Chapter 51 Jingrong Grocery Store
Just then, Ji Qingqing saw something and stared at the shop diagonally in front of her without blinking.
It’s still the same shop!
Mo Jiuwei looked in the direction and found that it was a grocery store called "Jingrong".
At this time, there were two people standing at the door talking. One of them was a woman in her thirties, who seemed to be the shopkeeper.
The other person should be a customer who came to buy something. He was holding a bag of something in his hand and left after talking.
As soon as he left, the female shopkeeper did not go in immediately, but leaned against the door frame and chatted leisurely with the people in the shop next door, giggling from time to time.
"Senior Sister, why can someone like Wei Jiaojiao live such a comfortable life?" Ji Qingqing spoke, her voice full of resentment.
"God doesn't always open his eyes." Chen Lan said.
[Oh my, what happened? Tell me! ]
Mo Jiuwei was scratching her head.
In fact, if she really wanted to know, there would be nothing in this world that she didn't know, but many things were unnecessary for her and she was too lazy to think about them.
However, the matters of the Xianlai Sect members were not included in the list of “unnecessary”. On the contrary, because they were all her own people, Mo Jiuwei preferred to let them tell her many things.
She enjoys listening to other people tell stories even more!
Fortunately, this time, Senior Sister Chen finally understood her thoughts and soon she brought up the matter of the shop in her conversation with Ji Qingqing.
Only then did Mo Jiuwei realize that this Jingrong grocery store was actually originally owned by the Xianlai Sect!
This is true for all sects; they will definitely set up some shops in the market town or city, which can be considered as one of the sources of crystal stones.
The Xianlai Sect used to have many shops, but due to its decline, only Jingrong remained. The shopkeeper of Jingrong was Hua Yan, one of the disciples of the Xianlai Sect.
This shop has been open the longest among all the shops in Xianlai Sect. It is well-known by all the cultivators in the city and has many regular customers.
It can be said that as long as it exists, even if we don’t make money, we will never lack food and drink.
The reason why Hua Yan could become a shopkeeper was because of her father's influence. Her father had been a shopkeeper all his life and had always been diligent, honest and conscientious.
So when he applied to let his daughter continue to help him manage affairs, the sect agreed out of trust in him.
But it was precisely because of Hua Yan that this shop stabbed the Xianlai Sect in the back when they were in the most difficult time - she tampered with the account books behind the Xianlai Sect's back, causing the Xianlai Sect to lose more than 100,000 crystal stones. Later, even the shop was lost and sold at a low price to a male cultivator from a small family named Lu.
But who knew that the man surnamed Lu was actually Hua Yan's lover, and all this was a conspiracy between the two!
After knowing the truth, Xianlai Sect certainly wanted to trace the responsibility. Unfortunately, it happened to be the time when there was internal strife within the sect, that is, when Zhong Yu led Du Wangquan and others to rebel against the sect, which resulted in them having no energy to spare to take care of it.
By the time everything was settled, it was too late to save the situation.
The days of Xianlai Sect were becoming increasingly difficult, but Hua Yan and her Taoist companion were living like fish in water, and they would often deliberately appear in front of everyone in Xianlai Sect to anger them.
Not only that, when the disciples of Xianlai Sect were on the verge of survival and had to sell their belongings, Hua Yan and her husband's family, the family surnamed Lu, teamed up with some shops in the market town to deliberately lower the prices, making the situation even worse for Xianlai Sect.
With all these connections in mind, Chen Lan and Ji Qingqing certainly didn't look happy when they saw Hua Yan again.
Mo Jiuwei felt angry for them after hearing this.
[Oh, how angry! How can there be such a person! ]
[Isn't this taking advantage of your illness to kill you? How shameless! ]
[This is our Xianlai Sect's shop, how can we let her take it away? ]
Maybe it was because their gazes were too fiery, but Hua Yan, who was speaking, seemed to sense something and looked over here.
When I looked at them, my gaze met theirs.
Hua Yan was stunned for a moment, and then something flashed in her eyes.
She left the person she was talking to and walked towards this side slowly.
"It's so unlucky. Some dirty thing suddenly came here. It stinks so much." Ji Qingqing suddenly spoke, and then fanned the air with her palm.
Hua Yan paused, but didn't care at all. Instead, her smile became even brighter.
"Oh, I was wondering who it was. Isn't it Junior Sister Chen and Junior Sister Ji?" Hua Yan laughed tenderly and covered her face with her hands. "How come you are setting up a stall after not seeing you for a while?"
"What does it have to do with you?" Chen Lan said coldly.
"I just feel sorry for you guys." Hua Yan said with a sigh, "You guys must be very tired setting up a stall outside, right? If you are tired, just tell me, I can invite you to sit in my shop and rest for a while."
When she mentioned "my shop", she emphasized her tone, as if she was hinting at something.
Ji Qingqing was still young. When she heard her deliberately provocative words, her face immediately turned red with anger. "Shameless, who would be willing to go? You don't even need to go to know that the whole room must stink, just like the smell of someone!"
Her voice was a little louder, attracting passers-by to look over in surprise. They also looked at Hua Yan in confusion, as if they wanted to know if she really smelled bad.
Hua Yan's smiling face darkened because of these words, "Junior Sister Ji, be careful with your words!"
"Bah, who is your junior sister? What a bastard, you want to be my senior sister, are you worthy?" Ji gently put his hands on his hips, "I really don't know where you got the nerve to show up in front of us. Are you so proud of cheating a shop from our Xianlai Sect? Just wait, you will get your retribution sooner or later!"
The Xianlai Sect might not be able to do anything to her now, but Ji Qingqing believed that they would be able to deal with her sooner or later.
She just has that confidence!
"Ji Qingqing, I'm being polite when I give you face, but do you really think you are someone like that?"
Hua Yan sneered, "You Xianlai Sect's only tough talk is your mouth, but no matter how tough you are, it still can't change the fact that you are about to collapse! I'm waiting to see how you become stray dogs and starve to death on the mountain!"
"Hua Yan, you should be the one waiting." Chen Lan stood up holding Mo Jiuwei, her expression cold, "The things you stole will be returned to their original owners one day, so don't kneel down and cry to beg us when the time comes."
"What a joke! My things are mine. How can you 'steal' them? Besides, how can you take them back? If you really have the ability, I won't be the one running my shop while you can only set up stalls on the roadside!"
Hua Yan raised her eyebrows, not afraid at all.
"I say, what's wrong with us street vendors? Did we provoke you?"
Someone nearby spoke, and it was the old man who spoke with a bad look on his face.
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