Zhang Tingyu had originally planned to pursue a career as a civil official, and he was quite engrossed in reading.

Fuqing also brought a book called "The General," which tells the story of a lowly soldier who rose against all odds to eventually be ennobled and appointed a general.

Fuqing was quite engrossed in watching. Although he didn't need to be granted a title or a rank, he still wanted to be promoted!

Bobo put down "Ningyuan" and randomly flipped through a few other books. The stories were alright, so she picked out a few and planned to buy them.

Although the bookstore expenses were not small, it was nothing for Bobo and his friends. After buying the books, they planned to go back.

After Xu Nian paid the money, they were about to leave when they heard a commotion as they stepped out of the glass room. One of the voices belonged to the shopkeeper who had spoken earlier.

Bobo frowned: "Go ask what's going on?"

Bookstores are places to buy books, and most of the people who come here are book lovers. Regardless of one's character, one still cares about face. Such loud noise is really unbecoming.

"yes"

As soon as the commotion subsided, Xu Nian carefully inquired with the servants working in the shop and soon found out the answer.

Xu Nian found out and thought to himself, "What a coincidence!"

"Your Majesty, the person making such a racket is a man sent by the prefect's brother-in-law. However, he is not a proper brother-in-law, but the younger brother of one of his favorite concubines. His family is in business, and he has been accused of seizing and forcibly occupying other people's shops by taking advantage of his status as the prefect's brother-in-law. The shopkeepers say that this is not the first time this person has come."

Bobo frowned. Although she didn't know if the story was true or not, it certainly didn't sound good.

Bobo won't listen to just one person's opinion, as that would be too arbitrary.

"Send someone to check if it's true."

"yes"

Just as Bobo was about to go and take a look, he saw a person come out of the backyard. The person walked towards the noise and looked very young, not even as tall as him, like a ten-year-old boy.

Bobo and the others followed.

What do you want to do?

When the shopkeeper saw Qiu Wen arrive, he breathed a sigh of relief. He was the shopkeeper, but this man was the prefect's brother-in-law, and he couldn't afford to offend him!

"Are you the owner of this shop?"

Qiu Wen: "What brings you here? My bookstore is doing just fine. You come here and don't buy anything, fine, but isn't it a bit much to disrupt my business like this?"

The man scoffed and said, "So what if we've disturbed your business? If you know what's good for you, just sell the shop to our young master. Otherwise, you can try and see if you can even keep the shop open."

Qiu Wen's expression was not good. She hadn't expected that public security in ancient times would be so bad, and that such blatant acts of forced occupation could happen. She had been too presumptuous.

This bookstore was the culmination of her hard work, and she naturally couldn't just stand by and watch it be taken away, but this person was not easy to deal with.

Some time ago, the prefect's brother-in-law, Wang Hailin, had someone tell her that he wanted to buy two bookstores. The key point was that he said he would buy the two bookstores for five hundred taels of silver, which she naturally refused to agree to.

After she refused, someone came to her door to cause trouble once. That time it wasn't too serious. She guessed that Wang Hailin just wanted to put some pressure on her. She was trying to figure out a solution, but before she could, the troublemakers came again.

Qiu Wen thought for a moment, then asked knowingly, "May I ask who your young master is?"

Whether the man was truly unafraid or not, he very directly announced his name: "Our young master is the prefect's brother-in-law, the young master of the Wang family."

After saying that, the person had an attitude of "Are you scared?" which made the person who saw it very unhappy.

Qiu Wen looked humiliated and said, "Even if you are the prefect, you can't disregard the law like this. Besides, I remember the prefect's wife's surname is Lin, not Wang. Are you mistaken?"

The man said with a disdainful look, "What do you know? Our young master is the younger brother of Consort Wang, the most beloved concubine of the prefect. Naturally, he is the prefect's brother-in-law. Is it any of your business? Hurry up, or you can forget about doing business with your bookstore in the future."

Qiu Wen said angrily, "You...you are all too arrogant, how could you do this?"

At this point, the onlookers began to whisper among themselves.

"This Wang Hailin is really arrogant. He dares to use the title of the prefect like that."

"Isn't that right? But it's not surprising. The prefect just had a son, born to that concubine Wang. The prefect is considered to have a son late in life, so naturally he dotes on Concubine Wang. Wang Hailin is naturally not afraid of trouble. If someone really complains to the yamen, I doubt anyone will dare to punish him."

"This isn't the first time; I wonder if the owner of this bookstore can hold on."

"I think it's a bit risky. Wang Hailin has done this before, and what happened? He got what he wanted, and in the end, he almost lost his family. What a tragedy!"

...

"Alright, shut up. It's your good fortune that our young master has taken a liking to your bookstore. Giving you five hundred taels is already a favor. Why don't you give it a try?"

Qiu Wen knew this wasn't the time for a direct confrontation, so she said, "Let me think about it."

The man said, "That's fine, but our young master has limited patience. If he takes too long to consider it, then we'll have to use our own methods to get the shop."

Qiu Wen's face turned even uglier, and she said, "Don't push your luck."

The man smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's nothing, let's go."

The man left with his entourage.

As they left, Qiu Wencai said, "I'm sorry for disturbing everyone's reading mood today. All books purchased today will be discounted by 20%."

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