Chapter 40: I Curse

  Chen Jiu looked at it, and a bright light flashed in his eyes. He picked up the package behind him and placed it on the table, gently opening it. A piece of dazzling golden yellow caught the attention of the surrounding guests who were watching the singing and dancing performance.

  Looking at this pair of golden, heart moved, and the singer behind them was shining with sparkling eyes, like a small star.

  Chen Jiu stroked his golden hair, exuding an aura of confidence: "Go and call out those girls for me."

  Nodding: "Alright, alright, Qing Yu, go and call out all the girls, this is a day you've all been looking forward to for a long time."

  Qing Yu, the same woman who had been accompanying Chen Jiu earlier, heard a call and ran towards the back, smiled at Chen Jiu, then turned to her servant behind her and said: "Quickly go get the contract of sale".

  The young servant heard and obeyed, then left.

  Looking at Chen Jiu in front of him, he revealed a charming smile that captivated people's hearts, the snow-white chest gleaming, making one's mouth dry and tongue parched.

  "I don't know where you graduated from, but I've never seen you before." Su Shou poured a cup of wine for Chen Jiu.

  The surrounding wine guests looked at Chen Jiu's golden complexion, which was fiery hot, and his eyes often produced a fierce light, and several people quietly bid farewell and left.

  Chen Jiu looked at him and said: "I'm planning to open a wine house, the name is called First House, but it hasn't opened yet, you'll know when it opens."

  Chen Jiu looked at Su Shou and said: "I'd like to discuss a business deal with your mother."

  "Halt the action in your hand! Oh, wasn't that ransom deal already settled earlier?"

  Chen Ji shook his head, picked up his wine glass and took a light sip: "That doesn't count, I'm talking about real big business."

  "Ten thousand taels of gold are not considered a big business, what is considered a big business? I am curious, please enlighten me, sir." Her eyes seemed to be welling up with tears as she gazed at Chen Jiu.

  "In the future, every three years I want to ask your esteemed building to provide me with twenty songstresses, and we can discuss the price at that time." Chen Jiu's gaze fell upon those dancing girls, but he didn't look, it was too overwhelming, just like water, looking at them made one's heart burn with desire.

  "Haha, this is indeed a big business, young master has a big appetite, these girls can only be trained for five years to get one batch, if you want one batch every three years, it's a bit too rushed"

  "As long as the money is right, nothing can't be done. In three years, I'll add 100 taels of gold for each girl, in four years, I'll add 50 taels of gold for each girl, and in five years, no more gold will be added. I don't know which step you can take, mom?"

  "Look at the young master laughing, of course it's been three years, who wouldn't want gold? Moreover, that's also a good opportunity for the girl to leave this bitter place, no big deal if she has to work hard every day, I believe that in order to leave here, the girl still doesn't mind that bit of hardship."

  Chen nodded and shifted his gaze to the group of women behind him, about forty or more in number, all of whom were young and beautiful.

  "Look at these girls, stand up!; Ladies, this gentleman wants to redeem twenty of you, you must behave well, this is a rare opportunity to leave this golden brothel, it's just unknown which one of you has this good fortune."

  After finishing speaking, he looked at Chen Jiu with his eyes, and Chen Jiu cast his gaze on the slave contracts: "In order to be fair, I will randomly draw out twenty of them from any of the slave contracts; whoever gets drawn will follow me."

  After finishing speaking, his fingers moved slightly, and the twenty deeds of sale were taken out by Chen Jiu, then he read out the names one by one: "Qing Yu".

  "Ah, on the way of green jade joy."

  Chen Jiu did not expect that the first one drawn out would be Qing Yu.

  Hand over the contract in your hand to Qingyu: "You read out the name for me".

  The gaze turned to Chen Jiu's golden eyes: "Young master, I've already called this girl over, shouldn't you pay me now?"

  With a wave of his hand, the gold was divided into two portions: "There are 20,000 taels of gold in here, Mother can take half which is exactly 10,000 taels."

  Put away half of the gold, then reluctantly stared at the other half: "Young master, apart from the songstress, the other girls are also very good."

  "No need, I just like clean girls."

  The unwilling Dao said: "Those girls are all old hands, with rich experience, I'll give you half price for the young master."

