After Descending the Mountain, Seven Big Brothers Spoil Me - Chapter 84

Chapter 84: Zhouzhou’s Business Empire Begins
Zhouzhou suddenly remembered that her Second Elder Brother needed her to supply him with goods. She hurriedly came to draw the talisman and half an hour later, someone knocked on the door. Qin Er walked in.

Zhouzhou was happy to see him. “Second Elder Brother, you’re here.”

Qin Er nodded and sat down, holding a contract in his hand. He spoke seriously, “Zhouzhou, I want to talk to you about cooperation. There are two ways we can do this. Firstly, I give you money to buy from you, which is like purchasing goods. Secondly, we can split the profits when we sell it. It’ll be an 80/20 split – you get 80% and I get 20%. Which do you prefer?”

“That’s fine. How about we go with the second option, Second Elder Brother?” Zhouzhou had no objections and previously, when her dad and Ancestral Master discussed the contract, she was present and had some understanding of profit-sharing. So, she chose this option straight away.

Qin Er was much more generous than Ancestral Master. Initially, Ancestral Master only planned to give her 0.0001%!

With this thought, Zhouzhou had a better impression of Qin Er. “How about, Second Elder Brother, I’ll give you more than half. We each get half?”

But Qin Er shook his head. Although he loved money, he didn’t feel right taking his younger cousin’s money. “I didn’t do anything. It’s not easy for you to draw talismans…”

His words suddenly came to a halt as he stared at the stack of talismans in Zhouzhou’s hand. There were at least a hundred of them!

“What are these?” Qin Er remembered that Zhouzhou had given him all her talismans before she left.

“This? I just drew them earlier. You said you wanted to buy goods so I drew more. Do you have enough? If not, I can draw more?” Zhouzhou took out a piece of yellow paper and drew a talisman with cinnabar ink on it. It was done in less than twenty seconds.

Qin Er was dumbfounded.

Wasn’t this supposed to be difficult?

Oops, no, Zhouzhou never said that. He just checked some information and learned that it takes a master several minutes to draw a talisman after bathing, changing clothes, gathering energy, and concentrating.

Yet, how long did it take her? Less than twenty seconds?

Was this really reasonable?

Staring at Zhouzhou’s face, Qin Er wiped his face and realized that he was ignorant. When she was on the mountain, her fellow disciples didn’t like to draw talismans, so her master had to hold on to her to do it. In the beginning, when the Taoist temple had pilgrims, she had to draw hundreds of talismans every day. Later, the Taoist temple went bankrupt, and no one bought talismans. She had become accustomed to it and treated it as a daily task. Therefore, drawing talismans was already second nature to her, and she didn’t feel that it was difficult at all. Qin Er was unaware of this and was stunned for a while before coming to his senses. He looked at Zhouzhou with even brighter eyes. His little cousin was indeed a genius!

Without taking the opportunity to increase the split, he said, “Let’s take a look at the market prices first.” He handed over the information he had found and said, “I asked the master about the prices of these talismans. They can be sold ranging from 100,000 to 1 million yuan per talisman. Depending on the different uses of the talismans, they will have different prices. Zhouzhou, which talismans can you draw?”

“I can draw a lot, such as Peace Talismans, Protective Talismans, invisibility talismans, wall-crossing talismans, marriage talismans, wealth-inviting talismans, fertility talismans, expelling evil talismans, calming the mind talismans…” She rattled them off, “I can draw all the talismans you need, Second Elder Brother!”

Qin Er nodded in satisfaction and thought for a moment before saying, “Let’s start with the usual ones, such as Peace Talismans, Protective Talismans, and wealth-inviting talismans. Oh, Zhouzhou, can you draw talismans that can make people score full marks on a test?”

Nowadays, parents are so anxious that their children cannot be satisfied with anything less than Perfect Score Talismans. If there were talismans that could guarantee a full score, the market would be enormous.

Zhouzhou thought about it, let him describe the specific requirements, and then nodded, “Sure.”

“In that case, draw more of those. There’s an exam in a few days, and we can sell them.” Qin Er urged her.

“Mm-hmm!” Zhouzhou nodded repeatedly and thought for a moment before drawing on a yellow piece of paper. After finishing, she asked him to test it out. Qin Er had a good academic record, always placing first in the exam, mainly in order to receive scholarships. In order to test the effect, Qin Er specifically found some questions from a higher grade to do. Many of the questions he hadn’t even learned yet. However, when doing the questions, he always chose the correct answers and stared at them as if he already had the answer in his mind. “How amazing!” Qin Er couldn’t help but exclaim.

Zhouzhou leaned over and asked, “Second Elder Brother, how’s the effect?”

“Fantastic!” Qin Er gave her feedback. Zhouzhou could now confidently draw more talismans.

She drew a hundred talismans in no time, her speed remarkable. Qin Er picked out ten of them, saying, “These are enough, let’s sell just these for now.” He stuffed the rest of the pictures into his pocket.

Puzzled, Zhouzhou asked, “Second Elder Brother, why not sell them all?”

Qin Er shot her a deep look and said, “Of course we can’t sell them all. When something is scarce, it becomes valuable. If we have too many, they won’t be worth much.”

Zhouzhou didn’t quite understand, but didn’t want to appear foolish in front of Qin Er. She nodded her head and said, “I was thinking the same thing.”

After they had made their deal, Qin Er left.

That night, as Zhouzhou lay in bed, she dreamed of the golden mountain she had previously lain upon. This time, the mountain was even bigger! Qin Er stood before it, pointing and saying, “Look, Zhouzhou, this is the golden mountain I’ve given you!”

Zhouzhou couldn’t help but exclaim in delight, her mouth curling up into a broad smile.

The next morning, Qin Lie walked in and saw the little girl giggling like a fool.

“Do you love money that much?” he asked incredulously.

Whatever, he thought to himself.

He took a golden pixiu and placed it on the table nearby. It was the same size as the ugly wooden pixiu he had given her before, only this one was more exquisite and richer-looking.

The little girl would surely love it.

Satisfied that she would be happy when she saw it, Qin Lie nodded in approval and left.

The next day, Zhouzhou nearly didn’t get out of bed. She had held the “golden mountain” all night and didn’t want to let it go. But when she finally opened her eyes, she saw a golden object on her bedside table and quickly got up. It was the golden pixiu!

She grabbed it and held it tight, feeling its weight. How had it appeared in her room? Suddenly, she remembered something.

Qin Lie had waited until Zhouzhou woke up before going downstairs. He strolled by the sofa, taking a casual glance and saw that the little girl was hugging the golden pixiu so tightly that her lips were pulled toward her ears. Yet, when he heard her words, his smiling expression turned dark.

He heard Zhouzhou say, “Thank you, Second Elder Brother! This golden pixiu must have been made from the golden mountain you gave me!”