Chapter 131

In front of Sha Fanli, the shopkeeper didn't know how to answer.

Xiang Ming raised his eyes, walked slowly to Niu Youdao's side, raised his hand and patted Niu Youdao's shoulder, the mana in his palm oozed out and accumulated on Niu Youdao's shoulder.

Niu Youdao looked back, and exchanged a glance with Xiang Ming, feeling the warning in Xiang Ming's eyes.

Xiang Ming smiled at Sha Huanli: "Miss misunderstood, how could one painting cost 100,000 gold coins? Mr. Xuanyuan came to the Star City to do business, and reached a deal with us worth 100,000 gold coins. Painting for the lady was included. But it was agreed in advance that according to the transaction price, only one painting will be made."

Turning around, he said to Niu Youdao: "Mr. is working hard today, rest for now, and come back to paint tomorrow. The price of another painting can be discussed slowly." I plan to discuss with Niu Youdao later.

Sha Huanli is not a fool, she can tell the clue from the shopkeeper's reaction, "Take your hands away!"

Xiang Ming let go of Niu Youdao's shoulder.

Sha Huanli stared at Niu You and said, "Mr. Xuanyuan, please tell the truth, what is going on? Don't worry, if anyone dares to threaten you, I will make the decision for you."

Xiang Ming lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes without moving his expression.

Niu Youdao: "The city lord is overthinking. As I said to the manager, the painting is incidental. It is agreed that only one painting will be made. Of course, another painting will have to be calculated separately."

After he knew that Sha Fanli was not a monk, he understood that Sha Fanli couldn't control the city where monks gathered, and the person who actually exercised the power of the city lord in Star City should be the chief manager, so he didn't think too much, and stood on Xiang Ming's side to help Xiang Ming, unless he didn't want to leave the city alive.

Xiang Ming remained calm.

Staring at a few people for a while, Sha Fanli said: "Housekeeper, I just hope you understand that there are still many people in the world who can't eat enough!"

Being able to say this, she obviously still has doubts.

Xiang Ming was quite helpless, thinking to himself, what do you usually eat and use is not the best in the world, but you don't know it yourself, what is one hundred thousand gold coins to you? But on the surface, he still bowed and said: "Miss, don't worry, we will spend a sum of money every year to help the poor and do what we can."

Black Peony looked left and right.

Sha Huanli pointed to the painting, "Mr. Xuanyuan, tell me honestly how much it will cost you to paint this painting. Don't lie, or you will bear the consequences."

Niu Youdao was tired of it, how could he meet this kind of bastard woman, he was so caught in a dilemma, it was so sudden and unexpected.

"There is no way to estimate the specific value of the incidental part of the deal that has been negotiated." Niu Youdao smiled wryly.

Sha Fanli: "Then I will ask you to make another one now, how much are you going to charge?"

Niu Youdao: "City Lord, I'm not a painter, I don't sell art, and generally I don't paint for people. If painting is necessary, at least one thousand gold coins will be paid."

Xiang Ming suddenly turned his head and said, "One thousand is too expensive. The consumables are all provided by us, and it didn't take you much time."

Niu Youdao: "Then how much do you say?"

Xiang Ming stretched out a finger, "I'll give you a hundred at most!"

Niu Youdao shook his head: "No, no, it's too low!"

The two of them cooperated naturally, and they sang together and bargained there.

Safanli looked at this and then at that.

Seeing that Xiang Ming refused to let go, Niu Youdao cupped his hands at Sha Fanli suddenly and said, "City Master, you come to judge, can some things be measured by consumables and time?" He pointed to the painting on the easel, "City Master, do you also think my painting is only worth a hundred gold coins?"

Sha Fanli looked at the painting, and liked it in her heart. A hundred gold coins seemed a little low, but she turned around and said, "One thousand is a bit expensive. So, if you draw another one, I'll give you five hundred gold coins, how about it?"

"This..." Niu Youdao was a little embarrassed.

Xiang Ming said in a deep voice: "The city lord has spoken in person, isn't the city lord's face worth five hundred gold coins?"

Sha Fanli raised her hand to stop him, motioning him not to threaten, but to speak well.

"Ah!" Niu Youdao sighed, "Since I have told the general manager so, well, five hundred is five hundred."

Sha Huanli immediately showed a satisfied look, as if she was happy for saving five hundred gold coins, and immediately asked someone to carefully remove the painting on the drawing board to make room for Niu Youdao to paint again.

Niu Youdao asked someone to move a chair, let the maid sit down upright, didn't make any movements, and picked up a charcoal pencil to draw.

Sha Huanli looked energetic, watching how Niu Youdao painted this kind of painting.

As the outline of the characters gradually appeared, Sha Fanli was amazed, and asked from time to time, asking for advice on the techniques, and Niu Youdao gave some explanations.

Seeing that Sha Huanli was having fun, Xiang Ming from behind smiled slightly, quite relieved.

When the painting was finished, Niu Youdao put down the charcoal pencil, "It's done!"

"..." Sha Huanli was stunned. On the drawing paper, there was only a maid sitting upright. Except for the chair she was sitting on, the surrounding area was blank without any background, and the frame was much smaller. Compared with hers, one picture was vast and complex, while the other was small and simple.

