-third of the mystical animals to Zhu Bo. And Innkeeper Zhu had assumed his new role as the Cheng’s new steward of the servants. They would now all report to him to learn about all the house rules and other knowledge.

After they have finished busying themselves with that. The Cheng’s father and daughter were invited to Willow by the patriarch.

As for the reason, Cheng Xiao Xiao had an idea, but she didn’t let it bother her and arrived at the Patriarch Liu’s house with her father.

Taking a look around after they have entered, they saw the place crowded with the villagers. A better way to put it was that villagers of all ages who weren’t helping at currently at the Cheng’s attended.

“Mr. Cheng and Xiao Xiao are here. C’mon over, have a seat!” Patriarch Liu stood up to greet them!

The others also followed suit and stood up to greet Cheng Biyuan!

Cheng Biyuan returned the greetings individually. Then, as arranged by Patriarch Liu, Cheng Biyuan settled into a seat across from him and Cheng Xiao Xiao sat next to him.

Everybody was seated after them. All eyes were upon Patriarch Liu. The villagers had already gotten used to letting Patriarch Liu take care of all issues, large or small.

Under everybody’s keen look, Patriarch Liu fake coughed a few time and said to Cheng Biyuan, “Mr. Cheng, we have invited you over mainly because of a few young girls in town. And, more and more villagers are now working for the Cheng’s so we would like to get some approvals from you. We hope that is okay!”

“Patriarch Liu, you are so polite. We all live in the same village, we are always open to discussing any issues!” responded Cheng Biyuan gently and cupped his hand at Patriarch Liu.

Upon observing Cheng Biyuan’s manner, Patriarch Liu nodded with satisfaction. The Cheng’s mannerism toward the villagers did not change after the change of the family. Patriarch Liu was pleased with that.

Stroking his white beard, Patriarch Liu smiled and said, “Mr. Cheng, truth be told, the villagers would like to be employed by your family. As you may know, we only grow limited crops in our village and our main means were hunting in the mountains. Now everyone wish to have a stable job. I know that you have already employed quite a few villagers, and providing them with very good compensation. The rest of the villagers would like to be able to do the same. Do you think you might be able to arrange that, Mr. Cheng?”

“Patriarch Liu, I understand what you mean. I am pleased to hear that everybody would like to work for our family. It is certainly an honor on our part, it’s just that…”

Cheng Biyuan paused for a little bit, then said, “Patriarch Liu, we have just started expanding our family house. We do need some help, but I am afraid I will not be able to provide work for everyone in the village. For now I can only hire basing on my needs. I hope Patriarch Liu and the fellow villagers can understand where I am coming from!”

“What, Mr. Cheng? Are you saying  no to us?”

An Hung niang jumped up for her seat and interjected. Then said straight at Cheng Biyuan, “Let me tell you something, Mr. Cheng. Pardon me for being blunt, you guys were the ones who said you wanted to hire some girls from the village to go help out. We sent our girls over, but you only took some of them and sent the rest back. Are you looking down on us? You either take all of them or none of them. Otherwise, you are just looking down on us!”

“Wife of Sanzhen, shut up! This is not your place!” scolded Patriarch Liu with a low voice!

An Hung niang wasn’t going to let him shut her up, “Patriarch, I am telling the truth. Don’t you be defending them because the Cheng’s took your two girls! I want justice!”

“How dare you!” Patriarch Liu was truly angry now. Pointing straight at An Hung niang, he said, “Wife of Sanzhen, you are becoming more and more ridiculous. What do you mean that Mr. Cheng was playing favoritism? Have you forgotten that your husband Liu Sanzhen was one of the first employed by them? Why are you trying to cause trouble here? Must they support your entire family before you said he was not playing favoritism?”