Chapter 344 Ning An Ru Meng: You Yue is no longer stupid (48 chapters)

Lu Xian did not finish using the medicine Chu Yuan gave him, and because he was amazed by its miraculous effects, he carefully kept some of it.

I was hoping to sell it and make some money.

To be honest, my sister-in-law has a lot of good stuff. Even just the scar removal cream alone would be enough for Fangying to live on for a lifetime.

Not to mention the detoxification pills used by Yan Mu and the Qingxin pills that Xie Wei personally tested and found to be superior to countless elixirs!

If his partner hadn't been his wife, he would have gone to great lengths and paid any price to snatch this incredibly profitable deal!

In business, I'm not afraid of hardship or fatigue, but I'm afraid of not making money.

Xie Wei obtained the medicine from Lü Xian and immediately gave it to Doctor Liu for research.

They couldn't figure out why Chu Yuan could predict the future, so they wanted to dig deeper from another angle. In short, the more unknowns there were, the more they felt like they were out of control.

Xie Wei undoubtedly hated this feeling the most!

Before Chu Yuan could figure things out, Jiang Xuening presented him with a new question.

"Fangying, after we set off, you and Lü Xian must be careful to guard against the Duke of Dingguo's side. Also, I know that you two like to do business and make money. You can go to Juyunlai Inn and find a man named Ren Weizhi. He has invented a new technology that allows you to easily extract salt from salt wells. Its name... should be Zhuotong Well?"

He is currently in the later stages of research and needs a large sum of money to continue his work, but the Ren family has already been emptied out by him and can no longer afford it.

You guys should invest some money and buy his Zhuotong Well. You'll never have to worry about making money in the future!

Of course, we can't be too greedy; buying out the salt production from the Zhuotong Well for ten or eight years is about enough.

Lü Xian, “…”

What nonsense is she spouting?

He knew the Ren family, and the name Ren Weizhi was quite familiar to him; they must have been salt merchants for generations.

By the time of Ren Weizhi's generation, he was taciturn and not good at making connections with superiors, so the scale of the salt factory was repeatedly squeezed by other salt merchants and shrunk considerably.

We will never again fail to live up to the great reputation our ancestors enjoyed.

Even so, the amount of salt extracted by the Ren family salt factory over ten or eight years is not a small amount. Would Ren Weizhi be so foolish as to agree to that?

Jiang Xuening was eager to set off with Xie Wei, and since it was Shen Zhiyi's first time leaving the capital, she was feeling uneasy and anxious, so Jiang Xuening had no choice but to accompany her.

He didn't have time to explain much to Lü Xian, so he let You Fangying, who understood the key points, explain it to him slowly.

Yu Fangying was impatient and afraid of losing what she had secured. Without even discussing it with Lü Xian, she took a thousand taels of silver and went to the inn by herself. Using the negotiation skills she had learned during this time, she signed a ten-year salt contract for the Ren family's salt factory!

When Lü Xian rushed over, the two were chatting happily, but his face immediately darkened. "Fang Ying, come here!"

"You still came. Stingy, are you trying to steal my business?" Fangying stood up and nodded slightly to Ren Weizhi to express her apology.

Because You Fangying had mentioned beforehand that she had a husband who was also a businessman and prone to jealousy, Ren Weizhi didn't seem too embarrassed. He stood up and tried to slip away, saying, "You two can talk later, I need to hurry back to continue researching my Zhuotong Well. I'll let you know as soon as I have any good news."

Upon hearing him say "you two as husband and wife," Lü Xian's expression softened somewhat, but he still took a step forward to block Ren Weizhi from leaving.

He glared at Fangying sideways, and instead of answering, asked, "Did you give him money?"

Fangying waved the contract in her hand, "They gave it to me! It's in black and white. I provided the money, and they provided the salt. How could we have the money to develop the Zhuotong Well if we didn't give it to them?"

Lu Xian clenched his fist, utterly astonished. "Fang Ying, are you a pig?"

Fangying wasn't angry at being scolded. She sat down again with a good temper and said, "If I'm a pig, then you're a boar."

Lü Xian, “…”

"Fine," he gritted his teeth, knowing that arguing with Fang Ying, who was so stubborn, was pointless. He turned to Ren Weizhi and said, "How much money did you take from her? I don't care how much she gave you. Every country has its laws, and every industry has its rules. In our industry, we always pay a deposit first and then the balance, to prevent you from running away halfway or failing in your research and development. I hope you understand."

"I...I..." Ren Weizhi was not a very eloquent person to begin with, and he was at a loss for words, repeatedly asking Fang Ying for help.

Fangying felt sorry for him and was about to speak when Lü Xian snatched the contract and started reading it.

The text states that she first funded Ren Weizhi with 1,000 taels of silver for research on the Zhuotong Well. Later, Fangying also paid for all the labor costs, including mining fees, for the salt extracted from the Zhuotong Well. Correspondingly, Fangying owned 80% of the extracted salt for ten years.

Looking at this contract, Fangying is quite intelligent. But how can she be sure that Ren Weizhi's Zhuotong Well can definitely produce salt? What if he's just all talk and no action?

To put it bluntly, even if it can be mined, if the quantity is not large enough, Fangying's initial investment of one thousand taels and subsequent additional investments will all go down the drain!

Lu Xian rubbed his forehead, his head aching. He had never signed such a losing deal since he entered this industry.

But the contract has already been signed and the money has been paid, what can he do?

Lu Xian was still angry until Ren Weizhi secretly took the contract and left.

He gulped down the half-cold tea on the table, but it still couldn't relieve his irritability.

Fangying felt embarrassed and asked the waiter to bring him fresh tea. She took his hand from across the table and asked, "Are you still angry?"

"Hmph." Lü Xian took the opportunity to become arrogant.

Fangying, "..."

"Don't be angry. Next time I do something like this, I'll definitely tell you beforehand." Fangying is always gentler with her own people.

But when she was negotiating with Ren Weizhi just now, she was not like that at all; she was already very shrewd and assertive like a female business tycoon!

Unfortunately, Lü Xian arrived late and missed it.

"Fangying, do you think I'm angry about that thousand taels of silver?" Lu Xian suddenly looked directly at You Fangying and asked.

The latter blinked. "What else?"

Young Master Lü, who is greedy for money, is exactly the kind of person who cares about money the most.