Chapter 146: Actually Pissed Himself In Fear
“You say it’s fake and it’s fake?” Cao Weida sneered coldly, curling his lip in disdain,
“It’s written up there, your father Old Master Rui has already admitted it and personally signed it. Do you think you can quibble?”
“Dad, you’ve gone senile!!” Rui Dajia wailed in fury and grief.
“Even if so, that’s just your father claiming it on his own, it has nothing to do with us!”
After the wailing, Rui Dajia unhesitatingly sold out his father without a second thought, a very ‘filial’ choice to protect himself.
Cao Weida gave a skin-deep smile and patted his face, “You say it has nothing to do with you and it doesn’t? Whether it does or not isn’t up to you. Once I take you back and interrogate you, we’ll naturally know if it does or not.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll have the brothers in charge of interrogation be very gentle with you.”
“No no, you can’t arrest me, I didn’t do anything, I really didn’t do anything!” Rui Dajia was so scared he backed up several steps. The police station’s special operations section was dedicated to cooperating with Japanese Army special agent agencies to arrest China special agents, and it had an interrogation room. He had long heard how terrifying that interrogation room was.
Just hearing the names of those torture tools and the horrific interrogation processes was enough to make one’s heart pound with fear. How could he possibly want to be dragged in there?
“You think you can say you don’t want to go and you don’t have to?” Cao Weida’s lips curled into a cold smile, “You really think whatever you say goes? Then what do we patrolmen do!”
Beside him, Rui Da Xifu’er, already scared out of her wits, scurried into the main hall on her little feet to ask Father-in-law Old Master Rui. When she got the definite answer, her vision went black and she nearly face-planted on the ground.
Luckily the servant beside her was quick-eyed and quick-handed to catch her, but her face instantly turned purple.
Damn it, First Wife doesn’t know to lose some weight.
“Father-in-law, you’ve lost your mind!!! How could you do such a thing!! You’re going to ruin the Rui family!! Ah~~~” Rui Da Xifu’er came to her senses and the next second started wailing and shrieking, her voice louder and more piercing than a pig slaughtered for New Year.
“Shut up!” Old Master Rui bellowed, his muddy eyes glaring at her with a warning glare. Though his eyes were cloudy and his body frail, his authority was full, making Rui Da Xifu’er’s cries stop abruptly. “You brainless fool! Do you want everyone around to hear?!”
“Things have already come to this, and there’s still room to maneuver. Do you want to shout away this last chance!”
Rui Da Xifu’er immediately covered her mouth and shook her head. If she were thrown in jail and tortured, she didn’t think she could hold out.
In the end, not only would the things be confiscated, but her life would be gone too.
Old Master Rui scolded, “If you don’t want to be dragged in there, then hurry up and obediently go pull your man back!”
“If Cao Patrol Officer gets angry, you won’t even have a chance to regret it!”
Right, hurry and pull the man back. If Cao Weida changes his mind, they’re all finished!
Rui Da Xifu’er didn’t dare cry anymore and stumbled over to her man, hugging his arm and dragging him aside.
“Let go of me, let go! Believe it or not I’ll slap you! My treasures, those are all my treasures!” Rui Dajia struggled desperately, clearly still unwilling to give up his treasures.
“Fuck, really taking the face and throwing it away! Want money but not life, huh!” Cao Weida lost patience. You think I’m a hello kitty since the tiger isn’t showing its might!
He pulled the Browning from his waist, strode to his side in three steps, pressed the gun muzzle to his forehead, and looked at him coldly: “Traitorous rebel, still so arrogant! If you say one more word, no need to go back for interrogation. This old man can execute you right here!”
Old Master Rui’s heart tightened, and he abruptly stood up, but because of his age and weak legs, he nearly fell over unsteadily.
Ru Qiulan was quick-eyed and quick-handed to support him, whispering, “Father-in-law, don’t worry. Cao Ye is definitely just scaring Big Brother.”
Her eyes secretly sized up Cao Weida, her gaze flickering nonstop.
There was curiosity, shyness, and longing.
Before and now, completely different moods. After all, he was the man Father-in-law had found for her.
She was right. Cao Weida was indeed just scaring Rui Dajia, but Rui Dajia didn’t know that!
Feeling the tactile sensation of the ice-cold gun muzzle pressed to his forehead, Rui Dajia only felt his sphincter twitch, a hot stream flow down, his open mouth unable to make a sound, frozen still like under a paralysis spell.
Drip~
Drip~~
The wet liquid soaked Rui Dajia’s trousers, then gathered into droplets falling to the ground.
“Fuck, bad luck.” Cao Weida disdainfully stepped back two paces. Really bad luck, he actually got scared into pissing himself.
Seeing he was deterred, he didn’t bother with him anymore and nodded to the carters, “Keep moving!”
Without Rui Dajia blocking, the moving went smoothly at once. In no time, the eight large boxes were loaded onto the cart.
“Fifth Master, let’s go.” Seeing the matter settled, Cao Weida put away his gun and called out to Fan Wu Ye.
