EBE Chapter 179 Wholesale Wins 0 Sales
Chapter 179 Wholesale Wins 0 Sales
Zhou Chang showed his sincerity and took two steps back with his hands behind his back: "If you don't believe me, I will let you go now."
Jie Wang was the first to react and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, I, this humble monk, can, as long as His Royal Highness Prince Yi keeps his word."
"It's settled." Zhou Chang signaled the skinny monkey to untie the bonds behind his back.
The skinny monkey went up and pulled the rope apart in two or three moves.
As soon as Jiewang loosened his grip, he immediately stood up and went to help Shusheng.
Shusheng staggered to his feet, still in disbelief: "Your Highness Prince Yi is really going to let us go like this... and even help us?"
Zhou Chang nodded: "Buddha has mercy on me. I have also received the Buddha's divine intervention. How can I not help his disciples in return?"
Shusheng's eyes finally regained some light: "Amitabha, Your Highness Prince Yi is truly a Bodhisattva incarnated into the world. As long as it can save the reputation of Dafu Temple, I will do anything."
"Okay, then it's settled. You can go." Zhou Chang said in a relaxed tone.
Shusheng and Jie looked at each other, but did not dare to move easily.
Zhou Chang smiled knowingly: "I am not worried that you will not keep your promise. After all, the stolen goods from a few days ago are still in the Buddha's body, right?"
Shusheng nodded stupidly.
Zhou Chang added: "So, you must keep your promise. In the next few nights, I will wait for you here every other night at this time. When the time comes, you just need to hand over the things you have obtained to me. Even if someone finds out, I can forgive you. Why not?"
Shusheng just nodded stupidly, and Jiewang also nodded.
Afterwards, Zhou Chang let the two go as he was told.
The two of them walked away together with many doubts.
As soon as the two of them left, the skinny monkey asked, "My Lord, why are you helping them?"
Zhou Chang turned around in a hurry: "Quick, check where the Buddha statue is hiding those things?"
As they talked, the two of them went back behind the Buddha statue.
The Buddha statue is sitting on a lotus pedestal, but the lotus pedestal is just a decoration. There are lotus petals carved in the front where the Buddha sits cross-legged, but there is nothing at the back where the Buddha's body is, as if it is almost hanging in the air.
Zhou Chang touched the bottom of the Buddha statue for a few times and indeed felt a gap.
"I wonder if the things can still be taken out?" Zhou Chang twisted his wrist and reached inside.
The skinny monkey's five sausage fingers didn't hold out any hope at all: "Your Majesty, do you want to..."
"What are you thinking about? I really want to help them." Zhou Chang wanted to avoid ruining the image of Prince Yi Fengming in front of the skinny monkey, so he came up with an excuse on the spot, "Do you remember the secret technique I performed before? The principle is the same as this."
"Same?" The skinny monkey saw that Zhou Chang couldn't reach it no matter how hard he tried, so he just hugged the Buddha's body and shook it, "Will that kind of food give me more food in the future?"
Dust fell to the ground with a rustling sound, and it actually left a crack on the Buddha's body.
"Crash..." Something fell down immediately.
Zhou Chang squatted down and picked it up, and indeed it was the gold hairpins and jade rings worn by the women in the harem.
"It would be better to move a little further out." Zhou Chang stood up and worked hard with the skinny monkey.
The two of them actually moved the Buddha statue back an inch, causing many ornaments to fall out.
Zhou Chang was still worried, so he walked around to the front and looked at it for a while. He felt that it was no different from before, so he patted the dust off his hands to show that he was relieved.
In order to prove his "innocence", Zhou Chang stuffed the jewelry back into the Buddha's body one by one in front of the skinny monkey, but in fact he was taking the goods with him.
Because the gap of the Buddha statue is facing downwards, if you put things in it in the opposite direction, they will disappear and nothing can be seen, so the "carrying goods" is extremely covert and successful.
The thin monkey had no doubts and was even more excited: "My Lord, you are so pious. If your prayer can really work one day, then our Prince Yi's Mansion will be prosperous."
