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Er Laizi stood up with a smile: “Little girl, are you afraid I will take the money and not leave? Okay, I will go outside with you.”

“Your Second Master still has credibility. I will take the money and leave immediately today.”

Gu Fei glanced at Er Laizi. No, she was worried that it would scare her customers and destroy the flowers and plants if she started fighting.

Gu Fei walked in front with a calm expression. Some customers in the store looked over curiously. Gu Fei raised her hand with a smile: “Everyone just eats and drinks, hahaha–”

After walking out the door, Gu Fei crossed her arms and waited for Er Laizi.

Young Master Zhou came out from the next door and smiled at Gu Fei: “Xiao Fei, what are you doing outside? It’s time for dinner. How can the store not be busy?”

Gu Fei smiled at him: “Brother Zhou, it’s easier to get things done outside.”

Young Master Zhou was confused: “What things?”

At this time, Er Laizi also came out and stretched out his hand to Gu Fei casually: “Give me the silver.”

Gu Fei didn’t say a word, she raised her leg and kicked sideways, hitting Er Laizi’s head.

Er Laizi’s head was kicked to one side, and he swayed for a while but didn’t fall. Then Gu Fei twisted her body, jumped up flat on the ground, and kicked him with a whirlwind kick, and Er Laizi fell forward to the ground.

Young Master Zhou stood by and was stunned. This, this, little girl looked so delicate, but she knew martial arts!

The door and windows of the store were wide open, and the customers in the store also saw it.

Uncle Du shouted: “Good!”

“What great martial arts, little girl!”

Gu Fei looked towards the store with a smile, then turned around, and stepped on Er Laizi’s back. She lowered her eyes, and looked at Er Laizi on the ground: “Go back and tell the person behind you.”

“Every grievance has its perpetrator, whoever he has a grudge with, he should go to him!”

“Hiding behind and picking on innocent people, what kind of hero is that.”

Er Laizi was like a turtle with its belly turned upside down, waving his limbs constantly, but he couldn’t get up.

He shouted unwillingly: “You girl, you have no martial ethics. You attacked me when I was not prepared.”

Gu Fei sneered, exerted force on his feet, and stomped on him a few times: “Do I need to talk about martial ethics with people like you?”

“Listen to me carefully, go back and tell your master behind you that I, Gu Fei, have no grudges against him, don’t mess with me,”

“And you, if you dare to show up at the door of my store again, I will beat you every time I see you!”

After Gu Fei finished speaking, he stomped on Er Laizi’s back again, and then let go of her foot.

Er Laizi’s injury was not serious, but it was too humiliating. He had never lost such a person before but was beaten by a little girl.

Er Laizi was a rogue, but he also had to have a face. How could he walk in this city in the future?

He got up from the ground and stared at Gu Fei viciously: “You little bitch, I will fight you today!”

Before he finished speaking, he waved his fist as big as a bowl at Gu Fei.

Gu Fei dodged to the side, stretched out her hand to grab his wrist, pressed down, then turned his arm behind his back, grabbed his arm with the other hand, tripped him, twisted his waist, and threw him to the ground.

Er Laizi fell to the ground, and his internal organs seemed to be crushed by the force, and he couldn’t breathe for a long time.

Gu Fei stepped on his chest and rolled it a few times: “Why, you don’t understand what I said, right? I told you to go back and tell your master behind you that every grievance has its perpetrator, and don’t come to trouble me. Do you hear me?”

 

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Gu Fei was calm when she woke up the next morning.

She thought about it all night yesterday and figured it out. If that idiot comes to make trouble again today, she will not let him go.

It’s just that she invested a few hundred taels of silver in this store. Although she felt bad, she could afford to pay it back. At worst, she would quit!

The peppers at home were about to be harvested, so she would not be short of food.

She believed that if she quit, people would not deliberately trouble her. After all, no matter how powerful Prince Qi was, it was not her who had a grudge against Prince Qi Mansion, but Old Man Huang.

Old Man Huang didn’t know if he had any idea in his mind. If he had, he was trying to cheat her.

