,.
When faced with Sha Huanli, the shopkeeper didn't know how to respond.
Xiang Ming raised his eyes and slowly walked to Niu Youdao's side. He raised his hand and patted Niu Youdao's shoulder. The magic power seeped out from his palm and accumulated on Niu Youdao's shoulder.
Niu Youdao looked back, looked at Xiang Ming, and felt the warning in Xiang Ming's eyes.
Xiang Ming smiled at Sha Huanli and said, "Miss, I misunderstood. How can a single painting cost one hundred thousand gold coins? Mr. Xuanyuan came to Star Reaching City to do business and reached a deal with us worth one hundred thousand gold coins. Painting for the lady is incidental. However, we did agree in advance that according to the transaction price, we will only paint one piece."
He turned around and said to Niu Youdao: "Sir, you have worked hard today. Let's take a rest for the time being. Come back and paint again tomorrow. The price of the next painting can be discussed slowly." He was ready to discuss the excuse with Niu Youdao later.
Sha Huanli was not a fool. She could tell from the shopkeeper's reaction, "Take your hand away!"
Xiang Ming let go of his hand on 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 looked calm.
Niu Youdao: "The city lord is overthinking. As the manager said, painting is incidental. If you have agreed to only do one painting, then the price will naturally be calculated separately."
After knowing that Sha Huanli was not a monk, he understood that Sha Huanli could not control the Star Reaching City where monks gathered. The person who actually exercised the power of the city lord in Star Reaching City should be the manager, so he stood directly without thinking too much. Help Xiang Ming speak for him, unless he doesn't want to leave Star Reaching City alive.
Xiang Ming was calm and calm.
After staring at a few people for a while, Sha Huanli said: "Butler, I just hope you understand that there are still many people in the world who are hungry!"
Being able to say this, she obviously still has doubts.
Xiang Ming was quite helpless and thought to himself, what you usually eat is not the best in the world, but you just don’t know it. What does one hundred thousand gold coins mean to you? But on the surface, he still bowed and said: "Miss, don't worry, we will allocate a sum of money to help the poor every year and do what we can. [oM]"
Black Peony glanced left and right.
Sha Huanli pointed to the painting, "Mr. Xuanyuan, tell me honestly how much it costs for you to paint this painting. You are not allowed to lie, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences."
Niu Youdao is tired of it, how could he meet such a second-rate woman and forcefully put him in a dilemma? It was really sudden and unexpected.
"It's something that comes with the deal, but there's really no way to estimate the specific value." Niu Youdao smiled bitterly.
Sha Huanli: "Then I will ask you to make another painting. How much are you going to charge?"
Niu Youdao: "City Lord, I'm not a painter, I don't do art, and I generally don't paint for people. If I have to paint, I will get at least a thousand gold coins."
Xiang Ming suddenly tilted his head and said, "One thousand is too expensive. We provide all the consumables here, and it doesn't take much of your time."
Niu Youdao: "How much do you want to say?"
Xiang Ming stretched out a finger and said, "I'll give you a hundred at most!"
Niu Youdao shook his head: "No, no, it's too low!"
The two of them naturally cooperated, and they were haggling over the price in unison, as if they were making a deal.
Sha Huanli looked at this and that.
Seeing that Xiang Ming refused to let go, Niu Youdao suddenly raised his hands towards Sha Huanli and said: "City Lord, you come to judge, can some things be measured by consumables and time?" He pointed to the painting on the easel, "City Lord, do you also think that my painting is only worth a hundred gold coins?"
Sha Huanli looked at the painting and liked it in her heart. One hundred gold coins seemed a bit low, but she turned around and said, "One thousand is a bit expensive. If you paint 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 spoke in person. Isn't the city lord's face worth five hundred gold coins?"
Sha Huanli raised her hand to stop him, signaling him not to threaten but to speak up if he had anything to say. [oM]
"Alas!" Niu Youdao sighed, "Since I told the manager so, okay, five hundred is five hundred."
Sha Huanli immediately looked satisfied, as if she was happy because she had saved five hundred gold coins. She immediately had someone carefully remove the painting from the drawing board to make room for Niu Youdao to paint again.
Niu Youdao asked someone to move a chair and asked the maid to sit down upright. Without making any moves, he picked up the charcoal and started drawing.
Sha Huanli looked energetic and watched how Niu Youdao painted this kind of painting.
As the outline of the character gradually appeared, Sha Huanli was amazed and asked from time to time for tips on the techniques. Niu Youdao gave a brief explanation.
Seeing that Sha Huanli was having fun, Xiang Ming from behind smiled slightly, looking quite pleased.
After finishing the painting, Niu Youdao put the charcoal pen down and said, "Okay!"
"..." Sha Huanli was stunned. The only thing on the drawing was the maid sitting upright. Except for the chair she was sitting on, there was nothing around her without any background. Moreover, the picture was also much smaller. Compared with hers, the picture was a single picture. Vast and complex, yet small and simple.
I couldn't help but ask: "Why don't you draw the background, sir?"
Niu Youdao looked like he was always willing to spend every penny he spent: "Drawing this actually takes a lot of energy. With five hundred gold coins, I can only draw so much energy to get to this point."
