The girls patted their chests and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boss and Second Boss, if there's nothing else, we're going to rehearse the dance."

Uncle Fu and Chen Xian nodded.

"Brother, I'm actually a little worried. Is two hundred taels of silver too expensive to buy a girl's indenture?"

Chen Xian countered, "If I work for a shop, isn't the shop supposed to pay for it?"

Uncle Fu: "?"

Suddenly, the waiter outside rushed in anxiously.

"Shopkeeper, isn't there a Song family clothing store opening across the street? They're putting up their signboard right now."

"What the hell?"

Chen Xian and Uncle Fu exchanged a glance, slightly surprised.

The two quickly went outside.

A handsome young man in a white robe smiled at them and said in a warm voice, "Hey, Manager Fu, Manager Chen, we meet again!"

Chen Xian looked at the large group of people working with a cold expression.

A large crowd of onlookers has already gathered.

"Song Family Clothing Shop? Have you heard of it?"

"I don't know. I heard that this young master who let go is a powerful young man from a prefecture in the south. That prefecture is half again as big as our Yingzhou Prefecture. Didn't he come to collect the cloth from the Gu family's cloth shop a while ago?"

"Oh, I see. It seems the Song family has also set their sights on this lucrative prize of Lushang County."

"Who knows? Who would complain about having too much money? These wealthy families, once they have the support of their family's resources, no matter what industry they're in, even if they lose money at first, as long as they say they're from a certain family, there will always be people who trust them."

"In this way, you don't make much money at the beginning. Once you've squeezed everyone out of their financial resources, you start raising prices like crazy. With no one to check the competition, you make money like crazy."

"This is going to be interesting."

"Gentlemen with decades of established reputation and established businesses, versus the recently emerging affordable clothing stores—which do you think people in the city will go to when buying clothes?"

"Is that even a question? Naturally, you should choose whichever is cheaper and has better quality."

"I don't know. The fabric market for clothing is very complex, and tailors' skills vary. It's not necessarily true that the cheaper a store sells, the better its products. I still hold the view that you get what you pay for, and cheap goods are rarely good."

Uncle Fu said coldly, "Brother, you're right. Sure enough, this bastard has made up his mind and is going to strangle us."

We haven't even really started confronting him properly, and he's already showing off and provoking us!

You bitch!

Chen Xian frowned; it seemed he needed to arrange a few measures in advance.

"Brother Fu, I'm going out for a bit."

Where to?

"Xuannan Academy, looking for Lao Zhang."

"Why would you contact him at this time?"

"acting."

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