FID – Chapter 389

 Chapter 389: Whatever Happened To Her Was None Of His Business

  ”You said before that you want to cooperate with those rich merchants in the city. How do you plan to cooperate with them? There are many rich merchants in the city. If they all sell Xinghua Village wine, isn’t that the same as letting the group of them compete?” Liu Dalin wrinkled his eyebrows.

  Wouldn’t that create competition? No matter how big the whole Nanling was, there was only a limited number of people who drank and bought alcohol.

  If there were more wine sellers, merchants would certainly earn less. By then, incidents like robbing each other of sites and customers was sure to happen.

  There must be no fighting.

  ”Lucky Nannan has the say in this. It is her who brought up the win-win cooperation with the merchants of Xiangshan County,” Qian Wanjin pitched Liu Yusheng out.

  If he were to explain things, things wouldn’t be so clear. After all, the plan wasn’t his, not his brainchild. Speaking of it would be the same as paraphrasing and wouldn’t resonate with them.

  The elders all looked at Liu Yusheng.

  Liu Yusheng softly smiled: “Grandpa, Father, Uncle, although we have many merchants in the city, the territory of Nanling is not small. I plan to let them each pick a region in Nanling and sell their wine. For example, in Nanling, there’s Yunzhou, Xiangzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and more. Each merchant will be responsible for one province, and they won’t invade or interfere with each other. If one party sells well and faces a shortage of goods, they can temporarily transfer goods from their partners in neighboring provinces and cities for emergency purposes. That way, they can support each other without interfering with each other, which in turn can effectively prevent disputes. We can also be more relaxed here. As we expand, we certainly can not rely only on ourselves to take care of the entire Nanling retail business. It’s better to cut profit in favor of those merchants and let them do the selling. We only supply goods behind them, free up more time to grasp quality, and truly achieve a win-win situation between each other.” 

  In modern times, this approach was called the Law of Agency.

  Distinguished personages and merchants were responsible for opening markets in different regions, and they only needed to be responsible for supplying at the back end. In this way, both sides could be organized. The large spread of hectic disorganization, attending to one thing and losing sight of another, would be cut off.

  Although it was necessary to provide some benefits to the merchants, they wouldn’t incur losses. With the soaring volume of product outflow, it was equivalent to making big bucks from little capital.

  Grandpa Liu was the first to shout in approval, “This method is good! You can be more relaxed if you share the loads in your hand, and we can make money together. Wonderful!” 

  The old man had no idea what the Law of Agency meant. He only knew that in this way, many merchants and distinguished personages would be helping Xiao Jinzi and Nannan. They could make money, feed and clothe the people, and benefit Xiangshan, but the two children didn’t have to be as busy as before.

  Great.

  Furthermore, once Xiangshan got through these difficulties and turned for the better slowly, that child, Axiu could relax a bit, right?

  Although Liu Dalin didn’t echo his old man, he looked at his baby daughter with pride.

  Why was his daughter so smart? The male children in the family could not catch up with her intellect.

  What was that adage again? Women are no worse than men! 

  The best thing about their daughter was that that kid, Axiu, was very discerning and picked up their family’s treasure.

  Liu Erlin was feeling complicated.

  ”Brother, why don’t I give you that bastard, Zhiqiu, and you pass your daughter to our house? I don’t want that brat anymore. Compared to our Nannan, I think he’s a disgrace.”

  The elder brother could not catch up with his sister’s cleverness; his many years of studying was all in vain. Zhiqiu was definitely not his son; he didn’t inherit a fraction of his merits.

  Liu Dalin only gave him two words, “Get lost!”

  Liu Erlin immediately squinted at Liu Zhiqiu.

  Liu Zhiqiu looked up and recoiled. “Dad, don’t look at me. You and Mother made me like this. I also want to ask you why.”

  Liu Erlin: “Get lost!”

  After a pause, Liu Erlin remembered what happened at the restaurant at noon and softened his approach: “If you get married early and give me and your mother a smart and well-behaved granddaughter like Nannan, I won’t despise you. Looking at Miss Li at noon today, I think she’s fine. You—— ” 

  Before his old man could finish speaking, Liu Zhiqiu ran away.

