Chapter 708: I would have kicked them out if they were in your shoes
The reason a miser like her was even giving him such a big discount was that she needed his help and maybe even in the future, he will be of use to her. If not she wouldn't have even moved a single tael from the price range and let this young master pay the entire sum of money.
Fei Qinfan already knew that Su Wan will not drop the price any further, and if he was to haggle maybe she will cancel the deal altogether. From just one look he could see that she was one of those people who didn't like to make a loss, so he could only nod his head.
" Fine, I will accept it," said Fei Qinfan but then he saw number one winking at him and he immediately understood what his bodyguard was trying to say, so he changed the question and asked, " But what if you fail to raise the flower and it fails like those. Then what are you going to do?"
" That's not going to happen," Su Wan replied with confidence as she waved her hand. " The most crucial period has passed and now it's all good, I am certain that it will bloom in a few weeks or months, depending on how I care about it."
She sounded really confident about it! Fei Qinfan was speechless seeing just how bold Su Wan was being in front of him, when he was in the capital, he only saw women who would lower their heads and smile shyly in front of him, when has he dealt with a woman who was this confident?
He blinked his eyes slightly thrown off by her confidence before he asked again, " But let's say that it happens, then what? Wouldn't I be calling the imperial physician for you for free?"
He was a prince and if was to be fooled by a countryside woman, who knows how his reputation will take a blow? If that happens then he wouldn't be able to raise his head in front of his brother for months!
It wasn't a small matter either, this concerned his reputation damn it!
Su Wan could see that the young master in front of her was one of those men who might have been cheated on a lot because if not then he really wouldn't be this wary. So, she immediately replied, " If I cannot hand over this potted flower to you then I will hand you over the same amount that I said just now, will that be all right? After all, no matter how good an imperial physician is, he couldn't be as expensive as five hundred gold taels right?"
" Anyway even if I don't have that sum of money at the moment, my husbands are more than capable of paying it for me, in case I cannot pay it then you can ask any of my five husbands to pay that sum of money, they will be very willing to hand it over without any fuss."
Fei Qinfan looked at Su Wan's expression and suddenly felt sympathetic towards her five husbands, it seemed that she would wring them up by their necks if they dared to say no to her.
" All right, I guess … I can still trust scholar Lin's character and even though I do not know the rest of your husbands, I think that they wouldn't dare to refuse a payment that you have promised me but I would still like it if we write everything down, just in case ?"
Su Wan came to a stop in front of the moon gate of her courtyard and nodded, " All right, I have no problem."
It seemed that this young master was cheated before by someone, he was being very careful over something so simple as this.
With that she turned around and asked her maid to bring a paper and brush with an ink pot, then she placed it on the stone table and was prepared to write the agreement down when she heard Fei Qinfan say, " I will write it for you——"
" Do you think I am illiterate?" Su Wan raised her head as she looked at him, shooting him an eye roll as she dipped the brush in the ink and started writing.
Seeing how confident she was, Fei Qinfan didn't say anything, though Su Wan did not look like a countrywoman, he didn't have many expectations from her. In fact, he was half prepared to have her read out what she has written on the paper, after all, he knew that even though there were some women who were literate in the countryside they couldn't be compared to the young missies of the capital.
However, when Su Wan finished writing and pushed the paper to his side, he was surprised to realise that he was indeed very wrong. Su Wan's writing was indeed very beautiful, if she was dressed as a man with a silky white robe and her hair pinned up, she might have been able to pass herself off as a scholar with that beautiful script alone.
" Quickly sign it," said Su Wan as she took the hand towel from her maid and wiped her hands. " And once you are done, make sure to write a receipt for me too, I need to make sure that you will not go back on your word of inviting an imperial physician."
Fei Qinfan who has just finished signing his name on the document straightened up and looked at her in surprise, " Do I look like someone who will refuse to call just a small imperial physician?"
" Then do I look like who cannot pay you a small sum of five hundred taels of gold?" said Su Wan with a snicker. " When I said that I will be able to raise the flowers and give them to you, you didn't believe me either..why should I be the only one to trust you blindly?"
Fei Qinfan: "….." This woman really knew how to turn anyone speechless.
" Is this how you act in front of your husbands as well?" He asked in curiosity, as far as he knew the women of the capital were taught to be kind, virtuous and respectful to their husbands. Surely, the countrywomen must be taught something along the same line right?
" Of course," Su Wan shot him an ' Are you stupid' look before she continued, " Be glad that you are a stranger, I am even more forceful to my husbands… if they were the ones who dared to ask me for a guarantee I would have kicked them out of the house."
Fei Qinfan: "….." Dear God, I will like a much gentler wife, okay? That's a deal.
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sorry for not being consistent, as you all know I have been updating for an year without a break and I am getting overwhelmed a little.. I am just trying to take as much break as I can before slowly getting back on track.