Thinking about it again, Gu Fei shook her head again. Maybe Old Man Huang himself didn’t know. After all, according to what she heard before, Old Man Huang returned all the rent to the previous two households.

In other words, Old Man Huang himself did not get any benefit at all.

No one would do something that would harm others and benefit themselves unless they were crazy.

But Gu Fei couldn’t figure out why Old Man Huang, his enemy, wanted to take revenge on him.

Since he was from Prince Qi Mansion, it would be no big deal to kill Old Man Huang in a minute.

But Old Man Huang was still alive and well.

It seemed that they just wanted to prevent Old Man Huang from renting out or selling the shop.

If it was said that there was a treasure buried under Old Man Huang’s house, that was not right. He could just buy the house and dig slowly.

In short, this matter was strange from any angle.

Gu Fei made a cup of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea, and sat at the counter with two dark circles under his eyes, waiting for Er Laizi to come.

At noon, there were five or six tables of guests in the lobby. The kitchen was too busy, so Lian’er went to help in the back.

Er Laizi came at this time.

He walked into the store, found a table in the lobby sat down carelessly, put one leg on the chair, and shouted: “Waiter, come, order food for me.”

The waiters in the store saw Er Laizi coming over to make trouble yesterday, and no one wanted to pay attention to him. They all looked at Gu Fei.

Gu Fei walked over with a gloomy face: “Hey, isn’t this the most powerful gentleman in Ping An City?”

Er Laizi raised an eyebrow and said: “I’m glad you know.”

“Hurry up, serve the food.”

“Serve all the best dishes here. I’m satisfied with the meal today. I’ll come again tomorrow.”

Gu Fei smiled: “This gentleman thinks highly of our store.”

“It’s impossible to serve the food. You are not eating, but you are asking for money.”

Er Laizi shook his legs: “I’m glad you know. Give me 30 taels of silver, and I don’t mind eating somewhere else.”

“What if I don’t give it?” Gu Fei said lightly.

“No? Haha, I’m sorry, I’m going to smash your store today!”

The customer next to him looked over, and Er Laizi glared at him: “What are you looking at? If you look again, I’ll overturn your table first.”

This customer was the first customer in the store, a middle-aged man, whose surname was Du.

Gu Fei smiled at him: “Uncle Du, it’s okay, you eat.”

Uncle Du nodded lightly as if he didn’t take Er Laizi’s provocation to heart.

Gu Fei turned to Er Laizi and said: “You want silver, right? That’s fine, come out with me, and I’ll get you the silver.”

Er Laizi felt that his threat had worked: “Oh, little girl, have you figured it out?”

Gu Fei sneered in her heart, and of course, she figured it out. Asking for silver was not your purpose, you just wanted to make trouble.

Even if she gave him the silver, she guaranteed he would have new tricks tomorrow.

Gu Fei stretched out her hand: “Second Master Huang, please come outside.”

 

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Gu Fei thanked him solemnly, entered the counter, and thought of a solution with her chin in her hand.

After thinking for a long time, there was no other way except to be careful everywhere.

She asked Lian’er to guard the counter and got up to go to the yard. Old Man Huang was lying on a rattan chair in the sun.

Gu Fei squatted beside him: “Uncle Huang, your brother Er Laizi just came.”

Old Man Huang opened his eyes: “Is he here? What did he say?”

“Let me give him 30 taels of silver a month, otherwise I can’t open this shop.”

Old Man Huang sighed: “What can I do? I can’t do anything to him. If I had a way, I wouldn’t be like this.”

Gu Fei said: “I just want to ask you, does this Er Laizi have anyone else in his family?”

Old Huang sneered: “He originally had a wife, but he lost all the family property, so his wife ran away with their daughter. I heard that she ran away with a businessman from another place. Now he is full, and the whole family is not hungry.”

Gu Fei sighed. It was even more difficult to deal with without family, which means that this person has no weaknesses.

“Where does he live now?”

Old Man Huang shook his head: “How would I know? A man like him might just find a place to hang around for a few days.”

Gu Fei was even more worried. He had no fixed place to live. Even if he wanted to find someone to put a sack on him and beat him up, it would be hard to find.

