Xianxia’s Working Emperor Chapter 16

Chapter 16: The fruits might have problems!

After that shopkeeper shouted out, he quickly sent for someone to find Elder Su. Ye Gu and his group of guards were all awake and staring at the trees. Their mouths were hanging open as they muttered, “One, two, three trees…”

There were people scrutinising the trees and counting the number of fruits. Lu Feng laughed, “Didn’t I say it before, everyone should just stop counting. Quickly bring some boxes over and help me put the fruits in. I might give a tip or two.”

There were some excited guards which quickly returned. Ye Gu then arranged for a couple of guards to fetch some boxes. Meanwhile, Bai Yao had just woke up and was planning to leave when he saw Ye Gu and the guards returning with boxes. He curiously asked, “Why are you carrying these around?”

A guard respectfully replied, “Young Master, it is for collecting the ripe fruits.” Bai Yao was puzzled, “Ripened fruits?” The guards had not replied before Bai Yao continued, “Then which fruits need so many boxes.”

“Young Master, when you see it for yourself then you will understand.” Another guard smiled. Startled, Bai Yao asked, “Could you guys tell me which fruits are ripe.” The guards started to give an account on the events that happened. Oddly enough, Bai Yao took off and ran towards the mountain even more excited than the guards.

Whereas Elder Su was still fast asleep when suddenly his butler was shouting from outside, “Master, Master.” Elder Su was on his bed as he impatiently sat up, “Why are you being so noisy, it is still barely bright outside.”

The butler raised his voice and replied, “Master, just now a few shopkeepers called for you saying that the barren mountain suddenly had grown ripe Spirit Fruits.” Elder Su’s eye’s were squinted, as if he was still half asleep but upon hearing this sentence his eyes abruptly snapped open. “What? They are ripe?”
“En.”

Elder Su instantly leaped off his bed and started to get dressed, he blurted out, “How is it even possible, that kid wouldn’t be that shameless right?” After getting dressed, Elder Su had the butler escort him towards the mountain to look at the situation.

Bai Yao was dumbfoundedly staring at the fruits on the trees, even going as for as to take a bite. Biting into the plump green fruit resulted in the sweet juice penetrating his taste buds. The lethargic feeling he previously had was as if suddenly washed away leaving his body with a feeling of boundless energy.

Lu Feng smiled, “How is it.” Bai Yao was holding onto the half eaten fruit before excitedly looking at Lu Feng, “IT’S REAL! IT’S REAL! And it also has more than half the normal amount of juice in it. This is definitely a top quality Green Spirit Fruit and it’s value should be more than one gold tael.”

When Lu Feng heard this he replied, “Oh? Then how much would it be worth?” Bai Yao was trembling with excitement as he said, “These, these are definitely worth at least two gold taels per fruit.” Lu Feng didn’t expect his fruits to be so incredible, it was music to the ears when he heard it could be sold for more than the norm.

But then a harsh voice interrupted, “Hmph, from the way I view it there is bound to be something wrong about the fruits.” The person saying this was naturally Elder Su. He was in a disheveled state, his hair was not even combed, face was not washed. All these made him resemble an old beggar.

Bai Yao handed him the other half of the fruit before smiling, “Elder Su, you can test it out for yourself whether there are problems or not.” Elder Su stared at it, “I’ve said it before, Young Master, don’t be confused by the looks. Who knows what despicable methods he used to obtain these fruits.”

Lu Feng did not expect Elder Su was so desperate to save his own face. Even with all these facts, he still doubted Lu Feng and dared to say that the fruits were questionable, which made Lu Feng laugh in contempt. “Elder Su, the fruits definitely do not have any problems. I won’t say too much right now since I haven’t turned the one gold tael into a thousand.”(If you aren’t reading this on fakeftranslations.com then this has likely been stolen!)

Elder Su awkwardly made a hmph sound, “That’s right, so you still haven’t completed it.” Lu Feng jokingly laughed, “I can’t say that I’ve accomplished it, it’s just that you haven’t completely woken up yet and decided to rush here. Are you afraid of me completing it?”