Xiang Ming stepped forward and took a look. The corner of his mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything.
Fortunately, Sha Huanli was easy to talk to, so she didn't worry about it all.
After observing, Sha Huanli was obviously eager to try. She asked a maid to sit across from her and took a charcoal pen to try.
When Xiang Ming turned to leave, he tilted his head to signal the shopkeeper, who extended his hand to invite Miao Yi and Hei Mudan to leave.
When they arrived at the garden below, the shopkeeper asked the two of them to wait a moment. 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 You and said, "Sir, count them."
Black Peony glanced at it, a little hot-eyed, and saw the face value of the gold ticket. It was 10,000 gold coins, which was also the largest face value among the gold tickets.
Niu Youdao counted them and found a total of twenty, which was two hundred thousand gold coins. He couldn't help but smile and found that Manager Xiang was quite trustworthy. One painting cost one hundred thousand, two paintings two hundred thousand, nothing. Except for him, all the bargaining in front of Sha Huanli was bullshit.
The shopkeeper was a little envious, and smiled and warned, "The manager told Mr. Xuanyuan not to say anything that shouldn't be said, otherwise you will get yourself into trouble."
"Understood." Niu Youdao nodded and signaled Black Mudan to take the first step.
After Black Peony left, Niu Youdao looked around and quickly picked out ten golden tickets in his hand. He took out half of them and stuffed them into the shopkeeper's hand, "It's all a small thing for the shopkeeper's hard work."
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment. He had seen inn guests rewarded with money, but he had never seen anyone rewarded with 100,000 gold coins. He was a little frightened and hurriedly declined.
Niu Youdao pushed it back again, "Don't worry, shopkeeper, God knows this and earth knows it. You know it and I know it. I don't dare to talk nonsense and get myself into trouble."
These words made the shopkeeper's heart heat up. The inn's service was attentive and it was normal for guests to reward him. However, the other party was so generous that he didn't dare accept the reward and pushed back.
"If you don't trust someone, you won't stand. We agreed on one hundred thousand gold coins, and I won't take any of the extra money. Please find a suitable opportunity for the shopkeeper to see what Manager Xiang will do with the extra money."
Hearing this, the shopkeeper held the golden ticket, dropped his sleeves, and looked around subconsciously.
In fact, he knew in his heart that these 100,000 gold coins were for his disposal.
He wanted to see what Niu Youdao wanted to do. If he was asked to do anything detrimental to this side, he would immediately hand over the money to Xiang Ming.
The two then left together tacitly.
After going down the steps and out of the archway, I saw Yuan Fang and Black Peony waiting for them.
After saying goodbye to the shopkeeper, they went to different places. On the way, Yuanfang couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Did you give me the money?"
Niu Youdao glanced at him and told the two of them, "Don't reveal anything about today to anyone."
"Yes!" The two of them responded.
Back in the inn room, Niu Youdao took out the 100,000 gold tickets again, 50,000 for each person, and gave them to Yuan Fang and Black Mudan, asking them to keep them for future use. He didn't keep any money.
Of course, in Black Mudan's view, Niu Youdao kept one hundred thousand for himself.
Hei Mudan was a little embarrassed to have received so much money from someone just now, so he declined.
"Just take it as you are told, there's not so much nonsense." Niu Youdao said calmly with no doubt in his words, "You just have to know some things in your mind. You don't need to explain too much to your brothers for the time being. You know too much. It’s easy to think too much, which may not be a good thing for them, you know what I mean?”
"Yes!" Black Peony had no choice but to accept it, and understood the meaning in his tone. He was also eager to cling to the city lord's palace before pointing at her.
When I came out of the house and returned to my own room, I was still sighing in my heart. I thought about how hard it was for me to save some money for so many years. Look at other people who earn it casually and throw it away casually without taking it seriously. This kind of ambition and courage make people ashamed.
When she returned to the house, she hung up the painting to admire it. Thinking that the painting was worth 100,000 gold coins, she was suddenly startled and took out the 50,000 gold coins, her eyes full of surprise and uncertainty.
She remembered what Niu Youdao had asked her before after he painted this painting for her, if this painting was sold to you for 100,000 gold coins, would you buy it
At this moment, I was horrified to think of it. Could it be that the Taoist master did it deliberately and had long known that someone would spend 100,000 gold coins to buy his painting
She couldn't help but carefully sort out the cause and effect, and remembered that Niu Youdao asked her about Sha Huanli, and that when she was painting, she specifically asked Yuanfang to call the waiter to deliver the wine, and asked the waiter to take the painting to frame... Thinking about it, there are traces. , the more I thought about it, the more frightened I became. It was clear that I wanted to get close to Sha Huanli, but I got close but kept a distance from Sha Huanli. Could it be that he was playing hard to get
Yuanfang in the room was still holding the 50,000 gold ticket, turning it over and over, with a happy face. From time to time, he muttered and complained, "Master Tao, I have only known her for a long time, and I don't even know what kind of person she is. How can you give her so much money at once?"
This was a bit exclusive, but he didn't want to think about how long he had been with Niu Youdao, and he so quickly became convinced that he and Niu Youdao were the same. ,.