Having not gotten any useful information, Gu Fei returned to the front yard.

In the evening, when Gu Fei was about to close the store, Young Master Zhou came over.

He sat down at the counter, approached mysteriously, and lowered his voice, “Sister Fei, Young Master Zhu came to tell me something.”

“He asked around for information about Er Laizi’s trouble in your store today, and he found out something useful.”

Gu Fei opened his eyes wide: “What is it?”

“I tell you, Er Laizi is making such a fuss, and the government doesn’t care about him. Someone is behind him.”

“What do you mean, who is behind it?” Gu Fei asked anxiously.

“We don’t know who it is, they won’t say too much. They just say that the person behind this Er Laizi may be related to the Prince Qi Mansion.”

“It is said that Er Laizi got drunk once and accidentally let out a few words, which were overheard by others.”

“No wonder no one dares to take over this store. Think about it, who in our area is more powerful than Prince Qi?”

Young Master Zhou pointed upwards: “There is only the Emperor, but he is far away.”

Gu Fei’s face darkened. This was what she feared.

She originally thought that Er Laizi was just a gangster. If he angered her, she could only take some risks to deal with him.

But Prince Qi Mansion, is that something she can afford to offend?

For ordinary people like them, that was the sky above their heads!

Even if she killed Er Laizi, he would have new tricks.

Young Master Zhou looked at Gu Fei with sympathy: “You have invested several hundred taels of silver in this store, alas, now it is probably all gone.”

Gu Fei was about to cry: Can you please stop provoking me?

“Thank you, Brother Zhou, and thank Young Master Zhu for taking care of me.”

“Alas, this is nothing. Although you are young, you are quite suitable for my temperament, I hope you can do it for a long time, and I can have more places to play.”

Young Master Zhou stood up: “Sister, take care of yourself, I really can’t help you with this matter.”

Young Master Zhou put his hands behind his back, shook his head sighed, and walked away.

Gu Fei sat behind the counter for a while, stood up listlessly, and called Gu Erlang and Gu Sanlang.

 

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Gu Fei hurriedly said: “Young Master Zhu, you are joking. How dare I disturb a noble like you when I open a small shop?”

She thought for a moment and said: “Young Master Zhu, don’t worry. I promise that I won’t use the 30 recipes I sold you before.”

Young Master Zhu laughed when he heard it: “Miss Gu, what are you talking about? I didn’t come here for this.”

“I don’t distrust Miss Gu about the signing of the contract.”

Lian’er and Xing’er had already poured tea, and Young Master Zhu held a cup of tea in his hand: “I heard that Shopkeeper Liu from Zuixianlou also came to your house and wanted to buy chili peppers?”

Gu Fei nodded: “Yes, my father has agreed to it.”

Young Master Zhu lowered his eyes and said nothing.

He has tasted the sweetness of chili peppers now. He regrets not signing a contract with Gu Fei earlier to buy all the chili peppers produced in her field.

Now that Zuixianlou has made a move, Gu Fei has opened an inn of her own. Although it was not mainly for eating, it will sell spicy dishes in the future. Yesterday, Shopkeeper Wang ate a dish of spicy clams and said it tasted very good.

Moreover, there were other restaurants in Ping’an City. When fresh peppers come out, they will probably move in.

Seeing that Young Master Zhu was silent, Young Master Zhou didn’t know what was going on. Seeing that the atmosphere was awkward for a while, he pointed to the young man with a round face and big eyes next to him and said with a smile: “Miss Gu, you don’t know this, this is Young Master Zhu’s cousin, known as the Second Young Master.”

Gu Fei bowed to the young man: “Hello, Second Young Master.”

Second Young Master Zhu shook a fan and chuckled, “Hello, Miss Gu.”

He only glanced at Gu Fei and looked away, obviously not interested.

Young Master Zhu had thought about it for a while and knocked on the table: “Miss Gu, I have an idea to talk to you about.”

Gu Fei sat down next to him: “Young Master Zhu, please speak.”

