Gu Fei’s eyes wide opened: “What happened?”

Shopkeeper Wang sighed: “This Old Man Huang has a brother, a lazy loafer. When the two brothers separated, the storefront next door to Old Man Huang was given to him.”

“This man is nicknamed Er Laizi, and he is also a gambler. Within a year, he mortgaged the store to the casino and lost it all.”

“Without the store, Er Laizi had no source of money, and he would go to Old Man Huang to ask for money from time to time.”

“Old Man Huang paid off a lot of his gambling debts and provided him with food and drink every day. Who knew that one day this Er Laizi stole Old Man Huang’s house deed and went to gamble again.”

“Fortunately, Old Man Huang found out. Old Man Huang was furious and beat his brother severely and carried him to The government, wrote a document of breaking off the relationship.”

“It was at this time that Old Man Huang’s son got into trouble and stopped doing business. This second-rate guy used to go to the store and make trouble, and he could always get some money. But now that the business was gone, Old Man Huang was also half dead. He hadn’t gotten any money for half a year, and he couldn’t hold on any longer. Seeing that Old Man Huang had rented out the store, he went to Old Man Huang to ask for money again.”

“When Old Man Huang didn’t give it, the second-rate guy went to the silk shop every day to make trouble. The shopkeeper of the silk shop was also tough, and he sent people to beat the second-rate guy up.”

“Who would have known that the next night, someone entered the silk shop and cut long slits in the silk that cost several taels of silver or even dozens of taels of silver per piece.”

“The store suffered heavy losses. It is said that this one incident cost him thousands of taels of silver.”

“The store owner sued the government, and the government arrested Er Laizi, but they could not find any evidence against him, so the matter ended up in vain.”

Gu Fei frowned when she heard this: “This man is too bad.”

“Who said he wasn’t!” Shopkeeper Wang sipped his tea: “The store owner could only consider himself unlucky and didn’t dare to do business anymore. Old Man Huang felt bad and returned the rent for a year to the store owner.”

“After that, the store was empty for more than half a year. Then someone else rented the store and opened a restaurant.”

“The Er Laizi came to blackmail every few days. The store owner gave him a few copper coins at first, but then Er Laizi asked for more and more, and the store owner got annoyed and stopped giving him. Not long after, something happened in the store again.”

“Several guests ate in the store. The owner ate the food and suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. He almost lost his life. He reported it to the government. The Yamen Officers investigated and said that the food in the store was put with laxatives. ”

“This store owner is wronged. Who would put laxatives in their food? But the government couldn’t find any other evidence, so they sentenced the owner to compensate the customers. ”

Shopkeeper Wang shook his head: “This store owner is no longer in business, and Old Man Huang returned the rent to him.”

“The store owner later hired someone to beat Er Laizi half to death, but so what? He still lost a lot of money.”

“Since then, Old Man Huang stopped renting out the store and said he wanted to sell it.”

“As soon as this was said, Er Laizi said that his eldest brother’s family had died out, and this store would be his in the future. Whoever dared to buy this store, he would burn it down.”

“Who would dare to buy it?”

“There is only a thief who steals for a thousand days, but no one can guard against thieves for a thousand days. Who knows when this idiot will succeed in stealing?”

“So, the store has been empty all this time.”

“After all, doing business requires harmony to make money. Who wants to get into this trouble? There are more than one store.”

Gu Fei nodded: “So that’s how it is.”

She muttered: “Old Man Huang asked me to pay 3,000 taels of silver to buy his store yesterday.”