Chapter 29: Madam Wang’s Discipline (1/2)

“Amitabha! It’s true. The Hyderabad ore has been bought by someone else.”

Putting his hands together, Monk Hui Ming reaffirmed the fact with the two Sindhi monks before conveying the words to the two elders.

The two of them stared at one another. For a moment, they were unable to find a word to say.

The Hyderabad ore was definitely not a product that was easy to sell. These two Sindhi monks had been in the capital for several months, but until now, they had been unable to sell any of it.

While a reason for so was because of their sales method, the way the two used to promote the Hyderabad ores wasn’t effective, another reason was because the Hyderabad ore had just emerged in the market and there were very few people in the capital who could understand the value of it. Furthermore, these two foreign monks had kept a low profile and they could only speak Sanskrit.

If one didn’t know Sanskrit, it would have been impossible to communicate with them. Thus, the Zhang Clan wasn’t too worried about anyone beating them to it.

In fact, the two had even considered of using this factor to push down the price. They would have never expected that the Hyderabad ore had already been sold to someone else.

“Where did you sell the Hyderabad ores to?”

The leading blue-clothed middle-aged man asked.

“Ask him whether he had sold it to a distinguished family of the capital.”

The other middle-aged man asked.

Their first reaction to the matter was that the two Sindhi monks were lying. They thought that they were using this method to push up the price. Otherwise, it was likely that it was a blacksmith clan that had bought it.

If it was the former, it would be for the best. All they had to do was to offer a higher price. However, if it was the latter, the situation would become troublesome. No matter what, they had to know which competitor had beat them to it.

Monk Hui Ming nodded his head and conveyed the message in Sanskrit to the two Sindhi monks.

“It’s not a clan, it was bought by a fourteen to fifteen-year-old child.”

After a moment, Monk Hui Ming turned around to look at them once more and shook his head.

“A child!”

The duo was astounded. They could not believe their ears. A child? How could it be a child? This answer left them in greater shock than when they first heard that the Hyderabad ore had been sold out to someone else.

“Master, is it possible that you had interpreted and translated his words wrongly?”

The second middle-aged man asked. Even though the question was slightly offending, he couldn’t be concerned with it at this moment.

The sales of the Hyderabad ore wasn’t a small matter. No matter what, it was unbelievable that such a valuable commodity had been bought by a small child.

How could a small child have such financial ability?

Their first response was that Monk Hui Ming might not have been well-versed in Sanskrit and an error had occurred in the midst of his translation, causing him to translate the name of some distinguished clan into a child.

In that instant, Monk Hui Ming’s complexion turned incomparably awful. However, he suppressed the displeasure he was feeling and asked the two Sindhi monks again.

“There’s no mistake, it was bought by a child! They said that the name of the child is Wang Chong.”

After a moment, Monk Hui Ming replied seriously.

“Wang Chong?”

The two of them felt frustrated. Such an occurrence wasn’t within their expectation. They had no impression of the name ‘Wang Chong’ at all.

There were so many fourteen to fifteen-year-old children in the capital, how would they know whose child it was?

“Can you ask them to go into details? How does the child look like?”

The leading blue-clothed man asked. He still couldn’t believe that the Hyderabad ore had been bought out by a small child. The turn of events was too sudden for him to accept.

“They said that the child wore a blue robe and he was around that tall…”

Monk Hui Ming conveyed the descriptions of the two Sindhi monks to the two elders in detail. However, this only made them even more frustrated and stressed. There were too many children in the capital that fit that description.

“Right, they also said that the child is the grandson of Great Tang’s Duke Jiu.”

Monk Hui Ming finally said something useful.

“Duke Jiu?”

The two shuddered and an astounded expression appeared on their faces! How can this be! How can Duke Jiu be involved in the matter? In Great Tang, everyone knew that Duke Jiu was incorruptible and never received business deals. So, how could Duke Jiu be involved in this matter?

“Are you certain that you have not heard wrongly?”

The two widened their eyes in shock.

“There’s no mistake!”

Monk Hui Ming was even more astonished than the two. The reason why he promised to help the Zhang Clan was because they only needed to serve as an intermediary for them to communicate with the Sindhi monks. He didn’t expect that Duke Jiu would be involved in this matter.

In Great Tang, Duke Jiu was of prominent standing and nearly no one was ignorant of his name.

“Ask him what had happened. Duke Jiu is a very noble person and I have never heard that he is interested in forging weapons. Why would he be involved in this matter?”

The two said. This matter was too bizarre, they had to understand what was going on.

Thus, Monk Hui Ming started conversing with the two monks again.

“They said that it wasn’t Duke Jiu, but his grandson who came to look for him. Besides, he didn’t sell the Hyderabad ores to him. Rather, they signed an agreement. If Duke Jiu’s grandson was able to gather 90000 gold taels within a month and hand it over to them, the agreement would become effective and he would have the full right to distributing the Hyderabad ores in the Central Plains.”

Monk Hui Ming revealed an unusual news.

“90000 taels?”

The two men’s eyes were about to pop out from their sockets from shock. They were truly at a loss for words. 90000 taels was a massive sum. Even the Zhang Clan was unable to take out such money in an instant.

Yet, the grandson of Duke Jiu dared to make such a promise.

In the opinion of the two, this was nearly an impossible mission. However, they received an important message from Monk Hui Ming’s words:

“That’s to say, the deal hasn’t been confirmed and they hadn’t sold the Hyderabad ore out yet?”

The two Zhang Clan elders asked.

The two Sindhi monks nodded their heads.

Huuu!

The two of them heaved a long sigh of relief. As long as the deal wasn’t established yet, that meant that nothing had been confirmed yet. That was to say, they still had a chance.