“What I mean is that I, Yipin Pavilion, Zuixianlou, and your Youyi Inn will eat up all the peppers grown by your family. Even if the three of us can’t use up the peppers from the twenty acres of land, we can just dry them and sell them outside. In short, only the three of us are allowed to sell peppers in Ping’an City.”

“In this way, even if the pepper seeds flow out and are planted again, it will be next year, and we can make an extra year of money.”

Gu Fei thought about it, which means that there was no need to promote the peppers from his family, which was also a good thing. After all, there were only two families who wanted peppers now, and they couldn’t eat up dozens of acres of peppers.

“Young Master Zhu, I forgot to tell you that there are more than 20 acres of peppers. My aunt and uncle also planted them, so there are 30 acres in total.”

“Also, I plan to let my family sell some snacks, which will also use these peppers. However, the snacks will not be sold in the store, but on the street. I wonder if Mr. Zhu can accept it.”

Young Master Zhu thought for a while: “That’s fine. Snacks are just snacks, after all. You still have to eat in the store. Even if there is an impact, it shouldn’t be big.”

The customer groups corresponding to snacks and high-end restaurants were different, so Young Master Zhu was not afraid.

“Then I will find the owner of Zuixianlou in 2 days and tell him, and we will sign the contract again.”

Gu Fei nodded: “Okay, I’ll be in the store every day, you can come over when the time comes.”

Young Master Zhu stood up and said goodbye, and before leaving, he said: “Miss Xiao Fei, let me remind you again, that Er Laizi is a scoundrel who can do anything. You need to be careful in your store, especially when eating. It’s not a joke.”

 

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The toothpick in Er Laizi’s mouth changed direction again: “The landlord?”

“I am the landlord. This house will belong to me sooner or later, and the rent can only be paid to me!”

Gu Fei’s face turned cold: “I signed the contract after reading the landlord’s contract. If you want the rent, then show me the contract of this house.”

Er Laizi sneered: “I don’t have the contract, but everyone knows that this house is mine.”

“I want the rent, and you have to pay it, whether you want to or not.”

“Otherwise, don’t even think about running this store!”

Gu Fei was angry. If this Er Laizi was as sensible as the Eight Immortals, and didn’t ask for much silver a month, she would have given it, just thinking that it was a matter of adapting to local customs and giving up money to avoid disaster.

But this Er Laizi asked for thirty taels of silver a month, and she didn’t know if she could earn thirty taels a month!

Gu Fei said coldly: “I don’t have the money, I have already paid the rent, please go back to where you came from!”

“Oh!” Er Laizi spit out the toothpick in his mouth: “The little girl is quite arrogant.”

“Go ask around on the street and ask who Er Laizi is. In this Ping’an City, everyone who sees me must call me Master!”

As she was talking, a voice came from the door: “Oh, who is this? Which Master? You are so arrogant.”

Gu Fei looked over and saw Young Master Zhu, Young Master Zhou, and a young man she had never seen before coming in from the door.

Young Master Zhu snorted coldly: “Isn’t this Er Laizi? Why, are you asking your brother for money again?”

Er Laizi bowed his head and smiled apologetically: “Young Master Zhu, I haven’t seen you for a while, how are you doing recently?”

Young Master Zhu and Mr. Zhou walked into the store and sat down: “It was fine before, but it’s not so good after seeing you.”

“Miss Gu, the shopkeeper, is my friend. If you want money, go find your elder brother yourself, why are you looking for a little girl?”

Er Laizi’s mouth twitched. He smiled, but he said: “I don’t care. I will just ask whoever rents this house for money.”

Young Master Zhu waved his hand impatiently: “Go away, I want to talk to Miss Gu, get out of here.”

Er Laizi sneered and said to Gu Fei: “Miss Gu, right? Wait, I will come to find you tomorrow.”

Young Master Zhu shouted angrily: “Get out of here!”

Er Laizi casually bowed to Young Master Zhu, turned around, and left without recognizing any relatives.

Gu Fei hurriedly bowed to Master Zhu: “Thank you, Young Master Zhu.”

