Chapter 305: Chen family’s third son
Inside Dragon Gate Inn, guests whispered and murmured to each other, discussing whether to buy the information; the waitstaff, carrying their trays, moved between the square tables like little bees flitting through a garden of flowers.
Chen Ji had successively sold seven pieces of information, netting a clear profit of three thousand five hundred taels of Silver, far exceeding his expectations. He had originally planned to sell each piece of information for two hundred taels, and earning over a thousand taels would have been quite good.
Who would have imagined the sudden appearance of ’Third Elder’, who abruptly drove up the prices, making Chen Ji’s earnings overflow.
The guests who bought the information clenched their brows, leading their respective troops and hurried out the door.
The man surnamed Zhang, who had been previously called upon by the brothel owner, stood outside the door feeling more and more that something was not right: "Although the information is important, isn’t five hundred taels of Silver too expensive? What was the last piece of information that sold for so much?"
His attendant replied, "Sir, the last time was eight years ago. The shopkeeper of Dragon Gate Inn sold the information on behalf of their mysterious backer, starting the bid at 600 taels."
The man surnamed Zhang asked, "What was the information that was sold?"
The attendant whispered, "Back then, our business was too small, we were reluctant to buy..."
The man surnamed Zhang was puzzled: "Why do I feel like Third Elder is a plant? When have you ever seen Third Elder so shocked? Normally not even flinching at a knife’s edge, but today, he shot up from his seat upon hearing the news and hurried off? That’s too exaggerated."
The attendant hesitated for a long time: "Sir, who could ask Third Elder to be a plant? If you were to ask him, could you persuade him?"
The man surnamed Zhang pondered for a moment: "He might end up slapping me hard."