Chapter 198: The Loafer

Gu Fei's eyes widened when he heard this, "What happened?"

Shopkeeper Wang sighed, "Old Man Huang has a brother who is an idle second-rate man. When the two brothers separated, the front door of the house next door to Old Man Huang was given to him."

"This man is known as a bad guy, and he likes gambling. Within a year, he took the store to the casino and lost everything."

"Without the store, the scoundrel has no source of money, so he goes to Old Man Huang to beg 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 scoundrel stole Old Man Huang's house deed and wanted to gamble again."

"Fortunately, Old Man Huang discovered it. Old Man Huang was so angry that he beat his brother severely and took him to the Yamen to write a divorce document."

"It was at this time that something happened to Huangtou's son, and the business stopped. This scoundrel used to go to the store to make trouble, and he always got a few dollars. The business stopped, and Old Man Huang himself was half dead. , The second-rate man didn’t get any money for half a year, and he couldn’t hold on anymore. Seeing that Old Man Huang rented out the store, he asked Old Man Huang for money again. "

"If Old Man Huang didn't give it, the second scoundrel would go to the silk and satin shop to make trouble. The shopkeeper of the silk and satin shop was also tough and had someone beat the second scoundrel."

"Who would have known that the next night, someone came into the silk and satin shop and scratched all the silk and satin worth dozens of taels of silver in the shop."

"This store suffered heavy losses. It is said that it lost thousands of taels of silver in just this incident."

"The store owner sued the government, and the Yamen took the miscreant away, but they couldn't find any evidence against him. In the end, the matter had to be left alone."

Gu Fei frowned upon hearing this, "This person is too bad."

"Who says it's not the case!" the shopkeeper said after taking a sip of tea. "The store owner can only admit that he is unlucky and does not dare to do business. Old Man Huang felt so sorry that he returned the entire year's rent to the store owner."

"After that, the store remained empty for more than half a year. Then someone else rented the store and opened a restaurant this time."

"The scoundrel came to blackmail him every three days. The store first gave him a few copper coins to send him away. Later, the scoundrel kept asking for more and more, and the store got tired of it and stopped giving it. Not long after, something happened again in the store."

"Several customers ate the food in the store and almost lost their lives due to vomiting and diarrhea. They reported it to the government. The officials investigated and said that the food in the store was laced with laxatives."

"This store owner is unjust. Who would put laxatives in his own food? But the government couldn't find any other evidence, so he sentenced the store owner to pay the customers a sum of money."

Shopkeeper Wang shook his head, "The store didn't do anything anymore, and Old Man Huang refunded the rent to him."

"The store owner later found someone and beat the second-rate scoundrel half to death, but so what, he still lost a lot of money."

"From then on, Old Man Huang stopped renting the store and said he wanted to sell it."

"As soon as these words came out, the second-rate scoundrel said that his eldest brother's family has become extinct, and this store will be his from now on. If anyone dares to buy this store, he will burn it down."

"Who dares to buy this?"

"You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against thieves for a thousand days. Who knows that one day an oversight will be taken advantage of by this scoundrel."

"So, the store is always empty."

"After all, doing business is all about being friendly and making money. Who wants to get into trouble like this? It's not like there's only one store."

Gu Fei nodded, "So that's it."

She muttered, "Uncle Huang asked me to buy his shop for three thousand taels of silver yesterday."