Master Zhu waved his hand: “Miss Gu, you don’t have to thank me. This idiot is just giving me some face. He’s too lazy to make trouble now. I can take care of today, but not tomorrow.”

“Besides, I don’t know how many insidious tricks this person has. You should be careful.”

After Young Master Zhu finished speaking, he looked around: “Miss Gu’s store is well decorated.”

“I was out of town yesterday for something. I didn’t come to congratulate you on your opening. I’m really rude.”

Of course, this was an excuse.

He knew that Gu Fei’s inn opened yesterday, but he didn’t plan to come at all. Sending Manager Wang here was already a great honor.

But this morning, when he went to Yipin Pavilion, Manager Wang told him about the opening yesterday. One person sent green jade cabbage, and the other sent a mutton-fat jade cornucopia. It was estimated that they were not ordinary individuals.

Young Master Zhu thought about it and felt that he had underestimated this little girl, so he came here today to make amends.

 

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The two came in and bowed to Gu Fei, who stood up to return the greeting.

The woman then asked: “Are you the shopkeeper?”

Gu Fei nodded: “How may I help you?”

The woman said embarrassed: “Your inn is newly opened, right? My husband and I have been singing in Ping’an City. The inn where we used to sing is no longer open. I wonder if you can let us come and sing?”

Gu Fei herself likes to eat quietly.

But there are people in this world who like to listen to music while eating.

With a singer, the store would be lively, and more prosperous.

These two people were equivalent to resident singers.

Gu Fei saw that the middle-aged man looked embarrassed, and the woman rubbed her belt anxiously, looking at her eagerly.

Gu Fei pondered for a moment: “My inn has just opened, and there are not many customers. As long as you are not afraid of being deserted, it’s fine.”

The woman was delighted: “How could it be possible? Your shop is so beautiful, your business will be good in the future.”

Gu Fei smiled: “Then I will accept your good words. However, I have to say it in advance. You can sing here. I only have one request. If the guests do not want to listen to the songs, you must not disturb the guests’ meals.”

The woman waved her hands repeatedly: “Yes, yes, we have been singing for twenty years, and we still have some sense of propriety.”

Gu Fei smiled, came out from the counter, and directed Tie Niu to set up a small table with two chairs by the window. This place is not far from the door, and there is still some distance from the dining table.

“When you two are free, you can rest here, okay?”

The man bowed his head to thank her, and the woman thanked Gu Fei: “My husband is mute and can’t speak, but he can hear.”

“Just call him A’Wang, my last name is Ye.”

Gu Fei smiled: “Uncle A’Wang, Aunt Ye, if you want to drink water or something, just go to the kitchen at the back, don’t be polite.”

Aunt Ye bowed to Gu Fei again: “Thank you, Shopkeeper.”

The two of them sat down by the window properly.

Gu Fei was about to go back to the counter to sit down when she saw a man coming to the door.

The man had a toothpick in his mouth, and he wore a greasy black cloth robe with a slanted collar loosely on his body. He walked in with a step that didn’t recognize any relatives.

Gu Fei’s heart sank, but she smiled: “Hello, sir. Are you here for a meal or staying overnight?”

The man moved the toothpick in his mouth from the left corner of his mouth to the right, looked Gu Fei up and down, and laughed: “Oh, you are a pretty little girl. I won’t talk to you. Let your shopkeeper come.”

Gu Fei stood still: “I am the shopkeeper.”

Seeing this, Lian’er hurried over and stood behind Gu Fei.

The man laughed: “It’s so funny nowadays, a little girl can be a shopkeeper!”

“Okay, then I’ll tell you.”

He squinted his eyes as he said: “How much silver do you rent this place for a month?”

Gu Fei shook her head: “I can’t tell you this, it’s between me and the landlord.”

“Oh, the little girl is quite capable.” The man sneered and shook his legs nonchalantly: “Okay, then don’t tell me.”

“I just want silver. From now on, give me 30 taels of silver every month, which is the rent.”

Gu Fei was sure that this man should be a scoundrel, but she still had a smile on her face while saying: “You’re joking. I have already paid the rent to the landlord, how can there be someone else collecting the rent?”

 

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