Chapter 39: The Cave of Selling Gold "Water Village"

  Chen Jiu looked at the gold in his package, gently stroking his chin. Unbeknownst to him, he had already spent a year in this world, and he didn't know what he had eaten either. Perhaps it was due to cultivating Taoist magic, but Chen Jiu felt that there was actually a layer of fluff on his chin.

  "This time renovating the wine tower, I don't know how much gold will be spent, but only by making a steady profit can one become rich, and only by creating a hen that constantly lays golden eggs can one's wealth roll in."

  "Master, Master, the craftsman you were looking for has arrived!" came Flying Swallow's shout from downstairs.

  He rolled up his sleeves and Chen Jiuzhou stood up: "So soon".

  Standing on the second floor, looking at the seven or eight men in the hall, and an older man, Chen Jiu hastily greeted from a distance: "I've seen you, young master. I've already sent someone to invite the craftsman back. This is the best craftsman in Qingzhou Prefecture."

  Step by step down the stairs, Chen Jiudao said: "Have all my previous orders been conveyed?"

  "The matter has been settled," said the shopkeeper.

  Chen nodded and turned to the craftsmen: "You are all the best craftsmen in Qingzhou Prefecture, today you come to my place to work, this benefit I will not miss. I only have one requirement, that is to be meticulous, meticulous and more meticulous."

  Chen Jiu looked at the cautious expression and nodded: "The hall on this floor is too simple, you make a pool for me in the center, remember to find a way to introduce living water, or it's okay to drill out living water underground".

  One of the craftsmen hastily took out a pen and carefully recorded Chen Jiu's confession.

  Chen Jiu continued: "As for how big this pool should be, you all see to it yourselves. Everyone is a master craftsman, I believe this matter doesn't need me to worry about."

  "On top of this pool, a stage will be built. In the pool, some lotus flowers will be transplanted and some grass carp will be raised."

  Chen Jiu looked at the walls around the hall: "These walls won't do either, I want them replaced with the best and most expensive wood. As for the murals, there's no need to worry about that, people will naturally come here themselves later."

  "The first floor doesn't have any special requirements, but for the second and third floors, you must be careful. Each floor needs to have more than a dozen private rooms, with good sound insulation effects. Every room should have expensive flowers and plants from Zhongshan, and all furniture should be replaced with new ones."

  Chen Jiuzhi pointed and gestured, making continuous changes to the entire wine house, this move would likely cost five thousand taels of gold.

  Looking at the busy workmen, Chen Jiu turned to the shopkeeper: "Which family is the best in all of Qingzhou?"

  The old shopkeeper showed an expression that all men understand: "Of course, the best is Xishuangbanna. When it comes to the most beautiful girls, everyone's first thought is Shui Xiang".

  "Shuixiang?" Chen Jiu was somewhat puzzled.

  "Not bad, it's a water town, if young master wants to go, just find a horse carriage at will."

  Chen nodded: "You go and hire a horse carriage for me, I'll go over there before dark."

  Chen Jiuzhi went upstairs, looked at the gold in his package, and counted it: "This money is not allowed to be spent, after a round of tossing around, I'm afraid there will be no more than a few coins left. If this wine tower doesn't make money, I'll have to go drink northwest wind."

  She changed into another purple outfit, but unlike the previous one, this purple outfit featured birds, trees, insects and fish, whereas the previous one had fierce birds and beasts.

  He casually picked up a bundle of gold and walked downstairs, where the carriage driver was already waiting outside. He got on the horse-drawn carriage, and Chen Jiu began his first outing.

  It was dark when I arrived at the water town, but there were lanterns everywhere. Not far away, there was a lake with several boats floating on it.

  Looking at the brightly lit large ship, the carman showed a look of envy and licked his lips: "Young master, those few big ships are the water town."

  "Oh, this boss really knows how to do business, actually opening up a new market on the water, giving people a different kind of taste."

  "Alas, this watertown is absolutely a Golden Cave, every night without thirty taels of silver it's absolutely impossible to come down, this place isn't somewhere our kind of common people can enter."

  Chen Jiu didn't bother to respond to the cart driver's complaints and waved his hand: "You can go back now".

