Compared with pleasing people, Lin Chujiu prefers to do business. So hearing Hua Jinrong's words, Lin Chujiu didn't feel insulted.
There was no friendship between them since the beginning, she would rather be blunt than to make friends. If being blunt will bring her benefit, then she would rather be blunt every day.
Negotiating condition was the same as doing business.
Lin Chujiu was not in a hurry to state her conditions, but asked, "What can the Hua family give me?"
"The Hua family promised that as long as anyone can find Xiao Jiu, we will reward this person with a large amount of gold and silvers, and we will do one thing for him as long as it will not violate the country's ethics." Hua Jinrong also didn't beat around the bush, he said the conditions that the four countries also know.
"A large amount of gold and silvers are unnecessary. If the Hua family is willing to do me a favor, I would be grateful enough." Lin Chujiu's rejection of gold and silver was not out of goodwill, but because the condition she will ask is not easy.
Obviously, Hua Jinrong also understands this. So hearing Lin Chujiu's words, he frowned as he shook his head and refused: "There is no shortage of money in our Hua Family. I should give you what we promised."
For people like them, things that can be solved with money are nothing. What more troublesome is the condition.
When Lin Chujiu heard those words, she didn't refuse. However, she will not change her original condition just because the Hua family will give her a lot of money: "Hua Gongzi, do you know the battle between the eastern country and northern country?"
"The Hua family will not intervene in the war between the two countries." Hua Jinrong stopped Lin Chujiu's words before she could finish.
"I know, but it's not against the country's ethics." Lin Chujiu said casually, but Hua Jinrong could hear deep ridicule from this sentence.
But...
This kind of ridicule, Hua Jinrong didn't put it in his eyes.
As a young master carefully cultivated by a first-class family, although Hua Jinrong was not as thick-faced as the old fried dough sticks in officialdom, he also doesn't have a glass heart. He felt sad and embarrassed when he hears ridicule, but that's it.
Hua Jinrong looked at Lin Chujiu with an unchanged smile and waited for Lin Chujiu to continue talking.
Lin Chujiu secretly scolded the smiling tiger in front of her but continued: "It is against the ethics of the country to intervene in the war between the two countries. So I wonder if I asked Hua Gongzi to help me save a person on the battlefield. Will it also against the ethics of the country?"
This was what Lin Chujiu's real goal is.
"Do you want me to help you save Xiao Wangye?" Hua Jinrong doesn't need to hear Lin Chujiu's further words to understand her meaning.
"Yes, I hope Hua Gongzi can save my prince once at a critical moment." She saved the life of the youngest young master of the Hua Family, so now that she's asking them to save Xiao Tianyao. She didn't find it too much.
Hua Jinrong didn't respond. Instead, he asked: "I heard that Xiao Wangye was not good to you? He even forced you to turn against your natal family, isn't it?"
Xiao Tianyao's previous attitude towards Lin Chujiu can be found by anyone who gets interested in it. Hua Jinrong obviously bothered with it.
"Wangye indeed didn't treat me well before." Lin Chujiu admitted it without even feeling embarrassed or ashamed. This was true, isn't it?
"But no matter how bad wangye treated me, he is my husband. As a husband and wife, we are one. If something bad happened to him, what will I do for the rest of my life?" Although Lin Chujiu doesn't think that Xiao Tianyao will die, she can't guarantee it. She couldn't bear to let Xiao Tianyao's die. She couldn't just watch him die.
"With Xiao Wangfei's good deed, do you need to worry about this? If you are willing to do so, I can recognize you as my righteous sister and take you back to the Hua family. Then I will let you marry as the righteous daughter of the Hua family." Hua Jinrong gave Lin Chujiu a beautiful road. At least in the eyes of many people, this is a beautiful road.
With the status of the Hua family in the Central Empire, even an adoptive daughter can marry a famous family.
This proposal was very heartwarming, but Lin Chujiu was unmoved. On the contrary, she sarcastically said: "Then, I will have to depend and please the Hua Family forever?"
Becoming an adoptive daughter of the Hua family will indeed give her a high status, but can she be higher than the biological daughter?
Moreover, if she follows Hua Jinrong to the Central Empire and become the adoptive daughter of the Hua Family, the Hua Family will be her only support in the Central Empire. Then, to please the Hua Family, to gain a foothold in the Central Empire, she will have to do everything for them. She will only become a chess piece in the hands of the Hua family with no free will.
Hua Jinrong didn't expect Lin Chujiu to see things so thoroughly. He raised an eyebrow and said with a smile: "You, staying here won't be much better here than at Hua Family."
The Lin Family treated her like an abandoned daughter. Otherwise, they will not let her marry Xiao Wangye.
Lin Chujiu knew that what Hua Jinrong said was the truth, but… …
"If it was half a year ago, maybe I would follow you to the Central Empire, but now there is no need." If there was a Hua Family, she would kick Xiao Tianyao without hesitation and follow Hua Jinrong to the Central Empire.
In the beginning, she was struggling in Xiao Wangfu, and her life was always at stake. To survive, even if she knew that she will only be used by others, she would leave the eastern country without hesitation, but… …
Now that she has passed through that situation, she doesn't need to put herself in unknown danger, let alone go to the Central Empire to give other people a face and live a life under dependence.
That kind of life, she had enough in the orphanage!
"Why not?" Hua Jinrong was quite curious about this, and Lin Chujiu didn't try to hide it: "Common riches and honor cannot be compared with sharing good times and bad times. At this moment, I didn't abandon him. I even give up the chance to live a wealthy and glorious life in this time of crisis, just to save his life. If you were him, wouldn't you be moved?" This statement was seven points true and three points false. It was not a calculation, but the facts.
She accompanies Xiao Tianyao through the most difficult moments in his life. Even if Xiao Tianyao loves someone else in the future, he won't kill her. Of course, the premise was she was witty enough.
"Hahaha… interesting, interesting. It turned out to be for this reason. Good, good, Xiao Wangfei is not inferior to men. It is worth the trip to see an interesting woman like you, Xiao Wangfei." Hua Jinrong laughed. He looked very happy.
His laughter seemed to be transmitted to the child. The child was originally playing happily on the side, but after hearing Hua Jinrong's laughter, he twisted his body desperately and looked towards Lin Chujiu, his mouth babbling non-stop.
"Young Master… …" The child was twisting his body so badly. The servant was afraid that their youngest master would fall in his hands, so his palm sweated in nervousness.
Upon seeing this, Hua Jinrong immediately carried the child, but the child was still restless in Hua Jinrong's arms, struggling to go to Lin Chujiu.
Hua Jinrong smiled helplessly: "My little brother is threatening me. It seems that he won't behave if I don't agree."
Hua Jinrong had a way of ridicule, to meet Lin Chujiu's condition.
Lin Chujiu smiled, stood up, and took the child: "The Little Master is wise."
This was a thank you!