Zuo Gaofeng and Tan Bazhang were greatly astonished to see Liu Xiaolou obtain four jars of Bamboo Leaf Green this time. They had also considered reselling Spirit Wine, but they could not get their hands on that much stock. These days, Spirit Wine was almost impossible to buy at Tianmen Market. They had wanted to ask Wei Hongqing whether he had any connections, yet they could not even get a meeting with him.
They did not even know that Wei Hongqing had already become the new owner of Hongji Restaurant.
It seemed Brother Wei still treated insiders and outsiders differently. Liu Xiaolou could not help feeling rather pleased with himself. Since that was the case, he naturally could not reveal Wei Hongqing's affairs. He merely told them that gathering this wine had been very difficult, that he had gone door to door for it, and that it was purely grueling work, earning nothing more than a runner's fee.
Only then did Zuo Gaofeng and Tan Bazhang stop probing further. For these four jars of wine, Liu Xiaolou had spent six whole days running around down the mountain. He truly had earned a runner's fee through solid labor.
Steward Hou was very satisfied with the four jars of wine and accepted them on the spot. Liu Xiaolou received sixty taels of gold. However, Steward Hou also proposed that next time, he would pay directly with spirit stones, because he did not have that much gold and silver left either—by his reckoning, the gold and silver he had paid Liu Xiaolou before and after amounted to nearly a thousand taels of silver.
Liu Xiaolou did not dare delay. The dispute between Qingyu Sect and the various sects of western Hunan could not possibly last forever. No one knew how long this window