"You will definitely get rich, and these are much more valuable than the plates and bowls in the imperial kitchen. As the saying goes, you reap what you sow..." The lie Zhou Chang made up became more and more elaborate, and it almost had a theoretical basis.
In the following days, both sides kept their promises.
In the middle of the night, the great master and his disciples brought jewellery and jade pendants.
Zhou Chang received the things without any hesitation from the master and disciple, and even asked them to help keep watch. In front of them, he personally "stuffed" the things into the Buddha statue one by one.
The first time, Master and his disciple were full of doubts. The second time, the doubts were less. The third time, the doubts were gone. The last time, it was a complete success and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ding, congratulations, the transaction was successful, and the cumulative commission earned was 1.98 million taels." This was the final count given by the viewpoint system.
[Level: Upper Nine-Three]
【Commission: -5,969,350 taels】
【Order: 3】
"Ah, it seems that wholesale is more profitable than retail." Zhou Chang couldn't help but sigh.
Shusheng folded his hands and prayed devoutly: "Amitabha, Your Highness Prince Yi is a true Bodhisattva. I vow to chant sutras and pray for Your Highness every day in the future, and pray that the Buddha will bless Your Highness with peace and happiness."
"Master, you are welcome. The reputation of Dafu Temple has been saved, and your reputation as 'Master Miaoshou' has also been saved. Everyone in the palace is happy, and everyone has got what they wished for. This is all thanks to the compassion of Buddha." Zhou Chang also clasped his hands together and couldn't help yawning.
I've been living with my days and nights reversed these past few days, and it's really tiring.
The 49-day period of chanting and blessing has ended, but everyone cannot rest tomorrow as they still have to escort the late queen's coffin to the queen's mausoleum and perform the "coffin moving" ceremony.
Zhou Chang went through the entire ceremony in a daze, most of it in a dream, and after that, she let the matter go.
During this ritual, almost everyone in the entire Jindu City who was of high rank and qualified to enter the Jingming Hall of the Imperial Palace made a wish. Now everyone seemed to have received a "miracle" and was beaming with joy.
Only Zhou Chang felt miserable, because she was the only one who knew what the "miracle" was all about. If they wanted to win the war, it would be more realistic to hope that King Xian would win, or that the ruler of the Mirage Kingdom would die of illness.
However, there was some good news, as Jindu experienced heavy snow in late October.
Feng Suo sent another letter, inviting Prince Yi to the palace to build a snowman with him.
Zhou Chang had been through so much trouble in the past month that he didn't want to move. But when he thought of Feng Suo who had been kept in confinement for two months, he couldn't bear it, so he reluctantly agreed and entered the palace the next morning.
When the twelfth prince Feng Shuo was leaving school at noon, he saw Zhou Chang cheering and jumping for joy. He immediately stopped eating and pulled her aside: "Ninth brother is the best. Ninth brother, come and build a snowman with me."
"Okay, let's make a snowman." Zhou Chang let Feng Suo pull him to the imperial garden.
After half a day, Feng Suo was sweating profusely and Zhou Chang also had a sore back.
If Concubine Qin Sun hadn't sent people to urge him again and again, Feng Suo would have left reluctantly, and Zhou Chang wouldn't have known how to get away.
After leaving the palace for a long time, the skinny monkey helped her get on the carriage: "My Lord, shall we go back to the palace directly?"
Zhou Chang also understood what the thin monkey meant: "If you want to take a stroll, just take a detour and take a turn."
Anyway, she was riding in the new carriage that the Minister of Justice had "given" to her. It was spacious and comfortable, so it wouldn't hurt to sit there for a while longer.
"Okay," the skinny monkey smiled brightly, "Your Highness, I heard that the people can't stand the ban on entertainment anymore, and many of them have started to sneak around the streets. Maybe we can run into someone selling beef patties and donkey meat hot pot."
Zhou Chang was indifferent, and just leaned back in the carriage with his eyes closed to rest.
Have you been ripped off today?"