  Chen Jiu shook his head: "Really no need, I'll have these girls perform song and dance at my wine tower, and they don't need to accompany guests, or else so many girls won't come."

  Looking reluctantly at Chen Jiu slowly putting away the other half of the gold, the girls had already made their choices, and those who were chosen were overjoyed, while those who weren't looked dejected.

  Chen Jiu patted his hands: "Those who didn't get selected don't have to be discouraged, three years later you will be in the prime of youth, I'll come again, at that time if you're willing, you can follow me, I'm sure mom won't stop you".

  "That's it, that's it, who can't get along with Jinzi?" said with a smile on the side.

  On the other side, a thoughtful person watched Chen Jiu's remaining 10,000 taels of gold, and a flash of blood light flickered in his eyes before he quickly disappeared into the building, presumably Chen Jiu's return journey would be filled with wind and rain.

  "Mother, since I've finished what I came here for and it's getting late, I won't stay any longer. Quickly have someone prepare a few horse carriages, I'm going to take these girls back with me."

  With a hint of regret, he glanced at Chen Jiu's gold and then instructed someone to make arrangements. Chen Jiu looked at the girls: "You all quickly get ready, we'll be leaving together soon."

  Outside the building, five horse-drawn carriages were already waiting by the shore. Chen Jiu's eyes narrowed slightly as he watched the girls get into their respective carriages. He pulled someone over and said, "Please prepare a fine horse for me too. I'd rather sit outside; I'm not familiar with these carriage drivers, and if they were to kidnap my precious beauties, my 10,000 taels of gold would be gone."

  Nodding his head, he understood Chen Jiu's approach: "This carriage is indeed not safe and inconvenient for surveillance. I'll find a horse for you now, but don't forget to return the horse to me tomorrow."

  To be honest, Chen Jiu could throw away tens of thousands of gold, and naturally he wouldn't believe that he would embezzle the horse.

  Chen Jiubai quickly mounted his horse and said: "Let's go!"

  A group of people walked away into the distance, watching as the flower boat disappeared from view, Chen's eyebrows twitched and a look of disdain flashed across his face.

  After walking for a while, Chen Jiu discovered that something was wrong: "Quickly ride up and take a look, this road is not right, quickly stop".

  The groom's face turned ferocious at this moment, and with a fierce whip, he lashed the horse's buttocks once, galloping towards the distance.

  Chen Jiu followed slowly behind, and the horse carriage stopped at a spacious place, but it was unknown where this place was, not even a shadow of a person could be seen.

  "How come, you guys didn't escape?" Chen Jiulang stopped his horse and said slowly.

  At this time, the carriage was quiet, and it was clear that these girls knew that something unusual was happening outside.

  The first cart driver jumped off the horse and somehow pulled out a large knife: "Little kid, didn't think you'd actually dare to chase after me!"

  "What are you puny clowns afraid of? You actually dare to rob goods from under my nose? Truly ignorant of life and death. Back in the day when I was a bandit, you guys were still playing with mud somewhere."

  Chen Jiu finished speaking and didn't bother to waste words on these bandits. In an instant, he leaped up from his horse and landed on the ground: "Drawing a prison with a stroke of the brush".

  "What's wrong, why can't I move?"

  "What kind of sorcery is this?"

  "This kid is possessed by evil spirits"

  "Listen up, kid! You'd better kneel down and beg for mercy, or else I'll have no choice but to make you guys suffer a slow and painful death!"

  "Alas, you really don't know life or death, yet you're still shouting before your demise. Don't worry, I won't kill you that easily, I'll let you experience the power of a curse."

  After finishing speaking, Chen Jiu walked over and searched the bodies of several bandits: "Not bad, there's actually some silver on them."

  Chen Jiu looked at these five horse-drawn carriages and casually tied them together in a row, one after another, which was quite simple.

  "I curse you to suffer the pain of heartbreak within seven days, I curse you to have your eyes rot and maggots hatch within three days, I curse you to have your body ooze pus and itch unbearably within two days, I curse you to lose both sight and hearing within one day, I curse you to be scattered into dust after death"

  After finishing speaking, Chen Jiu drove the horse cart away, and the divine ability that had just been drawn on the ground disappeared instantly, leaving only a few stunned bandits staring at each other.