Can't help but ask: "Why don't you paint the background, sir?"

Niu Youdao looked like he was thinking about pennies and bucks: "Drawing this actually takes a lot of energy, and I can only paint to this point with five hundred gold coins."

Xiang Ming stepped forward to take a look, the corner of his mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything.

Fortunately, Sha Fanli was also quite talkative, so she didn't care too much about it.

After observing, Sha Huanli was obviously eager to try it, so she called a maid to sit across from her, and took a charcoal pencil to try it herself.

When Xiang Ming turned to leave, he turned his head to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper stretched out his hand to invite Niu Youdao and Hei Mudan to leave.

Arriving in the garden below, the shopkeeper asked the two of them to wait for a while. He left for a while, and when he came back, he took out a stack of gold tickets from his sleeve and handed them to Niu Youdao: "Sir, count them."

Hei Mudan glanced at it, a little eagerly, and saw the face value of the gold bill, which was 10,000 gold coins, which was also the largest among the gold bills.

Niu Youdao counted a total of twenty pieces, that is, two hundred thousand gold coins. He couldn't help but smile, and found that the manager Xiang was quite trustworthy, one painting was one hundred thousand, and two paintings were two hundred thousand. Not missing him, he was farting when haggling in front of Sha Fanli before.

The shopkeeper was a little envious, and smiled and warned, "The manager told Mr. Xuanyuan to tell you, don't say what you shouldn't say, or you will cause trouble for yourself."

"Understood." Niu Youdao nodded, signaling Hei Mudan to take a step ahead.

After Hei Mudan left, Niu Youdao looked around, quickly counted out ten golden tickets in his hand, took out half of them, and stuffed them into the shopkeeper's hand, "The shopkeeper's hard work is just a small thing."

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment. He had seen inn guests giving money, but hadn't seen one giving 100,000 gold coins. He was a little scared and hurriedly declined.

Niu Youdao pushed back again, "Don't worry shopkeeper, God knows this matter, you know me, I don't dare to talk nonsense and cause trouble for myself."

The shopkeeper's heart was warmed by what he said. The service of the inn is considerate, and it is normal for guests to give rewards, but the other party is so generous that he dare not accept the reward, so he pushes back.

"No one can stand without trust. It was agreed that there would be one hundred thousand gold coins, and I would not take any more. If there is more, please find a suitable opportunity to see how the general manager will deal with it."

Hearing this, the shopkeeper grabbed the golden ticket, and his sleeves drooped to envelop it, and he subconsciously looked around.

In fact, he knew in his heart that the 100,000 gold coins were for his disposal.

He wants to see what Niu Youdao wants to do. If he is asked to do something that is not good for this side, he will immediately hand over the money to Xiang Ming.

The two then left hand in hand tacitly.

After going down the steps and out of the arch, I saw Yuanfang and Hei Mudan waiting.

After saying goodbye to the shopkeeper here, they went to various places. On the way, Yuan Fang couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Have you given the money?"

Niu Youdao squinted at him and told them, "Don't tell anyone what happened today."

"Yes!" The two agreed.

Back in the inn room, Niu Youdao took out the 100,000 gold tickets, 50,000 each, and distributed them to Yuan Fang and Hei Mudan, and asked them to keep them for later use, but he didn't keep any money.

Of course, in Hei Mudan's view, Niu Youdao kept one hundred thousand for himself.

Hei Mudan was a little embarrassed to take so much money from someone just now, so she declined.

"Just hold it if you tell me, there's not so much nonsense." Niu Youdao said with no doubts in his indifferent words, "You can just know some things in your heart. You don't need to explain too much to your brothers for the time being. Knowing too much is easy to think too much. It may not be a good thing for them. Do you understand me?"

"Yes!" Hei Mudan had no choice but to accept it, and understood the meaning in his tone, and was also eager to cling to the City Lord's Mansion before pointing at her.

When I came out of the house and went back to my own house, I was still feeling emotional, thinking how hard it was for me to save some money for so many years, looking at other people, earning it casually, and throwing it away casually, it doesn’t matter at all, this kind of heart and courage make people ashamed.

Back in the house, she hung up the painting to admire, thinking that the painting was worth 100,000 gold coins, she was taken aback suddenly, and took out the 50,000 gold ticket, her eyes full of surprise.

She remembered what Niu Youdao asked her after drawing this painting for her before, if this painting was sold to you for 100,000 gold coins, would you buy it?

Thinking of it at this moment, I was terrified. Could it be that the Daoist did it on purpose, knowing that someone would spend 100,000 gold coins to buy his painting?

She couldn't help sorting out the cause and effect in detail. She remembered that Niu Youdao asked her about Sa Fanli, and she remembered that when she was painting, she asked Yuanfang to call a buddy to deliver wine, and then asked the buddy to take the painting to frame... Thinking about it, there was a clue.

Yuan Fang in the house was still looking at the fifty thousand gold ticket over and over, his face was full of joy, and he muttered and complained a few words from time to time, "Master Dao, I have only known her for a long time, and I don't even know what kind of person she is, how can I give her so much money at once."

These words were a bit xenophobic, but he didn't think about how long he had been with Niu Youdao, and so soon he firmly believed that he and Niu Youdao were in the same group.