Chapter 27: Give me half and I'll give you the treasure map!
"Stop pretending, my spies clearly saw you taking advantage of the chaos to pick up half of the treasure map. I sent someone to verify your identity. It was you that day!"
Taking advantage of the chaos? Picked up the treasure map? What this guy said was very clever. She turned to look at him in surprise and asked: "Wait, what do you mean by taking advantage of the chaos? When did you pick up that picture!"
"Still pretending!" Sima Xuanyuan became even more angry: "That day when I got the treasure map in Shuo Yue Kingdom, you rushed over with a group of craftsmen. The situation was out of control at that time. By the time I reacted, the map was gone.
And Fei, it’s not who you took that took it from!”
Qian Duoduo blinked his eyes. Could it be that he was talking about the day she was chased by gamblers and picked up a treasure map? She screamed: "Ah, I know, the map you mentioned,
Isn’t it a piece of tattered cowhide?”
"Cowhide, yes, it's half a cowhide!" Sima Xuanyuan opened his eyes wide, quickly let go of her, and asked, "Where's the picture? Where did you hide it?"
Qian Duoduo rubbed his chin and thought for a long time. When he came back that day, he asked Xiao Taohong to send the entire bag of silver to the bank.
"In the bank room in the basement of my house!" Qian Duoduo quickly replied, slapping his thigh depressedly: "You can just say that the tattered cowhide is a treasure map, you have tortured me for so long!"
Seeing the innocent look on her face, Sima Xuanyuan looked at her for a long time, stretched out his hand and said, "Since it is in your bank, I will send someone to get it right away!"
After saying that, he turned around and was about to make arrangements. Qian Duoduo grabbed him in a hurry and said, "Are you kidding me? What if you go to my bank room and the treasure map and my money are stolen together?"
"What are you talking about? I care about your little money, don't be ridiculous!" Sima Xuanyuan looked scornful and curled his lips.
"Hmph! That little money?" Qian Duoduo thrust his hands proudly into his waist: "I'm telling you, you don't want to ask around. Our Qian family has been in business for generations, and one-third of Shuoyue Kingdom's tax revenue comes from us.
Our family’s contribution, besides, our family’s treasury was specially built by Zhang Tieshou, a famous contemporary craftsman. It has thirteen gates inside and outside. Only my father and I in this world can open it if we gather the keys together!"
Seeing her shaking her head, Sima Xuanyuan couldn't help but find it funny, and teased her coquettishly: "Oh, one-third of the tax, so you are a rich man!"
"What do you mean by a rich person? She is quite rich. If she were in our family, she would be called a rich woman!" Qian Duoduo said as she began to make her little calculations.
She looked at Sima Xuanyuan with squinting eyes, and walked over quickly: "Hey! I'm talking about Brokeback Mountain. Last time you said that as long as I gave you the treasure map, you would pay any amount of money. Does this still count now?
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Sima Xuanyuan looked at her eyes that were narrowed into gold ingots, and nodded: "A true man keeps his word, as long as I can do natural arithmetic!"
"Fifty-five cents!" Qian Duoduo firmly stretched out five fingers, waved them in front of his eyes, and said with a grin: "After you get the treasure, give me half, and I will give you the treasure map!"
Good guy, you have a big appetite! Sima Xuanyuan frowned, and after thinking about it for a long time, he nodded and agreed: "Okay, as long as you hand over the map to me, I promise you that I will give you half of the treasure!"