Chapter 480 - The Taste Of Returning Money With Tears Of Blood
Father Yang sighed. "It"s a long story…"
Xiao Ning moved the stool over immediately.
Yang Xiaolan was about to make tea for Gu Qiqi as well. "Qiqi, I"m sorry. I was supposed to invite you as a guest today and even made kelp pork ribs soup for you, but these people messed it up…"
Gu Qiqi grabbed her wrist gently. She frowned when she saw the bruise on her wrist. "Girls shouldn"t do such a rough job like making tea."
Then, she shouted, "Make tea!"
A burly man immediately ran over. "Great-grandmother, what tea do you want?"
"Pre Qing Ming Longjing.."
The burly man was shocked.
Man, it was autumn already. It would be expensive to buy Pre Qing Ming Longjing Tea.
However, who would dare to not work after eating someone else"s poison?
The burly man immediately used his own money to buy and brew the tea.
Yang Xiaolan stared at Gu Qiqi in a daze. The warm words she said just now were still echoing in her mind, "Girls shouldn"t do such rough things like making tea" Qiqi really doted on her too much!
But Xiao Ning was thinking about something else. "Qiqi, why don"t we let these guys cook lunch too? Oh my, no. What if they drug our food and poison us?"
Gu Qiqi raised her eyebrows. "How can I not tell?"
Identifying poison was her first unlocked skill.
Xiao Ning blinked and smiled. "That"s true! Your eyes are too sharp. Even the invigilator identified the Honeysuckle wrongly during the entrance exam of the pharmaceutical school. How could they dare to play tricks in front of you? Hmph! Then I"ll tell them to wash the fruits too! Oh my, it feels so good to have servants serving us…"
The burly men was speechless.
Father Yang couldn"t help but sigh with emotion. "Xiaolan, I didn"t expect a cla.s.smate you"ve known for only a few days to be a million times better than the child I"ve raised for ten years…"
Yang Xiaolan bit her lip. "Daddy, don"t compare that ingrate to Qiqi. He"s not worthy!"
Gu Qiqi and Xiao Ning looked at each other.
Indeed, this family had a story.
The few of them sat around a simple tea table as Father Yang began to recount the prosperity and decline of the Yang Family. "Qing Yuxuan of our Yang Family used to be an old hand-carving jade jewelry brand. When Xiaolan"s mother pa.s.sed away early, we relied on this shop to survive…"
Gu Qiqi and Xiao Ning were impressed.
It turned out that Father Yang was the legendary number one jade sculptor of the empire, the master craftsman, Iron Fist Yang!
The jade jewelry that he had carved out was unique, and this enabled Qing Yu Xuan"s business to be very good. When wealthy people came to reserve private jewelry, they were overwhelmed. Even if he only received one or two orders a year, his income was still quite high.
The life of the Yang Family had always been quite good.
Ten years ago, Iron Fist Yang saved a little beggar on a stormy night. Seeing that he had a pitiful background and was honest, he took him in as an apprentice and taught him all his skills without reservation.
Later on, he even adopted him as an adopted son and changed his name to Yang Xiaoqing.
Xiaolan was still young, so she wasn"t interested in jade carving. Thus, Yang Xiaoqing was in charge of handling the customers, purchasing jade stones, and collecting bills.
And in recent years, after Iron Fist Yang"s health deteriorated, he had practically given Yang Xiaoqing full authority to take care of him.
Iron Fist Yang remained behind the curtain and was only responsible for making jewelry.
A few months ago, he wanted to make a will and get Xiaoqing and Xiaolan to come together for a family meeting to distribute the a.s.sets. If he were to die one day, the two children would have some safety net.
In the end, he found out that Qing Yuxuan was already unable to make ends meet.
What was more frightening was that he had borrowed a lot of loan sharks!
Yang Xiaoqing stammered, and was unable to say anything. He said that he owed money because he purchased jade.
However, there was not a single piece of jade in the warehouse!
Even the few pieces of jewelry that Iron Fist Yang had prepared for his guests had disappeared.
Yang Xiaoqing could not hide any longer. He fled on the spot and disappeared.
The money was borrowed by Yang Xiaoqing and the seal was signed by Iron Fist Yang!
It was clearly not a debt he owed, yet he had to repay it with his blood, sweat and tears. Most people would not be able to understand what it felt like!