  As I stepped closer to the large ship, the noise grew louder, with women's giggles and men's shouts filling the air.

  He casually chose a large ship and walked over, but before he even got close, he saw two little servants standing there. These two little servants were indeed sharp-eyed, looking at Chen Jiu's clothes with fine workmanship, and smiled to welcome him: "Sir, are you here to have some fun?"

  Chen Jiu smiled and said: "What do you think? Can't this young master come here in the middle of the night to blow cold air?"

  The young servant heard this and smiled awkwardly: "Sir, you're joking."

  Another young servant hastily brought over a ladder and leaned it against the boat: "Sir, please get on."

  Chen Jiuxiao's footsteps flew quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he landed on the boat. The eyes of several young men behind him flashed with a hint of surprise, and they really didn't expect that this arrogant little boy was actually a master.

  The big boat was brightly lit, even the same as a 150-degree light bulb, the whole building boat not only was brightly lit, but also the lake water emitted a faint fragrance of rouge.

  "Grandfather, are you going to gamble or directly find a girl to recite poetry?" Soon, the reception staff discovered Chen Jiu standing at the bow of the boat.

  Chen Jiu looked at the building ship with about seven or eight floors and said: "Is there singing and dancing?"

  "There is, in the first floor's hall."

  "Take me away."

  The first floor hall was still crowded with people, and on a brightly lit stage, several girls were dancing non-stop.

  Chen Jiu casually found a seat and sat down, then took out a piece of gold: "Bring me the best wine, call the best girl to accompany me for a drink, remember, it's that kind who sells art not body".

  The young servant took over the gold and weighed it lightly, his eyes slightly narrowed: "Sir, you'll have to wait a bit."

  Wine, dishes and beautiful women are all readily available.

  Wine is fine wine, dishes are also delicious food, rarely seen, beautiful people are naturally rare.

  He took a light sip of wine, gazing at the singing and dancing below, but neither the dishes nor the beauties moved.

  Coming back to his senses, he looked at the beauty with her head hung low and Chen Jiu smiled slightly: "Miss, how many years have you been here?"

  The woman heard this and slightly raised her head, looked at Chen Jiu with a puzzled expression: "This is indeed a strange guest, asking others to accompany him in drinking but drinking alone himself."

  "It's been eight years." The voice was crisp and clear.

  "It's been so long," Chen Jiu put down his wine cup.

  "I was sold into this place at the age of eight and after so many years of training, I only started making money three years ago."

  Chen Jiu looked puzzled and said "Training?"

  "Uh-huh, it's just training in singing and dancing."

  "Are you still training after five years?"

  "It's not easy to master singing and dancing, it takes a full five years."

  "It seems that this water town has put in a lot of effort on you guys."

  The girl didn't say anything, she just poured wine for Chen Jiu.

  "Want to go out?" Chen Jiu suddenly said.

  "What" The girl raised her head, her delicate face looking at Chen Jiu with a dazed expression, as if she hadn't heard Chen Jiu's words clearly.

  "Am I saying you can go out?"

  "Hehe, young master is joking, my sisters' value is not cheap, no one would be willing to spend a lot of money to buy us out." To be honest, since coming here, these girls have never thought about leaving.

  Chen Jiuyi smiled and said: "Go invite him to come".

  "Are you really going to, young master?"

  Chen Jiuduan raised his wine and said faintly: "Go invite".

  The girl looked at Chen Jiu with surprise and ran out quickly.

  Before long, a beautiful woman in her thirties came before Chen Jiu, glanced at his attire and bowed slightly, saying: "Young master, you called for me."

  Chen Jiuyi stretched out his hand: "Sit down and talk about a business deal with you."

  Smiling like a flower: "Oh, doing business, I love doing business the most".

  "Look at those water town training girls, they're not bad. I want to redeem a few back, of course, including her." Chen Jiu pointed to the girl who had been accompanying them earlier.

  "The girls around here aren't cheap."

  "I know, name a price."

  "Five hundred taels for one, no haggling."

  Five hundred taels, of course, is gold, white silver can't be taken out of hand.

  Chen nodded: "Alright, five hundred taels is five hundred taels, I want twenty."

  "Twenty pieces is half of what our girls get, young master you really are rich".