Once out the door, Fan Wu Ye couldn’t hold back anymore and immediately stepped forward to tug Cao Weida’s sleeve,
“Cao Ye, what just happened was”
Cao Weida didn’t hide it, “This matter is a long story. Let me tell you… blablabla, blablabla. That’s the situation.”
“Tsk, every family has its own troubles. I heard long ago that Rui family’s eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law are overbearing. I thought it was hearsay, but it’s real. Rui’s second daughter-in-law is really a pitiful one.”
“Who says it isn’t.”
“Hey, but in the end it benefited you, Cao Ye.” Fan Wu Ye laughed gleefully, then added: “But they didn’t lose out either. Old Ru Beile is far-sighted, knowing his eldest son couldn’t hold up the family, so he early on found a reliable backer for the Rui family.”
“Why didn’t my dead old man think of that…”
Cao Weida gave him a sidelong glance, amused in his heart. You’re cursing yourself as unable to hold up the family like Rui family’s eldest son, huh.
After walking about two li, Cao Weida pulled out a one-thousand silver dollars check and a gold bar from his pocket and handed them over.
“Fifth Master, this is a one-thousand silver dollars check and a gold bar, payment for that porcelain vase. Don’t think it’s too little.”
“Whoa, Cao Ye, brother, too much, way too much!” He pushed back with his hands, but his eyes were glued to the check and gold bar, shining.
He had bustled half a day for these good things, hadn’t he.
“No, take these back. Give me five hundred—no, four hundred silver dollars is enough!”
Generally, for low-value cultural artifacts, the commission rate is about 10%—20%. These transactions have thin profits but quick turnover; brokers mainly rely on volume.
For high-value cultural artifacts, the commission rate is relatively lower, generally 5%—10%.
That Ming Yongle Jingdezhen imperial kiln blue and white porcelain naturally fell into high-value cultural artifacts. By rights, the broker’s fee should be at most 900 silver dollars.
Cao Weida was generous, a one-thousand silver dollars check no less, plus a gold bar!
By Beiping’s current exchange rate, one gold bar could fetch several hundred or even over a thousand silver dollars!
Not tempted would be a lie, but Fan Wu Ye was also one who cared about face and knew the rules.
“Nah~~ not much, not much. On the contrary, I got the better deal.” Cao Weida smiled and forced the check into his hand,
“Not even mentioning you introducing me a concubine, just these treasures, what a huge bargain I got?”
“Cao Ye, you’re doing me wrong here.” Fan Wu Ye hurriedly waved his hands: “That’s a matter between you and Old Ru Beile. You doing this isn’t just slapping Fifth Master’s face?”
His mouth said refusing words, his hands pushed away, but somehow his body bent, and his right pocket conveniently came right by Cao Weida’s hand.
Cao Weida chuckled and smoothly put the check and gold bar into the pocket.
“Hey, Cao Ye, this isn’t right. How can Fifth Master take this money? Take it back quick…”
You say that, but you take it yourself. Am I supposed to reach in and fish it out again?
His coy acting made Cao Weida laugh outright. He patted the pocket closed and said:
“Alright Fifth Master, I know you’re righteous, but I’m not one to take advantage without knowing gratitude.”
“Besides, even if not for yourself, you have to think for Mohe, right? She’s out there selling cigarettes all day, working hard for trifles. As her brother, don’t you feel sorry for her?”
With the out, Fan Wu Ye stopped pretending, “Fine, it’s my fault. Then I’ll thank you on behalf of my sister.”
“That’s right. Well then, thanks to you, Fifth Master. In the future, I’ll still have to trouble you to help source these good things.”
“No problem at all, rest assured. If there’s news, I’ll definitely notify you first thing.”
“Alright then, Fifth Master. I’ll head out first.”
After parting, Fan Wu Ye, now with money in pocket, instantly puffed up with confidence, belly sticking out, hands on hips, eyes scanning around arrogantly.
Money gives a man courage; with money comes boldness.
At a sunflower seeds stall, he tossed a one-hundred union bond over casually, “Fill a bag of sunflower seeds for me, five-spice flavor.”
“Got it.” The boss bagged the sunflower seeds, “Fifth Master, total sixty-eight union bonds, your change…”
“Enough, no need for change. These trifles, embarrassing who? This master has no place to put them!” He let out a pretentious yo-heave-ho, making sure people nearby heard.
He tucked the bag of sunflower seeds under his arm, left with a “I’m off,” and turned away dashingly.
The sunflower seeds stall boss picked up the union bond, clucked in amazement: “Looks like Fan Wu struck it rich somewhere. If not for these Manchu Qing nobles’ sinking ship still having three pounds of nails, who knows what good thing he dug out from some nook and cranny again.”
“This prodigal, probably back to coarse food and vegetables in a few days.”
Such scenes were common among these Manchu Qing nobles. With money, they were full of swagger; without, they still put on a show. In the eyes of the clear-sighted, they were just a bunch of self-amusing clowns.
