Chapter 36: Human affairs are difficult to deal with
Ye Yangyan backed down a bit.
"Logically speaking, as a member of the Ye family, I naturally have to contribute to the renovation of the old house, but two thousand spirit stones is not a small amount. I still need to discuss it with the head of the family."
Ye Li sighed and agreed.
After finishing speaking, Ye Li had no intention of chatting with Ye Yang anymore. She glanced sideways at the door, casually found an excuse, and stood up to leave.
The gift was not taken away.
"Sister-in-law, this thing..."
Ye Yang saw that Ye Li was about to turn around and walk out of the room, and quickly reminded her.
Ye Li did not look back and gave a few instructions to Menzi. Menzi smiled apologetically at Ye Yang and took the gift away.
After a moment, Ye Yang finally thought about it. Ye Li did not take the gift directly, and she never mentioned the meeting between Ye Yang and Yu Hu.
I'm afraid I didn't take him to heart, and I was even more afraid that he would make excessive demands, so I gave him a dose of injection first to make him retreat.
He sighed and didn't think much about it. After all, Ye Li had given him face by not rejecting her immediately after not seeing her for many years.
Besides, he estimated that Ye Li and Yu Hu would lend him a sum of money regardless of whether they said it or not. After all, he had been pulling the real tiger skin off Bai Zi for so long, so it was not in vain.
Naturally, he could also borrow some spiritual stones from Bai Zizhen, and Bai Zizhen would certainly not refuse.
However, although he and Bai Zizhen have a good relationship, they are not blood relatives, so they have no obligation to help him all the time.
Favors will be used up.
Once used up, it is worthless.
It's not worth it to get this favor just for a mere two thousand spirit stones!
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Yufu
In a beautifully decorated house.
A dark-faced man with a beard as black as steel is painting. The small paintbrush is like a small toy in his thick hands.
At this moment, my face is covered with ink from the brush. I don’t know whether it’s the black ink or the black face. Only a pair of small eyes are left.
Standing behind him was a woman with a gorgeous appearance, snow-white skin, and curled hair. It was Ye Li.
"That nephew of yours is here to borrow money."
Yu Hu laid out the rice paper and without looking back, carefully outlined the tiger's edge hair with ink as he spoke.
"Yes, I said I want to renovate my old house, so I don't have much money, so I want to borrow some spiritual stones."
Yu Hu didn't speak, still tracing the portrait quietly.
A few moments.
"What's his name, Ye...Ye what...what?"
Yu Hu couldn't remember it for a while. He was married to a concubine with eight bedrooms and a total of ten or twenty nephews. On weekdays, he rarely interacted with them, so it was naturally impossible to remember everyone's name.
Seeing Yu Hu's expression, Ye Li quickly took out a white hot towel and stepped forward to wipe the ink on Yu Hu's face, dyeing the white towel completely black.
"It's...Ye Yang..."
Ye Li thought for a moment and said: "I am still practicing in the sect. I just awakened my high-level Huang-level life a few days ago. This time I came and brought some gifts to us."
After that, Ye Li placed the Panshan Plum Blossom Stone in front of Yu Hu and said, "According to him, Bai Zizhen gave it to him. He can't stop admiring it and wants you to take a look."
Yu Hu didn't care at first, but after hearing Bai Zizhen's words, he picked it up and looked at it and said: "Yes, it is a fine plum blossom stone. That old guy only knows how to drink and cannot appreciate this thing."
"But." He smiled again: "This stone is unique and naturally formed. How do you know whether it was given to him by White King Kong."
As a local protector, he is responsible for all matters related to the mine. Naturally, he is not easily deceived. If he is stupid, he will not be able to grab this lucrative job, and even if he grabs it, he will not be able to keep it.
Naturally, he can't prove it to be true, nor can he falsify it, so he can just treat it as true.
We can no longer carry this broken stone and travel thousands of miles to find Bai Zi to authenticate it.
"How many spiritual stones does he want to borrow?"
"two thousand."
"No, it's too much. For the sake of Bai Zi's true face, I will give him at most one thousand spirit stones. In addition, I will give him two hundred separately. Tell him that you have been a softie all these years, so that the other party will be grateful to us."
Ye Li nodded.
"If you ask me, just give him five hundred spirit stones. After all, I haven't had any contact with him for many years, and there is no need for too much contact in the future. Even if I am her aunt, I can't be taken for granted!"
Yu Hu smiled: "Qingshan is about to reach the age of cultivation. I plan to let him worship in the Feitian Sect. We are thousands of miles away. If Qingshan encounters something in the sect in the future, at least there will be someone to take care of him."
Ye Li was shocked: "Didn't you say that Feitian Sect is not a large sect, has insufficient resources, and its skills are backward, so you want to send Qingshan to practice in the Universiade Dynasty."
Yu Hu sighed: "Nowadays, the sect is becoming more and more strict about the transfer of children. We cannot take risks randomly."
Ye Li nodded: "In that case, then lend him a thousand spiritual stones."
"That's right." Yu Hu didn't look back and was still painting. He said to Ye Li who was about to leave: "Just say that I have something to go out and am not at home."
He has eight concubines and eighty relatives, so he doesn't particularly care about any one person.
Ye Li nodded, knowing that Yu Hu didn't want to waste too much time on Ye Yang.
Ye Li turned around and was about to go out, but she never thought that Yu Hu stopped her again and said, "Look at how my painting is."
Ye Li looked up and saw an animal jumping over a mountain stream drawn on the rice paper that Yu Hu stretched out. It was outlined in pen and ink, with a small head and a big belly. It looked cute and cute.
"The painting of this cat is really good, but why is the cat above the mountain stream?"
"This is a tiger!"
Yu Hu spoke angrily, and Ye Li smiled sheepishly. She took a closer look and saw a few big words written crookedly next to the fat cat: "Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest Seizes the Vice Hall."
Ye Li was overjoyed: "Husband, we are sure about your promotion to deputy hall master. Those deputies who opposed you finally shut up and stopped complaining?"
"not yet."
…
Ye Yang had been sitting in the side hall, waiting for Ye Li to return. After more than an hour, Ye Li slowly walked over. Behind him, at the door was a tray covered with red silk, with bulging bags on it. , seems to be holding something.
"After I talked to the master, he felt that it was not easy for us two, so he took some spiritual stones and I brought them over to you."
Ye Li did not sit down, but opened the red silk covering the tray. Inside were two black cloth bags woven with gold.
She handed the bag to Ye Yang and said: "The big bag is the thousand spiritual stones lent to you by the Yu Mansion. The small bag contains 200 spiritual stones, which are the belongings I have accumulated over the years. I’ll lend it to you too.”
Storage bags are precious and cannot be used by non- dignitaries, and the internal space is not large, usually only one square foot in size, so most low-level monks still use regular cloth bags.
Ye Yang frowned slightly, one thousand two hundred spirit stones were lower than his expectation.
However, he also knew that the other two must have already discussed it, and even if he spoke again, it would be in vain.
What's more, Ye Li is right, she is a married girl, it is a matter of friendship to help, and it is also a duty not to help.