  His family would be possessed by the Devil whenever they wanted him to get married!

  Li Junyue?

  Tch!

  If his old man were to know that his son had run into Li Junyue, it would be bad news. Li Zhiqiu wondered if he’d go so far as to sound them out and match them together.

  She should be back home by now, right?

  Thinking of how Wang Jinhui was unusually sure that the person beating him was Li Junyue, Liu Zhiqiu’s mouth was set  in a hard line. He wondered if she would be okay when she returned home, and whether Wang Jinhui would trouble her when he awakened.

  Gee! What does it matter to him? Helping her once or twice had been benevolent of him.

  Whatever happened to her afterward had nothing to do with him. It was her own business.

  In the Li residence hall, Li Junyue gritted her teeth and refused to give in, letting the cane whip land on her body.

  ”Grandma, it really wasn’t me who did it! Yue’er didn’t do it!”

  The entire hall was filled with people from all the houses of the Li family, while Matriarch Li sat at the main seat. Her anger was raging: “The Wang family’s young master wrote the letter himself. He flatly accused you of the crime, yet you still dare quibble! Since when did you dare to lie in front of me!”

  ”It’s not me. He framed me! Grandma, please see through it!” Li Junyue gritted her teeth as Zhang-momo mercilessly wielded the cane with such a heavy and sharp force behind her. It caused her face to turn white with pain, and cold beads of sweat rolled down one by one.

  The middle of her thin dress was already stained red by the blood seeping out.

  Everyone from the different houses all looked on coldly, indifferent to her plight.

  Her sisters in the clan looked at her and covered their lips, snickering and gloating.

  Matriarch Li didn’t give a damn to her explanation. After decades of presiding over the household, she would never allow a junior to fool her.

  It was only when Li Junyue was about to faint did she ask Zhang-momo to stop.

  ”You’re punished lightly this time. If you dare to lie again in the future, you’ll be severely punished!” Matriarch Li coldly looked at the young girl who had collapsed to the ground and snorted. “Fortunately, although you did something wrong, the Wang family’s son let bygones be bygones. He mentioned your marriage again in the letter, and I’ve already given my consent to the matter. I’ll ask someone to exchange your Gengtie(a written marriage proposal stating the year, month, day and hour of someone’s birth) later. Stay in the house for the next few months. You’re not allowed to go anywhere and just get ready to get married!”

  Li Junyue struggled to look up and met the old lady’s cold eyes. Her eyes slid to the side and looked at her parents.

  Her parents were sitting in the last seat at the bottom, both with their heads down, avoiding her eyes and not even looking at her.

  Li Junyue clenched her fingers tightly on the ground, feeling an overpowering hatred that suddenly sprouted in her heart.

  She didn’t want to be in this family!

  She didn’t want to be at the mercy of fate!

  She, Li Junyue, would never live like a puppet for the rest of her life!

  ”Grandma, I have something I want to tell you alone, and this will definitely satisfy you. Grandma, you might as well listen to me before you make a decision!”

  Matriarch Li gazed at Li Junyue for a while, then waved her hand, signaling the children in the hall to leave.

  ”What do you mean by your words?” With only the two of them left in the hall, Matriarch Li asked in a deep voice.

  ”I know that Grandma wants me to marry into the Wang family for the sake of supporting the clan, but with all due respect, the Wang family’s son is not a good candidate.” With her hands on the ground, Li Junyue knelt and endured the dizzy spell that struck her. If she couldn’t impress her grandmother now, it would be too late to find a solution later on; when what was done could no longer be undone.

  Author’s note: Li Jun Yue caused public outrage ah, hahaha. This shows that her character building is quite successful, is it not? Although you may not want to read about her, I still have to write ah. She is also a key character in the branch plot; Zhiqiu’s growth depends on her, so please bear with her. Lunchboxes are not collected that quickly. In stories, it is impossible for everyone to be good and upright. Characters of different personalities are intertwine with conflicts in order to lay out a wonderful story.