Princess Agent: The Sweet Country Girl's Way to Glory - Chapter 317

Chapter 317 Invite a Gentleman into an Urn
“Wait! Master, there’s something you don’t know!” Su Wanwan smiled dryly and slowly pushed the knife out with her hand. She lowered her eyebrows and said, “Our salt is now the cheapest salt in the capital! It’s only two taels of silver per jin!”

“Heh! I think you can’t read and you don’t know what the law is!” The butler coldly asked Su Wanwan to look at the words “General Nian’s Mansion” on the plaque at the door and said, “This salt can only be sold by fixed salt merchants. Are you not a salt merchant? Then why are you secretly selling salt? This is a crime of killing the head! You actually dare to come to our General’s Mansion to sell salt. Be careful, we will give you a knife and lose your life!”

“Master, that’s not what you said!” As Su Wanwan spoke, she actually cried out a few tears. When others saw her, she looked like an old man crying bitterly, and a few traces of pity appeared in her heart.

Su Wanwan added, “Everyone doesn’t know that there is no salt in the capital today! The salt in every household seems to have disappeared overnight! Even the silver in Qian Jiatun has disappeared! You can’t eat the taste of salt even if you go out to eat. I bought too much salt last year that I secretly hid in the cellar!”

“I originally thought that this old man would repent and go home, but who would have thought that he would fool me now! Do you think I am a vegetarian?” Butler Wang was so angry that he picked up the knife of the guard and shouted, “Get lost!”

“Aiyo ~ This old man is wrong, this old man will leave now!” Su Wanwan pretended to be scared. She did not even take away the small cart that she was pushing and immediately ran away.

Steward Wang looked at the background of Su Wanwan’s departure and smiled complacently, “I’ve been with the general for a long time, and even I have the ability to not be angry and threaten myself!”

Everyone immediately praised him and blew him to the sky. Steward Wang was extremely proud, but when he heard the words of someone running out, his face darkened.

“Not good! Butler Wang! There is no salt in our mansion! We don’t know where the salt went overnight! How can a general’s breakfast be without salt!” A chef ran out and said.

“There’s no salt left. Just buy it!” Housekeeper Wang said, disgusted with the cook’s style.

The chef said with a bitter face, “No, there are no salt sellers in the capital now!”

“Could it be” Hearing this, Butler Wang stroked his goatee and felt that something was wrong. Thinking of what Su Wanwan had just said, he knew that it was true. He immediately glanced at the car that Su Wanwan had left behind and said, “There must be salt in the car! Take it and deal with it first.”

“Yes.” The chef answered and looked at the cloth that had been removed from the carriage. The smile on his face seemed to have frozen. “Butler Wang, there’s no salt here!”

After saying that, the chef uncovered the complete cloth, revealing the empty car. Butler Wang was very angry. Thinking about Su Wanwan saying that she sold salt, she felt like she was cheating money. However, she regretted it in her heart. What if Su Wanwan really had salt?

Suddenly, the cook noticed a line at the back of the cloth-if you want salt, fill the cart with gold.

“This, this person is crazy!” Housekeeper Wang exclaimed in surprise and immediately returned to his mansion angrily.

At this moment, Su Wanwan was sitting in the distance, letting out a few birds to investigate the enemy’s situation for herself. Sure enough, today’s salt-free incident had caused a riot in the entire capital, including Shi Chengshun.

Without salt, the breakfast was naturally tasteless. Shi Chengshun was furious, and the chef brought this matter out.

Hearing this, Shi Chengshun’s eyes immediately lit up. The chef lowered his head and couldn’t see Shi Chengshun’s expression clearly. He muttered, “How could there be such an arrogant person under the heavens! Even a little salt wouldn’t be so arrogant!”

“He has salt, so he’s naturally arrogant.” Shi Chengshun said this indifferently, and his eyes became even brighter.

The cook was afraid that the person who didn’t notice was Shi Chengshun. “So what if there’s salt? The Qian Clan doesn’t have salt either. He endured that there would be a place to sell salt on the streets in less than three days. Now, he’s selling it at such a high price to rob the money!”

“Idiot.” Shi Chengshun chuckled. The chef echoed, not knowing that Shi Chengshun was talking about him.

Shi Chengshun sent people to inquire about it. Master Qian’s salt warehouse no longer had salt. Now, he could only transport salt to the prefecture. It would take at least half a month to travel back and forth. During this period, those who had salt could do whatever they wished, or even sell salt at a high price!

“Someone.” Shi Chengshun shouted coldly, “Fill the small carriage with gold and invite this person over.”

“Yes.” The servant answered, feeling confused, but he still went to do it.

At this moment, Su Wanwan sat calmly and waited. She took out a prayer fan to block the wind from her face. As expected, General Nian’s servant walked out. The one leading the way was actually Steward Wang. Seeing that they were here, Su Wanwan pretended to run a few steps in panic. Those people immediately stepped forward to stop them.

Housekeeper Wang smiled apologetically and said, “Brother, I’m sorry! I just lost my eyes. Look at how old they are! Don’t get angry!”

There were actually people who used their age as an excuse to apologize! Su Wanwan rolled her eyes, coughed, and nodded. However, she looked at the car she had left behind. Steward Wang immediately ran over with a smile and said, “Look.”

Steward Wang removed the cloth from the carriage. Inside were rows of neatly arranged gold ingots!

These gold coins add up to at least 10,000 taels of silver! Su Wanwan was ecstatic in her heart, but on the surface, she said, “No, I want you to fill it up. Why did you all put on so much?”

This gold is even with the carriage, why is it not full yet? Housekeeper Wang was angry, but he could only smile and say, “What do you mean by that?”

“Have you ever heard of a story?” Su Wanwan smiled and touched her fake beard. “There are a few stones in a jar of water. The stones are flat, and you can put in a handful of sand. The sand goes in, flattens the mouth of the jar, and you can put in a handful of fine soil. The soil goes down, flattens the mouth of the jar, and you can put in a handful of water!”

“This story is really novel. I have never heard of it.” Housekeeper Wang laughed, but she was very angry in her heart. Su Wanwan’s words clearly told him to shred gold, powder, and other things into the gold ingot. In short, Su Wanwan was insatiable!

“Have you heard it now? Go and get it. We’ll have something to talk about when it’s full.” Su Wanwan smiled. Seeing the hesitation in Steward Wang’s eyes, she said, “I think your general has his own plans. I’ll discuss a deal with him if the money he gives is satisfactory. He knows how much benefit he can bring.”

“This” Butler Wang gritted his teeth and said, “Wait a moment, I’ll go report it to the general first.”

“No need! I heard what I said just now.” A cold male voice sounded. Shi Chengshun stepped out of the door. Everyone lowered their heads, not knowing if they were respectful or afraid.

Shi Chengshun slowly reached out and grabbed Su Wanwan’s clothes on her chest. Su Wanwan’s body suddenly left the ground and was raised high up!

Su Wanwan lowered her head slightly and saw that Shi Chengshun’s eyes emitted a dense hostility. “This general hates being threatened the most in his life! You are simply courting death!”