Chapter 596: Budgeting for the Kill
Chapter 596: Budgeting for the Kill
"Xuan Qi?" Yue Jie was busy with the account books when Lin Xuan Qi entered the room.
"Master Lin." The servant girls who were helping her greeted him, gave him a quick nod, and they stood up to leave.
One of them wanted to pour a cup of tea for him but he waved her off.
After they were gone, he sat down beside Yue Jie.
Yue Jie frowned at him and said, "I’m busy..."
She still remembered the night before and her face together with her ears turned red hot within a moment.
He shook his head at her and said, "Don’t worry, I’m here for business."
"Business, like how?" She glanced around at the room with only the two of them inside.
"You know," Lin Xuan Qi reached out, grabbed her hand and said, "after having great success with the arena, I have an idea."
That got her to exhale slowly.
It brought back memories of how he spent the money for her.
"What do you want to do this time?" She sighed and glanced at the account books in front of her.
"I want to buy more properties, set up a convenient spot for everyone to be able to buy what they want in a single location." Lin Xuan Qi glanced at the opposite end of the room, as if he was looking into the future, and said with his hands giving out animated gestures.
"Properties? That would be a huge investment..." Yue Jie couldn’t envision what he was talking about so she went straight to her main concern.
"How much money do we have now?" Lin Xuan Qi knew how they were with money and asked.
"We have three thousand over taels of gold after what you’ve earned from the arena and there will be another two thousand over taels of gold from the businesses within the next few days.
"The income will be more for this month with the orders for the Lin Clan Taste Transcendent Essence."
Yue Jie replied and she immediately felt that maybe it wasn’t too much of an issue after she made the mental sum.
Lin Xuan Qi thought so too and said, "Great, the houses and shops around the area that I want would cost around a hundred taels of gold or less.
"By my estimation I will need to purchase twenty or so properties in the area to link them up together into a huge store by itself.
"And that would cost us around two thousand taels of gold at the most."
It would cost him but it was a necessary investment to him.
Best for him to be prepared to get rid of the threat from Zhao Geng Nian than to wait until it was too late.
The remaining three thousand taels of gold was enough for the expenses for cultivation resources, raw materials, allowances for the workers, and the maintenance of the mansion.
Albeit it was barely enough to scrape by for the next month.
But there would be more income coming in and with all his businesses going at maximum capacity, it would not be too much of an issue.
Lin Xuan Qi suddenly moved in close to Yue Jie and gave her a kiss on her cheek before he stood up from his seat.
"So, it’s settled then." He waved at her while he walked towards the doors.
Yue Jie held her hand to her cheek and shook her head at him.
She wanted more than a peck on her cheek...
...
Lin Xuan Qi wasted no time and he went out to check on the area that he had targeted to set up the shopping mall.
He went looking for Liu Shi Shi to go with him this time.
It had been a while since he spent time alone with her and he felt like it.
"Me? Fine..." Liu Shi Shi replied and acted nonchalantly when he asked her, but her heart was secretly pounding with joy.
After they got out of the mansion and got into the horse carriage, there was a moment of silence.
It had been so long since they were out together and both of them had to get used to it.
And after the horse carriage started moving, the monotonous trotting of the horses made it somewhat more bearable.
Liu Shi Shi pretended to be looking around in the horse carriage and the surroundings, checking if everything was in order or if there were any threats around.
Lin Xuan Qi frowned and pointed out into the window and said, "Over there, I think someone is observing us intensely."
"Where?" She couldn’t see anyone out through the window of the horse carriage and asked.
"Over there, you don’t see it?" Lin Xuan Qi shook his head at her and said.
That got her anxious.
She narrowed her eyes, leaned forward, and got close to the window.
Liu Shi Shi’s body was hovering over him and he took in the full view of her slender figure.
Her long legs stretched out made her look even prettier.
Lin Xuan Qi smirked and held onto her waist, pulling her towards him.
She startled for a moment, with her body tightening up before she relaxed herself again.
"There’s no one out there, huh." She figured it out and glanced at him with a grievance.
Lin Xuan Qi raised his eyebrows at her and shrugged.
His hand wasted no time and roamed down from her waist to her legs while he did so.
"Stop, we are not in our room... save it for tonight..." She frowned at him and said.
Her heart was pounding faster and faster with his hand roaming freely on her.
Then, he stopped.
"Well, as you wish." Lin Xuan Qi said and he let her sit back onto the seat of the horse carriage.
Liu Shi Shi bit her lower lip and glanced at him with grievance.
He was too much.
She should be the one taking the initiative.
"What?" Lin Xuan Qi asked when he saw her looking at him in such a manner.
She didn’t say anything but moved in and locked her lips with his.
Just like how it used to be.