Elder Su realised that that he had gotten too friendly, and immediately straightened his posture to seem more formal. “I’m really curious how you’re going to turn these fruits into one thousand gold taels.” he said. Lu Feng turned towards Bai Yao and chuckled “Young Master Bai, didn’t you say that each of these fruits could be sold for two gold taels?”

“Yes.”

Lu Feng made a weird laugh, “Then that’s great, we can publicly set the price as three gold taels for two. Those who would want to buy can come here while I wait, so we don’t have to bring the baskets along.”

Originally Lu Feng wanted to bring the fruits down to sell but Elder Su and the rest were here. He was naturally expected to earn the thousand gold taels in front of them. Proving the old b.a.s.t.a.r.ds of his ability.

When Bai Yao heard this he immediately understood, and hurriedly left. While Elder Su coldly smiled, “Brat, do you think you can fool everyone?” Lu Feng unexpectedly smiled, “Whether it’s a trick or not, you will know soon enough.”

Elder Su glared daggers at Lu Feng, and then said to a shopkeeper, “When a customer comes, tell them that these fruits were grown in a single night. If they were to consume it. They would be poisoned to death, If anything happened to them we can say the Bai Family has already tried to warn them beforehand.”

That shopkeeper wordlessly nodded his head. Lu Feng could not believe Elder Su was so crafty, except he did not really mind. As for Ye Gu who angrily muttered, “How could you shopkeepers act like this. Then wouldn’t everyone not buy the fruits out of fear.”

Elder Su laughed icily and mocked “This has nothing to do with me. Besides, what if the fruits really were poisonous? I’m doing this to protect the Bai Family’s reputation, so whatever that Lu Feng does, is not connected to our Bai Family.”

Ye Gu’s soldiers were all enraged, Lu Feng tried to calm them down, “It’s fine, just wait patiently.” Ye Gu looked at the smiling Lu Feng and perplexedly asked, “Young Master, how can you be fine when they are treating you like this?”

Lu Feng sat down on a rock and smiled confidently “I’m not dead yet, nor am I wounded. So what’s there to worry about?”

Bai Yao smiled back, “It’s settled, the whole town now knows. Soon there should be people arriving.” Lu Feng beamed, “En.” Whilst Ye Gu and the rest of the guards all had troubled faces.
Bai Yao was confused. “What’s the matter with all of you? You weren’t acting like this a moment ago.” Ye Gu couldn’t hold in his anger and blurted out “These store managers said…” “Said what?” Bai Yao asked. Ye Gu told Bai Yao about the spat that happened between Lu Feng and Elder Su. This greatly upset Bai Yao and he could not hold back anymore. “Elder Su, how could you say those words” he said.

Elder Su’s leaned forward and smiled innocently. “I’m just trying to protect family’s reputation. If these fruits turn out to be harmful, it could possibly kill our customers. When that happens our reputation would surely be tarnished wouldn’t it?”

Bai Yao was about to blow up in front of Elder Su, but was held back by Lu Feng. “Young Master Bai, come, let’s go talk about something else.” Lu Feng said as he tried to change the subject. Making Bai Yao to wonder how was Lu Feng still in the mood to chat. However, Lu Feng just kept tugging at Bai Yao, so he had no choice but to sit down. It was then, Lu Feng whispered something to Bai Yao which made his frown disappear. Bai Yao then grinned and said “Okay.”

Ye Gu and the rest of the servants could not understand Bai Yao went from a murderous rage to smiling in such a short moment of time. In fact, this also made Elder Su and the shopkeepers curious. However, their main priority was to dissuade the people from buying the fruits. As soon as people started to stop by, the shopkeepers tried to convince the crowd not to buy the fruits. “Everyone, this is fruit was grown in a single night. Hence there might be some dangers in consuming it. If harm ever comes to you for eating the fruit, the Bai Family will not take responsibility. You are not encouraged to buy the fruit.” Elder Su began ranting.